The men's dormitory of Yanhua University is the most difficult time of the year, the dilapidated buildings that leak everywhere, the heating that is equal to nothing, the air conditioner is not to mention, and the heater such as oil tin is also a prohibited product. The old fritter cat in the senior year drilled holes through the window and the dog, and each could still cope with it, and the freshmen could only honestly suffer from the cold.

Everyone else shrunk under the covers, An Daoyuan and Wu Kang were draped in blankets, relying on the small cosmic heat energy inspired by masturbation to fight the cold night.

"No more fighting! What kind of nerves did I have to get into this ghostly school! ”

After losing another game, An Daoyuan scolded and quit the game.

"If you can't stand it, go out and rent a house to live, don't blame me for not reminding you, the kennel with a big bathroom costs thousands of dollars a month."

Wu Kang is calmer, and since others can bear it, he doesn't have much to complain about.

An Daoyuan and Wu Kang came to Yandu from the same small county town, and when they heard this price, they said at a glance: "Then I might as well go to the Internet café to charter a machine!" ”

Speaking of the machine, An Daoyuan was full of ghost fire again, and slapped his second-hand broken computer: "This ghost salted fish net, you know how to deceive people!" Say yes, three opens, do you get stuck? I'm so special to fight the jungle and get out of the air! ”

Wu Kang said disdainfully: "Old Dao, the computer is cheap and not good, just understand it." What age is this?,It's still i3 silent seconds.,......"

"Lao Kang, why don't you play with me", An Daoyuan got the idea of Wu Kang's computer, and leaned over to see that Wu Kang was browsing a website, "Where is this?" Cactus? What website? ”

Wu Kang said: "The websites recommended by the card bar are all about the truth of technology, and it is beneficial to take a look at it more, and it will not be fooled by profiteers." If you look at this app called Prometheus, it can report which hardware is called by each program of the phone, how much data is used, and how much power is consumed. ”

"This is still a feature of the free version, and a month ago it was able to list all the actions of each program, just like a phone bill, and you can check every single one. At that time, it was only sold for 31 yuan, and now it has become Google's value-added development kit, which costs 69 dollars a set, but unfortunately we didn't know there was this thing at that time. ”

"Wo Cao, so powerful? I hate it when carriers and mobile phone companies treat my phone as their territory! I've got to pack one too! ”

An Daoyuan returned to his machine and also went to the cactus website, and then he saw a message that had just been swiped out on the homepage.

"Lao Kang, is this cactus also fooling people under the sign of popular science? You see, what kind of crowdfunding for expansion cards they're doing. ”

"I'm watching it too, it's kind of weird......"

Cactus is a new website that has just been built, and there are only three major sections: forum, Q&A and crowdfunding. There is not much promotion, and most of the members are from the card bar and know these places. Now there is some popularity in the forum.,The Q&A part is a long post of some big gods.,Mainly talking about mobile phones.,General members only have a share of admiration.。 This expansion card is also the first project in the crowdfunding sector.

According to the information, this expansion card can be installed with another CPU for the computer, and after being compatible with the software, it can make the computer play games more smoothly, and even claim to double the game performance, of course, it depends on what grade the CPU is installed. Expansion cards are currently only available on Intel's various series of bases, from the lowest Celeron to the highest i9, and AMD's docks will be launched later.

"It's a lie......

Antao is far from believing it, of course, the main reason is that the price is dazzling, the expansion card is 599, and each base is 39, which is not cheap.

Wu Kang was also skeptical: "Yes, I haven't heard of it being so compatible, if it's true, Intel can agree?" ”

The high profits of the IT industry depend on upgrading, and every time Intel launches a new generation of processors, it has to change the interface specifications, which is the core strategy of Intel to make profits. In the Core era, from LGA775, 1156, 1155, 1151, 1150 to the latest 998, changing the specifications in a year or two is not to let people directly use the old motherboard to plug in the new processor.

Even next-generation processors are so tightly guarded, let alone using two processors from different eras on one motherboard. This expansion card crowdfunded by the cactus website, regardless of whether it can really be implemented technically, is conceptually digging the roots of Intel.

