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That's exactly the case, but I don't think it can be updated directly -- if I'm understanding this correctly, and I may not be, I believe that the PSP gets updated as part of microcode loading either by system firmware or as a binary blob by the operating system as it boots. This likely...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/sinclose-vulnerability-affects-hundreds-of-millions-of-amd-processors-enables-data-theft-amd-begins-patching-issue-in-critical-chip-lines-more-to-follow Goddamn it. To be fair, needing a compromised kernel to take advantage of the...

I care about power budgets because I happen to pay my own electric bill, Lunar. ;) If I can get more done in less power used, that's money saved and money earned. Granted, the sorts of differences you'd actually see between my 5700X and one of these wouldn't even pay for the upgrade, but it's...

My guess is that it has something to do with OCR and how scanners build an image vs. a camera. I'm impressed every time at how easily my CU's app picks up through my boss's nigh-unto doctorlike handwriting on reimbursement checks for various and sundry.

Do AM5 Zen boards still have the issue where some manufacturers skimped on the flash for the firmware so their solutions ended up being making people with older CPUs stay stuck on the older versions of the UEFI? I know my B450M-Pro4 was stuck on a years-old revision for a long, long time because...

Yeah, back when I used Chase, I preferred the mobile app to their web interface. Now I'm with a local credit union and their app is still somehow better than their web experience. I've used Supermium for some experimentation I did with Vista on my Dimension 9200 project (namely seeing how...

Wow, this is upsetting. I really hate this for everyone else who has to deal with it... but I somehow keep rolling sixes, because everything's still up for my clients (including myself*) in my region. Still going to be a setback for their reputation -- how much precisely depends on how long it...

I suppose I just have a vastly poorer idea of what a good computer is then. I have a more upper-end build now than I ever have and I imagine it'd still struggle to break the $1k mark valued today, though I'll say that I've probably spent a tad under $2k for the whole deal as I've upgraded and...

Frankly I'm not sure that using something nearly if not as good for less money qualifies as "screwing around" but potato potahto. I use the slightly louder fans in a case that deadens sound anyway, so it honestly doesn't matter to me. I'm also skeptical that it's merely double -- I think the...

The trouble with your thinking jtr is that we have a little integrity. It'll probably get us killed, but we won't stoop to the same levels that they're willing to precisely because we know it opens the door to them being used against us later on, and we're not terribly interested in establishing...

Honestly, props to AMD for having the guts to actually delay a product that isn't up to their specification. They could probably release anything that doesn't literally cook itself and the tech bros would be all over it even still.

Bear in mind, I use cases with solid side panels -- I'm not constantly looking in at them either -- and yes, Noctua does offer black fans now, although as I understand it you do pay a bit more for the privilege of having them match the rest of your stuff. I also reuse fans between builds, Merc...

Personally I prefer Arctic Cooling fans. Noctua performance, or damn near, at much more reasonable prices, and I don't have to deal with that godawful brown-on-cream color scheme. I will give Noctua points for making all sorts of fans in weird form factors, like -- they still make the 60mm...

When someone uses your old equipment for crimes, they are the ones considered liable, not you. They figure out who actually committed the crime.

Yeah, no, I flirted with liquid cooling, but I quickly went back. The juice is simply not worth the squeeze. I'd much rather enforce sane power limits and use a modest HSF like the Thermalright Phantom Spirit I recently upgraded to. Then again, I don't have much use for the kind of rigs that...

They want your sweet, sweet data Lunar. They will stop at nothing to get it. You must return to monkey -- I mean -- Windows XP. You know it's true, you know now what you must do. :p

Well son of a bitch. I don't think we had much chance with him at this point, but now, less than four months before the election, we have to decide on and rally behind another candidate? Christ. Why don't we just skip the election and hand Trump a crown already.

So, uh... Pennsylvania, am I right? Necroing and semi-hijacking this thread to be the Politics dumpsterfire. I will be the first to say I don't like Trump. I think we all know this. I think we are, for the most part, on the same page. But I don't think he deserved to get the JFK treatment on...

In this case, Merc, they'd been paying for 365 Premium for a while, so moving to Entra and Sharepoint is literally free for them apart from paying the rate for my time in migrating them -- in fact they might well save money on power costs. And it's a very, very small business, they'd need to...

Tiny, useless detail, but I find it rather impressive that in the time that Intel's changed fonts for etching model numbers on the heat spreader some two or three times that I know of, AMD seems to have kept the same lettering from at least the socketed Athlon days. I'm willing to bet that if...

We're looking at phasing out the last on-prem Windows Server we admin -- they're stuck as VMs on an ESXi server that's out of date with no upgrade path and for whom the licensing costs have just finally gotten to be too bothersome. Their domain controller is being replaced with Entra logins...

It seems that, currently, whatever problems AMD has, Intel has it worse. I hope they get their shit together, especially with their dedicated graphics offerings but also just in general, because if they fail to compete for too much longer I wonder if it won't prompt them to leave the PC space...

I believe this class of device is typically referred to as an emulation handheld, and this one in particular is likely most useful with Android. I considered grabbing a Retroid Pocket 2 or something, and ended up with the Anbernic RG35XX H instead. It's nowhere near as fast -- I think the Pocket...

IMO the 9000 line isn't for people already on AM5 with high end 7000 series CPUs, it's for people like me holding out on AM4 still. I bet compared to my 5700X, the 9900X is leaps and bounds quicker. Shame for them I just don't care.

