Recent content by Justin Millard

If you want massive-multitasking then Ryzen 7 1700 is unbeatable value. Ryzen 5 2200G, 1500X, 1600 and up all handle 60FPS gaming fine. None of those CPUs will bottleneck GTX 1070 or under. Next gen in April will keep same motherboards and be close to 10% faster. If you were chasing over...

Yeah Vega 64 doesn't appeal to me. Might be nice for a few enthusiasts wanting to test out some of the newer features and how they improve in DX12 and Vulkan over time, but that's not me. The TDP takes it out of the equation for me due to Australian summertime. However Vega 56 is very...

I reckon we are thinking similarly about this. I'm working off the assumption that Nvidia won't bring anything new out until February when they really start to dominate again. Nvidia definitely are a powerful force. I tried to fight them and ended up signing up as an NFAN. That's how darn...

Just some last minute ramblings. Putting up my last minute predictions for RX Vega. Best case scenario for high end: 10% better than GTX 1080 with GTX 1080 Ti power consumption. They can achieve much better performance per watt than Founders Edition by lowering voltages, but it will also need...

Would love to see you add a temperature test with all cards at the same power target to see what happens under load.

This really should have been done with power targets as similar as possible. Its hard to judge which cards are better from this. Seeing as the Sapphire card has a higher power target than MSI, its going to have higher temps as well.

Dual fans will provide better cooling and slightly better game performance. 6GB will give you a few more game settings options. Games will still run fine with 3GB, but you will habe less high settings options.

Give it a couple of months and a GTX 1080 will be very tempting. 1080 Ti on the way and AMD Vega 10 supposedly not that far behind it. GTX 1080 should end up being regularly under $650USD early next year. Not bad for a 4K capable card.

So is the Antec VP500P Basiq series actually better than the power supply I had in mind? Reviews I checked had me leaning towards the Thermaltake TR2 500w I selected and the warranty is a year shorter. However I will trust the judgement of the experts if they recommend the Antec. I also...

I checked reviews of another Antec at the same price and it didn't seem any better, but I will double check in case this is a different model. I also saw the skycomp seaaonic and it seemed fantastic until I realised what an unreputable site that is. When I say buy locally, I literally mean a...

Thank you so much for doing the extra research. It was really interesting and I am fascinated that there are dedicated people out there who can find that information. I think I'm going to grab it as its the best budget power supply I can buy at a local store. Its $69 Australian and I seem to...

Hey, I'm planning to put a Thermaltake TR2 500W Gold Psu into a system with a max power draw of 160w. Thought I would give myself some wiggle room so I can buy a more power hungry graphics card in the future or power USB 3.1. I live in Australia which has the same high 240v voltage as UK. Where...

Could be that your power supply wore out. My housemate suffered a similar issue. No power supply is guaranteed to survive more than three years.