Recent content by CyranD

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    News Samsung's 980 Pro PCIe 4 SSD is Coming in 2TB

    There also the MP600 that comes in 2TB (which I have installed since December 2019) Gigabyte AORUS and probably more am forgetting.
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    News Gamer installs Crysis 3 On GeForce RTX 3090's VRAM - And It Runs

    I agree except the last statement IF you using something like RTX-IO. If you look at the slide deck from the RTX-IO presentation Traditional pipe line is Storage - CPU - System Memory - GPU - GPU memory In this case you limited by PCIE and would probably be best off using a ram disk from...
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    AMD's Ryzen 5 1600 Skyrockets To No. 2 On Amazon, Passmark Submissions Increase

    I actually have a different interpretation from the steam results vs amazon. I don't think the people building computers with Ryzen are all none steam users or die hard AMD fans. Rather you seeing the difference between people who build there own computers and buy pre built machines. while...
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    ASRock Debuts AM4 Motherboards With 5 Gigabit LAN

    JOSEJONES, Ryzen processors don't have integrated graphics so I not sure Z270 Motherboards have graphics ports on them. A interesting question through is will Z270 support Bristle Ridge/Raven Ridge processors. Same socket but will it be limited to lower chipsets? Will it be up to each...
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    PCI Express 4.0 Brings 16 GT/s And At Least 300 Watts At The Slot

    I believe 24 pin +4 Pin power connections on the motherboard currently maxes out at around 550 watts. Does that mean that motherboards that support pci-e 4.0 will require new/additional power connections since 550 watts would not be enough for multiple PCI-e 4.0 to use in a SLI/Crossfire setup...
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    Intel & AMD Processor Hierarchy (Archive)

    It took 7 years but my i7 965 finally been knock down to the second tier.
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    Here's What You'll Be Missing After Upgrading To Windows 10

    The automatic update is a big negative in my book. Especially if there no ability to uninstall updates. I can point to numerous occasion where Microsoft had to take back a update because it broke something in windows. I can also point to numinous occasion where the solution to fix a bug in...
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    Samsung SM951 PCIe M.2 512GB SSD Review

    I have my eye on purchasing a Sager NP8652 in the near future. Currently they list Samsung XP941 as a option. I am hoping before am ready to buy they add the Samsung SM951 as a option. Sager let you set the Samsung XP941 as the boot drive so I assume the SM951 can be used as a boot drive.
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    Intel's Broadwell Core M Processor: New Details, SKUs and Specifics

    I wonder how the SY70 will compare to a i5-4300U. Planning on buying a 2 in 1 around December. The 2 most likely candidates right now is the surface pro 3 with a I5-4300U and 8GB ram or the to be released Helix 2 which I am hopping there will be options for the SY70, 8GB ram and at least a...
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    Oculus Co-Founder Nate Mitchell Answers Our Questions About Samsung's Gear VR Headset

    Do anyone know if the Note Edge will be compatible with the Gear VR or only the Note 4?
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    Asus' Rampage V Extreme X99 Motherboard Spotted

    I guessing not but would it be possible to combine the 2 Sata-express lanes to connect one SFF-8639 SDD with access to 4 PCI-E lanes instead of the 2 PCI-E lanes sata-express uses. Also are the 2 black PCI-E slots v2 or v3?
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    Apple And Nvidia To Get 16nm FinFET Chips From TSMC One Quarter Earlier Next Year

    I thought Nvidia changed there roadmap to have Erista before Parker. Which could mean Nvidia will stay one node behind. Erista(20nm), Parker(16nm).