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Ebay is our friend, LM. There are even multiple auctions selling these for around that price. I'm perfectly happy using drives secondhand but my strategy for getting to SSD nirvana is definitely to get u.2/u.3 compatibility and purchase of older enterprise units rather than whatever is coming...

I am genuinely conflicted. If it were a wallet or purse or valuable item that clearly belongs to an individual, no question that I'd turn it in (I have in fact gone out of my way to return working phones I've found) but in this case: 1. These items weren't delivered properly to me in the first...

It's more that I'm not sure I want to. I got about $2200 more product than I ordered!

I've found that those systems can be really finicky, for example not working with a larger than 64GB drive even when only the first 1GB was even formatted.

The first rule of taking one's own computers apart: Never take all your best buddies down at the same time.

The same company that once left my shoebox-size carton of enterprise SSDs outside an office next door to gas station that does a brisk business in crack pipes* has kind-of delivered a pair of LG ‎32GS95UEs (32" 4k 240Hz OLED gaming monitors) instead of the pair of 32ML600M-Bs (32" FHD 60Hz IPS)...

Just install Ryzen Master and IIRC it's just a one click "enable PBO" button.

That is actually terrifying.

Just to amplify: you have to find your people somehow. I tried a bunch of different things. I don't feel comfortable by myself in bars, which immediately eliminates a good 70% of everything adults do aside from work. Some people play in co-ed sports or LARP or karaoke. Whatever. Find a thing...

Gamers want lopsided cache. As far as gamers are concerned, there's no other reason to have PC. Even the 5800X3D is an amazing chip for gamer needs and that thing is now two generations old. The PCIe limits aren't an issue for those gamers, either. All they want is as much GPU as they can...

I've never messed with a Getac system at all. dd with his background at a construction company probably has more of a feel for rugged devices than I do.

There are leakers with very good reputation. If you're looking for that information, you'll see the same names come back up for specific types of info. Everyone is going to shit their pants over the X3D products next month because gaming is the only thing the majority of enthusiast media cares...

IIRC the Toughbooks pass one more MIL-SPEC standard than Thinkpad T series do at a cost of reasonably contemporary hardware, but they're Greg's brand and it's his money. I messed with an Acer Predator gaming laptop a little bit ago. Gaming laptops are an absolute scam. Four months old and it...

You may have already uninstalled it. I habitually remove most Windows Store apps from my installation media but I suspect most people will have it. AMD has already indicated that it's going to ship a BIOS update for Zen 5 to allow them to run at the Zen 4 TDPs and pick up better performance...

You can uninstall it through Programs and Features, just like anything else.

Ironically, I also live in a tourist destination. Scads and scads of Chicago residents have a beach house on Lake Michigan in either Indiana or Southwest Michigan. My apartment is walking distance to beach access for the national park and "The Region" for all of its superfund sites and rust-belt...

Quick Share from Google has had a Windows client for quite some time, but now Microsoft is in the process of adding Nearby Share access to Phone Link. I don't need Quick Share very often but I do appreciate having it. Phone Link works best with Samsung phones, to the point that I'm a little...

Xbox Game Bar is a standard part of any Windows 10 or 11 installation, even if you never bother to use it.

So far as I can tell, the Xbox KGL is not something end users can control, so it's probably games-only and worse, there's a record of games that should be on it but aren't because of software updates on one side or the other.

I think the idea is that you'd leave some performance on the table by not parking a CCX when running applications that are lightly threaded, but associating all of that with "game mode" leaves me wondering whether or not only games can benefit from doing so, or if there's a broader implication...

The understanding I have is that there is more or less never perfect parity between the CCXes, so Windows does a bunch of tests and determines which of the two is better when it needs to favor fast, lightly threaded workloads. Given that the hardware is drastically better on Linux than on...

From the conclusion of the piece: "In total I ran nearly 400 benchmarks across all the CPUs. When taking the geometric mean of all the raw performance results, the Ryzen 9 9950X came out to being 17.8% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X. The Ryzen 9 9900X meanwhile was 21.5% faster than the Ryzen 9...

There's some indication that Linux sees a lot more performance gain on Zen 5 than Windows does just because kernel level improvements are already present there that haven't happened on Microsoft's side.

The reviews are out for the big new Zen5s and they do seem to be fairly underwhelming with very modest, sub 10% performance gains to be had across most applications and, for the high-core models, a fresh Windows install and some goofing around with power modes and chipset drivers to get CPUs to...

I'm absolutely shocked you got an RMA back from Asus at all. I've sent them things. Best they've ever done as far returning anything back to me was sending me back my same box, unopened.

I've only found boards where pre-Zen 2 CPU compatibility is dumped in favor of getting Zen 3/3+. Which is fine. I wasn't planning to use an Athlon 3000 for anything, anyway.

