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  1. Qianglong

    AMD Q1 2015 Earnings - 23 cents a share loss, to exit dense server (SeaMicro)

    I don't know what to say... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amd-stock-falls-8-as-sales-disappoint-2015-04-16?siteid=yhoof2
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    World's first external 4K video Karten - USB 3.0 powered @_@ W00t!

    Not sure if I am reading this correctly on Hexus - http://hexus.net/tech/items/graphics/75333-new-startechcom-usb-30-4k-video-adapters-provide-highest-graphical-resolution-output-available-usb/ Link to said USB 4K video card -...
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    Is the crew in this Ukraine Armored Personnel Carrier BBQed by old school molotov?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85WBb9xA9AI#t=27 Not sure if the crew made it out alive. I wonder if newer tanks and APCs such as the bradley can withstand several dozens of molotov...
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    Buffalo makes a lion do two artistic somersault - any damage done to the big cat?

    PETA is going to hate this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpnERlsfBFc At the end the commentary says no major damage done to the lion...but I doubt it...what do you guys thinK?
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    This gotta be the best LinkedIn Profile EVER!

    http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=254965760&authType=name&authToken=hnCj&trk=tod2-cmts Khan has a nice list of Skills & Expertise too!
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    If we stop wasting money and lives on wars and politics, can we reach the stars......

    Lets say mankind has finally woken up and decided to work together on one common goal which is to reach the stars....do you think we can achieve it within the next lets says 20 to 40 years? Do you not feel empty when you view the skies and the beautiful pictures of the galaxies and yet we...
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    Sometimes...you gotta give the Syrian Civilians some credit for their IRON BALLZ!

    Video is Totally safe for work: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26a_1372084482#comment_page=2 Some terrorist sniper is picking on civilian vehicles and the locals call in the army to deal with them. The tanks and BMPs are blasting away on the highway and other drives in vans, bus, truck...
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    ANyone know what the music is in this PS4 trailer

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLEYegpOP8 The music used in this trailer sounds eerily familiar but cant seem to figure out the name....can someone here please help! Also, anyone happen to know the launch music at the beginning of the PS4 launch event...
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    Student science experiment finds plants won't grow near Wi-Fi router

    http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/blogs/student-science-experiment-finds-plants-wont-grow-near-wi-fi-router Anyone here wants to do your own experiment to test this out? Maybe the girls should have tried this with maybe a colony of ants as well to make the experiment more conclusive.
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    AMD 2013 Q1 Earnings on Thursday - lets see how the numbers are going to be...

    Today AMD will announce Q1 2013 earnings and lets see how they'll kick off the new year! Any guesses and bets on what the numbers are going to be like? Since it's on Thursday and not Monday, updating the title to reflect that (before anyone else gets confused) -ViRGE
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    Woman with cocaine breast implant busted at the airport and EXTRACTED

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/cocaine-breast-implants-photo_n_2295301.html So initially the terrorist are exploiting this for female bombers but now the trafficker found another use...wonder if the implant will show up in the full body scanners..
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    Overclocked G.Skill TridentX DDR3 Memory 3,900 MHz - RUNS AT 248 Fahrenheit

    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/dd3-memory-tridentx,19150.html The temperature, under liquid nitrogen is mind boggling and I bet the memory chips will explode off the PCB or melt very quickly once all the LN2 vaporizes!
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    The semiconductor industry’s great paradox – consumer wants cheaper and faster

    Looking at the recent troubles of the semiconductor firm one has to wonder about the perspective and paradox faced by this R&D and capital intensive industry. Consumers always want faster, better and cheaper, yet the process of coming up with devices or chips to meet these requirements needs...
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    Inventor of cube supercomputer - 1000x more powerful, seeking $300M investment

    I am looking at my linkedin groups and saw a post from this guy: Richard John Harris II and his "invention" the cube supercomputer: http://cubesupercomputers.com/Default.aspx Apparently, his idea was to stack multiple ICs and make it an extremely dense CPU that is about 1000X more...
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    AMD's GPU Q3 2012 marketshare - 14% declines across the board to NVIDIA

    http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/11/14/amd-declines-on-gpu-losses-wells-sees-hope-in-cost-cuts-consoles/ "AMD’s market share in desktop computers in the quarter decline from 40.7% in Q2 to 35.7%, while Nvidia’s rose from 59.3% to 64.3%. In notebook computers, AMD’s share fell...
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    Radeon ExtravaLANza in the ex ATI Canadian HQ - free Nvidia to Radeon trade

    http://www.overclock.net/t/1312965/event-radeon-extravalanza-october-20th-2012-5-000-in-prizing/880 I was reading about this event and saw that people who BYOC to attend the LAN party gets free NVIDIA to AMD Radeon trade. One guy even traded his aging nvidia 9800GT or something into a 6990...
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    AMD AUSTIN Office open house day - sign up if you are in the area

