Recent content by lordmogul

Pentium 4 to Conroe and Nehalem to Sandy Bridge was like that. From personal benchmarks, a 2 GHz Core 2-era Celeron easily beats a 3 GHz Prescott while simultaneously running at a third of the power draw. And that is with a low-end chip. 3 GHzCore 2 were availablepretty much from the start. And...

Amazon search results being filled with things you didn't look for is nothing new, has been like that for years.

That PSU is a 300W unit. An i7-7700 will pull around 50W in gaming, an RX 6600 around 120-125 W, but spike to 250 W.

Play in window mode. When you run something in exclusive fullscreen, it is exactly that, exclusive. If you want to move between it and something else, you can't run it in exclusive fullscreen. So any type of window mode is necessary. Either by a "classic" window, or stuff like a borderless...

Some cards have some sort of priority list to check for connections. And then display on the first connected port in that list. I have one setup where my primary monitor is #2 because my secondary monitor is on the port that the card goes through first. I would assume the LG is connected to a...

I would read "3 TB+" as "this supports 3TB and larger drives" Older systems don't support GPT, and MBR has a limitation of 2 TiB capacity. The manufacture simply makes clear that the system indeed supports drives over 2 TiB, without going into the technical part. For GPT the maximum size is 8...

The best consumer LGA775 chip? Core 2 Extreme QX9770 The best LGA771 chip (which can be converted to work on LGA775) Xeon X5492 A really good chip, no matter if LGA771 or LGA775 with great overclocking potential? Xeon X5470 The best that works on a board with 945 chipset? Core 2 Duo E4700 Or...

While that is indeed the standard for USB, when you have two ports running through the same cable, many manufacturers color the second set of wires differently to help distinguishing them.

Assuming everything else is the same. Same game, same map, same settings, same mode. In single player there needs to be some level of AI processing for bots and NPCs. That doesn't happen in multiplayer. (unless the game also offers those) In multiplayer you'll have the connection to other...

That's just a standard USB2 cable on there. 4 wires, nothing fancy. If the wires are still fine, you can use basically anything. Repaired a cable the other day with regular sticky tape. You could use shrink tube, electrical tape, other tape, even hot glue. Or put on a different cable. Just...

You said you've seen videos of people running the same game with the same specs just fine. Are they using the same settings? Have they overclocked anything? Is anything thermal throtteling on your end? Do you have anything running in the background that might take those resources away from the game?

Bottlenecking calculators are a bit of a joke. Because every task is different. Some games are more CPU heavy, others more GPU heavy. People play at different settings. You might run into memory limits first. I have one game where my current config has a 6% GPU bottleneck according to those...

Satisfaction is a state of mind. Most of my parts are about a decade old and I'm quite satisfied with it. Most new entry level parts would perform similar or even better. If you spend more money, you'll get more performance, obviously. But the question is, how much performance do you want and...

Yeah, you probably need to find out with what software was used to write the data onto the tape and if it used any specific compression or odd format. For just getting things off the tape, you could always get a TV tuner card (or one over USB) that has composite in and connect that to a VCR...

Raising PCIe isn't really necessary on P35, those boards can easily do 450 FSB, many even 500. On G31 and G41, yeah, they hit their limit much lower and can often be convinced to do more by raising PCIe.