I'm not sure if any of you guys remember, but the last upgrade I did was switching out my old Antec Nine Hundred case with a Corsair 750D, my Corsair H80i cooler with a Corsair H110, and getting several of the higher end Noctua fans.
Anyway, point being that in my old case I didn't have an area behind the motherboard in the case for wires and the case was a lot smaller. It did pretty well, actually, but was a lot more cramped and cluttered than my setup is now. So, in getting the new case setup, I decided to take a little extra time to do it right, since I could.
I can also understand if you're changing out things now and then how it can add to the clutter as well if you don't feel like rewiring things. Since my system components were already all together, I didn't have to contend with that either in the new setup.
I'm actually kind of proud in a way of how well my old, cramped case did for what it was, but the newer setup is easier to keep clean other than also looking kind of sharp (if I may say so). I've never really been one for show rigs as far as my own builds go (function over form), but this is probably the closest that I've been to something like that without being... pretentious. (For my own needs, I'm not much of a fan of lighting LEDs, colored cabling, nor similar.) To each their own though.
I'm most likely going to stick with this setup for quite some time until its next overhaul when I replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc.
Anyway, on topic: I still prefer vanilla and play for the team effort and strategy of helping out others or dominating in the darkness and ruining them when they aren't expecting it.
I rarely play single player any more though, most likely because I host a few servers and usually play in those, but when I do it's usually on "UHC," because I pretty much have vanilla survival in the bag and only bite it when I get lazy and do something dumb.
Still, I like playing "by the rules," even if I've mastered them.
As far as YouTube goes, I generally prefer vanilla lets-plays as well, but it's more so the multiplayer games such as Mindcrack and Mindcrack UHC, or similar.
But hey, even PSJ has been off the wagon for a bit now. Maybe time for a new generation of YTers to carry the torch along. Been thinking about it myself for a while now. Hmm...
Got some messed up chunks on a couple of my servers in the later 1.7.x to early 1.8.x version updates. Of course a lot was done on those servers in the couple days before I noticed it, so can't really go back to the backups I have for them. Pain in the butt. They seem to be running fine now though, and the corruption hasn't spread (they're updated to 1.8.3 now), but still it's kind of annoying having the random chunk shooting up out of the terrain.
My advice:
Weird thing though is that my oldest server that has been updated along the way hasn't had any issues at all. Go figure.
Actually, I think it may have had something to do with new chunks that were generated after one of the updates, which might explain why my oldest server wasn't affected, since players likely didn't go out far enough to generate new chunks.
Now that I think about it, I think it happened around the time the max vanilla render distance changed to 32 chunks. In some testing I did on the side, I was somehow able to occasionally crash one of my servers when maxing out its render distance on both the server and client side.
Moral of the story: It's Minecraft. Not so pro, bro.
A more descriptive thread title may get more people looking at this thread that can offer relevant suggestions. As the title is now, "crying wolf" comes to mind. Just sayin'.
Now that I think of it, I don't think I've posted my setup in this newer thread yet. It hasn't changed since I posted in the old thread not all that long ago, but you know, new thread and all.
Will put it in a spoiler at least though. Oh, and specs are in my signature.
The card has a 30W TDP it requires no more power than that, at least on its own.
When you see AMD or Nvidia (or any of the AIBs) saying stuff like you need a 400W PSU for an R7 240, that's a somewhat overestimated guess at what a system using that card will probably draw to avoid people using crappy PSUs that SHOULD be able to power it and the rest of the system fine but cant because their rating is inaccurate.
Yeah, best to look at what the cards and system can actually drain rather then just PSU recommendations.
My GPU cards are upwards of around 225W each, being OCed a bit and between about 85 to 95% loaded pretty much all the time. Got a few fans in there as well, so I'm sure that adds a bit onto everything else, but I think they're likely only maybe draining about 3 watts on average anyway (PWM), since they're not at full speed all the time. I like to overshoot a bit with my PSU anyway too though for better power efficiency. So, going with a higher potential PSU than what your system actually drains is good for that too, looking at the power efficiency curve.
Granted, a lot of people probably don't take all this into account when building their systems. Good enough may be good enough for them, especially considering that their setups likely aren't running and loaded all the time.
