Recent content by bimbam360

If your total upgrade budget is sub 6,800 and your gona ignore all advice to upgrade your PSU, then the only thing I would be remotely confident isn't gona burn your house down is ...

Trying not to knee jerk at that image and say "Burn it with fire!!!", so real talk now, the R7 TDP is workable on a 300W PSU. Tom's own benchmarks imply total system load, under load, around the 150w mark (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-240-and-250,3717-9.html). HOWEVER, 'Burn it...

"would a good virus/malware program for XP keep her safe from attacks w/o Microsoft's updates" Not as much as a solid education on common attack vectors. The issue with running XP or any unsupported OS is not whether it is then suddenly insecure, as in all honesty it doesn't magically become...

If 2GB VRAM is sufficient to let me plat Witcher 3 and GTA V on high/ultra at 1440 and get 45-60 fps in both (I've taken to playing both at 1080 on a TV with a controller just to get 60 flat out all the time), then it should DEFINITELY be sufficient to get that frame-rate in syndicate running at...

I couldn't get syndicate to run at anything like a remotely playable frame rate on 2*770 in SLI, even at 1080. 'Bug' it may not be, but optimization is beyond bad. I enjoyed basically everything about the ship battles in black flag which was the last AC game I've had a smooth experience with...

Obviously all my personal opinion, bit ranty too it turned out :S : I wouldn't be too stoked about Mass Effect, Bioware have a track record for making a great first game in a series then following it up with fluff sequels. GTA V isn't on your list and probably should be, other than that 'the...

Doubt it. I should caveat this as later comments have pointed out, some games are poorly optimized and will hammer your CPU regardless, to the end that your CPU will become the 'bottleneck' of your total FPS. However this CPU should not prevent your GPU from running at 100% performance, even if...

Purely to answer your question, Sleep/Shutdown. Hibernate still = disk writes, though personally I don't like hibernate or sleep just because I've had to many failed to boot moments because of them. Clean shutdown habitually and SSD boot time is low enough not to care about the other options...

Is your current card insufficient in any game you currently play? I wouldn't upgrade for the sake of upgrading unless one or more new titles are forcing me to drop settings (which happened a while ago for me with Witcher 3 at 2k >.<, but I've been waiting for Pascal). The price drop in second...

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html Updated regularly and on this site.

How many times have you retried this test? A 10ms variance in internet ping is pretty much normal. I just ran a ping -t against googles DNS servers and it ranges anywhere from 30-50ms over an extended time-frame so it could literally vary that much in the time it took to switch adapters. As for...

Another upscale that brings it roughly on par with what Emulators have been doing for years. Pass -.-

My inner conspiracy theorist can't help wondering if this bug is somehow related to weakening Diffie-Helmman encryption.

I don't seem to be able to delete this duplicate so I will just add a quick example: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.851075-Wolfenstein-The-New-Orders-Huge-Download-Frightens-Pirates-Just-Not-Enough Apparently the ~43GB download size put off pirates. Well I just did a quick...

The vast file sizes of modern game downloads (usually audio related of all things) is in my mind a DRM tactic. I'm sure many pirates would be put off downloading a 40GB+ file without any guarantees it will work, instead going to their digital store of choice (steam). The problem is this (like...