Recent content by SteveS45

Actually it's a bit in reverse. With global industries increased dependency on TSMC or any high-tech chip maker, any type of invasion or takeover would greatly impact production and thus the global economy. There's no way that TSMC would continue to operate smoothly during any type of conflict...

Actually what's happening now is that you are blowing air through the Intel heatsink fins, then reaching the copper backplate. Without mounting pressure between the copper backplate and the aluminum Intel sink basically there's close to zero heat transfer there. So basically the Intel heatsink...

Just pointing out, the air from that 92mm fan has no where to escape. You're not getting much thermal efficiency like that. Basically the air bounces back and collides. You just get noise and vibration, minimum airflow and cooling. What you should do is to at least create a gap between the fan...

I remember when Zadak came out as the modding/ arm of Apacer, doing strange but unique modular + custom loop cooling cases. But now it seems like they're going back to RAM/SSD, just like Apacer. Not sure it was worth building an entire sub-brand, if Zadak ends up being more of a series under...

What he said. The Venomous X was a successor of the Ultra 120, which was a successor of the HR-01 way back in 2000~2005. The Hyper 212 came out around 2005~2007, so I wouldn't say who copied who. But Thermalright always had ultra high-end products in terms of quality and performance. The Hyper...

The Venomous X design was made way back in 2010, so this is a 11 yo design. I see some changes from their later designs, like the hollowed out logo and it seems like the mounting kit could be an old design but using new molds for the bracket arms.

NZXT is actually respecting the intellect of the original creator, and their intellectual property. Rather than making a knockoff of something that's similarly themed, they're actually paying to get the licensing. The bulk of the cost would be the royalties to Bethesda or to the original...

But when you beat 4 with 3....

The reason why the C7 was chosen to get the Cu treatment is specifically because of the size/height limits of SFF/ITX builds. Naturally going full copper will not be as cost efficient as per say choosing a larger cooler with more fins and heat dissipation area. But given that there's no space to...

These are 3D renders not the actual product.

I think the ultimate goal is to eliminate the need of RAM as a fast buffer/volatile storage. If we had non-volatile storage as fast as RAM everything could be executed directly from disk.

I think you should aim for a sub $100 top-end air cooler if you're on X99.

Seems like they dropped a couple stack of fins to get the height down from 165mm to 150mm. Pretty bold move to sacrifice performance for height. You also loose the top heatpipe caps. Width and Depth seem to be unchanged, it just comes down to wither or not your ITX case can take a 150mm height...

Yes it's definitely open source. My main argument is that on a commercial level you rarely see competitors adopting each other's tech no matter how open it is. That's why you wouldn't see realtek support OpenAL or .... don't know who else still makes soundcards/chips.

Open software standards by hardware companies = proprietary. Normally no other HW company would adopt it. It's like slapping your own face in terms of Marketing, admitting that you either don't have the tech or your own tech is inferior. So no matter how open an API is, no competitor would adopt...