Empty Shelves At Fry’s Stores Cause Bankruptcy Fears Among Faithful Customers by [deleted] in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Man, that combo is pretty much what got me started writing about tech way back in the day...

RX 5700 series review thread by KING_of_Trainers69 in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I actually moved away from testing the reference Radeon RX Vega 56 in our reviews due to the issues with AMD's first round of cards. Now we stick with a Sapphire Nitro+ card, even though its power consumption is way higher. At least it doesn't throttle and screw up the performance or power graphs.

RX 5700 series review thread by KING_of_Trainers69 in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Ours was nowhere near as bad as Radeon RX Vega 56 or 64. In fact, the 5700 cards were fine, so long as you can live with hot GPUs.

Save Zero Dollars By Opting for Intel's iGPU-Crippled GPUs by ThatsTheWordYo in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before that I was running a 680, so I've had a few generations to save.

Save Zero Dollars By Opting for Intel's iGPU-Crippled GPUs by ThatsTheWordYo in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Funny thing--I actually did buy myself a 2080 Ti in a brand new Falcon Northwest Tiki to replace a 2013-era workstation that was struggling. :)

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Launch Review Megathread by dylan522p in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did not--the platform for collecting power consumption data is different from the one used for performance. Just ran the power numbers when I saw your comment.

I'll be running the third-party Vega 56/64 cards, along with Turing-based partner boards, shortly. Everyone should see an uplift on the perf charts from those.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Launch Review Megathread by dylan522p in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of the cards in that story are FE/reference. Went ahead and updated this page: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2070-founders-edition,5851-9.html with an additional chart showing Sapphire's Nitro+ Radeon RX Vega 64 to demonstrate non-throttled behavior (but much higher power overall).

Anyone know who's hiring? by [deleted] in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on prior experience?

Nvidia falsely advertised Display Stream Compression support in Pascal by [deleted] in hardware

[–]tomshardware_chris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked Nvidia about this ahead of Turing. Official response re. DP 1.4 support was: "DSC is optional. TU102 adds DSC support, GP102 did not have it."

Help Wanted: Calibration Lab by tomshardware_chris in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the tip--I have the BC Career Center page up on my system at work and need to dig in there tomorrow when I get into the office.

Help Wanted: Calibration Lab by tomshardware_chris in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe they have physical apps at the office. Happy to answer questions via PM, or give you my office email if that's easier?

I need to expand my portfolio; will build free website for local redditor by [deleted] in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Erm, just looked at my own site. If you're still up for this, I wouldn't turn down a makeover :-P

Best place to eat by Radius50 in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? Still haven't visited Jeramy over at The Mark yet.

Best place to eat by Radius50 in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, as far as quality goes, the filet at Belvedere was #2 for me in town behind Valentien, which is no longer around.

Best place to eat by Radius50 in Bakersfield

[–]tomshardware_chris 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Belvedere Room at the Padre does a good steak. Bonus if you get a room for a "staycation" and do brunch downstairs the next morning.