Recent content by islandwalker

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    Samsung 990 Pro SSD cooling tested: efficient, with low temps

    Apologies for the PCIe 5 confusion. That was my fault. I have minorly updated the article to clear that up.
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    Tested: Intel's Arrow Lake 140T iGPU mostly maintains an edge over AMD's older 880m

    Yes it did. "Mostly" because AMD did better on some of the 720p tests, so it was far from total dominance. And "older" because by the time these Arrow Lake laptops get into the hands of most customers, the competing AMD silicon will have been available for at least 8 months.
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    News Noctua is back in black with new 120mm NH-D12L chromax.black air cooler

    There was no buy link. But I'm adding one, just for you. :-)
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    Hands-on with Corsair's 2500D Airflow case: Roomy at the back, for rear-connector motherboard cables

    Corsair didn't send the vertical kit, so there's no way for me to actually test that. But the kit has four slots. And if you are referencing the side fans in front of the GPU in the image above, they are on the back of the case, behind /below the motherboard area. They aren't going to cause any...
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    Review Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO Review: This isn’t a competition. This is a massacre.

    Noctua is great. But the D15 costs nearly three times as much (at least in the US) and performs measurably worse than this cooler. Better performance at 1/3 the price sounds like a massacre to me.
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    Hands-on with InWin's F5 PC Case: Back-connector motherboard support and wood front panels

    I have just measured and there is just barely two inches of clearance between bottom of the case and the riser cable plug. So depending on the radiator and fans you plan on using, it might JUST fit (especially if you opt for slim fans), but I wouldn't assume it would fit or perform particularly...
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    News Maingear patented its rear-connector motherboard design in 2011, and now it wants to make MG-RC an industry standard

    So, this link about my build experience using the MG-RC/Project Zero motherboards got left out of the story initially. Sorry for that. But there are several other links in the story that were put there to add context about what MG-RC actually is and looks like. For this story, I only had the...
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    PSA: Why Black Friday Might Be Your Last Chance for Years to Get a Great SSD Deal

    Yep. Sorry, fat fingers strike again! This has been fixed.
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    News AMD's Instinct MI250X OAM Card Pictured: Aldebaran's Massive Die Revealed

    So...you're suggesting we should proclaim Nvidia "crushed" or "defeated" based on...a photo? And you're accusing us of bias? I hope it's comfortable there in your reality bubble.
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    News Lenovo's Go Wireless Charging Kit Is Like Qi for Your Laptop

    The story clearly says it uses pogo pins, multiple times, and shows them. I'm sorry if you feel the headline is misleading, but the point of a headline on some level is to boil down the main point/news in a way that a general audience can understand. And it is clearly like Qi in the sense that...
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    The Best Gaming Routers 2021

    Believe me, we would like to. But most haven't actually been released. Netgear should be happening next. Trying to get TP-Link's top-end 6E router, but no ETA on that yet.
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    News German Retailer Sells 120 Core i7-11700Ks Before Launch, Benchmarks Arrive

    Thanks. This should be fixed momentarily.
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    News Intel Rocket Lake Motherboard Preview: ASRock Z590 Steel Legend 6E Wi-Fi

    That was indeed a typo (or rather, something erroneously pasted from a previous spec table). Fixed it. Thanks!
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    News MSI’s Stealth 15M Slips Tiger Lake, PCIe 4.0 Into ‘Thinnest 15 Inch Gaming Laptop’

    As I understand it's been explained to me, there is a trademark on the name IPS, so any time it's used in marketing materials, companies have to pay a fee. Calling something IPS level is a way of getting around this. And while I've certainly seen screens labeled as IPS level that don't get all...
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    Review be quiet! Pure Base 500DX Review: Straying from Tradition

    "Your noise high levels are not from the case fans , they are from your GPU and CPU cooling solution." That is what the review says. Unlike most be quiet! cases, this one doesn't dampen noise levels from internal components.