Is Intel Doomed? (Plus random stuff): Part 2

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Yep, its free, and you can use your cpu, or your console or your gpu. They offer simulations, and cause of defect, and hopefully adding certain things prevents the defects from happening, so many attempts are made, for each possible solution.

@Elmo, Mr Houston or anyone on OCL, or dev on when itll be released?
I know several farmers wanting it for their ATI cards, and many more asking/hoping

 

[randomizer]

Check the (rather rudimentary) F@H sticky here as well, there's links to guides there.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I don't expect ray tracing will be useful for gaming for some time yet. Pure ray tracing may never be used since it is quite inefficient compared to rasterisation. The latter can produce very similar image quality, except in a few areas related to lighting, which is where ray tracing has the (IQ, not speed) advantage.

Thats why in gaming at least its a combo deal in the future. I can see they using it for reflections in water, mirrors, ceramic and the such since it produces some amazing quality but rasterization can still beat it in some things.

I can imagine a world with ray tracing + raster + tesselation. How pretty it would be.

But for 3D animation and CGI I would bet that once ray tracing becomes more viable and faster they will utilize it since it can top quality in a lot of areas and evenly match raster in the same.

 

[randomizer]

It really depends on what kind of image you want to produce and what the scene is. Quite a number of big film titles like Titanic and LoTR use Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan, which primarily uses REYES rendering, although it can do RT as well. I'm not sure how long REYES will be used though since the computing power for ray tracing now exists.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

it sounds like a really good thing

so do you have to be a member of a certain group and are ther any system requirements?

it's free right?

It's advantageous experience-wise, if you can show you help your Mom fold laundry 😀.

 

[Hellboy]

It's advantageous experience-wise, if you can show you help your Mom fold laundry 😀.

OMG i actually came across a 386 processor in my stockpile of odds and sods..


20mb hard disk, 5.25 floppies, ISA cards, PCI 3dfx. a 33600bps modem ( us robotics with flash upgradable - wooohoo), at keyboards and serial mouses, a origional hercules card, lotus smart suite 97, word perfect 5.1 and a analogue 15 pin joystick., and a sodim.
stroll on technology fazers, stroll on technology

 

[Upendra09]

can tualatin celery run folds?

 

[warmon6]

can tualatin celery run folds?

Well it may not fold easily but after i use a sledge hammer, it should fold in half or more quite easily. 😗 :lol:

Anyways. I think it can fold, As long as you use the older clients.


http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadOld

 

[fazers_on_stun]

OMG i actually came across a 386 processor in my stockpile of odds and sods..


20mb hard disk, 5.25 floppies, ISA cards, PCI 3dfx. a 33600bps modem ( us robotics with flash upgradable - wooohoo), at keyboards and serial mouses, a origional hercules card, lotus smart suite 97, word perfect 5.1 and a analogue 15 pin joystick., and a sodim.
stroll on technology fazers, stroll on technology

LOL - normally I try to keep my computer hardware separate from my dirty shorts, but a few sessions on the THG forumz and it's hard to tell the difference

 

[ElMoIsEviL]

can tualatin celery run folds?

A Tualatin based Celeron can run the basic Folding@Home client, but don't expect stellar performance or a high score.

You're generally advised to have a Core 2 Duo or higher processor when folding (to make it worth it).

If you have an nVIDIA 8 series or higher GPU then you're better off folding on that instead of the Tualatin.

 

[Upendra09]

HAH


my desktop specs

1.2 ghz celeron Tualatin
512 megs of SDRAM
integrated 8 megs of VRAM


i do have a laptop that is way better
but my parents need it for their work and for me to post here

because my desktop has a very aggressive virus that links to porn every ten minutes

 

[BadTrip]

Porn every 10 min, why you complaining? lol

 

[AMW1011]

Upendra09

That's what I like to call grounds for a HDD format.

