Recent content by bmguyii

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    Flash Industry Trends Could Lead Users Back to Spinning Disks

    From the test results in most reviews "real world" performance delta's are minuscule compared to the micro-specific tests. Take the Samsung 960 Pro SSD vs the Intel 600p. Cost is 1.6X for ~1.5% perf diff even when the charts show huge deltas. You can argue better for better's sake, but in...
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    Corsair Force Series MP500 M.2 NVMe SSD Review

    The real world tests seem to indicate that all of the choices are on par and that the diffs in the specialized tests mean nothing to real world. Buy the cheapest one with the best warranty that doesn't eat your battery life. Spending 2X for <1 second?
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    DDR4 Overclock Pushed To 5 GHz With 4266 MHz G.Skill Kit

    Is there any tangible gain for this? The memory is not actually any faster so latency shouldn't change. The bandwidth is likely exceeding the internal fabric bandwidth. What's a stream score gain for this? Probably not much so while you can brag, you're really just wasting power and burning...
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    How Realistic Is Multi-Monitor Gaming On A Budget?

    I've seen USB 3.0 docking stations like DELL D3100 that can support 3 monitors over USB3.0. Is gaming possible using this setup? The reason I ask, is if so, one could build a fairly cheap 4 computer by 3 monitor KVM using a D3100 and a manual USB3.0 switch (not hub) [saw a few 4 port on the...