General Chat

[Dr. Derpy Hooves Ph.D]

I dislike football.

[Blue]

By football do you mean American Football, or "soccer" aka "football" aka "the beautiful game"?

[Pinkie Pie]

And nice to have you back, Fluttershy, I missed you.

Maybe, but I acknowledged it first. ;P

[Kirkreng]

Hipster friend.

[Doctor Felix Whooves]

I finished reading fallout equestrea and now I need a new obsession

[Chuckthe2nd]

Something hopefully interesting from my life:

 

Today I got to meet a girl who had a very cool talent: she is missing her left arm to the elbow, however, she can play piano/keyboard at a speed close to Mach 3...with ONE HAND. Supposedly this is because due to having only one arm, her motor skills, strength, and hand-eye coordination in her good arm have all risen to an incredible point. This lets her be able to play incredibly complicated arrangements with only one hand, just by moving her hand around the keyboard SUPER fast.

 

Anyway, I just thought that was pretty badass.

 

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[Pinkie Pie]

Wow. Do you know how she lost her arm?

[Chuckthe2nd]

Wow. Do you know how she lost her arm?

Actually, I think she was born without it.

[Pinkie Pie]

Oh. Well that's no fun. I was hoping for an awesome battle of the bands/battle to the death where the sheer power of rock n roll severed her arm and she still won through her godlike piano playing.

 

Or something.

[Chuckthe2nd]

Lol, that's what she should tell people.

[Blightmare]

So for a while there were some odd graphical glitches going on in all my games, weird 2 dimensional spikes rapidly protruding/disappearing from 3D objects. It's been getting worse and worse over time and I eventually got fed up and decided to look into it.

 

Apparently my graphics card is now permanently damaged due to overheating. I set all the card options back to factory defaults(I once upped some settings but I guess even a little is too much), and it eliminated A LOT of the spikes but apparently damage has indeed been done as there are still spikes. :/

 

Between this graphics card and the extreme drop in performance of my computer overall, I don't think this computer is gonna last much longer.

[Pinkie Pie]

Perfect excuse to upgrade.

[Blightmare]

Thing is, we're having money issues. if this Computer doesn't at least last me til summer, I'm royally fucked school wise.

 

It's like, no matter how I baby my computers. Murphey's Law says "fuck that" and screws me over one way or another anyways. the vents on this computer are specifically built for this card and it STILL burns up. :/ I make sure the room temperature is lower than normal to combat the PC temp and clear out any heat pockets that may form around it. Not much else I can do.

 

Either the guy who designed these vents did a poor job, or this graphics card just get's too hot on it's own.

[Axeldeath]

Just get a widget that shows your core temp at all times. I use it when I'm rendering to make sure I don't overheat.

[Kirkreng]

I'd say screw the case and just hang up all the components up on the wall. You won't get better airflow than that.

[Doctor Felix Whooves]

That's what I do, never had a problem with temp.

[Blightmare]

okay, I got the widget. none of my cores go above 60c during normal tasks but it can get up to 85c when gaming. this bad?

[Axeldeath]

85c when gaming

 

That is really bad. You shouldn't really be peaking at anywhere above 50 and by the time you get to 80 you're damaging your hardware. My friend's CPU used to hit 90c while he was rendering in After Effects and it caused the CPU to burn out within the year.

[Chuckthe2nd]

85c when gaming

 

That is really bad.

 

Maybe I should consider a cooling pad for MY computer. I get around 70-80c when gaming.

[Blightmare]

well that's a huge problem because no matter how I vent this thing it's 50+ all the time.