Recent content by m4gicfour

I've pretty much been team red my whole life. My dad had a Pentium 166 machine he upgraded with a Voodoo2, then he got a P3 system with an nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 My first computer that belonged 100% to me was a socket 754 Athlon64 (3400+ IIRC) system with a Radeon 9800 Pro. A christmas gift from...

Yes, I did say that.

That's not how it works at all. One of two things would happen: -If the slot has no power protection circuitry, which is probable as it's not designed to fit any arbitrary device but rather a single M.2 device conforming to that standard... each would draw their required power, and you'd get...

That wasn't the issue at all. The issue was that there was a +12V power plane running the entire length of the PCB including within incredibly small tolerances of the screw holes. Running the screw in and out a few times could cut through the PCB enough to contact the +12V line, causing a direct...

It does. I was using dual 290Xes in CF for years in 2560x1440 144Hz. It was as simple as selecting the resolution, and windows/amd driver automatically picked 144Hz as my monitor reports that as the native refresh for 1440 and 1080. The only issue I ever had was with DP not syncing successfully...

The KVMs produced by Level 1 Techs are easily the best ones that I am aware of Wendell has put significant effort into working around common KVM issues with for their products.

It can absolutely be done, standardizing it is the cumbersome part. The late, great Mark Klebofski (mkmods) is the user who did that. He actually soldered the connectors to the back of the board and custom fabricated a mounting plate with the corresponding connector on it so the motherboard...

I see toop has you covered on the single-M.2 X4 cards. Cards like your OWC one should work fine, but make sure to research the SATA controller they're using. A lot of the cheaper ones run off an x1 link and you'll be limited by the PCIe link. From what I can see the accellsior should be fine...

Have you tried playing it via WineD3D for Windows? I would test it myself but I'd have to go dig my 290X out of storage and put the air cooler back on it (or plumb up a custom loop) to test. If the game just does a version check and bombs out if it doesn't get a number that it likes back, then...

OH shit, somebody got into Ballmer's private stash? Better hope they didn't get caught :eek:

I set up an unraid server on some old 2009-2010ish APU and mobo I had lying around and the requirements of the software I was running on it quickly outstripped its performance (though as a pure storage server without docker or VMs it would have worked fine, which was my original intention - to...

Not in that video he doesn't. He says he's going to try it on A320 in the next video.

FWIW a lot of this is going to depend on your monitor. My Benq XL2730z has no OSD option for freesync/adaptive sync, but an option named "Blur Reduction" will disable the adaptive sync capabilities of the monitor all the same; that is to say that the monitor is no longer detected as supporting...

I would guess not. Cracked does not usually mean removed. The crack (usually) works around the DRM, but the DRM still runs at leat in part, just that its actual checks are either skipped or fooled into thinking the game is activated/online/etc. At least, that has been true in the past.