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by MrGoodBytes
Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:07 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Returning to the fold. HW advice
Replies: 4
Views: 1036

Re: Returning to the fold. HW advice

Little bit of an update I guess. my dual Xeon L5520 server has been averaging ~23000ppd. Which seems pretty good and its a bit higher than my I7-4930MX laptop is capable. The server's main purpose is for developing some software that requires me to build out a virtual server farm and I thought havin...
by MrGoodBytes
Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:11 pm
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: PS4 / XB1?
Replies: 32
Views: 19731

Re: PS4 / XB1?

well let me say Sony's past initiatives in alternate "uses" was very influential on me, I took a bunch of MIPS assembler courses in college and having the PS2 linux kit at the time, it was a really big revelation that I could run my assemblies natively rather than simulated and it caused m...
by MrGoodBytes
Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:12 pm
Forum: FAH Hardware
Topic: PS4 / XB1?
Replies: 32
Views: 19731

Re: PS4 / XB1?

There was an aspect of this conversation I was really expecting to see discussed here that appears absent.... Sony has an agenda. They obviously spent a lot of money in development of the Cell processor for the PS3 and the goal was definitely to find more applications for the cpu than just video gam...
by MrGoodBytes
Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:40 pm
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Returning to the fold. HW advice
Replies: 4
Views: 1036

Re: Returning to the fold. HW advice

7im and Nert, I appreciate the responses and my apologies for asking hardware specific recommendations, but with GPU's I am just so far out of the loop and I ask now because I do research my purchases and try to target purchases to "islands of stability" where I can get really good longevi...
by MrGoodBytes
Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:55 am
Forum: New Donors start here
Topic: Returning to the fold. HW advice
Replies: 4
Views: 1036

Returning to the fold. HW advice

I use to be big into number crunching, and got out of the scene about 10 years ago when I made the conversion to laptop only. Current laptop is a bit of a screamer: I7-4930MX, 32gig and 1TB SSD.... but I don't want to set the poor thing on fire folding. Recently picked up an ebay server for the home...