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Nuluvius

Member Since 01 Jan 2014
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Suggestive vegetables

10 August 2014 - 05:11 AM

I'll go first and post a picture of this naughty little carrot I discovered yesterday!

 

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Are we interested in having a programming resources thread?

19 July 2014 - 01:56 AM

Just wanted to gauge interested on this as I am aware there's now a few of us who either work in the software industry or have interests in programming/getting started.


A Rant About PWM (in general) & Z97 MBs

16 June 2014 - 12:26 PM

This is a prime example of bad advertising:
 
 
The headers on these latest motherboards are not PWM despite having four pins. They actually use voltage (as I am sure most of you are already aware) to control RPM instead. Most fans have a lower bound voltage tolerance on spin up of somewhere between 30%~40%
 
With default settings they certainly won't start up from a cold boot as the temps would not be high enough to warrant a 30%~40% ramp up. Only after some time operating would temps get high enough to signal an increase thus starting the fans.
 
This is a configuration issue at the end of the day. Rectified by setting the base tolerance to just enough to kick the fan off in both BIOS & any software that supersedes at the OS level.
 
I don't think there's nearly enough documentation on modern fan control methodology to be honest. Certainly the advertising glosses over the fact that MB headers are actually voltage regulated. There's only two true PWM signal headers on the boards; the main CPU fan header and the CPU OPT header. 
 
Indeed one could well plug in a splitter and daisy chain the PWM signal around their case. However doing so only gives you PWM in the context of the CPU and NOT the individual temperature sensors located around the board. So in that respect it ends up being totally pointless and even detrimental for case fans; imagine the scenario where the GPU or the chip set gets hot ahead of the CPU. Basically your context is not globally considerate.
 
Yes fan speed control is argued to not matter with case fans. I disagree, we have a feature-set there, why not take advantage of it. Personally I can't be bothered to use a control unit as I'd prefer for the software to do what it's been designed for therefore saving me flicking switches and groping knobs all the time.

Proposed Forum Sections

14 June 2014 - 01:31 PM

The development section seemed applicable for this, at least imo. I wish to propose two new forum sections and gauge interest. They are:

  1. Hardware
  2. Programming & Software Design

It may well be that they are far to generic/broad to begin with. Opinions please :)


The Future of The Railway System

12 May 2014 - 10:39 AM

Here's something for consideration; given that we will very soon have the capability of transport by flight (there's already designs that are bidirectionally automated - i.e. via docking stations) what are you're views as to the longevity of implementing railway systems (especially large scale)?

 

IMO it's going to come down to a basic evaluation: speed v resource spend.

 

I suppose it may be difficult to implement a dispensing system (actually I can already think of a few ideas for that - maybe not so bad really). Is this something to be considered for future iterations of SG?