Well, I can't speak to whatever nonsense was going on in Austin, but that had to be an isolated incident. CompUSA's pricing followed MSRP for the V5 5500 for the entire run that it was in stock, I bought and sold quite a few at the PA CompUSA where I worked. There was never any listing in the...
I keep hoping that someday the latest COD title will finally flop, because that's the only way we will get away from these progressively-more-linear, run-n-gun, button-masher, brainless shooter "franchises".
Hope that's a pile of typos. 1.6W/m-K puts it on par with thermal tape from 2011. https://www.electronics-cooling.com/2011/08/gap-filler-has-thermal-conductivity-of-1-6-wm-k/
Ehh, I came from an ancient 4790K to my 3900X, so the jump was much bigger, but I also work more with SuperO/Xeon/ECC than Asrock or MSI, so I feel my opinions of stability and problems are valid. I just jumped to an Asus X570-E and 3900X, it was less money and more everything than the Intel...
You are overthinking this. RMA the board, RMA the CPU, RMA the memory. All of the vendors will test their stuff, and likely give it a clean bill of health and ship it back to you. Some part or parts may fail tests and get replaced. Once everything is back, reassemble and retest, all should be...
All the errors are on CPU 24. Since you can't move the chiplets around, I'd take the ram out and put it back in a different order. Stick 1 where 4 was, 2 where 3 was, etc. See if the errors move or stay same CPU. If they change, look at ram. If they stay #24, might be CPU or motherboard...
Yes. All the quality tech sites have imploded, sold out, or some combination of both. The ad money ran off to Youtube, so all the technology shills migrated there. The giveaway that they're a shill is that they have daily or near-daily posts, and each video "post" will contain 2-3 minutes of...
I went this route when I went water this last spring. I love it. Back on topic, I'll be picking up two of these later today, to replace two 512GBs in my gaming laptop. Games keep getting bigger, need more GBs.
You're thinking of the 686B southbridge. It had problems with bad citizens on the PCI bus (SB Live/early Audigy) corrupting other people's DMA transfers (hard disks, mostly). Erek's board has an 8233A south, which was mostly usable. As good as Via chipsets got, mostly.
Hard to say. Not many cards around to test with, and it's ugly to plug a ~3.5-4K$ card into an unknown mobo and just see if it blows up. There are a significant number of Intel chipsets in the "no vga beep" group, so not great odds.