    Just found this through linkedIN: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1146966 Should be an interesting visit for the GPU and CPU fanboys!
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    How much would u pay to alter your genes to live &function with MUCH LESS SLEEP....

    Sleep is a biatch, it takes time away from you doing more productive stuff yet our body can't live w/o it. So lets say a pharma company found a way to alter your genes to enable you to function at 100% with only about 2 hours of sleep per day, how much would you pay for it to receive the therapy?
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    What are the legal repercussion for breaking a car windows to save animal/human.....

    Since we are breaking heat records and there are always careless people who leave people and animal in the car that can end in tragedy. Lets say you saw a baby/animal left in the car and is suffering tremendously due to the heat can you break the window to save them?
  20. Qianglong

    LSI 9266-8i with Four Vertex 4 128GB SSD in RAID 0 performance issue...

    I've just upgraded my workstation's storage sub-system with the following hardware: RAID Controller - LSI 9266-8i (No fast path or cachecade, just the bare card) SSD Drives - 4 X Vertex 4 128GB Firmware 1.4 in Raid 0 Stripe size: 64KB Other controller setting: - write through caching - direct...
  21. Qianglong

    Adobe Photoshop CS6 + OpenCL GPU acceleration = MIND boggling result

    Tomshardware did a test on Adobe Phoshotp CS6 and the result with OpenCL acceleration is simply impressive: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/photoshop-cs6-gimp-aftershot-pro,3208-13.html I just hope one day the entire Photoshop engine is full GPU optimized and it will be completely free...
  22. Qianglong

    My video editing and gaming rig is finally ready for prime time action!

    After months of scouring the forums here and looking for hardware, I've finally completed my video editing and gaming rig and I am glad to say everything is running smooth as butter! Here are my specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.2 GHz RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 Mhz (4 x 8GB)...
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    New Ivy Bridge Build - hangs at Windows startup logo from cold start or retart..

    I just put together an Ivy Bridge based system with the following spec: ASUS P8Z77 Motherboard (latest bios) i5-3570K 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS DDR3 RAM PC 1333 Radeon HD 7770 Corsair F40 boot drive Nothing is overclocked and it is running off a fresh copy of Win 7 x64 ultimate edition...
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    THE SPIRIT OF THE SAMURAI vs CRAZY CHAINSAW WIELDER - FIGHT!! KO!!!

    http://gizmodo.com/5906951/would-you-rather-battle-your-neighbor-with-a-samurai-sword-or-a-chainsaw "While Mark Jorgensen and Troy Thorton's families had been feuding for some time—think Hatfied/McCoy-level animosity—this particular brawl began with a simple noise complaint. One that Thorton...
  25. Qianglong

    SAMURAI RADEON Trinity vs STICKMAN Ivy Bridge Intel - FIGHT funny video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Mrp7obK3o&feature=g-upl&context=G28d1177AUAAAAAAABAA This video is quite funny and I wonder what movie was used for the clip and how did they fit the logos on the character's head and make it follow their movement?
  26. Qianglong

    Should humanity focus on deep sea exploration or space exploration...

    With limited budget and scientific know-how, should humanity focus more on the exploration of deep sea or space? Which one will yield greater benefit for mankind?
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    WOW - AMD APU integrated into a camera offering real time 2K video...

    http://www.ximea.com/en/machine-vision/smart-camera This company is offering some really interesting products that actually has a low power APU integrated into the camera itself with real time GPU processing.
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    What happens if an ADMIRAL of Amerkia mightiest Navy accidentally grounds a carrier..

