Recent content by RickyJ

Butts. I may have to just use the AOD then, I just kept mine off for battery reasons.

I went to my local Best Buy to see if I could play with the phones. They had them but the demo stand wasn't charging them so they were dead. I'd definitely be happy with the feel of the 6, it's all of 1/2" taller than my P2 and only slightly wider. The Pro looked 3/4" taller. Tomorrow I'll go to...

The wait for these phones has been hard, and seeing some of the issues makes me sad. I bought Pixel 2's for my mom and I in Nov 2017, and my sister got one shortly after seeing ours. All three phones had been awesome for so long, and there hasn't been a Pixel worthy of replacing them until the...

I started playing Centipede, Jumpman, etc as a kid on the family 286. 386 I had to turn off Turbo mode and it was still too fast for my Jumpman and Centipede. It did let me play some early Carmen Sandiego and other cool side scrollers though, so progress was made. Then came Doom/Doom2... The...

Bring it on. My X58 system has been a trooper for 12 years meow. It's had upgrades like a hex-core Xeon but retirement is overdue. I'm lacking the instruction sets for some newer games so I keep playing older ones. Hopefully Alder Lake is successful and DDR5 is at least on par with good DDR4...

We just moved into our new build. Upgraded cables wasn't a listed option but when I asked they offered CAT6a for $50cdn extra per drop. The bulk cable is double the cost, plus the different hardware, so it was delightfully cheap to upgrade. Best time to get cables run!

My understanding is that VA tv's and VA monitors aren't in the same league. Bigger pixels are easier to produce and TV's pay the bills, monitor tech lags behind as a niche that's harder to deal with. If I was to (finally) retire my 12 year old Panasonic plasma I'd be out looking at VA. For...

I backordered a 2nd LG 27GL850 at a sale price, so I'm cautiously optimistic that there won't be a better option for the price in 2021...but if there will be I need to know soon haha.

Well after probably 2-3 years of infrequent freezing at Win10 login screen, and only occasionally giving me a blue screen during those freezes, it's finally made a couple minidump files. Code 0x9C, it could have told me earlier but nooooo. "0x9C = QPI/VTT most likely, but increasing vcore has...

Yup, and this has been stable for years too. My 920 overclock degraded from 4.2 to 3.8 before I went x5670, and this has been going at 4.0 for years (I could only get 4.2 anyway). At some point hardware just goes. PSU is a 10-11yr old Corsair HX1000, mobo is 10, etc.

Death Stranding was on sale a few weeks ago, but looking at the requirements I was surprised to see AVX specifically mentioned. We don't have that instruction set sadly. Are we finally getting to the point where we won't be able to run modern things? I'm getting tired of the random freezing and...

My LinX score matched close enough to my GFlops from 2015 so I didn't think about it.

I just built an i5-4670k machine for work from used parts, figured I'd compare it to my trusty daily 5670@4GHz. Same 1600MHz 16GB DDR3 (different brand/timings, but close enough). 5670: Cinebench R15: 908 Cinebench R20: 1857 HyperPi 0.99 1M 19x: 22.x seconds LinX 0.6.5 8192MB, problem size...

My x5670 6c12t @4GHz just got 1857 on R20. Stock i5-4670k I just built for work got 1409. The i5 blew it out of the water on HyperPi 1M though, 12sec vs 22sec. And Linx 173GFlops vs my 72GFlops at the same settings.

It's taken Intel until Coffee Lake to have a mainstream processor to adequately replace my X58 Xeon hex, and soon it'll have the same performance. Great, haha.