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Medrea
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You need the i. But lots of people, simply do it wrong. | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On April 26 2012 22:20 Sovano wrote: Thank you. The reasons for my questions is that I had tried an HDD that I had got yesterday from a broken computer, and used it as a replacement for my broken HDD in my current computer. I could plug in everything perfectly and when I turned it on the computer worked normal. Although it made a few strange noises for the first few minutes, so I was sketchy of whether HDDs are universally compatible, which led me to asking the question here on TL. Though basing my next statement on your answer, then it seems that my HDD is compatible after all which is a relief. The question I had posed about the amount of voltage (or amperes, don't know which) comes from a previous experience. The broken computer's HDD I had used was broken because of a power supply issue. This was several years back when I had relatively little amounts of knowledge about computers, and thought that my new graphics card I had installed a few months prior to the computer's breakdown had a direct correlation to the power supply breaking down. I'm still not really sure to be quite honest. Power supplies come and go. If you've got a really shitty one, yes it can fry stuff in your desktop so that's why you spend some decent cash on one that is actually respectable. Internal hard disks, though, shouldn't really die as a result of a dodgy power supply. Realistically, that hard disk could just be dying a natural death...after all there are moving parts inside a mechanical hard disk. Either way, you should be backing up your important information fairly often so in case the hard disk does die, you don't lose anything important. | ||
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
On April 26 2012 15:25 Womwomwom wrote: Sorry for the late reply. Lenovo U400 is balls. Its aesthetically good but everything else, from battery life to screen, is pretty average at best. Dell XPS 14z is a very thin Dell Inspiron. Sony Vaio S is fairly pricey and has a terrible screen. There's apparently a Sony E14P coming out soon, which might be decent. The Lenovo T420 is the best overall laptop because unlike the others, its a business class laptop. Its fairly bulky but the build quality is beyond anything you will find in Best Buy, except perhaps a Macbook Pro. The screen still sucks, though, but what can you do? Note: I put internal specs last. I put build quality, keyboard quality, and screen quality above all else when buying a laptop. Those are more or less the reasons I didn't go for the other laptops. I can't get over the look of the thinkpad though. Maybe it grows on you? haha | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 26 2012 22:20 Sovano wrote: Thank you. The reasons for my questions is that I had tried an HDD that I had got yesterday from a broken computer, and used it as a replacement for my broken HDD in my current computer. I could plug in everything perfectly and when I turned it on the computer worked normal. Although it made a few strange noises for the first few minutes, so I was sketchy of whether HDDs are universally compatible, which led me to asking the question here on TL. Though basing my next statement on your answer, then it seems that my HDD is compatible after all which is a relief. The question I had posed about the amount of voltage (or amperes, don't know which) comes from a previous experience. The broken computer's HDD I had used was broken because of a power supply issue. This was several years back when I had relatively little amounts of knowledge about computers, and thought that my new graphics card I had installed a few months prior to the computer's breakdown had a direct correlation to the power supply breaking down. I'm still not really sure to be quite honest. Strange noise usually means the HDD is dead or dying. The question you asked about how power works is best answered by google, because frankly, you're completely clueless, and it's complicated. Bad PSUs kill things because they don't stay within specs. But that has NOTHING to do with the amount of power parts are designed to pull, it's just about the fact that you shouldn't buy a shit PSU. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On April 26 2012 22:23 Medrea wrote: I used to get points off in school if we switch kilobinary bytes with kilobytes. If an industry is using "kilobytes" when they should be saying "kibibytes" or vice versa rather, then they are in the wrong since the IEEE standards are clear, at least to me. You need the i. But lots of people, simply do it wrong. It's a little confusing, I think separate organizations have different sets of standards. This is from wikipedia: Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes. For instance, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) defined the unit accordingly for the use in power switchgear.[2] In 2000, however, IEEE adopted the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recommendation, which uses the metric prefix interpretation. Searching through the articles on the IEEE site, it looks like the organization has accepted a trail use of the kibi standard. Though it's pretty clear that the industry has not taken much notice, notably Microsoft and Apple have taken no action in accepting the new standard. If the industry doesn't accept a standard, it's not really a standard. I also have my doubts that HDD manufacturers are going to willingly accept the standard, given that listing storage space in GiB versus GB would make their drives sound smaller. Either way, I think it's clear in the context when someone mentions "megabyte" they are taking about 2^20 bytes. | ||
