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Leave it alone. It's infinitely faster to use a couple of your cores for a little bit to compress/decompress some things that are only rarely getting used vs hitting swap, though I'll grant that with 96GB of RAM, you're not hitting swap either way outside of some worst-case scenarios. It's not...

The case of Age of Empires is almost certainly Microsoft putting real man-hours into making sure it works on modern machines. Windows as late as Vista had application-specific compatibility code for things like Lego Island being weird about how they invoked APIs. Some things like the 16-64 bit...

I still think the 5500 is fairly cromulent for most uses, but then, I'm not doing huge data crunching or media editing. I use mine in my server but that's just because I saw the 5700X going for cheap and wanted to kick something with a Zen 3 memory controller into my server -- at this point, I'm...

I imagine if it were actually a problematic GPU I'd be having much worse issues than the palette freaking out in 10-bit mode. That just sounds like a screwup in the driver, to me. And it's not screwing up in 8bpc, because I'm on it right now and it looks fine. 10bpc, for me, just smooths out a...

I doubt it was calibrated for it, but it did work at least, and I noticed a bit less color banding in stationary gradients with it on, so I would have liked to keep using it. I don't understand either, but it worked before, and now with the latest driver, it screws up the color palette...

Gee, for something touted as a space saving feature, they sure didn't use the space it saved. I'd skip it and get something with a normal barrel jack.

We use Beelinks for the little computers we stick in environments (usually small business restaurants) where we need an "in" to remote in and configure POS systems, their networks, etc. without driving out there.

Kind of reminds me how the server emulators for Asheron's Call still proliferate even after a cease and desist from Warner Bros. The original dev dropped out and dropped off the face of the earth, but not before open-sourcing his work as a final F U to WB. A lot of the early playable servers...

Ugh. Got the 3060 in. It's Fine(tm). But the latest drivers break 10bpc color. The 476.whatever drivers Windows pulled by itself worked fine when I set my display to 1440p120 at 10bpc, with integer scaling even, wow, what a concept -- but the latest ones I pulled, 560.38, break in an...

I still occasionally see WordPerfect in use in production, usually in lawyers' offices. I know my uncle still uses it as it's what he started with after upgrading from his Amiga in 1997 or 8 or some such, but he's not in the legal profession, he's a poet.

Frankly, I don't really think the 9000 line is meant to be a serious upgrade for folks who already own the 7000 series chips. This is to make it a better proposition for those building new rigs entirely.

From the strategy guides I'm reading, maxed Iron is the minimum you want to even be seen by them in, and that's with poison resistance and a fair helping of luck and skill. I don't plan to get full Wolf armor in the mountains like my friend is, I just want the cape for the frost resist effect...

The way I heard Valheim described once was "viking-themed Rust with less assholes online". I don't play Rust to verify that particular tidbit, but I'd believe it. I do quite enjoy it but I'm not one for being very creative with building. I spent 5 hours building our compound in stone but a solid...

Checking this out in a VM where I'm testing IoT LTSC 2024 right now. It's pretty damn slick. It has everything I could think of in one convenient place. This likely will replace ninite as well as a couple hours worth of manually installing junk after initial setup. Thanks a lot for bringing it...

We keep UT99 and Quake III in rotation along with Worms (WMD or Armageddon depending on if one of us is playing on something old), Killing Floor and Killing Floor 2, we had a bit of a Call of Duty kick for a while (World at War/Black Ops 1/2 through Plutonium, Black Ops 3) mostly playing the...

That's a fair viewpoint for you I suppose. I just had so much either not work right or display weird issues that my friends coined "Arc moment" as a term within our vernacular. If I was lucky the issue would merely manifest as poor performance given the class of GPU I was using, like only just...

I used to have dainty little hands up until I turned about 16 and then they started growing out instead of long. There are computer cases I legitimately can't fit them in now. It sucks. I palm-grip a Pro Intellimouse (Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 mold with modern internals) and it almost feels too...

I think I've already said this, but I like Kailh BOX switches personally if you're after clickies. My BOX Navy board is thunderous and meaty and I love it. However I think the actuation force on those is like 95-110g? That's fine for me, but that's a remarkably heavy switch for anyone else and...

I think they're a way to get more mileage out of old manufacturing tooling. People will probably be running AM4 in production for years to come but they're messing with the market by encouraging it. Merc, I agree with you in spirit, but don't use G2A. Sellers on there have been proven to use...

Until they fix the drivers, and I really mean fix the drivers, I'm afraid that whatever performance improvements they make in the silicon aren't going to matter. I hate that I have to be this way but as a former Arc user, I'm now a certified hater. At least you can in general expect games to...

I think I'm going to ride out my 5700X until AM6 comes out or Intel has something more compelling, whichever comes first.

Redragon boards are a case of you get what you pay for. I had endless key chatter problems with mine when I was a penniless teenager. My friends with them reported similar things.

Yeah, my dad's a difficult man to shop for. I don't do much gift-giving either purely because I'm not great at figuring out what someone would want. And what's more is his birthday isn't long after father's day.

In my vintage builds, sure. The Millennium II PCI is my favorite 2D option for builds around the 1996-1998 era. Blindingly quick, razor sharp output on VGA, very compatible, and vivid colors too. I had a G450 DualHead in my PIII build for a while. It was similarly sharp and vivid, which I'd hope...

See, I got mine before all the price cuts, in January of '23. I got taken for a ride to the tune of almost $400 after taxes and shipping. The entire time I've had it I've been huffing weapons-grade copium and saying the drivers just needed a bit more time in the oven. I hear they're a lot better...

