General computer talk/advice

My SSD came in, should give my ThinkPad the boot speeds I need. Also kitty.

 

Makes it three times faster. Try drawing one on your bike, it'll give you 7hp.

 

The bus display (windows xp embedded) bluescreened or something

 

i saw a menu at a wendys bluescreen. It was pretty funny.

 

Walked up to an ATM once to find it bluescreened (Win10 embedded, whatever the heck they call it). Put a large sticky note covering the emoji that said "OOPS"

 

I've seen a few fails before...
Self-service checkout missing a Windows boot file: https://twitter.com/mumboking/status/630855718606872576
Self-service checkout reboot gives me some information (Not really a fail): https://twitter.com/mumboking/status/526428221169209346
Advertising display stuck on "Windows did not start successfully" screen: https://twitter.com/mumboking/status/472373502738432000

 

decided to give hackintoshing a try, made a partition for mac os, installed yosemite 10.10, installed drivers or kexts or whatever they're called, and it actually works quite well, wasn't quite as hard as i was expecting either



and my 3 other windows partitions also still boot fine (8.1,7, and 10)

so i now have a quad boot of windows and os x, sweet

 

Well I cracked open this power supply that I'm going to use in my linux PC build to clean and check it. I cleaned it out with a brush and the mighty power of my lungs and start to check over all the capacitors, Being a Bestec power supply I expected to find one or two bad cap's and I did. 1000μF 16V was a little bloated, so I opened my bin of dead computer parts and found a substitute capacitor in a old AT style power supply that had it's transformer blown to bits, cap checked fine so I whipped the old bloated one out and replaced it with the new one.


Picture number three, the bottom middle capacitor is that I replaced.

 

Well got the motherboard today and installed it in the case with my wonderful cable management... Just waiting on the hard drive now.

 

Now it's my turn to ask for help, I don't "need" it, but I respect the beam communities input so here goes. Ive discovered a game called space engineers on steam early access. If you haven't seen it check it out because if you love beam it's right up your alley. For the first time my system ram came up short. I have a gskill 4x2 kit and the game uses ALL 8 gigs of ram and than starts to stutter as I imagine it's trying to make due. I'm looking for a nice 16gb ddr3 kit, and would love some suggestions. Should I stretch for 24? It needs to last till the end of the year when I'll finally rebuild and ditch the phenom 2 architecture. Your favorite ram kits GO!
Edit: I mistyped I have 4 2gig sticks, I know I know it was 2010.

 

If I where you I'd get this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104461
ever since the release of DDR4, DDR3 has shot down in price. And make sure you're motherboard supports DDR3 and not DDR2 assuming your motherboard is socket AM2+ a lot of motherboards from that socket era where DDR2.

 

I forget the socket but It is ddr3 so no worries there. Should I not try for 24gigs and 2133 speed? The game I'm upgrading for has procedurally generated content in a huge infinite solar system setting. I'll bring the phenom 2 back up to 4.1 from 3.7 to help cope, but I only lose frames when my computer does what I think is sort of like paging. Of I get that kit and it's still not enough I can run to micro center and get an another 8 gigs as long as the Cas timings are the same right? Can I use 3 dimms or do I need an even number? Ddr3 is outdated but nowhere near obselete and still gets the job done. I'm OK with dropping money on ram

 

Get a 32gig kit then, ram speed doesn't really make a huge difference and you need to have two or four slots used with ram kit's so they can run in dual or quad channel, otherwise it will be pretty slow.

 

OK than I'll start with 16 and than double down if it's not enough. After I upgrade this pc will either be related to dedicated server duty, or it will be a loaner so my friend doesn't have to haul his pc to my house every time. The phenom 2 probably isn't the best for server duty even tho its a 6 core. 32 gigs will really help with big maps however.

 

space engineers doesnt use that much ram for me?
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not really, probably wont give any gain at all than leaving it at 8

 

today my friend came over to me because he said his pc wich he had bought had bad performance so i looked at it only to find out that he put windows xp on it i am still wondering how he did it so i had to put win 7 on it now it works just fine.

 

Did it work?

 

Yep. all the voltage rails are stable, 12v rail is a tad low but not low enough to cause me concern.

 

I've been trying to build bigger and bigger projects and all my ram is used. I downloaded a few capital ships from steam workshop and the Sim speed slows down. This mostly physics, but when the game stops dead for 2 seconds it's gotta be ram. I have view distance up to 40 km so I'll test with lower and check ram again. If it's using much less I'm absolutely getting more ram. It's now the only other game I play but this.

 

nah i find its more CPU tanking in space engineers considering i get same issue and ram usage sits below 4gb at lag time