Recent content by efahl

You are correct, TKL is the best keyboard size.

Yeah, almost all of these crappy all-in-one gateways are running reskinned OpenWrt these days. I'm not really sure why people continue to buy them, maybe they don't realized that you get better performance and lower lifetime costs when you get a separate router and WAP, maybe a switch if you...

EVO 212, $30. White paint +$20. 140 fan +$20. Sounds about right.

Looks like an exercise in how to sell some old, out-of-production Qotom motherboards for huge profit. If you want a good x86 router board, go look at PC Engines APU offerings; lots more horsepower for a lot less money.

I'm curious as to whether the poor 4k performance is an architectural issue or just firmware. Since the drive can stream large data at good rates, seems like they should be able to tune up small block performance with some code and make this thing show better results on more generic workflows.

Dayum, I had no idea they were making such dense DDR3! I gotta get me some terabytes of that stuff. :)

No, red shifting moves it farther away. You want to set the RGB to violet (or gamma rays, if you have those fancy new LEDs).

It would be interesting to have the 960 Pro in the mix, too, so we can see generational improvements.

If you had the choice between a race car with steel (omg how ancient!) body work and carbon fiber, but the steel one was faster, would you still buy the carbon fiber one? Implementation technology is purely secondary, I buy for performance.

I'll stick with my Noctua U14s...

I'd add another "plus", those front-facing USB ports. If you've ever spilled coffee on the top of a case with up-facing USB ports you know why. :)

The MS Office installation is the one that surprises me. Any idea why the RD400 and Samsung 950 performed so poorly?

Exactly, and anybody who really cares already has a UPS.

Exactly. We have extremely dirty power at our office, all the workstations are on APC 1500 UPSs and they cost less than half of what that dual PSU does. (We've never had a PSU fail on a workstation, I think we had one of the duals on a server die, but it was like 8 years old.)

Yo, bitches, I herd you like desktops so I put a desktop in your desktop.