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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..

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.