Recent content by drawde

So I see one of these CPU's on eBay now and wonder what does the ES mean that you are all talking about for the uninformed?

OK I got an ASrock H81 Pro BTC 2.0 with 6 PCI-e slots to build a mining rig. It is commonly used for this purpose. I installed an RX 470 GPU using a powered USB riser and so far so good. The 2nd GPU would not get recognized on a riser so I changed riser hardware, tried another PCI-e slot and...

I've got the 505 bios too with my Pentium Kaby Lake processor and spent a good 2 hours yesterday with ASUS support trying to figure it out and they didn't realize it is just a bios level issue and came to the conclusion that the MB is defective so I'm returning it to Amazon and getting a...

The greater the amount of cache the less frequently instructions or data must be fetched from RAM which is always slower than cache since cache storage is located on the CPU die. The more often data or instructions needed by the CPU are in cache the faster the processing occurs since the CPU...

I use my Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz for Plex media streaming to my family and friends and it bogs down with more than one concurrent user and shows 100% CPU usage on all four processors. I am looking to upgrade to a faster CPU. What would you recommend to provide the best bump in media streaming...