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- Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:07 pm
- Forum: New Donors start here
- Topic: Returning to the fold. HW advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1047
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...
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 11:11 pm
- Forum: FAH Hardware
- Topic: PS4 / XB1?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20013
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...
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:12 pm
- Forum: FAH Hardware
- Topic: PS4 / XB1?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20013
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...
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 5:40 pm
- Forum: New Donors start here
- Topic: Returning to the fold. HW advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1047
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...
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 7:55 am
- Forum: New Donors start here
- Topic: Returning to the fold. HW advice
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1047
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...