Recent content by Wildcard

Your best bet would be to buy an SSD and reinstall Windows. You could move your installation over to the SSD, but that's not a completely straight forward process, and getting rid of all the crap that your Windows installation collected over the years will do you a lot of good as well. Just save...

Assuming the i9 only supports 2666MHz RAM (I didn't double check), if you buy faster RAM it will just end up running at 2666MHz anyway and you wasted money.

I just read that you have a HDD lying around that you plan to use. Maybe I'm just telling you something you know already but in this day and age, putting anything other than data (music, films, pictures, office stuff) on a HDD is frustrating to say the least. If you plan on putting your VMs on...

Are you sure 500GB storage will do you? My main gaming machine has/had 500GB without any VMs, plus I have 120GB SSD as temp drive, and I constantly had to uninstall stuff, so my new machine (should arrive tomorrow yay) will have 2TB. I would recommend replacing the 500GB 970Evo with a 1TB Adata...

Hi, I know you can't recommend non-PCS hardware. But I have a Recoil III and I really like the keyboard of it, and I'd like something similar for my desktop gaming PC. If you can't recommmend specific products, could you at least tell me what I'd need to look out for? Does any mechanical...

I updated the posting with newer tests regarding the undervolting. I don't know where I got the previous figures from, I can't get the wattage to go below 59W anymore. Either I was reading the wrong figures, or I wasn't in gaming mode. Anyway, I tested a bit more and longer, this time also...

That's definitely a better idea than blindly assuming it's the drive encryption or the (slightly dodgy) USB dock :-) I didn't have time during the week, but I just tested it. The culprit was the USB keyboard (Lenovo). Replaced it with a cheap spare from Logitech, and it's working now. Why the...

I started using my new Recoil III this week, and this means connecting it to a USB dock (Targus). Now the laptop does not seem to boot. It is stuck at the PCS logo. No error message that no bootable media was found, nothing. If I enter the BIOS, and exit it by choosing "Save and reset", the...

CPU/GPU, performance, power consumption I will not go into any detail about benchmarks. I did a few tests, and the laptop performs the way you could expect a i7-9750H with a 1660Ti to perform. If you’re interested in benchmarks, I suggest googling benchmarks for this combination, there are...

This is not just a review of the Recoil III, but also of the whole ordering process and some more answers to questions and issues that might arise when putting together a configuration for a new gaming laptop. Basically, all the questions I had before and during ordering, I try to answer in this...

I have no practical experience with Optane memory (so you could say I'm talking out of my ar$e). But I know how Caching workings. Caching is a brilliant technology, in the right scenario. For example take a big Oracle database holding all of a companies data, say 1TB of orders, addresses...

Looking at the OP's setup: 250GB M.2 SSD (*****) 1TB HDD (*) = 1046€ With Optane: 250GB M.2 SSD (*****) 1TB HDD (*) 16GB Optane = 1104€ Replacing the HDD with a cheap SSD: 250GB M.2 SSD (*****) 1TB Adata SSD (***) = 1112€ Why would you get a 16GB cache for your HDD if 8€ more buys you a...

Your storage setup works only as long as the 250GB M.2 SSD is enough to host all your programs (OS and games). Otherwise you'll end up loading games from the slow HDD which is about as exciting as watching paint dry. 250GB seems very little for OS + games. In fact, the main reason I ended up...

That's certainly not unfair paraphrasing, that was exactly my thinking. I don't know if my assumption is correct, that's why I'm asking here :) The Octane is appealing to me because the cooling system (on kitguru) seems massive, the chassis layout seems well designed (quick access to M.2 and...

Thanks. It's interesting to see that the 1050(ti) generally only achieves half the framerate of the 1060. That's a huge gap, which indeed might make the extra 140€ worthwhile. I'll think about it and probably either go for the Recoil/8750H/1060 or the Octane/8400-8600/2060 route. The main thing...