Recent content by Repeater

We've been a Dell shop since about 1993 now. The quality of their power supplies has varied greatly over the years, depending on the model and spec. Old Dimension models (XPS R through the 4550) were pretty reliable. I've never found an OptiPlex power supply that I've liked. Even the fans in...

These are by far my favorite power supply reviews. These days, excellent power supplies are plentiful, and if you don't need 500+ Watts (even many enthusiasts don't), you can have a great PSU that will last years for $50. But it's good and very important that the reviewers for equipment that's...

Corsair RAM kicks ass because it Looks. Really. Cool. :D

I want a new motherboard because... well, one can just never have too many motherboards lying around! Actually, I'd really like the P55 one because LGA 1156 is about the only platform that I don't really have much hands-on experience with. I've got the rest pretty well covered.

CM has been shoveling crappy units off as "enthusiast" power supplies for years in some of their product lines. Judging by the unimpressive (and silly-outdated) "Elite" and "eXtreme Power" lines, the conclusion on the GX model fails to surprise me. Considering how decent the Silent Pro is...

I look for power output quality as presented by an unbiased, experienced tester. That's it. Everything else is secondary.

What I'd like to see in video cards? Ridiculously-sized passive coolers on any card that can survive with them.

I know all about it, man. I've had a number of Latitude D620s and D630s with Quadro NVS 110Ms and 135Ms (rough equivalents of the 6150) go tits-up lately, all due to video corruption and instability issues. I'm going out of my way to avoid Nvidia cards on my workstations and notebooks here in...

The X5680 seems to be officially supported on all of the EVGA X58 series boards with the newest BIOS, from the look of it. Might be a good place to start!

Wow! That sounds a lot like what the union electrical guys do to non-union shops' equipment that's left out on the field!

Since when? Ripple is actually not so bad while delivering 500W. It'll deliver 500W, just nothing more. Gabe T's reviews are pretty well-regarded, and he's not a reviewer that just hooks it up to a Core2 machine, checks voltages in software, and writes about it... Sounds like you're...

This should probably be in the AMD CPU section, but I'll shoot anyway. 1) 1.05v from the BIOS is very low for this CPU, and it's probably the reading it gives you when the CPU is idle and clocked down via power-control features. 1.3v is usually right around default voltages at default "load"...

I've had a set of HD570s for what must be going on 12 or 13 years now. They've been dropped, stepped on, and abused in all sorts of terrible ways, but have never, ever skipped a beat. They make most other headphones I've used sound like absolute rubbish, and I picked them up for cheap on Ubid...

Woohoo! Posted!

Hey, I wasn't correcting you - you're pretty much right on your first post. ;)