Recent content by CuriousGeorge

I've been running multiple WD80EZZX drives for ~2 years now, the "enterprise" HGST HE8 drives on which those drives are based have been around for at least three years, and HGST was selling helium drives at least 5 years ago. So not only can WD easily measure the rate of any He diffusion in the...

Sounds like a colossal douchebag, probably the type of dumbass that has "had to lay it down" at least once. Been riding for the better part of 3 decades and more miles than I can count, from major metro areas to the backwoods to the race track. If you can't trivially handle yourself around...

But can I put straight pipes on it so the Starbucks crowd notices me?

HDDs are like CPUs - just like Intel slices one die into a thousand SKUs, WD puts the same platters and heads into a hundred different products. Keep these cool and vibration free, and they'll last just as long as a "Gold" or whatever drive that you'd pay at least three times as much for. The...

Minor correction, but the first few Titans were most definitely branded GeForce GTX. I realize that'd screw up the conclusion of "OMG, expensive" if Titans were included, but still. If you include Titans you also would have the example of super-expensive halo parts emerging some time before...

The larger jump from the 980 to the 1080 is largely attributable due to the huge process node jump (780 = 980 = 28nm, 1080 = 16nm), combined with the fact that the 780 is a cut down 780 Ti (big chip) and not the fully enabled mid-sized chip like the 980 and 1080 (which the 770 would correspond...

Update 2: It looks like Nvidia has figured out the problem; there's a fix posted in the GeForce thread linked above that should be baked into a future driver release. I also want to give some recognition to Nvidia's higher level tech support; once I fought through the Indian CSR drones and got...

Nvidia doesn't provide working drivers at all for GTX 690 or Titan Z cards (last moderately stable ones were something like 38x, which Nvidia no longer offers), so it doesn't come as a huge shock that their driver team might be having some problems right now.

The second paragraph 3 (apparently Nvidia can't count) "Termination of Obligation of Confidentiality" says: I've never seen an NDA before, but this would seem to be effectively the same as a more time-limited NDA covering specific product information. I'm definitely not a lawyer, so I'm...

What he actually said: Which is 100% factually accurate; there were enormous numbers of women that saw combat in WWII. That includes women actively fighting for the western allies, though those were in special operations roles, not regular army. That's not to say the game won't suck, because...

Shades of BFG and their lifetime warranty. Most receipts will probably be electronic, so easy enough to forward to a buyer, but the additional PITA and uncertainty means that EVGA cards just went from the top of my list when buying used to basically as sketchy as the rest. EVGA has generally...

Did you expect something good to come out of EA?

Minor point, but Casey Johnston is a woman.

Update: It appears that PLX chips might be the issue. When 2x GPUs are on different PLX chips there's no problem, but on the same PLX chip they'll crash. So it might not really be a 690/Titan Z issue so much as a more generic SLI with PLX chips issue; I just encountered it with a Titan Z...

Thanks! Just saved an extra copy in case this doesn't get sorted. Good to know. I did have a Titan Black die on me a while back; it'd boot, but just barely, and installing a graphics driver was impossible. It was under warranty so I didn't worry too much about it, but that could've been the...