Recent content by Patton43

I have also used this stuff exclusively for ~15 years with excellent results. Even better that it is the clear variety as I have had issues with the dye they use in the colored versions discoloring some parts. It was about time to flush the loops in both of our PCs so great timing. In for...

Meanwhile my X570 build has been my most stable in recent memory. It has been rock-solid and much better than the Intel board it replaced. Though that could just be a Gigabyte (X570) vs Asrock (Intel) difference. Anyway, anecdotal evidence is just that and YMMV ;) Not a fanboy and both sides...

When we built our new house back in 2014 I put in a 20A dedicated circuit to my office just for my PC. It is more about having clean power by not sharing the circuit with appliances, etc. but has worked out well ;)

I made the same switch last week and even at 4K it has been worth it for the poorly optimized or CPU bound games like WOW, Civ, Stellaris, etc. It seemed silly at first but I can't argue with the results. Pegged at 4K120 or showing GPU utilization at 100% if less than that. I agree with the...

I liked mine so much I bought a 5800x to replace it. The consumer drives were basically rebadged enterprise drives. I love the reliability, the insane low latency and never having to worry about endurance. In my use case the drive will have some sort of physical failure before the media wears...

I got the HC product page up once with no notify button yet. Totally unresponsive for the last 7-8 minutes. Wake me up in 2022, so sick of this garbage.

True but my 75" Sony 940E from 2017 gets closer than anything else I've seen, without the burn-in. This display was a unicorn. 95 % of the performance of the Z9D that was twice the price. Sony got wise and this was the last display they made that was so close in performance to the flagship...

Very happy with my 5950x and zero regrets at this point. It is a monster and easily handles everything I throw at it and runs quite cool. The user experience has been exceptional so far. I was really hoping Intel would pull off a surprise win, but they are between a rock and a hard place...

I have to agree with the thought that this game is more about the story and the characters. There have been some really cool moments with your "copilot". The bugs don't bother me so much, certainly nothing game breaking. I also think it looks great turned up on my 2080Ti at 1440p@120Hz. I...

Interesting, but about 3X what I would pay at this point. Unless my current drive dies, the real life gains would be hard to justify at that price, especially without a capacity improvement (in fact a reduction from the 900p base model). The only place I can find a listing is ~$1300 for 400Gb...

That is a shame. I love my 900P as a boot drive where low latency and high random IO performance is more important than sequential throughput. I was looking forward to a PCIE 4.0 version based on gen 2 3D Xpoint. Oh well, this thing will last a long time and maybe Micron will come up with...

I have one installed and updated waiting for my 5950x to get here tomorrow. It is in the Amazon return window and is going back. I have had good luck with Gigabyte in the past, but I don't want to risk it with the cost of this board. Going to an ASUS model most likely. Thanks all!

I got my order for a 5950x in at BH at 12:06 AM EST, so hopefully there were not too many ahead of me. Also got charged immediately on my CC. I was going to go stand in the cold at Microcenter but for some reason I woke up at 11:58pm and decided to check my phone. Would have had it in earlier...

The only justification I need is that it is the full GPU and looks to match very well vs. the 3090. I was prepared to buy a 3090, so comparable performance for 2/3 the price? Sold. The extra cash can go towards replacing my Gsync 32" 4K. Assuming the reviews back up the initial claims.

I just let my wife know that the 5950X is in my future and her response was "Cool". Yep, she's a keeper!