I've got an aging SSD that still works fine, but showing 81% health in Crystal Disk Info. Is there a general consensus on when to replace an SSD? For example, in my vehicles I don't wait until 0% oil life before getting an oil change.
Bought a gaming laptop a week or two ago (i7-11800H/115watt RTX 3060/1080p @ 144hz) I got a chance to really put it through it's paces over the last couple days while I've been out of town. Performance is great, better than expected. I didn't realize just how much power they've been able to cram...
I figured some may appreciate or find interesting the quick little test I did.
Laptop Specs:
i7 11800H
RTX 3060 115w variant
Time Spy Score 8196 (Graphics: 8035/CPU: 9252)
Power Consumption: ~200watts
4-5 year old gaming desktop:
R7 2700 (non-x)
Vega 56
Time Spy Score: 6721 (Graphics...
So my wife is dragging me to an out of state conference with her because she doesn't want to go alone, so I decided this would be a good excuse to buy a gaming laptop to keep myself entertained. It's an HP Omen 16 with an i7 11800H, 16GB RAM and the 115 watt derivative of the RTX 3060.
This...
How many here have experience with this and what is your opinion of it? My deployments are largely using Sonicwalls with Ubiquiti WAPs+cloud controller. I've come to like Ubiquiti's cloud management features and overall configurability/performance but I have no experience with their firewalls...
Perhaps it's my imagination, but I feel the last couple years, PC game requirements for recent games has taxed GPUs of today far harder than games of yesteryear had taxed the GPU's of their time.
It wasn't that long ago when we had so much GPU power on tap compared to what games required that...
Are there any PSU's on the market that natively have the new 12vh power connector that's supposed to be present on the RTX 4000 series cards? I will undoubtedly need to upgrade my current 750watter once I upgrade the 3080. I know there's no immediate need to upgrade my PSU, just getting a head...
I pulled the trigger on the Alienware 34" 1440p Ultra Wide QD-OLED display w/HDR and wondering if enabling HDR in games that support it impact FPS? This will be my first venture into HDR, wondering what to expect.
I was going through HWInfo with a fine tooth comb just to learn more about my hardware and noticed that one of the CPU features, (virtualization) is “supported” but not enabled. I’m pretty sure the switch is somewhere in the bios. Is there any benefit, or for that matter, drawbacks to enabling...
I'm curious if anyone has tested performance and thermals of the custom design Alienware uses on their 3080's and compared them with a 3080FE? I have a sizable chuck of Dell rewards I can put towards the order and i'm considering going this route to get my hands on a 3080.
Soooo I got a notification from Hot Stock that BB has the 3090 in stock. I click on it immediately, i'm able to add to cart (or so it seemed) only to get greeted by a message saying it's a high demand item and that stock will be replenished every few minutes....
Ok, fair enough. Now i'm on the...