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MicMac91 wrote...
Why is the second one so much larger? Does it contain duplicates from the first?The first one only has doujinshi, while the second one contains only eromanga. (The first are related to a franchise, the second are original work).
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You really should track down what your current specs are. Here's why:
Intel Pentium 3-4 "generation" used AGP slot for videocards, (typically) DDR 1 memory, and PATA (AKA IDE) interface to connect hard drives and CD/DVD optical drives.
Intel Dual Core/Core 2 "generation" uses PCI-E (PCI express) slot for videocards, DDR 2 and lately DDR 3 RAM (...each with a different slot, not compatible with DDR 1 or the other) and SATA interface to connect hard drives and CD/DVD optical drives.
...and if you have a really old PSU without an auxiliary (4-6 pin) power connector, you might have to buy a new one too as most newer mohterboards won't even start without the extra juice.
You main question should be this:
-What do I use the PC for?
-How long will I use the PC for these purposes?
-Will I upgrade it and how much will I spend on it during its lifetime?
AMD systems are cheaper, but right now they're at the end of their support cycle and no new processors will be made for them... they're also the cheapest and have good overclocking potential.
New Intel systems come in two flavours - LGA 1156 and LGA 1366. The first has a really wide number of processors availible for it, so you're bound to be able to upgrade for a while. On the other hand, it's about to be outphased by the high-end LGA 1366 ...which is expensive and only supports the newest and therefore most expensive CPUs.
Intel Pentium 3-4 "generation" used AGP slot for videocards, (typically) DDR 1 memory, and PATA (AKA IDE) interface to connect hard drives and CD/DVD optical drives.
Intel Dual Core/Core 2 "generation" uses PCI-E (PCI express) slot for videocards, DDR 2 and lately DDR 3 RAM (...each with a different slot, not compatible with DDR 1 or the other) and SATA interface to connect hard drives and CD/DVD optical drives.
...and if you have a really old PSU without an auxiliary (4-6 pin) power connector, you might have to buy a new one too as most newer mohterboards won't even start without the extra juice.
You main question should be this:
-What do I use the PC for?
-How long will I use the PC for these purposes?
-Will I upgrade it and how much will I spend on it during its lifetime?
AMD systems are cheaper, but right now they're at the end of their support cycle and no new processors will be made for them... they're also the cheapest and have good overclocking potential.
New Intel systems come in two flavours - LGA 1156 and LGA 1366. The first has a really wide number of processors availible for it, so you're bound to be able to upgrade for a while. On the other hand, it's about to be outphased by the high-end LGA 1366 ...which is expensive and only supports the newest and therefore most expensive CPUs.
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I'm available this time. Now, will I have to GM or will Sorrow do so?
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Why I prefer sticking to the basics:
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A word of advice: if you're like me an use a system for 10 years (in one capacity or another), don't be frugal on motherboard and the PSU.
It's important to buy a quality motherboard as it will last longer and give you later options to upgrade and expand your system. Something better than gigabit ethernet may come out in 2-4 years. USB 3.0 is here...
...having at least a handfull of slots to expand into is a must IMHO. For a gaming PC I wouldn't be frugal with this, instead I'd buy a budget CPU & GPU and upgrade (...and maybe sell the old stuff) when the high-end models become cheap. (Paying more than 100-150$ for a GPU or 100-200$ for a CPU is a WASTE OF MONEY. Buy what's in your range and upgrade in 2 years).
A good PSU is a MUST. Buy a good brand. If you buy something cheap, you're risking your 1000$ investment for spending 100$ less. All the PCs I've seen killed in the last 4 years were usually killed by a cheap PSU.
It's important to buy a quality motherboard as it will last longer and give you later options to upgrade and expand your system. Something better than gigabit ethernet may come out in 2-4 years. USB 3.0 is here...