Keep in mind that some of us use our systems and graphics cards for more than just rendering things on our screens for our viewing pleasure. It's just a nice bonus that "overkill" setups can run games pretty well too. I personally don't even really do that much gaming, maybe a few hours a week total on average, even though I do like messing around with them now and then. As far as gaming goes, mostly I just play on my Minecraft servers.
Not saying this is the case for everyone with "overkill" setups though, of course. A lot of hardware potential is likely also wasted on people with money to burn. (Shame really. They could at least be putting it to good use while they're not using it.)
Available bandwidth and low latency should be taken into account too, of course. For the number of users the amount of allocated RAM in the server host program may need to be looked into as well.
On the other hand, if it runs better on your own hardware, then why not just use your own hardware? That's what I do. The main limiting factor for me is just my internet connection, but I don't have a lot of users nor have my servers for commercial use, but just for fun, so my internet connection hasn't been much of an issue overall.
Lets not be too harsh here guys. At least the OP has an interest in this and they're trying to express and share that interest and what they've found out about it so far with the rest of us. We all have different levels (relatively speaking) and branches of knowledge regarding computer science and the like.
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fatcat3106, what you're describing is only a portion of a predefined encoding system, but even that is only from a particular standard for encoding this kind of specific information... OK, so that is a rather vague description. Basically what I mean by that is that the given values of this data is determined by the encoding you (or a system) chooses and has been told to use. Standardization for different and specific systems (uses of data storage arrangements, manipulation, and communication) is of course a good thing so that we (and likewise computer systems) are on the same page and know how to use different sets of data. Binary storage and use (in the most basic of terms) of data is just the digital placeholder of 1s and 0s, being the most basic and easily usable language for a computer and an electrical circuit, because it doesn't have to be converted beyond that to be easily used in these systems. For example, you have on or off, this or that, or... this or that and this or that, and so on. And because of this "black or white" distinction, you have less margin of error in these kinds of systems. And for example for that, say if you have a 5V circuit, 0 to 2.5V could be "0" and 2.5 to 5V "1." The more this voltage can be lowered and the smaller the capacity of stored/measured charge that can be used while still being reliably and easily "read" at a given amount per time, the more efficient the system is.
Alright, so that may be delving a little too deeply into the abstract if you're not familiar with these concepts. Long story short, if you're really into this kind of stuff, I suggest you start more with the basics of how and why these systems work in the first place instead of looking at portions of otherwise arbitrary standards that make use of them. (Please don't take this the wrong way; it's a suggestion, not a critique.)
Feel free to let me or others here know if you want any guidance or if you have any questions regarding this as (at least as far as I have experienced) most people that are familiar with these concepts like sharing and discussing them with others that have similar interests.
This is a bit of a tangent, but still an interesting concept, or at least I think so...
If you take a typical person with 10 fingers (thumbs included) and instead use the fingers as binary value holders (0 or 1, finger down or up), you get 210 different possible combinations. So technically someone could count to 1023 using just their fingers (0 included). Hey, why not impress your friends the next time you need to count a relatively large amount of things and use just your fingers to keep track? Or maybe just get ridiculed for being a geek. Also, be careful when you get to the number 4.
Anyway, back on topic...
Thanks for clarifying things better than I initially did, Avilius. I approached the question more from a typical non-volatile storage perspective when really RAM, CPU memory cache, or similar might be more fitting. But yes, 1 byte (8 bits) of data is the standard smallest unit of storage primarily due to it having enough range in values to store text in the form of a letter (initially primarily English characters), number, or symbol with error checking potential.
Basically, yes, they use multiple bytes of data. It also depends on the storage file system and file type for how the data capacity is used. That is, more than just the raw media, program, et cetera information is used in the physical storage space.
Also, technically 8 bits (1 byte) of data has 256 different possibilities (not 255), since 00000000 (0) is a possibility; 28.
I also don't turn off my main computer (specs in signature) often at all.
My laptop (i5-5200U CPU, 8GB RAM) uses Windows 8.1 as it's main OS that it came with. I have it set up so that it doesn't hibernate when shut down (disabling "Turn on fast startup") due to the num lock not being on by default otherwise (also had to change a field in the registry). But, I also have a BIOS boot password on it. I replaced the HDD that it came with with a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD with 540MB/s sequential read, 98K IOPS random read listed as its specs with "RAPID mode" (RAM cache/buffer) disabled (benchmarks also seem to place it a bit faster than that) and it seems pretty quick.
