Recent content by tmehrl

I have seen this false statement for over a year now: " Asus’ ROG Strix B550-I Gaming stands out. At $230, it’s on the pricier end, but $100 less than Gigabyte’s B550I Aorus Pro AX, while still delivering two M.2 slots (one around back), Wi-Fi 6 and 2.5Gb Ethernet. " I have the B550I Aorus Pro...

The fact that the 3300x performs so much better than the 3100 suggests that ZEN 3 will have a greatly improved IPC, since Zen 3 will have a unified L3 cache. It was explained on this site that the Zen 2 architecture with a split L3 cache suffers added latency when the OS scheduler switches a...

Would love to get the hat. My 1st name is Tom 🤣

My favorite AMD memories. Built my 1st system using an AMD 40-MHz 386. Remember how slow CAD software was with the CPU emulating floating point instructions. Got to the point where each small drawing edit took 1 minute and 20 seconds for the screen to redraw. After adding a 387 co-processor the...

I am using a 400W platinum supply to run a 2550K @ 4.5 GHz and overclocked rx 580 (1450GHz GPU, 2175 GHz DDR5) with no problem. Power meter shows max draw from outlet is about 350W during heavy gaming, so my 400W supply is only providing about 300W to the system (assuming 90% efficiency at 75%...

Like many gaming enthusiast the question for me is still SATA SSD vs nvme SSD? For a new build I would consider an small Optane boot drive and 1TB SATA SSD if the Optane drive made a noticeable improvement (which many had posted that it does not). The conventional wisdom seems to be that Optane...

Still rocking a 2550K (speed stepping up to 4.5 GHz) on a P67 board. Purchased the CPU for $150 at Micro-center 7 years ago. The MB was cheaper since it does not provide a video port. Perhaps a MB maker could release a cheaper model lacking video ports?

Could actually replace my 2550K system !