General computer talk/advice

I had some weird virus on my old PC that slowed it down to the point of not being able to just browse the internet.
Didn't get it of too this day.

 

I think I did a scan on my old PC with just MalwareBytes before I put it in the spare room to be used as my dad's new PC, it found 132 viruses, most of which I was not aware that I had! Thank you PirateBay...

 

i have an anti-virus suggestion once you fix your pc:

MSE (windows defender for w8/8.1/10) & malwarebytes anti-malware, as well as common sense 2015 edition

i use this combination of anti-virus and have never had a virus since i started using them

 

I use all of them as well as AVG, and still I got a virus. I normally have a decent amount of common sense when it comes to these things but I just sort of didn't that night. I was trying to download F&F6 off the Internet after I had just went to see 7 in the cinema. Never a good idea, I managed to get some of the virus out of my computer that night but it still remains around 3 weeks later. More work to do tomorrow and into my weekend. Yay.

 

http://www.pcgamer.com/amds-next-gen-zen-cpu-due-in-2016/

Its gonna suck.
40% faster than current gen? Great. Intel is more than 40% faster than current gen. Next gen AMD due in 2016 is no fucking improvement over 2014/2015 intel. Bloody brilliant business plan there AMD.

They can only justify this with a lower power consumption and insane clock speeds, maybe core counts. Oh, and ditch the fucking siamese twin setup.

 

not sure if this counts as computer talk or not, but i'd imagine it does

just realized that there is no longer a removable back in the gs6, meaning no extended storage or removable/replaceable batteries in the gs6

WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU DO THAT SAMSUNG

EXTRA STORAGE VIA MICRO-SD AND REMOVABLE/REPLACEABLE BATTERIES > NOT USING PLASTIC

the hell do you think you are, apple?

 

Oh goody! I can finally ditch my i5! Spending $300 really pissed me off, I'd love to go back to AMD. Looks like I'm swapping CPUs and Mobo's again next year.

 

except it would be a downgrade over current gen intel still. Seriously, AMD claim 40% higher IPC than current AMD processors. Current intel is already 40% higher IPC than current AMD processors and yet you still have to wait a year for the AMD shit. Its obsolete before its even released.

 

Except I'd like my rig better. I'm an AMD guy. Yea, this i5 is really nice, but spending $300 (with my MSI Gaming 5) on it and then AMD users experience a performance increase with Beam (which is the reason I even went Intel) and slower rendering speeds, again, pissed me off. And, the fact that I can't go next-gen Intel because they changed the socket again. I'd be buying a CPU and motherboard anyway, might as well buy something I like.

 

Amd users didn't specifically get a performance increase in beam though?

 

Seeing people go from 15 FPS to 50 FPS with the T75 is proof enough for me. I even stuck my 6100 on a test bench (which was really just a motherboard box) and found 13 FPS jumped up to 38.

It could be down to Beam going 64-bit. It's been so much nicer since.

 

Yup T series went from un-playable to pretty damn smooth. I'm still running at 4ghz thanks to my RAM being total shite. Overclocking even 0.3ghz would max out the game so I dont even see why 40% faster is any issue at all, and not to mention because I didnt spend as much as a car on my CPU I also had some money left over for other parts.

 

Computer teacher's iMac 5K just came today. We set it up, and jeez that this is gorgeous in every sense of the word. Except software and price.

 

if you ask me, the 5K i mac isn't nearly as overpriced as apples other products

the dell 5K monitor (only one i know of) costs $2,499 (source: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=up275k3)

the imac costs: $2,499

meaning for the price of JUST a monitor, you also get a computer

seems pretty reasonable to me

 

I have won the price for the worst Pc in the forum

 

If it came with Windows, and I took out OS X, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Such beauty. Much wow.

 

I'm late to this but I'd like to bring the discussion back and give my two cents.

The Xbox's issues with emulation were mainly outlined by SixSixSevenSeven, but there were other things to consider. The hardware wasn't as PC-like as you'd think because of the x86 hardware. The GPU was a weird hybrid of a GeForce 3 and 4 as far as I remember, having the power of a GeForce 3 but the extra functionality of the latter. Because of it being a weird hybrid, it has a lot of unique registers that haven't been documented publicly. This means that anyone trying to work on emulating the GPU would need to do a LOT of reverse engineering to discover them themselves, if it's even possible at all. There's also the issue of the specialised DirectX that it uses, which similarly uses calls that aren't available in PC equivalents.

Not all hope is lost, though. Some of the main emulator attempts aren't even strictly emulators - because of the games' similarity and partial use of DirectX, some people are actually just reverse engineering the games and replacing Xbox GPU graphical calls with Windows DirectX ones, which is actually closer to natively running the game than emulating an Xbox. As far as I'm aware this should have little to no performance overhead because you don't need to emulate the hardware.

There is a 360 emulator and it's probably made better progress than the Xbox Original emulators, despite the 360 being from 2005 and the original being from 2001. I guess there's more demand for it, or the most skilled programmers just preferred that consolle. Either way, it's called Xenia, and can boot a fair few games and they're "playable", in the sense that they function but run extremely slow.

The one question I have myself is that the 360 has its own Xbox emulator. Surely if we achieve emulation of all the 360's functions, we'll be able to run OG Xbox games from within it? Because if we can emulate the hardware and run the 360's OS, the rest should essentially follow suit. Another thing I'm not sure about is whether or not people have used the .xex (executable) files from the 360's own emulator in order to get tips and develop their own OG Xbox emulators better. I'd be willing to help provide these files from my modded 360 if one of their developers was interested, but they rarely speak on emulation forums.

 

Such limited upgrade capability. Many mobile GPU. Much wow.

 

Yeah, that's the caveat. But if I could get a computer with Windows with that form factor, as well as much more upgradeability, I'd buy it. But that doesn't exist, so big rig on the desktop, and 3 monitors, and a bunch of other amazing shit is better.

 

You have an FX 6300. There is no possible way you could afford that iMac in the first place, or even more than one 1080p monitor. (Do you even have a 1080p screen?)