Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

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Invalidated.

"Cores" kinda like frequency these days doesn't really mean much until the numbers are crunched, hence why I look at the benchmark scores, not the marketing gimmicks.

I have a 3570k in my computer and the only time I push it is either overusing z7ip or running too many vms at once, the rest of the time it's like a sports car in a traffic jam, all that power and nowhere to go.

I kinda wish I had spent the extra $100 for the 3770k though, just cuz.

video encoding is intensive, you could build a workstation computer to (maybe) do it, but you'd be spending even more money ridiculously.

With the way video rendering works it will always seek to utilize 100% of your system's resources to accomplish its task. There won't be resources left to run two games at 100% speed. Doesnt matter how old they are

You can. :p

Edit: I'm slow tonight, I should be in bed.

I made Serj laugh his *** off, gotta mix it up with some stupid *** commentary in the midst.

Gonne be streaming it then Sakura Angels after it, I promise you it's a good watch! :D

JUST GOTTA MAKE SURE TO FRIEND ME ON STEAM BECAUSE *** CREEPERS, I had like 6 people watching me play Dying Light and I thought I had friends only.

I didn't mind it, but we were being stupid

On my desktop, yar. Why?

I've seen a difference in boot up speeds using the same model/build of OS at work though, as for operating speeds, probably not as big of a difference unless one is reading/writing to the disk a lot, which I don't do much of anymore.

Gonna leave with this:

Wolfpack represent <_<

SSD is one of the upgrades I strongly urge most people make for as many parts of their system as they can. OS drive for sure, cuts boot speed and load times for whatever programs you put on it. Having a bigger one (256-512GB SSDs aren't very expensive anymore) for games is also nice; ones with long load times and lots of disk access for textures and whatnot will see a pretty dramatic improvement. FFXIV benefits, your hunt efficiency will increase 16 fold!

To whomever invited me, and you Proth, I usually play later in the night. I'm off Fri-Sun, so expect me to finish Sakura around there c:

Angel might be down the road when I get more money!

So leveling up my Bowser Amiibo myself rather then just letting the Amiibos train each other. Fighting on Random stages for this. Noticing so much stuff I haven't before.

The Pokemon League stage for example.
The Fire Stage Hohou can appear and make the fire pillars giant along with 2 additional ones from off stage.
The Steel Stage the swords can be pushed in to spawn a pool of liquid steel to coat your fighter in.
The Dragon Stage some times Rayquaza will show up and attack the players by dashing through the screen.
The Water Stage has Phione(? not sure on this) appear and turn the main platform into a whirlpool to suck fighters to the bottom of the screen.

Also the Ms. Pacman stage sucks.

May have possibly created a monster >_> Bowser is strong. Maybe Champion dethroning strong.

*grumbling intensifies*

I haven't been charged for my laptop yet.

it shipped two days ago :|

How annoying, suddenly the definite date for when tickets go on sale has changed from 2/13/15 to "Coming soon!"

I'm starting to get better at having self control and being slightly more frugal with my money, but god dammit! It's very testing to have $700 at my disposal.

WE MUST DROPKICK ALL THE THINGS!
And serj scared all those viewers away anyhow!

Gotten to the point I can't beat my Bowser Amiibo all the time. I created a pink haired monster.

Okay so humor me for a second.
Amiibos are simply figurines that introduce bits of content in applicable/compatible games? In regards to Smash Bros, what exactly do they offer other than being an AI opponent or ally?

That's actually it. Just you can train them and make them smarter and stronger then the normal AI.

It's kinda like Pokemon with a real life price and collectable. Also no animal abuse lol.

Someone please deliver me from this terrible, terrible temptation...

just get the keyboard cause ooo pretty colors lol.
I've been wanting one of those but I have too many keyboards already that work just fine.

If you have spare money to burn, sure... Why not ? Make Intel richer and make the economy wheels spin.

You happen to know what CPUs are made of, right ?

Sand. (Si) And by what I know sand is one of the most common things on the world...

Somebody played the PETA version of Pokemon, didn't they?

cmon be practical though, is it really going to increase your productivity or make a huge improvement in your gaming experience?
Or is it just a consumeristic impulse buy that will make you feel good for a short time?

I could look into the shitty ethics and economic stronghold of Intel and make a decision based on that, but frankly I lean a lot more towards performance incentives than political ones. After all, I have a Z97 board, so why would I purchase something incompatible? Also until more games become multi-threaded in their processing instructions, I'm likely to stick with Intel's highly efficient cores, at least until AMD decides to retire their AM3 line and work on a new architecture instead of funneling everything into their APUs.

I couldn't help but chuckle to myself when AMD had their half-assed FX refresh line.

I know that temptation, been thinking of getting another 980, but i'd probably have to get a new psu and mobo.
And I don't know if having 2 acx 2.0 cards would be a good idea. Figure one would just blow all it's heat onto the other one.

I wanted the reference card cause it looks sexy but evga had a recall on them when I ordered :/

Yeah, if I went SLI, I'd set some money aside and look into running a water cooling block on each GPU as air cooling is extremely ineffective when you introduce the massive static pressure of shoving two or more cards so close to each other.