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MiskyBoyy wrote: »

It was myself. I bought an R9 390 which required 2 x 8 pin but my psu only had 1 x 6 pin & 1 x 8 pin. A very friendly boardsie gave me an adapter to use which converted my 6 pin to 8 pin. Worked a charm.

You can buy them online or else in Maplins.

Cheers. Would've been a shame to replace a perfectly good PSU.

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

This was it btw: http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/6-pin-pci-e-psu-to-8-pin-pci-e-20-cable-adapter-n61hq

Just found it there on the IE website,
http://www.maplin.ie/p/6-pin-pci-e-psu-to-8-pin-pci-e-20-cable-adapter-n61hq
As it would be, I was already in town twice today. Im in no hurry, still have my 7870 to go with.

Some tech related April 1st stuff

Corsair




Razer



Nzxt



Asus

Thor wrote: »

So, it's been one of those weeks.

Ordered some fittings from watercoolinguk with the aim on making changes to my build as I had to swap out the motherboard.

I didn't want to be building it twice, and made sure they had them in stock. Sadly. They pretty much lied about their stock and weren't shipping anywhere near on time.

So I ordered from another place which had stock and they said 1-2 days shipping. Nope.. items then ship with estimated delivery next Wednesday.

Why is it so hard to get quick disconnects. Nowhere realiable seems to have them.

Afaik some of Wcuk's stock isn't carried in their main warehouse so there can be a lead time of 2-3 days before they actually dispatch.

As for where to get them I've looked around the usual sites and not seen anywhere that has stock.

Performance PCs and Frozen CPU usually have a great selection, but you're usually paying through the nose for shipping with those.

There's a .de site that I can't remember the name of off-hand that might be worth looking into next time. Lots of WC gear, if anyone else knows who I'm on about.

ED E wrote: »

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10158/the-intel-xeon-e5-v4-review

Well f'ck, first they get rid of the Tick/Tock then they release these killer chips.

Wonder will they push down the value of 2011-V3 chips much?

Considering those chips run in the 5-6k space, I doubt it will have much effect.

I'm doing a 360 degree video thing as part of my college FYP.. 12 cores 4.6ghz pegged at 100% for 1 and a half minutes per frame. Had to do some serious rethinking of the project. 27gb of ram usage when rendering the comp from after effects.

I want a dual socket board with 128gb of ram. And 4 quadro cards. And a render farm. And somebody to do my FYP for me.

I completely messed up with procrastination this time though. Usually I leave projects very late but ultimately get them done due to the pressure. This time I'm not so sure, I've only got a few days left to do 90% of my final year project, including thesis writeup. It's only a level 7 thing so not a real fyp/thesis, but still, might actually fail the year. oops. I wasn't even procrastinating I just did a tonne of work in the first couple of weeks then let it slip until now

3930k, 12 hyperthreaded cores. Not using a gpu accelerated renderer in cinema 4d. Single core performance is still necessary so I wouldn't be able to get away with 2.4ghz :{.

Broadwell-e specs leaked, 6950X 10 cores 20 threads 25m cache, wouldn't mind one of those .

frozenfrozen wrote: »

I'm doing a 360 degree video thing as part of my college FYP.. 12 cores 4.6ghz pegged at 100% for 1 and a half minutes per frame. Had to do some serious rethinking of the project. 27gb of ram usage when rendering the comp from after effects.

I want a dual socket board with 128gb of ram. And 4 quadro cards. And a render farm. And somebody to do my FYP for me.

I completely messed up with procrastination this time though. Usually I leave projects very late but ultimately get them done due to the pressure. This time I'm not so sure, I've only got a few days left to do 90% of my final year project, including thesis writeup. It's only a level 7 thing so not a real fyp/thesis, but still, might actually fail the year. oops. I wasn't even procrastinating I just did a tonne of work in the first couple of weeks then let it slip until now

Can you render it out as a PNG or tiff sequence and stitch together? would take up more hdd space but maybe not as much ram , or split it up into pieces ? and set it all up in the render queue? then stitch together in premier pro? Though I've never done anything with 360 in AE ..

LIT, but all is sorted, I've taken away what was essentially just fluff to make it look more impressive and so now the 3d space is completely static, so that only needed to be rendered once, then with all of the angles and perspective put on it.

In After Effects the render still is nowhere near realtime but it's of the order of seconds per frame rather than minutes. The only thing which is making it slow is the 6 perspectives of the videos being overlayed onto the 'screens' from the 3D space. I had a lot of animation of the screens changing size and form factor and moving far away and such so it is a hell of a lot less visually impressive now, but the idea is still fairly intact.

Just helped form another section on the report, I knew going into it the rendering would be an issue but through my experience I've found that it's implausible .

Had a meeting with my supervisor today and I'm not as far behind as I had thought, at least compared to others in the year, so all is grand again just need to keep grinding it out and actually get it to a respectable level.

re:stitching images and so on, I'm kind of doing that now with the C4D stuff being a separate pass so yes that was a good idea to cut down the render time. It's just a losing battle trying to speed up what will always be a very long process so I think my change to making it static just solved the problem without really taking too much away, other than making the whole thing look far less impressive


In case I haven't said what I was doing, it's nothing ground breaking or terribly new, but it's just (proof of concept not actually functioning) a wall of monitors in 3D space which would be used for live video production type stuff where you need to monitor a lot of inputs but can and will find yourself in a very small room without the means to have 10 or 20 monitors with you.




It's only a year 3 thing so it's not exactly ground breaking, but it's still would be pretty handy in that room there which I have to work in for a big screen thing for events

There was a lot of trial and error involved


Essentially what will be handed up :{(ignore the videos they're all I had to hand, it was either that or episodes of better call saul)


Watch on a phone and you can move around to look around.. or if you're on a pc right click the player and do loop so you can keep moving around .

The end result in a magic world would be to put on a oculus rift and view something like it but in real time and so on. You can already do that with a computer desktop floating in 3D space so this isn't really much of a stretch!

It's basically just turned out to be a 360 degree video on youtube with a lengthy writeup on the idea

jayo26 wrote: »

Hi guys in middle of ordering some parts for an itx build and im going with the Asus b150i gaming pro board because of the WiFi and Bluetooth anyway quick question it says the ddr4 ram support is 2133 mhz am i right in thinking I can't go any faster with the ram then?


https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B150I-GAMING-PRO-AC.html#hero-specification

That's the speed limit at which your ram will run, If you put faster ram in it should just run slower (2133mhz).

has any one got a steam link in there house? I really want to chill out on the sofa play games any one try it or can they recommend any other options?

Lu Tze wrote: »

Ive used the steam in home streaming to stream to a medicore pc connected to the tv, was decent. Try it with a laptop or any other computer you have about the place

I don't have a spare computer I just want something neat and tidy that sits under the tv that wont piss of my girl friend.

P100 Tesla card announced. It's a monster.

Click

Bring on dem GeForce cards. (can hear NVIDIA cracking an oily smile and wallets screaming already)

I doubt it'll be this round. I'd imagine the only HBM2 NVIDIA has will go into HPC/workstation stuff. The GeForce cards will all be GDDR5/X. I very much doubt we'll see HBM before Pascal 2 next year.