@WilhelmScreamer
Just download more RAM.
Seriously, though, I have a workstation with 72 GB of RAM, but I have never used more than ~12 at one time. The whole thing (with two Xeon octo-core processors) cost me less than $700.
@caffeine_dude AutoCAD has been doing it as long as Photoshop. Same kinds of benefits. The whole Quadro line is dedicated to applications like this, generally having way more memory than the mainstream cards designed for gaming.
It’s gaming mostly, but I am guilty of opening many more tabs than is reasonable. And these things combined together make a sad and sometimes confused computer.
@minuette Same here… it would take me a few minutes to figure out what exactly is the most resource intensive thing going on at this particular moment. Probably the machine with Elasticsearch.
Let’s see: gaming, programming, video editing, 3D rendering, part-time game server, hopefully VR/AR soon. I’ve spoiled myself with quality hardware/gaming, and I can’t imagine going back.
At home it’s bouncing audio tracks in Logic. At work it’s compiling a big C# desktop app in Visual Studio running in Windows 10 running in Parallels running under OS X on my iMac.
Audio production. I might have Abelton/Logic/Reaktor running with a load of VSTs, plus Audition. I play live using Traktor and Abelton. I play only high bitrate lossless files so the machines get hot. Either an i7 5K 27" iMac or a 17" Macbook that’s been juiced with a four core 17, 16 or RAM and a 2TB SSD. I also run Focusrite Control to manage the output which is Thunderbolt via a Focusrite Clarett. Never had a hiccup thought the Macbook gets really hot by the end of a night.
No, it’s not video rendering, but the Macs are faithful.
I have a vr gaming rig that I render out 4k video on. If I win the power ball, maybe I’ll get the red weapon 8k and see how it handles THAT footage. Haha
@caffeine_dude Oh, I’m well aware he does. Haha. Especially since he knows close to half of his viewers end up watching his 8k footage off it at 720p on their phones. I wouldn’t use it for daily content like he does, though. I have longer form projects in mind that lend themselves better to that camera.
@DVDBZN You can always play with the deep dream stuff. Otherwise really depends what you want to do. I am a IT Admin for a bunch of software developers so I am not digging through the code that much. Mostly just finding hardware for them to run on.
4K video editing in Adobe Premiere. My 4th gen i7 laptop with 12GB and 1TB SSD isn’t the ideal platform for 4K. I’ve been eyeballing the refurb dual Xenon workstations that pop up at bargain prices lately, but haven’t convinced myself ill see enough benefit to warrant even the modest price. And I’d still need to add a decent video card and SSD.
@ruouttaurmind
Those are great deals. I got one myself, but the older Xeon processors are not as good as you think they are. Before buying, check the benchmarks on cpubenchmark.net (a benchmark of 10000 or more would be great).
@DVDBZN The first couple times I saw the refurbs I totally dismissed them. Then a few weeks ago I did the PassMark search and was astounded at the score/value. Seems to me the system was around $350 with Win10Pro (only 500GB HDD and 8GB RAM).
@darkzrobe
The only refurbished z840 I found had a poor excuse for a graphics card, and was still over $2000. The brand new ones are amazing, but just a bit out of my price range and processing needs. Who am I kidding, I can always use more power.
When it was time to replace my last laptop I realized I hadn’t gamed on it in years (due to my Xbox) and I now solely use AutoCAD in my office…sooo I pretty much just used my home computer for internet usage and storing tons of music files.
So I went with my first Chromebook with an external hard drive to store my files. No regrets yet.
I used to CPU mine bitcoins, then GPU mine litecoins, without excess hardware (started too late to now be wealthy but I have a small wallet set aside). I’d say the evening games time is the heaviest load these days. I’m interested in video but there is just no time.
My computer is for paying bills, running the Excel spreadsheet where I track my expenses, and playing Plants vs Zombies (the pc version is so much better than the android version). Everything else I do on my tablet or phone. The most intensive thing I do on my tablet is play Hearthstone, which every time it updates which is often I have to uninstall stuff to make room for it (sometimes I think it needs it own damned tablet) and a word game called Paperback that doesn’t require a lot of disc space but eats the battery. It seems like during the AI’s turn the tablet is thinking very hard.
