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I'd be interested to see how these complicated setups hold up long-term. Not that I don't plan to maintain my vehicles or anything, but I'm not optimistic about longevity the more they stuff into these things. I really don't want my next car to have to be in the shop biannually or whatever.

I ran my 3700X with the NH-D15 and it was definitely just on the ragged edge of OK thermals-wise -- my ambient is probably much higher than yours at 78F/25.5C, though, so your mileage may vary. My 5500 runs fine on a bequiet! Pure Rock Slim, which is surprising because 5nm is supposed to be very...

Yes and no: the tighter tolerances on the cache means that the core simply can't turbo as high. This is also what makes it an especially poor overclocker. The extra caches were never "necessary." The regular 5800X did just fine in games, but Alder Lake edged it out. The 5800X3D simply does...

The 3D cache is what enabled the 5800X3D to maintain a lead in games over even Alder Lake as I recall. It doesn't help overclocking, but arguably I'd say the era of overclocking is over anyway as these parts come from the factory so close to their voltage, wattage and thermal limits as it is. If...

I think we're finally in an era where both companies will continue trading blows -- hopefully this continues to lower prices and drive performance and efficiency improvements. I really don't want to end up in another Sandy Bridge era with either company having products head-and-shoulders above...

So while my car's finally getting fixed (and yes, they're fixing it, not totaling it; thankfully for my wallet, I don't want a higher car payment right now) from my having gotten rear-ended back in May, I was put up in a 2021 Camry SE from Enterprise. First impressions: - I desperately need to...

I've already got a nice Trinitron TV that's perfectly fine for my consoles, but I'd like a better CRT monitor for my retro PCs.

I personally use a ViewSonic 27" 1440p144 monitor, I got it for roughly 300 bucks back last April, but I also play games on my computer -- you could likely easily get away with a 60Hz model for much cheaper. I also have a Dell P2210 on its side for IRC and Discord, also reading books that feel...

Heck, even NT4 doesn't especially like my hardware here, and I'd not really wanted to use that as I consider NT4 to be the domain of a Pentium with more RAM anyway. I can't get OS/2 past the point where it would be detecting the CD-ROM -- I really do think it's just angry I'm using an ATAPI...

I agree RE: touchpads, but I have to beg to differ on the numpad thing. I used to think like you but I came around the second I actually had to use this thing for a spreadsheet. I just wish it was possible to get a 14-incher with native ethernet and a numpad, even if they had to condense it a...

I'm 95% sure that the folks behind the 5.9 version are the same as the ones doing the NFT crap. No thanks. I'll just use WACUP instead.

I was pleasantly surprised by the build quality on my Inspiron I bought for work, I intended it to last only until I could find a deal on something Enterprise-grade, but it's pretty much still brand-new after lugging it around for my job for nearly a year. The only things I'm really missing...

I like stories like this because they help put the hardware I play with into context. I'm looking at it with 25+ years of hindsight and having only ever seen machines this old a handful of times as a child because they were already woefully obsolete and largely out of service. My whole...

More 486 news: the 486BL cannot cache any more than 16MB of RAM, because it inherited its L1 cache line tags from the 486SLC, which had a 24 bit address bus and couldn't address any more than 16MB of RAM period. At the time this made sense because who was going to put more than 8MB in a 486 of...

In 486-related news, I've got it assembled and after minimal headdesking got it to play nice with itself. My experience with this class of hardware is really starting to show, for better or worse. For right now at least I can't seem to even get it to POST at a 33MHz bus, much less run, but as I...

The PC gaming scene is alive, well, and possibly the healthiest it's been in the last 20 years. Especially with the consoles (aside from the Switch) just being glorified PCs these days. It's rare we don't get a game released for us, now -- we even got some formerly Sony exclusives a couple years...

These days I bet they'd just laugh and go, "People are still mad about that?" They do seem to have mellowed out a bit in their old age.

