Recent content by Deathy

I wasn't arguing that it isn't noteworthy. But news should be written and published to provide context. So you should explain that this has been done before, that this can be done with other connectors, how this is different and the same compared to normal eGPU solutions via TB, how the future...

NVME is a transfer protocol, mini PCI-E is a form factor that is used to conduct USB and PCI-E signals. The NVME equivalent is the M.2 slot, which is used to conduct SATA or PCI-E signals. In both cases, people used the PCI-E functionality of the slot to have a GPU talk to the system via riser...

Do you need 4TB for your games? I have 2x2TB SSDs, one is my Windows installation with quite a bit of games (500GB free) and the other is just videos, music, documents. In Germany, I could get a 500GB SSD for about 50€, 1TB is 90€ and 2TB is 200€. That 200€ is the price for the Primocache, RAID...

RTFM, I guess? I can only find the Germany manual quickly, it says that Contrast, Brightness, Colors etc. is in the "Settings / Picture / Expert Settings" menu. You should also take a look in the "Settings / General / Eco" menu to make sure no energy saving stuff (adaptive brightness, automatic...

For the set you linked: It is the same connector type I linked. "JST PH 2.0 mm" JST stands for Japans Solderless Terminals, PH stands for the spacing of the pins (2.0mm) and the power it supports. You can take out your favorite ruler and see if your connector has ~2.0mm space between each pin...

Hey! I doubt the wire is carrying much load (amperage), so the wire gauge will not matter too much. That said, mixing wire gauges is not really a good idea, but you knew that already. To me, it looks like a JST connector with a PH/2.0 mm spacing. You could get the connector and wire up an...

This sort of thing is not new. I worked at the sterilization unit of a hospital for the past 7 months. They already have wipeable keyboards. They are like laptop chiclet keyboards with a rubber covering, eliminating crevices. Not great for typing, but you rarely need to do that in the areas...

Am I the only one who likes his rectrangle boxes instead of some abstract forms that seem to waste space with unnecessary angles? Give me some space efficient designs over this any day.

You seem to have had a lot of luck ditching those old K series combos for good money. I've never been able to recoup my intial investment in full after using it for a while, except for a graphics card once during the mining craze. Unless you get a golden OC K series CPU, they never end up being...

I had something along these lines: Some ASUS motherboard Intel Q6600 4GB RAM GTS 8800 512MB in SLI (2008), replaced by a 3870 X2 in 2009 WD Raptor 74GB 10k RPM All in a silent case by some small German case manufacturer, that was not that silent and mostly had some sound dampening materials and...

If they use an updated display engine from the Navi product, that would not help much though, right?

Why is price a reason for being called a rip-off or not? The Noctua NH-12 preceeded the Hyper 212 by 2 years as far as I can tell (Noctua introduced it in 2005 whereas the first mention/review of the Hyper 212 was in 2007 on Anandtech, unless Google is not showing me the right things today). It...

That is correct for "1600 MHz DDR3 RAM". The "1600 MHz" in actuality is "1600 MT/s" [MegaTransfers] since you get one transfer on the high side and one on the low side with DDR, so 800 MHz clock rate = 1600 MT/s. But because of marketing (bigger number = better) and technicalities being...

Considering this is how it is right now with X570, it would be weird if they went a step back, right? AMD went straight from PCIe 2.0 lanes downstream to 4.0 downstream with their chipsets. A B550 which isn't stingy with PCIe lanes and has 3.0 ones downstream was all I wanted. Ended up with an...

Are Halo games actually good PC FPS games now? When Halo became an Xbox phenomenon and was on PC, it was an adequate shooter for the PC, but heralded as the holy grail from console gamers. Has this changed now and they are of better quality?