Recent content by Phuntasm

You need to actually state what the "nice upgrade" or the "big improvement" is! Yeah, obviously, it has a higher resolution, and refresh rate, but there's more to a display than those two very basic specs. How's the brightness? Contrast? Color accuracy? How much of the color spectrum is covered...

Should have had its predecessor, the AW3420DW, on the charts. Also interested to know about day-to-day non-gaming ergonomics, including just basic productivity apps like Office

Define "fine." I just tried the game in 3440x1440 on a 1070Ti (paired with a 3800X), and in the starting cave got 40FPS at Ultra, 60-70FPS at Low. This seems consistent with the benches in this review where at 16:9 2560x1440 the 1080FE (1070Ti OC equivalent) gets around 50FPS on Ultra...

Got an AW3418DW ultra-wide with G-Sync. What a difference! Having frame synchronization is beautiful. Don't think I could go back. I never liked tearing so I'd go for VSync, but that sucks too because it eats up frames and stutters sometimes. G-Sync gives me perfectly smooth image regardless of...

Feels like they just went back to what they should have been to begin with: at 400, 500, and 600 for 70, 80, and 80Ti respectively.

So does anyone know what the actual problems Ryzen is running into are? Let's excuse the performance in non-multi-threaded games, but what about say Watch Dogs 2, which the 6900k tops while Ryzen can't beat the 7700k on still? I haven't heard much substantive info from AMD on potential...

Would be curious to see a comparison in performance and noise levels. I love the Define series

Absolutely nonsensical idea. I have no idea what the target market is. It's incredibly ugly to boot. They are going for some kind of home theater look with 80s styling, but the whole thing just looks awkward and bulky.

So is it actually quiet? Does it also permit good circulation? It can be made of unobtanium and be delivered by personal jet for all I care. What are it's performance merits?

Why this one? By the time DDR4 outpaces DDR3 by a significant enough margin, we'll want to be replacing the platform. It took years for DDR3 to run away from DDR2. Until such a time, a cost-conscious buyer could save some cash on DDR3.

What?

Witcher 3 - absolutely gorgeous world that feels more real than most games I've played in terms of arrangement and traversal. The story rocks face, the characters are believable, and the game is filled with tough choices. Just Cause 2 - I get to blow things up and tether things to other things...

All of these non-16GB module kits are killing me. I want to be able to do 4x16GB in the long run. Start with 2x16GB, and then upgrade to 4x16GB. If I was using a -E platform, sure, I could do 8GB modules for 8x8=64GB, but Skylake-E is nowhere in sight. As such, if I want to use the latest arch I...

Fair point