Recent content by ymdhis

The DDR5 speeds depend largely on the IOD, so yeah. Assuming the board doesn't have bad signaling between the LGA and the DDR slots.

This is incredibly useful and needs to become a standard. I'm already doing this but with chinese NVME splitters (it gives you two x4 NVME slots, plus a x8 low profile slot).

Finally, they updated the IOD. This may be the AM5 chip that will be worth switching to.

It still takes half a second to load the favourites dropdown, and there's no way to customize it (for ex. reduce the empty space between entries).

Does Win11 still take seconds to open up the context menu if you right click on the desktop? My Win98SE rig running a 450 MHz K6-2 can outperform that.

What is their definition for a fan going bad for warranty replacements? Does it have to be a total fan stop, or just one fan not living up to the specification out of the box? Noctua replaces fans for the latter too, like one fan having minor bearing noise on them. for ex. one fan was slightly...

Igorslab published a gigantic puff piece about the Alphacool metal fans, calling it a revolution in fan technology, and it ended up worse than the Noctua A12 (but being just as expensive) and making Igorslab look like a right arsehole.

Oh, they have blade rings, nice. I wonder how these will stack up to Noctuas.

The number sounds impressive, but did online petitions ever reach any actual parliament in the history of online petitions?

Hey, here's an idea: put RGB on the tubes too. It's the only thing missing from gamer cases.

If the card offers more fake frames, will they accept if I buy it with fake dollars?

Okay, so the next xbox launch is going to be butchered, but at least after that there's a chance they'll become relevant again. The only notable thing that came out of the brand in the past decade is a controller with the best d-pad, a fridge, and a toaster.

Webp isn't getting adopted, it's being forced by Google who penalizes you for not using Webp. I've seen maybe one site total that used native WebP, everything else just had a plugin installed so whenever you queried a jpg, it served a webp. Which means it is transcoding every lossy image to...

LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT PCIE PORT.

That's no excuse for their cards to come with 50% less VRAM.