Recent content by 4330thgink

Thank you! I usually don't keep up with the latest gear. The kid dropped a stack of $20's on my desk and asked me to build him a new system.

I know it's a stupid question, but what is the current generation of AMD graphics cards? I'm looking for a mid to upper mid range card.

If you take your 2700X back - you might be in a pickle if your old stock X370 doesn't have a BIOS on it that works with the 3000 series Ryzen..

I second this^^ If AMD was about to release a new cooler, they would be advertising it just like they did the present series a year ago or so.

From my experience, some of the worst H2O tend to work better than the best air coolers for keeping the processor cool. Leaks - haven't had one in 20 years with either hand built or AIO. The only time I had worried about water on components was way back when, when I was using a peltier on...

It is patently true when all you need is basic video display with a good buffer. As I mentioned before, most people do not play games - only watching videos online, email, porn, general internet browsing, and the occasional .pdf/.doc/.xls document. A generations old video card will do the...

I'm running a 5820K with GTX 960 right now, my house/plex server is a E5-2667v2 with a Radeon 6850. The old lady has a I5-2320 with a GTX950, and I'm building her a Ryzen 2600 here shortly.

Having come from the time when onboard graphics sucked for everything except looking at your desktop or a text document - I wouldn't have fallen for it today for gaming. Sure, integrated graphics has come a long ways since then, but if you're playing a real game, you'll need a real card...

It depends on what it is being used for. For casual PC activities like internet, email, spreadsheet, video, etc - yeah. The Phenom II will work just fine. I would recommend using an SSD over a spinner though. Most of what you "feel" as slow on older computers is the slowness of the hard...

Just my thoughts.... Not worth it, unless you have a specific need due to some software/license being tied to an existing system. You can get later generation Xeon's with more cores/threads or even later gen I5 or I7 that out-perform it for less $$. Although, you may then need to buy another...

You don't need to replace your spinners entirely. Get a smaller SSD and put your operating system and bandwidth demanding programs on it, leave your spinners for storage.

If it works, then who cares. This RGB crap is asinine these days. Hell, it is bad enough that it is difficult these days to get a case without a stupid window.

The WD 4TB EasyStore I cracked open had a WD Red NAS drive in it. I've read that lessor models(1-2TB) and some 8TB also had Red NAS

If you can afford a massive SSD for primary - go for it. Overall you'll be better off. However, lots of stuff really doesn't need SSD speeds, like listening to ripped music, or watching ripped movies, or viewing stored pictures/documents/etc. A spinner HD will work just fine for most of...

Just my opinion, it happened about the time when overclocking was fully within the BIOS. ...no dipswitchs, jumpers, hard modding, etc, etc.