Of course, AMD is the same, in terms of processor interface specifications, it plays more slippery than Intel. It's a pity that in recent years, agricultural enterprises have become more and more ineffective, and Intel is so anxious that they are jumping.

Wu Kang is still pondering: "The frequency and bandwidth of the PCI bus are there, even if PCI-E is used to add another processor, the effect is absolutely impossible to equal to the entire computer with two processors, but this thing is moved by cicadas, maybe there is some black technology?" ”

"Whether there is black technology or not, the price is so expensive, I might as well change to a good graphics card", An Daoyuan is no longer interested.

Wu Kang used the jargon of the card bar party: "What kind of good graphics card is a graphics card with more than 600 yuan?" It's just a beginner, and no matter how good your graphics card is, the processor can't be used, hey......"

He found the perks: "I'm drawing free test qualifications!" Fill in the information quickly, let's try our luck! ”

"Don't say it sooner! Hurry up! Of course, welfare can't be given up, and An Daoyuan is also busy with his head crackling.

The freshman year of the third-rate university is a good time for indulgence, An Daoyuan and Wu Kang, the two sworn friends, forgot about it within two days, and only cared about playing games, making sister paper, and when they received the courier from the cicada, they thought it was instant noodles delivered every Monday.

The package was indicated to be handed to An Daoyuan, and he opened it easily, and after seeing an inexplicable computer card, he remembered the previous lottery evaluation qualifications.

This is a PCIE-3.0X4 card, which comes with 1156, 1155, 1150 and other interface bases, which looks quite copycat.

Although An Daoyuan wanted to try it on his own machine, but Wu Kang snatched it, his reason is very sufficient, his machine is E3, it can't be used E3 to settle i3, right?

The installation of the expansion card is divided into two parts: software and hardware, and corresponding adjustments must be made on the motherboard BIOS and operating system, after all, this is the testing stage, which is very complicated, and even Wu Kang, who claims to be a DIY expert, is a little tricky.

Fortunately, the cactus website has a video to guide the installation, and the two of them installed it while watching, and finally let WIN10 no longer pop up the prompt of "unknown hardware is not installed correctly".

"Try Call of Duty 15 VR!"

As soon as An Daoyuan came up, it was difficult to drive, which was also in line with Wu Kang's wishes. Although his computer is an E3 plus 970, the VR version of Call of Duty 15 is too demanding on hardware, and the medium effect does not exceed 10 frames, which makes his Oculus-VR headset always eat dust except for watching movies.

"Medium performance to 20 fps is good......"

Wu Kang put on the VR headset he bought with his frugality, started the game, and the roar of the motor suddenly sounded in the case, and the two CPU fans were spinning, and the noise was really not small.

The other roommates also gathered, except for Wu Kang himself, everyone could only watch the screen split in half. However, after the scene is loaded, the character just turns around at random, and the dormitory resounds with an exclamation of "wow".

“25、27…… It's so cool! ”

Wu Kang, who has always been calm, also shouted excitedly, although this frame rate is still a little stuck, but it can already be played.

"Good ...... That's more than doubled! 970 has become 980! ”

An Daoyuan smacked his tongue, and he also had a small calculation in his heart.

980 is more expensive than 970 for a thousand yuan, more than 600 expansion cards and bases, oh, and processors, a second-hand i3 is counted as a hundred, more than 700, not much saving.

By the way, I forgot about the CPU! It can reach 25 frames per second, which is equivalent to replacing the E3 with an i7-4790K, which saves at least 600 yuan, and can save 1,000 yuan!

An Daoyuan's heart suddenly warmed up, and he shouted: "Lao Kang, I think about it, exchange your E3 for me, you buy an i7, and get an expansion card, it only costs two thousand yuan, and our two machines have been greatly upgraded!" ”

"It's a beautiful idea! The test has just begun, and who knows what the problem is? ”

Wu Kang said this, but he kept playing in one breath before testing other games.

When the two of them played the mainstream game, they found that there were already a lot of test videos on the cactus, and all the testers were hooked, praising the cicada for doing a great thing again.

The forum has long been blown up, either regretting losing the old CPU, or complaining that it didn't grab the test qualification. Seeing that his uncle said that there were only three hundred qualifications for this test, An Daoyuan and Wu Kang began to discuss whether to hurry up and buy lottery tickets.

