13urnzz
Banned
+5,830|6753

Camm wrote:

burnzz wrote:

sorry, thought we were in Tech . . .
I thought with age came maturity
obviously . . .
Camm
Feeding the Cats.
+761|5223|Dundee, Scotland.

burnzz wrote:

Camm wrote:

burnzz wrote:

sorry, thought we were in Tech . . .
I thought with age came maturity
obviously . . .
oooooooooooooooooooooh. burn(zz)
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
Benzin
Member
+576|6254
LBJ, do your lecture halls have outlets? If so, maybe just look into carrying around a small power strip with you? I know that's what a lot of folks do here - find an outlet and plug in a power strip then you have 3-5 laptops feeding off the strip.

Win7 is pretty good on power management and the i-series processors are very power efficient, so I wouldn't worry there. Just turn your brightness down and maybe see if there are any overclock/underclock utilities out there for your GPU and you should be able to conserve power pretty easily. I think pulling 4 hours out of one charge would be an easy thing to accomplish. Whenever you are running off of AC power, though, be sure to take the battery out so you're not unnecessarily charging the battery. I've done that with my EEE PC battery and the thing is still hardly off peak since when I first bought it in terms of charge life.
Benzin
Member
+576|6254
Quick question for the case modders out there: is there a specific kind of spray paint that you use to spray the inside of your cases? Mine is plain silver and I'd like to change that next week.
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6910

New video card is supposed to come today. It's an nVidia and I've been using ATi. What's a good driver cleaning program and when should I run it? Turn off comp, take out old card, put in new one, clean old drivers, install new ones?
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black
Driver Cleaner Pro

Super-over-the-top-OCD-driver-cleaning-method.

Download latest nVidia drivers
Boot into Safe Mode
Run Driver Cleaner Pro
Shut down PC
Install new GPU
Boot up PC
Install nVidia drivers.
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6882|UK
Does one even need to clean drivers?
FloppY_
­
+1,010|6541|Denmark aka Automotive Hell
Meh just remove the drivers via the default uninstaller and install the new ones after plugging in the new card
­ Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
mtb0minime
minimember
+2,418|6910

liquidat0r wrote:

Does one even need to clean drivers?
That's what I was thinking. But oh well, would rather be safe than sorry. And I don't want to risk bogging my system down.

I'll go with Fin's method, even though Floppy's might be a bit more tempting
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black
Tbh Floppy's is all you'd need, but mine is guaranteed to not fuck up your system.
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
SonderKommando
Eat, Lift, Grow, Repeat....
+564|6915|The darkside of Denver
using driver cleaner probably removes all the registry keys and values from windows while the uninstaller prob just removes the driver files.  I use driver cleaner when installing a new GPU, but not for simple driver updates.  It really would be a good idea if you;re going from NV to AMD or vise versa.
menzo
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+616|6701|Amsterdam‫
my uni just got a Single-chip Cloud Computer" (SCC) donated by intel and Virtex-6 "Field Programmable Gate Arrays" (FPGA's) by Xilinx

and in 3 weeks the UltraSparc T3 processor system  will arrive  while the cpu only was announced 2 weeks ago

Last edited by menzo (2010-10-05 16:09:12)

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Camm
Feeding the Cats.
+761|5223|Dundee, Scotland.

menzo wrote:

my uni just got a Single-chip Cloud Computer" (SCC) donated by intel and Virtex-6 "Field Programmable Gate Arrays" (FPGA's) by Xilinx

and in 3 weeks the UltraSparc T3 processor system  will arrive  while the cpu only was announced 2 weeks ago
FUCKEDY

128 threads

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC_T3
for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black
Can it run Crysis?
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
Ilocano
buuuurrrrrrppppp.......
+341|6922

menzo wrote:

my uni just got a Single-chip Cloud Computer" (SCC) donated by intel and Virtex-6 "Field Programmable Gate Arrays" (FPGA's) by Xilinx

and in 3 weeks the UltraSparc T3 processor system  will arrive  while the cpu only was announced 2 weeks ago
Ah, the Sparc architecture.  Brings back memories from Uni...
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,815|6361|eXtreme to the maX

presidentsheep wrote:

Brasso wrote:

Little BaBy JESUS wrote:

So are Dell definitely a no go for laptops?

Because I found a laptop with the perfect specs/price but it happens to be a dell.
i like my dell very much.  honestly nothing wrong with dell
Never had any problems or heard any complaints from people that I know have them. Just the desktops.
Batteries don't last, power supplies always fail after about a year.
At least thats my experience.

Never had a problem with desktops.

Last edited by Dilbert_X (2010-10-05 16:47:48)

Fuck Israel
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,741|6992|Cinncinatti

Dilbert_X wrote:

presidentsheep wrote:

Brasso wrote:


i like my dell very much.  honestly nothing wrong with dell
Never had any problems or heard any complaints from people that I know have them. Just the desktops.
Batteries don't last, power supplies always fail after about a year.
At least thats my experience.
lol the only thing i havent had a problem with is my battery. .
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
Benzin
Member
+576|6254
http://bit.ly/dieSmF

Last edited by CapnNismo (2010-10-06 05:02:58)

Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black

CapnNismo wrote:

http://bit.ly/dieSmF
Amazingly interesting...


..to anyone who lives in Austria. Also a bit more than a bit.ly link would have been nice..
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
Benzin
Member
+576|6254
I had the original link there, but I am testing something with the bit.ly system at the moment. Thanks for clicking.

I personally think it isn't relevant purely to those living in/moving to Austria but rather quite obvious that Americans are literally getting their money stolen from them. But that's another topic for another thread.
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black
Can't get C++ 2005 to install correctly. Vegas won't run without it. Tried uninstalling/reinstalling after googling around and that seemed to fix it for everyone else but it's not worked for me. Tips?
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
TheEternalPessimist
Wibble
+412|6875|Mhz

Any reason you're not installing 2010?
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black
There's 2010?

Idk, Sony Vegas just installed 2005 and 2008 itself. 2008 worked fine, but 2005 didn't. I'll try it with 2010 now.

Last edited by Finray (2010-10-06 10:24:50)

https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|6044|Catherine Black
Didn't work. Here's the error when I install

https://i.imgur.com/7VMIM.png

Comes up for sfppack2.dll too.
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
SonderKommando
Eat, Lift, Grow, Repeat....
+564|6915|The darkside of Denver

Finray wrote:

Didn't work. Here's the error when I install

http://i.imgur.com/7VMIM.png

Comes up for sfppack2.dll too.
manually register the .dll tech boi.  jeez.

elevated command prompt

regsvr32.exe "dllname.dll"

Last edited by SonderKommando (2010-10-06 10:44:08)

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