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EVGA still makes high end power supplies that are well liked. I've never cared about dimensions, though. Conversely, Corsair is widely disliked since it went public a few years ago. It has a habit of releasing products with decent specs, then almost immediately replacing them with a lower...

My favorites are the pinheads who think Trump was 4D Chess-ing the whole deal by refusing to properly address the questions that the uppity [mulltiple slurs] asked him. Apparently, Trump used to tell people he's of Swedish ancestry, according to Omarosa Newman, who somehow jumped from being a...

I actually have to look in to low-profile cooling on my Threadripper as well. It was originally in a 2U chassis of what I'm just going to call unknown provenance that had a bunch of too-loud to use in a home high RPM fans in it. I'm planning to re-home it to that same chassis. I'm giving serious...

Has anyone watched the panel between Trump and the National Association of Black Journalists from earlier today? It's 35 minutes long and every minute of is not just painful but actively insulting. I can't believe we have to go through with another election season with this moron actively...

Another leak of Zen 5 desktop CPU prices.

That seems like something that could be fixed in firmware. It wouldn't even shock me if I like Asus for being a generally hassle free brand but when you need something from the support side, woe be unto you.

Regarding expensive computers, I normally tend to target $1500, the "nice but not insane" sort of PC, but a lot of my money is in storage rather than CPU or graphics power. I'm thinking about this at the moment because it is very, very easy now to spend $500+ on just a motherboard, where we used...

IIRC AM5 is the same physical dimension as the AM4 socket, so you may have more cooling options than you think. Thermalright has several low-profile HSFs that might be of interest. It's an unappealing development IMO. It signals that the current socketed interfaces are inadequate, but I think...

My first thought was that cooler looked like a Scythe Big Shuriken, which I have used before for ITX systems. Apparently neither Lunar Lake nor Strix Point support socketed RAM. You buy those products with all the RAM they'll ever have.

Android supports some DRM and application trust that is important for things like video streaming companies, banks and medical information services. Not that I'm looking too closely, but the banking app itself makes you take the photo using its own photo interface, which presumably verifies the...

The entirety of Deadpool and Wolverine with perfect stereo audio and clean 1080p video has been on the front page of Youtube all day. Almost 300k people have seen it as of 90 seconds ago. What I can't believe is that I first saw the thumbnail for it at 6am and it's still there at 2:30.

You say that, but Domain and local accounts are the standard for the overwhelming majority of computers in the world. There are also computers that simply don't get connected to the internet. Those guys still need to function as well.

Rufus just makes an unattend.xml file that gets dropped in the root for the ISO. I'm FAIRLY sure that using it with Ventoy will still respect that, since it's part of the Windows setup process and not anything inherent to the boot environment. Unattended installs have been a thing at least since...

Oh hey, look, Office 365/Azure is down again. Separately from the nonsense of just two weeks ago.

I haven't looked at reviews yet, but I will say that lens corrections on import are the most dead simple processing digital darkroom software. I think even Darktable and RawTherapee support that. I'm just surprised that Canon released an RF 1.4 prime that cost less than $2000.

The RF 35mm 1.4 is shockingly affordable for a fast Canon native lens.

Specifically for Chase Banking, the Android application is a better tool if only because it supports biometrics directly and it can be used for check cashing.

It's very difficult to talk about the current situation in the West Bank and Gaza without being accused of antisemitism, Zionism or somehow both at the same time. I've been done with Israel as a state more or less since Rabin's assassination and the Netanyahu's rise to power, even understanding...

The Threadripper release for a given line usually hits in Q1 of the next year after an updated desktop release, I think. A Chinese retailer seems to have leaked USD MSRPs for the Zen 5s: $500 for a 9950x, $400 for the 9900X, $300 for the 9700x and $230 for the 9600x. Yes, please.

Intel says no to a general CPU recall but recognizes the issue as impacting all 65W+ SKUs in 13th and 14th gen. Ouch.

It might still be helpful to narrow down which ports are impacted. Maybe there's a virtual device (TPM?) causing the problem.

The solution to most issues with Windows 11 is just to ignore the concept of a Microsoft account.

Supposedly August 8th for the little Zen 5s and August 15th for the interesting ones. I'm holding back to see what issues there are at launch but I'm looking forward to whatever we get. LM, ORD to Nairobi business class is $1000 almost year round. Where the hell are you flying? Ulaanbaatar?

I watched this happen to my brother, who eventually got better, and one of my uncles, who went from host a campaign event for Illinois state senator Obama to building a bunker under his house for a six digit amount of money because of all the gangs in Chicago (which is two hours away; and the...

I have a Netware 4 system I have to keep running until the end of September. It was probably new in about 1996, but at least it's not running on its original hardware any more. It's currently a Core 2 Duo an Intel 945 motherboard, which is what we can comfortably call old ass hardware.

