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Looks like the Steeplechase starts in less than three days and it's another CPU project, SiDock.

Bot? No. Paid shill? Yes.

The end of 2023 was the last gasp of the good deals. Prices have only been going up since then.

Do we know yet if we're going to throw the first javelin or not? I'm planning on adding a little to it but it seems I've pulled some work units that have a deadline of about 3.5 days.

You just described the reason I say the first of the rebooted Tomb Raider games was by far the best. It was a very well done, tight story which integrated into the whole of the game to make it all feel like every quest mattered. It's a pity they lost that in the two later games by going for the...

It's one of the reasons I've been running Primegrid lately. F@H pissed me off (again) but there's practically no medical projects around right now. The last time I tried WCG I couldn't even pull a work unit for CPU or GPU; although that's been a while now.

It also indicates it will use around 20 MB of cache so it's probably good to keep that in mind. I haven't swapped over my Ryzen 2600x yet but I'm not sure if I'm going to since it only has 16 MB of cache.

I don't have a Radeon VII but I've been using CoreCTRL for a few years now with RX570s and a 6750xt and never once have I had a problem with it. For reference I'm running Manjaro on both my systems.

You all are definitely doing better than me. The best I've done is found two AP23s. One of the reasons I started running AP27 again (besides running it in the pentathlon last year) is because of the PPD. I have yet to run any GPU project on Primegrid which even comes close to the points AP27...

I had a Radeon 8500 and used it for quite a while. Never once had a problem with it and it ran everything I needed it to. I didn't replace it until the GeForce 7600GT. I will say that the Radeon 7500 AIW was actually a faster card in a number of games (a friend of mine had one and he had me...

I don't do top 10 lists but here are a few I've watched plenty of times: Spaceballs V for Vendetta 3:10 to Yuma (2007) Escape from New York Ferris Bueller's Day Off The Last Starfighter The Terminator A Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Back to the Future...

Damage control. Even if the issue isn't Intel's fault Intel will be blamed for it by at least some people which makes for really bad press and damage to the company and brand which goes far beyond the cost of RMAs.

Her face sure isn't. Based on the changes in her face from the first to the second game it looks like she put on 40+ lbs. And had plastic surgery to make her jaw even bigger.

The most likely reason the x3d chips were released later is due to yields. The CCDs with the cache tend to be some of the best silicon due to the fact they need to run cooler with much more stringent voltages while still being able to clock relatively high. It takes time to stockpile those...

People have been smoking around computers for decades and it doesn't have any reduction in their ability to work. As I stated, the only thing you might need to do is clean it out more often. Smoke does leave residue and that residue will collect dust easier. Look up pictures of computers which...

No, it's not going to hurt the computer. At worst you'd need to clean the dust out more often.

In the first game what it looks like is they took the child Aloy head and made it bigger and left it at that. Her face looks like it's still 4 years old with a bunch of baby fat and no maturing. It's been a while since I played the first game but at least in some of the screen shots for the...

The ones I give a shit about do. And in some cases they run a hell of a lot better than they ever did in Windows.

Well, it's about time. :p

Since it looks like there's only 5 people on the team running this I'd say we're doing pretty damn good so far.

I have no experience with the 360 but I did buy and install the Frozen Edge 240 this past week. I had a little spare cash and needed an upgrade from my air cooler and it cost me $44 with tax. The only semi-recent experience with water cooling was an Enermax 240 AIO I got for practically free...

This is the exact same thing I've been doing for years. I have yet to not find what I was looking for or at least something else which would work. I also tend to buy extras and a couple other things because I know I'll end up needing it eventually.

I'm no fan of either company but what you describe has nothing to do with feudalism, techno or otherwise. Owning and selling a product on a marketplace is far different than feudalism. Under feudalism Apple and Amazon would own the product made by you and allow you a certain number to sell while...

These "rules" aren't legislation. They are imposed upon us by an un-elected group of bureaucrats with delusions of grandeur overstepping the bounds of the powers given to them by Congress. One of the biggest problems with "net neutrality" in government form is the fact that it has never been...

Under feudalism peasants were effectively owned by the landowners, also known as nobles. Most couldn't even move without permission from the local noble. Peasants worked the land and were allowed to keep a portion of what they made. Said portion was determined by the nobles/landowners. I have...

I don't normally run F@H on CPUs except during things like the event in January. I'll run BOINC stuff on them from time to time, mostly when a little extra heat is nice. The 6750xt was the main reason I stopped running F@H. A year ago it was getting 3.2 million PPD+ and by the time of the...

One of the reasons I quit running F@H is because of the obvious points issues. In the last run in January it took a Ryzen 2600x, 1050TI, RX570, Ryzen 5800x and a Radeon 6750xt to equal the points the 6750xt was putting out by itself a year previous. All three GPUs were producing noticeably fewer...

I got this update on my Manjaro installs this evening.

There used to be these things called private servers which is where the vast majority of games were run. They were paid for and run by players and they were happy to do so. However, this left way too much control out of the hands of the publishers (and not able to charge huge amounts for maps)...

In my experience avoid QLC drives at all costs unless it's a write once (and you are ready to wait forever for everything to get written) and read only drive after being written. I needed a cheap boot drive for the media server I built my son and grabbed a 512GB Crucial QLC NVME drive. I was...

I wish I had more than 6 cores out of 8 on my 5800x I could toss at this. Even if I fired it up on my 2600x I doubt it would finish a work unit before the event ended.

The Rings of Power was utter shit. If they didn't break the lore they completely ignored it instead. Beyond that for something with such a huge production budget everything looked like cheap shit and the acting wasn't any good. No matter how you look at it it was bad. Despite the fact it's been...

It's no mega but at least I finally found a prime. Dear Primefinder, Congratulations! Our records indicate that a computer registered by you has found a unique prime number. This computer is running BOINC, is attached to the PrimeGrid project, and is assigned to the Proth Prime Search...

Is it even about age? MS log ago forgot the "don't fix it if it ain't broke" philosophy. Or more likely decided to ignore it because shuffling around settings and UI elements makes it look like something is being done.

And if MS actually listened to feedback we wouldn't have had worsening UIs and increased spying since Win8. If you weren't looking through your pro-MS lens you might see that.

I snagged one right before the end of the year and right before the prices really started climbing again. It's currently $45+ more than the price when I ordered mine. Even then the price had already gone up a bit from the lowest point back in mid to late November.

I think it's because wareyore is stealing all of our primes...

It looks like GW is the only GPU available project. I had Gamma Ray GPU originally selected and I got the message there's no GPU work for it. I even changed to grab GW GPU work and it says it has no work for my 1050Ti. A pity something changed and BOINC no longer sees my RX570. I suspect it...

If the memory was bad and caused errors, it's likely the install, OS and otherwise, is completely hosed. Bad memory causes errors in which those errors are written to disk. It was unlikely the install was going to be saved from the beginning and will need to be wiped and redone.

About the only game on that list that I'm looking forward to is Horizon: Forbidden West. I'm a Star Wars fan but there's no way I'm getting excited about any Star Wars game before it's released.