General computer talk/advice

Yes, I googled the name after writing that comment. I then saw that it wasn't a GPU... 80Mhz is really impressively unimpressive, though that might sound weird.

 

it's a microcontroller, its not meant to be fast. The 120mhz arm Cortex m I have on my desk (m being the microcontroller profile arm cores rather than the a profile we use in phones) is blazingly fast for a microcontroller. Most are 8 bit, the propeller is 32 bit. Many run at just 8-16mhz.

 

Interesting. Now for the noob question: What is the Propeller use for, except for producing forwards thrust?

 

parallax propeller is a microcontroller not a literal boat/plane propeller.

look up the arduino

 

1.: That was the worst joke in the history of humanity, I apologise.
2.: An Arduino is not worth talking about. €30 for something that you can get for €10-15 (additional stuff calculated in) elsewhere. When you mean that kind of universal microcontroller, I finally understand.

 

oh yeah, go official and its hideously overpriced. I have 1 official board, rest are clones

 

I spoke of the the RPi Zero. I know that I'm predjudiced on Raspis, but you can really do a lot more with them for the same price.
Although I still really wonder why Arduinos are so expensive.

 

the pi sucks for true realtime. Alot of latency. Unpredictable latency too due to multitasking. Not a good choice for anything safety critical or hard real-time

 

That is an arguement for the Arduino and against the Pi, yes. The Pi 2 is said to be better with multitasking due to its multithread CPU though. I don't know how true that is, but it seems plausible to me. I don't know how you see it though.

 

oh its a subject I can write another trademarked 6677 megapost on, but I'm at the pub with mates posting from my phone so no.
even the quad core pi2 ain't upto snuff for hard real-time with raspbian

 

I got a RasPi2 for Christmas. The day after I setup moonlight embedded (formally limelight) and streamed PlanetSide2 to my parents 55" HDTV. Very low latency for that (on ethernet). And I just enjoy working with the Linux terminal for some reason.

 

No way. A 980Ti is a GM200 chip, way more powerful than a GM204.
A 970 can be clocked to match a reference 980 since they're both GM204 and the 980 is just 10-15% better. A 980Ti is ~60% better than a 980.

 

Today is a sad day. Today I wave goodbye to my rig "Athena" due to a severe power supply failure.

I hear nothing in my head but Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On". Now I'm stuck using Frag-Box who freezes hot-plugging monitors.

 

That has got to suck... Not even a PSU swap will get it running again?

 

Is it just PSU damage, or did it kill other parts? If you've already replaced the PSU, you might want to test the graphics card and CPU - best case it's just a dead board and everything else is fine.

 

I really don't know if it's OK or not. I'm worried because I literally just put that R9 380 in it not even a month ago. My sister's rig (Solindra) has that 500W PSU in it, I can see if she'll boot or not with that one. If so, I'll go for the 600W version of her PSU.

 

Ah, didn't know that. I was just wondering how much you could up the 980's performance.

 

Given it was a Coolermaster psu I'd say that you're good, I had a 500w cm psu explode on me and my system was fine.

 

Yea, I hope so. It'll be replaced with another Cooler Master PSU, I really liked that one.

 

I've seen plenty of cheap power supplies crowbar in time to save the components, no reason why your cm shouldn't have.