Recent content by cynic77

BTW, the graphs that are supposed to show the 4K frame rates for Tomb Raider are actually a repeat of the first QHD slide for Tomb Raider and the first QHD slide for Far Cry 4!

What about Gigabyte's GTX 980 Ti Xtreme Gaming *Water*force? While the Guru3D boys reviewed it separately (http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_980_ti_extreme_gaming_waterforce_review,38.html), it would be nice to see the Windforce and Waterforce cards compared. Let's throw...

@Derek Forrest - Two typos referring to the EON*12*-SLX. :) @red77star - You're dissing an extremely different laptop designed for a completely different user. If you like carrying around a 10.5 pound laptop, albeit with performance parts, but with a screen using 2007 technology and 3 hours of...

You didn't consider Opal 2.0/IEEE-1667 compliant, hardware encryption capability. That's where the Extreme PRO fails for me. If you don't need or want encryption, fine. However, I think it was silly for SanDisk not to offer hardware encryption on this drive for those that want it. If you use an...

@palladin9479 Jeez! You sure have an axe to grind. In the process, you've gotten loose with your facts and made some unfair personal attacks (e.g., people who "enjoy $8 USD coffee from Starbucks"). Not cool. The power density of gasoline has been used for decades by "smart" people to accept...

Interesting comparisons in the article. I've been holding out for a 64 GB kit of DDR4-2800 Corsair Dominators... now I'm not so sure that would be a wise play. Since DDR4 is relatively new and I've got an ASUS board, I've been looking at the supported memory spreadsheet (in PDF) that ASUS...

Sorry to necro the comments, but I finally got to read this article and I must say... I love this alternative PC! To all of you that love your Z97 builds, good for you! But as stated in other responses, please don't diss those of us that need a more powerful X99 build that we can also use for...

Hi, Don. You need to correct the specs for the i7-5930K - obviously the RAM is DDR4, not DDR3. You should also append "-v3" to the socket type.

C'mon, Stuart... this is not a "fire-breathing" laptop! That would require, in the CPU department, an i7-4910MQ/4940MX CPU or even a desktop 4790K, like some new laptops are sporting. Dell "put a lot of thought" into a K1100 GPU?... I don't think so. You need at least a K2100 for serious work...

Grr... by "3K," I meant WQHD+ (2880 x 1620), but "2.5K" or WQHD (2560 x 1440) would also work nicely, perhaps even better. Currently, the MSI GT60 Dominator 3k475 comes closest to the ideal, but the 3k474 and 3k475 are stuck with last generation NVIDIA GPUs. Unfortunately, if they upgrade the...

What's up with all these new "gaming" laptops? They either offer a 17" screen at a pathetic 1920 x 1080 or a 15+" screen at a ridiculous 3840 x 2160. Methinks the screen manufacturers are "playing games" with us! Can’t you give us something in between? How about a "3K" (2880 x 1440) screen and...

By X4981, I meant the XP941. :P And yes, I see that current prices on Amazon or Newegg show a 50% premium on the 512 GB XP941 over the 512 GB 850 Pro. But you're getting over 100% improvement on peak read speeds and over 80% improvement on peak write speeds. Wow!

@dennphill, you make an excellent point, especially now that so many desktop motherboards have M.2 slots and... you won't find any enthusiast laptops being released at CES without them! M.2 PCIe SSDs like the Samsung X4981 will beat even the vaunted 850 Pro SATA SSD at about the same cost. As an...

So, on the high end, you guys are switching from the i7-5820K to the i7-5930K since your initial review of the Haswell-E chips? While I/we can guess (40 PCIe lanes vs. 28), can you please explain your change of heart?