Recent content by Fry178

joke for a company like EK being around for 20y, claiming to be (one of ) the best/premium for cooling. a 200$ aio with alu rad, fixed connections, that needs 6 fans to drop "2*C" compared to other 280/360s, like a 130$ eisbaer 280/360 with 2/3 fans and full copper rad, where i can...

check local store like microcenter and amazon warehouse for open box. i havent bought a sealed gpu in past 5y, incl builds for others. only had one showing artifacts (vram) but thats why there are return options..

funny how many are buying products based on its name/model number, or are stating what a company has to do/produce/sell, for a certain price, how about comparing how much i have to spend to do 1080p gaming (avg, not the extremes from either end), today/2y/5/7/10y ago?? (and price gouging will...

seems too many blades for a pressure optimized fan, rather have max, disregarding flow a bit, as all "pressure" fans i know have around 5 (big) blades, and flow fans usually 9-12 slim ones. @Yttersta might wanna look at Arctic. 10y warranty, close to noctua fans i was interested in (ultra...

meeh, unless it reads: ....offers performance AND endurance comparable) i dont care if stuff is "enterprise/data center" or whatever, as long as i can use it (interface) and buy it, but anything below MLC (maybe TLC for nvme) is a no for me when it comes to OS/game/backup drives.

switch to balanced. never seen dell/hp or others do the profiles properly, wasting energy/higher temps than needed.

the hybrids are ok if you dont want to deal with a setup, dont have a cpu cooler that allows to add it. problem is they are NOT designed as gpu coolers (same for kraken/msi and even those no-name china clone kits), and wont reach he low temps of a full block, as their blocks are designed for HS...

@unclewebb user stated temp being high, and +90% of the time this means using the high perf profile (not letting the cpu downclock), and not just some background tasks. @TheTigerJunior i usually tweak 2 profiles for my usage (power savings and balanced). power savings is on all the time, and i...

funny how ppl think that because there is a new chip, it needs more vram. same for vram bandwidth where ppl whine when numbers dont go up/decrease, yet has never been an issue in real world use (as other things improve (compression) and reducing the need for more bandwidth in the first place)...

and make sure min is set to something like 20-30%, not like 100 (for high perf setting).

slow, compared to other brands in that price range.

@Athlonite never stated anything saying they dont work. but ppl need to stop saying the qvl means "it will work". its proof that the manufacturer tested the kit, nothing else.

@X71200 your right, it should be dark power pro, not straight power. just didnt like that some of the focus units in similar price range to Corsait/Tt werent getting the same (top) ratings, dont remember what it was (ripple/transient etc), but enough for me to look at the other 2 brands...

@Glaceon the reboots are from bios, can be combo of bios (version)/ram/mb. how did you update the bios? under win/in bios, or with dos flash? some boards (at least on the Gb i had) dont delete properly and you have left overs. you might have to use dos to update, with flag to delete (previous)...

@sprach seems to be the same (haven physically compared them), they seem to have only changed the tubing to rubberized.