Recent content by kayjay010101

Definitely the last good game in the Far Cry series, and IMO, probably the last good game published by Ubisoft. FC3 is not exceptional by any means but it is good and worth picking up, especially for free.

Come off it.. Pointless people have been able to be utterly non-productive and yet become celebrities throughout time. This is not unique to "kids these days". Stop waving your fists at clouds.

That's what the toggle in Windows is for, you should be able to set certain .exe's to use either iGPU or dGPU

With Nvidia cards specifically, without Optimus/NVIDIA drivers the dGPU has no idea what state it's supposed to be in and just runs 2d clocks non-idle which consumes usually 40W, tanking battery life. Windows isn't able to assign the dGPU heavier tasks either as it's not recognized (on account...

Got a picture of what you're talking about? Would be easier to identify that way I'd probably call what I think you're referring to as "tabs", but I can't be sure without a better description or a picture

Again Optimus is what achieves this If Optimus is disabled, everything will run off the dGPU (regardless of what Windows is set to use, mind you) which in this case is a constant 40-115W (if my Google-fu has served me right) load. Enabling Optimus will let the dGPU go into idle, consuming only a...

If optimus is enabled then the dGPU (3060) should be idle unless you're in a game or other GPU workload. Optimus means all video (on the monitor's screen at least, often HDMI ports and such run off the dGPU no matter what) is routed from the dGPU to the iGPU and then to the screen. The dGPU is...

Uh.. Yes, there is. 3955WX. Right now there's 12, 16, 32 and 64-cores on TR Pro/WRX80, those being the 3945WX, 3955WX, 3975WX and 3995WX. There was a rumored 3965WX (with 24 cores) being considered but it was scrapped prior to launch according to rumors.

If your workload uses AVX, yes, turning off those instructions would reduce temperatures. But it would also kill your AVX performance. But that's as much a solution as turning your computer off is a solution to reduce CPU temps. And no, gaming doesn't use AVX as far as I'm aware, so it wouldn't...

The pricing is honestly not that outrageous for all the features you get. It was about a 35-40% premium over the desktop Ryzen parts for the 3000 series. But the motherboards available for WRX80 are like 3-4x as expensive as B550/X570 to make use of those extra lanes I suppose. 16-core with only...

aaaah gimme I needs wants the PCIe lanes

Theoretical and inexperienced? Do you not realize what forum you're in? Talk about ignorant... I can tell you with 100% certainty that my 4K Blu-Rays that I ripped myself to my Plex server has zero difference being played off either an external hard drive or an internal one. I have backups of...

QPI link is the links between CPUs - more links, more data can be transferred between which increases performance in multi-CPU workloads The bus speed is how fast these links are. In your case, multiple CPUs isn't needed or wanted, so those figures are irrelevant. Get the 1620 v2 as it has...

Ban fiat currencies too then, since fiat currency is stolen a lot more than crypto.

Keep in mind Minecraft is frequency and RAM-dependant for the most part, core count isn't needed unless you're running instances. IIRC the server .jre is single-threaded or uses like the first two cores only, something like that. So getting the fastest single-thread CPU you can get is your...