Recent content by hat

Worst I've ever seen is IC Diamond 7. There was much drama over that here at TPU...

IMO there's not much point in nvme, outside of a boot drive, or a machine that just has one drive anyway. It's convenient because it's clean and compact, no cables anywhere. Sure, they're fast, but they also have problems with overheating and probably draw more power than a standard SSD drive...

It's a bit like insanity if you ask me. Why are we pushing so hard for smaller and smaller manufacturing processes with crap yields that come from a singular place? This current path only results in expensive, hot running, loud, watt guzzling equipment that there are too few to satisfy demand...

Where are we at these days with cheap server parts? My 2600k is old and tired, and it's time to at least look at some options. What's the newest lineup that's still relatively cheap?

I would prefer to keep it. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed between now and "then" (when B/S/T was more active) with regards to the functionality of Heatware. We've got enough scammers and BS to deal with in this world, and I'd prefer to have something more to show that a person's...

Sure, that's a fair point and that's why aftermarket coolers exist. My point was that in the past, single slot coolers were sufficient, not required, for high end cards, and these days we're having to use dual slot coolers even on midrange parts.

Yep, seems power draw and physical size just goes up and up. Used to be high end cards took a single 4 pin power connector, and a single slot cooling solution was just fine! Now we have double slot coolers as the standard, even on midrange cards, and sky high power requirements fulfilled by...

I don't get it. Sure, a smaller manufacturing process can result in more efficiency and less power draw, but doesn't that just pack everything (including heat) closer and closer together, making it harder to cool at some point? Isn't that why we have GPUs and CPUs running at 90c with huge...

I don't see any reason why a Purple drive would be any worse than anything else. The important thing IMO is to not rely on any single drive to store anything of importance. I recommend two for RAID1 (mirrored redundancy) so if one drive fails, you can pop a new one in and restore the array from...

Well, so much for advancements in technology. Your logic seems to suggest that a chip such as the old Q6600 should still cost $500 because that's what the tech cost at the time, and anything better should cost more. And if we want lower prices we should simply go backwards in tech. Guess when my...

MS can go pound salt. I'm not upgrading my whole computer (complete with a bunch of BS "security" features) so I can move on to the next version of Windows, which will undoubtedly be even worse than the last. They've been breaking things since XP!

I agree with this and everyone else who said similar. Just stay away.

I doubt it. Even when Windows 10 becomes EOL, people will continue to use it, or something even older. Not many people care to upgrade their PC when the economy is in the toilet and prices extend to the mesosphere.

While I'm not sure exactly what you're getting at here, I voted Fuller body of interests sharing relation with hobby. I originally came here to learn about overclocking so I could speed up my old nVidia FX5200 Ultra way back in the day, so my interests at the time were hardware, mostly for the...

That's what I've been doing... two 1TB drives in RAID 0. I feel like it offers a fair middle ground between the performance of an SSD and the cost effectiveness of a hard drive, especially when I've never been blown away by an SSD as far as games go. It made a huge difference for Windows, but...