Recent content by sedrosken

Wonder if the N150 being out is going to make the N100 inventory do a price drop. Given that it seems to be an incremental bump all around, I'm guessing not. Especially with the tariff situation.

I was going to wait for a sale to pick it up but I got a steam gift card sitting around so I grabbed it. I'm glad I did, it's lots of fun. My friends are constantly making "we need to cook" references now.

I just remembered I actually underclocked the GPU using ATiTool in another bid to make sure it doesn’t kill itself. It’s too memory bandwidth starved to make use of a 316MHz core clock anyway. I have it clocked at 225MHz on the core and 200MHz on the RAM, and it performs about as well — which...

Now for another project box that you haven't been told about yet -- I have a nearly mint IBM T42. Dothan core Pentium M @ 1.7GHz, mobility Radeon 9600 64MB, 2GB DDR-333. I'm currently imaging the 128GB SSD I originally put in it over to a 256 and expanding the partition. There's not even any...

What's the plan for when AMD inevitably drops driver support for them at the worst possible time? I know Polaris has to be next on the chopping block, but they dropped support for the R9 2/3xx range during the last GPU shortage. I'm honestly shocked they still support Polaris, even, and that...

Those are some eye-watering power bills in your future, but I can't argue with those numbers. I might consume a quarter of the load power you do, but I also probably get about a quarter of the performance. I guess it's a good thing for me, then, that that's enough. :) It sounds like you're...

Hearing that it was still unmodified Gamebryo underneath made me shrug and go back to playing my heavily modded copy of the original release. The vanilla game is utterly broken in many ways and I refuse to go back to those mechanics regardless of what graphics pack has been thrown on top.

So, I wound up with a Precision 7750 off of a friend whose company was liquidating inventory after upgrading their fleet. No storage, asset info was scrubbed, the useless battery was removed so it could go in a plane, so on and so forth. I ended up chucking the 2TB I bought for my 840g8 and a...

The label does hurt thermal performance a tad, but in my experience with delabelling one to get better contact with the heatsink, it's not by enough to matter. the pad will fill in the minuscule air gaps between the SSD and the aluminum block (or copper pipe, or what-have-you) with something...

Pope Francis has passed, having made it to one more Easter. I'm sure it's no small relief after fighting for his life pretty much for all of the month previous. Can't wait for the hateful bigots to somehow use this as justification for their hatred, saying that God struck him down for his...

Maybe try setting up Windows on the new drive fresh, and then cloning the disk so that your firmware picks up that it's supposed to be looking for a bootloader on the new drive?

Are you cloning the entire drive or just the main Windows partition? You need to see a few-hundred-meg FAT32 partition on your drive labelled as an EFI System Partition for the UEFI firmware to figure out what it's supposed to be booting from. Can you post a screenshot of what your partition...

Good riddance. It was long overdue and whatever companies end up tangled in it deserve what they get, IMO. We knew it was a bubble a very long time ago. I'll weep for the workers affected and getting dumped into an uncertain job market and a souring economy, but no one else.

And if you're already not-buying Windows 11, you can use certain enterprise grade versions that come without a lot of the annoying cruft. IoT Enterprise LTSC 2024 is supposedly going to be supported until October of 2034. That said, you could stick with a 10 base and use LTSC 2021, which I...

That's... supposed to be a given. UEFI typically only functions on FAT32 volumes. It's why your ESP where your bootloaders get stuffed is in FAT32. There's nothing stopping anyone from writing an ext4, xfs, btrfs, zfs, NTFS, exFAT, or even HPFS filesystem driver for it, but it's just... not...