Stephen Kennedy

What the hell kind of bizzaro world are we in?

BudgetGamingEnthusiast

It already is

The world is ending

superintendent

thats how he rolls

Dilbertron

thats how he rick rolls

Ander01SE

Imagine if it was GN Steve…

faceboy

sinus lebastion is just too dangerous at conventions

G

😂😂😂 damn that’s funny 🙂

Vysair

That’s probably what he do in the old day. On-the-spot permission with no prior planning

Shaun Streeter

yes, hearing ‘grandma COBOL’ mentioned did bring a smile to my face

Markus

also ranked Rear Admiral on top of that

Cruz Immel

She was also the first person to coin the term ‘bug’ in computer sciences because she found an actual bug in one of their systems and then taped it into the maintenance log book.

Phoenux

Something tells me the display units are probably nonfunctional if they’re willing to let Linus take one off the wall and open it up with little to no supervision.

Рыбкин Павел

@Uberfish haha 😀 I need to see it! But I gues it costs much more.

Allan

How well can Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 run on this thing if natively translated, that’s what I’m wondering

brodriguez11000

We know what future Crysis developers will be using.

A Potatoman

until he drops it

Ferretsnarf

About 10 years ago when I was in college for Electrical and Computer Engineering this is actually one of the things we were talking about. We’re more or less hitting a brick wall in miniaturization and increasing the raw speed of individual components. How do we improve performance when we can’t miniaturize our chips any more than we already have (At this point we’re talking about transistors that are so small that you can count their width in atoms)? Well you offload tasks into different chips (TCP/IP on the network adapter and like Linus showed putting the encryption workload on the adapter). If you find there’s a specific workload that you’re constantly asking your general-purpose CPU to do, it might start to make sense to put that task on a specialist chip rather than putting it on your CPU.
ASICs are on the rise and expansion cards are coming back.

Ferretsnarf

@autohmae Yeah, we were talking about that at the time as well. I avoided saying it because I kind of hate talking about Moore’s law online – you almost always get some kind of blowback when you talk about moore’s law being dead. On the consumer side of things I could almost see why you might think moore’s law isn’t dead. We’re not really seeing smaller+faster all that much anymore. We occasionally barely scrape by into a smaller node, but you’re not really getting faster and more efficient transistors out of it anymore, instead you’re mostly cramming more stuff onto the die and subsequently aiming a firehose at it to hope you cool it enough to not explode.

Just Some Dinosaur

@Ferretsnarf This has happened before, and ASICs have always had a need over general purpose processors. Our reasons for stagnation in tech is more of a complex problem as opposed to exclusively being down to physics. As it is, quite a few clever people in fields of research have proposed numerous workarounds that are plausible in theory, but simply not testable at the moment and not feasible on a wide scale, especially without aggressive grant funding like in the past.

If anything, I would say that we’re actually quite lucky that AI has brought about a bit of a resurgence in potential general optimization and advancement.

Finally, Moore’s law was always more of a “loose observation” and never intended to be indefinite, with Moore himself saying that he was certain the trend would not hold for long and become irrelevant to the next abstract steps in advanced design.

Xsphyre

Pleaase dont say that about Gigabyte

Konnor J

Ah the toys of my youth! I worked with some of that wayyyy back when along with many other goodies that all ofnthe winbloze babies wouldnt have any clue what it is now nevermind how to use it and due to the millenials andnbeyond idiotic overly entitled arrogant bs they dont even appreciate that which was gained to make the current toys evennpossuble via our hard work long before they were a set spot on cheap hotels sheets

Kelle Cetraro

You beat me to this comment, but I made it anyway 😂

I’m sort of scratching my head as to why he’s acting like it’s a new thing… Just for novelty I still have a SUN E450 still running and productive 😂

autohmae

AND have a proven audience.

nhiko999

Just in case: SLI works but it’s mainly dépendant on the type of work asked to the GPU, and games are not benefiting much of the multiple nodes. For scientific computation however…

Francesco Barbieri

​@Emil Klingberg on point! If you want to see a well optimized game for sli/cf, have a look back at crysis 2! May not have been the best in the series, but multi-GPU support in that title was wildly effective!

Krozar TAL

The difficulty with SLI is that is has to raster frames real time for 144+hz display on a screen. GPU offloaded work, such as NN machine learning, is a much easier task to parallelize.

Bass Player

Reaching limit shrinking and motherboard a bottle neck. Buy in fab package.