There are also technical long posts in the Q&A section, and several gods who participated in the internal test are discussing the improvement of this test, and there are also complaints that some games will still have compatibility problems, or the effect is not obvious or something.

There are two most popular Q&A posts, one is "What should be the name of the expansion card of the cicada", which is a water sticker, and the other post attracted An Daoyuan and Wu Kang: "Why can the expansion card improve the performance of the game?" ”

The long post of the answer with hundreds of likes made the two suddenly realize, the answer ID is called "five shrimp", and he made a simple and clear summary of the principle of the expansion card.

"Expansion cards are actually helping to reduce the burden on DX, and as we all know, since DX12, multi-core support has been perfect. On this basis, the expansion card hands over many of the computing tasks of DX to the processor on the expansion card, especially those that are instruction-intensive but do not have a large amount of data, and these computing tasks can be matched by PCIE-3.0X4. Reducing the load on DX is equivalent to reducing the load on both the main processor and the graphics card, so the game performance will generally be increased by more than 50%, and in special cases it will be more than 100%. ”

He also revealed some insider information: "This expansion card is not a cicada, it is made by a foreign company called Illusion, and there are technical experts from Microsoft's DX department involved, so I know so much about DX." ”

An Daoyuan said with emotion: "Accidentally, I actually participated in the test of the latest technology, and my dog luck is simply out of luck!" ”

"It's us!" Wu Kang was very unhappy, it was obvious that he took An Daoyuan to the cactus, but the benefits fell on An Daoyuan, no wonder people often say that Meng Xin has a European halo.

Then he posted a question in the Q&A section: Will Intel ban this technology?

Half an hour later, hundreds of answers were followed by the question post, but none of them were answers, but "the same question" and "Don't!" ", "Use it cool before the ban", a good question, and it became a water sticker again.

In an apartment outside Yan University, Xia Ming said to Li Diluo on Q: "Don't think so much about it, concentrate on the test." ”

It has only been half a month since Wu Sihao proposed the idea of the expansion card, but the initial test has been completed, and today it is a small-scale public test.

The reason why the progress is so much is because after Xia Ming digested the quadernary quantum language, he borrowed the quadruple cluster server platform written by Lin Cheng before, and relied on the amazing efficiency of R3AI to write a special virtual machine within two days. This virtual machine uses quadruple plus DX to form a virtual environment dedicated to gaming, virtualizing the main processor, graphics card, memory, and expansion card as a whole, similar to the DOS4GW in the early DOS era.

Named "Shamrock", the virtual machine is nothing more than a knife to kill the enemy when used on expansion cards, and its real purpose is to support future alfalfa engines.

It is much simpler to find a custom expansion card from the board card factory than the Alfalfa expansion card to be made in the future, after all, it is to integrate the ARM processor set, and this expansion card only needs to be flashed with the ROM of the Clover virtual machine, and then the card processor base can be installed. The card processor base has applications in many special occasions, and the board factory has done a lot, and the first batch of samples was obtained after a week, and after testing and modification, the second batch was soon available.

Li Diluo reported some of the feedback on the day of the test, which was actually concentrated on the cactus website and could be seen at a glance. Li Diluo is mainly worried that the previous Prometheus incident will repeat itself, and while the advisory group appreciates the expansion card, it is also worried about the future of the expansion card, just like the popular question on the cactus website: Will Intel ban it?

Although this expansion card that has not yet been named is just like Prometheus, just to make a quick buck, Xia Ming feels that he can't regress like Prometheus anymore.

[Xiao Huan feels cute today! ] \\*^o^*//?】

[I want to watch a mango drama...... Send me a few mango dramas! Let me watch the mango drama, and I'll be obedient! （*^＠^*）】

[Ignore me, I'll keep popping up!] I play! I play! I'm bouncing! 】

A message kept flashing in one of the windows of the subconscious, it was Xiao Huan harassing him on the "God Chat".

The chat tool on the quantum neural network takes this name, although the painting style is not very right, but compared with "spirit chat", at least it will not be classified as a fairy......