Re: General discussion chat I applaud his ability to hold the camera still. Anyway, I had an idea. You know those PCIE things that allow you to use a desktop GPU on a laptop? They either use Expresscard or mini-PCIE to hook up to the laptop. Now, my laptop has both Expresscard and 3 mini-PCIE slots so theoretically I could do a 4 way GPU setup which would be awesome. Now, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a low power GPU on a mini PCIE card that would fit into a laptop and use little enough power to run off the mini PCIE slot power, like a low end Intel GPU. I was wondering this because my D430 has an unused mini PCIE slot and it has a GMA 945 or something which is absolutely terrible. (Barely streams 720p smoothly.)
Re: General discussion chat What genuinely decent people. As soon as the collision happens they are both immediately focused on peoples health as opposed to their car/truck etc. I didn't expect to see that. - - - Updated - - - Intel doesn't make dedicated GPU's (afaik) so nope, I dont think that there are any consumer mini PCIE GPU's on the market.
Re: General discussion chat Well, I was just wondering if it would be possible to have a low end power efficient GPU on a mini PCIE card.
Re: General discussion chat They got a lot of hate in the comments because people were saying they should have called 911 instead of recording it. Response time wouldn't have been nearly quick enough. Video is 3 and a half minutes. Would have take them at least 5 minutes to get a cop out there and meet up with the woman. And they chuckled a few times during the video, which is understandable. It's natural for humans laugh during extremely stressful moments like this, out of nervousness. I think they did great, though. Immediately got out of their truck, looked like a box truck, so it could have been a rental or company truck, which explains why they weren't too concerned with the damage to it , went to check on the people involved and called 911.
Re: General discussion chat Possible, yes. Commercially feasible, probably not. GPU makers wouldn't want to be accountable for people voiding their warranty and the backlash that could cause. A lot of people are not very computer literate so a product that requires them to dismantle a laptop to insert it may end up causing a ton of broken laptops. Just imagine the number of mac book airs that would likely be destroyed by some guy seeing this product that will speed up a laptop despite it being totally incompatible. Then there is also the issue of there being a very small target audience who would understand the device well enough to install it. Its a shame that this isn't a thing though, could be pretty sweet for getting a cheap laptop and just shoving a card in it to make it achieve a higher fps or make it render things quickly in cuda/Open CL accelerated applications. But things are usually more complex than that sadly. - - - Updated - - - Yeah, i looked in the comments too, its disappointing to see all of the comments about "im a superior human who could have easily prevented the issue by phoning the police" etc etc. I love the internet but it disappoints me on such a regular basis. People don't normally have the advantage of hindsight (unless they are time travelers) in the moment and many of the things people say they would have done would likely cause an incident anyway, i wouldn't want to risk causing an incident by trying to intervene if i was put in their shoes since in the moments leading up to the incident i would have considered that to be the more dangerous option.
Re: General discussion chat first time i saw that overclocking animation in the sims, first thing i thought was: "WTF ARE YOU DOING, THATS NOT HOW THAT WORKS, NO, STAHP, STAHP IT"
Re: General discussion chat I love that animation, it is perfect. I would like to congratulate the guy who made it for doing that instead of showing how its actually done or creating some matrix style thing. It entertained me quite a bit. If only that was how you overclocked a computer.
Re: General discussion chat Like I said, just wondering if it would be possible to have a mini PCIE GPU that could be better than the one already in the laptop.
Re: General discussion chat With thunderbolt 3 we can supposedly expect to be able use a desktop gpu on a laptop with 90%+ peformance of what that gpu could do on a desktop.
Re: General discussion chat Reading news can be hilarious(like in case of nexus 9 being more powerful then a mac pro from 2012), sometimes its not(like in the whole canada shooting incident that happened recently) Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat Mini pcie is a 1 bit bus not 16 bit. Most GPUs only function in legacy mode like that, even the hd4000 is a 16 bit interface device. Could you get *a* graphics interface from it? Definitely, there were express card VGA adapters on the market. Can you get meaningful hardware acceleration from it? Not at all. I think thunderbolt 3 is set to be 4 or 8 bit PCI, I remain sceptical of 90% performance, but most GPUs will function in 8 bit mode relatively well (and many motherboards secretly do so when running multi GPU setups, read manuals for motherboard before purchasing). - - - Updated - - - They took 1 benchmark as being gospel truth, geekbench, a benchmark which is fairly crap.
Re: General discussion chat Still, its a very powerful device considering its a tablet Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat Definitely. I want a small 11" laptop using the Denver K1 that I can have Ubuntu or something on (better still would be crunchbang)
Re: General discussion chat Hmmm, im actually kind of curious as to how much of a car the K1 could simulate with beamng physics Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat I'm going to be taking a big test tomorrow in a class I'm hardly not failing while running on 3 hours of sleep. Class is first thing in the morning, too. yay
Re: General discussion chat A bonnet, maybe the headlights as well. I'm gonna try running BeamNG on an Intel Atom and see what happens.
Re: General discussion chat I think the biggest issue that you will have is that it is an ARM processor. So any x86 linux programs wont run on it which very badly limits application support. If it is PCIe x8 3.0 i can see that as being feasible. Since PCIe x8 3.0 has roughly the same bandwidth as PCIe x16 2.0 and most graphics cards wouldn't saturate PCIe x16 2.0 anyway. This is the reason that it doesn't really matter if a somewhat modern motherboard goes into x8 x8 when in sli because x8 is good enough anyway.
