I'll be buying a new computer...

[daydreamer]

I couldnt resist,made SIMD packed compare primes,is it fast?well it was fun 

Can you share it?   

I replaced my code ideas in last SIMT thread post with code instead
I choosed to use vs debugger to get it working right
Most probably used the simple cmp integers
No idea how many have skill in fpu compare ? or sse ucomiss/ucomisd ?
Probably least common ,few used sse/sse2 ,real4s,real8s,bytes,words,dwords,qword packed compares

[zedd151]

WiFi woes with the desktop PC.

The USB wifi dongle that came with it seems 'weak', loses signal all too often. Plus, I cannot use it on Windows 7, no drivers for it at all. Therefore I have ordered a wifi card for it that is "supposed to" be compatible with it.
If it does not work as advertised or does not fit into the sff case, it only cost $20-ish dollars USD. No great loss.

Will update once it arrives and is installed. (Fingers crossed  ) Hopefully, it will work with Windows 7... but I'm not holding my breath on that, I can live with Windows 10 - no issues with 10 thus far. But would be nice though, to be able to fully use Windows 7 (including wifi) sometimes.

I originally posted this in the WRONG THREAD. Whoops!

[daydreamer]

WiFi woes with the desktop PC.

The USB wifi dongle that came with it seems 'weak', loses signal all too often. Plus, I cannot use it on Windows 7, no drivers for it at all. Therefore I have ordered a wifi card for it that is "supposed to" be compatible with it.
If it does not work as advertised or does not fit into the sff case, it only cost $20-ish dollars USD. No great loss.

Will update once it arrives and is installed. (Fingers crossed  ) Hopefully, it will work with Windows 7... but I'm not holding my breath on that, I can live with Windows 10 - no issues with 10 thus far. But would be nice though, to be able to fully use Windows 7 (including wifi) sometimes.

I originally posted this in the WRONG THREAD. Whoops!

Related ,USB broadband dongle can become hot and stop working,fortunately I had a spare dongle and I got internet working again

[zedd151]

Well, well, well...
Guess what?.... The USB wifi dongle was not the issue this whole time.

When I first got this PC and for about a week or so thereafter, I was using a corded keyboard and cordless USB mouse. The mouse, keyboard, and wifi were working pretty much as expected. Some time after that, I got a new cordless USB keyboard.

That is when the wifi issues started, but I did not make that connection.

Today, I had moved my pc to another desk, which happened to have a corded keyboard there. I had not yet retrieved the USB keyboard from the other room, so I simply plugged in the corded USB keyboard.

Lo and behold wifi was once again running in all its glory. It was never the USB wifi dongles fault. Seems the USB keyboard dongle is using apparently, way too much power or so it seems.

But still I will use the wifi adapter that has already shipped and is on the way here and NOT use the USB wifi dongle, nor the USB wireless keyboard. As for the wireless USB keyboard, it may wind up in the scrap heap.     

I could probably use a power supply upgrade, as the OEM power supply that came with the PC is on the 'low end (wattage) for a 'mid-high performance' PC. 175w, iirc. Should be at least 240w, imo.

Soooooo.... the saga yet continues.
When I am inside the box, I plan on adding an internal SSD hard drive (in addition to the NVME OS drive), while I already have it open to install the new wifi card. Hopefully the PS unit will handle the modest additional load.

It seems that everything I touch is a perpetual 'work in progress'.   
 Be it code, computers, etc... I'll get there one day. Big fun.

[zedd151]

The wifi adapter came very early this morning. I got it installed and is working perfectly, but alas, it does not work on windows 7.    I am going to use the wifi dongle to connect on Windows 7 and search online for a compatible driver... whoops. The dongle also doesn't work on 7. I will go to Atheros website while on Windows 10 and look for a win 7 driver the hard way. 

I also installed a second SSD while I was inside, which is also working well, but I had to use the DVD drive data connection. I couldn't find a spare SATA connection.    I will investigate further, may need a little more disassembly. (Might be hidden under the DVD drive, which is obscuring what is underneath it) it is supposed to have another connection, unless I misread something.

[zedd151]

Today, I finally got around to installing the wireless/Bluetooth drivers for Windows 7. I had downloaded them a couple days ago, but had forgotten about it.

I have a 3rd party driver tool running right now to get all the drivers updated. 