So what do they do if your drive is under warranty but not the replacement period of the warranty, especially if they can't actually repair it? Can they get away with telling you to kick bricks in this market segment, or...?

By 2028 I expect that we'll be largely in the same spot we're in now. By 2034, though, I expect USB-C to have more or less taken over for traditional display ports, period. We'll probably still be in the dongle era for older equipment, but on new stuff, I expect USB-C to be the only real option...

Lunar, jtr qualified that as being for normal people with basic needs. We are not that. Normal people don't even know what a RAW file is, much less how to process one. That said, jtr, I don't think that'll catch on until you can make the same thing run regular x64 Windows. Maybe if the ARM...

That (currently out of stock) is a big indicator -- I bought on amazon and thankfully the return process is easy. It seems now if you're not buying there you're paying ridiculous sums for key switches. Whereas I already had a known good supplier for the Kailhs -- I got those from kbdfans years ago.

My keyboard. I'd wanted to replace the Gateron Reds with Oil Kings as they're a heavier linear switch -- I accidentally actuate the wrong key all the time with these lighter Reds.

Not to derail but the Gateron Oil King switches I ordered were, instead, cleverly packaged Keychron Browns. I'd be impressed at the ingenuity of repackaging them in the Gateron box and resealing it if I weren't given to unyielding rage over having been had. I will of course be requesting a...

My plan for the holidays (and my birthday, later this month) are to make no noise and pretend I don't exist, in a manner of speaking. I prefer not acknowledging them a lot of the time. Honestly for me the worst part of country living was the glacial internet connection. 3mbps down and 768kbps...

Is that AM5 specific? I'm running 11 on all my active duty machines including the work PC for right now -- I haven't noticed any of these issues.

I'm not sure if that's supposed to nuke the "People also searched" section that annoys the crap out of me, but it certainly doesn't. I wonder if my being logged into google services has anything to do with it overriding my preferences. I've unironically been a DuckDuckGo user for years at...

Yeah, if they even upped standard storage to 100GB I'd be less annoyed about this. All our 365 subscribers including myself get 1TB free with that subscription, but god forbid I let someone set up a machine with their microsoft account anymore.

I still want to see things improve before it's really catching my interest, and even then, I'm keeping my RAV4 until it's dead.

Oh, they definitely get hot. In deploying hundreds of the cursed things I can tell you right now they do not perform like they should, usually they are thermal throttling. They will throttle on you just installing updates. I found out the hard way that the Pro 9s do in fact have fans. They're...

I use ShutUp10 for the same thing. I'm not paying a company for yet another thing that should just be part of the base Windows package. I'm so tired of paying for Windows and then paying for all the software to make using it tolerable.

I don't trust Microsoft with that data. I'd rather use something like Ditto and just block it on the firewall instead.

I've got a few friends with EVs and that's been their experience -- one just got their car a couple years ago and it's already only at like 78% of its rated capacity. To be fair, one of the experiences I'm lumping in is a friend with a Prius that's had to replace their hybrid battery. I'm not...

I wouldn't trust anything GM's touched in the last 20 years, but hey, it's your money.

So... me, then. You're pretty much calling me out with laser precision. :LOL: Not so much with my phone, but with my car? I never let myself get below a quarter of a tank. Then again I also live in Florida where I've seen a couple stations shutter during an emergency because they ran out of...

My 300A build did 450 and I didn't even have to touch voltages. Intel really was selling their stock short at the time. I don't think I'll ever wish I spent my years "more fruitfully". This is my passion, I live and breathe this stuff, and stepping foot outside these days is like walking into...

Weight and size was definitely a concern for my work laptop, but it's less so than usability (my eyes can't really see a 1080p image at any less than 14", and really honestly hate it below 16) and ports. I need onboard ethernet, it's non-negotiable.

I had several handmedown machines up until December of 05 when Dad bought me my first new computer for christmas -- a Dell Dimension E510 with a P4 3.2HT, a gig of RAM, and I think a 120gig hard drive. I still have a soft spot for that era of Dell chassis -- my Dimension 9200 I have now as a...

"Linux support" being an issue at this point is more of a matter of licensing for firmware for WiFi and weird stuff like the T1 or T2 chip on Macs. Everything else is pretty well supported at this point.

Really I'd say we need more for those idiots responsible for the change that prompted this to be fired. Out of a cannon. Into the sun. Along with every single marketing exec that salivates at the thought of something like this. I am so sick and goddamned tired of the OS I paid real money for...

I found the only reliable platform to hit more than 512MB of RAM under 9x was 440BX, and even then that was strictly for 768MB and absolutely no more. With RLowe's PATCHMEM these days I hear the success rate is better -- my counterpoint is that even 512MB is utter overkill for absolutely...

I don't think it rightly matters for most workloads, even 64GB will be hard pressed to run out on anything but the most intensive media workloads and rendering. I run 32GB in my machines and that feels like overkill roughly 97.774% of the time.

You are also technologically inclined. Most mere mortals see a laptop that isn't a veritable brick and think "ok does it run chrome? good that means it's brand new and will be good for fifteen years since that's what I got out of my old dell that I had to keep conning my nephew into fixing for me."

You can't run desktop MS Office on a ChromeBook, like, at all. You might be able to run the android versions, you will definitely be able to run the web versions, but the desktop version of MS Office is a Windows/Mac only proposition. Merc, I'm painfully used to people thinking their 5 year old...