Recent content by Rendon

Sorry, this is completely false. You're just coming up with numbers out of your ass that do not reflect reality. In a period of strong increase of real estate value, you'll make money owning a house. In a period of weak/no increase of real estate value (like the last few years), you'd be better...

Ugh. I'm on a 920 and convinced myself last year that after the disappointing Ivy Bridge launch to wait for Haswell to upgrade. I really want to upgrade, but at this point it seems to be like throwing good money after the bathwater.

He does care somewhat, or he wouldn't have posted.

It isn't uncommon to see people these days playing less gpu intensive games like Starcraft 2 while also streaming in 1080p with good audio quality. A decent internet connection and an i7 (possibly socket 2011) is more important than GPU in that use case.

Let S, B, and H be the performance 'values', clock for clock, for Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and Haswell respectively. Let X and Y be arbitrary constants. An increase in performance of X% from S to B would be written as B = S + .01 * X * S An increase in performance of Y% from B to H would be...

I'm in a similar boat to the OP. I'm running an i7 920 and was considering pulling the trigger and upgrading when ivy bridge came out. I do a moderate amount of virtualization (routers and PCs) and for gaming I play starcraft 2 while encoding video (streaming) and hope to push up the encoding...

I've known that there was a fair bit of anti-fanboyism against id at the top here, I hadn't realized the extent to which this was true until Rage launch day when there was what felt like 8 posts about how much Kyle hates rage. Now I realize many of these games you people play have plenty of...

Don't worry, Quakecon is still free.

Hello everyone, I got my CCNP last year and while I enjoy my job, the more I read about security the more interested I become. Now, I've been exposed to enough geek culture over the years to know that you can't just go out and get a couple certs and pretend to competent. I've been reading all...

I've been using a DAS keyboard 2 for something like 5 years now and I love it to death. I've never tried one of these newfanged ultimate or professional, but I'd assume they're just as good. I absolutely hate typing on a squishy or flush keyboard (like now :X) and it is always a useful...

Got it thanks, I think I'll buy this psu in an hour or two, thanks everyone.

I've been doing research on the AX750 and it looks great, considering newegg has a 10% off coupon and a rebate for it, also 12 sata connectors is awesome. The one question I have, and it's so basic and likely dumb that the reviews don't bother answering it, is how do I tell if these PSUs...

Good catch. Factoring out the 190w for the rest of the system, doubling it and adding it back in shows 718 so I can see how that's doable. Adding in a few extra HDDs would still leave it under 750W, but is that a big enough margin to be safe?

Were that it not a 2 hour sale when I was unable to buy. :( Raptors are great hard drives but I don't regret the performance of the SSD. I have considered moving my rosewill to the top of my case (as there are two PSU mounts, and using it to power my HDDs with a separate switch to turn off at...

Yeah, RMA'd my enermax 720 3 times before giving up, and my BFG 800 twice. The rosewill has kept chugging along for 2 years. My current specs are: i7 920 GTX570 120gb 2nd gen Intel SSD And about 6-8 Sata hdds that I'd like to power up. As for a noise suppressing case, that's probably a...