Not knowing how to close all my bloatware at startup.
@sammydog01 Revo Uninstaller. All your problems are gone.
@JoetatoChip I have that but I’m afraid I’ll uninstall something that makes my computer work.
@sammydog01 you could always google the program
also i like ccleaners ability to check out what apps automatically startup with your computer
@sammydog01 You could always ask on Slack or Discord.
Also, never use any registry cleaner.
@dashcloud I’ll sit down and make a list. Thanks.
Ripping/ burning dvds
AutoCAD is the biggest memory hog I’ve ever used in my life
@WilhelmScreamer … And they keep getting worse with every new version.
@WilhelmScreamer
Just download more RAM.
Seriously, though, I have a workstation with 72 GB of RAM, but I have never used more than ~12 at one time. The whole thing (with two Xeon octo-core processors) cost me less than $700.
@DVDBZN He needs to be careful. Some software is now using the video card to help the processor. I am not sure about AutoCAD.
Here is the Photoshop information:
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/photoshop-cc-gpu-card-faq.html
@caffeine_dude AutoCAD has been doing it as long as Photoshop. Same kinds of benefits. The whole Quadro line is dedicated to applications like this, generally having way more memory than the mainstream cards designed for gaming.
Having several of the things listed going at the same time.
@nogoodwithnames yeah, option 9 pretty much causes option 1, 3, 7,8, and 10 to happen whether you want them to happen or not.
It’s gaming mostly, but I am guilty of opening many more tabs than is reasonable. And these things combined together make a sad and sometimes confused computer.
@ninjaemilee I’ve got like 100 tabs open right now, most of which have a .pdf viewer of some research paper. My computer hates me
@jmoor783 I’m pretty sure I’m over 200 on my phone right now. It just keeps on truckin’.
Virtual machines, dozens of them. Thanks 64 GB of memory
@minuette Same here… it would take me a few minutes to figure out what exactly is the most resource intensive thing going on at this particular moment. Probably the machine with Elasticsearch.
@minuette
I’ll be that guy for once. My PC has 72 GB. To get more you would need to buy a server.
@DVDBZN unless you were running a “current gen” high end system on ddr4 memory. You can go up to 128Gb of ram on that.
@awk Oh my, ES is definitely a hog. I usually shut it down unless I’m specifically testing it.
Are towels considered a “resource” for polling purposes?
@therealjrn
/giphy confusion combined with slight disgust
@awk Awesome, Giphy!
Compiling Android, usually. On my 24 core system, that takes up 21 cores for 51 minutes.
Let’s see: gaming, programming, video editing, 3D rendering, part-time game server, hopefully VR/AR soon. I’ve spoiled myself with quality hardware/gaming, and I can’t imagine going back.
At home it’s bouncing audio tracks in Logic. At work it’s compiling a big C# desktop app in Visual Studio running in Windows 10 running in Parallels running under OS X on my iMac.
A game here, compiling there, 500 tabs in Firefox, Linux in a VM.
… in the spirit of this question, though, I really notice the CPU when I try to emulate a Gamecube using Dolphin and the audio is garbled.
I do have a Windows 10 desktop that I use for VR. It’s pretty cool. But Windows is dead to me.
Being circumspect with tabs here. That’s less that 1/2 of what I had open in Chrome a few months back.
https://meh.com/forum/topics/save-yourselves---or-abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here?sort=most-likes
But that omits tabs open in FF, safari, other browsers.
I don’t save passwords n browsers. that count is apparently what I told Chrome not to save
I demand infinite tabs.
/giphy "infinity tabs"
Audio production. I might have Abelton/Logic/Reaktor running with a load of VSTs, plus Audition. I play live using Traktor and Abelton. I play only high bitrate lossless files so the machines get hot. Either an i7 5K 27" iMac or a 17" Macbook that’s been juiced with a four core 17, 16 or RAM and a 2TB SSD. I also run Focusrite Control to manage the output which is Thunderbolt via a Focusrite Clarett. Never had a hiccup thought the Macbook gets really hot by the end of a night.
No, it’s not video rendering, but the Macs are faithful.
OneTab, people! It saved my life. By which I mean it saved my slug-slow laptop.
