All companies do this, AMD is famous for useless graphs, too many people are "measurbrators", most of these companies know this and use it a psychological tool for sales.
I once did a stint as a QC/ISO inspector for a MV switchgear industrial power shop. The senior wiremen were like artisans, every wire had a tag and bundled perfectly with no excess runs. The new gen wiremen's work looked like a rats nest but at...
VPN will drop speeds and packet drops will make gaming a bad experience on cable internet. Our Spectrum dropped so many packets it would reboot the modem we purchased. Once we went ATT fiber no issues with packet loss/drops. We use enterprise...
Their pricing policy is strict any authorized seller cannot charge more than the MSRP and service is second to none. We had a experience with a local reseller (Apple authorized service center) who wanted to charge us for a recalled battery swap...
1. I don't buy into the "gaming" marketing hype. I look at core count and my workload needs.
2. I plan on waiting on Intel and AMD's next move. Not sold on DDR5 but prices are dropping fast.
3. If you want to game now it will not come...
Just a money grab
https://www.kitguru.net/components/power-supplies/joao-silva/80-plus-testing-and-licensing-fee-increase-may-affect-pricing-of-power-supplies/
As a scientist I would look at MTBF for long term reliability decisions, I have never had a PS fail, again I do not go cheap on brands(EVGA, Seasonic branded units only).
EVGA has recently introduced the fully-modular SuperNOVA G7 80 PLUS Gold-certified ATX power supply series with integrated system load indicator LED bars. The power supplies measure only 130 mm deep while featuring a half-bridge LLC Resonant...
Yeah I understand extending the life as much as you can with supply and pricing going nuts. I do Analytical chemistry for a living and I would take the temp sensor readings with a grain of salt. There is a Intel white paper explaining how the...
I like to tinker around too with undervolting and OC but if you are spending approx. 1900 for a GPU the cost of electricity should not even be an issue. Now if you are running an asic mining farm like my son does power savings correlates to...