Recent content by BogdanH

Hmm.. I don't know why Samsung is mentioned in the article title... on SSD label I see no Samsung and to my knowledge Samsung doesn't even make 1080PRO model. It's like saying (Mercedes) A180 is a fake Audi -simply because Audi A6 exists. Yes, it's welcomed if you point out the fact that we...

Hmm.. at least to me that video has nothing to do with ray tracing: what we see is two "chrome" circles (with static content) slowly growing, which gives the impression of coming closer (because floor is "moving" away from observer). In short: is just an optical illusion.

In my experience, for average home user it doesn't matter much which one you prefer to use -they both work and I have installed both. I mostly use WinRAR because it has more "friendly" UI (for compression and other settings) and it also can compress/decompress zip files and decompress 7-zip...

I bought a Fractal Define R6-C PC case about three years ago and recently the power on button broke. Yes, I know this shouldn't happen in such a short time... Anyway, the whole panel needs to be replaced. Since I couldn't find it, I wrote directly to Fractal Design support and asked for the...

Could be I'm (as consumer) too narrow minded in this regard... It's about dependency, which was the reason for that EU initiative. I'm aware that it's hard to expect Europe (or any place) to be fully self sufficient. Each country has limitations (i.e. in natural resources) or it just doesn't...

Agree with comments so far. I think the problem in Europe is mentality: -US: great idea, let's make money with that! -China: great idea, let's make it cheaper! -Europe: is not a bad idea, but who would buy that? A fact, that EU (commissioner) need to practically push the progress, confirm how...

-yes, I agree that isn't really a fair-play toward customers. Actually, with new firmware, Samsung solved only their trouble (so people stop complaining in future), and left previous buyers in cold. I have three SSD's in my PC: two SATA (830 + 850PRO) and NVMe 970PRO. I bough them soon after...

I will talk only about AMD (which I have) drivers here. Downloadable file size tells nothing about content: it just tells smaller file will download quicker than larger and that it requires less storage space than a larger one. The file we download is compressed executable file and on execution...

You just need a motherboard photo and look if it has necessary connectors or you download manual of particular motherboard and check there -but I think looking at photo is faster (once you know what you search for). Here's a photo which shows both connectors: Black connector (center left) is...

You didn't say which case you plan to buy.. but if the case will have front USB C connector, then it will most probably also have two USB 3.0 (and two USB 2.0) connectors: Your motherboard (your first post) only has USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 connector (single USB 3.0 connector on motherboard is...

In most cases when I see "AI" in the title, it turns out it's just there to catch attention (in sense: "see magic happening"). I think AI abbreviation has become the same as "eco", "green", etc. and has nothing to do with actual maning of "artificial intelligence".

I try not to be biased, because I've built many Intel & AMD PC's in the past. My moto is: Don't be a fan -or your wallet will suffer! I think, depending on what for will PC be used, one can't really go wrong with either Intel or AMD. I don't care about last 2% of performance and so I see AMD in...

The only right answer is given by kanewolf (above): we really need to wait for tests/reviews. But because of fun, here's my take on this... If/when I'm ready to spend several hundreds of € on CPU, Mobo, RAM and maybe on new M.2 SSD.. then I really don't mind paying a bit more to get 7000X...

-and the point of that is? To show off? Graphic cards (and CPU's) are designed to work perfectly fine at 80..90°C. One doesn't need 20+ years of experience to know, that the most effective cooling solution is the one, which is able to keep GPU/CPU just within that temperature range at full load...

Laser printers show their advantages where relative big amount of printing at high speed is required. And so I think, just saying "get a color laser" is not only bad, but also inappropriate advice in this case: My last printer was Canon Pixma iP5000, which I had for many years and never had...