Search results

Good news. I've always liked XFCE. Small correction - it is not a "Linux" DM - it is an X DM, as it can be used on pretty much any system that works with X.

If you are working for a non-profit, there are other means for acquiring Microsoft products at a low price. I don't understand the shock about this. MS isn't discontinuing stand-alone Office - they are ending a program that allowed employees of certain companies to purchase stand-alone Office...

Maybe some AMD engineers are thinking this will be like Epyc, which has leapfrogged all curren Intel's Xeon and even the next planned models of Xeon. But nVidia isn't Intel.

I've been perfectly please with the 212 EVO. I don't overclock, but needed something better than the stock cooler for overall temperature and noise. Unfortunately I have lost a couple of the nuts and "bolts" to one of my coolers in one of my hardware switcharoo's, and Cooler Master doesn't...

It's a good move, especially with the price drop compared to the 2080 FE. Unfortunately, outside of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, no game test shows more than a 5 fps increase, and most are showing 2-3 fps increase, without RT. With RT, the improvements are better, but performance is still pretty...

I don't pay for TV to be subjected to commercials. I'm not too happy with Netflix anyway, but they have some content my wife really likes, so we've kept them around. Start putting ads in my face? I won't be paying for your service anymore. Probably will have switched to Disney's service by...

Too many pretties, not enough room for function. Who really bases their buying decisions on a whiz-bang UEFI interface? I worked on a computer once that the MB manufacturer actually developed and included a (simple Atari 2600 style) game within the UEFI! Waste of resources, both computing and...

Nice refresh, and except for the 2060, keeping the prices the same. Disappointed that they raised the power draw. I wonder if you could tweak these (undervolt perhaps?) to draw the same power as the non-super versions, to see how much improvement is by refinement and how much is due to pumping...

It's not a bad mini-pc for the price, given that it actually is released in March. With listings on Gamestop and Wal-Mart, this indicates a much more final production schedule. Wal-Mart doesn't play around with vendors, and if there are more delays, that contract and thus the VCS is done.

I was always under the impression that the 4th core was more of a binning issue, kinda like overclocking - maybe you will, maybe you won't get that 4th core. I seem to recall varied reports from people who purchased the tri-core processors (I actually have one, but did not purchase a...

I'm a fan of AMD products, and I'm not ashamed of it. While they have not necessarily had the best performance, historically, the performance/price ratio has always tilted in AMD's favor, and that is more important to me than having the absolute fastest. I personally purchased my first new...

I wonder if performance on Zen2 will be as significantly affected by memory speed as Zen and Zen+? I hope that gets tested out once these are available for review.

Looking forward to your reviews. One of the things that I personally am a stickler for with motherboards is reliability, but I know that can be hard to determine without having a system for a long time, and many samples to work with. Though I suppose there could be some design elements that...

I don't do linux, but FreeBSD keeps a permanent home on my computer (even though I use Windows for daily use).

Been using pfSense, no reason to change. Since they released their book for free, makes it even "easier" to set up.

I have a pretty good scar on my left thumb from a cheap 1990's computer case. Considering the shops I worked at during that time almost exclusively dealt in higher-end quality cases, I came away pretty unscathed.

I keep mine up to date, but I'm not diligent at checking. Despite having the practice of always updating my personal machines and always making sure a new build has the latest BIOS before I give it to some one, in my 20+ years of IT experience, I have had zero firmware/BIOS update failures...

Give me price and TDP. Could simply be they are pumping tons of power through it to guarantee that clock, which will limit it to only special use cases. Plus, Intel has a history of over-pricing their absolute fastest chips, so that may limit the market. It would be really nice if this was a...

It'll still be bad. Maybe not as bad, but still will be bad.

Main system using Intel Xeon E3-1230 v2. If you don't want to look it up, it's roughly equivalent to an i7-3770. Really should upgrade, but haven't had a compelling need yet, and the spare money keeps going to other things. Home "server" using an FX 8320e. Got a living room HTPC using the...