It's... it's a reference to the Princess Bride. That movie is 11 years older than I am. I figured you would have seen it. Here it is. I rent. It's the landlady's responsibility to have the AC serviced, but it only sees service when something's gone horribly wrong. The guy said he'd look at...

The name of the game I think is to put power limits in place for every day computing -- lets say I disable a couple cores on my 5700X and set the power target to 40W, and as long as those 6 cores that are still enabled boost to about 4GHz, I call it good. Pair that with power limiting the 3060...

I could be wrong but I don't think you can put o-rings on a Model M @Santilli. The way the caps work is the caps fit over a smaller plastic keycap that is, to my knowledge, attached in such a way as to make adding noise dampening to the stems impossible. You might try putting in a sheet of foam...

Ended up grabbing an EVGA 3060 12GB for about two hundred bucks used. I figure I'll sell the A770 to cover the cost and maybe, just maybe, pay the eBay fees too -- if I price it low enough, it'll sell, hopefully. I'm mostly just hoping to break even.

The 605 specifically, no, TP Link extenders in general, unfortunately, yes. They're all pretty persnickety and it's honestly worth just redoing your network right to begin with. Maybe a mesh system would be right for you? Or, if you wanted to go the turbonerd route, a central Ubiquiti router and...

While on the whole I agree with the consensus here, I will gripe a bit that for Windows games they often bundle patched executables that work on more modern machines, but I often want to run the original (no-CD patched, obviously) game on my older machines. If they offered the older executable...

I haven't been diagnosed, but I certainly feel wrist strain day in and out. Holy Panda switches, from my friends that have them, are good but overhyped and typically overpriced. Cherry is bottom of the barrel these days, typically you'll want GMK or Kailh BOX switches if you're not going with...

I'm certainly not saying keep it glass -- I hate that too -- but when you tell them to make it plastic you're giving them license to make it as cheap and nasty as humanly possible, unfortunately.

I'm about 90% sure HP bricked my printer because I didn't hook it back up to the internet. I think it's one of those stupid HP+ things. So I have a hundred dollar paperweight less than a year after I bought it, a fancy new target to hone my golf swing in on -- except with a sledgehammer -- and...

My problem with that is, no one ever seems to use those reinforced plastics. My old Galaxy S4 had a plastic back that feels super cheap and gross and that was a flagship phone in its day. I can definitely see people spending more than a grand on a phone feeling pretty crummy about getting a...

Usually a hypervisor like Handy said on the bare metal. Within the various VMs they're running usually some kind of Linux -- from what I can tell usually CentOS, RHEL or Ubuntu -- though you do see Windows and occasionally some variant of BSD sneak in there. You also have to understand that...

Likely not upgradable at all if their Pro 9s we are selling are anything to go by. These have always been kind of marketed at executives -- people with modest performance needs, money to spend, a need to look luxurious and elite in some way, and who are fascinated by touch screens. I honestly...

Don't those sub-$10K EVs not pass NHTSA safety standards anyway? I agree, tariffs don't boost local industry, they just make the economic situation look even worse than it is, but the EVs in particular I don't really see selling stateside as it is. I've started mulling over the possibility of...

I hope you're right, Merc, and I hope I don't wake up November 6th to see that Trump's due back in the White House, but even with RFK Jr siphoning off votes from him, it's a little terrifying to see just how much momentum he still has. If not him, I shudder to think just who's coming down the...

To play devil's advocate, plastic backs never really felt very sturdy or 'premium'. Threw up a bit in my mouth typing that. That's almost certainly what most manufacturers will go back to, after throwing up their hands and throwing as much blame at the EU as they can in order to hopefully rile...

@Santilli, If you're still running that i7-940, you may want to make sure you have UEFI support in your board and have it enabled -- it's uncommon but not unheard of for Nehalem boards to get it, usually as an update -- most new graphics cards will not give a display on BIOS-only boards. I'm not...

While it is quite vindicating to see it, I don't think it'll mean anything. He's certain to appeal and he might just win it, and even if he doesn't, I highly doubt he's going to prison, which is, of course, the only possible way it stops him from being elected. Biden's pissed off too much of the...

Just a quick and dirty test from my laptop over WiFi.

I could get all that too, it'd just cost me probably 4-5 times as much all told. Such is life in the states. I don't mind "only" having 300 right now because I can't stuff much more through my AP anyway, and I'm not in the market for an upgrade in the next... I don't know, five years? 300mbit...

No, but I've heard of companies giving allowances to their employees if they're remote for internet connections and such. Testing today, it's a lot more in line with what I'm actually due to pay for -- I'm getting about 370/370 now. That's still, what, 23% more than I'm paying for? More...

Well too bad. Microsoft says you get one anyway. They can't seem to decide what size it should be, though. :ROFLMAO:

Got my fiber installed today. Not thrilled about needing AT&T's little box to get it, but at least setting up WAN passthrough to my pfSense router was relatively straightforward. I pay for 300/300 and so far that's been a worst case scenario -- usually in my testing I'm trending around 450/450...

Given she can rent these units just fine from people desperate enough to take anything, she's not likely to be interested in any major renovations that come out of her pocket. At best she'd turn around and jack up rents minimum 50%. Put simply, she doesn't have to care, so she doesn't. It's...

I'm not bound by a lease, haven't been for almost a year now. Knock on wood, but my landlady hasn't been real interested in jacking up my rates or anything. I personally think she's just glad I don't cause trouble or damage stuff and doesn't want to ruin a good thing. She's had some pretty poor...

I have significantly less storage need than Lunar but I can tell you that raw captures for video in any codec at a sufficiently high bitrate and raw photos take up obscene amounts of storage. Just, gobs upon gobs upon gobs of it. I only capture video very occasionally but my scratch folder for...