Recent content by Hresna

I think we’ve been down this rabbit hole before… “108% better performance”… so, we’re agreed this is slightly more than double… same with “137% faster” means it’s 2.37 times the speed of the Intel comparator?

I just want to shout out how genuinely useful and powerful this testing was. I absolutely recognize the effort that went into compiling all this data. I think it’s going to be immensely useful to readers for many more years, even after this generation of hardware obsolescence, because the trends...

yeah this is my question… are they DElidded, or UNlidded. There doesn’t seem to be a reason Intel couldn’t produce the latter, and there should be some efficiencies there.

Samsung’s 990 Pros seem to have fallen from grace owing to firmware issues causing the drives to outwear themselves really fast, at least in pc applications. Supposedly there’s a firmware mitigation but not clear how that impacts their use in a ps5.

Almost certainly this. there are retailers that let you pay for specifically binned chips, the higher sp values go for more money. For a certain class of enthusiast, I guess there is value in that

I’d like to have heard more of his reasoning for why its a design flaw and not user error. I’m not sure why it coudln’t be both. A connector that makes it exceedingly difficult to actually seat properly is a design flaw - but one that can be mitigated by extra caution by the user. If he’s...

Yeah, have to agree with you. This was probably one of the most ridiculously exaggerated and misleading headlines I’ve come across lately. There was literally no “trick” to this, the YouTuber basically teaches the AI the algorithm and gets it to compute results like a glorified calculator… -...

Okay so I missed that brief description. And yes google exists, but my point was, in a review for something, if you’re going to mention a unique feature - something that sets it apart from its competition - might be worthwhile including a fulsome description and reviewing its functionality. So...

Der8auer uses small copper “dice” blocks to test delidded CPUs before mounting coolers on them. You won’t run them for long with any sort of heat mass that isn’t optimized for dissipating the heat, but they can be a buffer to hold enough for a practical purpose such as this

Great PSU coverage… although the standard formula I think misses some aspects of a complete review… For instance this model offers an MSI feature they all “gaming intelligence” via the USB connector… no mention of this in the article or how it works, what it does. I’ve been a longtime fan of...

Funny, i was kindof feeling that way myself until I saw it generalized the way you put it and realized how curmudgeonly it makes me. If we ignored pricing (which is economics/capitalism and whatnot - nothing to do with actual technology or hardware), then there’s a lot of genuinely cool and...

It seems a glaring omission in a review of tower air coolers not to include the Noctua NH-D15 in the lineup. I mean, its basically been the gold standard for both performance and noise since it was launched… anyone considering this cooler is bound to care about only one spec: “But how does it...

The article somewhat misrepresents the nature and character of undervolting. The vast majority of people doing this will achieve the same or better performance than stock, while also having less heat and fan noise. It is absolutely worth doing for anyone that can be bothered to try. The VF...