Recent content by Macenstein

Hey all, I am looking at an RTX 2080 ti and was wondering it if is worth the cost to get the MSI TRIO version (or another you might recommend?) will heat be an issue therwise or is this sort of thing overkill? This is for Cinema 4D and After Effects. Not much gaming Thanks

I would use a folding chair and table and throw £ 360 at the graphics card. Are you only looking to buy a pre-built system vs building your own? You'll likely get more for less if you build your own.

ok, so it's a motherboard-only thing? Nothing to do with the way AMD makes their chips? why is it so hard to find an AMD board with it built in? Thanks

Cool, Thanks Calvin. So that's an AM4, not for threadripper, but it gives me hope (although there seems to be a few issues with the computer going to sleep and not detecting the thunderbolt stuff on wake if I am reading that correctly). But is that pretty much the 1 board out of dozens that...

I am very interested in building a workstation with these new Threadrippers AMD announced today, but we use thunderbolt a lot in our current Mac setups, and I had heard Intel did not license Thuderbolt to AMD (despite claiming they would make Thunderbolt open source 2 years ago), so you can't...

Yeah, I've been using exclusively Apple for nearly 20 years, so maybe I'm spoiled? I've never had a real "crash" I guess. Occassionally have to reboot. Once had a hard drive die. Nothing major. I just assumed by now PCs and tech in general have gotten good enough that crashes, at least...

yeah I don't plan to game on this. (well, maybe Minecraft) but I just can't find any benchmarks where the RTX 2080 Super isn't decidedly faster. I do understand the argument of a slower "workstation class" card is sometimes better, but that's sort of why I am here in the first place. Apple is...

hmmm.. that's interesting. Thanks! So is there a reason you went with the Quadro RTX P4000 over an RTX 2080 Super? userbenchmark seems to imply the 2080 would be much faster? (I don't know if they are a good source but they seem to be) . Thanks

Hey all, I am looking for some advice. (you can skip down to the specs I want if you don't want to read my life story) I'm currently using an old 2013 Mac Pro trashcan for After Effects and Cinema 4D. While my company is waiting for the new Mac Pro to arrive, we've all sort of admitted to...

would he need a new motherboard and RAM to be able to use that processor? I think he wants a 2060...

yup, that's his current setup still.

You guys helped me build my son a great gaming PC maybe 4-5 years ago that has served him well, but he's looking to upgrade so I'm back hoping to pick your brains. I've started looking at pre-built gaming PC's to get an idea of what's current, but there are some things they don't list, like...

Hey there, My son plays Overwatch. A LOT. He is complaining that occasionally his internet connection will drop and he gets booted from a match. This doesn't happen often... especially considering how many hours he puts in, but enough that he thinks he wants a new Wireless card. he currently...

ok, looks like the i7 7700k is still a 4-core processor, correct? so it's just inherently faster that the i5, but perhaps not better at multi-tasking?

This is the computer I built my son almost 2 years ago https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gmRjt6 Intel - Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor Gigabyte - GA-Z170-HD3P ATX LGA1151 Motherboard MSI - GeForce GTX 970 4GB Twin Frozr V Video Card G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400...