No. What blows in newer equipment are capacitors and transformers, usually. On occasion, resistors go out.
I have yet to encounter any major problem with electromigration and I work with quantum dot phosphors, which are smaller than your current transistors.
The problem is cheap assholes driven for constant sales and profit creating substandard equipment.
You could only wish I was a bot. Sadly, I've been there and done that. I quit working software and went with pure hardware instead, with arguably more use than your current computers and software.
No, I'm not following you around. Also, this 'daredevil horseshit' is stuff I routinely do as a research director, so you might want to lower your shield and stand down on your phasers.
Also, it may not make it a good idea, but then again you don't know the circumstances. There might be a particular antibody brewing in that body being sustained by the heart.
"So in our case if anyone had managed to get a different BIOS working on the chip and work around the blown fuses, odds are it would be flakey or simply refuse to work."
Psh, we just wrote new microcode to handle the broken sections.
"The massive surfeit of processing power means that developers are free to do other cool stuff instead of spending all their time optimizing performance."
Yep, it gives them more time to bloat up the software with DRM, privacy-invading garbage, and shit YOU DON'T NEED but THEY WANT SO THEY CAN CONTROL YOU.
Optimize your shit. Fuck you if you can't make it as slim and as fast as MenuetOS, you don't belong in the programming industry and you should go back to flipping burgers.
"They don't create a cheaper card because they want to."
GeForce 6 series would LOVE to disagree with you. 6200LE unlocked to full performance of 6800ULTRA because the 6200LE was just intentionally crippled in software/firmware. The chips were PERFECTLY FINE.
It's done to force market disparity and to gain favor to their stuff. It's a goddamned dirty trick and these shitheads all need to be held accountable for it.
"I'd be bloody surprised if a big Canon SLR worked well with the same power delivery hardware as a smaller camera."
As long as you provide proper voltage and the supply has the ability to drive it at proper amperage, you have no problems.
I've driven tons of gear with power from sources never intended to operate such equipment. Most recent, I took a 4.5v 720p camcorder, and hardwired it with a 4.0V power supply (because the thing still operated at 3.6v on rechargeable batteries) and it works just fine. Of course, I'm stuck to wall outlets, but that's okay because 10 minutes of battery life SUCKS.
It's a ground, you don't put a load on the ground unless there is an overload, that's what the ground exists for. Everything else should run on hot and neutral wires.
"even though it's a dubious savings by the time you adequately cool and power the overclocked hardware, usually."
Ten bucks for a couple of extra fans and about 15 minutes to redo the air flow in the entire system, versus an extra $60 for an incremental upgrade, gee I wonder which seems more economically feasible?
If you're having that much of a problem with heat, stick with integrated, you're not meant to be working with the big boy toys.
"That was a very unlucky guy, but he's a poster child for people who make the stupid-ass mistake of thinking that power delivery and PCB design intent don't matter."
No, he's the poster child for the typical retard on 4chan's/g/ board.
HL2 played just fine on a GeForce 2 MX400 with 64MB RAM, I don't know why you had to overclock considering the Source Engine is quite capable of auto down-tuning the graphical details to maintain performance.
"Golly... this mine is in the high desert. There is no such thing as hundreds of thousands of gallons of water...."
I have to assume you don't live in California. I'm an hour away from the high desert, and the WHOLE REGION has just had two weeks straight record rainfalls that beat anything in the past decade.
Having done multiple deals and such in the UK, and having had to deal with legal threats, this is in FACT a take-down notice.
Yes appeal by authority is flawed but when you're the research director for a UK, AUS, and USA company, and you deal with this EVERY SINGLE DAY, you tend to know what is what.
This is also basically "Remove it or we'll sue." It is a threat.
And get nailed with a Vexatious Litigant status, smacked around heavily by the courts for frivolous motions, AND THEN they would look even worse.
But of course banks aren't known for their intelligence, so I guess that would be a logical course of action for them to take, given their lack of logic.
"Your DSL line and your landline use the exact same copper pair."
When Bellsouth came to hook up our DSL (back when I lived in Tennessee) the technician hooked up the outer pair of wires for data and the inner pair for voice.
So, in my case, no, DSL and Land didn't run on the same copper pair.
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Give Adam and Eve a command that requires the knowledge of right and wrong.
Refuse to give them the knowledge of right and wrong to make the proper decision.
Please, God is bullshit.
No. What blows in newer equipment are capacitors and transformers, usually. On occasion, resistors go out.
I have yet to encounter any major problem with electromigration and I work with quantum dot phosphors, which are smaller than your current transistors.
The problem is cheap assholes driven for constant sales and profit creating substandard equipment.
You could only wish I was a bot. Sadly, I've been there and done that. I quit working software and went with pure hardware instead, with arguably more use than your current computers and software.
No, I'm not following you around. Also, this 'daredevil horseshit' is stuff I routinely do as a research director, so you might want to lower your shield and stand down on your phasers.
Also, it may not make it a good idea, but then again you don't know the circumstances. There might be a particular antibody brewing in that body being sustained by the heart.
