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Samsung SSD's get you full access to their Magician app. https://www.samsung.com/semiconducto...umer/magician/ I've had liquid and air coolers. Both are effective. Better video card and case fans are very quiet and controllable with MSI Afterburner but I don't stress hardware much beyond F1 2019, Prepar3D and 4K video rendering. I found quality thermal paste properly applied at least as important as cooling hardware. FS 2020 might be different but it's looking like the heavy lifting will come from the cloud. |
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04-27-2020, 06:39 AM | #1864 |
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Played it several times but understood that it is not my type of games. I prefer something like WoW. It is interesting that if someone gets into our social circle but they don't play WoW sooner or later they disappear from our radars. It is quite normal to discuss strategies of accomplishing missions, shops to get gold etc and if the person is not aware of all those things then they can't be a part of our social network. I guess that no other game has similar effect!
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04-27-2020, 07:35 AM | #1865 | |
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I agree it looks better and more "hi tech", but as mentioned earlier may computer is usually out of 90% of sight. The way my desk is setup, it sits behind the left of my three monitors. I also don't typically overclock my computers either. I have done that in the past but in recent years have preferred to just leave well enough alone.
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i'm not convinced that there's any thermal advantage until one goes into overclocking though.
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The 850W PS has a fan but it's silent. It also helped lower CPU temp and fan noise when I upgraded to an Nvidia FE card with a ducted fan that dumps hot air out the back of the case instead of inside of it like most other cards do. Apparently there's a tradeoff if the card is OC'd and needs max cooling but I haven't needed to boost default setting for what I do. I can barely hear the card fan under high load, it's far enough away from the desk that it isn't bad. About my thermal paste comment earlier, it was worth -4ºC at idle, pretty good for an easy job. Others might do better with conductive paste but fearing fire, I went with non-conductive. The air cooled XPS runs cooler, quieter and better than my former Alienware Aurora with its bunch of fans and water cooling that sounded like a Dyson under load. The case lights were cool though, but I don't really miss them as much as my nephews. |
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04-28-2020, 02:41 PM | #1868 | |
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It's had 3 OS upgrades, 3 video card upgrades, and is on it's 3rd power supply (had to upgrade the PSU when I upgraded the video card the first time). It is just starting to not be able to keep up with modern games, although I did play Just Cause 4 on it with no issues at HD. It might even be able to keep going if I could do a GPU upgrade but it has a BIOS not UEFI so no current card will work with it. I had to buy a specific card last time to get around that, not all worked at that point. Just goes to show how processor has finally reached a point where it isn't much of a factor. It's all about the GPU. It's definitely time to move on though. I've never gone more than 3 years with a computer before this one.
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That gives me hope that I can continue upgrading my almost 5 year old XPS 8900 i7 6700K for a few more years. Like you, 3 years or less was the usual holding period before this one. It still benchmarks well with all the upgrades I've done and will keep it while Dell SupportAssist pushes free updates. I get the best deals buying New category recent overstock stuff from the Dell Outlet site with discount coupons. A little too hard to resist at times, can't check there too often or I'll get in trouble with the CFO. |
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I go back with Dell to the days they were "PC Limited".
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i wish more cases did ducting like dell has always done. it's really not hard!
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Problem with Dell is that their advance settings are locked in BIOS and the generic motherboard.
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Yea, the US has absolutely no manufacturing facilities for this type of stuff, which is a real issue. I'm hoping some of the after effects of COVID-19 is you see some of this coming back onshore, but I doubt it, at least not unless we start producing rare earth metals again.
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Doesn't look like as assassin's creed game to me.
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