Recent content by Lewinator56

Come on, don't push those userbenchmark conspiracy theories on here. There's no financial incentive to reviewers and media to give AMD a better review than intel. Intel simply fucked up, spent years screwing over consumers, got caught with it's pants down by zen and has fumbled around trying to...

Minecraft DOES NOT require an X86 CPU, it will run quite happily on any system that the JVM supports.

The problem is, since about 2003 intel has never had competitive products. When AMD unveiled athlon64 intel literally had nothing to compete, so rather than do better It decided to use it's immense wealth to play dirty. It chose it's competition strategy was to cheat - to bribe manufacturers to...

Well, I was interested in MSFS 2024, my system absolutely meets the specs, but it's impossible, without me spending £5-10k, to have fast enough internet because BT can't be bothered to install FTTP here... In a city, with a data centre in it with a direct fibre link. I'll just have to stick with...

Until you actually look at the block diagrams and analysis and you see it's very different to zen - the execution engine couldn't possibly be any different. It's actually closer to K8, which makes sense as most of the recent loongson cores are revisions and improvements of their older core...

The US government is probing Chinese use of RISC-V as it's effectively allowing the Chinese to use 'high end western tech'. RISC-V is open source and the holding company based in Switzerland. The US has absolutely no control over it OTHER than stopping US companies contributing to RISC-V and...

It probably is in house. Remember Huawei led, and still leads the industry in 5G tech, they can't have nicked that IP from the west because.... The west admit they are behind, still, let alone 5 years ago. Chinese engineers do know what they are doing. Loongson's uArch is pretty different to...

Luckily, I wasn't exposed to the launch pricing. I got my V64 about a year after launch for £399 for a nitro+, which was a pretty damn good deal if you ask me. But launch pricing went a bit wacky. The power consumption is an interesting one, I never really fiddled with the power limit on my...

The TSA would demand it's taken apart, break it, smash the HDDs, then confiscate it because 'it might be export protected'. Luckily, the civilised world doesn't have to deal with them.

The R9 fury series didn't perform poorly, but they weren't significantly faster than their predecessors, they were also quite expensive and used first generation HBM. The Vega series however performed extremely well, the Vega64 released as a contender (a yearish later) for the GTX1080, and did...

May I remind you of the R9 fury series and vega. HBM works on consumer GPUs, but HBM2 had it's limitations. GDDR6 just made more sense as it is so much easier and cheaper to work with.

I'm running a 5900x and on the latest BIOS (8601). I'm not expecting to run at anything over 3200 (my current RAM is running at 2133mhz...) - you simply can't buy RAM slower than that now anyway, I've had this board since 2018, and I've no plans to replace it. ---edit--- Some rumours around...

Pretty much asked this everywhere now, and still no solid answers, other than 'it should work with any 3200 kit' I'm trying to buy a 2x32GB memory kit to upgrade my ancient 16 GB vengeance LPX I'm running currently. I know my motherboard supports 128GB maximum, so it should theoretically...

Simply an upgrade, I didn't have any issues during that process. The laptop is custom from pcspecialist, but is based on the clevo PA71ES-G and running the latest bios I'm aware of.

This issue has been really frustrating me for a while now. My laptop randomly looses power, tries to reboot - fails, then boots again. It does not BSOD, no freezes, nothing, it simply looses power as if someone pulled the battery out. And, yes, it does do this irrespective of if its on mains...