You can run an NVMe drive on a PCI-e adapter on an older system without a problem, at least as far as I have tested. You just won't be able to boot from it without a BIOS mod. I use adapters like this with great success: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078WRG94P
That's not too bad. Although it still hurts me to think that I was buying used RX 580 8GB Red Devil cards for $120 shipped on eBay just a few months ago.
I was so desperate for a deal I bought a lot of 10 XFX RX 470 4GB cards with bad fans and fixed them up, just to get a few cheap GPUs for me...
I probably sound like a broken record at this point, but now is probably a pretty bad time to buy. Supply chain issues and a surge in enthusiast demand are impacting pricing in a pretty negative way right now. This is the first time in a long while that I have seen new and used prices go up...
I don't know why, but I am all about the Glacier Freeze flavor, part of the "Frost" lineup. The regular blue is not so great.
My least favorite is the Lemon Lime, probably because I drank four cases of it as a kid. The old man brought home a bunch leftover from a work event and I was a...
I would expect announcements from both sides as early as August. Next-gen consoles will launch at or before the holiday season this year if the rumor mill is to be believed (which I think it is), and both AMD and NVIDIA will definitely want to get their new product lines out in advance of that...
I don't get what Samsung is thinking with their current pricing. The gap between their flagship offerings and the "budget" Phison and even Realtek drives out there is not substantial enough to justify their MSRP. I guess consumer sales must be a small slice of the pie compared to OEM and...
I share your sentiment. There is quite a bit of demand right now for, well, pretty much any functional hardware it seems. This is the first time since the Taiwan hard drive floods of 2010/2011 that I've seen the prices on used parts go up.
I remember seeing the ASUS AM4 TUF Gaming X570-Plus...
There must be something in the air regarding CMOS batteries. I just had to replace one in an LGA1155 system for a friend. I would say he had a good run on the no-name battery that was in there.
It's definitely the case that the LCDs used for UV masking in the entry level/low end resin printers are regarded as a consumable item. I had an AnyCubic Photon for a while. It cost me $289 on sale for the printer, and the replacement LCD modules were in the $80 range if memory servers. They...
It's possible, but I don't really think that is something their marketing department intended to happen. They usually stick to the "harass Intel" strategy as of late.
That $50 price cut at launch was just a last-minute course correction to slot their Navi cards in just right. AMD needed to...
I can't say that I am surprised by these power consumption numbers. Given the thermal characteristics of the 9th-gen parts this seems right in line for Comet Lake. I will also say that this does not bode well in my mind for Rocket Lake at all. Backporting Willow Cove to 14nm is not going to do...
I'm a bit old for a career change but I'd love to move back to Arizona. It would be fun to work in a nice climate-controlled bunny suit loading dies into the cutting machine or something. And it's probably impossible to catch COVID-19 in that part of the fab due to the extreme levels of air...
That's good to know. I have a couple of friends that are on my case to play this with them. The kind of friends that I don't usually trust recommendations from. Looks like it's on Game Pass though. I do have that through June 2022. A strange day-one addition, if you ask me.
I ordered one of these when the first pre-orders opened. $120 for a decent placeholder CPU until Zen 3 launches.
I am still rocking an MSI B350 Gaming Plus I got from Amazon Warehouse Deals for $54 a while back. To my surprise, the 3300X is already listed as supported on the MSI Support Page...
Thank you guys for sharing your findings regarding these NAS systems. I had never heard of these until now, for some reason. Even though I hang out in most of the other seedy places like ServeTheHome and whatnot. I guess I live under a rock.
Now I need to decide which model to buy. I have...
These rumored changes to the CCX design and higher IPC definitely have me intrigued. I am "slumming it" on a Ryzen 5 1600 right now. Holding out for the 4000-series launch.
I wonder how these compare to the quad-core Matisse Engineering Sample I have sitting here on my bench. This was an early production sample, similar to the one that showed up in some of the early Ryzen 3000-series leaks. It's got a much lower clock speed than these. If I remember correctly...
Do you have kids in the house? The toilet can be a portal of mystery that all manner of non-biological items can magically find their way down. I know I flushed a few hot wheels cars as a kid. Allegedly. Although if that was the case you would probably have a more pronounced issue. I agree...
I am so excited for "Big Navi". Not because I am overconfident that it will suddenly hold the performance crown, but because this will ultimately drive NVIDIA to not hold anything back, and possibly stave off another round of NVIDIA price increases.
Let's just hope TSMC has enough capacity to...
I never actually got to sit down and play the first one. I'm pretty sure it is sitting here in my Steam backlog begging for some attention. I'll try to give it some attention before I pick up the new one. I'm glad you are enjoying it, OP.
Another driving force behind why this doesn't exist yet is Intel. They have deep ties (and deep pockets) straight to the boardroom of every major PC OEM on the planet. It's very difficult for AMD to get more than a certain foothold in the big three (HP, Dell, Lenovo) because of the OEM deals...
I used to go out to eat every day for lunch. Now that I am working from home we get take-out maybe once per week. I do all of the cooking around here and it definitely gets old after awhile, but I'm starting to adjust.
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