Recent content by CRITICALThinker

I hope that if tomshardware does another article on this they put a bit more effort into their reporting. As someone who participated in the auction with Brutus (he was our man on the ground and will be doing logistics, would never have heard about the auction if it wasn't for him). How the...

Upgrading an OEM system, an acer TG-885 with an i5-8400 in it, and I have a 400w 80+ PSU with a 300W rating on the 12v rails (18 and 16A I think) It's probably a pseudo multi rail but who knows. Tried putting an RX 570 in it, and while I've had no stability issues, the wattmeter had a maximum of...

Aight, I might take a look at it when I pull off the cooler and see if theres any damage. I'll just have to keep a DP to HDMI cord handy when using it. the motherboard my friend was using has always been weird with PCIe card support so it might have just noped out, or maybe I shocked it at some...

I let a friend use my spare RX 580 and when he got it he said the hdmi port wasn't working, it recognized that it was connected, but would never connect. all the other ports worked. also when using dvi the screen was flickering real weird with his install of windows. it is fine with a fresh...

It was a worst case estimation assuming an OC and a ton of devices and fans etc.

That's what I was worried about. It has handled the system admirably while testing, but to the antec I go. TPU recommends a 350W unit but no sense pushing it, I don't use the ddr2 testbench often so it should be fine with that psu. Thanks again m8.

Also just checked, the outervision psu calculator puts worst case recommendation at ~600w psu, and even with degradation as long as the PSU is in good working order I would be comfortable with it.

I have a OCZ modxstream pro 600w and it handles a haswell i5 and an rx 470 fantastically, and before that it was a mild OC 8120 with a gtx 950 . The corsair VS seems to be the newest followed by the antec, and both are fairly well known, but if the OCZ is a decent price its honestly what I'd go...

So I have a build I'm throwing together for a friend with a lightly overcooked fx 6300 and an rx 470, and I can either use a Power man IP-S400DQ3-2 or pull an Antec EA-500 off my ddr2 testbench. While I know the Antec would have no issues, I'd like to get a second opinion on the Powerman since...

Aight, so looks like the 1260L it will be, it has an IGPU anyways. The stock cooler on the 2100 is aluminum only and hits ~50C under the cpuz stress with the 65W TDP. Since I can't risk the 1230 not working I'll go with the 1260L. As far as gpu troubleshooting it can be useful but I have owned...

I recently picked up an Intel DH61CR board for a budget build with an i3 in it, and was looking into upgrading to a used Xeon, the e3-1230 being the obvious choice since the board cannot support 3rd gen processors and the bios update files are no longer being hosted by Intel. That being said...

Sorry for the late reply, life happened and I haven't had time to get back to it. The bios is the current f9c, and I would refresh if the bios utility could read the USB, if I can get a windows install to not fail I can run the exe. As for drivers I've never had issues before, the system has...

I am the third owner of an old GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard that has always been a tad quirky, however testing an new Intel 7265 based wireless card has caused me a lot of wasted time. Known issues were that newer video cards only work in the middle pcie x8 slot, and don't show up in the x16 slots...

From my understanding, and having owned a 3600, the improvements in single core speed and latency make the 3600 better for gaming than the 2700 (pretty much all 3rd and 2nd gen follows this argument), however If you can take advantage of the extra cores and threads with some other workload a...

I will note, the channel lowspecgamer has posted videos on VR with low specs, and the consensus is you can play it on systems as weak as a vega 11 iGPU, however anything below minimum spec has the possibility of you getting motion sick faster and will likely look terrible. I'm not going to try...