Recent content by STbob

Hehe i mean sad but I'm sarcastic which did not come in my post :)

In theory a 3 or 4 should be safer. A two will get it done find though. Why? If one of the 8 pins has a poor connection (due to poor insertion) it will have a hot spot area of high resistance. If just using two 8 pins it could cause a hot spot. Using 3 or 4 8 pins gives you some back up...

Well they don't want to pull a Bud Light and loose all their customers. They wanted to save money and deny people but the bean counters found over all they might loose more if they don't. They did not have a strong legal leg to stand on. They had a leg of greed to save from having to replace...

I have not overclocked since x58 Intel 920 chip Since then I use servers or Workstations with ECC ram I have zero interest. But... On the consumer end of things its popular and manufacturers are pushing it. I recently bought two AMD systems to build for kicks and I just went with the...

You will be sad to know I quit Amazon Prime a year ago and I don't miss it.

If you want the best performance turn them off with inspectre. It can cause issues in online FPS games. Risk of getting hacked is super low.

I loved going to Micro Center it was like going to the last Video Store where you could actually hold and look at the DVDs and cover art etc. The experience is worth the drive, Amazon pales in comparison.

Can you please run AIDA64 Exrtreme memory read and write benchmark on it? I just put one of the 5600x3ds together with PC 3200 ram and get asymetric results. Like 46,000 MB/sec reads but on writes its only 25,000 MB/sec. My quad channel Xeon is very symetric at 47,000/47,000 range on reads...

Nice article, keep up the work on this. I have some older Dell servers and the spectre and meltdown on hyperV is so slow I have to turn the patches off and risk the low percentage chance of something getting in the server core OS. (low) the slowdown is real and annoying. I'm looking at...

The answer in 2018 is the same. Keep your Ivy system not much point in upgrading and you can get $3,000 Ivy xeon workstations for like $300.00 now with 32 gig ECC. I have Sandy, Nehalem, Ivy, Haswell, caby and skylake. Which ever I put my 1080GTX in is the best gaming system. So put your...

I tested my Hex core Ivy Dell 3610 + Gtx 1080 and it dropped around 10-12 fps in cinbench with the spectre bios patch. I turned both patches off using insprectre app. Not worth the downgrade in performance Even though it was only 10 fps the system seems more responsive with them off. I...

Not strange at all, workstations are not toy computers. They are for engineers, CAD etc. They are not advertised for gaming. They have 1 8pin connector on PS board. Dell uses a 8 pin to 6 + 6 pins to run two quadro cards. Those cards are only 80 watts each. Each 6 pin supplies 75...

Yes this happened to me too. Seems to be a windows 10 thing. Anyway..... The Fix! Go into your router settings and TURN OFF WPS. You don't need it and it will stop phantom phones and routers from showing up in your network.

Agreed. Toms Hardware dropped the ball on this one. Maybe intel dropped them a note not to test the old cpus. Test them all! - Westmere - Sandy - Ivy - Haswell All those cpus are still being used by gamers. i7s have not got that much faster in 10 years. I'm runing Ivy on a 3610...

Agreed. Toms Hardware dropped the ball on this one. Maybe intel dropped them a note not to test the old cpus. Test them all! - Westmere - Sandy - Ivy - Haswell All those cpus are still being used by gamers. i7s have not got that much faster in 10 years. I'm runing Ivy on a 3610...