Recent content by Melicant

Attia is no longer taking a statin btw.

Avoid if at all possible. Side effects are often downplayed and benefit exaggerated. LDL alone is a very poor indicator of risk. Some stuff I compiled a while back: This one gives a 13 minute general overview of some of the science behind them. End of the video is very interesting when going...

In general with tech advancement and warranties it probably is not worth buying something for that use at that price point. If all he is doing is web surfing and printing stuff off, buy him a $500 laptop and tell him to save the other $500 to buy a new upgraded one in 3-5 years. If a laptop...

This is kind of YMMV, but for those that live near a microcenter they have a combo deal with the AMD Ryzen 7 7700x and 32 GB g.skill Flare DDR5 6000 dual channel ram for $348. You can then add another 32GB ram kit on for $0.01 . I believe this only works if you reserve online for in store...

Interesting:

I never had a problem until last year with a MSI card and it has been a nightmare. They have had some of the worst support I've ever seen. The AMD 5500xt card in my son's system started crashing after a couple months. They require the customer to pay shipping for the RMA. Two months later (it...

Hopefully Warzone 2 has a more efficient graphics engine. I'm running warzone on two 3080 systems at 1440p and still get some texture issues and odd and random FPS drops. This guy has one of the better graphics settings videos:

Does it hit exactly 30? The only reason I could see that happening is if the frame rate limit in the game settings was set to 30. What resolution are you playing at?

Every time, or just the first time when it reinstalls all the shaders?

Yep. The best workaround I've found is getting an original Pixel or Pixel XL. They have free unlimited lifetime storage of videos and photos at full original quality (pixel 2-5 allow backup at compressed resolutions). There are a few methods where you can somewhat automate backing them up to the...

It is great as long as you don't store videos. Prime gets 5gb of video storage.

I have a 3a and didn't really have plans on upgrading, but they are also giving $300 trade in for the 3a. I'm just going to sell the buds. The biggest downside for me is that the 6 series no longer offers free photo/video backup of any type. I'd personally hold off on going from 5a to 6a, as the...

Speculation based on newest leaks:

6900xt for $720 after rebate. https://slickdeals.net/f/15858220-gigabyte-radeon-rx-6900-xt-gaming-16gb-gddr6-oc-video-card-720-after-100-rebate-free-s-h#comments