Where Tech Isn't So Technical…
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…
Even though I know that in next six months or so, the RX 5000 series cards will most likely be replaced with RX 6000 series cards and perhaps, the RX 5000 series will replace the RX 500 series cards as the entry-level cards. This is all speculation, but it is something that many in the…
Introduction Welcome back to another enthusiast blog that I am publishing today. This one has to do with PC overclocking. In order to show the effects of overclocking, I used Cinebench r20 and Unigine Superposition graphics benchmark. The other point I am going to make is that overclocking the CPU (in my case) has no…
I’m back for another Gaming performance post. This is the grandaddy of them all between a very similar card in the Radeon RX 570 and the Radeon Pro 580X (found in the 2019 iMac). First, here are the test systems used in this set of benchmarks: Test systems: iMac Intel Core i9-9900k @ 3.6GHz 24GB…
I admit that I am a sucker for video card reviews and might be somewhat jealous from time to time, but I am not a high frame-rate snob and a budget gamer at that: so these seem to be a good match. I thought I’d go over the numbers from my personal gaming system with…
First thing is first, we have to dispel the “Apple Tax”. Let’s look at the 3 systems below. System 1 (iMac i9) is the reference Mac in this article. This is the high-end model with the Core i9. Of note, the machine at this price has only 8GB of RAM. I upgraded to 24GB. System…