Recent content by spine

Yes! Hell yes! I've been disabling it in every Intel CPU I've ever owned as a matter of course. Games are just slower with it on (for cpus with enough native cores for the game in question). Seems 8 threads is a plateu right now for gaming and has been for a while, I assume this is inline with...

Interesting, I've not had any crashing lately, but following the advice above, I fired up "The Last of Us: Part 1" and let it do shader comp (haven't played this game since it first came out on PC, lol). Ran fine for a few minutes, all good, CPU's never went over 92c. Then it just stopped: I...

I recently got into the F1 games just a few months back having been watching "Drive to Survive" on Netflix and then wanting some decent F1 game to play to fill that hole. :cool: So I got F1 2022 real cheap from a CDkey site, kinda enjoyed it, was fun, but made me quickly realise in order to...

Those backplates tend to have a thin later of clear plastic protective covering, I'd bet that is what it getting burned/discoloured, rather than the metal underneath, I'd be interested to know. And back in my day we had UV cold cathode tubes everywhere and UV reactive additives in the...

I believe it's an intel CPU hardware issue, easily rectified in software with almost no real-world performance loss, they likely already have the fix. The trouble is when you roll it out, what spin do you give?

Just seen this thread: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/540532/geforce-grd-55212-feedback-thread-released-4424/ People generally agree things were ok with nvidia drivers till about October last year, which is EXACTLY what I'm seeing in my event logs. My logs go...

Great, 13900K user here, thought I was unnaffected as I've not really noticed any major crashing, but then, I don't tend to play a alot of very recent games. But I looked in my event viewer for WHEA errors anyway, and sure enough, the last 3 new games I've installed have apparently thrown WHEA...

Absolutely NO mention of Guild Wars 2 so far in this thread! Shocking! :eek: A recent Guild Wars 3 rumour was essentially shot down, GW2 still going strong, no need to compete with themselves ;)...

I'm expecting/hoping there'll be alot of OC headroom if AIBs are allowed to really ramp up the TDP from 320w. It seems clear already that limiting the power to the exact same as the 4080 makes it perform almost exactly the same. The Zotac cards are using the 4090 heatsink, obviously capable of...

We just need to make it till ray tracing is standard and that the workload can't be used for anything other than rendering graphics scenes. Modern GPUs are unfortunately too multi-purpose these days.

I've found the DL versions perform signifcantly faster, and they also add a bit of sharpening as well. Infact in some cases 2.25x DL can look better than 4x pure. The DL versions also have the advantage of not scaling the UI of old games to being insanely small. DSR is one of the die hard...

Atomic Bomberman! Now abandonware apparently: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/atomic-bomberman-bat

13900K, E cores disabled, HTT disabled, Windows 10. All cores locked to 5.8ghz. STILL to this day enabling hyper threading degrades gaming performance on a well optimised PC. If you game with lots of background apps running, then yeah sure, enable HTT, but if you truly want the best frame rates...

It's basically dead in terms of bios tweaking, volt modding etc. CPU companies are now effectively doing what 3rd party sites like Silicon Lottery were doing. It's no longer the case that you can buy a low end CPU and 'luck out' that it could/should have been a higher binned part but got...

The Asus tax is in no way justified these days, hasn't been for years infact. Strix now just means average, and TUF = el cheapo bargain budget shit. MSI are now the new Asus imho. Nowadays GPU overclocking is basically dead, it's just pure luck on the quality of the gpu silicon that makes any...