My love for pc gaming started nearly 30 years ago when I played Doom for the 1st time, so in between custom builds for my customers I've been working on this Ryzen/Windows 7 build for myself that I put together to run my old cd based games and as a tribute to the Doom game. My Windows 10, Ryzen...
've been playing with my 5950x/Tomahawk X570 for weeks trying to find balance in the system between multi-score and single core scores. I tried an all core overclock first and while the multi-core scores looked nice, the single core dropped like my ex-wife on our first date. I knew this old...
Finally my rig is finished and I've named it Ryzen Cane. Lots of planning and work to get her to this level and I'm very proud of my creation!
Tower: Thermaltake Core X5
Cpu: Ryzen 5950x
Cooler: Noctua DH-15 Chromax Black
Motherboard: MSI Tomahawk X570
Memory: 32 gigs of G.Skill Trident Z Royal...
I've been running this board for 2 years and currently with a 3950x/ 3600 "b" die corsair memory, and I've been on bios 3.90 ever since it came out. This morning I flashed to the new bios 4.60 which adds 5000 series support, just in case I ever decide to put a 5000 processor in it sometime in...
Troubleshooting computers for customers can be lengthy at times, with having to swap parts in and out. For some time I've been playing with the idea of fabricating my own test station that would also double as a functioning backup computer for myself. I drew up the blueprints for it earlier...
My best previous score was 9669 with the 3950x clocked to 4250 and 16gb (2x8) of Corsair 3600 B-die with timings at 14-16-16-16-36. Lately I've read a lot of post about people experiencing a nice bump if you have 2 sticks of single bank ram, and then bump up to 4 sticks . So I wondered if a gain...
Hey gang, I just finished my new rustic computer desk and new pc: 8' long,1 3/4" butcher block finished in dark walnut with 3 coats of polyurethane. 2" square stock metal legs that were rusted then sprayed with clear laquer, the back boards were used to hide all the wiring and are made of pine...