Affiliate disclosure CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chromax LTT edition GPU: AsRock Radeon 5700 XT (reference blower design) MB: Gigabyte Aorus Ultra x570 Case: Corsair Carbide Series 275R (Glass side panel) PSU: Corsair 860W AX860i 80+ Platinum RAM: G.Skill 32GB (2×16) RipJaws V 3200Mhz C16 NVMe 1: Sabrent 1TB Rocket PCIe 4.0… Continue reading Primary System Specifications
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Razer Death Adder Essential
One of my favorite mice thus far, it looks sharp in white or black and it tracks exceptionally well. Holds up to use and abuse even gaming hard for hundreds of hours. Comes in black or white models.
AMD Radeon Team
Pull it together. The latest release of the Adrenaline driver is 20.2.1 It was released on February 3, 2020. It still exhibits many of the same issues of those that preceded it. [yop_poll id=”1″]
Another AMD RADEON Driver Update that mostly fails
AMD released 20.1.2 Version of the AMD RADEON drivers on January 15th of 2020. This new driver is supposed to enhance the features of online streaming. I still have to revert to the 19.11.3 version to get basic functionality for all of the games I play on a regular basis. HELLO AMD are you listening… Continue reading Another AMD RADEON Driver Update that mostly fails
Latest Adrenaline 20.20 Driver. Update?
Perhaps not so fast the latest Adrenaline 20.20 driver seems to have quite a few issues. Rolling back is not an option, amongst them
AMD Ryzen Gen3 Pricing
Now the pricing or at least the MSRP type pricing information is published for the AMD Ryzen Gen3 CPUs. The Ryzen 9 3900x 12 core 24 thread 3.8Ghz Base – 4.6Ghz Boost clock CPU is slated for $499 The Ryzen 7 3800x 8 core 16 thread 3.7Ghz base to 4.5Ghz Boost clock CPU is slated… Continue reading AMD Ryzen Gen3 Pricing
AMD releases specifications for AMD Ryzen Gen 3 CPUs
The specs are up, the release date is set at 7/7/2019. The prices are not announced yet.
So long to an old supplier
Corsair is cutting corners I have been building computer systems professionally since 1990. Before that it was merely a hobby. Through the years I came to trust certain vendors for parts more so than others. EVGA for their video cards, Antec Cases, Corsair RAM and Power supplies, Kingston RAM…. others come to mind but I… Continue reading So long to an old supplier
The Photo FINISH
Boot time variance between two high-end rigs I have two computers that I use for my primary desktops. One I built in July of 2018. The other I built in April of 2019. System 1 Intel i7 8700K 4.3Ghz CPUASUS ROG Strix Z370-E MotherboardCorsair Carbide 600Q inverse CaseCorsair H115i Pro CPU CoolerCorsair HX750i Power SupplyG.Skill… Continue reading The Photo FINISH
Sometimes it’s nice to disable EXT4’s journaling.
I find that when I run F19 natively on a USB drive, disabling the journaling of the EXT4 filesystem improves performance significantly. tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdf1