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Memory overclocking sees huge gain on the platform though. It's just shifted the focus of the OC / tinker time. AVG & 1% low FPS on my setup using Shadow of the Tomb Raider improved ~15% just from the difference between DDR4-3200 XMP profile and DDR4-3800 tuned timings and subtimings.

tRFC is big, for sure, and therefore tRC is too, and tRC is based on tRAS and tRP, and tRAS is based on tCL and tRCD... all of these are related in some way, so as you lower primaries, you can lower tRFC too. tFAW is good and therefore tRRDS tWR is important for writes, but writes aren't like...

My results with Crucial Ballistix LT (Micron e-die) 2x8GB kit with XMP 3200 16-18-18. Motherboard is MSI x570 Gaming Plus. CPU is 3600X. 1T max was 3600 14-19-16-36 @1.41v (I added 0.01v for 24/7 after validating 1.41v overnight.) 2T 3800 15-20-17-38 @ 1.40v (I added 0.01v for 24/7 after...

For the most part, outside of technicalities, VRM are pretty binary. Either they support the current you need at reasonable temperatures or they dont. Now there are definite technicalities like ripple and responsiveness to droop and such, but these are not something that a person seeking a...

Yeah, I didn't do a good job of conveying what I meant. So yeah a normal enthusiast just enables PBO and makes sure he's at DDR4 3600 or DDR4 3733 with a 1:1 ratio on the IF perhaps even with the stock cooler (for 3700x and up) perhaps with a bigger cooler. But for max tweaking, it's...

Like every benchmark ever is showing low write speeds. Either that's a feature (tm) or it's something like you say, a BIOS issue that affects everything. I've heard that the infinity fabric speed will be a VERY big factor, and this OC will be as important as core speeds for some workloads...

No way this will be priced like a Vega 64. This is a die the size of a 1660 die. It's going to be $300 or less. This is a midrange die, looking to push people considering a 1660 up due to a big performance increase for a little more money and push the people looking at 2060 / 2070 down for...

In the Anandtech article, they estimated the new 5700 die size based on photos to be approx 275mm2, which is in line with the size of the 1660 (~280mm2) die. I think the closest past release similar to this is the AMD release of the 7870, which was ~230mm2 and competed roughly on a par with the...

As the father of an 11 y/o daughter, I bought an XBone a couple years ago that basically goes untouched. You need a subscription to basically do anything. I got Minecraft on it for my daughter... I think her 8th birthday... you need a subscription to be allowed to SAVE IN SINGLEPLAYER...

hmm... the GPUs I've bought over the years have all been about the same size according to that chart until we get REALLY old... like Geforce 256 / GeForce 2 / 3 timeframe... If you're buying the larger GPUs then you are presumably finding value in what that extra cost is providing... and the...

Personally I hate crypto because it makes no goddamn sense. You are trading energy that could actually be used for something (or not used and not contribute to environmental issues) to create what? Imaginary value and a tiny amount of R&D into cryptosecurity & algorthms. It's a colossally...

Maybe if you live 10 years ago. My $250-ish (on sale) Dell 825 wireless color laser has been going great for a couple years. Starter toner has lasted quite a while. I've replaced black, but not needed to replace color yet. Replacement toner is not cheap, but it's not like ink that streaks...

I agree... Fewer and fewer people care about getting hardware on day one. Dollar values have increased from the old days, and so more people are waiting for a complete picture. Just reading these comments and knowing about what is required to get a day one review already taints the validity...

I don't think forum users can adequately answer the question. It's a question of is the potential loss of integrity worth $4xxx in 2080Tis. I don't have the budgetary context for the site to adequately answer that. The opinions here will help with understanding the value of the potential...

Recently stopped Amazon prime for a myriad of reasons. I don't have a huge problem watching ads on Twitch except for 2 things: 1) the livestreams seem to all be low volume, so commercials are SCREAMING LOUD. I know commercials are louder than the show, even on TV, but it's doubly so for...

Keep in mind that the end result of this will likely be the same as the DRAM market cycle... Over capacity / prices fall (~couple years ago when 16 GB RAM kits were available at like $80) Slowly layoff people / trim factory capacity (last couple years as prices rise) Unforseen demand, capacity...

Well to be fair, I feel like pretty much every hardware company marketing now is 'Steve Buscemi meme with the skateboard' level of cringe.

This is exactly why you would actually use fast.com, and why it's one of the few speed testing sites that is actually accurate. Netflix uses the same range of IPs for fast.com and it's Netflix content so that if your ISP wants to prioritize fast.com traffic they also have to prioritize Netflix...

I mean it sucks to be one of the 10 or 12 people who bought an i9 laptop, but I mean, really, an i9 laptop? What is the expression? Something about a fool, his money and his hair? Yeah, sure, apple did apple things, but someone had to buy an i9 laptop that's 15mm thick and expect that they're...

nVidia has been doing this kind of thing for decades. Geforce MX 2 / MX 4 anyone? 64 bit and 128 bit versions, among many other examples. I remember having forum discussions with teenagers saving up for a card for their PC only to find out afterwards it was garbage in the Battlefield 1942 /...

