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  1. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Yeah was gonna say their printers were pretty good in my experience.
  2. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    I’m probably the odd one out lol. I like Dell’s businesses line Latitude/Precisions they seemed to last at least for us, still have corporate hand me downs a decade old without issues, and if you speak to the right people (and the right way) even as an individual you can get steep discounts vs...
  3. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Prescott P4s and Pentium Ds for example were both pretty notorious for overheating with very sub par / awful performance vs the competition. I switched to an Athlon 64 from a P4 Northwood and an Barton Athlon, after seeing reviews for the Prescott models. Can’t blame OEMs when a lot came with...
  4. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Honestly regardless of Intel or AMD I personally don’t think overclocking is giving as big gains as the old days when you’d buy a low end AMD or Intel part and OC it to the high clock equivalent. like buying a 2.4 GHz Northwood P4 and clocking it to 3.2 GHz with ease. These days cores are main...
  5. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Intel’s also putting some effort behind RISC-V, I believe the invested a decent amount in SiFive a few years back. As for ARM apparently they are looking at making liscencing changes to get a percentage of per device sales.
  6. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Seems like the issue is that motherboard vendors weren’t taking into account X3D chips when dealing with EXPO profiles using them 1:1 in regards to voltages as if they were standard parts. Also doesn’t help some like Asus have previously been known for pushing extra voltage by default.
  7. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Yeah just be mindful then, when I tested, my 5800 could only do like -5 before showing errors. If just playing games may not be a big deal but might still crash in some random program at some point or cause corruption. Also I also failed to mention my P4 that I spoke of previously did end up...
  8. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    You are lucky not many can do -30 offset all cores, stably. Out of curiosity did you do like a day or two Prime 95 or OCCT or the likes to confirm? I remember overclocking a Northwood P4 back in the day would be stable for days but would show errors in P95 after like 6-8 hours.
  9. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    I can somewhat understand @sfx2000 s aversion. People want competition/lower prices but the paradox is they also generally don’t want to (understandably & me included) support/pay for an unknown/new player that may actually enable that, till they build up their reputation. Question is as...
  10. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    That’s a good monitor, 27-32” is a good size. 42” is pushing the edge of comfort for me, took a few days to get used it lol. I looked at high end monitors in the 600-800 range and the C2 just seemed perfect for me, has Dolby Vision and I also wanted a TV in my room so it worked out as a 2 in 1...
  11. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    My first introduction to PC games was with Command and Conquer and Starcraft, which led me to be interested into computers in general where I'd tinker with my father's computer/computers at times screwing up the os lol. Games I play include - FPS: Hell Let Loose, Squad, Red Orchestra 2 - Heroes...
  12. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    Nice build. I like the preempt video lol. While the issue is overblown, overtime tubes top will be less efficient earlier as permeation gets worse and you start sucking in air with lower fluid levels and depending on the rad manufacturers filling percent standard and distance of ports from the...
  13. avtella

    What's the benefit of enabling the 160hz?

    I think some of it may be placebo. I have also dealt with multiple modern Intel and AMD systems, either are fine, in regards to your claim “slow as molasses” not to sound rude but seems a bit exaggerated unless you had some steep differences (drives, WiFi card etc) in specs or speaking of...
  14. avtella

    Breaking Dad's Big Bad Gaming Discussion - For all things to do with PC Gaming !

    I bought an MSI Trio X 4090 (retail price) and am already thinking of returning it, amount of coil whine is insane even below 120 FPS in some games and 7-10 ft away..... I can hear it over my 7 case fans... If anyone is thinking of getting a 4090 (or even a 4080) beware, it seems intensity of...
  15. avtella

    Netgear just made me really appreciate Asus and Merlin

    AX88U looks pretty decent too, I like it much better than the 86U aesthetically, but the GT-AXE line at least to me just looks atrocious, childish. Maybe I’m too OCD about symmetry.
  16. avtella

    Netgear just made me really appreciate Asus and Merlin

    For now, doubt it, if anything they’d have started with the high end routers and moved down. Lot of the experienced beta testers some of whom are pretty privacy conscious only join for the high end projects like the RAXE500 and most of those would let the NG team hear about if it happened on...
  17. avtella

    Netgear just made me really appreciate Asus and Merlin

    Yeah that’s the old GUI guess they added this new “feature” to it. They haven’t done it to the AX models.
  18. avtella

    Netgear just made me really appreciate Asus and Merlin

    I saw someone post this, yeah that would piss me off too lol.
  19. avtella

    Netgear RAX120 Firmware

    No, max link rate is 1200 (80 MHz width) which means real world you will get maybe 800 ish in speed tests. iPhones don’t do 160 MHz. On tablets and phones it shouldn’t really matter, I doubt one would saturate the connection on these types of devices even at HT80. Streaming, browsing etc all...
  20. avtella

    Netgear just made me really appreciate Asus and Merlin

    I have the latest firmware so I factory reset it. And went through setup process. Would be ridiculous if true, not that I’m discounting your experience. The AC1200 if I recall uses the old GUI which unless things changed recently also didn’t force an account, well aside from the local admin...
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