Recent content by Newtun

Amen, bro! 🙏

Yeah, I'm just a rank amateur 👴🏻; I think the last time I did a BIOS upgrade, it was from a "floppy" disk 💾. But at least, I finally got this last one right . . . I hope. (So far, so good.)

I reviewed the Gigabyte list of BIOSes again, and this warning was strong enough that I thought I'd try to update it again: • Major vulnerabilities updates, customers are strongly encouraged to update to this release at the earliest. Credits to "Assaf Carlsbad and Itai Liba from SentinelOne" •...

Semi-on-topic, after my 3/29 CPU-cooler upgrade, I noticed last week that the RAM clock was backed down to the default 2666MHz, from the 3600MHz that those DIMMs support. So I had to go into the BIOS to correct that - I assume that sync-ing with the CPU clock speed it a good thing...

Trump is the Reverse Robbin' Hood - he takes from the poor and gives to the rich. ;) He's gonna make you an offer you can't refuse. What's that old saying, "A fool and his money are soon Liberated".

Breaking news: Eel-on Muskrat is buying TikTok. He's going to rename it Xmy@$$. 😜 And Donald Trump has issued an executive order declaring the Constitution unconstitutional. :LOL: From the radical left-wing commie-pinko New York Times...

FYI, all, I have ended up hating this case. The power button is "unencased" on the front top-right corner, and is quite sensitive. It is so easy, reaching around for something else, to accidentally bump the button and turn off the PC. A power button should be away from the case edges, and...

Well, the install is done, but it was a lot more hassle than I'd hoped. The first problem was that, even though I left the PC running "full bore" until just before I turned it off, and got right into trying to remove the old heat sink while it was still hot, following online advice, I tried to...

Alright, I "pulled the trigger" on the Assassin, V2, from Amazon, so it's an easy return if it doesn't fit. Thanks, all, for your comments and suggestions.

Thanks, Merc, I just started checking into that Assassin (in between the sweet 16); "cool" design :cool: - "twin towers", dual fans. But it's 155 mm tall, whereas the Pure Rock 3 is 154 mm. ;) Upon further review, Tom's likes it.

Thanks, DD, I'll check into those options. I had thought the other side of the case was "solid", but downloading the doc'n, I see that I was wrong. :)

In the interim, I searched reviews a bit for good CPU air coolers, and I was interested in the well-regarded be quiet! Pure Rock 3; it's a silly mm shorter, at 154. But when I checked into it a little more, it seems that it would be a fairly major hassle for me to install. Instead of "just"...

I'm considering replacing the stock cooler on my Ryzen 7 3700x processor, with CPU utilization 100% 24×7, working on the World Community Grid. My case is a Thermaltake Versa H18, which is listed as supporting CPU coolers up to 155 mm high. I'm concerned about getting a cooler that is exactly...

Donald Trump has won the Nobel Prize in Fiction for his State-of-the-DisUnion speech on March 4. From https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/arts/television/late-night-trump-address-congress.html: “Things got off to a big start when Trump and JD Vance held hands and sang a medley from ‘Wicked.’”...

Don't hold back, Mr. Feinman, tell us how you really feel. ;)