Recent content by TekDemon

Well, all 3 copies I posted are gone...would have been nice if someone actually posted a thanks...

Have some copies: https://www.humblebundle.com/?gift=wcUhzAhe53Et58nk

This thing does not output anything close to the claimed 750W, I put it under a 600W load and it overheats and shuts down within a minute or two. Compare the rail ratings to a high quality 750W unit and you'll see that the amperage is a joke. 20A x 4 12V rails on this versus 40A x 4 on...

If you have a microcenter nearby they have a 4770k and mobo bundle with the as rock z87 extreme 4 for cheaper than the 9590 alone would cost you and once overclocked it'll be faster in most situations without the crazy power draw or heat. Sell the mobo and get a good sealed liquid cooler like...

The faster Core 2's with tons of L2 cache (like the E8400) are still very usable in gaming. The E8400 in particular does better than most current AMD cpus in 2-threaded games like Starcraft II. I don't use it as my primary system anymore but my E8400 based rig is still very usable and to be...

It would be CPU limited by their own CPUs so what do you want them to do? Ship over a liquid nitrogen cooled AMD system for benching?

It really depends on whether you already own a bunch of Android or iOS apps, or if there's a killer app you want. I actually love my iPad mini, though I also own an Android phone and I run CM10 on my Touchpad (and I also own an iPod touch from before I got a modern smartphone). The reason I...

If it was 1) $299 2) Heavily optimized to use all 4 CPU cores in all native apps (and/or instead shipped with a much more powerful SoC) and 3) entirely separate from Windows 8 this might have been a pretty good idea. As it is, it's overpriced and under-performing with no apps, and the stupid...

This doesn't mean all that much though, a lot of the time companies whose patents are invalidated are allowed to make changes to the wording that would again make the patents valid, so these tentative declarations don't mean much.

Unless you get the old intel CPUs for essentially free it makes no sense to perform any of these upgrades. I'd just wait for one of those $100 or less AMD combos to roll around if you don't mind not being on the cutting edge or just save up and get a 3570K combo if you have a microcenter...

My best guess is that they're trying to avoid having to dump the CPUs super cheaply because that would dilute what value they have left in their chips-if people get too used to paying $30 for AMD cpus they won't be able to charge more when they want to later on. Still....this is a very costly...

You can get it for $369 at a bunch of stores just without the free games this came with, which is what really made it a good deal.

It's a big photo store run by Hasidic Jews in NYC so they're closed on Saturdays and they close really early on Fridays. They do still sell greymarket stuff IIRC, but otherwise are about as legitimate as a NYC photo shop will get. Man, does anybody else remember those super shady brooklyn...

I'm still not convinced that you're not indeed psychotic buying an H100 and an unlocked processor to run it stock. Seriously, like Russell Peters says...BE A MAN!

As for the actual competition maybe we should split it up a little since the fastest system at one benchmark (i.e. cinebench) might not be the fastest in another. Cinebench is obviously always going to be won by a 6 core sandy over a highly clocked ivy or something.