Recent content by grozzie

Not another chipset/socket type! Come on Intel when are you going to stop this money grabbing farce. I've just built a Rayzen based PC in the knowledge that it's socket type won't change for a few years. AMD have you on the back foot and bringing out new chipsets/CPU's is not going to win you...

Not another plug/connector change!. I, like many people on this site, build custom PC's, part of which includes sleeved cables. One bug bear is 2 wires into 1, which is a in in the arse. I personally like the HXi series of Corsair PSU's which only have one such connection. I also think the 24...

64 PCI-E 3.0 lanes! can we expect M.2 ssd's in bootable RAID? Might not be on-board but plenty of scope for add-on cards. Also with such a big die is there room to add HBM2 memory to the CPU?

Why don't manufactures adopt a similar scheme to food stuff's.... Why can't they put a manufacturing date, a sell by date and an expected life span once used. It would only take a bit of pressure from sites like this and from retailers for them to adopt such a scheme. You can bet once one...

What about DIABLO III? OK I expect to be slammed - but it's still a fantastic game and I love playing it!

Intel have been caught with their trousers well and truly down at their ankles. It's about time there was a viable option to the Intel monopoly.

Have been waiting for a desktop VEGA for nearly a year! When are you going to deliver. RX580 doesn't really cut it anymore.

Come on! let's not start slagging AMD's GPU's off before they're on the market. I have been waiting for the VEGA GPU since it was announced (ok nearly a year ago). So am looking forward to the desktop version and if you match it with a RYZEN cpu then TDP kind of doesn't matter that much. Anyway...

Should have called the board the 'Spinal Tap' edition! A knob that goes to '11' wow! well impressive. Obviously spent all their RD budget on that.

I'm sorry but optane is a solution looking for a problem! It only works with Intel's latest gen chip-sets so is no good for older legacy systems or for non-Intel chip-sets. Anyway the charts/benchmarks above mean nothing - you've compared optane RAID against single drive SSD's. What if you were...

Should they call it a DRMM instead of a DIMM.

Yes! I looked at supposed benchmarks but as I said - it's too expensive for little or no gain. Where would you use it? no good for a multi- VM server farmS. No good for multi-threaded processing such as 3D rendering, you can't boot off it so WHAT IS THE POINT. Oh I'm not sure if it will work...

Whats the point of Optane anyway? It doesn't add anything that's not already available. I use a X4 Gen3 M.2 SSD for primary boot and programs, and a SATA SSD (Samsung 950 evo) for data. I still use HDD's for backup and as far as I can see, only HDD's benefit from Optane. Optain is very expensive...

Are Ryzen 5 1400, 1500x (4 core CPU's) failed 1600, 1600x (6 core CPU's) and can you unlock the disabled cores by over voltage. I'm thinking of AMD's sempron CPU's and the fact you could unlock disabled cores. OK it was hit or miss and stability was a bit of an issue but if you were lucky...