Recent content by MasterHiFi

TURKEY3 is on point. I think the takeaway is that it might be advisable to delete your Kaspersky and go with anti-virus with no conflict of interest or a potential hidden agenda... Just common sense, and for any company's "Best Practices", moving away from Kaspersky won't get you fired, while...

"Its only bad when companies cooperate with the Russian government because of all this crazy Russian hysteria. Let's ignore companies cooperating with every Western government in the world including AV companies, Microsoft, Google etc. Sending employees on raids might be rare in the West, but...

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Hi All, Okay, I've had my HTPC build delayed for forever, and now I'm about to transfer the guts of a fine HP 8200 Elite SFF into a new HTPC case. Before I break the seal on the box, I'd like to have some idea of what I can and can't expect to get out of the included LCD that comes with my...

Seriously? Well a card per panel makes sense to me. But yes, I agree that it surely wouldn't be long before the technology left the lower VRAM cards like mine behind. And predicting a revolution in entertainment is almost an understatement. This 3D VR is going to be incredible - the stuff of...

Hi and thank you, IInuyasha74, this is encouraging. I do know exactly what you mean regarding immersiveness vs detail. I do wholly relish the memories of playing Thief I & II, being completely immersed in the alternate reality and needing a few minutes after playing to acclimate myself to the...

Sigh... That's pretty much what I expected (and was afraid of). What kind of world are we living in where a guy can't get by on a thousand dollar GPU...? This place is going to the dogs, I tell ya! Hey, Rift is stereoscopic - why don't they engineer it so rigs in dual SLI/XFire run one card...

Checking the minimum specs for Oculus Rift due out Q1 2016 - minimum graphics requirements for Nvidia are "GTX 970 or equivalent" So here's the rub, GTX 970 has 4GB VRAM, while the 690 has 2GB + 2GB mirrored. So the million dollar question is: will the 690 run OR? Or is it going to bottleneck...

Yep. Tea Urchin is right - the games are bottlenecking at the GPU and the rendering is bottlenecking at the CPU. Some of the Alienware products are nice and use good components, others are made and sold on the cheap. If you're looking at a CPU, GPU and RAM upgrade, it probably makes more sense...

By the way, if you're already knocking the i7 "u" series, then why are you offering an i5 "U" for $875? Just saying.. .

That was exactly what I was saying about the importance of the CPU vs. the GPU, but you make a point about the "U" series processors. Still looks like a good machine, especially if he can negotiate the price. Check out the going prices for comparable setups, and that's buying blind. He can have...

Wow, maybe I'm out of the loop, but that looks like a pretty nice configuration to me. I'm not a big fan of Dell per se, reliability-wise, but I believe most people here would place greater weight on the CPU and RAM over the GPU. It's unlikely you're ever going to upgrade the processor during...

Not sure about the HP Omen specifically, but in general if your laptop has a choice between two graphics options (i.e. between the processor onboard/integrated graphics and your dedicated 860m), you may need to select the one you want to be using in the BIOS. That would be the first thing I...

C'mon, they're obviously trying to muscle into the manufacturer space against the big two. You don't do that unless you make a statement.

Hi Again BR, Sorry for the delayed reply - the wife doesn't let me out of my cage much... Well, HTPC is a growing category so more and more manufacturers are tossing their hats in the ring. Here, for example, is a fairly nice little number from Antec: I think this one is called the...