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Question Why is the GTX 970 so much faster than the GTX 770?

It had both better memory compression and larger caches, which reduced pressure on the memory subsystem. https://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/3
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- Post #20
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question Best Budget Mid Range ATX Case?

What pauldun170 said-- what do you plan to be putting inside? Most recent personal/friends build I did was in a Focus G Mini, which cools very well for a $50 case, but definitely is not nearly as enjoyable to build in as its more expensive Meshify C Mini brother.
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- Post #8
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Question *STABLE* NVMe - USB Adapter?

Using this Shinestar random thing off Amazon for over a year now, has worked with numerous Coffee Lake laptops. It's an ordinary JMicron JMS583 inside. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F9VQ4XC
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- Post #79
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Various RAIDs performance versus a single drive

Ars Technica juuuuust did an article on this. I'm not the biggest fan of said article, but it more or less covers your questions.... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/understanding-raid-how-performance-scales-from-one-disk-to-eight/ Is your goal just to have fun, or is...
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- Post #2
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question DisplayPort for Ultrawide monitor

Yes, you can use both a PCI-e video card and the IGP at the same time. However the monitor plugged into the PCI-e video card's DP would be driven only off the PCI-e video card's GPU. (there are some exceptions to this rule, but absent further specifics about your setup, generalizations are as...
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- Post #2
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question 2x4pin cpu fan connector

Fans, even from the same batch, usually have an acceptable range of variation in RPM-- check your fan specs. You may find that even if they're off by 5% or even 10% that may still be considered in-spec by the manufacturer.
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- Post #5
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Motherboards
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16TB Seagate Exos HDD - $387.55 @Provantage

Damn... tempting. Wasn't going to upgrade to 12TB or 14TB, but 16TB at that price? Hmmmm...
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- Post #8
- Apr 28, 2020
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Gas dusters and fans

Canned air has been about the same price per can the past five or so years, if you shop around. At least that's what my receipts from Fry's show as long as I've been keeping track. As far as fans, well, the lowest-end seem to have gone up? At least the days of the Yate Loon D12SL-12 for $5 seem...
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- Post #2
- Feb 13, 2016
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Help me find a better cooler than my 212 EVO....

Indeed, what's already been said. That said for the money, for an upgrade over the Hyper 212, the Scythe Kotetsu is generally pretty good. Beyond that, well, there's some obvious choices but you're getting into seriously diminishing returns-- and heck even then it's not going to be a huge...
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- Post #9
- Feb 13, 2016
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Short Modular PSU for Node 304

A CX430M should have more than enough juice to run a GTX 660 Ti and an Ivy Bridge quad-core at stock clocks-- your power draw should be well under 300W even at full load. However, if you do need more power, looks like the Corsair HX-series units are the same length (150mm), at least for the...
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- Post #2
- Aug 21, 2013
- Forum: Power Supplies
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[Retired] The LCD Thread

Hmm, looks like the HP LP2475w replaces or at least supplements the LP2465. It adds HDMI and Displayport. 400cd/m^2 brightness instead of 500cd/m^2, but it offers a 102% color gamut as well. I wonder how input lag is...
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- Post #5,395
- Sep 4, 2008
- Forum: Displays
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X3350 / Q9450 Overclocking Thread

Hmm, I'm at 3.28ghz on my Q6600 G0 right now at 1.3625v, I get the feeling I can push it harder pretty easily. Q9450 is my next purchase though-- if I can get 3.5ghz or 3.6ghz (3.8ghz would probably be ideal) with some DDR2-1066 I'd be happy.... sounds like you guys are hitting my desired...
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- Post #301
- Apr 9, 2008
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Asus P5K Deluxe and P5K Premium

Hmm, interesting. The rest of the changes look like marketing fluff on the P5K Premium vs. the Deluxe, but if they did change the power circuitry I wonder how much that really helps, both in terms of reducing power consumption as well as genuining improving overclocking.
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- Post #7
- Jul 30, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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[Retired] The LCD Thread

Samsung's XL20 and NEC have had a few LED-backlit 20" LCDs for over 6 months now, but the price is... scary.
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- Post #602
- Jul 24, 2007
- Forum: Displays
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Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

This weekend for the Ultra-120 Extreme? Hmmm. Heatsinkfactory says April 24. $59.99.
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- Post #28
- Apr 19, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling

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