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Are you expecting 2022 computer parts not to work? They should be fine. Don't install Windows with more than the one boot drive or it may crap all over the others. Do you have a Wi-Fi 7 router and is it close? The one the other room will probably drop to lower anyways.

Is the AI hoopla really sustainable?

It was never a holiday, but always a "thing." Mostly people would give some combination of cards, small gifts, or take the father to brunch or dinner, etc.

I'm so sick of the TOps and AI performance suddenly being all they care about, like the last 40+ years don't matter. I want to know what the CPU does by itself. Everyone doesn't haul around a 2.0-2.5 kg brick of laptop so the 28W class performance is meaningful also.

I don't care about the R1 vs. R3. Obviously Canon has a core of specific pro users that don't have clients needing higher resolution. I'm getting too old and weak to haul a pair of pro bodies up and down the hills and valleys, not to mention in the high winds.

Are the only differences with the new coolers the fan and the curvature of the heat spreader contact plate? I usually replace the front 140mm fan with a 120mm fan since the 140mm fan has to be shifted upward so much to accommodate the RAM. If the contact area alone is a significant improvement...

The 7950x is marginal with that cooler, but it is 170W, compared to 120W for the 3d 7900 CPU, so you should be OK.

Phoshop and dxo. I think it will make more difference in a laptop.

The 9950x has no AI, correct? How do you correlate the NPu with a video card?

Now I get it. 🤯 I saw it like 30+ years ago. Of course I recall the infamous lines "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." :D And I liked the part where Wally Shawn was such a smart ass and poisoned himself.

I think that the Wi-Fi signal always increases the latencies. I get 4ms ping from the Wi-Fi router connected through a GbE switch (the remote power switch is an immediate, arms length air gap) to my main system, but only 11ms ping by the Wi-Fi to a tablet or phone about 5 feet from the Wi-Fi...

What difference does it make to computing if you are left or right handed? Have you had the A/C serviced recently to ensure best performance and efficiency?

The item I mentioned or similar will get the antennae aways from the computer entirely to avoid some of the interference. Some of the mainborads actually come with them. Does yours?

My signal was improved drastically by relocating the Wi-Fi router within the room that I could control by extending the cables. Does your desktop computer have a relocatable base that can get the antennae in a better receiving position? Like this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JVDNDCR

Speech to text is good nowadays and vastly cuts down on typing.

The UPS is from ~2006 and the battery is from 2021. Test results when new were like this, which is about normal given the Peukert effect. I've never seen an AGM battery expand and rupture like that. The charge was about 13.65V which is within the float range for the AGM (13.5-13.8V). These...

There are plenty of good and bad batteries and some of each are manufactured in China. Buying ANYTHING from Amazon and expecting good quality products is always dicey. FWIW, I've been charging cylindrical cells for over 50 years and started designing/building fast NiCD chargers in the 1970s...

I tried several times, but the direct wired ethernet is always better than the Wi-Fi, if that is possible for the computer. It's not like a desktop computer is moving around.

Carbon fibres are good under tension and can make very rigid structures, but have several other issues. At the least the designers need to ensure that abrasion and impact resistance is adequate. Given that the majority of phones have a case installed, I'm not convinced that spending much...

Whatever they do, it ain't on Windows. :LOL:

I noticed a very hot and vastly expanded 14x12 battery in an older long run 900 UPS. The battery was cracked in about 20 places and 1cm wider than original width. I had to take the whole unit apart drastically to remove it, down to the bolts that go through the huge transformer plates. Now...

What are all the huge 350-400W Xenon and EPYC server chips running, some Linix or some Windows? I suppose you can attach a crapload of the efficient ARMenian CPUs to a board instead or is that not the same thing?

I have a 3060Ti, purchased during the shortages of summer 2021 at an extra price. The main thing I liked is that it has only two fans so fit easily into a complicated case. There are only 8GB of RAM in it. I only used the Win 10, but I would think that all the drivers are quite mature for a...

So the MS Snappenendragon X Elite Surface 11th with 13" display, 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD is $2100 and weighs 2.0 lbs. You could by a real laptop for less cost than that at just slightly more weight. It's not clear how easy it is to upgrade the Surface's SSD to 4 or 8TB.

I made a different UPS for another location, using eternal 2x parallel 12V on a BGE70 or similar. The run times should be about 2.8-3x of the website graph (not mine), which had only one smaller battery (5.8Ah vs. 2x8Ah). I figure it is good for about 6 hours at 24W.

