Sir Beregond

Thank you for this guide. I've really been out of the loop on storage these days and I plan to ditch having HDD's in my upgrade build next year. This will help finding the right SSD's. I'm a silence freak with my PC and the hard drive noises are bothering me. ?

Didn't even know about this site until someone (I think it was UltraMega) mentioned it on OCN. Really liking this site! It's been said, but like others here, I just feel like OCN is a shadow of what it used to be as a community and platform. The site runs like garbage to this day with some of the navigation ever since the migration back in what 2015/2016? And I've otherwise felt little reason to engage outside of the HW News section, but even then just seems like a lot of fanboying. Like others, I felt my activity drop drastically over there in the last 4 years. Anyway, this site looks great, and I look forward to more!

Wow, that's bad. My Razer Naga is way older than that and it's a Razer. ?

Excited to retire my 4790k and GTX 980 build with Zen 3 and either a 6900XT or 3070/3080. Liking the rumor mill for Zen 3. Looking forward to the announcement tomorrow.

Very interesting to see a console that big, but I guess they really are just SFF computers. I'm not that well versed on Liquid Metal. What are the long-term effects of its use?

Yeah, they've really done a good job making their name known in this space for everything under the sun. But they already do sort of rebrand and slap a logo and a price hike on things like their radiators I believe are HWLabs bottom end with a Corsair logo and a price hike for example.

Yep yep! With performance competition comes innovation and pricing competition. Who wins? The consumer.

Hey hey!

I wasn't sure going in, but gotta say I like how it ended up looking with the white tubing.

Had to migrate my Corsair Air 540 build into a new case as the case was falling apart and very noticeable vibration noises were becoming worse and worse in the front panel. So went with a Lian Li O-11 Dynamic. My old EK Supremacy Evo block is trashed as the plating completely failed and the fins were clogged with gunk of some sort. So I picked up a cheap Corsair block at Micro Center as a stop gap until I build a new rig next year and replaced all the tubing. Micro Center only had white tubing in my size, but I think it works. Cleaned out my EK TX 980 Strix block as well. Plating also failed there, but not as bad as the CPU block. Fins were still clear. Completely flushed the radiator and grabbed a new reservoir/pump. All that plating that failed was floating around in the loop. All better now. Old PC (sorry blurry pic), and then the transfer. Will obviously get some bigger rads when I do the new build.

I definitely plan to pick this up when I build a new rig. I did enjoy Quantum Break (more the sci-fi elements than the gameplay though). Control looks great.

No, that's a perfectly reasonable feeling and attitude in my opinion. At a certain point it's just down to build quality and aesthetics as the performance is comparable. Never heard of TechN. Are they well known?

Yeah feels weird. That said, Nvidia has done that too in the past. Fermi made up some of the low-end cards in the Kepler 600 and 700 series. Since then though, they have had same arch across the stack. Not sure what they are doing for low-end, but looks like RDNA2 should at least cover mid-high end.

After the Faildozer era, nice to see them being rewarded with marketshare increase with their Ryzen comeback. Looking forward to Zen 3 and 4.