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00:32.05short_circuitAnyone have an old Acer veriton with a hard crashing issue using anyone's mapping website in google chrome yet Firefox ESR works fine.... I'm talking 4th gen i3 and i5. You have to disable hardware acceleration in chrome. I'm kinda addicted to having the ability to sync to chrome so yeah. Upped from a i3 to i5 'T' that wasn't listed as compatible, along with ram, but couldn't figure why it hard crashed with no logs of w
00:32.05short_circuithat happened. Wherever you go, there you are.
00:34.04short_circuitGoogle lead me in circles. Oh! Linux.
00:37.37short_circuitVeriton N4630G and an I54590T, though not an option available at the time, does work. Latest bios. In case your looking for a cheap rig on the side ;)
00:47.26blast007is this using Intel graphics, or do it have an nVidia or AMD graphics chip?
00:47.30blast007does*
00:47.49short_circuitintel. hd 4400 or 4600 iirc
00:48.15short_circuitglxgears works just fine. Haven't tried bz on it just for silly
00:48.29short_circuitOn chip. Haswell
00:49.37short_circuitStarted with a 4160t i3
00:53.38short_circuitFor a cheap silly all over ebay rig. Just knowing you can build a quad core rig with 8 gig ram and linux on lxde is kinda awesome. I got  100 on the rig. 40 on the used processor, a second 4 gig stick for 13 bux, and linux lxde. It makes a nice recliner pc ;)
00:53.43blast007lol, was looking through the chrome://flags, and I noticed a typo  "Use vulkan as the graphocs backend. – Linux, Android"  graphocs
00:53.59short_circuitooOOoo
00:54.41blast007but I wonder if you installed the mesa-vulkan-drivers package and then turned on the vulkan flag in Chromium
00:55.03short_circuitI have NO clue :/
00:55.31short_circuitI'm on my proper desktop / blu-ray bur... Uhm... Player
00:56.00short_circuitI'm definitely researching this though.
00:57.53short_circuitoddly though. I saw little difference in htop when I disabled hardware before and after playing youtube, etc.
00:58.05blast007no idea what things it uses vulkan for, so it may have *no* impact at all with your issue :)
00:58.18short_circuitOh nouveau.. or however it's spelled
00:58.32blast007"Accelerated video decode is unavailable on Linux: 137247"
00:58.47short_circuitI'm still gonna google! You have tons more computer knowledge than I do :)
00:58.49blast007so, it's not using hardware acceleration on Linux for video
00:59.03short_circuitapparently.
00:59.10blast007Firefox doesn't either
00:59.36short_circuitglxgears is syncing to monitor, which is an old 52" sony so bleh.
00:59.55short_circuitIt is a nice make me happy while I relax rig.
01:00.21short_circuitSo It could come in handy for more of you. That processor upgrade really gave it a spring in it's step.
01:00.36short_circuitOh.. And a faster SSD I happened to have laying around.
01:01.10blast007I had pondered upgrading this i3-3220 to an i7
01:01.13short_circuitI'm in my 50's and I have spare SSD's! I'm not doing to badly.
01:01.33blast007the funny thing is that it'd be cheaper to buy a refurbished PC that has the i7 than it would be to just buy the i7 itself
01:02.19short_circuitI really considered breaking bad and doing an i7 T at 45 watts instead of the spec'd 35 watt original but thought... Meh. Play it kinda safe with a non original equipped i5.
01:03.15short_circuitRight! I7's are still pricey! Yet. This is book shelf sized ....
01:03.23blast007(this is a desktop I'm using, btw)
01:03.31short_circuitAh
01:04.08blast007I guess I'd probably need a new cooler to run the i7 as I'm using the stock cooler that came with the i3
01:04.08short_circuitI can't remember the last refurb intel I bought was.. *looks*
01:05.25blast007my newest desktop PC is technically a 4th generation Intel architecture, but it's marketed as a 5th generation (an i7-5930K)
01:05.58short_circuitAh. Last processor I bought was to replace a bad one in the next room. A E8400.
01:06.18blast007that's a 6-core 12-thread beast from 2014
01:06.39blast007base clock of 3.5GHz all cores, but I have it water cooler and overclocked to 4.2
01:06.52short_circuitmmMMmm I miss watercooling
01:07.03short_circuitDangerden
01:07.42short_circuitThat's quite a bit of processing. 8O
01:07.54short_circuitMy old rig is REALLY old.
01:08.06blast007that's my VR machine
01:08.14blast007I went a little crazy on it..
01:08.30short_circuitDepends on the VR ;)
01:08.48blast007it's probably time for an upgrade to it, really..
01:09.20short_circuitI'm hopelessly outclassed over here XD
01:12.26blast007I want to build a Ryzen machine at some point, and Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs are sooo good.  Even the Ryzen 5 3600 is on par or better than my i7-5930K.
01:13.36short_circuitI was thinking threadripper a while ago. But now... I'm focusing money on my lab.
01:14.03blast007TR has a limited target market.
01:14.05short_circuitLightining detector is done and I'm working now on a homebrew siesmometer.
01:24.17blast007hmm, maybe don't enable the Vulkan renderer in Chromium: https://linuxreviews.org/Chromium_79_Has_Experimental_Vulkan_Support_And_You_Should_NOT_Enable_It
01:24.45blast007I did get a couple "GPU fault detected" messages in dmesg from enabling that option
01:25.08short_circuitThanks!
01:26.39blast007(I'm using an AMD GPU in this system cuz I needed a bit more horsepower to upscale PS2 games to 1080p)
01:27.01short_circuit:)
01:28.53short_circuitQuick check. Same wattage I7 bottom of the line puts me at 2/3's buld cost of the current silly fun project. Not worth it not knowing if it's supported... Well. Especially not knowing it's supported.
