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Question Storage Matters: Longterm outlook for PCIe NVMe SSDs

Especially if I just slot it on my motherboard. Who needs 2.5, 3.5, or 5.25 anymore he asked facetiously.
- dorion
- Post #4
- Jul 10, 2020
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Question Dell UltraSharp U2713HM HMDI Output Limit

I have always hated my U2713HM for the very reason that HDMI is limited to 1080p. Whatever though, I stuck a Raspberry Pi on the HDMI port. DisplayPort, acronym DP, on this monitor was gladly drive the panel at it's full resolution of 2560x1440, and that's how I've used it since 2012. A...
- dorion
- Post #4
- Apr 1, 2019
- Forum: Displays
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can manufacturers

We could always go back to fixed hardware! DirectX 9 isn't that old.
- dorion
- Post #25
- Mar 7, 2018
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Work PCs and their CPUs - are they mostly rubbish?

I used a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 and 512MB of DDR with Windows 10 for about two months at a recent job until I took a day to install Linux. Both Windows and Linux had lots of optimizations, "borrowed" the bosses thumbdrive for Readyboost, and I was using E4rat on Linux along with half a dozen other...
- dorion
- Post #6
- Oct 18, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Broadwell Thread

Where the heck is my delete button?
- dorion
- Post #2,430
- Jun 2, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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RAID 5 with 3x WDC Black 4TB

That's not a standard feature of Raid 5. The data on raid 5 is spread across the disks n-1 parts data, 1 part parity. When you add another drive you have to recalculate this parity.
- dorion
- Post #10
- Apr 10, 2015
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Help me to build a VFM very low budget pc 250euro...

AM1 isn't an upgradeable platform but you don't use a 900 series chipset on the Intel motherboard?
- dorion
- Post #31
- Dec 11, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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For 2560 X 1440, any difference between dual link DVI and displayport cables?

That could just be a limitation with your videocards, many AMD cards have a DVI and a HDMI port sharing the same signal generation hardware. My HD5850 couldn't run three screens if I was using DVI/DVI/HDMI, but DVI/DVI/DP(and probably DVI/HDMI/DP) worked once I got my DELL 2713.
- dorion
- Post #7
- Dec 5, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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No dual core love in 2015

Refusing to start with dual cores, but perfectly OK to start on a low end quad-core like Kabini or Baytrail, lies and madness!
- dorion
- Post #176
- Nov 25, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Does Kabini suffer the same 64-bit penalty as Brazos/Zacate did?

I've been using the Sempron 3850 as a HTPC, I even play Civ 5 on it(in Strategic View), troubles with slow context menus sound more like a driver or OS install issue.
- dorion
- Post #38
- Oct 29, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Kaveri vs Trinity Clock to Clock

Looks like a lot of the games are so GPU bound the system power decreases in the 1080p. Because I'm late to the party, hypothetically how many games are going to be more like Thief's power consumption if I'm running DDR3-2400 ram(assuming that setting a faster GPU clock won't fix the issue)?
- dorion
- Post #57
- Aug 6, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why doesn't Intel enable AES-NI for ALL of its CPU lineup?

The trend is bunk, Intel will put AES-NI on the Pentium when it feels that there is no threat to it's cheap server chips, which if Baytrail server takes off is never.
- dorion
- Post #18
- Jul 24, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why doesn't Intel enable AES-NI for ALL of its CPU lineup?

No, I am not?
- dorion
- Post #8
- Jul 21, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why doesn't Intel enable AES-NI for ALL of its CPU lineup?

It's such a disservice, at the very least the new K processors have TSX and VT-d. Still doesn't make up for no i3-K, chipset controlled multiplier and memory speed overclocking, ECC, not offering a security feature by removing AES, and I'm kinda worried about the rumors of many more desktop BGA...
- dorion
- Post #5
- Jul 20, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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AMD Beema/Mullins Launch Thread

As my primary time sink I would like that very much too. I have one resource for Dota 2 benchmarks and it is "dated:" http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dota-2-performance-benchmark,3481.html Maybe it's time to stop caring about WOW performance? :)
- dorion
- Post #302
- Jul 18, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Why isn't there more than 32-bit color?

Displayport, DVI, and HDMI have support for 10-bit color at various resolutions. In HDMI it's called Deep Color and it's supposed to offer 30-bit, 36-bit, and 42-bit color. (Windows)GPU support seems to be mostly limited to the Nvidia Quadro and AMD Fire series. So besides spending an extra...
- dorion
- Post #14
- Jun 23, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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A cpu for gt 630

You have to stay with that platform? Any AM2 cpu will do. SPCR has one from their reviews for sale on their forums: http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=47169 Can't find an AM2 cpu for less than $25... you really should find a better system.
- dorion
- Post #3
- May 27, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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DDR3 2400 1.65V, any reason not to use this?

Man it was the Intel LGA775 chipsets that were pushing the voltage limit on DDR3. AMD users had already been dealing with over-specced high voltage ram for Intel chipsets for almost two years before Nahalem came out with a recommended max voltage to prevent the new IMC voltage from damaging the...
- dorion
- Post #22
- May 1, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Low & Mid end Kaveri getting late - AMD mistake that will cost them?

Jesus, again with the naming argument. If anything the lack of low and mid Kaveri should make you happy because there are less names for you to remember. Did you follow hardware back in the Athlon XP times? That must've made you so mad.
- dorion
- Post #15
- May 1, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Tweaktown : Nvidia Jetson (Tegra K1)

Thanks for that additional pic of the real K1 ViRGE, I was sick of the entire internet using only the two press pics with the bad camera angle to hide the top right corner, but nano-itx hopes are now supremely crushed.
- dorion
- Post #7
- Apr 7, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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2gb Ram - Enough for win7 ?