Out of curiosity though, I'll temporarily remove the password to see what it gets...
7.87 seconds, minus whatever delay it took me to stop the stopwatch on my phone after seeing the cover screen (or whatever that's called that you click past to get the log on screen).
And with "Turn on fast sartup" enabled (the default setting)...
How about a 5930K on an Asus X99E WS (8-phase VRM with 60A FETs, 12K caps, and 60A Blackwing chokes)?
No seriously, I'm going to upgrade to that lol. Kinda need a ton of PCIe slots for something coming up, and the extra CPU performance doesn't hurt.
Yeah, that motherboard is excessively appealing to me. If I went that route now (which I can't really justify - sad times, I know) I'd likely be getting the 5960X and a couple more Titan Blacks. Getting enough high-end RAM in the capacity that I would want for it is another limiting hurdle. And actually, I'd also want 12GB per single GPU card ideally then too (instead of just 6GB), with the way I use them.
So yeah, not gonna happen with the current gen. of available components, unfortunately. I just hope ASUS keeps making WS boards as badass as the X99-E for my future purchasing options down the road.
Yeah, I'm not fond of many of the changes that have been made to Firefox lately either. I can at least mod it without too much difficulty to get it to what I prefer, and it still has some nice features, largely because of its customizability. If it comes to where I can't get what I want out of it, I'll look for something better. Maybe IE/Spartan. I'm also not really a fan of Chrome. I do like some of Google's services, to an extent, and their search engine still, and of course vanilla Android... once I've rooted and done a few tweaks to it. But I digress.
Wouldn't it be awesome if Spartan was as easily customizable to the same extent as Firefox, with similar add-ons and the like? Now that would get me exited about using it. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be in Microsoft's nature, nor maybe even in their best interests, but one could hope. I think it would be pretty awesome if they decided to go in that direction, especially with Windows. Best of GNU/Linux and Windows in one?
Meh. I use FF with Classic Theme Restorer and a few other choice add-ons, and about:config modifications that I find very handy. So, I'm good. Also have my default search, home, and new tab set to https://encrypted.google.com and like my layout nice and simple, space efficient, and with what I need within easy reach.
I also use FF on my mobile Android devices for similar customizing options (like defaulting to desktop layouts instead of mobile).
I do use a somewhat customized version of IE at work primarily though (helps to let me know what is and isn't working for other users) and I previously used it primarily at home as well until I switched to FF several years ago. No real problems with IE, especially some of the newer version; I just prefer FF.
As for Microsoft dropping IE... well, I'll wait and see.
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I'm not sure if any of you guys remember, but the last upgrade I did was switching out my old Antec Nine Hundred case with a Corsair 750D, my Corsair H80i cooler with a Corsair H110, and getting several of the higher end Noctua fans.
Anyway, point being that in my old case I didn't have an area behind the motherboard in the case for wires and the case was a lot smaller. It did pretty well, actually, but was a lot more cramped and cluttered than my setup is now. So, in getting the new case setup, I decided to take a little extra time to do it right, since I could.
I can also understand if you're changing out things now and then how it can add to the clutter as well if you don't feel like rewiring things. Since my system components were already all together, I didn't have to contend with that either in the new setup.
I'm actually kind of proud in a way of how well my old, cramped case did for what it was, but the newer setup is easier to keep clean other than also looking kind of sharp (if I may say so). I've never really been one for show rigs as far as my own builds go (function over form), but this is probably the closest that I've been to something like that without being... pretentious. (For my own needs, I'm not much of a fan of lighting LEDs, colored cabling, nor similar.) To each their own though.
I'm most likely going to stick with this setup for quite some time until its next overhaul when I replace the motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc.
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Thread locked due to redundancy.
Oh, wait. That's right. I'm not a moderator.
Anyway, on topic: I still prefer vanilla and play for the team effort and strategy of helping out others or dominating in the darkness and ruining them when they aren't expecting it.
I rarely play single player any more though, most likely because I host a few servers and usually play in those, but when I do it's usually on "UHC," because I pretty much have vanilla survival in the bag and only bite it when I get lazy and do something dumb.
