Recent content by zandor

One exception is if your connection suffers from local network congestion during busy times. Even if you only have a 500 or whatever Mbit plan a DOCSIS 3.1 modem can still use the OFDM line and may perform better during busy times. So it might help if you have a lot of neighbors with DOCSIS...

If you have a good signal Comcast will give you 20% more than plan speed. That's common knowledge on Comcast's forums. They overprovision a bit to compensate for a lot of customers being on marginal cable plant or having marginal equipment. My signal strength is absurdly spectacular for...

I used a DAC cable for the connection between my server and switch, then a couple fiber runs. I just used pre-terminated patch cables. My office is right on top of my switch and server, so I'm using 6' patch cables running up to a wall plate in my office... then an 8' patch cable to the...

You should post in the Displays subforum, not General Hardware. There are a fair number of Sony GDM-FW900 fans around who may be able to help you. They're more likely to see your post there. Some of them know all about WinDAS, old Sony CRTs, etc.

Probably depends on how heavy handed you are. I rarely have a mouse break, and when one does it takes like 10 years. The last mouse problem I had was a Logitech I bought in 2012. The right button started getting sticky a couple years ago. Still worked, but no good for gaming. Funny thing is...

Interesting. It's like you stumbled onto Furmark for CPUs. Sounds like Intel may have a thermal throttling bug combined with that shader compiler causing a perfect storm of heat. I wonder if running Intel stock is really necessary or if you just need a test routine that causes an exceptional...

That's what I'd expect. 3DMark 2001 is almost certainly single threaded, and GPU throughput has gone up massively compared to the improvements we've seen in CPU single thread performance. i9-10980/64GB DDR4-3600 quad channel/3090. No OC. And yeah, it thinks I have Celerons, like 2-3 plants...

I'm actually not all that surprised. Unlike a lot of server NICs Mellanox/NVidia ConnectX cards actually have official support for client Windows. I have a few ConnectX-4 cards, and one of those will pretty much hit 10Gb in an old ass Ivy Bridge Xeon E5-2687W machine (used eBay CPU upgrade...

There are hacks to enable it on pretty ancient hardware, but then you're dealing with hacks and YMMV. Might be fun to try. The oldest rig I have is an Ivy Bridge (2013) socket 2011 Xeon E5-2687W machine. Stuff an RTX3060Ti in it and give a hack a try. Of course if it works for me that...

I have an Ivy Bridge socket 2011 machine. I pretty much quit using it last fall, but it had 64GB of ram and I'd upgraded it to a Xeon E5-2687Wv2 (8 cores, 4.0GHz max turbo) CPU off eBay (used server pull) a few years back for like $120 or something. So basically as fast as you can get for that...

Your poll has no good options. You should sacrifice them to the beer gods. In other words, make a temp controller out of those obsolete parts and brew a batch of lager.

I use a Dell P4317Q (43", 4k, 60Hz, IPS) as my productivity monitor along with a couple of 24" 1920x1200 60Hz IPS side screens in portrait mode. I like the big slab of uninterrupted real estate it offers. 43" is big enough to run with scaling off at 4k. For gaming I use an LG 48GQ900 4k OLED...

Between those two personally I'd go with the AX10000 if you game on WiFi and the AX6000 if not. The point of the second radio is to keep all the traffic from other devices out of the way for lower gaming latency. The extra 5GHz radio in the AX10000 otherwise just gives you a second network and...

This is the first thing you should try. Pretty much everyone needs glasses eventually. You might have perfect vision until you're 40 or 50 or whatever, but if you don't die young eventually your eyes are going to get old and you'll need glasses. Or you might need them at 30 or 25. I'm 47 and...

I wouldn't call someone who builds rigs for others an IT pro unless they did it for a living or at least for a decent amount of income as a side gig. IMHO Pro = professional = gets paid for the work. Exactly what sort of work counts and how much of it you need are the subjective parts. A lot...