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The way SMP computers normally work is that banks are reserved per CPU socket. There's almost always an order in which the slots have to be populated for the goddamned things to boot properly. The order usually uses the farthest unpopulated banks, so on a system with 4 DIMMs total and two CPUs...

I don't like the people who currently run WB, actually hated volume 1 in that series and I've NEVER liked DC properties. Joker 2 managed to get the worst audience reaction scores ever attained by a "super hero" movie, ever. That says nothing about super hero movies generally and everything...

Apparently, AMD is letting price cuts happen on RDNA 3 cards because there's a huge oversupply in stocks. This explains the ease of finding NIB 7800 and 7900 boards. I haven't seen tons of 40% off 7900XTXs like I did last week, but I HAVE seen tons of Ebay sellers offering them at around 33%...

I have to roll my eyes at GPUs at the $100 price point. Part of the appeal of a 1-slot GPU is easy cooling and no extra power, but we all remember being able to get some kind of $35 card that more or less existed just to give someone three displays and just enough OpenGL/DirectX for to not be a...

It exists and it works over vanilla twisted Cat 6 pair over modest distances and adapters work on x1 PCIe or vanilla USB 3, but you'd need to use it with what is probably a more expensive switch. I'm not even fully convinced 2.5GbE is a "standard" because it's just this half-assed option for...

It is called Rufus and it is at Rufus.ie.

You'll find thousands of registry differences as well though. BUT, as a last stab at a fix, you could upgrade to Windows 11, just to see if it magically fixes itself. If you downgrade back, you'll have a modest number of defaults you'll have to fix, but I'll bet that if it starts working on 11...

As far as I can tell it's nationwide and worse the younger for people are. My best friend's roommates literally would not let her move in unless she was willing to accept an apple phone. I've also heard of kids swapping a brand new flagship of a four year old apple device to stop certain kinds...

Do you get functional networking from your Linux boot environment?

OK I am having trouble wrapping my head around this. Even if the link structure of internal web sites are complicated, wouldn't you just bookmark the sites you need? Is this because you don't necessarily get to pick the URLs that come out of containerized appliances?

That's probably a matter of class. People who take off their clothes for money, like nearly all my friends, mostly aren't coming out of privilege, although I do know some exceptions to that as well. With regard to phones specifically, there's a massive social pressure specifically to have an...

Honestly something like this would piss me off enough to keep digging vs. wipe and reload. The biggest problem I have for doing that with personal systems is putting security certificates, private networks and database connections back. It's not like any one of those things is a big deal but I...

I have never, ever, EVER seen system restore fix anything. You can use netsh to manually set IP as well. The error message would probably be very helpful.

I've done router/firewall on a VM. I decided it was a bad idea after I had a VM shit itself on an ESXi host and I had to drive out and fix it in the middle of the goddamned night. I DO keep a router VM on each hypervisor, but it's a backup rather than a primary config.

You do or don't have an real IP? A 10.whatever or 192.whatever vs a 169.254.whatever? Can you access local shared folders or printers or is name resolution the biggest issue? Can you get to a share by netBIOS name or IP? What's your Provider Order (Network Connections, hold down ALT, Advanced...

Todd Howard the Fallout Ruiner, to me, has a career unmarred by success, but Morrowind is the only Elder Scrolls game I tried for any length of time. I've certainly seen enough unmodded Skyrim. No one ever talks about the other Elder Scrolls games. EVER. Dude functionally inherited the wealth of...

Bare bones Radeon graphics should get you hardware HEVC encoding. That should be plenty for a Plex stream or two. The encoding features usually don't change within the same hardware generation. My Plex server has a GTX 1050 in it instead of using the ASpeed IPMI controller for video. At some...

It doesn't look like Tailscale is much different from Zerotier or Hamachi to me. I started using both years ago, although at this point I'm doing more with Zerotier just because it's less work from a support standpoint. I do see that somebody has an open server endpoint for it. That's a plus for...

I looked at the picture on my phone and thought that thing was a NUC-alike. Mea culpa. The x16 PCIe is what makes the biggest difference though. Having all the CPU cores in the world stuck on something with limited connectivity is definitely sub-optimal.

That's in a NUC form factor, right? No big boy I/O other than maybe USB 4?

Something I've just encountered for the first time ever is a Ryzen 5700GE. I'm glad I looked it up because it's some kind of secret OEM only product that's all kinds interesting because, like Intel processors with the -T suffix, it trades acouple hundred MHz per core for almost half the wattage...

I don't know anyone under 30 who doesn't do at least some electronic gaming. Another funny aspect of this is that PC gaming is often aspirational. The GenZs mostly grew up wanting to play PC games but not having a computer with a real GPU, so a gaming PC is an affordable luxury purchase.

I standardized on opnsense as an access platform a while back, because I got sick of dealing with everyone having something different, although part of that is that I'm the only person who really connects to each system as an end point, so switching up security certs is mostly only a headache...

Kinda. The GenZs live in some combination of Twitch and Youtube. Twitch in particular drives me nuts because a lot of it revolves around its god-awful chat interface. I did finally convince my partner to use SOundTV instead, which is an adblocking Twitch client that more or less only displays...

My partner shares her gaming accounts with her dad, basically because she's had them since she was little. Still, she's the fan of Shitty Todd Howard Games (TM), and having added up the numbers from Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, she's put something like 7% of all the hours she's been...

