Recent content by HockeyJon

Everyone likes to blame investors, but investors don’t shut down profitable enterprises. Saudi Arabia didn’t kill BioWare. Not delivering what the customer wants killed BioWare. EA corporate no doubt had something to do with their inability to do so as well. The guys who made BioWare great are...

Linux's decentralized open-source nature is both it's biggest asset and its biggest weakness for various reasons. Windows will continue to dominate the corporate landscape because it's "one ass to kick" for corporate managers and many people are trained to use it, but MS is doing a lot of...

I joked with my fellow 90s tech buddies my son will be the Linux guy at his highschool since that’s what I’ve started him on. In any case, I’m extremely satisfied with it from my experience. Windows 11 is still on my daily driver because I need it for multiplayer gaming, but as someone who...

Depends on what you want to do with it. My son’s using my old 1070Ti. Runs great for what he does at 1440p. Also, the reason AMD is so far ahead is because companies like Valve were using their APUs so they needed to make sure they could squeeze enough performance out of it. There are people...

This thread completely blew this meme away:

I built a PC with my oldest son (7 years old) earlier this year (thank the Lord for spare parts!) and installed Bazzite on it. It's incredibly easy to use and responsive. He's using it primarily for gaming at this point, had zero issues so far. Interface is intuitive and easy enough for a 7...

True, although it's been easier than ever to get on to Linux. Between Valve's work and easy to use/hard to mess up distros like Bazzite, there's less and less need for Windows. I don't believe that was the case back then.

Just out of curiosity, did you find the addition of it helped your overclocking performance?

Anyone have temperature test benchmarks for a backside fan cooler? I remember this being popular years ago, although as I recall it was mostly for VRM cooling with little impact on CPU temps. I still have an Antec Eleven Hundred with a space for one.

I have never said they will just stop selling consumer graphics cards. I said there isn’t a business case for focusing on consumer cards right now. Those are two different things. You’re seeing things like a push back on consumer GPU timelines because there are currently more lucrative...

Right, but that won’t be the majority of your production in that case. You’re selling it because you have stuff laying around at that point, not because you’re targeting it as a main business, which is kind of the point.

I’m not saying there is zero business case for making gaming GPUs in a normal environment for Nvidia, but there is certainly zero business case for doing it when they’re supply-locked on the significantly more profitable datacenter side. If supply isn’t an issue then yes, I agree with...

Design flexibility may have been an annoyance for EVGA, but a PM recently came out and said the primary driver was competition from Nvidia’s FE cards and a requirement for board partners to offer at least one card at MSRP, but then selling them a chip package at a price that meant they were...

Yes, thanks for the correction on that. Only reinforces how stupid the idea is to have a single 600W connector for a 5090.

My understanding, from what I’ve read, is that board partners have to use it. They are not allowed to use 8-pin connectors on a custom PCB. Why they’re not allowed to at least use two on a 5090 when they’re clearly redlining it is beyond me. You have 85W coming from the PCI slot and a cable...