...having at least a handfull of slots to expand into is a must IMHO. For a gaming PC I wouldn't be frugal with this, instead I'd buy a budget CPU & GPU and upgrade (...and maybe sell the old stuff) when the high-end models become cheap. (Paying more than 100-150$ for a GPU or 100-200$ for a CPU is a WASTE OF MONEY. Buy what's in your range and upgrade in 2 years).
A good PSU is a MUST. Buy a good brand. If you buy something cheap, you're risking your 1000$ investment for spending 100$ less. All the PCs I've seen killed in the last 4 years were usually killed by a cheap PSU.
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Actually I'd recommend against AMD since their current generation is at the end of its life (so upgrades would be hard to come by)...
...if only Intel wasn't in a funk just as well. Their LGA 1156 is about to be phased out just as fast as it arrived, so if you want a lasting base you'd have to go with the expensive LGA 1366. Is it worth the price tag? I'm not sure.
-Should you go with AMD's socket AM2+? This is the cheapest option, but this platform won't have any new CPUs for it in the future, so you won't be able to upgrade.
-Should you go with Intel's LGA 775? It's just as cheap as AMD, but it doesn't support the strongest CPUs, so in the end you will be a tad behind compared to AMD. The low end CPUs (Intel Core 2 vs. early Phenoms) are better performing though than AMD.
-Should you go with AMD's Socket AM3? Although new, this socket is based on outdated technology and AMD may phase it out soon. The CPUs for it are under performing compared to similar Intel models, but are cheaper and have really good over-clocking possibilities.
-Should you go with Intel's LGA 1156? It's just a tad more expensive than AMD, but it looks to be a neglected child like how the Socket 423 ended up with the Pentium4+Rambus debacle a couple of years back. On the bright side this supports the newest CPUs on the market and you should be able to upgrade it for quite a while.
-Should you go with the Intel LGA 1366? It's the most expensive and only supports the newest processors, so it could be out of your budget.
Don't believe anyone who says that you should go with Intel or AMD. Decide for yourself after some investigation.
AMD will need more expertise as although cheaper to get your money's worth you'll need to tune the system yourself.
Intel tends to just work, however it is more expensive and it doesn't facilitate over-clocking as well as AMD does.
...and beyond these general platitudes you have the debacle with slots and what not.
This deserves some pondering.
...if only Intel wasn't in a funk just as well. Their LGA 1156 is about to be phased out just as fast as it arrived, so if you want a lasting base you'd have to go with the expensive LGA 1366. Is it worth the price tag? I'm not sure.
-Should you go with AMD's socket AM2+? This is the cheapest option, but this platform won't have any new CPUs for it in the future, so you won't be able to upgrade.
-Should you go with Intel's LGA 775? It's just as cheap as AMD, but it doesn't support the strongest CPUs, so in the end you will be a tad behind compared to AMD. The low end CPUs (Intel Core 2 vs. early Phenoms) are better performing though than AMD.
-Should you go with AMD's Socket AM3? Although new, this socket is based on outdated technology and AMD may phase it out soon. The CPUs for it are under performing compared to similar Intel models, but are cheaper and have really good over-clocking possibilities.
-Should you go with Intel's LGA 1156? It's just a tad more expensive than AMD, but it looks to be a neglected child like how the Socket 423 ended up with the Pentium4+Rambus debacle a couple of years back. On the bright side this supports the newest CPUs on the market and you should be able to upgrade it for quite a while.
-Should you go with the Intel LGA 1366? It's the most expensive and only supports the newest processors, so it could be out of your budget.
Don't believe anyone who says that you should go with Intel or AMD. Decide for yourself after some investigation.
AMD will need more expertise as although cheaper to get your money's worth you'll need to tune the system yourself.
Intel tends to just work, however it is more expensive and it doesn't facilitate over-clocking as well as AMD does.
...and beyond these general platitudes you have the debacle with slots and what not.
This deserves some pondering.
