Recent content by dogsbody

Combined (and consequently larger) cache (employing same tipology) inherently comes with higher latency, not lower latency.

There is no technical reason that would make reinitialization of such NVRAM on power-up impossible. In fact same applies to DRAM. Boot will always begin with less a volatile memory ("ROM", flash nowadays).

What is the point of color calibration on a TN display that only display colors correctly in a circle the center of which is at the screen normal intersecting your iris? Colors are badly distorted towards the edges of this circle and everywhere else (way beyond what lack of calibration would...

Black Friday sounds perfectly plausible for Zen2 desktop availability. Black Friday 2019 that is. It is likely to be announced in spring (2019) though.

AM3 was DDR3-based legacy socket from Phenom days which (for better and for worse) allowed Bulldozers and Piledrivers to use it whereas FM2+ was a descendant of APU-centric (iGPU!!!) socket line that started with FT1. So the distinction would be "iGPU-less" (any GPU on that motherboard was not...

It allows for stutter-free gameplay experience on iGPUs where hitting that VSync cap can prove difficult more often than not. I wish my HD530 would support FreeSync ...

Yes, it almost saturates the SATA III interface.

Forums should employ some kind of IQ test as an additional entry barrier. A minimum score of 60 should be the requirement to confine the likes of you outside.

This is easy: x = $629.99 / 1950 x ~=$0.323 But cannot tell whether this is really good value for x or not ...