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PowerColor 7900XTX Red Devil: Further down the Spiral
Hot Spot issues are back. Let’s fix them!
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Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 3900X
I managed to grab 5950X for a decent price, so I decided to upgrade my CPU. Comparison between my old and new CPU can be found here.
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PowerColor 7900XTX Red Devil: issues with stock TIM application
I purchased PowerColor 7900XTX in January 2023. Card is a performance beast, however PowerColor might have messed up the paste application on at least early batches.
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HDD Evolution - Benchmarks!
I went through my stash of hard drives, which I accumulated over past ~15 years to check which of them are still working, while doing so I run some benchmarks to compare their performance and see how HDDs evolved in the past decade. Here are the results!
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HDD Encryption: VeraCrypt vs BitLocker
Recently I bought new HDD to expand storage capabilities in my PC. This seemed like a good time to evaluate if my software of choice for encrypting HDDs (VeraCrypt) is still the best choice available, especially for large HDDs, in this case 12TB HDD.
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Strange issue with my 3900X
Few days ago I found out that my 24/7 system with Ryzen 9 3900X fails prime95 torture test when calculating FFTs with a length of 16K or 20K with AVX2 enabled at stock settings.
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Warcraft III: Reforged is here!
As you might know Warcraft III: Reforged was released this week. Original game from 2002 is one of my all-time favorites, also I am a huge Blizzard fanboy, so obviously I had to check it.
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Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i7-4930K
Recently I upgraded CPU, MOBO and RAM in my rig. I figured out it might be a good idea to compare upgraded system to old config. Especially, because I did not yet see a Ryzen 3000 review which directly compares new Ryzen CPUs to X79 antiques.
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Welcome!
Welcome, thanks for checking this page, although I am not sure what do you expect to find here :-).