 

[Upendra09]

well not needed any more luckily i got rid of it

i am so glad about this, if you guys have any viruses and such you should really use Microsoft Security Essentials

Yes reynod you i know you have many viruses as in mentally, bodily, and in your computers

@ AMW101 and everyone else

always use MSE, this is a great antivirus software, it is very aggressive, i mean this virus would say every file on my computer was infected cuz that is what the virus did (actually a trojan) but MSE didn't back down like avast and i had to put in a credit card # to download a free trial

and avast sucks they can''t find crap

MSE was great though and now my desktop with the tualatin celery is now up and running smoothly after a bad virus

@ badtrip

i am not sick like you bud

 

[BadTrip]

well not needed any more luckily i got rid of it

i am so glad about this, if you guys have any viruses and such you should really use Microsoft Security Essentials

Yes reynod you i know you have many viruses as in mentally, bodily, and in your computers

@ AMW101 and everyone else

always use MSE, this is a great antivirus software, it is very aggressive, i mean this virus would say every file on my computer was infected cuz that is what the virus did (actually a trojan) but MSE didn't back down like avast and i had to put in a credit card # to download a free trial

and avast sucks they can''t find crap

MSE was great though and now my desktop with the tualatin celery is now up and running smoothly after a bad virus

@ badtrip

i am not sick like you bud

Of all my testing, MSE is very good, if not the best of the free. Works great with a low footprint.

 

[randomizer]

MSE works for me but for some reason every time it finishes a full scan the anti-malware process sticks CPU usage at 25%. It would not surprise me of MSE is so good because it can exploit a few "shortcuts" that other virus scanner manufacturers don't know exist 😉

 

[warmon6]

Of all my testing, MSE is very good, if not the best of the free. Works great with a low footprint.

MSE, is that the microsoft security essentials?

 

[BadTrip]

MSE works for me but for some reason every time it finishes a full scan the anti-malware process sticks CPU usage at 25%. It would not surprise me of MSE is so good because it can exploit a few "shortcuts" that other virus scanner manufacturers don't know exist 😉

conspiracy theory much? lol

 

[BadTrip]

MSE, is that the microsoft security essentials?

Yes.

 

[warmon6]

Yes.

ok.

 

[Upendra09]

conspiracy theory much? lol

It makes sense

anyway MSE is pretty quick too

 

[jimmysmitty]

MSE works for me but for some reason every time it finishes a full scan the anti-malware process sticks CPU usage at 25%. It would not surprise me of MSE is so good because it can exploit a few "shortcuts" that other virus scanner manufacturers don't know exist 😉

The reason MSE is as good as it is though is its basically the anti-virus/malware ect ripped from One Care which was great.

But MSE is free and as well uses so little in resources. Its nice for Windows 7.

 

[fazers_on_stun]

The reason MSE is as good as it is though is its basically the anti-virus/malware ect ripped from One Care which was great.

But MSE is free and as well uses so little in resources. Its nice for Windows 7.

Yep - after my TrendMicro subscription ran out, and esp. after they put in their "3 installs & you're out" limit (no matter if you reformat and have to reinstall), I switched to MSE and added TrendMicro to my spam filter since they send me emails every month begging me to come back 😛. Well not exactly begging - most of their emails are kinda threatening such as "Your subscription has expired - YOUR COMPUTER MAY EXPLODE ANY SECOND NOW!" or some such crap. And then they offer me a discount as being a long-term customer.

But I will say that TM was fairly light footprint as well - much better than Symantec, which was almost as bad as having a virus...

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Whats sad is, after I dumped McAfee, their offers were cheaper than what it would have been if Id kept them.
Me love me some MSE

 

[fazers_on_stun]

Whats sad is, after I dumped McAfee, their offers were cheaper than what it would have been if Id kept them.
Me love me some MSE

Unfortunately that seems to be the norm nowadays, esp. with the new customers getting all the discounts, etc. My wife managed to lose her cellphone again (thinks she may have inadvertently thrown it in the trash). Hmm, 3rd phone in 4 years, as she found out cellphones don't swim too well, and it's also not a good idea to give it to your 2-yr-old son so that he can entertain himself with ringtones .

So yesterday I was off from work, and we went to the Verizon Wireless store here in Woodbridge, VA, instead of calling the toll-free number. The store has a bouncer - er, greeter at the door who makes you sign in on some stupid kiosk computer to 'schedule your interview' or whatever with a sales person. What a load of crap. I almost walked out - should have, since they didn't have the phone my wife wanted. Pretty much unhelpful and quite ignorant sales staff.

I'll still keep my Verizon account since it's by far the best service in my area, which is ultimately what matters, but this behavior doesn't help cement any customer loyalty...