Recent content by Wayne Anderson

This design is actually really well throughout out and offers both the alignment flexibility AND features important for a good ergonomic mechanical keyboard. I've seen designs that nail one or the other, this may be the first that I have confidence in perhaps both being addressed!

For VR, what is really intersting to me is when you correlate the lower latency of DirectX 12 based rendering with the pre-render potential of the VR pipeline, layered with the new aliasing technology. As long as the DSR doesn't add back the latency gains that the improved pipeline offer, it...

I will say that I have owned tens of power surge suppression and backup products personally, as well as designed and installed systems that have included hundreds of them over my career. Having worked with a number of OEMs that white-label from other sources, as well as the brand name APC...

Looking at new DDR 4 offerings from g.skill and corsair, there are many speeds available in ripjaws and vengeance lines, respectively. Try as I might, I cant find any indication that the component parts are actually different. Do they use the same "chips" at the different speeds? If so, how...

I really like the Asus X99 WS. I can't understand why the price is nearly justified! http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-13-132-263 Look, I love the board and I have no trouble paying good money for solid hardware. Just looking at the feature list, I can't justify more...

The tl;dr version: I have the old raven RV-02, should I rehab my x99 build update in that case with new fans, or start in a Corsair 540? I have a budget to update my system from x79 and an old i7-930 to i7-5930. I use an NH d14 from Noctua, a GTX 780 primary gfx card with a GTX 460 as a...

They do. The differences between which are often less important than that the components are high quality, that cooling has been taken into account (including the heatsink existing in the first place). Beyond that, if you have trouble understanding heatsink benefits and effectiveness, etc...

Finish your build and run your PC if you get a difficult to explain high error rate or can't boot, that may still be affecting your build. If everything runs as expected, Great and be more careful next time ;)

Potentially, yes. One of the key aspects of the components in the VRM system's longevity is the operating temperature. For example some of the best in the industry are certified for 12,000 hours at 105 degrees C. But at an operating temperature of 60 C those same components would be expected...

The 5820 makes sense as long as you are doing no more than dual SLI and not hanging a whole lot more off of the PCI-E bus besides. Otherwise it could be an excellent value. On average the performance difference between the 5820 and 5930 is around 5% based on some of the initial published...

The other thing to realize is that AMDs vision here is fundamentally different. They believe that Intel will eventually have to join them at a converged die because the next frontier of performance efficiency is eliminating the bus transit time. It's a big and risky bet. If they are right...

MSI offerings for the X99 look to be very competitively priced and yet strongly aligned to features. At the same time even as recently as a year or two ago I went touch them due to component choice, BIOS issues, and worse than average driver support. Have they changed enough that we can feel...