I actually use a combination of Hamachi and Zerotier for software defined VPNs (Hamachi is great for desktops and servers but it doesn't cope well with laptops and computers that go to sleep, hence use of both) and I also have OpenVPN running on opnsense on my router system, which is also on...

This thread is inspired by Handruin mentioning that he wanted a low-power replacement for an ancient Xeon server setup. What are we all doing with our server systems? I'm guessing I'm not the only person here who runs Plex or Jellyfin. I'm sure most of us know about containerized VMs and may...

I have a dislike of gamepads, so the handhelds aren't for me regardless. There's an Ayn Odin sitting around my place and it does get used quite a bit, but I've been messing with an RG35XX-H recently as well. At ~$50, it's pretty interesting just from the standpoint of what it can do as a...

AMD says both x670e and x870e have the same 44 total PCIe 5 lanes, but lots of boards do goofy things like run the second slot and third x16s at PCIe 4.0.

Play vanilla before you try War of the Chosen and don't add mod classes until you've done at least a few games with the base classes. Four of the same troop class going in on a drop is more or less always OP. A 99% chance to hit is not a guaranteed hit. A 1% chance to hit is not a guaranteed...

Setting the age conversation aside and to answer LM's question, the big thing other thing that was supposed to come with the x870(E) was supposed to be mandatory USB 4 support. Which is something for someone I guess, but USB adoption is always screwy and uneven and I just can't get excited about...

Phones purchased direct from Samsung have varying levels of protection plans. The most expensive plan includes loss and theft coverage. I think it's something like $12/month for up to three years. Samsung's insurance plan is serviced by ubreakifix, which has several hundred retail locations in...

Looking at forums where people talk about phones, Eurolanders bitch constantly about how lucky we Americans are to get Qualcomm SoCs in our S series Samsungs. It's not just that Exynos chipsets are a bit slower, they're also a lot hotter. There MAY be better battery life, but if the device is...

There's no way an 8TB m.2 PCIe 4+ SSD will be cool to the touch. My thinking was to get a single board computer with at least a 10Gb USB port and an internal m.2 so that you could copy either direct from camera or from a CFexpress reader to an m.2. It wouldn't need much of a display and the OS...

My favorite games are mostly turn based strategy. Battletech, X-Com and even Baldur's Gate are the way I like to play. My partner is for some reason playing Stellaris on Xbox. That is a game that should not ever be played with a gamepad. That game should not exist for consoles. Every third...

One ideal solution would be to have an automated card duplicator, but without a notebook, it would be hard to verify the copies, and even being able to duplicate the cards becomes a hassle when your camera uses. LM is also working with systems that use CFexpress, an NVMe storage format that...

Yes, but it's generationally off by about a year from whatever AMD is doing on the desktop. Zen 4 Threadrippers were released last winter. Epyc is on its own timeline as well. It's also very possible to find real deals on Threadripper workstation systems late in their lifecycle. Lenovo was...

For ASrock, the top PCIe slot can be configured as 4x4x4x4, so go ahead and pop in a dumb 16x4 u.2 or m.2 HBA. My 9950x currently has ~30TB of NVMe 3/4 storage attached, which is an amount I'd comfortably call "enough." dd tends to have one high-end system at a time, and even with only 4x SATA...

X-Com 2 is one of my favorite games, but it also stresses me the fuck out to play in spite of not being as difficult as the ancient DOS X-Com: UFO Defense. The paper doll aspect of keeping your squad looking cool and unique unfortunately leads to a level of attachment that is definitely...

That is exactly what I mean.

You might do better to isolate your GPU from your m.2 ports with a vertical PCIe mount and/or to switch to more easily cooled u.2 drives instead.

There was an AGESA update that supposedly caused the inter-CCX latencies to be reported correctly. There's also a Windows 11 update that improves performance by 3 - 5% but so far the new Ryzen 9s haven't had any special attention.

The first couple drives I looked at don't even list power usage on their standard spec sheets.

Probably Kodi, which has full audio passthrough and handles HDR content better than Plex at least. VLC might be in the same boat. It was last updated in June of 2024.

3rd party batteries are extremely hit or miss. Put a third party battery in a Thinkpad and it'll pause and force you to acknowledge that you don't have a proper replacement on every boot, but on the other hand I've also never found a replacement to work as well as the OEM ones. Dell Latitudes on...

Something I've learned about Ryzen Flashback updates is that motherboards are very picky about what drives can be used for them. Drives that are too big don't work and drives that are too slow don't work. Since I don't have any thumb drives smaller than 32GB any longer, I wound up using an 8GB...

It's only tangentially related to anything here but Be Quiet is sending me an almost complete set of internal plastic replacement parts for my Silent Base 801 after so much of it crumbled or sheared apart when I disassembled it for my AM5 build, and for free. I'm sure my case was on the upper...

We are literally overclocking our RAM. JEDEC has set official speeds and voltages for every generation of SD-RAM and technically the spec includes everything up to DDR5-8800, but anything over IIRC 5600 is an overclock, at least in AMD-land. In theory EXPO and XMS are intended to represent...

Here's somebody's Reddit post describing their tuning for 4x DDR5-6000, which seems to match the G. Skill modules I have.

Apparently, there are some obscenely patient people who have worked out manual timings to get specific memory kits running at full speed with all slots populated. Everything has to be set manually. As a fun side effect, with absolutely nothing in auto mode, these PCs typically boot faster as...