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[Quick_Nick]

Collab of the Year
CGP Grey + Kurzgesagt

 

[mojoey]

Collab of the Year
CGP Grey + Kurzgesagt

Nu-uh. TheMightyJingles + The Chieftain

Or RegularCarReviews and Jeremy Clarkson

 

[Urwumpe]

Nu-uh. TheMightyJingles + The Chieftain

Or RegularCarReviews and Jeremy Clarkson

Or Backstreet Boys and Justin Timberlake.

 

[Spacethingy]

Randall Munroe and Star Trek. Wait a second... Oh. Oh no. Oh nononono...

 

[jedidia]

Collab of the Year
CGP Grey + Kurzgesagt

My great-great-grandfathers axe indeed! :blink:

 

[Matias Saibene]

1. Never. Thermodynamics, you can never get back to the start. But you can sure return an ionized atom back to its original energy level.

2. Decay to a stable element. Which can take a while, depending on the isotope.

3. No. Bombarding an atom with W+ bosons could maybe reduce the chance of beta decay, but you would cause new interactions that way, because the other particles have a bigger cross section.

Thanks for your reply. Now that I think back, if that were possible would long since anyone had won a Nobel prize for physics and, we could decontaminate Chernobyl, etc. Damn thermodynamics.

In the case of Uranium, you might as well wait until the sun dies... :lol: The half life is somewhere about 4.5 billion years, I think.

:leaving:
I will sit and wait.

Well, some isotopes also decay in nanoseconds. :lol: But U-235 decays at 700 million years halflife and U-238 at about 4.5 billion years. U-236 decays in 23 million years and U-234 decays in 25000 years.

U-96 decays in about 5 years.

Thermodynamics and entropy are outrageous. I'll put my signature to a petition for ISO repeal these laws, and also repeal the limit of the speed of light:lol:.

Seriously again, thank you all for your answers.:thumbup:

 

[Pipcard]

I'm about to have my first PC build very soon - I got an i5-6500 and a R9 380 but I'll return the latter and live with integrated graphics for another month until the RX 480 comes out.

 

[Urwumpe]

250 students are stranded in their school in Triftern, eastern Bavaria, after flooding disrupted the access roads to their school. The school is on a hill and not affected by the flood itself, but generally, it looks pretty dire in that part of the country right now.

20 students had been surprised by a thunderstorm during a boat tour and stranded on a island near Regen (ironically, "Regen" means rain in German). One girl of them got a shock, another a light case of hypothermia.

The regional administration has declared disaster alert and mobilized all available rescue forces... of which not many are available right now, because the whole southern half of German is hit pretty hard right now.

 

[Loru]

My PC is slowly turning into audio production system.

3 separate audio cards already in there: mobo integrated Realtek (mic hooked up for Teamspeak/Skype), Maya44 PCI (for routing 2 physical stereo effect loops, reamping and digital I/O) & Focusrite Scarlet Solo for guitar and condenser mic input, and general output).

And I'm running out of screen space.

 

[jedidia]

That feeling when you suddenly find 3 Gigs of children's photos on your Harddrive because someone in the family couldn't use his propper subfolder on Droppbox

 

[Urwumpe]

That feeling when you suddenly find 3 Gigs of children's photos on your Harddrive because someone in the family couldn't use his propper subfolder

Decentral backup. :lol:

 

[jedidia]

Heh. Noticed only now that I didn't actually mention that I meant the propper Dropbox subfolder :facepalm:

 

[Pipcard]

Posting this from my new PC:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI H110M Pro-VD Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($47.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($39.74 @ Amazon*)
Storage: A-Data Premier SP550 480GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Deepcool TESSERACT SW ATX Mid Tower Case ($38.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($68.99 @ NCIX US)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHDS118-04 DVD/CD Drive** ($15.89 @ OutletPC)
Other: Windows 7 (ebay) ($47.00)
Total: $558.57

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-02 05:00 EDT-0400

*can get it for a few dollars cheaper on Newegg.
**you need to have an optical drive in order to install Windows 7 on Skylake processors.