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Meh, another thread about technology that won't be used for 50 years as most wars will be fought in the 3rd world through proxies or between 1st world armies and 3rd world irregulars...
...high-tech is not what comes to mind in these scenarios.
http://exiledonline.com/future-war-hi-tech-toys-vs-fanged-vermin/
"Spacewar — Killer satellites, orbital lasers…won’t happen. Nothing but lame NASA fundraising ideas, cooked up by corrupt lobbyists and corporations that make a living off the federal budget. Never convinced anybody this side of Newsweek. 150 years from now there’ll be nobody on the moon, nobody on Mars — just some fragile, expensive tools floating up there, not worth blasting, far too expensive to risk."
...
"Try plugging the hi-tech, RPV-heavy war plan to a more even-sided war: say, an all-out struggle for world domination between the US and China ten years from now. The first thing you realize is that it’ll come down to production rates. You’re gonna lose a lot of hardware in a hurry. Like aircraft in the early days of WW I, RPVs will go from surveillance to attack, and that will lead to interceptor models designed to destroy enemy RPVs. There’ll be unmanned dogfights, and since these things are easy to make, the dogfights will be unbelievably massive, maybe hundreds of thousands of individual combats in the sky over the battlefield. It comes down to our factories vs. theirs. If you can replace it faster than they do, maybe you win. It’ll all be as harmless as a nerd picnic on the school field Saturday afternoon, with the Asian kids and the pasty white kids each piloting their little remote-controlled MiG’s and F-16s and arguing about who killed who, then going off for pizza."
...
"Production dominance will tilt one way or the other, at last: you own the skies. They can’t send up any more RPVs, and you can. OK; you’ve won. Now what? Do you start carpet bombing their cities? What the Hell for? The civilian population won’t even matter any more. Kill a hundred million Chinese — so what?
You want to assert control, though, prove you’ve won. Whaddaya do, send in troops? Chinese troops landing in Hawaii, or American troops landing on Amoy? It’s real easy to see what happens next: the nukes come out, and everybody loses.
Oh wait, I forgot: we’re gonna have a nuke-shield over us. Uh…yeah. Folks, as long as I’m debunking Sci-Fi bullshit, lemme tell ya the sad news: this nuke shield, it’s what is technically called, in specialist language, “total bullshit.” Nobody can be shielded from nukes. Not just because it’s impossible to intercept an ICBM under real conditions (those tests? They were just plain faked, folks!), but because an ICBM isn’t the only way to deliver a nuke."
...
"And that means there are nukes lying in our harbors, and in longterm storage sheds, and cemented into the foundations of buildings in our downtowns. So no matter how much they bleat about their anti-missile systems, you better believe that the US will never, never be safe from nukes. And neither will any city that matters, in China or Japan or Russia or Europe.
That means there won’t be any total wars of the good ol’ WW II kind, except between little backward countries without nukes. So we’ll have a two-tier system of wars: very cautious limited wars between the big players, and bloody messes between the savages, which will do little more than prune their exploding populations."
...high-tech is not what comes to mind in these scenarios.
http://exiledonline.com/future-war-hi-tech-toys-vs-fanged-vermin/
"Spacewar — Killer satellites, orbital lasers…won’t happen. Nothing but lame NASA fundraising ideas, cooked up by corrupt lobbyists and corporations that make a living off the federal budget. Never convinced anybody this side of Newsweek. 150 years from now there’ll be nobody on the moon, nobody on Mars — just some fragile, expensive tools floating up there, not worth blasting, far too expensive to risk."
...
