Recent content by zandor

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...

I have an LG 48GQ900 OLED monitor, and it has a matte coating. That works for me. Want matte, get the monitor. Want glossy, get the TV. I went with the LG monitor because the Asus and Gigabyte OLED monitors Microcenter had were too glossy for my office. I like a shiny screen in my living...

I've done something like that for my dad a bunch of times. My parents paid for my CS degree, and I can afford it. Basically dad likes computer games. Mom thinks it's a waste of time and gives him shit if he spends too much $ on computer gaming stuff. An occasional game is no problem but mom...

As far as the computer goes you don't need a lot of parts these days for a basic rig. Not including monitor(s), mouse, keyboard and perhaps speakers & microphone, it's basically: Case PSU Mainboard CPU Ram M.2 SSD Maybe vid card if they want to run games or AI stuff. The big question is what...

Personally I agree with your initial instinct. I'd go to a newer platform as long as you have the budget for it. You could speed that machine up with some more ram and an SSD, but that CPU came out 10 years ago. It'll never be snappy without a CPU upgrade, and you're talking about doing a...

Really depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to mess around or run some services that don't need much hardware, get a corporate mini/micro office PC used off of eBay. Mini doesn't work for me since my Linux box doubles as a file server. Need a bigger case for disks, so it's...

I'm not much of a fan because it's a little small vertically and it's curved. Until game devs and/or GPU vendors start implementing curvature correction a curved monitor screws up the projection. Game rendering assumes the monitor is flat. Curved can be good on a large VA screen since it...