Recent content by Chris Droste

I've had this cooler for over a year in a much less ventilated case in the review and it's so quiet I've had to double-check to see if my computer's running. the fans on my 390X are louder in comparison, and for looks and quality it's second-to-none. I am so impressed by it overall that I may...

wow, so much debate and talk of whose responsibility. let me just put it like this for you: You have a "cable" service. you pay $90 for the internet service and they have the line filtered and configured for that internet. Usually it's a filter range that they do to ensure service, however...

please; Piss off another 40 or so Senators so we can stop this B.S. with back door security/decryption crap; especially those who were trying to push state and federal anti-encryption legislature.

I'm really conflicted with all this. MS wants to collect our stuff automatically and regularly so long as they give us "free" Windows 10...then wants to Stop the gov't from secretly requesting and taking data from their cloud services. and just 15 years ago...? this would be unthinkable to see...

I've been Targeting the MSI and Gigabyte Gaming Laptops; While this has everything i want in a truly flexible machine (size/weight; power, aesthetics) I wonder/worry about this and Gigabyte's software and drive suite(s). Does anyone have experience between these brands and can shed some light on...

i feel like the thermal limitations of the passive air cooling, along with the cost, wind up making Intel's Skull Trail NUC a better purchase

as soon as i saw "Descent" i got a little motionsick for nostalgia sake and smiled at how awesome that would be in VR with current graphics

the AMD 7th-gen I'm quite interested in; wondering if that R7 graphics component is actually going to output at a Desktop equivalent 370 graphics. i would get the 1080p screen and be happy with an ultralight portable gamer.

so long as the fans are quiet and the box stays cool those specs are WAY more than enough for an HTPC. Just to give you an idea I'm running an AMD FX-4100 w/ a Radeon 7790, 8GB of Kingston DDR3 and a 120GB Samsung 840 EVO. I added a SATA drive dock for instant plug-n-play storage but that's just...

No, This is the government's own policy about disclosing vulnerabilities in a secure digital system. Originally the FBI was trying to coerce Apple into making a scriptkiddie cracker tool by using an old old 1800s-era evidence gathering policy never meant to encompass the digital era. it wasn't...

they need to have bonus content of fantasy realm climbs, like Mt. Doom or the Lonely Mountain from LOTR; or what about the Fabled Mountain climb from "The Citadel" ?

to answer succinctly:: 1) Generally your understanding is correct. Load the OS and your complete game installs to the SSD for maximum effect 2) NO. 120/125GB is NOT enough space. my HTPC has a 940EVO with Win7Home 64, OpenOffice, Steam w/Night of the Rabbit installed only(wife's game) and...

when it comes to current games, most of them are heavily GPU-bound. I personally think switching platforms to a current intel chip will NOT yield a large enough increase of perceived potency to justify the cost of a full-on build. The best approach here would be to perform some testing as...

...im just going to leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTBcuZTPIEk

who pays $100 for the Noctura? that's a $65 part all day, Val.