Recent content by Silas Sanchez

Intel were great back in the days of Pentium 4 and the first Dual cores and Quad cores, before the rise of imperialism. Going from my Pentium 4 3.8GHz to the first quad core 3GHz was incredible, they were like a super computer, never before had i seen such multitasking on a desktop pc. Crysis...

To stress test my AM5 system I run the benchmarks and games at 30C ambient (whole room fully saturated), benchmarks for 20-30mins and games for a few hours, all spanning over many weeks in my spare time before i officially say its stable. Despite being stable, there is the occasional random shut...

Because: a: Almost all good software isn't made for Linux, 95%+ of my stuff doesn't run on Linux. This alone is the big reason holding it back after all these years. b: All software nowadays is slowly going subscription based or long term rent. Even when you pay for a lifetime license of some...

I have literally used CCleaner on half a dozen machines literally running the reg cleaner once a week or even more on all my active machines, been doing this on one machine almost 15years old. 1000s of 1000s of cleans. Despite all that, all machines run like a well oiled machine and have never...

Well its all part of what engineers call dancing on the head of the needle. Its a dynamic interplay between voltage, capacitance, frequency, and leakage currents. The way the logic gates work is, as they shrink down, the frequency naturally increases and the voltage to switch them naturally...

This is absolute rubbish and clearly shows you lack the basic understanding of electrical principles, solid state physics, and the nature of scientific theory. It is incorrect to say that a cpu degrades just by being used, first of this is more of your unsound generalizations as this is a...

I finally pulled the trigger on putting together my new PC a few years back after it really did seem clear to me we were in the golden age of hardware. At the time there was a huge amount of hype with fast and big nvme, it certainly seemed like I would have 8TB gen 5 nvme already and even 16TB...

Problem is many of the enclosures are garbage with generic poor fit and horrible heatpads that dont fit well, so their perf will be worse than a specific designed heatsink. And further, due to such poor efficiency of passive cooling esp with the virtually zero sized fins, the units will throttle...

You have no business buying cards this expensive if you dont know how to repaste and repad. That might sound dogmatic but the alternative is to get screwed over and actually support the quality of things lowering and prices rising. Its not rocket science, the pads must be high quality designed...

No matter what damage is done to Intel, you can be sure their profits and stock will soar and they will only get bigger. This is just a little hiccup and serves as entertainment but has no real purpose in life besides sharpening my wits. Making me more skeptical, more jaded, more cynical, more...

So the quick math shows that from 200W to the limit, the7950x only yields 1% increase while the 9950x yields 7%. Not interested thanks. Dealing with that much heat on a mobo that sure wasn't designed for it for so little gain, right back to the intel problem. Still if 24% is what i get then that...

Nowadays for headphones and active speakers internal soundcards provide the near same audio quality as any dac+amp. Of course, the audiophiles wont wanna hear this...shhhh...lets keep this a secret. However i still use a dac+amp as thats what i have had for years and a soundcard wont fit in my...

As far as multiply monitors go on windows here is what i recommend: - DisplayFusion Pro is essential for dealing with the bugs in windows and it allows easy setting wallpapers and you can have your windows positions reset to where you left them after waking the pc up from sleep. -Ideally...

As far as dust goes it never ceases to amaze me how much builds up even with very balanced air flow, to fight natures evil I just periodically take off the side cases and give it a quick blast with my datavac. Dont be fooled, dust is gonna get in no matter what.

M.2 Gen 4 Nvme if internal drive on motherboard, Gen 4 Nvme if external usb enclosure. Look for highest IOPS (like Samsung 990 pro as one example), that is the simply all you need to look for, others make things to complicated... Forget about about SATA, they are too slow, period! Best to...