Recent content by Silent.Sin

Great follow up article on AT's part, goes to show there are often many different definitions of a valid measurement. I'm really curious if they will publish more in depth findings of the impact of HPET with and without the spectre patches. If Windows ever begins to rely on more precise timings...

I found that to be really cool. I need to reread it, but he was also toying around in the bios disabling power protections in that section. I can't recall if he tested power usage with those off or at default. AMD has a pretty long record of using leaky cores for their high end. Like he...

New post from The Stilt addresses a ton of questions that were posed in this thread around XFR, differences between 370 and 470 boards, latencies, practical difference between 12 and 14nm, etc. Really good technical read as usual...

Very dependent on wild speculative rumors, but I'm really curious if the gaming focused branch of Arctic Sound that Raja is going with will continue in the Kaby Lake G vein. Will that be licensed Navi chiplets? Is this where the rumors of chiplets came from to begin with? I find it hard to...

Anandtech also pointed at the strange whois records, they obviously had no real desire to notify AMD with any sort of a proper lead time. amdflaws.com registered Feb 22, 2018 and the whitepaper hosted on safefirmware.com which was registered June 9, 2017 under the same sort of anonymous...

I generally only run lightweight stuff like a linux box for easy ssh and *nix duties for work, or for small labs to test stuff like docker, chef, etc but I've never noticed anything like that which wasn't expected. I went from 6 core Intel to 6 core AMD and don't feel a noticeable difference in...

I don't understand this opinion with people. I have a nexus 5X and honestly can't imagine a better place for a finger print sensor than the back. I may have to compromise with my next phone because there's never a phone that checks all of the boxes and for whatever reason that is the less...

At 1.3V. Kyle's review only had to use ~1.2 for that clockspeed and mentioned that going up to 1.25+ started to make things get a little crazy. I can't quite tell what Corsair water cooler they are using, but Kyle's might have been a bit better as far as controlling heat saturation. I think they...

Yeah I've been keeping an eye out for a new video card but the price/performance ratio of the old pitcairn is still tough to beat, it's why they used that core through 3 (4 if you count OEM I think) generations of card families. I generally buy GPUs <=$200 and while I could live with the CPU...

^This. My board died and I couldn't justify buying a new one for so much money and still being stuck without the niceties of a modern platform so I had to move on. My 920 and X5650 had some amazing longevity, would probably still be using it for another couple of years if I could have because...

McDork probably already found the answer, but I was running an X5650 on that board very successfully for about 3 years up until it went on to a better place a couple of months ago. It would require a more recent BIOS update for the CPU to be properly recognized (I think around the F6 release...

My old reliable X58 system (X5650 @ 3.6GHz, 18GB[6+12]) finally gave up the ghost a couple of months ago. The Gigabyte X58A-UD3R v1 seemed to have just up and died one night. I couldn't justify reviving it with a new motherboard, not having native support of PCIE3, USB3, or SATA3 wasn't going to...

My current system may be on its last leg so am watching the ryzen space closely and was hoping to see some of these loose ends tightened up before I have to make a decision on what to get next. This part seemed a little ambiguous as I understand the current state of the memory speed ->...

Ohh free stuff!

I'm pretty stoked for this too actually, it's the little things. I've been wondering what the hell happened to built in PIP in the past two decades with display devices. Things finally went digital which I assumed would make supporting PIP easier than it used to be and instead it all but...