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BriTadeb
France23 Posts
I have put twitchTV stream of my users on my website like TL did. I would like to know how you do to check if a stream is online or not. Is there a way to check if the stream is online with the url ? | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On April 26 2012 23:02 BriTadeb wrote: Hi, I have put twitchTV stream of my users on my website like TL did. I would like to know how you do to check if a stream is online or not. Is there a way to if the stream is online with the url ? There are specific APIs which are used as part of the scripting on the page. Twitch TV/Justin TV has an entire wiki devoted to it: http://apiwiki.justin.tv/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page You should be able to find all your answers there. | ||
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BriTadeb
France23 Posts
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On April 26 2012 23:16 BriTadeb wrote: Hmm thank you for that link but I don't understand everything. I'm not used to use it :/ Where should I look for my problem ? Probably the link on the main wiki page that says "Guide to Getting Started".... http://apiwiki.justin.tv/mediawiki/index.php/Guide_to_Getting_Started | ||
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Mesha
Bosnia-Herzegovina439 Posts
 . I couldn't believe that this 2 cores processor is so fucking bad for starcraft. Now i have to upgrade everything else, cos my old motherboard cant take these fancy new processors, hehe.. I am also on a very tight budget. My question is - is the following configuration 100 % good enought to: a) play team games(2v2, 3v3, 4,4???) on medium graphics or whatever b) play 1v1 @ some higer settings -MB BIOSTAR H61MHB INTEL H61 Soc1155 FSB 2xDDR3 1333 PCIeX GLAN+SB+ DVI -G.SKILL 4 GB DDR3-1333, F3-10600CL9S-4GBNT -CPU INTEL Core i3 2120, 3.30GHz -Radeon 6790 - 1GB | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
On April 26 2012 23:02 TheToast wrote: It's a little confusing, I think separate organizations have different sets of standards. This is from wikipedia: Searching through the articles on the IEEE site, it looks like the organization has accepted a trail use of the kibi standard. Though it's pretty clear that the industry has not taken much notice, notably Microsoft and Apple have taken no action in accepting the new standard. If the industry doesn't accept a standard, it's not really a standard. I also have my doubts that HDD manufacturers are going to willingly accept the standard, given that listing storage space in GiB versus GB would make their drives sound smaller. Either way, I think it's clear in the context when someone mentions "megabyte" they are taking about 2^20 bytes. Well industry or not. Myrmidon and I are honor bound to fight you to the death over it  Haha. | ||
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iKill[ShocK]
Vietnam3530 Posts
On April 27 2012 04:08 Mesha wrote: Recently i upgraded my graphics card to radeon 6790 just to find out that my core2duo e7500 processor is the bottle neck and my new graphics card is good as dead . I couldn't believe that this 2 cores processor is so fucking bad for starcraft. Now i have to upgrade everything else, cos my old motherboard cant take these fancy new processors, hehe.. I am also on a very tight budget. My question is - is the following configuration 100 % good enought to: a) play team games(2v2, 3v3, 4,4???) on medium graphics or whatever b) play 1v1 @ some higer settings -MB BIOSTAR H61MHB INTEL H61 Soc1155 FSB 2xDDR3 1333 PCIeX GLAN+SB+ DVI -G.SKILL 4 GB DDR3-1333, F3-10600CL9S-4GBNT -CPU INTEL Core i3 2120, 3.30GHz -Radeon 6790 - 1GB should be good for low/medium, should post prices too so you know you're not overpaying. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On April 27 2012 06:16 Medrea wrote: Well industry or not. Myrmidon and I are honor bound to fight you to the death over it Haha. Lol... um okay | ||
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Zushen
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 27 2012 06:29 Zushen wrote: whats the best AMD chip for running a 1080p stream? This is like asking what's the best Kia to enter in a drag race. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On April 27 2012 06:45 JingleHell wrote: This is like asking what's the best Kia to enter in a drag race. Nice. Though interestingly both questions have the same answer: the fastest one. -edit: also if you read the rules for the thread, this is the first one: What not to ask in this thread What is a good processor? (Situational) | ||
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Halure
Canada26 Posts
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Zushen
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 27 2012 06:56 Zushen wrote: well i did specify what i was going to be using it for instead of asking a broad question like "what is a good AMD processor" That's actually easier to answer. None of them. Also, streaming without talking about what quality of stream you want is a pretty broad question. 1080p doesn't mean much on it's own. But even so, an i7 is generally better for most users, since your stream can't look better than your game, and SC2 is CPU limited, and only uses a couple of cores. | ||
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Medrea
10003 Posts
Yeah internet plays a role as well. | ||
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