This is my 512GB Samsung Evo plus mSD card on a USB3 reader:
At QD1 4K, reads are 1/4 and writes are 1/43 versus a mediocre SATA SSD which explains why memory cards feels so slow despite their rated peak speeds.
From my testing, actual write speeds in all categories for USB sticks/cards can...
NVME or not, SSD marketing has always been sleazy by putting technically true but practically worthless speeds at high queue depth numbers.
4K reads at QD1 is by far the most important metric and even good NVME drives struggle to break 70MB/s.
It wouldn't matter. On the most relevant real world metric of QD1 4K reads, consumer NVMe SSDs tops out at around 70MB/s, which is not even remotely close to saturating a PCIE 2.0 1x link let alone 2x.
SSDs like rest of PC hardware is soooo boring now, I have so much cash to burn on this hobby yet I still can't justify buying any upgrade, even GPUs since the super GPU-intensive games are also such a snoozefest from a gameplay angle, not mention they are all scalped to oblivion.
The last...
IIRC, there was a cut plotline in ME2 about the overuse of mass relays creating dark matter disturbances which are causing some stars, and eventually all of them in the galaxy to burn out much faster than normal. Not sure how that's gonna work out narratively with reapers but its surely a lot...
Me too, just submitted mine to them this morning. Gameplay is thoroughly bland and uninteresting. Even if the story is good there's always Youtube for that.
CP2077 is probably the last preordered PC AAA game in my lifetime (the previous being Diablo 3 vanilla all the way back to 2012), I thought it would be the last beacon of hope in the age of AAA pretty snoozefests.
IMO. Intel has been awesome at the budget side of things with the 10400/10400F, even when capped at B460/DDR4-2666. I guess everyone forgot about Intel when they are so fixated on Zen 3.
I don't think I ever a Zen 3 part in the flesh at tech stores here since release in Singapore. Supply is so low that people are buying Zen 2 parts now for their new PCs. For me, I'll wait for next-gen Intel before deciding on the next CPU upgrade.
At the current state all the DLSS modes looks like a smeared mess versus native in my eyes at least for 1440p, mirrors where you can see your own reflection being a particularly bad offender on DLSS. I rather have native w/o RT over RT ultra + DLSS for around the same fps.
Also I got to the end...
I don't like how this industry is digging deeper into the hole of fuzzy "standards" like XMP' where there is stealth overvolting of the CPU uncore which was already scummy enough in my books.
The short answer is people love paying their due IQ taxes to Samsung's marketing division. Otherwise nobody would be paying higher than MX500 prices for their QVO garbage.
Yup, there's nothing surprising about reference designs performing just as well as the others when Phison and the NAND manufacturer already did all the heavy lifting in the chips itself. Personally I would pay a bit more for a HP/Adata SSD for longer warranty, but this is still a complete steal...
Agreed, I never understood the weird obsession for having the fastest NVME drive, especially for consumer workloads. I will never notice that my SX8200 Pro 2TB is slower than the 970 Evo 2TB in server grade I/O loads, but i will definitely notice the huge price differential in my wallet when the...
Used 4790Ks don't worth that much here (~USD 100) in Singapore so I kept mine in the cabinet with Asus H81i mobo and a spare $50 noname B85 Chinese mobo as a backup for retro purposes in the future.
Its a dick move from AMD, but at least to me I don't really care since I won't be upgrading from my 3600 until DDR5 platforms arrive. Even in the rare event if I did paying $100 for a B550 is chump change to me.
Over at enterprise, Intel gets chosen mostly for political reasons rather than technical, aka covering your own butt.
It's easy to buy AMD for your personal use when you aren't living in the shadow of backstabbing and blame-gaming by nefarious office politics of the usual kind. Trust me, I have...
I sold off my 1070 for $160 and replaced with a $350 2060S after seeing how badly Pascal performed in the new CoD and RDR2 (RX580 on parity with 1070).
Granted I don't play any of the both but I reckoned future games are going to be even less forgiving on Pascal GPUs, so might as well offload...
The prices of rebuilt Chinese X79 gear has dropped significantly too, their demand mostly killed by cheap DDR4 and new/used Ryzens. I would very much pay $80 for a used 1600, new $70 B450 and $60 16GB DDR4 than use dodgy Chinese rebuilt mobos.
Used Intel consumer chips are still bonkers though...
Adata XPG 8200 Pro, HP EX920 and the Sabrent Rocket Phison E12 are the only ones worth buying IMO. The rest is slow QLC trash like the 660p, or subpar perf/$ like the Samsungs and the other cheapo drives.
There seems to some serious PEKBAC with low-end mobos at America, when me and countless others on the other side of the Pacific never have any problems using them. My 4790K is still kicking strong with an Asus H81i after 5 years with no signs of degradation.
Isn't Asus has been long known to be notoriously bad RMA in the US since the Athlon K7 days?
They are so ridiculously overpriced here in Singapore that I will never have to deal with them. Their 2060S costs more than a Zotac/Palit 2070S FFS.
You still need to watch out for out of the box auto-overvolts especially with enabling XMP, like on my old Z370 mobo.
Lots of Intel mobos with XMP enabled pushes ridiculous VCCIO/VCCSA voltages to the IMC to ensure every XMP RAM under the sun works, without warning the user it can be...
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