Still, I like playing "by the rules," even if I've mastered them.
As far as YouTube goes, I generally prefer vanilla lets-plays as well, but it's more so the multiplayer games such as Mindcrack and Mindcrack UHC, or similar.
But hey, even PSJ has been off the wagon for a bit now. Maybe time for a new generation of YTers to carry the torch along. Been thinking about it myself for a while now. Hmm...
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Got some messed up chunks on a couple of my servers in the later 1.7.x to early 1.8.x version updates. Of course a lot was done on those servers in the couple days before I noticed it, so can't really go back to the backups I have for them. Pain in the butt. They seem to be running fine now though, and the corruption hasn't spread (they're updated to 1.8.3 now), but still it's kind of annoying having the random chunk shooting up out of the terrain.
My advice:
Weird thing though is that my oldest server that has been updated along the way hasn't had any issues at all. Go figure.
Actually, I think it may have had something to do with new chunks that were generated after one of the updates, which might explain why my oldest server wasn't affected, since players likely didn't go out far enough to generate new chunks.
Now that I think about it, I think it happened around the time the max vanilla render distance changed to 32 chunks. In some testing I did on the side, I was somehow able to occasionally crash one of my servers when maxing out its render distance on both the server and client side.
Moral of the story: It's Minecraft. Not so pro, bro.
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A more descriptive thread title may get more people looking at this thread that can offer relevant suggestions. As the title is now, "crying wolf" comes to mind. Just sayin'.
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Now that I think of it, I don't think I've posted my setup in this newer thread yet. It hasn't changed since I posted in the old thread not all that long ago, but you know, new thread and all.
Will put it in a spoiler at least though. Oh, and specs are in my signature.
Happy trails.
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Yeah, best to look at what the cards and system can actually drain rather then just PSU recommendations.
My GPU cards are upwards of around 225W each, being OCed a bit and between about 85 to 95% loaded pretty much all the time. Got a few fans in there as well, so I'm sure that adds a bit onto everything else, but I think they're likely only maybe draining about 3 watts on average anyway (PWM), since they're not at full speed all the time. I like to overshoot a bit with my PSU anyway too though for better power efficiency. So, going with a higher potential PSU than what your system actually drains is good for that too, looking at the power efficiency curve.
Granted, a lot of people probably don't take all this into account when building their systems. Good enough may be good enough for them, especially considering that their setups likely aren't running and loaded all the time.
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Keep in mind that some of us use our systems and graphics cards for more than just rendering things on our screens for our viewing pleasure. It's just a nice bonus that "overkill" setups can run games pretty well too. I personally don't even really do that much gaming, maybe a few hours a week total on average, even though I do like messing around with them now and then. As far as gaming goes, mostly I just play on my Minecraft servers.
Not saying this is the case for everyone with "overkill" setups though, of course. A lot of hardware potential is likely also wasted on people with money to burn. (Shame really. They could at least be putting it to good use while they're not using it.)
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Available bandwidth and low latency should be taken into account too, of course. For the number of users the amount of allocated RAM in the server host program may need to be looked into as well.
On the other hand, if it runs better on your own hardware, then why not just use your own hardware? That's what I do. The main limiting factor for me is just my internet connection, but I don't have a lot of users nor have my servers for commercial use, but just for fun, so my internet connection hasn't been much of an issue overall.
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Lets not be too harsh here guys. At least the OP has an interest in this and they're trying to express and share that interest and what they've found out about it so far with the rest of us. We all have different levels (relatively speaking) and branches of knowledge regarding computer science and the like.
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fatcat3106, what you're describing is only a portion of a predefined encoding system, but even that is only from a particular standard for encoding this kind of specific information... OK, so that is a rather vague description. Basically what I mean by that is that the given values of this data is determined by the encoding you (or a system) chooses and has been told to use. Standardization for different and specific systems (uses of data storage arrangements, manipulation, and communication) is of course a good thing so that we (and likewise computer systems) are on the same page and know how to use different sets of data. Binary storage and use (in the most basic of terms) of data is just the digital placeholder of 1s and 0s, being the most basic and easily usable language for a computer and an electrical circuit, because it doesn't have to be converted beyond that to be easily used in these systems. For example, you have on or off, this or that, or... this or that and this or that, and so on. And because of this "black or white" distinction, you have less margin of error in these kinds of systems. And for example for that, say if you have a 5V circuit, 0 to 2.5V could be "0" and 2.5 to 5V "1." The more this voltage can be lowered and the smaller the capacity of stored/measured charge that can be used while still being reliably and easily "read" at a given amount per time, the more efficient the system is.
