Recent content by Mercutio

You can make incompatible CPUs run 11, but unless you know the secret sauce, they can't be upgraded past whatever version is initially installed. As previously mentioned, an N150 had more or less the same computing power as an i7 7700. It also has better integrated graphics. At this point...

So you're looking to buy a PC that was born incompatible to run Windows 11? Why?

I hate the S25 Ultra. The extra width means I can't reach the far edge of my phone with my thumb. I've gotten the pen out all of one time and the purported camera upgrade isn't doing a damned thing for me. The S26 line will be out at the end of February or perhaps the middle of March. They're...

Boob to you too this fine morning. I take pictures all the time and some of the tools that I use do apply AI to correct a focus near-miss, or just apply machine learning to help me sift through photos when for example I have 1445 shots to look through, like I did last night. That sort of AI is...

I finally delivered the gaming PC I built for my friend's kid last week. It turned into a bit of a communal project; friends got him a pair of 8bitDo controllers, a gaming mouse and a gaming headset to go along with spare parts build I put together. My spare parts actually wound up as a...

I was still actively using an i7-2700k until last year for the simple reason that the damned thing wouldn't die and did everything I asked of it. That system may very well have had run for 99.99% of its life, from 2011 to early 2025. I took down a picture frame to hang that board and CPU up in a...

Results from "kill all the AI" script are pretty promising. On a vanilla Windows 11 VM install with 4GB allocated RAM, I saw a decrease in RAM in use from 2.8 to 1.5GB, with relatively similar RAM cache values of 800MB vs 750MB. That's a rounding error a system with a large amount of available...

I think we all know that ain't nothin' gonna happen over this. We didn't do anything about it last time he was in office and now everything is worse and checks and balances are thrown out the window when one party controls all branches of government.

For purpose of comparison, an N150 has approximately the same amount of computing power as an i7-7700 at a tiny fraction of the power budget. I can't find any of the $150 N150s with 16GB RAM that I was able to buy any day of the week last year, but I did find this guy for $190.

Greg, that is some bigly e-waste right there. it'll technically run Windows 10 but that's G41 chipset that PROBABLY uses DDR2, although I think there were some hybrid boards that had DDR3 as well. Belarc advisor will tell you for sure. Either way, you're not getting over 8GB RAM on it and it...

The EU owns around $8T of US Debt. Essentially no entity on the planet could buy all that, and no one other than a close ally would want that much exposure to liability. The value of a dollar would plummet in a re-valuation, absent the backing of those assets by European powers. I had one...

I turn all the frame generation stuff off, but nothing I do needs those settings. IIRC there's a global and per-game setting in the control panel. DLSS 4.5 supposedly decreases frame latency to the point where even 4 generated frames to 1 "real" frame is usable, but even within that there are...

Hardware Unboxed, which IIRC is an Oz-based Youtube channel, says that the 5070Ti and 16GB 5060Ti have been discontinued or functionally EOL'd by most or all AIB manufacturers in favor of the 12GB 5070 and 8GB 5060Ti.

I'm the complete opposite of a fan of firearms in any way, shape or form, but Black Flag Civilian is a sort of leftist-anarchist gun advocate. He posted this a few days ago, mostly speaking to the gun nuts who still watch his content. The Administration has a boner for attacking Minnesota...

It's going to be hilarious when the US get evicted from every military base it has in Europe.