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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...

^ :ROFLMAO: I did try 397.31, and they actually make things worse. Not only do they not fix the problem, but after their release 382.33 is no longer available from Nvidia's advanced driver search. So GTX690/Titan Z owners might no longer have access to working drivers.

It appears I'm not the only one having this issue: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1029392/geforce-drivers/gtx-690-dpc-watchdog-violations-nvlddmkm-sys-after-385-69/2/?offset=19#5332384 The weird thing is that it appears to only affect dual-GPU cards (690 is also affected) but not...

I'm a bit stumped by this one. I have a Titan Z that's locking up under SLI gaming loads. The symptoms are (all Windows 10 1709): 1) Hard locks (no BSOD, have to reset) under the latest 391.35 drivers after a minute or two of Unigine Heaven. 2) Runs Unigine Heaven for hours in single GPU...

AMD cards are technically more powerful than their Nvidia competitors (eg. a Vega 56 is closer to a 1080Ti than anything else), they just aren't used as efficiently to generate FPS. It's not really surprising to find that AMD cards might be able to punch well above their typical gaming weight...

If you're a male rat, you have a very slightly increased risk of a few types of cancers. If you're a female rat or a mouse you're fine. It's not all bad for the male rats, though: you'll also live longer if you're exposed to cellphone radiation...

Could be, though (again anecdotally) it seems pretty consistent across different algorithms/programs, and people that know more than me have indicated that CPUs can work at higher precision internally, then truncate to double. TBH I've never cared to track it down more than that because it's...

I do scientific GPU compute as a part of my job, and yes, even in double precision mode GPU and CPU code will give you different answers; anecdotally I'd say it's because CPUs are actually working at slightly higher precision behind the scenes, so the numerical error in GPU compute is going to...

EZZX are the first generation white-label reds that replaced the HE8s in the early batch 8TB My Books. HGST 5400RPM and helium, really no practical difference from the later drives, but you shouldn't find one these days unless you got really old stock or refurbished. Only thing I can think of...

Careful, some WD enclosures whitelist the drives they will work with, and won't even work with other WD drives of the same capacity. They also tend to automatically encrypt the drive's contents, making the drive unreadable if you ever take it out of the enclosure.

Calling the FE price an "early adopter's tax" is ignorant. Nvidia's messaging on the price has been terrible, but charging more for the FE is necessary. Nvidia does not want to compete with and piss off their AIB partners, but noticed a demand for reference design cards (see, for example, the...

A 280x is a 7970 (Tahiti). 1500 is a typical score at 1080p.

My Asus DCII 770 is essentially silent. It's inaudible over my case fans (FT02 on low) and has no coil whine at all.

^ Sorry I didn't see that earlier; it's a Z77X-UD5H (Rev 1.1) Got the board back today and everything seems to be working fine. Gigabyte didn't charge me for the repair, so I'm only out shipping which wasn't bad. Overall I'm very pleased with Gigabyte's RMA service and process. Here are...

That was the first thing I tried. Unfortunately the pins pop out in a 'V' shape and they're just tweaked enough to make it extremely difficult for that to work.

I emailed Gigabyte to see what they say. The motherboard still works just fine, I've just got a shiny row of pins where the slot should be. I figure they'll probably charge me a repair fee, though I don't think I applied even remotely excessive force. It just blew me away that the slot...

I went to swap out my video card this afternoon and the entire slot came along for the ride! Is this a common thing? I'd laugh if I weren't so pissed.

Nope, no curses here. :D The replacement case arrived today (free overnight shipping, and I'm very far from any large cities so it must've been expensive - did I mention that Amazon is awesome?) All three AP181 fans in the new case work great; with a 66% initial failure rate the first time...

Silverstone just emailed me to tell me they're going to ship two new fans tomorrow morning. It's too late to cancel the Amazon replacement case, though, so I told them not to bother. I don't know why it took them a week to reply (or if the "new" fans they would've shipped would actually be...

Calling was next on my list, but Amazon stepped up big time: they're sending me a completely new case with a free shipping label for the one I've got. I feel bad that Amazon is going to cover shipping such a large and heavy case three times when all I needed was a couple of fans, but maybe...

I didn't think I was being unreasonable, but this is my first Silverstone case and I don't know what to expect from them. I contacted the retailer I bought it from (Amazon) to see if they can help me; I'll post up their reply when I get it. I'm pretty sure Silverstone is just ignoring me at...

I bought a Silverstone FT02 on October 2. When I powered it on, I discovered that two of the 180mm fans were broken – the blades were unbalanced and striking their housings (a blade on one of the fans actually broke off before I could power the system down.) I contacted Silverstone, and...

Thanks Seb1, I actually tried that 4 times before giving up. I didn't realize the SSD disappearing was from a reboot, I thought it was from a sudden power loss. Maybe I was hasty in judging Asus; it could definitely just be a coincidence, but it's sometimes hard not to blame the most recent...

Yeah, my first thought that something had just blown - I immediately looked over at the tower to see if there was any smoke coming out. I don't think the M4 has any big caps in it that could've popped, though. I'd guess that it was just some power delivery circuitry reacting to the abrupt...

I have a Maximus V Gene motherboard (BIOS 1204) and it bricked my SSD. How did it do this? I made three simple BIOS changes after installing a GTX660; I switched PCIE on the first slot from ‘Auto’ to ‘Gen3’, primary display from ‘Auto’ to ‘PCIE’ and render standby to ‘disabled’. Three...

Have you degaussed it?