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Re: Is the FX5600 a great option for Win98?

it's more of a marketing strategy. Of course it is. And it's still being done on both sides. The only reason the for the RTX4060 or RX6600 to have fewer shader units than the Ti/XT variant. It's the same GPU. In the late Core2 era Intel manufactured only one or two quad core desktop CPUs and they …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

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I just swapped a RX 580 8gb to a 6gb Nvidia 1060. From one FX 8350 machine to another. I remember why I hate Nvidia software. That's backwards, downgraded. RX 580 is high end 8GB video card approximately GTX 1080Ti. Cheers, Well they are similar systems ( FX 8350, 990fx, SSD, 16gb of ram) and the …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

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Bought a 6GiB Asus GTX1060 for the kid, to build him a more gaming-appropriate rig than his laptop, which has integrated GPU in an 11th gen i5 :) Cost a hair's width more than US$100. Going to put it in a Lenovo Workstation with a Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-1270 and 12 GiB of DDR3 memory. All which I had …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

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I was helping my mate with some new PC components today and noticed right off the bat that Windows -- the Pro edition, no less -- activated itself as soon as we connected to the net! is this a thing now? Are motherboards aimed at DIYers shipping with Windows licenses baked into the UEFI? The …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

in Milliways
I bought a Logitech G502 Hero to replace the first new mouse I bought, in 2012. Cooler Master Xornet that was $15 on sale, USB Male connector finally just wore out, the contacts are barely there and missing in some places. Hopefully I can solder a new cable or connector onto it. With Logitechs …

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