here i am again, now for my second friend, he has a question, recently he has built a low budget pc from scrap and tested the cpu without thermal paste and put on top some very old heatsink with a fan just to test if the rig works. Now heres the thing he ran the pc with a bootable windows and after checking everything he went to see the temps, the cpu was running at 101c and he imediaetly shut down the pc. The cpu is i7 3770 and it can go up to 105c , now hes just wondering did he damage it because of that, the whole thing lasted 20 mins before he noticed. Not planing to finish it soon and run it because hes missing a few parts.

People with NVMe SSD. How do you find your SSD working after 1+ years? Is it still good, do you recommend it more than SATA III SSD?
I was planning on getting NVMe, but my MB doesn't support it and I was going to buy SATA III, but im worried about their life span and losing my windows 10 on it..

HBM2E

Basically the next generation. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14733/sk-hynix-announces-36-gbps-hbm2e-memory-for-2020

i need advice for a friends rig
we are going with MSI X470 Gaming Plus and 2x8GB HyperX Predator DDR4 3200MHz but now the problem is the cpu
7 1700x is 150€
7 1800x is 205€
7 2700x is 230€
is 25€ worth the peformance you get from 2700x over 1800x or is 80€ worth between 1700x and 2700x?

I fancy this new design changes that are happening, they look very slick and modern. I hope you unclutter the situation a bit more too because I still feel you're kinda bombarded by more information than is necessary.

Has anyone else lost access to the Backstage Chat?

I can't add benchmark….
Nothing happened when clickin' "add benchmarks"

https://wccftech.com/signed-certified-vulnerable-flaws-discovered-in-40-kernel-drivers/

Mutant Zero Road to Eden free on Epic Store

If you see any weird bugs around the site, drop me a message. There's been a few changes behind-the-scenes and a lot of it's been fixed but there are a lot of pages/tools!