The thing is, 1080p60 is looked at now much the way 720p30 was looked at a few years ago. The new hotness is high resolution, high refresh stuff -- hell, I've fallen into the trap myself, my main monitor is 1440p144. My 1070 meets my needs handily, for the forseeable future anyway -- I don't...

I don't even object to making a set of "preferred" system daemons, that integrate especially well, per se. I just wish they weren't packaged with the base systemd distribution, or circularly dependent on each other in some cases. I forget exactly what keeps you from ripping out parts you don't...

As per Microsoft: As part of the UI dumbing-down, they removed the ability to split taskbar groups or show labels. Just another reason I consider the stock Win11 UI broken. You can install StartAllBack by Stardock I believe, and that fixes 95% of my gripes with it, but that's 3rd-party...

I've been into this hobby for, oh, the last 5-6 years or so. I'm pretty much at the endgame where I know what I like and how to get it. I daily-drive a custom Melody96 build with Kailh BOX Navy switches, some DSA profile keycaps, and Durock stabilizers. I tapemodded the PCB and finished the...

"Desktops are for old people." (looks around, sees 4 complete desktops and the parts to build at least 2 more) Well, maybe I'm just an old soul. I don't like a lot of things about modern Linux, but the name of the game there is modularity and customization, so I customize my way around them...

I know, right? Hence my surprise when it just... worked here. You know how prone 9x in general is to crashing and freezing, usually needing the reset button, as do I; however, I have not even ONCE so far suffered a crash or freeze so show-stopping that I couldn't gracefully reboot. Low bar to...

Okay. So. I got ahold of a nice little turn-of-the-century Celeron build through a client -- one smashed hard drive right in front of him later, I was the proud owner of a machine with a no-name (but decent make) ATX case, dead optical drives and floppy, questionable power supply, but a mint...

Nevermind the fact that phone numbers can and do change. That's ridiculous. I'd be calling someone.

They're really doing their best to push small business over to Google, aren't they? I mean, we're permanently an MS shop, but I can see how some of our clients would find the pricing and headaches a lot easier to deal with over there. 99.999997% of what they do in MS Office they can do just as...

Update, I have ascertained that it does indeed have a 387 socket. I'm torn on whether I want to search for a FasMath or a regular 387 -- I don't expect to use it a ton, and no matter what I pick it'll be blown into the weeds by a real 486 FPU, much less a Pentium or better -- but I do know I...

Yep. Ran face-first into this and even had a mild panic because we acquired 150 individual keys as Microsoft makes it a real pain to obtain volume licensing for perpetually licensed Office versions. Under recommendation by our MS rep, we associated 25 keys apiece to "holding" accounts but then...

Being actual IBM hardware (due to licensing restrictions, IBM could only sell these chips as part of a completed computer or motherboard) this probably has more of a right to run OS/2 than normal.

God help me, I'm starting another project. I have obtained a "Blue Falcon" board from a friend, a 486 VLB/ISA board with (curious) onboard COM/LPT, IDE and floppy. The interesting part is that it uses an IBM "Blue Lightning" chip, a BL3-75. Based on the Cyrix 486SLC/DLC, this has better cache...

I honestly have no idea. It probably is a bug, but I just turned HDR off and called it a day. It looks fine without it. I was using my Roku Express 4K+, which only offers one option to configure the display -- do you have a 4K HDR display, a regular 4K display, a 1080p or 720p display. I just...

Ok. The verdict is that for my use I probably should have just got the normal 4K TV at 55" for the same price, because HDR just blows out the colors. It looks fine on live-action shows actually filmed in 4K but for much of my old content which is de-interlaced 480i, particularly animation, it...

I wish I could put solar up, but of course, I rent. Something to think about when I finally buy a place. I impulse bought a new TV for the living room, a 43" 4K HDR job from Sceptre. I caught it on sale for $220ish after tax on Walmart.com. It doesn't have any smart junk in the TV itself, which...

