Recent content by Dark Falz

It's controlled by the Windows power settings (Turn off Hard Disks after n minutes). You save power if you have data drives that you don't always access data off, but you need to wait for them to spin up if you do need to access them. It's debatable whether stop/start cycles wear out a HDD...

Civilisation is under threat from... white Christians. Okay Ubisoft...

If you want a PC that performs like a last gen console why not just buy a console. Keep in mind they generally have reduced resolution and graphic settings compared to a PC port so even if they are equivalent in hardware, you will need to drop the settings accordingly, and even then consoles are...

You can, if you use that PC to order a PS4.

I find side panel exhausts work well (if you have two of them, use the rear one). Generally the rear case fan is behind the CPU, which directs airflow from the front and bottom of the case. What I found with either no side panel fan or with a side intake is that the hot air from the GPU gets...

I had good results using the rear side fan as an exhaust. I connected them to my GPU fan headers too so they only activate when the GPU is on. I would put the second side fan to a dual front intake instead if you have the option.

Run Prime95 torture test and see if your PC crashes. For a shortcut once you get close to stable, take note of the FFT that was running when your PC crashed, and test just that one until you get it stable. I use Open Hardware Monitor to monitor temps, as it it gives me both IHS (TCase) temps...

Same generation so should work, but depends. Some Laptop mfg make it pretty hard to get to let alone upgrade the CPU. Last time I upgraded a Notebook CPU was A Pentium M to a Core 2 Duo. On the ARK one says "mobile" and one says "embedded" which might mean it was only used on boards where it was...

You will be completely underwhelmed by the "improvement". Just buy a new GFX card. Whatever your flavour, 1060 / RX580. I'd consider getting a 1070 if your budget can stretch that far.

I'm hoping we see a patch for Bayonetta at that time or before then that fixes the issues and uncaps the frame rate too.

The board does it for you. If you buying a matching kit it should be fine for putting in your other two slots.

The CPU doesn't become unstable, the memory is obviously just not handling the new speed in combination with the CPU Leave XMP disabled, it won't give you much performance increase anyway.

On a 1050 Ti I wouldn't bother. You are nothing close to being CPU limited in the majority of games. Use some kind of hardware monitor and play your games and check whether GPU or CPU usage is closest to 100% more of the time. I guarantee your GPU is going to be maxing out long before your CPU...

Ram timings are more important across paired channels than across all memory, but generally if you have slower memory or slower timings on one kit, it will set all four to use the lower timing. Sometimes the same kit and same model may change timings over time, but if they are bought close...

E8500 would be a good upgrade and only be a few bucks as they were used in a tonne of OEM PCs and there are a million on eBay. Especially if you can overclock it (it should do 3.8 at least easily). You might need new RAM though as overclocking on P5 platform requires increasing the bus speed...