Recent content by Zakin

I don't disable driver telemetry, and just went ahead and updated just a bit ago, it installed but after reboot Windows wasn't detecting I had a Nvidia graphics card installed at all. NV Control Panel wouldn't boot, as well as secondary monitors wouldn't display because of it. Not too sure what...

Shit, the only people I know making 4000-5000 a month that I've met in my life either work 60-80 hours a week or own their business. Otherwise, pretty used to seeing people work forty hours a week and "happy" to take home 1200-1500 roughly. Otherwise I don't totally disagree with your points...

Doesn't sound like it used AVX or SSE fully, possibly because AMD at least until Ryzen didn't have all of those instruction sets, though it doesn't sound like Passmark cared about a level playing field either. Awkward.

We also probably didn't have any major CPU instruction sets that hit between 8 to 9 I bet.

The only thing I find weird is most other programs will tend to make a major number change or a naming nomenclature change to the program, although I suppose version 9 to 10 at least makes it evident. But I've seen a lot of the 3D benchmark programs with wildly different number results when they...

Just wanted to say this is a pretty common practice, it's why a lot of other tech websites are still running two different sets of the same program to keep consistency.

Woo, teaming up with a company that makes benchmark games, to work on technology that PC gamers largely have no interest in. Also Golden is right, AMD's GPU side the past few generations have been really sketchy, and dodging a lot of what they market, worst than the others.

Have to agree with this, I switched my Falcons to some complys and I never worry about it, I work in a factory environment with a lot of heavy movement. Plus if the sound starts to drop in the slightest I know I cracked seal slightly, and re-adjust them when I have a moment. Happens maybe twice...

Kind of doubting these are worth much of a damn, but, they're pushing price point here. Plenty of audiophile companies are ruining the 100-200 dollar price area, I have a pair of Noble Audio Falcons and I can almost get my whole twelve hour shift out of one go, let alone 40 more hours in the...

Hope I'm not the only one that saw the phone applications for the laptop and thought, when you have so little faith in your laptop you gotta make sure you stop it before it overheats too far.

I mean, to be honest, the whole water versus air thing is always preference. There are so many 100+ dollar water coolers that can't even beat 50-60 dollar Scythe/Thermalright coolers, and are louder than them as well. It's all use case scenario.

Plenty of much better keyboards, for many years since before the Blackwidows, even RGB lit. Razer/Corsair are grossly marketed so everyone thinks they are the thing to get. They aren't, they're some of the bottom tier, especially in their price ranges.

Except Async isn't magically going to make these grudge worthy framerates in most games to 50-60+, and the 2GBs more of VRAM seems mostly a waste with this type of horsepower behind it. This card has no balance, it would've been fine at 2GB, maybe 3GB. Before the argument piques that this is...

My biggest issue with the RX460/470 isn't really that they are totally awful, it's that they would have to be priced down quite a bit more. The RX460 doesn't seem like it's doing the proper generational thing, it's not creating a new performance segment, they're dropping a card into the same...

He's not talking about brand new.