I can make use of it but don't think it's worth the money or the power draw. It may be worth it to you, and more power to you, but I'm not buying until they can get the power consumption back below 200W. Granted, you can buy one of these cards and then run it with a power limit, but that's kind...

I've already compromised on comfort for energy savings. I knocked my "cool" threshold to 76, and now 78F on my thermostat. Honestly at this point it seems like my AC is on 24/7 regardless. Might as well set it to 68 or 70 and be done with it. Power costs aren't exceptionally high in my area, yet...

The point is, power consumption for these parts is getting wildly out of control. A mid-high end part like the 4070 is positioned to be, even if it will outperform a 3090 per your rumor source, has absolutely no business being a 300W card when energy prices are only getting worse. I won't be...

I was referencing my 1070, which is a 150W GPU. And the specific budget placement, not necessarily performance level. I'm well aware that typically the performance per watt technically goes up, I just find it unreasonable for a mid-high end part to take more than 200W to run. Even that much is a...

I don't know that I'm buying a modern high-end card at all until they get power consumption back under control. 300W for a tier of card that used to draw only 150 is completely ridiculous especially now that I'm paying my own electric bill. First just for the power it'd draw itself, second for...

Man, fuck cancer. This might sound childish, but I actually did watch Technoblade, a guy who played Minecraft on YouTube. It was more for his particular style of humor than anything, because otherwise Minecraft has a tendency to bore me. I'd heard he had cancer, but from his attitude and all I...

Well guess what, Missouri's already trying. To make it illegal to get an abortion out of state, at least, if not totally blocking their right to travel like I was thinking. I guess that's coming. And I really wouldn't bet on this Supreme Court stopping them.

Does she not realize that under such a system, she'd have no rights or opinions? Does she think that she'd somehow magically be considered an exception and allowed to stay in Congress? She really seems to want to go back to having to ask her husband if it's okay if she says things.

Handy means it's an actual nVidia-manufactured card, PCB and all. Kinda like 3dfx did around 2000 where they stopped partnering with AIBs, except nVidia of course still does partner with them.

The bad part is that it happened at all; the worse part is that it doesn't end here. One of the justices said in no uncertain terms they were coming for same-sex marriage and contraception next. And that they overturned something so precedential means there's not a single thing sacred, nothing...

You only have to take a look at my signature and post history to know my specialty is with legacy equipment. Most of it predates me, yes.

Yeah, since the verdict I've felt no small amount of dread. Being straight, white and male I'm not significantly affected directly, but most of my friends don't fit that mold, and a lot of my family doesn't either. As George Carlin said best, though, they're not rights if someone can just take...

I'm well aware of Matrox, heck, for a while I ran a G450 DualHead in my K6. My PPro, after I got the Voodoo2 to replace the Banshee with, used a Millennium II PCI for its 2D card. Both had absolutely superb image quality compared to what they replaced, and the Banshee and Voodoo3 aren't notably...

I've all but abandoned that plan completely for now. I'm not getting that extra computer like I thought I was, and the more I thought about it, the more I realize everyone involved is completely right about not wanting to virtualize a router.

I have a bookcase now! and it's in my office with most (if not all) my assorted knickknacks and books and of course storage media that I've accumulated over the last few years, now. One problem: it's full, and if I get any more junk I'm going to have to get another one. I have room, I guess...

I saw something similarly U shaped on Amazon, only the other way around and about half the price. I'd be interested in that model for the office if it wasn't an eye-watering 600 dollars. Ouch. Honestly my central air doesn't seem to be doing that bad, it does seem to be staying on pretty much...

Well, I'm moved. Fought with my modem for about an hour before Cox's "activation" page finally crawled up. Thankfully once it got itself configured, it works fine -- I even get a bit more throughput than I paid for, I was hitting about 297mbps down and 11.8 up and I'm only paying for 250/10. My...