Alright, so that may be delving a little too deeply into the abstract if you're not familiar with these concepts. Long story short, if you're really into this kind of stuff, I suggest you start more with the basics of how and why these systems work in the first place instead of looking at portions of otherwise arbitrary standards that make use of them. (Please don't take this the wrong way; it's a suggestion, not a critique.)
Feel free to let me or others here know if you want any guidance or if you have any questions regarding this as (at least as far as I have experienced) most people that are familiar with these concepts like sharing and discussing them with others that have similar interests.
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This is a bit of a tangent, but still an interesting concept, or at least I think so...
If you take a typical person with 10 fingers (thumbs included) and instead use the fingers as binary value holders (0 or 1, finger down or up), you get 210 different possible combinations. So technically someone could count to 1023 using just their fingers (0 included). Hey, why not impress your friends the next time you need to count a relatively large amount of things and use just your fingers to keep track? Or maybe just get ridiculed for being a geek. Also, be careful when you get to the number 4.
Anyway, back on topic...
Thanks for clarifying things better than I initially did, Avilius. I approached the question more from a typical non-volatile storage perspective when really RAM, CPU memory cache, or similar might be more fitting. But yes, 1 byte (8 bits) of data is the standard smallest unit of storage primarily due to it having enough range in values to store text in the form of a letter (initially primarily English characters), number, or symbol with error checking potential.
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Basically, yes, they use multiple bytes of data. It also depends on the storage file system and file type for how the data capacity is used. That is, more than just the raw media, program, et cetera information is used in the physical storage space.
Also, technically 8 bits (1 byte) of data has 256 different possibilities (not 255), since 00000000 (0) is a possibility; 28.
You might also want to check out these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_data_storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system
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I also don't turn off my main computer (specs in signature) often at all.
My laptop (i5-5200U CPU, 8GB RAM) uses Windows 8.1 as it's main OS that it came with. I have it set up so that it doesn't hibernate when shut down (disabling "Turn on fast startup") due to the num lock not being on by default otherwise (also had to change a field in the registry). But, I also have a BIOS boot password on it. I replaced the HDD that it came with with a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD with 540MB/s sequential read, 98K IOPS random read listed as its specs with "RAPID mode" (RAM cache/buffer) disabled (benchmarks also seem to place it a bit faster than that) and it seems pretty quick.
Out of curiosity though, I'll temporarily remove the password to see what it gets...
7.87 seconds, minus whatever delay it took me to stop the stopwatch on my phone after seeing the cover screen (or whatever that's called that you click past to get the log on screen).
And with "Turn on fast sartup" enabled (the default setting)...
4.66 seconds.
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Yeah, that motherboard is excessively appealing to me. If I went that route now (which I can't really justify - sad times, I know) I'd likely be getting the 5960X and a couple more Titan Blacks. Getting enough high-end RAM in the capacity that I would want for it is another limiting hurdle. And actually, I'd also want 12GB per single GPU card ideally then too (instead of just 6GB), with the way I use them.
So yeah, not gonna happen with the current gen. of available components, unfortunately. I just hope ASUS keeps making WS boards as badass as the X99-E for my future purchasing options down the road.
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Wouldn't it be awesome if Spartan was as easily customizable to the same extent as Firefox, with similar add-ons and the like? Now that would get me exited about using it. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be in Microsoft's nature, nor maybe even in their best interests, but one could hope. I think it would be pretty awesome if they decided to go in that direction, especially with Windows. Best of GNU/Linux and Windows in one?
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I also use FF on my mobile Android devices for similar customizing options (like defaulting to desktop layouts instead of mobile).
I do use a somewhat customized version of IE at work primarily though (helps to let me know what is and isn't working for other users) and I previously used it primarily at home as well until I switched to FF several years ago. No real problems with IE, especially some of the newer version; I just prefer FF.
As for Microsoft dropping IE... well, I'll wait and see.