This is exactly how you know the other Amazon news story about how it's encouraging entrepreneurs to create an amazon specific delivery service is complete BS and isn't going to be profitable. If Amazon sees something anywhere near it's core business that it can start doing and making money...

Really? Admittedly it was quite a while ago, but when I worked in food service, the waiter split up their tips for the night giving ~20-40% to the kitchen staff and ~10-20% to the busboys. Is it not this way anymore?

Whenever I see a restaurant with one of these things at the table, that restaurant immediately gets added to the "will never return to this place again" list as I shove it to the side. I go out to eat to take a load off and have someone else do the work for me. If I have to learn their OS and...

I believe this kind of thing is intended for those companies making regular deliveries from their main warehouses to their local hubs... Like the central valley in CA to LA, Sacramento, and Bay Area hubs. Kettleman City to Oakland or Sacramento is less than 500 round trip. So is Kettleman City...

I think the Farmville era was the start of the microtransaction revolution. They realized a select few would literally spend thousands a month on microtransactions, eventually this reached teens playing barbie dress-up with FPS skins. Now it's pay to win in AAA games. I've played some of the...

I'm not sure anyone outside of the nostalgia crew will appreciate vanilla WoW. The instant reward and play for reward gamers of today may be pretty shocked at the amount of grinding in vanilla... grinding to get cap, grinding to get enough raid materials to raid, grinding through all the trash...

Max charging capability often depends on battery capability. Battery charge & discharge rates are spec-ed in terms of #*capacity (C-rate), and high C-rate batteries are way more expensive than low C-rate batteries. Charge C-rate spec is almost universally lower than discharge C-rate spec. A...

I bought an Xbox One and a dance game and Minecraft for my daughter. She played the Dance game for a while, but not too long. The Xbox Minecraft version requires a subscription to be able to SAVE YOUR CREATIONS. WTF dude. No way, not gonna happen. So of course she doesn't play the Xbox...

Amazon Data Warehouse, Google, Facebook, Apple, video security companies... pretty much every company that deals with large quantities of data wants a LOT of big cheap spindle drives. The drives discussed in this article aren't the drives your mom buys at Costco to backup her computer...

You need the storage that your streams come from. The storage is still there, it's just not where it used to be. More in datacenters, less at home. Also big brother type of demand in storing security camera footage. As someone who works in the industry, the reason for the flattening out is...

If I had my choice, then in the U.S, I would put 2 timezones on permanent DST and 2 on permanent standard time, so that the time difference between the east and west coast was 2 hours instead of 4 hours. It would create some awkwardness where some state borders would result in a 2 hour jump in...

Any external DAC will get rid of this. Your noise floor becomes the capability of the DAC. For example if you have to go on a business trip with a company laptop with a crappy DAC that makes all kinds of background noise when moving the trackpad or accessing the hard drive or whatever, even...

There are quite a few DAC / amps in the $100 range that are probably perfectly fine for most everyone. I have a SMSL one that I use for headphones or coupled to a small tripath amp for bookshelf speakers if I don't need to worry about the rest of the house. To me the biggest deal is that I'd...

Yeah, I had an i3 530 that overclocked well enough to be reasonable. But that was in the days when many games did very well with 2+2 highly overclocked threads vs. 4 moderately overclocked threads. With them selling a K version now, I expect we will see someone provide these kinds of...

In all likelihood, if the Prop passes, the studios would pack up and move to Las Vegas. It's basically a NIMBY prop from people who don't want it done here. They know it won't really change much of anything about porn aside from where the major "hub" of studios is. It's a stupid law...

People who have been around a while have seen this same thing with the transitions between other memory technologies. Mature previous gen is faster and cheaper than the new stuff... initially. Then the new stuff gains volume and manufacturing maturity and eventually becomes better. You don't...

Not worth it for z87 in that case. Likely the z87 will have extra features which consume more total power than any feature saves on an SSD (which doesn't use much anyway.) As long as the H87 has the ports and slots you need... should be good.

In a business environment where all you're doing with the computer is Powerpoint, e-mail and accessing some extremely simple interface web based databases and such? An office environment PC doesn't need mass horsepower or memory. The only thing demanding our office PCs run is McAfee. McAfee...

Reading the article my guess is that they migrated to LiMux instead of Win 7 when faced with the need to replace WinXP. It doesn't come right out and say it, but it does say that the LiMux transition allowed them to continue using lower spec hardware. From this I implied that they were...

As someone who works at a place with equipment that has ancient interfaces and such, I have no problem believing both of these will be true. I think people severely underestimate the lengths that businesses will go to in order to NOT have to update ancient software. Especially when the guy...