Recent content by w_o_t_q

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    News Intel Xe DG1 Benchmarked: Battle of the Weakling GPUs

    The price for the gpu is fair always consider consider market situation. This GPU is designed for the data center no point to buy one for pc much rather go for cloud gpu services ... After a couple a year buy whatever Nvidia or AMD or Intel (if they will got proper GPU and drivers) GPU...
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    News GPU Pricing Downtrend Stagnates

    see no problem, just wait till say 2022-23 and prices will be down. Reason people can start travel and do other activities which don`t required GPU and demand will go down together with the price plus those already bought GPU will remove themselves as potential customers. No new GPU expect...
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    News AMD Is Retiring Driver Support for R9 Fury and Older Cards Including Pre-Ryzen APUs

    Switch back to win 7 and use https://0patch.com/ free tier. And forget about windows 10 and 11. No point with such old specific hardware.
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    News Nvidia Ends Support For Kepler GPUs, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 On August 31

    See no reason to support old windows versions ... Consider that new windows 10 is pretty cheap ... and run well even on old pc with 4gb ram .... (Parents still use couple of a first gen i3 with 4gb ram and gt710 as internet machines with windows 10, only upgrade sata ssd on 256 GB ... As far...
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    Review NZXT N7 B550 Review: NZXT Meets AMD

    Cat6 is cheap and if length of cable did not exceed 70 m will work with the 10G
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    Review NZXT N7 B550 Review: NZXT Meets AMD

    strange choice top notch mb on B550, need x570 and drop 2.5gb lan or go to 10gb. a 2.5 g lan equipment is as expensive as 10gb so nobody will bother with it.
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    News HP’s New Intel and AMD Convertibles are Very Different

    Limit ram to 16gb for the expensive laptop is nonsense especially if combine together with the oled screen.
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    News TP-Link's Cheap 5-port and 8-port 10GbE Switches Now Available

    Expensive if look at https://www.balticnetworks.com/mikrotik-12-port-10g-rj45-and-4-port-sfp-cloud-router-switch-l5 it cost 500 usd and is an enterprise level product with affordable price number of ports are much larger plus better security, featured in Linus tech tips about cheap 10g if...
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    Review Asus GT-AC5300 Review: Solid, but Showing Its Age

    if interested in security Mikrotik, Ubiquiti and the other enterprise level hardware, forget about Asus, TP and other consumer products.
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    Review Asus GT-AC5300 Review: Solid, but Showing Its Age

    Just bought RB4011iGS+5HacQ2HnD-IN https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_5hacq2hnd_in half the price nice full compact metal case factory option to mount on wall extra 10 bucks and one 10Gb port (10 gb ports plus POE functionality(daisy chaining if wanted to use in future). Asus is...
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    News AMD Unveils Big Navi: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Take On Ampere

    I would not buy potential danger and faulty equipment ... in any field ... my personal safety and time and nerves are more valuable ... especially if it is 120 buck question on card which cost in field of 600-700 anyway (depend on vendor/model etc.)
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    News AMD Unveils Big Navi: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Take On Ampere

    I have to flash this mb for friend which assemble his gaming pc ... Previous his gaming system was intel .... For him this will be the last amd system at least DIY .... Unstable and waiting 2 month to fix issues ...
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    News AMD Unveils Big Navi: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Take On Ampere

    This year AMD failed make x570 drivers for windows 10 ... computer had regular problems in Youtube video and games ... After 2 bios upgrades it started working (MSI x570 A-pro everything on automatic)... (Luckily it was gaming rig and 2 month waiting was not big deal ...) Consider that I did...
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    News AMD Unveils Big Navi: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Take On Ampere

    The most stable drivers not means that they are stable enough to just use them without problems. It is like bad quality thing Producer can said that is better than previous one, but it does not mean that is just good to use without defects....
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    News AMD Unveils Big Navi: RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 Take On Ampere

    Another trash product from AMD in GPU field ... Remember Radeon VII dead on arrival thanks to non working drivers .... And other problems with drivers ... firmware ... compatibility with existing hardware. As owner of RTX 2080 (happy 2 years right now) i will pay extra 120 bucks for RTX 3080FE...