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I've used this fluid over a decade in an Exos 2.5 unit. I also was given one of Kyle's which is even older. I've had both and run both for many years. In fact, both are still in use today. I've used this fluid in them and I've never had problems with it.

3DMark stopped using an actual game engine over a decade ago. Since then, it's been entirely synthetic and theoretical. The old Radeon 2900XT used to out perform the 8800GTX in 3DMark but in actual games the former got beaten down hard. 3DMark performance doesn't even necessarily benefit from...

I've worked in shops repairing PC's back in the day and I hated it when some smoker would bring their systems in. Even under the best scenarios, you'd have a thin sticky coating on everything and the computer would stink. More extreme cases it will cause a build up that damages fans and it acts...

If it was available on PC, I would. I do not have a PS5.

Corsair could probably snag some of their engineers. Corsair's blocks aren't as good as the EK's are. EK's problems have never been about design, but rather QC and their prices are excessively high compared to most other options. That said, I have a lot of EK stuff and I've never had problems...

I agree with you. I think we are over the hump on the DEI stuff and alphabet Mafia pandering in entertainment. Unfortunately, we will probably still see vestiges of the woke garbage for several more years.

I got so burned out on WWII games when that's literally all that came out for a couple years there.

This is complete bullshit as well. Every actual female gamer I know wants an attractive protagonist even if its female. This is regardless of them being straight or bisexual or whatever. We don't usually get numbers on what people do in games, but BioWare actually released information on the...

Most benchmarks from most sites at the time indicated that the X1950XTX was slower than the GeForce cards of the day. However, the [H]ard|OCP article on the X1950XTX indicated that in real world gaming performance, the X1950XTX provided a better gaming experience. I remember this well as I had...

The DEI agenda and Alphabet Mafia crap is well known at this point. That's not to say it successfully infiltrates everything, but its pretty obvious when it does. You have companies like Black Rock, Sweet Baby Inc, BGG etc. driving that sort of nonsense. Plus, in this day and age with social...

Probably a undetonated Hell Bomb.

What people need to understand about the 9700 Pro and later 9800 Pro/XT models is that they were the result of ATi's acquisition of a company called ArtX that developed the technology that would make those GPU's what they were. ATi did not develop that on their own. ATi has never been able to...

As I recall they weren't really all that competitive until the end of their run with the GeForce FX 5950Ultra. Prior to that, the 9800Pro/XT etc. had a decisive lead over them in most cases. It wasn't as if you got bad performance with the high end GeForce FX cards. The biggest issues were that...

I don't typically care either. I don't exactly hunt down CPU's that don't have it. But the inclusion or exclusion of it makes no difference to me when purchasing CPU's for personal use. I couldn't care less if its there or not as it will always go unused in my case.

It's not worth me buying CPU's with integrated GPU's just for that.

I have a desk drawer full of GPU's.

If I ever built boxes that wouldn't be used primarily for gaming, I might consider an iGPU as being a value add. Or, if I did any real encoding. I don't do either of those things these days. My machines are all used for gaming at least part of the time and discreet GPU's are all I use.

Simply put, iGPU is virtually worthless to me. I always use a discreet GPU and have a few of them on hand at any given time. I don't even need them as "backups."

The problem with this thinking is that you end up spending hundreds of dollars on a new GPU and it essentially doesn't impact your power bill in an appreciable way. It would probably take years for the "investment" to pay off in terms of energy savings. GPU efficiency on desktop systems is...

It's definitely worth more than $10. As for the issues, I had very few of them through my two playthroughs beyond the initial stuttering. That was initially fixed by turning off my e-cores and then after a patch, I was able to re-enable them.

I just use Defender and stay off sketchy sites.

Not only that, but aluminum is very soft compared to steel and scratches pretty easily. Customer machines that were made of aluminum back in the day were always scratched to shit.

Easily. It has nothing to do with the games beyond them being demanding enough to cause the GPU to draw a ton of power super quick. Many PSU's can't handle that near instant ramp up and their overcurrent protection kicks in shutting the unit down.

I've never cared for the whole standing desk thing, but honestly I probably should get one that allows me to do that. I'm simply on computers far more than is remotely healthy. I work out and what not but I don't really do enough walking or cardio.

Agreed. The differences between the K and KS models has never been "worth it" from any type of value perspective. This is Intel essentially doing what Silicon Lottery used to do by binning chips for the buyers. You would pay a premium for a CPU that was tested and verified to reach XYZ clock speeds.

A friend of mine picked up an Aeron from Good Will for $20. It shows light wear on the arm rests but otherwise is in great shape.

Irrelevant. Citation needed. As for the comments about cost, I get that but again halo products are almost never cost effective or a "good value."

GPU and CPU prices have never been indicative of one another. You are comparing Apples and VW Jetta's. The fact is, this is a premium part priced accordingly. Value is not really something that factors into parts like this a whole lot. The people who buy this stuff don't care. In fact, if you've...

That's cheap for a high end processor. Intel and AMD's mainstream segment processors used to be $1,000.

It's doubtful. Not many people have had a chance to get their hands on one yet. Usually in a review, you don't have enough time prior to the embargo date being lifted to test every possible scenario. Undervolting being one of them you typically just don't have time for.

I actually had a Cirrus Logic 2MB VGA adapter back then. I also had an ATi 512k adapter at one point and a TSeng Labs ET4000. I recall my pre-GPU cards as well. :)

My list of previously owned GPU's would go back to the dawn of the GPU itself and pretty much encompasses almost every generation of NVIDIA card (usually in pairs for SLI) and has a few ATi and AMD cards sprinkled in for variety. That list is in another thread somewhere and I'm too lazy to find...

I've been considering this after watching a video about it. I like the simple clean and industrial look.

I struggle to understand Apple's popularity and stock prices so I can sympathize with them.

This pretty much sums up my opinions on the matter. I've used both, I just prefer using matte screens most of the time. I don't have to worry nearly as much about where I place my desk/monitor in relation to windows, etc. I still tend to place things where the windows don't allow light to hit...

Save file issues are why I quit playing it as well. Mine would take 10+ minutes to load. There were fixes that would sometimes work for brief periods, but the next gaming session the issue always reappeared.

I think this is a fair assessment. With costs for almost everything going up at almost a record pace, I think offloading more tasks to AI is the only real solution to this in the short term. Of course, companies will want to use it for everything which will be disastrous at first but there are...

That's the same kind of advice you get about TV and monitor sizes. People calculate optimal size based on room size and distance from the display. None of it is really all that accurate. None of that is a substitute for actual hands on experience.

Well said. This echoes my thoughts and experiences as well. If indie games were all that was available to me one day, I'd probably stop buying new games and allow my PC to pass into total obsolescence and spend my money elsewhere.