Recent content by Kai Dowin

I find it a bit underwhelming that "motherboard options" is a first-class-citizen comparison parameter. Both platforms have a great range of budget, mid-level, and enthusiast motherboards; And, as a matter of fact, AM4 tend to be cheaper when comparing feature-compatible boards against Z390...

@FREAK777POWER And delivering higher multi-threaded performance with these lower clocked cores. Do you know what that's called? Efficiency.

I'm truly impressed to see 16 Zen cores consuming as much power as only 10 Skylake-X ones. Bravo, AMD!

@InvalidError I wouldn't say Threadripper is aimed at workstations. It might prove itself to be great in one, but it's clearly a HEDT product. Bells and whistles are an integral part of HEDT.

*heavy breathing*

Hello! A few years ago I skimped badly on my PSU and now I'm repaying that mistake. The poor Corsair CX430M unit is going bonkers after having to feed an AMD R9 380 and a Haswell i5 for two years. Strange sounds, random restarts and everything. Finding a good PSU for my rig would be not much...

I'm disappointed with this thing. Yes, the performance is great, but If the 10 core part is so hot and power hungry, just imagine what the 16 core will look like.

Very reasonable answer, Donkey. I'll have it as the solution. The bulk of my work is done on computers provided by my company. Since this new machine's focus will be side projects, I believe the Core i5 4440 will be the cleverer choice since I wouldn't make much (if any) more money with the...

I'd say it depends on how do you plan to use it. Could you tell us a bit more about it?

I'm on the market for a new computer which will be used for software development. I rely on heavy IDEs and virtualization of minor linux boxes and my current Core i5 2450M is starting to show it's age for such an enterprise. I'm torn between the Core i5 4440, a 3.1/3.3GHz part and the Core i5...

Unfortunately I'm currently dwelling in a quite remote location and my only offerings aside Kingston's V300 - which I dislike due the NANDgate affair - are PNY's XLR8 Pro and SanDisk's Ultra Plus. I'd love to get a Samsung one if the situation where more favourable. As I said, the PNY one is...

Hello! I'm on the market for my first SSD, which is going to be a 120GB one. Considering that the SanDisk's offering is US$10 cheaper compared to the PNY's, which one should I take?

Celeron G1820 for US$42~. End of story. Oh, but despite having several times the performance of this Athlon part, it's power comsuption is 25W more. The Green Party gotta be mad at this.