I've never deliberately used a WD-branded SSD. A few WD Green drives have passed through my hands in Lenovo or HP consumer laptops. Weirdly, the same PCs are just as likely to have what I believe are very good Kyoxia, Samsung or Micron drives as crappy (no write cache) Silicon Power or Teamgroup...

Every time I've given WD a chance, EVERY SINGLE TIME, I get either a justifiably suspect product or an outright bad product. It ran out of chances long ago. I'll buy something in Ultrastar trade dress. I'll buy Sandisk memory cards, but WD is less a data storage option than an expensive...

I feel like there's a relationship between seeing big tiddy bondage goth demon babes on product packaging and things I don't care to buy and that is definitely also a factor in avoiding MSI. Asrock seems to hit just right as the vanilla and inexpensive option for almost everything and so far...

It's a tough call but I think I still have a generally lower opinion of MSI than Asus. For as much as I hate the company that hasn't ever successfully completed an RMA with me or sold motherboards that don't let end users change the shutdown temperature, it's still not the company that two...

I barely trust Asus production BIOSes let alone beta versions. I can see why you'd want to wait.

I think in this case the greater concern comes with what happens to the CPU, not the motherboard. Asus can't really make Intel do anything on that front.

LGA is pretty much local for you jtr. Not even the nonsense of the ride over the East River. Hop on a $40 Spirit flight to someplace new and see whatever's there, even if it's just a burrito and the local treatment for coffee. Or make the epic California Zephyr run and at least see the Rockies...

The answer is "it depends" of course. One thing that I will say is that it's very possible to have a system live a very long and productive life because we don't HAVE to buy the computer in its for-all-time configuration. General purpose computers can be upgraded and for me there's no greater...

Two round trip plane tickets were $82 inclusive of fees. I'm in a two bedroom apartment (managed by a small hotel chain called Sonder) on Canal Street for just over $100/night. LM is right that it's hot but there's a breeze blowing off the gulf coast. The food is phenomenal and the night life is...

I live in a world where .66 DWpD on a 2TB SSD is pretty goddamned normal so forgive me if I still wanna pay attention to what my enterprise TLC drives are doing.

M-series hardware is just e-waste with better marketing. The same bullshit that Apple fans level at Chromebooks applies just as well to every single thing Apple has made in the last four years, even if it says "Studio" on it and costs as much as a decent used car. Credit where credit is do: the...

New Orleans really is my favorite place in the world.

AI is IMO an "Emperor has no clothes" situation but I suspect that dramatic overvaluations send some of big tech into a huge downturn overall once investors realize that they're falling for another VR or Crypto, with the added understanding that everything they've spent money to get is actively...

To put it another way, if you're coming from anything other than Zen4 / 14th gen Intel, you're getting a lot of performance at dramatically lowered power budgets compared to what Zen 4 and recent-ish Intel have been doing. You can do overclocking if you can be bothered to mess with it. All the...

These are people have 2700x or 3700xes, or maybe something around an i5-9500.

I'm just trying to source parts. Still chasing a budget AM5 build. I am happy that people are asking for systems again. For the time being, my best advice for four year old AM4 owners is just to get a better AM4 though.

You'll also find that there are very few times when your OS will let you read and write at those kinds of speeds, even when you have optimal conditions like two PCIe 4 drives that aren't doing anything else and 800GB files you need to move between them. It's like being in my datacenter and...

I think we're hitting frequency limits again, at least within the range of responsible thermals. It's bad news for gamers unless we're saved by another breakthrough in materials science. The early 2000s gave us multiple cores as a performance path past the 4GHz barrier, but we know that getting...

I know a pharmacy tech in Tampa who has had it more than 20 times in the last four years. Be glad you made it as long as you did and get well soon.

I have an R6, not an R6ii. And that camera is actually fine, but my partner has many, MANY more opportunities to photograph concerts (e.g. Lollapalooza last weekend; she can get a media pass), but feels bad about taking my camera. She wants me to update so she can get the old one off me.

I'm under the impression that Zen 6 products will integrate more/better GPU cores and offer better (yawn) NPU capabilities. Hard to say where they'll be with actual performance.

Apparently it's still possible that we'll get an R6iii, but it's also going to be stuck on the same 24MP sensor as the R6ii. Nonetheless, I am being strongly urged to purchase it.

I'm just looking at the specs. The 7900x is a 120W part and the 9700x is a 105W part. It'd take actual studies to figure out what those CPUs are doing from moment to moment and at peak demand, but I think we can broadly agree that AMD can label things correctly. Nearly all of the performance...

Remember that the 9900x is 10% faster on 87% of the power. It's a meaningful upgrade even if it isn't the one a Zen 4 owner is going to get thrilled about..