I will get this graphics card when it comes out.

 

[mojoey]

Out of curiousity, why are you aiming for the 6500, when the 6600K is only 'slightly' more expensive, has a higher clock speed, and you can OC it to your hearts content?

This is the build I want to put together here in the coming months, and it's geared towards being able to run DCS with a VR headset, so YMMV. Note, ignore the monitor and speakers, since I only included those to get a rough idea of what my total price would be. Without those, the beast is slated to cost about $1300 USD.

PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/r8B6M8
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/r8B6M8/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($24.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($126.84 @ Amazon)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($69.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($47.49 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition Video Card ($699.99 @ NCIX US)
Case: NZXT S340 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($64.99 @ Micro Center)
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($49.99 @ Micro Center)
Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Case Fan: Xigmatek XLF-F1255 61.0 CFM 120mm Fan ($10.99 @ Newegg)
Monitor: Asus VS228H-P 21.5" Monitor ($99.99 @ Amazon)
Keyboard: Logitech K120 Wired Standard Keyboard ($8.48 @ Amazon)
Speakers: Logitech Z313 25W 2.1ch Speakers ($39.99 @ Best Buy)
Total: $1507.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-02 05:29 EDT-0400

 

[Urwumpe]

And there I am, planning to get myself a Linux server for some experiments and calculating what is cheaper - building my own hardware or renting a server for some months?

 

[jedidia]

Getting an instance on Amazon or another suitable provider is usually way cheaper, unless you have enough old hardware lying around...

Here's the price list for Amazon EC2 instances, in case you're unaware of the service: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

 

[Urwumpe]

Getting an instance on Amazon or another suitable provider is usually way cheaper, unless you have enough old hardware lying around...

Here's the price list for Amazon EC2 instances, in case you're unaware of the service: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

Exactly that. There are also regional hosters around, in case Amazon is a bit too american.

 

[Artlav]

Other: Windows 7 (ebay)

Huh?
How does THAT work?

and calculating what is cheaper - building my own hardware or renting a server for some months?

Curiously enough, i was just looking around for the best bang for buck in computer hardware.

Turns out there are plenty of second-hand 2012-2013 Ivy Bridge CPUs and motherboards for them. You can get a full 1.5 GFLOPs system for $50-$100, running at 10-20W each, which is quite a bit cheaper than bigger, more powerful boards and CPUs.

 

[Pipcard]

Out of curiousity, why are you aiming for the 6500, when the 6600K is only 'slightly' more expensive, has a higher clock speed, and you can OC it to your hearts content?

I was going to get an i5-4460 at first because it was the cheapest i5 listed on PCPartPicker, but I saw recommendations for i5-6500 (because it was the newer and better counterpart, "slightly more expensive" than the 4460). And as you've shown, I'd have to get a more expensive motherboard in order to overclock, which I am hesitant to do anyway (for now).

Huh?
How does THAT work?

Ebay has various sellers/distributors, not just auctions; in this case one was selling copies of Windows 7 for 47 USD (I got one of the last few copies).

 

[Urwumpe]

Curiously enough, i was just looking around for the best bang for buck in computer hardware.

Turns out there are plenty of second-hand 2012-2013 Ivy Bridge CPUs and motherboards for them. You can get a full 1.5 GFLOPs system for $50-$100, running at 10-20W each, which is quite a bit cheaper than bigger, more powerful boards and CPUs.

Yeah, but then, I don't need computation power. What I want to set up is a continuous delivery system for doing some experiments at home, that I can't realize at work for the foreseeable future.

Before I let bean counters get into the way for progress, I go rogue.

I have no special secrecy demands there, so hosting it somewhere would be no serious deal. But having the box at home would allow some more flexibility and I could also shut it down when I am at work.

I would just need the case to be significantly smaller than a midi tower case, otherwise the computer department at home goes through an age of inflation.