Intel Pentium D 925, my workload is a SSH session to the server and Browser tabs so there wasn't much performance needed, but occasionally I'd need to start up Visual Studio and SQL Management Studio or some other beefy GUI app. Windows 8 was much better performance wise but I found Linux to be...
- dorion
- Post #22
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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2gb Ram - Enough for win7 ?

Do you really think you should say that while dissing Linux? Anyways... I used a Windows 7/8 machine on a pentium 4 with 2GB of ram for a few months at work. Do not do it. I spent massive amounts of time tinkering with the sucker so that it could survive a light workload, but as soon as I...
- dorion
- Post #12
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Amount of Electricity Wasted on Crypto Mining and the Wastes it Generates

No, the most wasteful thing to use CPU cycles on is DRM. I don't find the manpower put into maintaining or inventing new DRM schemes to be very useful either.
- dorion
- Post #23
- Mar 13, 2014
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Wow can't believe how snappy My Old POS pc is with a New CPU!

I did this with my current rig, my 5850 I bought a month after launch is just now showing it's age with my new "second-rate" 1440p monitor.
- dorion
- Post #29
- Mar 10, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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How does 1080p look on a 4k display?

When you say double the acreage you don't mean 4x the original acreage. I'm running two 1920x1080 monitors, do I have double the resolution or something else?
- dorion
- Post #77
- Jan 8, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[AT] AMD Kaveri APU Launch Details: Desktop, January 14th

This GPU-accelerated Java, can I assume they just mean a way to perform GPU compute tasks with Java?
- dorion
- Post #20
- Nov 12, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Kind of concerned about my new system. Ram speed is very low

Is you ram reported to be running at 666Mhz? That means it's running at the lowest speed your motherboard lists: 3100(O.C)/3000(O.C.)/2933(O.C.)/2800(O.C.)/2666(O.C.)/2600(O.C.)/2500(O.C.)/2400(O.C.)/2200(O.C.)/2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1866(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333 You'll need to go into...
- dorion
- Post #2
- Oct 18, 2013
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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SSD Caching with RAID System

You seem to have come in to a bit of money or a job you aren't qualified for... I can take either off your hands.
- dorion
- Post #2
- Jul 25, 2012
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Has anyone reviewed AMD's E1-1200 or E2-1800?

It's sad you are so angry at one of the few legal ways for us to receive streaming video. If you find the content provider mandated encryption via Silverlight DRM for Netflix streaming to be causing too many issues for your computer maybe you can watch everything on your locked down cablebox for...
- dorion
- Post #10
- Jul 17, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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i7-3770 5.0+ ghz possible?

I did that and look what happened! http://living-las-vegas.com/wp-content/uploads/dam-from-arizona-side.jpg
- dorion
- Post #26
- May 4, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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FX-6100 Overclock

Looks like you are running on a 16.5x multiplier. Why don't you see about turning that up and and pushing the FSB down?
- dorion
- Post #3
- Jan 25, 2012
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Disabling dGPU in Desktops - when will it be possible?

Have some kind of pass through. Like, the GPU passes it's signal to a MUXer on the MB somehow and then the normal IO ports on the motherboard spits out which ever GPU is working. Whether that's an internal or external affair is up for the standards to decide. Whether or how the pass through can...
- dorion
- Post #12
- Dec 7, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Alfa's new build. RV03 case

Do you like the two front fans?
- dorion
- Post #22
- Nov 4, 2011
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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DDR2::::better to run in one channel or two?

Run your memory at DDR2-800 you will not notice the loss in performance. With that you should be able to run 4 DIMMs. You should also have no problem running two different kits, but your old kit will be the limiting factor in how low you can run the voltage The other alternative is to get a...
- dorion
- Post #4
- Oct 31, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Wizards suggest me a new phone.

I've been using the Motorola F3 for the last year, thing works great and it fits in my pockets and my budget. Now I'm looking for a replacement. I want to become a little more connected, like having access to my Google calendar, chat, and mail all the time, sometimes watching youtube on wifi...
- dorion
- Thread
- Oct 28, 2011
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Phenom II x4 840t Bottleneck

CPU probably a bottleneck in BF3, I get 70% usage on my 3.8Ghz Phenom 965 with a HD5850 running on Ultra. Drop down the CPU speed by 900Mhz and throw in a superior GPU and he's greatly limiting the performance of the GPU.
- dorion
- Post #5
- Oct 27, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Will this Backplane Screw Me Up? Sanity Check.

Hey, so Tom's just did an article on some controllers. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sas-6gb-raid-controller,3028.html Your controller of choice got tested, here a snippet: Also I couldn't really recommend a cheap card, my best experience is the SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 with ZFS...
- dorion
- Post #8
- Oct 6, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Will this Backplane Screw Me Up? Sanity Check.

Why are you looking at spending an extra $220 and vastly increasing complexity for what probably won't be a major increase in speed over a 256GB M400? Raiding those drives will only boost throughput to what the controller can handle, and the IOPs will be limited by the lowest of the drives or...
- dorion
- Post #6
- Oct 5, 2011
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Which CPU for a home ZFS server build?

In a home environment you really don't need an awesome CPU. Maybe you will see some benefit if you turned on compression and dedupe, but I doubt OP is building in the same scale as Anand.
- dorion
- Post #7
- Oct 3, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Which CPU for a home ZFS server build?

He ain't kidding, my single core 1.8Ghz Celeron would love more ram.
- dorion
- Post #4
- Oct 2, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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