So you say while I still do gaming (like Crysis and Metro 2033) with hardware that's an easy 5 gens old on all but RAM.
But then again I'm experienced in this sort of thing.
I have overdriven stereo amplifiers and other pieces of electronic gear. They all work perfectly fine.
New shit I have, STOCK CONFIGURATION, doesn't last three years.
One system? Try thirty. I still have a TI 99/4A that works, even.
"So in our case if anyone had managed to get a different BIOS working on the chip and work around the blown fuses, odds are it would be flakey or simply refuse to work."
Psh, we just wrote new microcode to handle the broken sections.
"The massive surfeit of processing power means that developers are free to do other cool stuff instead of spending all their time optimizing performance."
Yep, it gives them more time to bloat up the software with DRM, privacy-invading garbage, and shit YOU DON'T NEED but THEY WANT SO THEY CAN CONTROL YOU.
Optimize your shit. Fuck you if you can't make it as slim and as fast as MenuetOS, you don't belong in the programming industry and you should go back to flipping burgers.
"They don't create a cheaper card because they want to."
GeForce 6 series would LOVE to disagree with you. 6200LE unlocked to full performance of 6800ULTRA because the 6200LE was just intentionally crippled in software/firmware. The chips were PERFECTLY FINE.
It's done to force market disparity and to gain favor to their stuff. It's a goddamned dirty trick and these shitheads all need to be held accountable for it.
"I'd be bloody surprised if a big Canon SLR worked well with the same power delivery hardware as a smaller camera."
As long as you provide proper voltage and the supply has the ability to drive it at proper amperage, you have no problems.
I've driven tons of gear with power from sources never intended to operate such equipment. Most recent, I took a 4.5v 720p camcorder, and hardwired it with a 4.0V power supply (because the thing still operated at 3.6v on rechargeable batteries) and it works just fine. Of course, I'm stuck to wall outlets, but that's okay because 10 minutes of battery life SUCKS.
It's a ground, you don't put a load on the ground unless there is an overload, that's what the ground exists for. Everything else should run on hot and neutral wires.
"even though it's a dubious savings by the time you adequately cool and power the overclocked hardware, usually."
Ten bucks for a couple of extra fans and about 15 minutes to redo the air flow in the entire system, versus an extra $60 for an incremental upgrade, gee I wonder which seems more economically feasible?
If you're having that much of a problem with heat, stick with integrated, you're not meant to be working with the big boy toys.
"That was a very unlucky guy, but he's a poster child for people who make the stupid-ass mistake of thinking that power delivery and PCB design intent don't matter."
No, he's the poster child for the typical retard on 4chan's /g/ board.
HL2 played just fine on a GeForce 2 MX400 with 64MB RAM, I don't know why you had to overclock considering the Source Engine is quite capable of auto down-tuning the graphical details to maintain performance.
"We can't control what they do."
Wanna bet? Cut their communications and cut their power. They can't do shit and we control them.
What are they going to do? Attack their pissed off customers? Yea, NO.
"I only mention it because running the hardware past spec increases wear and decreases lifetime."
Yet my two+ decades old overclocked Packard Bell 5MHz 8088 STILL RUNS while every other computer I own has failed within 2-3 years.
What?
"but it would actually be quite interesting to know how absolute a banhammer the Chinese government could wield..."
None at all. We have these things called treaties, and these other things called alliances.
You do realize we're right on the precipice of WWIII, right?
It's going to be corporations and the governments they control versus the people of the world.
"Golly... this mine is in the high desert. There is no
such thing as hundreds of thousands of gallons of water...."
I have to assume you don't live in California. I'm an hour away from the high desert, and the WHOLE REGION has just had two weeks straight record rainfalls that beat anything in the past decade.
TRY MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER, n00b.
Having done multiple deals and such in the UK, and having had to deal with legal threats, this is in FACT a take-down notice.
Yes appeal by authority is flawed but when you're the research director for a UK, AUS, and USA company, and you deal with this EVERY SINGLE DAY, you tend to know what is what.
This is also basically "Remove it or we'll sue." It is a threat.
And get nailed with a Vexatious Litigant status, smacked around heavily by the courts for frivolous motions, AND THEN they would look even worse.
But of course banks aren't known for their intelligence, so I guess that would be a logical course of action for them to take, given their lack of logic.
*WHOOSH*
Forget the stories we had a couple of days ago already?
OPTIMIZE YOUR SHIT.
Because tons of hardware is useless if you can't push it to it's limits with efficient code and algorithms.
Game and OS designers, I'm looking right at you.
It is if you're using T5HO Reptile bulbs, and not the shit T12 6500K bulbs.
"Your DSL line and your landline use the exact same copper pair."
When Bellsouth came to hook up our DSL (back when I lived in Tennessee) the technician hooked up the outer pair of wires for data and the inner pair for voice.
So, in my case, no, DSL and Land didn't run on the same copper pair.
It's only offtopic to those incapable of understanding the link.
So I just laugh at this moderation, because none of you are qualified to match me, and if you were, you'd be challenging me right now.