Well, I can't speak to whatever nonsense was going on in Austin, but that had to be an isolated incident. CompUSA's pricing followed MSRP for the V5 5500 for the entire run that it was in stock, I bought and sold quite a few at the PA CompUSA where I worked. There was never any listing in the...
I keep hoping that someday the latest COD title will finally flop, because that's the only way we will get away from these progressively-more-linear, run-n-gun, button-masher, brainless shooter "franchises".
Hope that's a pile of typos. 1.6W/m-K puts it on par with thermal tape from 2011. https://www.electronics-cooling.com/2011/08/gap-filler-has-thermal-conductivity-of-1-6-wm-k/
Ehh, I came from an ancient 4790K to my 3900X, so the jump was much bigger, but I also work more with SuperO/Xeon/ECC than Asrock or MSI, so I feel my opinions of stability and problems are valid. I just jumped to an Asus X570-E and 3900X, it was less money and more everything than the Intel...
You are overthinking this. RMA the board, RMA the CPU, RMA the memory. All of the vendors will test their stuff, and likely give it a clean bill of health and ship it back to you. Some part or parts may fail tests and get replaced. Once everything is back, reassemble and retest, all should be...
All the errors are on CPU 24. Since you can't move the chiplets around, I'd take the ram out and put it back in a different order. Stick 1 where 4 was, 2 where 3 was, etc. See if the errors move or stay same CPU. If they change, look at ram. If they stay #24, might be CPU or motherboard...
Yes. All the quality tech sites have imploded, sold out, or some combination of both. The ad money ran off to Youtube, so all the technology shills migrated there. The giveaway that they're a shill is that they have daily or near-daily posts, and each video "post" will contain 2-3 minutes of...
I went this route when I went water this last spring. I love it. Back on topic, I'll be picking up two of these later today, to replace two 512GBs in my gaming laptop. Games keep getting bigger, need more GBs.
You're thinking of the 686B southbridge. It had problems with bad citizens on the PCI bus (SB Live/early Audigy) corrupting other people's DMA transfers (hard disks, mostly). Erek's board has an 8233A south, which was mostly usable. As good as Via chipsets got, mostly.
Hard to say. Not many cards around to test with, and it's ugly to plug a ~3.5-4K$ card into an unknown mobo and just see if it blows up. There are a significant number of Intel chipsets in the "no vga beep" group, so not great odds.
So many rose-colored glasses, seeing what you want to see. So TR and Epyc share a socket, minus a blocker pin. This isn't really news LGA771 and LGA775 were the same socket with a few pins shifted, precisely to keep things isolated. Point of putting Epyc on an X399 board? Nearly zero, aside from...
Wouldn't matter at that time. The tainted electrolyte got into everyone's caps, world-wide. The Japanese brands tended to weed out the bad batch quicker, but no one was safe. When the bursting caps first hit, I sourced a whole load of older (>10 years stored) new-old-stock and used those to...
Those caps look very pretty. Means the board is very likely never used, or only used lightly. I'd check those periodically for signs that the contaminated electrolyte has started to boil (brown leaks, bulging, etc), but so far so good.
NF3 SATA ports are only 1.5Gb/s, though. Wouldn't do much, even with an SSD. It'll cut access times to nothing, but the STR will be wasted. The 15K U320 drive is more contemporary and gives similar benefits.
Now you need a really terribly generic beige case, or if you're going completely...
I'm late to this party, and you may have already figured this out, but I figured I've done a goodly amount of complementary tinkering and would add my results.
DW1601 in a non-Dell system: You can kinda make this work, you can get 802.11n drivers and BT drivers loaded with a lot of work, but...