cold storage for media / game files you want quicker? erm…cold storage is a disconnected drive sitting on a shelf. same as a cold spare, but it has data on it.
I’ll tell him to get a 4TB HDD and start installing his games on that and see if they complain about load times n jazz. I was thinking if you had a big enough SSD paired with the HDD, most of your OS and most used app’s (browsers, productivity, content creation) and hopefully most of the important files from the game installs so there would be a measure of speed and instantuity for game level loading, etc.
Cold storage would be a bad term… sorry. It is just mainly storage that is slower then my slower storage, and I already used deep storage for my mass storage NAS. But you are correct, technically correct and that is the best kind of correct.
Also you would be amazed at how many games don’t really load much slower if slower at all off of a HD vs an SSD especially if not made in the last 2-3 years.
To play devil’s advocate, if you are talking strictly about performance. IE 2 working products, but one if better at doing a task, but they both work… then that statement is mostly true. The slower product is not bad, but it might not be a good value depending on how it is priced.
the RX 6600 XT competes well on one front: performance per watt.
alas, that still isn’t enough to make up for its lack luster performance. however, as was commented in the HWC review, that performance per watt may be a silver lining for their next gen of GPU.
Performance per watt is also important in certain applications. Honestly if the price wasn’t initially stupid and probably set to become extra stupid then PPW is one of the factors I look for when building/upgrading HTPCs.
Any thoughts about the Lian Li Lancool 215x? I heard for a budget it is pretty good to have. I am planning to get it since my little brother needs a new case that can help him a bit when it comes to cable management, also the current case he is using is an old ass one, meaning a case that is like 2012-ish look.
I want to give the case that I am using to him, and get that 215x as a potential new one to have.
Putting 200mm fans in that case was a mistake due to the chassis panel blockage. Its in that tier of decent budget airflow cases that are fine provided you’re ok with their quirks.
Well due to the given fact that I never owned expensive cases in my entire life, I might as well give this one a shot. Sure the expensive ones can provide better coverage and technicalities, but sometimes you cannot just get them all especially when you are a guy whose budget are not the same as the other enthusiasts of this hobby, especially when we already have an another expensive hobby like freaking hifi audio.
Firefox v91 has removed some of the browser.proton flags in about:config that allowed users to mostly disable the new UI design and revert it to the more classic UI. And the others are going to be removed in future updates. Anyone got any suggestions for good alternative browsers, cause after using Firefox pretty much exclusively since ~v3 I"m just about ready to abandon them.
Something that isn’t a resource hog, is quick, secure, and isn’t tracking every last thing I’m doing. I’ve looked at Brave, and I’ve also seen suggestions for Waterfox. I’ve also even considered just rolling back Firefox and turning off updates like I’ve done on the Android version on my phone.
If your looking at Brave there is also Vivaldi (another chromium based browser), but be warned you can customize a lot, a lot a lot. Including resource management tools. But if you like to tweak things you can go overboard and waste a lot of time.
Yeah, I had seen and discarded Vivaldi as a real option because of that. While I enjoy overclocking and playing with hardware, that doesn’t extend quite so much into software unless I’m modding Bethesda games, lol.
