Anyway, for real now, I feel a difference when my FPS dips below around 80. I can't physically SEE anything wrong, it just feels different.
On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Ben Lippincott <[email protected]>wrote: > <badjoke> > > OMG > > We don't need a new space, or any heaters > > We can just get 16 Radeon R9 290Xs and make 4 bitcoin mining PCs and put > them around the space > > It'll be like 700 degrees F > > I'm a genius > > Pus it would only cost $9600 for all the GPUs > </badjoke> > > GPU-based buttcoin mining is pointless. It costs more in electricity than > you can make up by mining. > > > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Andrew Buczko <[email protected]>wrote: > >> GXLOLWTFDDR573 I'll have to get me some of that RAM! >> >> The way I see it is that the newer games are too demanding. You have >> games out there that require a super computer just to play them yet an 8088 >> can display 30 rotating 3D objects at once?... The developers of today >> need to take some que's from the Demoscene programmers and go back and >> refine their code. >> >> Oh and don't worry about bitcoins, that's what your cycles are for ;) >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Torrie Fischer >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Friday, November 08, 2013 12:00:20 Omar Rassi wrote: >>> > Most of us in the IT field know that even though gigabit ethernet has a >>> > bandwidth 1000 Mb/s or that SATA3 has bandwidth of 600 Mb/s, you will >>> never >>> > reach those numbers in real world operation. Does the same hold true >>> about >>> > gaming and FPS? I found the following article at on Wired: >>> > >>> > http://www.wired.com/reviews/2013/11/high-low-gaming-pcs/?cid=14209594 >>> > >>> > I know that beyond 60 FPS its very difficult for the human eye to >>> > distinguish better quality and that greater than 30 FPS is where games >>> are >>> > considered playable. Wired brought up a good point that most monitors >>> can >>> > only display 60 FPS max (high end monitors beyond 60Hz are excluded >>> from >>> > that generality). So I ask what are the benefits of a multi-thousand >>> dollar >>> > gaming rig besides bragging rights? >>> >>> the benefit to me is that I can immediately pick out who doesn't >>> understand >>> the bottlenecks in today's software >>> >>> > >>> > The topic here is centered around benefits to the owner of said >>> computer, >>> > not community projects like Folding@home or Seti@home. Do not discuss >>> > Bitcoin mining is also a given considering the power of a $5000 rig >>> and how >>> > much it has already been discussed in the past, lets get creative here. >>> >>> but muh buttcoins... >>> >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > >>> > Omar >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > Thanks! > Ben Lippincott > -- Thanks! Ben Lippincott
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