I am almost done with my new gaming rig

[Sinitron]

the northern lights has made me immune to such trivialities

it also helps that i just close my eyes when i sleep

you paranoid son of a bitch

[slack]

i can turn off all the led's except the one on the cooler

[slack]

[Sinitron]

i have 7.3 for my transfer rate but it might be because win8 uses different parameters from win7 if i'm not entirely mistaken

my processor is 7.5 but it's an older i5 which was overclocked

the rest gets the same score

so ya yours is ever so slightly faster than mine if that makes you feel good

[slack]

if yours was better i'd still feel great about it, it's a solid rig

[Sinitron]

ya

not fond of amd processors personally, though

but idk if it matters IN THESE MODERN AGES since it's been years since i used one

i mean overclocking my processor now was just a matter of changing a couple settings in the bios

my cousin still fondly remembers sitting under his bedsheets during the coldest of winter nights with his open case exposed to the freezing subzero climate and setting a world record in overclocking some old school processor, though by now it eludes me what model or brand it was

he was pretty proud of beating the fags with watercoolers and more fancy shit

[rtil]

today still intel>amd but if you're going for bargain bin amd can still play with the big boys, but they haven't been able to compete with the i7's processing power at all

[Sinitron]

ya

at least previously they were 'even'

but amd was generelly not as good if you weren't a techfag who knew how to tinker with shit

you COULD get more bang for the buck but only if you put in the extra effort

[rtil]

even then, i7's can be overclocked quite high if you have a good cooler. my old i7 was a 2.6 and i oc'd it to 4.0 with no issues. i have a 3.5 now, bet i could get it to 5 but i haven't tried yet

[Thor]

when I built a computer last summer, I opted to go with AMD because intel is starting to put DRM right on their hardware

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110107/10153912573/intel-claims-drmd-chip-is-not-drm-its-just-copy-protection.shtml

What could possibly go wrong here?

[rtil]

i don't really see how that's drm. it's hardware authenticity used to verify a third party streaming service. at the most it is a somewhat dubious form of marketing. but the technology isn't even used, and doesn't affect the performance of the processor in any way. i don't see the problem here.

[Thor]

From unrelated conversations I had last year with a friend who works at an IT company and someone from the Pirate Party at PAX east last year, I heard that the way the DRM would work was that only programs/files on a white list (from Intel) would be processed by the intel chip

The concerning part is that the technology and code are built into the hardware right now-- granted, it's not used, but it exists, and it's only really a matter of time before someone figures out how to manipulate it (because when have hackers NOT broken into something?)

[/tinfoilhat]

[rtil]

i guess i'm just apathetic about it because i know it won't affect me no matter what happens

like the MPAA is never going to be able to stop me from pirating movies in 1080p with DRM in a chip

[Thor]

No, but if that whitelist thing is true then that's a terrifying feature for a hacker to gain control of


I will admit that I am a bit paranoid about this sort of stuff though!

[rtil]

i'm sure when and if they do it will be very amusing to say the least

[Thor]

Hackers Movie Clip Zero Cool (Dade) hacks into TV Station



back on topic: I have that cooling master case and it's AWESOME!