    Lets say its the 4th of July celebration of the great nation AMERIKA's independence and an aircraft carrier KAPITEIN wants to do a "salute" with the ship to public onlookers and accidentally scraped a hole on the side and grounded the ship...lets say maybe on Liberty Island etc.... What will...
  29. Qianglong

    SAYONARA ABIT COMPUTER - Website will EOL end of this month so one last view!

    http://vr-zone.com/articles/abit-website-to-close-at-the-end-of-february/14684.html Pretty sure most people here have fond memories of this company! "The problem was an overzealous senior management lead by the CEO, who was a hardcore superstitious individual who would fire people for...
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    Please explain to me the tipping etiquette in the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD USA!

    Ok I frequently travel to the GREATEST country of the world UNITED UNCLE SAM STATES OF AMERIKA and I need a primer on what is good tipping etiquette because I have been hearing mixed things. I know for sure the situations below needs tip and correct me if my tipping % is wrong: Waiter - 20%...
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    Is FORT HOOD open to visitors - would LOVE TO TAKE pictures with US army man/woman!

    My friend and I will be driving past there and I am wondering if Fort Hood is open to public visitor for tours? I heard its the largest US army base and would love to go in an take some pictures to experience the might, power and honor of the US ARMED forces! I am a Canadian BTW so will...
  32. Qianglong

    Question about the MIGHTY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA aircraft carrier that PWNAGES!

    I always wondered how are the planes parked on the Aircraft carrier deck... I mean what happens if the ship are caught in a big storm with huge waves and the rocking of the boat causes some of the planes to fall off into the sea? I heard there are side cranes to lift the planes that fell off...
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    AMD Radeon 7970 Video card launch video shows internal fly through of the board!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chI3xefcO14&feature=plcp&context=C34e65bcUDOEgsToPDskJ3vzVu28JaAy9eSU5dGf1M This video shows the internal fly through of the board - pretty neat nevertheless! This video shows some neat features and performance of the new 28 nm architecture...
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    Any detailed benchmark on Sandy Bridge E and DDR3 latency?

    I've searched quite a bit on this topic and I couldn't find any benchmark that measures performance gain/loss caused by DDR3 ram latency. The only mention of this topic is in the following review: http://techgage.com/article/intel_core_i7-3960x_extreme_edition_review/12 "Thanks in part to...
  35. Qianglong

    Intel to release 40 XEON server Sandy and Ivy Bridge CPUs in 1H 2012 - AMD?????

    http://news.techeye.net/chips/intel-readies-40-new-server-chips No wonder the new AMD CEO said the company need to drop the Intel vs AMD mentality because honestly I do not foresee how AMD will ever overtake Intel in the high end CPU segment unless of course a miracle happens. According...
  36. Qianglong

    How accurate are motherboard temp sensor vs third party software sensor?

    When I use the ASUS utility to check on my CPU temp at idle it shows 27C but if I use any other third party software such as CoreTemp or OCCTPT the temp is at least 8C to 10C higher than the ASUS utility. I am wondering which is more accurate or should I just take the two temp and divide...
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    ASUS P9X79 WS motherboard USB3.0 controller not detected by windows 7 :(

    I've just finished setting up the system with Windows 7 Ultimate and flashed the bios to the latest version. After installing the ASmedia USB 3.0 drivers none of my USB 3.0 devices get detected and I cannot find the controller in device manager as well. I double checked the BIOS and made...
  38. Qianglong

    Upgrade from AMD 990FX Chipset to Intel LGA 2011 motherboard without reformat...

    This weekend I am going to get rid of the AMD 990FX system and upgrade it to the LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge E system. I just recently installed Win 7 with a bunch of applications and it is going to a pita to reformat and redo everything. Is it even possible to just swap out the mobo and CPU w/o...
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    YESSSS RAMBUS THE RAPEBUS LOST in JURY trial - $3.95 BILLION GONE!

    This parasite is finally dealt with a heavy dose of DDT: http://www.kitguru.net/channel/benjamin/rambus-lose-3-95-billion-jury-trial-against-micron-and-hynix/ A few more loss and hope they are gone forever! Moving to the Memory & Storage subforum. Administrator Idontcare
  40. Qianglong

    Windows Drive Letter conflict causes dropped drives and system crash....going NUTS!

    Hope some of you guys can help me out here because it is driving me totally bananas: I have a workstation with several drives and partition: C to K ---> My physical drives and logical partition Z to V ---> My network mapped drives. Sometimes if my friend come over and plug in their USB...