Recent content by WithoutWeakness

I would hope Silverstone would include at least some self-adhesive rubber feet or something to lift the case ~1/4" to ~1/2" off of a surface when laying on its side. They're usually pretty good with including accessories with their cases. If they don't include some little rubber feet it should...

Intel specifies the PWM control of the CPU fan header on Intel boards. Why are these coolers not tested using the default PWM controls for the fans with the CPU at idle and full load? It would be far more meaningful than testing the fans at fixed RPM, especially since some of the fans max at...

Plex is awesome. I was hesitant about getting a Plex Pass at first but I recently signed up for the Lifetime membership and it was worth it for me. I have Plex on my media server at home and I made Guest accounts for some friends and family so they're able to sign in and stream media. Having a...

What is the point of this monstrosity of a card? It has an oversized PCB and massive 2.5-slot open air cooler and isn't any faster, cooler, or quieter than Nvidia's reference design. GM104 is only a 165W chip and Zotac designs this huge overkill cooler and it's no better than Nvidia's...

WPA2 + AES is far more secure and should be the standard for any wireless network being set up today. Cracking WPA2 + AES would take an absurdly long time (many months if not years) and would require some serious hardware to complete the task. WPS should absolutely be disabled as it doesn't make...

There are a LOT of places in the US where Comcast is the only option for moderately reliable high-speed internet. In many places your only options are slow dial-up/DSL from a local phone company or Comcast. In some towns and counties Comcast has a contract to be the exclusive internet provider...

WOW. I can't believe Tom's has this guy publishing articles for them. This is some of the worst journalism I've seen on this site (if you can even call it that). The author, who has not had any hands-on time with any of these devices and likely pulled the info here from other sites' reviews and...

Good catch. Not sure what's going on. I believe the side panels are swappable so it's possible that they're on the other side of the case but that doesn't seem like a great solution either.

Regarding the SATA port: I think he was referring to the M.2 slot pulling its PCIe lanes from the CPU rather than from the chipset. The benefit is that you get PCIe 3.0 speeds from the CPU (the Z97 chipset is still limited to 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes) and lower latency access to the drive. The downside...

This bundle is hardly comparable to AMD's recent bundles, who are offering free games all the way down to the $60 Radeon R7 240 and offer 2 or 3 free games with their higher end cards. Unfortunately that's what happens when people are willing to buy their cards at higher prices (I'm at fault...

Just because I'm curious: what don't you like about the layout? Your comment has me looking at the board for issues and I don't see Gigabyte committing any cardinal sins with the layout. The only oddity I see is the USB 3.0 header along the bottom edge of the board rather than the right side...

It's likely an optional cooler offered to OEM's, None of the SB-E or IVB-E chips came with boxed coolers.

I think using a Note 3 panel (or other mainstream smartphone panel) is brilliant. In the event of dead pixels or necessary repairs outside of the warranty period it should be cheap and easy to purchase a replacement panel from a spare phone parts dealer. It will be far easier to just buy a...

I don't think it's meant to compete with RPi in the consumer and hobbyist spaces. It seems to be a (relatively) cheap x86 board that can run Windows OSes and has plenty of IO for custom development projects for teams and companies that don't have to funding to have prototype hardware built for...