01:30.13short_circuitI fav'd the vulkan link. I know I ran across that in research but I'll research more tomorrow. I'm running out of things to do. Stupid virus.
01:30.26short_circuitStill waiting my test results.
01:31.24short_circuitOh. And to the original excessive share.. Don't forget your arctic silver ;)
01:33.39blast007arctic silver ftw
01:33.52blast007I also have their cleaning solutions
01:34.09blast007ArtiClean
01:34.28short_circuitooOOoo... I'm still using isopropyl alcohol... Wait...
01:34.39blast007old credit card + ArtiClean + coffee filters (cheap, disposable, lint-free cloth)
01:35.13short_circuitFor a second I thought you might have just belated april fool punk'd me.But there it is
01:35.14short_circuithehe
01:35.41short_circuitI spread with a fresh razor blade.
01:36.26short_circuitHell. i've spread more heat sink compound than.. Well. I work with power amps so... yeah
01:36.39blast007I don't spread the paste.  I just make a line and cross my fingers that the heatsink spreads it out correctly...
01:37.28short_circuitI'm OCD to the max... I have to have a thin layer on both surfaces. Though recently I've learned. It can be very very thin and be more than enough.
01:37.41blast007though, for my next build, I'll probably just use this instead of paste: https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-Graphite-Thermal-Pad/dp/B07CKVW18G
01:39.00short_circuitOk... Not to bias you. I hate those in commercial electronics. So .. Uhm... try it and let me know what you think with psensors or whatever you use.
01:39.46blast007https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpphKzmDiJM
01:39.53short_circuitas compared to some known factor
01:40.47short_circuitwatching now
01:43.21short_circuitUsed for decades and still reusable... bulls...
01:44.22short_circuittrue. Doesn't dry out.
01:45.47blast007yeah, that for me is big.  I keep my systems for a long time, and... there's probably some that I *should* have repasted at least once or twice by now.
01:46.56blast007still use a system that I built in 2011
01:47.57blast007and the one I'm on right now I build in 2012
01:48.19blast007never have repasted either since they were built
01:48.24short_circuitNow that you say that. The factory, crap, heat sink compound this Acer came with WAS dried up. However.. Arctic ver any has never in my years of experience. So... yeah.. But these thermalpads due retain a memory of compression and if you don't lie them back down, assuming they didn't tear, exactly as they were you have to wait a while to maybe get your original performance back. Maybe.
01:48.53short_circuitI have replaced numerous 'thermal pads' profesionally by necessity.
01:49.35short_circuitSorry. had to pee. And a spider was in the toilet so ... uhm.. target practice.. Resuming video half way through.
01:50.16short_circuitAnd yes! dried up HS compound does lead to component failure.
01:50.20blast007I can't recall if I used any of the stock thermal pads with my CPUs.. I feel like I probably scraped them off and did Arctic Silver 5
01:50.35short_circuitHere too.
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01:52.28short_circuitYes I'm further along in the video
01:52.44blast007yeah, that was silly.. don't want oils from your fingers on the pads
01:55.30short_circuitPause. Yes! Yes you can cut multiple carefully to cover the whole die! Please do!
01:55.57blast007they also do have a 40x40mm size
01:55.59short_circuitJust please don't allow overlap people. No overlap at all! And cut careful
01:56.51short_circuitAnd don't mix new and old pads!
01:57.00short_circuitI'm talking to the general public
01:57.57short_circuitAnywho. They can get old and after a heavy duty life they can rip when you remove the hsf. Just saiyan ;)
01:58.19blast007the AM4 AMD CPUs have a 37.4x37.6 mm head spreader
01:58.51short_circuitj"over fifty uses" Not over the long term.
01:59.21short_circuit3.7 by 3.7 cm hs area?!?!
01:59.37short_circuitHow many watts?
01:59.39blast007s/head/heat/
02:00.47short_circuitThat could pass 300 watts theoretically.
02:00.48blast007well, the Ryzens 3000's go from 65W TDP up to 105W
02:01.25short_circuitOh... So no big deal. 100 watts across that area is fine.
02:02.45blast007my i7 is 140W TDP, though TDP isn't comparable across chips, really
02:03.25blast007you'd probably like the Gamers Nexus youtube channel
02:03.42short_circuitWorking with T chips lately we're talking 35 to 45 watts. So no biggie for 4cm squared.
02:03.44blast007they sometimes do crazy overclocking with liquid nitrogen
02:05.51short_circuitI'm done with active liquid cooling antiques a long time ago. Though sounds interesting. bout 15 or 16 years ago was running a danger den dual amd thoroubred k7d liquid cooled rig with the radiator, a chevy truck heater core, tied to a window unit. I had cored temps fully loaded at room temp according to sensors.
02:06.17short_circuitActually
02:06.42short_circuitI belive you were 'ole school when I was a pleeb back then.
02:07.32short_circuitI kinda tutored into linux mostly under JeffM but Brad and Wegstar and you among several others got me up to speed in linux
02:08.36short_circuitHeck! I was even buying BZ shwag back then ;)
02:09.20blast007Gamers Nexus also does teardowns/reviews of a lot of hardware.  Just recently they made some device to test CPU coolers.  Basically a controlled heat source you can mount a cooler to.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmTOJP4KOyk
02:09.50short_circuitKEWL! *WATCHES*
02:10.18short_circuitI've some similar stuff. I love audio power amps.
02:18.27short_circuitOk 1/3 in. This looks lab good so far :)
02:29.19short_circuitIf they are honest this is awesome.. 1/2 way through.
02:37.18short_circuitThat was bad arse! Very good video on how to properly compare coolers. 8~D
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