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1. Laptops are extremely harder to overclocked due to their barren locked BIOS. all OC will have to be done via a: hardware voltage tweak which is extremely dangerous, or b: specialized software which has limited support for a number of laptops and doesn't overclock until the start of your OS.

2. Laptop CPUs are designed to throttle speeds once they hit a certain temperature. if you start hitting say 75c your CPU will drop the speed until it cools off.

3. Heat exponentially rises as you increase voltage and clock speed. a .3Ghz increase can be enough to slap on additional 10c

4. You aren't going to get an extra Ghz. Back to number 3, too much of a OC will cook your chip and a laptop cooler will never be able to handle it since its already designed to handle a specific TDP.

Best i can recommend to push more performance out of a laptop is more RAM and a SSD.

Reading Mirai Nikki. Really interesting concept, lots of good tension with the whole "kill or killed" survival game where everyone involved can predict the future to a limit.

It also has a girl involved who's stalking the MC. For a year, before the manga starts up. Stalker girl be cray cray. Stalker girl multiplies the tension of the survival game tenfold.

Spoiler: I found this frame more unnerving than Junji Ito's works (click to show/hide)

Just be warned, it gets weak at the end.

Quote from: Sirus on July 29, 2014, 03:17:56 pm

vOv makes me think of a person holding up twin peace signs.

So... This?

Knowing this series I don't want to know the context.....

If WD are willing to say it was designed for "PCs with RAID", I find it hard to believe it will have trouble with normal PC use. They didn't say "servers" after all, they said "PCs". I've seen people online who've had a red replaced under warranty despite using it in a normal PC (and not even in raid) so WD are clearly willing to guarantee a red will last 3 years even in a normal PC. (They only guarantee their Blue/Green drives for 2 years)

If you can find any evidence that using a Red drive in a PC will cause it to fail sooner than e.g. a WD Blue, I'd love to see it. All I've seen is speculation, confirmation bias and small-sampling error. e.g. My red failed in my pc after a week! I heard reds fail in pcs, so I replaced it with a blue, and it's been fine so far! therefore reds fail in pcs more than blues! Ugh no, that's one sample, and likely just a normal case of early-life failure that happens to all electronics...

EDIT: I'm not saying that excessive power cycling won't damage a hdd, just that normal desktop use should be fine. Unfortunately all the hard data I can find is based on datacenters, where drives aren't spun up/down often, and no tests on desktops.
The best paper on the subject is google's, which claims that high power cycle counts was only correlated with a 2% increased failure rate in drives 3+ years old, but that that could be a reverse causality (more problems mean they need to be restarted more, rather than more restarts causing more problems).
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control#Desktop_Computers_and_TLER_Effect Not fail persay but an issue with NAS associated drives. Point I'm making they are not designed for normal desktop use, IT DOESN'T SAY ANYWHERE on their website for their normal desktop use, Why would you put them in a normal desktop? Software RAID alone is crap and is error prone, You can expand storage space but do not expect the reliability, it puts the I/O workload on your CPU making it more bottlenecked with other tasks. "PCs with RAID" is a 300+ dollar controller card slapped on your PCI-E slot which a normal user DOESN'T have.
WHY am I fighting about this? You are trying to tell me all hard drives are all the same. They're not, WD specifically designs their lines to depending on the needs along with Seagate, Samsung, and Toshiba. WD RED is for SMB and low enterprise usage for NAS (NAS NAS i mean the website screams this out)Environments. BLUE is used for the normal desktop usage but has the flexibility to be used for any tasks depending on the user level. BLACK is another level of their BLUE drives that has met their specifications on performance and reliability, they got the longest warranty to prove that(5 years). GREEN drives are designed for archival  purposes as they spin-down faster than any of their drives to be "energy efficient" and probably the worst drives ever to use for a RAID array.

Quote from: InsanityIncarnate on July 27, 2014, 08:55:50 pm

On the other hand, geese are bloody awful.

At least they're not swans, so they've got that going for them.

You can shoot swans though, Canadian geese are a protected species......

Sive comparison of various anime mecha. with a few other things thrown in for scale

reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepooooooooooost

Macross? Getting a legal production run in the West? In my lifetime!?

What a time to be alive, maybe we finally get those official dubs for Macross 7 Macross Frontier

Quote from: Tellemurius on July 25, 2014, 04:42:01 pm

http://www.avforums.com/news/denon-announce-new-av-receivers-with-dolby-atmos.10449
Time to make my room explode.

I read that whole article and I'm still not sure what it is.     

basically it runs 9 speakers and 2 subwoofers with capability for a total of 13 with addons.