Recent content by undercoverDrunk

I wish. This seagate enclosure explicitly states it should be plugged directly into the wall and not through a surge protector. It is the desktop 8TB hub version. It is part of the troubleshooting tips and for me... it worked 100%. I have a number of 2TB that never have this limitation so I can...

Whyyyyyyyyy Why must you be plugged directly into the wall? Whyyyyyyyyy Why do you hang my entire system when I decide to use you again for a large backup so you crash every and all things? Whyyyyyyyyy Why must I suffer through yet one more troubleshooting event of 30minutes over this and...

Same. Unless you got a state tax incentive (most are gone) 7500 isnt going to drop a model s to my price. Plus it hurts my soul taking the depreciation hit at full rip. Theyre still exclusive enough, ala cartman/apple marketing. I dont think theyve reached tier 1 economies of scale but slowly...

They are production but have all the warnings, beta alerts, and idiot clauses. People will do it because its cool. Still safer then the dumbest 10% with a drivers liscense but there are no iq real tests to get one... 1000 fails and a pass is a pass Point is this a .5 on the fear omg using the...

These are completely different consumer bases but I suspect you knew that. I too am in the sd card "niche" as it is marketed now. But I don't believe I am the majority. The option to force upgrades with obsolescence is their objectivr. The masses have already voted for the short term gain, ooo...

To be fair one of the major points of the publication is to report readership opinions. Self selection of those readers are a set of people who generally trend to value cheap the prestige perfection. One of their strengths is that they don't fly off and editorialize without "consumer reports" to...

Agreed. I've always found it suspicious that every luxury brand is utterly unreliable when compared to the budget brands. Self selection bias and expectations hurt the standings. I use cr between classes of cars to narrow down options. It's as if everyone with a 2005 car broke down already if...

With the expected rebrand, it is common opinion that once Fiji drops so will the price of the 290x. As of today I could never recommend this at that price. My 970 was cheaper over 6 months ago.

So if a motherboard was killing DIMMs would that be a red flag? How could you tell if it was the PSU or just bad memory? That's the problem with PSU purchases, its like working out your core, you don't think you need it until something breaks.

Is there a way to reliably test a PSU for us enthusiasts without dedicated testing tools? I have a 1k PSU that I've been using for what seems like 5 years and this article made me wonder what would happen if it gave out. Hoping it goes quietly in the night and not take out the system... Is...

I have a few local guys that I'm going to move forward with. Cash is king. Here is a mostly worthless benchmark but looks good. I was using this to test video card overclock. Catzilla i5 2500k 24960 4.7ghz i7 4790k 25274 stock The 970 was doing the heavy lifting. My OC actually lowered...

Sorry for not including price. I just added.

****************SOLD*************************** Thank you to everyone being patient my first time around. ****************************************************************** Selling my old system as I have no use after upgrading. Never used Corsair 60i, New in box. Please PM me any...

It doesn't look good. You're facing 2 known bugs. SLI voltage and now this vram. I waiting to hear how bad it is because right now there isn't any issues from what I play. The thing is I didnt buy the 970 for "right now" but for 2+years later gaming. This has my attention for sure.

Since I recently RMA'd my Asus 970 I am very curious how this will turn out. The rumor is that it effects all cards and there is some flex in when/where the performance tanks for each card. My hope is a firmware or bios fix. If I start seeing version2 cards coming I'm going to be very upset if...