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    IBM Bans All Removable Storage, for All Staff, Everywhere

    Well, this is NOT going to bode well for us in the field service division. Booting off USB keys is a daily practice after replacement of system boards to load the VPD and firmware. Guess they better give us a part number for a 100 pack of CD-R's for us to burn to load code for the various...
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    Threadripper Pays for Itself Using Cryptocurrency Mining @ [H]

    All I can say is I am without my gaming PC as my 980Ti smoked (but still just barely under warranty thank goodness) but I have been waiting 2 weeks so far because EVGA has NO STOCK to send me a compatible replacement card. And they told me why. Cryptominers. Personally, I think they still should...
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    Corsair HX1000 1000W Power Supply Review @ [H]

    Well this is all well and good, BUT, most (platinum and some gold) 1Kw power supplies (and above) are all out of stock at major online retailers right now. Miners perhaps? Whatever the case, my new PC build is on hold because of it.
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    ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Understood. And thank you all for all your time and clarification.
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    ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Umm, more confusion... "NOTE: For all Subsystem Testing, an AMD Ryzen 1700 (3.0GHz / 3.7GHz Boost) and 4x 4GB (16GB total) Corsair Vengeance LPX (4000MHz DDR4 16-18-18-39, [email protected]) memory modules running at DDR4 2133MHz speeds (stock testing, up to 2800MHz overclocked) were used." That does...
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    ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Extreme Motherboard Review @ [H]

    Forgive my ignorance, but I just want to be clear. Early in the article, you said this "There are four 288-pin DDR4 DIMM slots supporting a total of 64GB of RAM at speeds up to DDR4 3200MHz using two modules and 2400MHz using four modules. This limitation is due in part to AMD’s AGESA code" But...
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    The First Text Message Was Sent 25 Years Ago

    This is not (entirely) true. Motorola working with IBM created the ARDIS radio network in 1983 using the Motorola KDT800 Portable Terminal (otherwise known as "The Brick" since it weighed 2.5 lbs) for IBM service personnel to use as their communication device to manage service calls, order...
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    Steam: how many hours?

    5128 Hours in ARK. Only the original DOOM game comes close (of course there is no telling the total hours put in there AND it's not a steam game.) I can only say that Doom consumed my life for the better part of two years. I bought ARK within 10 minutes of it's release in 2015 and never put it...
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    The Next Most Powerful Supercomputer in the U.S. Is Almost Complete

    As of now... #2 I was supposed to spend two weeks there in December helping to finish it, but those temporary positions were filled with folks who are a bit closer than me. Darn.
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    AMD Ryzen Threadripper NVMe RAID 0 Demonstrated

    Sorry, but it was a bit hard to understand him. What motherboard was he using exactly?
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    Bill Gates Regrets Control-Alt-Delete Key Command

    Like most things in computing, this key combo has a history. Some of you know, before there was ever such a thing as Windows 95, Microsoft and IBM were co-developing the replacement for windows 3.X . This operating system was called OS2. At a point in it's development the relationship between...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Brahmzy: With all due respect, did you read the text at all or just look at pictures? It explains this was a comparison of what I have vs. looking at upgrading to the 980Ti. Araxie: Not applicable meant that none of the 980Ti documentation I found specified a different Cuda clock vs. "base...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Still resizing for proper display. This better?
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Thanks so much GoodBoy. Your timing is impeccable as I just finished making a comparison graphic between 580-980Ti and 580 SLI (note I am no expert and some of the 580 SLI numbers may not REALLY be double that of one card) it's just a rough specification comparison. (to help justify buying one...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Video Card Preview @ [H]

    Only running 1900x1200 on a single 24" monitor Other than not having DX12 support I'm just wondering if it would really be worth it to ditch my 580 GTX SLI setup for a single 980 or 980Ti ? (and later turn that to SLI when the game graphics curve jumps again).
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