Recent content by LAN_deRf_HA

I want to like this but the top panel fitment in all the review samples I've seen is bad and it ends up making it look cheap.

You are the grief.

This is the exact argument that should have stopped you from making this post.

It's about the farthest thing from a regular m2. You'll need some currently non-existent gen 4 ssd that's faster than the internal drive and it will have to sustain that performance. Gen 4 drives have been terrible at sustained performance so far. I doubt the new wave of gen 4 controllers will...

This temp makes sense, but so did your initial temp. The voltage makes a huge difference, and seeing 9900k/s chips hitting high 90s around 5ghz on top tier cooling is insanely common. I'd call it the norm, even with a big custom loop. Some people even utilize the optional 115C tj max. I also...

I'm in a similar position with a 9900k@5GHz/115i and after a lot of research my conclusion is a better cooler won't help. All the top coolers are within a degree or two for an overclocked 9900K. The problem is in the CPU. It just can't release the heat fast enough. Delidding helps, but to really...

What do you have now and what are you trying to cool?

A lot of us learn this the hard way. There will be some random thing that seems to benefit, like I recall turning off the pagefile greatly improved one specific aspect of Skyrim performance, but then you slowly discover all these little things that are dependent on it. I also use to think you...

When you hit 2000+ tabs. 32gb fixed it for me.

This solves a long standing annoyance I've had with nvidia overclocking. You could set an offset and get a stable in game frequency of let's say 2000mhz, but for a lighter 3d load it could be 50mhz higher, which might be unstable. This never made any sense to me. Now if only afterburner would...

Why are they showing us just HT on/off? Should be HT on pre-patch then HT off+patch to see the full effect on 9900k.

I've been confused by the "newest gen is ok" vs "newest gen is more vulnerable" comments. Is it that the newer chips are more vulnerable just specifically not to the hyper thread exploit?

Depends on your needs. If you're pushing high frame rates you'll occasionally run into a game that's sensitive enough to memory speed to get a large performance gain, maybe 20+fps in a F1 title, BUT for most games at 60 fps we're talking a difference of 0.1-0.5 fps. Its similar with...

Guess I'm looking at the wrong kits? Barely been any price drop on performance 32gb kits from their all time high. Maybe down to 350-450 from 375 to 475?

Can you even have a windows 10 account without also having a live account? Seems like all of their services are accessible with a mono account these days. Open the xbox app and see if it takes your windows login.