"Try plugging the hi-tech, RPV-heavy war plan to a more even-sided war: say, an all-out struggle for world domination between the US and China ten years from now. The first thing you realize is that it’ll come down to production rates. You’re gonna lose a lot of hardware in a hurry. Like aircraft in the early days of WW I, RPVs will go from surveillance to attack, and that will lead to interceptor models designed to destroy enemy RPVs. There’ll be unmanned dogfights, and since these things are easy to make, the dogfights will be unbelievably massive, maybe hundreds of thousands of individual combats in the sky over the battlefield. It comes down to our factories vs. theirs. If you can replace it faster than they do, maybe you win. It’ll all be as harmless as a nerd picnic on the school field Saturday afternoon, with the Asian kids and the pasty white kids each piloting their little remote-controlled MiG’s and F-16s and arguing about who killed who, then going off for pizza."
...
"Production dominance will tilt one way or the other, at last: you own the skies. They can’t send up any more RPVs, and you can. OK; you’ve won. Now what? Do you start carpet bombing their cities? What the Hell for? The civilian population won’t even matter any more. Kill a hundred million Chinese — so what?
You want to assert control, though, prove you’ve won. Whaddaya do, send in troops? Chinese troops landing in Hawaii, or American troops landing on Amoy? It’s real easy to see what happens next: the nukes come out, and everybody loses.
Oh wait, I forgot: we’re gonna have a nuke-shield over us. Uh…yeah. Folks, as long as I’m debunking Sci-Fi bullshit, lemme tell ya the sad news: this nuke shield, it’s what is technically called, in specialist language, “total bullshit.” Nobody can be shielded from nukes. Not just because it’s impossible to intercept an ICBM under real conditions (those tests? They were just plain faked, folks!), but because an ICBM isn’t the only way to deliver a nuke."
...
"And that means there are nukes lying in our harbors, and in longterm storage sheds, and cemented into the foundations of buildings in our downtowns. So no matter how much they bleat about their anti-missile systems, you better believe that the US will never, never be safe from nukes. And neither will any city that matters, in China or Japan or Russia or Europe.
That means there won’t be any total wars of the good ol’ WW II kind, except between little backward countries without nukes. So we’ll have a two-tier system of wars: very cautious limited wars between the big players, and bloody messes between the savages, which will do little more than prune their exploding populations."
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This week I can probably only GM/play on Sunday.
The week after that I probably can't play at all.
Scratch that - I won't be here the whole weekend, but next week I can GM on either day.
The week after that I probably can't play at all.
Scratch that - I won't be here the whole weekend, but next week I can GM on either day.
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Ah, the good 'ol candiru, winner of the Schopenhauer award:
http://exiledonline.com/cat/schoepenhauer-awards/
http://exiledonline.com/cat/schoepenhauer-awards/
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This weekend I won't be able to attend or GM.
In case you need Bones, I've put the configured file here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?j5s1zip8u5utk3y
To use it, you'll need the Ruby environment installed, which can be got here:
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
To run the bot (after Ruby is installed) double click the file:
bones-go-#FallOfUnity@irc.sorcery.net.rb
Since irc.sorcery.net won't allow it to enter the room right after logging onto the server, you'll have to manually invite it by writing this into your IRC client:
/msg Bones-FAKKU @@@join #FallOfUnity
In case you need Bones, I've put the configured file here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?j5s1zip8u5utk3y
To use it, you'll need the Ruby environment installed, which can be got here:
http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/
To run the bot (after Ruby is installed) double click the file:
bones-go-#FallOfUnity@irc.sorcery.net.rb
Since irc.sorcery.net won't allow it to enter the room right after logging onto the server, you'll have to manually invite it by writing this into your IRC client:
/msg Bones-FAKKU @@@join #FallOfUnity
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Actually your driver may be designed not to charge the battery all the time.
This is a good thing! Constantly charging a Li-ion battery is the surest way to shorten its life. (Add heat, that most laptops suffer from and the issue is compounded).
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/91846-notebook-battery-guide.html
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
This is a good thing! Constantly charging a Li-ion battery is the surest way to shorten its life. (Add heat, that most laptops suffer from and the issue is compounded).
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hardware-components-aftermarket-upgrades/91846-notebook-battery-guide.html
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
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