Gaming, video editing, and Photoshop are all a stretch for my poor machine but like a fool I keep expecting things to go smoothly!
@anemones I use it also. It really has made a difference.
@anemones but what does it do?
A bunch of Docker containers or VMs running test suites for airline flight tracking software.
I have a vr gaming rig that I render out 4k video on. If I win the power ball, maybe I’ll get the red weapon 8k and see how it handles THAT footage. Haha
@ConradHilton
Spoiler alert Linus hates that camera.
@caffeine_dude Oh, I’m well aware he does. Haha. Especially since he knows close to half of his viewers end up watching his 8k footage off it at 720p on their phones. I wouldn’t use it for daily content like he does, though. I have longer form projects in mind that lend themselves better to that camera.
Running websites in Docker in VMs. Of course most resource intensive is when I make a programming mistake that causes an infinite loop.
Video Transcoding
VM Machines
File Compression
Developing Deep Learning Neural Networks
I make machines bleed.
@darkzrobe
What do you do with neural networks? I have wanted to try making one, but have no idea what to use it for.
@DVDBZN You can always play with the deep dream stuff. Otherwise really depends what you want to do. I am a IT Admin for a bunch of software developers so I am not digging through the code that much. Mostly just finding hardware for them to run on.
4K video editing in Adobe Premiere. My 4th gen i7 laptop with 12GB and 1TB SSD isn’t the ideal platform for 4K. I’ve been eyeballing the refurb dual Xenon workstations that pop up at bargain prices lately, but haven’t convinced myself ill see enough benefit to warrant even the modest price. And I’d still need to add a decent video card and SSD.
@ruouttaurmind
Those are great deals. I got one myself, but the older Xeon processors are not as good as you think they are. Before buying, check the benchmarks on cpubenchmark.net (a benchmark of 10000 or more would be great).
@DVDBZN The first couple times I saw the refurbs I totally dismissed them. Then a few weeks ago I did the PassMark search and was astounded at the score/value. Seems to me the system was around $350 with Win10Pro (only 500GB HDD and 8GB RAM).
@ruouttaurmind I really like the Z Series workstations from HP. You can get the Z840s or Z860s for a pretty good price refurbished.
The insides for those machines make me wet.
@darkzrobe
The only refurbished z840 I found had a poor excuse for a graphics card, and was still over $2000. The brand new ones are amazing, but just a bit out of my price range and processing needs. Who am I kidding, I can always use more power.
Folding proteins <folding.stanford.edu>
@fultonmartin
That’s really cool.
@fultonmartin I didnt think they were still doing that.
Building LLVM.
This particular MacBook Air can build LLVM exactly once on a full battery charge.
There’s a great chrome add in that suspends my tabs if they’ve been inactive for a while. Saves tons of memory.
McAfee when I compile an entire enterprise web application and run JBoss. Yay IT.
When it was time to replace my last laptop I realized I hadn’t gamed on it in years (due to my Xbox) and I now solely use AutoCAD in my office…sooo I pretty much just used my home computer for internet usage and storing tons of music files.
So I went with my first Chromebook with an external hard drive to store my files. No regrets yet.
I just agree to install all recommended programs and that seems to chew up my RAM pretty quick.
Somewhere between Vr and running a virtual environment. I’d say the VM takes a lot more resources than VR.
I used to CPU mine bitcoins, then GPU mine litecoins, without excess hardware (started too late to now be wealthy but I have a small wallet set aside). I’d say the evening games time is the heaviest load these days. I’m interested in video but there is just no time.
My computer is for paying bills, running the Excel spreadsheet where I track my expenses, and playing Plants vs Zombies (the pc version is so much better than the android version). Everything else I do on my tablet or phone. The most intensive thing I do on my tablet is play Hearthstone, which every time it updates which is often I have to uninstall stuff to make room for it (sometimes I think it needs it own damned tablet) and a word game called Paperback that doesn’t require a lot of disc space but eats the battery. It seems like during the AI’s turn the tablet is thinking very hard.
cryptocurrency.
@Rakaim bitcoin or etherium or something else?
@communist Siacoin!
Indesign, Illustrator and photoshop often running at the same time. Then there is Solidworks.