[stoo23]

I had noticed you mentioned you might need to upgrade you PSU and I found a short review of this rather 'Trick' unit, that was rather positive 

Lian Li - EDGE Gold PSU

[zedd151]

I had noticed you mentioned you might need to upgrade you PSU and I found a short review of this rather 'Trick' unit, that was rather positive 

Lian Li - EDGE Gold PSU

750-1200 Watts? Waaayy too much for me. And probably way expensive. 240 Watt psu should be enough. This box has a 180 W unit (from factory). They (240 W PSU) are pretty cheap.

[daydreamer]

Stu ,that's one  reason I stopped use my non laptop computer  ,combined with high electricity prices 750w = keep running microwave oven for many hours instead of few minutes
Later mobile GPUs in laptops came out less power hungry than card installed in tower,when using computer for editing and assemble ,no point in use overkill : most powerful gaming computer

[NoCforMe]

Run Windows 7 in a VM. That will use the host machine's network.

Why another layer between me and bare metal? 

You're a lot farther away from the "bare metal" even when using the real OS than you think.

[zedd151]

Run Windows 7 in a VM. That will use the host machine's network.

Why another layer between me and bare metal? 

You're a lot farther away from the "bare metal" even when using the real OS than you think.

Of course, you are correct. That is why I said another layer.   

[greenozon]

The introduction of the 80 PLUS Titanium standard brought a fourth measurement into the certification mixture: efficiency at 10% rated load. Also, with Titanium, PF needs to be at least 0.95 at a lower load level (20% of the PSU's max-rated capacity).
Note that the lower the load in a PSU, the tougher it is for its APFC converter to keep the power factor high.

[zedd151]

The introduction of the 80 PLUS Titanium standard brought a fourth measurement into the certification mixture: efficiency at 10% rated load. Also, with Titanium, PF needs to be at least 0.95 at a lower load level (20% of the PSU's max-rated capacity).
Note that the lower the load in a PSU, the tougher it is for its APFC converter to keep the power factor high.

???
Most of that is Greek to me. 
At any rate, my desktop is running fine even with the OEM 180W power supply. And no plans to try to change it any time soon, since that specific power supply was specially made for the Optiplex 7050 sff PC. Getting a higher rated (like 240-250W) power supply is not easy, since there is only so much space in the box, and the connectors are another issue as well. Cheers!    Many days of trial and error.

My laptop also, is running very well btw. Between the two, I don't think I will ever have to buy anything else (computer wise) for the rest of my days.
And for those interested I have Windows 10 on both machines and zero issues anymore.    You just have to know what to tweak or disable,  and what not to touch.    Many days of trial and error went into that.

[jj2007]

Should be at least 240w

Good in winter, but prepare for a hefty bill

James F.:

The most common laptop wattage is 65W*

However, the amount of watts they actually use will be less than their wattage.

Based on actual power consumption tests, my 45W laptop consumes:

0.33W - Off.
3.89W - Sleep.
19.6W - using Google Docs.
21.5W - streaming YouTube.
I couldn't get it to reach its listed wattage.

*Based on my analysis of 100s of laptops

Since Google Docs and YouTube are both very demanding uses of your notebook, hanging around at the Masm32 Forum will be more in the order of 10 Watts or less.

[stoo23]

Stu ,that's one  reason I stopped use my non laptop computer  ,combined with high electricity prices 750w = keep running microwave oven for many hours instead of few minutes

Yeah  understood, I just happened to notice it on a Newsletter I get sent occasionally and thought it looked like a pretty 'Trick' PSU    I liked the Moveable Plug thingemy and Lian Li make good stuff 

I HAD to purchase a Laptop Stand / Multi-Fan Cooler some time ago, for my old work Win10 laptop as you could almost Cook on it   
I have my old Control room 'All in One' HP Win7 machine, for general desktop use,.. So COOL and Quiet !!
I have only heard the fan actually turn on a couple of times on the very hottest of days and it really doesn't produce very much heat !!
Quite an impressive device really   

I have Yet to get Hutch's Mega XEON powered, Water Cooled Server Box up and running but it Should be Fun / Interesting when I do,...it has something stupid like 8 or 9 TB of SSD's and NVME drives along with something like 68 gig ram, a great graphics card and a Huge screen     



Also, very interesting Info' JJ