Recent content by bigpinkdragon286

Switching to Firefox is hardly a solution. Mozilla screws around with settings that irritate their user base quite often, and without any concern. Having to dig around the web to find settings which may end up getting removed, to try and restore functionality or behavior to status-quo, isn't a...

Fluid Motion Frames doesn't require support be built into the game. Been using it since the first beta was released bringing support for 6 series cards. It pretty much tripled the frame rate in Alan Wake 2 from 60 to 180, with obviously expected ups and down depending on the scene, but it's...

I liked PhysX and used it when available - added some fun, albeit unnecessary, effects to games, however NVIDIA killed it themselves. With an older NVIDIA card running as just a PhysX accelerator, I and others could still enjoy it while using an AMD card as primary, but NVIDIA blocked the...

Awful lot of rumor and speculation going on here about just what can be done by Samsung, especially knowing only the symptoms and not precisely what the underlying issue is. Can the wear level even be reset? Can the page health be determined accurately by the hardware or do some cheaper driver...

This is certainly one way to deal with competition...

Fine article, but does this differ much from previous Ryzen generations? I was under the impression it was sussed out already, RAM speed matters more with a Ryzen CPU than it's direct market competition, and 3200 MT/s is nearing that point of diminished returns. Yes, you can gain more, but the...

So, what used to be sold for a premium price as an i7 with extra dark silicon is now an entry level i3. :unsure: I guess that's what you do when you have a bushel of lemons due to competition and want to move them, and your shareholders remind you that you're a for-profit company. Kudos to Intel...

Seems to have mostly self-resolved at this point. Issue on Steam's end, apparently with titles on sale, and from certain vendors. Search engines have collected plenty of reports of complaints at this point.

Purchased a new Wolfenstein title on sale from Steam to find I can't install it, and access to the entire Wolfenstein franchise in my library is unavailable. Looked at the rest of my library and the Doom, Dungeon Siege, and Tomb Raider franchises are also having issues. Can't restore any...

Without knowing whether RMA issues stem from hardware or software, it's hard to decide if a product line is truly bad, or simply the support infrastructure for that product line is to blame for the current and recently historical hiccups, and end users are just unaware where the problem lies. In...

This is encouraging news and hopefully VR support comes for more platforms, and soon following the initial VR offerings. If I didn't already have a VR headset, I would certainly be much more curious about investing in a VR platform, but if MS is trying to force my hand to buy into a different VR...

Small AIO coolers are not very effective. I wouldn't bother with any AIO sporting a radiator smaller than 240mm unless you are prepared for underwhelming performance for the price. You might as well consider going 'big air' at that point.

The bottom line is, the stock CPU cooler that comes with the R5 3600 performs very poorly. If you don't like the temps, the solution is to upgrade to a better cooler, such as a Hyper 212, which will give you somewhere in the ballpark of 15° C lower temps. Unfortunately, AMD shipping the R5 3600...

You would think a game with such seemingly basic in-game geometry would be a great showcase for new technology like RTX, but in the end I'm more inclined to see all of this as a failed attempt at smearing makeup on a pig. Never having enjoyed Minecraft, or feeling the inclination to play it more...

Still running a pair of high cfm San Ace 120's with a high end CPU air cooler, and they don't seem to need be run much past about 40% to get the most out of them. Still amusing to hear the rev up of the jet engines. :) Sure as heck wouldn't intentionally stick my finger into one of them, even...