Where Tech Isn't So Technical…
Here is some sort of major proof on NewEgg… The Sapphire Pulse RX 560XT: I put one of these in a build for my soon-to-be nephew in November. Paid $299.99 at MicroCenter. Here, it is selling for 1098.97???? The ASUS Dual Radeon RX 5600XT: I bought one for me in early December during the time…
There were good times and there were bad times, and now it’s gone. I did have some good memories working at Fry’s, but it was supposed to be a year stop-gap until I got on my feet but it turned out to be 3+ years and so much experience building gaming rigs, repairing gaming rigs,…
I finally had to break with my old naming convention for my devices… I had them named like the device. My iMac was i9-iMac. Boring. Descriptive, but boring. Named like a business would… Today, I unveil new names for all of my devices that I have control over the names, but names just the same……
I affectionately call this the “popcorn machine” build. This the largest case I have ever built in. The Quadstellar was quite large, but it had for chambers. This is just one big case. I mean, this sucker is HUGE. Complete set of parts Themrltake TheTower 900 Intel Core i7-7700k Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM 32GB (2×16)…
They have validated my combination of CPU and GPU in this video… I have a R5 1600X and RX 5600XT. My reaction from this video is this: even a ultra-modern R5 5600X will give me no better gaming performance than my R5 1600X. It will kick it’s butt in productivity, but I don’t use my…
This build was in a SFF (Small Form Factor) case and was a challenge in a different way that the big gaming case builds. Trying to get these components in the case and make it look good… The parts… Intel Pentium G4620 MSi B250M PRO-VD Motherboard SPI TX 300 SFF power supply PacSun 8GB DDR…
Introduction For part 2, we are going to break down the high-level stats that I went over in part 1 and see what actual products were I built with… Case Any surprises? Look at all of the different Thermaltake models. I was a bit surprised by that. CPU No real surprises here. Intel was still…
So, I have been working on indexing my builds I did while I was at Fry’s and these are some data points that are pretty neat. Keep in mind that for the majority of that time, customers were not allowed to bring in outside parts and get the same labor price, so most opted to…