You might want to move your USB devices around to different ports. Start with the keyboard and mouse on a non-superspeed port. The device in question could be something internal and non-removable. If you have nothing installed and still have a problem, it's something on the motherboard and you...

I realized that when Dick Cheney told a journalist that reality is whatever the administration defines it to be. I've never liked the GOP, but here we are at the intersection of Brave New World and 1984 and these guys seem like they're racing past The Handmaid's Tale toward I Have No Mouth and I...

Skipping a generation isn't the end of the world, LM. You are on a contemporary architecture. You can just keep your $700-ish and get a Zen 6-whatever. If the numbers aren't there, if it's only a 12% bump over what you have now or something similarly underwhelming, you're only going to be out an...

1. Apparently the earliest sample of a retail 9900X has been reviewed and it benchmarked generally slower for gaming than a 7800X3D. 2. Emulation gaming seems to be something you can pick up and put down rather than a full time focus. I think it's easier given a broad ranges of emulators...

It's fair to say that the current republican party engages in a great deal of projection about issues that they will happily exploit.

Partner's dad married someone who was already a member of the CoS. They live in Clearwater now. Becoming an OT3 costs a low seven figure amount of money, but apparently, like being a Mason in Victorian England, members help each other a lot once they get to that level. Back on Topic: someone...

I'm thinking it's a good size for a boot drive. I have to assume there's still some reason why WD maintains the distinct labeling.

I think the Noctua products are more of a "I bought an expensive PC and I'm not screwing around with the cooling, either" deal. I reuse the fans between my personal builds and I don't care what color they are. Keep them oiled and they last and last and they'll stay quiet the whole time. I'm sure...

I actually got a single UltraStar SN840 out of the pile of nonsense my data center had set aside. New (sealed) drive, and I wouldn't have bought it if it doesn't have HGST style dress vs. Western Digital. It's just 2TB, too small to put in a production server, I'll find something to do with it.

Ok but do you have weirdly aligned front teeth and scientology super powers? (My partner's dad is an OT 3 and has apparently met Tom Cruise a couple times)

Howso? You just don't give up your drives. The Windows licenses are tied to the motherboard, so the only thing you might be out is some small cost for a new place to put Windows.

It can be disabled, but not really removed.. Edge can be removed now, but not this computer herpes. That being said, you can turn it off and nobody is forcing you to interact with it. I don't know if you have a version of Windows that does group policies and I know you are resistant to modifying...

Intel also says it has a microcode patch to fix motherboard overvolting coming in August.

On my big Windows file server, what I do is create an entry point called c:\mnt\(drive label), and a second directory location called c:\share. In C:\share, I add symbolic links to whatever directories I want from the drives found under c:\mnt so they appear contiguous for purposes of browsing...

I'm a big fan of the Thermalright Peerless Assassin for midrange builds. It's about 85% of what a NH-D15 is at about 1/3 the cost. My five year old high end build will almost always get gifted to someone else. Probably not my Threadripper, but for example my ~10 year old X99 system is still...

They are distinct volumes. They're just mounted to an empty folder instead of a root drive letter. Although technically you can do both if you want.

Something to keep in mind about air coolers is that they work forever. Maybe you have to swap a fan, but pumps flat out die after a while. This is one of those things that keeps me away from AIOs: I can buy a $300 top end liquid cooler and at best, maybe I get four or five years out of it...

Democrats non stop fail at messaging. Unfortunately, it doesn't help that they're the party that tries to communicate ideas more complicated than will fit on a bumper sticker. The good news is that Trump hasn't seen any increase in support. It's just a question of whether or not more people turn...

He won't do that because the Senate is tied at the moment and hate monkey Joe Manchin is technically an independent but functionally a Republican in everything but name. No one else would get approved to replace her and that would cloud the matter of presidential succession.

They already started. Her parents were not born in the USA but Harris was born in the blasted hellscape of Oakland, California. They're also going to challenge her name on state ballots even though no candidate has been nominated yet.

I'm not a fan of cops or cop-affiliated people, but I do kind of like running a former prosecutor, a person of color, and a woman against the personification of the seven deadly sins, a convicted felon, well known racist, misogynist and rapist. On the other hand. I fully expect he'll break out...

I suspect your laptop is fine so long as its cooling is maintained. The TDP is vastly different and I think the firmware is definitely crafted to keep temperatures in line now closely with Intel expectations than what nonsense Asus and MSI come up with for desktops.

There are people saying that high-end AMD will ultimately see some of the same issue even if they are taking longer to manifest. It boils down to the behavior of letting specific powers draw extra power for burst clocks. AMD will suggest that OEMs not go over some particular voltage, but just...

Large portions of Azure are impacted, and that means hosted database systems that have nothing to do with clients. With VMs, you can mount the virtual disks and remove the impacted files at least, but who knows what level of automation they can provide for that?