Recent content by Hardcore Games

250W is already a power pig and even more is outright insane better to use dual cards than some overweight chunk of metal

Use 120mm fans. The location of the mounting holes on the case is not intended for larger models with a width of 140 mm.

I suggest a usb hard disk can be handy to backup and reset the SSD to allow it to refresh the block translation tables

My socket 7 rig was ATX and with an AMD CPU running Windows 95. Had 4MB RAM back then.

My LCD does 640x480 VGA up to 3840x2160 UHD. I set Halo to 1910x1080 and slid the dial until the frame rate got over 45 The R7 450 will allow somewhat better rendering The DisplayPort is best for UHD monitors as HDMI lacks enough bandwidth I use Corel software for image management and Avid for...

Mostly music and word processing Halo actually runs on the i3-9100 integrated graphics which was eye opening

I am installing the card in a SFF chassis beside a WifI 7 card to make the machine good for work. The SFF class machines were common 7-10 years ago. The machine I am upgrading has an i3-9100 CPU and 2 slots. I have an Intel 600p SSD installed in it and it boots fast. The machine also has a slim...

I found a very cheap R7 450 which is GCN so at least it has 8 CU to work with. This card has some encoding support but Intel CPUs also have support. The real advantage is dual DisplayPort which will allow better 4K60 support.

Low cost SATA now reach 4TB at a given price per GB metric. M.2 NVMe now also are offered up to 4TB at PCIe 4.0 speed. My WD Green SN350 is 2TB which was the largest available of the line. Now cheap M.2 are bumping capacity as well as speed. My SN350 is installed in my Lenovo T14. 232-layer etc...

High performance PC rigs are incredibly powerful compared to even Cray machines.

My 8 disk NAS has 12TB disks it and I am looking at maybe another box for storage. I use RAID 6 to be sure I can be curled up and not worry about a dead disk.

Over the past years I refurbished an old HP Pavilion G6. The machine came with Windows 8 originally and a hard disk. The Realtek WiFi card was rather limited too. The machine came with 6GB using one 4GB and one 2GB so the CPU was slowed and the UEFI was slow to POST etc. Replacing the OEM RAM...

Your machine can handle 30TB disks when they eventually get to etailers

I install Windows 11 through the UEFI which shows a command sequence before loading the cold boot loader and starts the OS. This way the certificate is clear and I can see my operating system is Windows 11 as I am licensed for that Recently I have been buying old server disks for my NAS boxes

AFAIK all SATA and M.2 SSD and even hard disks all use translation tables to map LBA bocks to known good sectors. The LBA had to be expanded several times as disk capacity grew rapidly. In reading a disk the call simply is the start LBA and the number of sectors desired. Old sectors were 512...