Recent content by waltsmith

I just had to roll back 2 of my family laptops from the new cumulative update from 5/9. One an Acer I5 with 950M graphics and whatever cheapo 500g HDD came with it. (Not sure of model,would have to crack the warranty sticker to find out.) And my personal MSI laptop, an I7 with 960m graphics. It...

Correction, you say 905p is 300% faster than the EVO, it's 3 times. That's 200%.

So, almost everyone agrees that AMD's new bundled coolers are an immense step up from the basement dweller OEM cooler they've had for years. It's fairly quiet: confirmed by benchmarks and reviews. It's smaller than a 212 EVO: confirmed by reading specs It blows air down instead of to the side...

Whatever term-ish is more correct, I think I would just go with "oddly shaped" and cut through all the hubbub-bub. lol

A lot of coins only support CPU mining at launch, which is when it is traditionally easier to grab a bunch. And the more physical cores the better. Since that's how CPU mining works. A 1700 with no SMT enabled would actually be your best bang for the buck.

IMHO True VR isn't here yet. However, progress is steady if not astounding at times.

Not being a fanboy for this comment, this certainly sounds like another example of Nvidia strong arming a game developer to only put the green team card on the recommended specs. This kind of stuff leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.

I can't agree. Until 80 PLUS became common blue screen errors due to dirty ass power being delivered to components was the norm. Even so called premium name brand PSUs suffered from this problem. Diagnosing a malfunctioning computer often involved trying up to 3 or 4 PSUs to see if it fixed the...

You know, the Core Architecture has been around for quite a while now. Intel may have just about "Optimized" it to death by now.

Nevermind, didn't see the link the first readthrough.

So, how about a team name, passkey and whatnot. why wait?

I don't see where this discussion is any different than the one about exclusive PC titles and exclusive console ones. Each platform will always have its own exclusive content and crossplatform. Simple economics. walsmith

Simple, if you are happy gaming at 1080, then it's not worth the money. If you want to game at 2k, then it is worth the money.

Typo in a chart: The Division at 2160 very high detail : you have the 980 listed as a 1070.

I agree totally that the reason manufacturers don't already implement one of these fixes or possible even a better one is simply, as you said, that it would screw with their replacement cycle. This kind of "designed to fail shortly after the warranty expires" philosophy is an integral part of...