Recent content by Minotaar

Hi, I've never really cared much about PC audio, because I guess I had different priorities. But these days, as a professor and gamer, I find myself streaming a lot, and not for games. And, being stuck at home the whole day, I wouldn't be against updating my audio setup, for both gaming and...

Thanks for all the suggestions all. This is great!

So, I've been building systems for years; my first being a Pentium Pro back in '96. Unfortunately, I'm not a kid anymore and I haven't been able to keep an eye on the case game, so I came here looking for some recommendations for a new case. Specifically, I need an understated ATX case with...

Thanks for all the help guys. It sounds like this CPU is 5 years old and thanks to the end of Moore's Law, it's still great! :)

Hi, I've got an i7-2600k OC'd to 4.4Ghz, 16GB ram, and a GTX 465. It's powered by a corsair AX850. It's been great for SC2, which is basically the only game I play, but I'm thinking of upgrading to a 1060 or 1070 to play more modern games like Doom and Overwatch. Is my CPU going to be a...

Thanks for the insights, all.

The Geforce market is more competitive. It's basically the same hardware. Why would they give up driver performance on the consumer level?

Yup, thats exactly how I'm sending triangles. I thought the quadro was the same as the gtx etc, except iwth different driver support? I'll have to look into it. Brian

Hi All, Long time gamer, long time scientist. My scientific code has taken many twists and turns over the years, but a consistent aspect of my work includes rendering surfaces with a huge number of triangles. These aren't fancy textured, shaded, etc triangles. It's just a loose bag of...

Can you explain why not? I'm not interested in regular desktop use; I'm interested in HPC uses that require low latency high performance disk. The benchmarks indicate approximately 3x the read/write performance over sata3.

This is really informative. Thanks!

Hi all, I've long had a crush on PCIE SSD boot disks. But they always seemed to have interoperability issues; they dont boot right, etc etc. I've noticed that the M2 connector (which is apparently PCIE-based) looks like an interesting evolution, and since they are used for laptops, they...

I've owned and continuously used a pair of Sennheiser 545s for almost 14 years. I've replaced the ear cups and headband cushion twice. Aside from that, they sound better and better. There is an argument to be made for quality, and you can find it in Sennheiser's line. Where this pair falls...

I've seen that before. It's a bandwidth issue on DVI generally; the 30 inchers push that cable really hard. If you get a DP cable (dell loves DP for some reason <snicker>) the issue goes away. I imagine this is true for HDMI also, if it has the port. Lots of people will not know or...

May I ask what the problem was with these monitors, or for a link to discussions about the problem?