Recent content by Woomack

People read all the bad comments on the web, and since the prices are high, they don't buy it. Many of those who bought it already asked for a refund. I won't hide I couldn't stand it for much more than 1h. After about 1.5h on the counter, I asked for a refund. The list of issues is so long that...

I find it weird that reports are always from this one store and always give 90%+ sales for AMD chips while I have contacts in distribution, and it doesn't look anything close in many other places.

NUC, as a brand, was sold by Intel to ASUS some time ago. This is why Intel doesn't have NUCs anymore.

Actually, their coolers are not bad and inexpensive. If I'm right, they had the same OEM for AIOs as Corsair. However, there are many other brands like that on the market.

I'm sure there is something more behind the delay, as these cards have already been collecting dust in some large stores since the beginning of January (I can't share the source). Some review samples were also shipped as vendors were sure that the release date for the first models was the end of...

Based on an X post and unofficial data from one store ...

I can't see these sales records. Intel still has ~65% of the market. From the latest AMD CPUs, only the 9800X3D is interesting, but it's been unavailable in most stores since its release, so it doesn't affect the global market much. New Intels are "global meh", but probably still sell better...

Probably every new motherboard has an M.2 WiFi socket, but it's almost always occupied (vertical, usually under the IO cover). Biostar simply doesn't add a WiFi card, and this is the same for all their motherboards, even the Valkyrie series. The mobo is very average, if not below average. The...

Most mATX cases are almost as large as compact ATX cases, so I find mATX pointless. If you want a larger CPU cooler or graphics card in mATX, then you will end up with an ATX-size PC anyway. It doesn't change that ITX cases are getting ridiculous and many of them are also barely smaller than...

Yes, AS01->AS03 had the same description for Z890 OCF and Z890I Nova (OCF has 2.26, Nova has 2.23, but updates are the same for the whole line of Z890 mobos, and all went from .AS01 to .AS03 in a week). I literally see no difference on the Z890I Nova. I didn't check the 2.26.AS03 for the OCF...

What is sad is that "finished" games recently have many more issues than the early release of PoE2. Still, PoE2 costs significantly less and is fully playable without issues. There are some little bugs, but it's far from problems with most AAA games that were released recently and cost $70+. I...

The ITX version cooler is custom-made and also cools VRM. You cannot buy a replacement in stores. The biggest problem with Minisforum is its support. They literally have no support. Anything that breaks is sent to Hong Kong at your cost. Even if you report issues via Amazon, then they will send...

ASRock released 3 beta BIOS versions last week, all with microcode 114. However, I see no difference between them, and the patch notes are the same. I didn't bother to ask ASRock what was changed. On the other hand, I have no performance or stability issues on my rigs. The performance could be...

It could be worse, like their "new" RX580 three months ago :) DDR4 is at least still in use ...

I have two retail 265Ks that passed 3h 9000MT/s G2 stability tests. One runs at 9200 G2 on the ASRock OCF, but I didn't check it in any extended stability test ... it has some hours of mixed tests without problems. On the other hand, I have a hard time passing 9733MT/s G4. Maybe it's my RAM, as...