Recent content by Thomas Wells

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    News Popular Overclocker Delids Core i9-11900K with Impressive Results

    Comment in the last paragraph "It's rather unfortunate that the delidding process is so incredibly risky on Comet Lake CPU" should read Rocket Lake CPU perhaps?
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    AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i9-11900K: Rocket Lake and Ryzen 5000 CPU Face Off

    Anyone else think the real winner here is anybody who buys an I5 11600k?
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    News Micron Says Disruptions at Fabs Will Lower DRAM Supply, Affect Prices

    "Outages" yeah right, dram prices were falling so much they needed a way to keep the msrp up. Samsung does the exact same thing to keep prices up.
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    News Paper Launch? Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT Out of Stock

    I want some of what you're smoking man. I've looked daily for any kind of "deal" due to needed another 3080 card for a clients build and never have I seen any single card by any vendor go for under $1200. Even the zotacs and Pnys are 160-190% of their base price.
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    News Not-So-Solid State: SSD Makers Swap Parts Without Telling Us

    I was wondering about this because the reddit forums listed the Adata change right before black Friday and it absolutely had an impact on how many people bought their product. I was one that decided this is not acceptable and that particular thread has several thousand views and many, many...
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    News Best Black Friday Samsung SSD Deals

    Um, were you maybe planning to have some linked "deals" in your Samsung SSD deals article? Ok fixed, for the most part.
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    News Paper Launch? Radeon RX 6800, 6800 XT Out of Stock

    Unfortunately Ebay buyers have more money than sense. These scalpers know there are so many people who either 1. don't have the time to sit on their computer for hours at a time to get a new piece of tech or 2. Just don't want to wait until they can buy their own. It all adds up to scalpers...
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    News Scalpers Strike Again, Ryzen 5000 Processors Impossible to Find In stock

    Entire problem with that is EVGA is still on day one of their "queue system" after nearly 3 months. People need these parts now, its unfortunate that not enough were produced.
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    News Star Citizen Now Requires AVX Support, Killing off Intel Pentium Platforms

    Lol and get $200 million more and never actually finish the game.
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    News MSI Subsidiary Caught Selling RTX 30-Series GPUs at Scalper Pricing on Amazon, eBay

    They're not sorry, they're sorry they got caught. And yeah not giving MSI my business any longer, which is sad because I like their Seahawk product line.
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    News EVGA Implements Queue-Based RTX 30-Series Ordering System

    Question is..... if I do not remember if signed up for a notify me and I sign up again do I lose my place in the queue?
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    News Nvidia CEO: GeForce RTX 3080 and 3090 Shortages To Last Until 2021

    Thing is buddy now they've forced a pretty large chunk of their own fan boys to seek out alternatives. I know that quite a few of my friends and I are going red this time around. We won't be sorry.
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    News EVGA to Stock 'Thousands' of Nvidia RTX 3080 Ampere GPUs This Week

    Oh and for the love of god ebay ("I sold my old gpu before I got a new one") people no one is going to buy your old @ss 2080 ti for $1500-2000 just because that is what you paid for it. Sheesh
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    News Nvidia Delays RTX 3070 By 2 Weeks to Avoid Another Disappointing Launch

    Its the API, they would have to have cloud river change the way they list the cards to ALL vendors and they don't care enough to do that for just 4 to 6 vendors.
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    News Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070 Beats 2080 Ti in First Performance Results

    Who cares, there won't actually be any of these cards available at launch anyway. They only did the 30 series launch when they did so they could make sure they beat AMD projected dates. Typical Nvidia BS