Recent content by KingDWS

Games and a few other programs tend to push systems a lot harder than what 99% of what users do. So you find once you are out of the program your problem can't be replicated. Right now there is a issue going around with AMD (yes I still say ATI even 10 hears later too) and Windows 10. There is...

You need to figure do the exact flavour of Xenon it is ie a Xeon E3-1225 V3 , then you can cross it over to a i7 (and or equivalent or functional AMD offering ). The Xeon is a more stable version of i7s so unless there is something wrong with it there is not much if anything to be gained by...

After a few years of working on boards you can get quite accurate on the temps. I worked with one guy who could get within a degree of the infrared thermometer all the time. As far as touching the card or components as long as he touches the power supply or metal parts Of the case for a few...

I had a rat9 for about 5 weeks bought just because it was supposed to be the best gaming mouse. What a pos. Unfortunetly I see some of the same things going on with this one. Panel held on by magnets? One lousy game, and a slam into the desk and you are spending the next hour looking for the...

In the case of the Z220 you definitely cannot just match specs. I believe I went through 5 orders of ram including my go to Kingston before I finally found the last set of system specific ram for this made by Kingston. It was non-ecc and has been working flawlessly for a few weeks now. The...

The exact spec as given by HP is a PC3-12800E or a PC3-12800U which is a ddr3-1600 ecc or non-ecc unbuffered registered ram. The stock sticks show a CL11 rating which really is my question. I can find other ram from Samsung/Hynix etc etc that are close such as a 11-11-11-30 as well as...

I have been trying to find ram for my HP Z220 workstation. Right now I have the oem 4gb (2x 2gb) and I want to upgrade to 16gb (4x 4gb). I just upgraded my i3 to a Xeon e3-1240v2 and a AMD W5000 video card which have really sped things up. So now my only bottleneck is my ram. HP of course sell...

Won't comment on most of the hardware as it looks good to me. I just went through researching video cards for a workstation and finally went with a W5000. For my use in solidworks it had very good performance. Slightly better than the K4000, better than the K2000 and dpending on the test 60-85%...