Recent content by Mr Evil

In the past, there were 3rd party chipsets. I don't remember what it was like for Intel, but the ones for AMD's platforms were universally bad compared to the bog-standard AMD reference chipsets. Now we only have 1st party chipsets, which generally work much better. Motherboard companies have...

The description for the first item you linked to says "Use serial port assistant to send 0xAA, the relay keeps opening; Send 0xBB, the relay keeps closing". Interpreting the poor English, it sounds like after you send one of those commandst, it will stay in that state indefinitely. It doesn't...

I don't have a 7950X3D, but since the discussion is now about dual CCDs generally, I thought I might be able to muddy the waters a bit with some actual data. The following chart is a 1 second sample of frame times from the Mount & Blade 2 built-in benchmark running on my 5950X. The different...

Most speakers should be mounted close to ear level. It's usual to sit so your eyes are nearer to the top of the monitor than the bottom, therefore putting the speaker above the monitor will put it closer to ear level, which is good.

Interesting that you got a higher score with a 4060 Ti than GotNoRice did with a 4080. That suggests that it's more influenced by CPU than GPU. Of course the extra cache of an X3D CPU won't help with something so old, so probably Intel CPUs are better here. Maybe someone with a 14900KS would...

It's been a long time since I ran this. I still have a copy lying around. Here's what it does on my PC with the following specs: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 64GB DDR4 3600MHz AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 1TB SSD (PCIe 4) The FPS counter is amusingly stuck at 999 most of the time. It actually goes waaaay...

Steel, titanium and aluminium all have coincidentally almost the same stiffness to weight ratio. However, since titanium is lighter, that means that a case made to be the same weight as a steel case will have thicker panels, and since the thickness is a bigger contributer to stiffness than the...

It would, but we live in a world of £2k GPUs and £1k motherboards. A Ti case doesn't seem so excessive compared to that. I have a bicycle with a brushed Ti frame that is now 10 years old, and still looks pretty nice. A PC case sees a lot less wear than a bike, so I think it would be fine.

Yes, I use the same settings for everything. What you and OpenSource Ghost seem to be missing is that SDR and HDR are treated differently. I have an HDR monitor that goes up to 1200cd/m² and doesn't allow HDR brightness control, and yet when viewing normal desktop apps it emits 120cd/m², exactly...

AAA games are by definition high-budget, so they will always at the very least look better than indie games, but they are also very conservative, targeting established markets and producing very little that is new. Indie games on the other hand span a wide range from Babby's First Gaem with...

Just to expand on this a bit - liquid electrolytic capacitors are problematic because the electrolyte dries out. How fast this happens is strongly related to temperature. The small capacitors on the low-voltage side of a PSU can get very hot because they deal with large currents. The big...

There's Shadow Warrior (the new one, not the one from the 90's), where you can slice enemies into pieces, and the cuts are placed exactly where your sword passed through. It's really satisfying.

Yeah. And it makes sense if you think about it - 4090's specifically have this problem because 4090 buyers are bigger idiots than buyers of other cards, right?

Ha! 4090's failing "in bulk" sounds even worse than merely 18 of them.

If the LEDs are all wired together internally (not individually controllable), then it would probably be pretty easy to open it up and solder +5V straight to them.