Can the political complaining posts pleased be moved to that thread? They don't belong in a nice forum.

I cannot find any real info about the 50 series models and wattages yet compared to the 40 series, but won't the 5090 be another oversized power hog that clogs up the adjacent slots and strains the UPS?

Titanium is ridiculous for phone back use other than to be fancy and expensive. Thin titanium does also dent and is paramagnetic. In the early 90s I managed a project and worked with electron paramagnetic resonance and spin-spin relaxation of organometallics. Keeping everything clean and the...

Doesn't Fujifilm still live in the fringes of APS-C and mini-medium format sensors with a big fat gaping hole in the FF/FX size? Canon seems to be slower than ever with new designs, but they sure have some nice patents if they ever choose to implement. I just want somebody to come out with a...

I would not buy the 980 Pro now and I have a couple of them from years ago. Samsung has dropped the ball with SSDs the past few years. In the smaller SSDs I really like the Hynix nowadays for high performance and not the firmware screwups of Smasung. It's currently $155 at Amazon with a...

All my phones have had material on the back - not glass. My LG part 4 had a removable back and there were leather and other types including one that held a double-capacity battery. There is no point in seeing the guts of the phone like those silly computer cases for the gaming kids. I've never...

The R5 II is almost here. https://www.canonrumors.com/the-canon-eos-r5-mark-ii-we-have-now-seen-it/ Unfortunately they already screwed up the camera with more video crapola.

I thought the main point of internal batteries was to reduce design space and weight and the second one was to prevent use of unauthorized/unsafe batteries.

So again today, my 1-day package somehow is lost. What do you bet it will be deliverated when I'm somewhere else? The reliablity is just terrible now - about one of 4 packages is not delivered on the expected date or to my address. It's sickening.

I should have written who wants Grubhub as a benefit? I'd rather have some lower fees or better service from the Amazon.

Who the bleep wants Grubhub? The name alone is revolting. I know many cultures eat larvae, but I don't like the texture. I just want Amazons to deliver to my address not somewhere elese where it gets stolen and I still have to pay for it.

The RTX 40 series cards do 240Hz at 4K if that helps. I'm pretty sure most modern cards will do 120Hz at some resolutions. Which monitor are you using, and are you expecting the FreeSync?

Does APPLE do the same stuff with their parturitions?

So MS chose it for the power efficiency of the Copilots spying performance? :LOL:

I pay two hundred something for everything fibros including the 3 TVs and VOIP phones, but that is fine with me. I tried the steaming and it was awful, not worth saving a few bucks. I have to rent the Wi-Fi since the Wi-Fi combines with the TV cable, though I don't use the wireless cable. The...

That's pretty normal in the states since the 2010s. I really don't like having a static IP for home use. Is there some advantage in your country or maybe it is for business?

Remember the old days when the "company" paid for "high speed" internet? :LOL:

But I don't want a stupid recovery partition where I have no control over the contents. If there is no recovery partition, there should be no error message. Acronis, Macrium, etc., are for restoring the disk images.

After updating Win 10 and running that funky software that downloaded 20+GB of files, the same old error reported by Newtun occurs, i.e., 0x80070643. I'm sure that the 3rd party software has some uses, but it does nothing for the error that was the initial point of the thread.

I've lived in many places in many countries on various continents. It seems like the cost of living and income only partly correlate. When you are young it may be necessary to suffer, but that gets old after a while. IT is a portable occupation so you should have many options.

If you have very little data then drives are of almost no significance. Just get a 2TB SK Hynix Platinum P41 or something like that. Of course SSDS are faster HDDs, but rather expensive to scale. I'm not running most HDDs more than 1/3rd of the time and many are on less than 1/10th of the...

Like most good SATA III SSDs, the 860 EVO can sustain about 500MB/sec. writes with large files. Over ~540MB/sec. is impossible due to the SATA III interface. Many benchmarks don't test the drive properly so be sure to make the run length 32GB or more. It's not the drive caching the writes...

SSDs lately are worse than ever and HDDs also fail occasionally. If you don't have failures it's because you don't have enough data. Hopefully I'll be over a petabyte in total experience by 2025, but a few hundred TB are discarded and slower old drives. SSDs are now a bit less than 100TB, but...

How much storage do you need? Most phones are 128 or 256GB. You can store plenty of audio on a phone without a memory card slot. If you capture a lot of video then get 256GB model. If you buy a foreign market phone there are various pitfalls as Merc mentioned. I almost bought an S23 a FE a...