Recent content by oldskooler

From the greater collective community pov, most would agree, AMD didn't get it right. They rushed the product to market ( their own words ) and didn't have time for some features. I think the best review out there now would be HardOCP's review of the card. No DVI and HDMI 2.0 is a deal killer...

It's more about a workable business model more than anything. There are reasons why many many executives from AMD have left over the last few years. No one is asking for anything for free but simply put, myself and many of my friends and the community in general are attracted to AMD for it's...

You're kidding right? Is it game-breaking? No, but it is kinda a big deal when driver activity from AMD is far and few between. And now there are rumors that the new 390x card might cost more money than what people are expecting. Poor driver support and expensive hardware? Yeah, that's going to...

Here is my Google Fiber speed test. I think I may have another entry here from when we first got it a year ago ( this month ) Too lazy to check. This speed test was done on the new 2nd version of the Google Fiber hardware which has real dual band AC wireless and one less box ( was 3 pieces of...

4770k @ 4.3ghz / 2133 mem / pair of XFX R 290x's UPDATE: I went back and re-ran the bench on Ultra and score 6019. Not sure why it was slightly higher. UPDATE2: I went back and ran the bench on ultra and 4x anti aliasing and scored 5390 something.

I generally encourage people NOT to buy smaller SSD drives because within a matter minutes of discovering just how awesome SSD's actually are, they totally regret not spending that little bit extra on something bigger. Anyways, educations aren't cheap. I was an early adopter having owned my...