Recent content by bigpow

I also have some hope for more retro boards. I remember my fondest memories of PC gaming with Matrox MGA & 3dfx Voodoo2. Wish I could keep all my old builds. Retro gaming with raspi isn't the same! But I'm still getting a 6900XT to replace my current GTX1080.

I have a little experience in electronics manufacturing process (20yrs), and I'm confused by the recent developments of chip makers rereleasing old fabs and board makers rereleasing them. What's the biggest problem they're facing today? Logistics. That's what they've been saying. They never...

Mainboard is a unicorn Asrock itx with X570 & TB3. TB3 works with windows. Been that way for a while.. My old razer blade stealth notebook has one and I've been using that setup with egpu+gtx1080 and EC-NVME+samsung 970p and T5 drives for steam for years. No issues. The same setup also works...

I bought an Orico TB3 NVME enclosure that claims to get up to 40Gbps to try. Can't hurt. Yes, SFF compromises. At this point, I'm at the mercy of a much slower drive, or, micro stuttering. Both making my new machine feel like a

Mainboard: Asrock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB3 1x PCI express & 1x NVME slots. Current configuration: Internal: 1x Corsair Force MP500 1TB is connected to the mainboard NVME slot. External: 1x Adata XPG SX8200 2TB, inside a Sabrent (EC-NVME) NVME to USB3 external enclosure, via USB-C/TB3...

Incoming... ;) 3950x ASRock X570 2x 16GB G.SKILL DDR4 3600 1TB Corsair Force MP600 Cooler Master ML240L x Cooler Master V650 SFX x Cooler Master NR200P 55" LG CX

Congrats! That's a powerful rig you got there.. you should get the G9. Have you considered the LG 49WL95C-W? As for which is better between 1440p144/240 vs 2160p120, only you can answer that question (please do share with us your discoveries) I think it also depends on the games. Personally, I...

Thanks for the feedbacks I'm leaning to go with a single drive, after some rough calculations. I've a 1TB 970 Evo Plus, but even with that, the added cost from the mobo offset things quite far - personally, I'd rather spend the $ on storage, not on mobo Cost V Performance ratio has changed...

*Title says it all Tried googling some numbers but didn't really find anything solid. It's almost like everyone just forgot about RAID. With today's state of HW/SW/OS RAID, how are the following compared? 1. 2TB high-end NVME VS 2x1TB (RAID0) budget NVME --- cost about the same, if not less 2...

I'm probably as old as your dad, although my old setup is a bit more updated. $1000-1500 for a modest build. Which would probably perform better (and last a lot longer) than upgrading just the GPU to say, $1000 RTX card. I'm also in the same boat; want to build a new PC for FS2020 (and other...

@MadScientist : Thanks for reporting. Appreciate the data. Doom Eternal (DE) is difficult, even for us FPS old-timers. I find myself playing Quake Champions more than DE, despite the eye candies of DE. From what you described, it seems like you're not hitting thermal barrier there. It's more...

That doesn't sound good. Are you thinking of switching to another brand/model? What's your GPU? Have you had a chance to try some games? I really want to do my build soon for MS FS 2020 & Cyberpunk. FS 2020 is supposed to be very CPU heavy (can actually use n cores)

@MadScientist There's always someone older out there ;-) Thanks for the feedback. 2500K O/C-ed was the value king back then, probably as good as old Cely 300A. I also got the itch, actually months ago I posted here (but I couldn't find it) - so when I saw your post, I chimed in because it has...

I had a similar build (4.6 Ghz Intel i5-2500K ) - I want to do one last build before I'm 404 and I'm also looking/waiting for 3600/X So, how much better is your new build compared to the old one? Help me jump on the 3600 OC bandwagon ;-)

I also bought a Nokia smartphone for GPS reason. It sat inside my cabinet for years before I decided to give it away. Nokia map was the best then (iPhone was only at 2? And Samsung/LG offerings were just plastic crap full of bloats) Wow ... I haven't heard anyone mention Visual Foxpro &...