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They'll pull it and relaunch it as the 4070 that it should have been from the word go.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer air cooling myself as well, and all else equal I will obviously use it over liquid cooling. I'm just saying that platforms that need it are no longer completely out of the running just because they need it in my mind. Granted, they're usually out of consideration for...

No, completely missed our area.

Those directory redirectors are why I have my data stored on my NAS and it's seamless. Though Windows does like to freak out a little when I don't have a network connection, so I'm assuming I might have just done something slightly wrong. It's a situation that happens so minimally often that I...

It's not just overclockers running into this. According to Gamer's Nexus, 95C is just the new load temp now for almost every use case that maxes out the chip. The IHS is so thick primarily to provide backward compatibility with most existing AM4 coolers. Direct-die cooling was always going to be...

According to some sources the IHS on Zen4 is too thick and hurts temps. I don't know how true that is.

Well, in a strange twist of fate, I now have a viable option for VGA capture. I was given a Datapath E1S card from a friend. The problem is that in my main machine, it's very unstable since it's a PCI-E 1.0 card and doesn't play nice with my PCI-E 3.0 board. Luckily I was able to shunt it down...

I was quite partial to my Dell AT101W before in an ill-advised attempt to linearize the switches I lost a ton of bits to it. I'm still kicking myself for that one. I'd like to track down another one but prices have gotten completely insane. I had a model M for a time, but it was rubber-dome and...

It absolutely is a bald-faced attempt to make what would be a 4070-class card sound more impressive by bumping it up a tier marketing-wise, obviously so they can squeeze more money out of it. And no, it certainly won't perform badly or anything, although it will probably make a few people run...

I say don't buy a damn thing and let them sweat. I don't know about you guys but my 1070 does fine for what I need a GPU to do these days. I'm only looking to replace it if it dies and even then I'm more likely to buy a used 3060 (so as not to alleviate their overstock problem) than anything new.

The Camry was newer than my RAV4 is by a few years, and mine is base trim -- IIRC the Camry was one level below top trim. I don't know if it's just Enterprise upping their game or what. And yes, the of the other options I had available to me, there was an Altima. Also a Charger, but I turned...

I guess this shows how this is the newest vehicle I've ever driven extensively. I never took the rental Camry anywhere I didn't need to go, so I never learned how its adaptive cruise worked.

Wait... you can choose how far it follows? God I'm dumb. I didn't realize the screen it was showing after activating the radar was a menu, it just looked like some kind of "informational slide" or something.

I'm sure there is plenty of people out there that like the adaptive cruise control (radar) standard on most cars these days; I am not one of them. I find it annoying how it tries to keep whole football fields between me and other vehicles and will slow down to do it. So I was quite relieved to...

Another small addendum: I noted that the steering felt stiffer. Well, that's because of the lane assist -- turn it off, and it's fine now.

Okay, a couple corrections. The Adventure trim is the one with a 3500lb towing capacity. The only significant difference over the next lowest trim is apparently a better suspension and bigger wheels/tires...? I don't know. Anyway, most of the lineup has a max towing capacity of 1500. Again...

I wouldn't keep my cell in my bedroom either, except I'm always on-call, and I don't have a TV in my bedroom to spit generic noise at me so I can actually focus on something other than my own thoughts for long enough to fall asleep anymore. I customize ringtones by contact so I know who I can...

I miss Presto-era Opera.

I have the car now, I'm quite satisfied with it. I can't believe I only just now came upon the idea to use the cargo hooks to strap my real jack down so it doesn't make the devil's own noise rattling around as I drive through town, but here we are -- granted, I bought those straps specifically...

Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox myself, but much like I stopped eating Chick-Fil-A for their anti-queer BS, I very nearly stopped using Firefox over it too. It was the revolt itself that told me that it was salvageable.

I use it to keep track of my battery health, but I found the alarm annoying as it'd constantly go off right when I was about to sleep. I don't really pay much attention to my charging habits but I somehow keep rolling sixes and none of my devices are significantly worn, even the ones I've had...

Seems like whatever shitty decision Google makes regarding Chrome, Mozilla replicates regarding Firefox some years later. Not to be an alarmist but I do kind of see this as the beginning of the end so to speak. Here's hoping DNS-based adblocking at the very least can get better, and that...

Huh. I went to change my insurance over today (cleared it with the dealer, it's fine for me to do that now) and it's actually... cheaper. Not significantly so, roughly a 3 dollar per month difference, but still... not bad. Hopefully I can get to the point soon where I can just pay the 6 month...

Ok, well, that didn't take long. Also, yes, by the way, I do actually need a car. When I'm not able to work remotely I have to be able to get on-site after all, and it's a 40mi roundtrip just to the office and back, no client sites involved. Riding a bike out here will get you ran over. Not to...

So, for those unfamiliar with the situation, I was rear-ended back in May and only now has the shop finally deigned to look at my car. I've been driving it since the accident up until a couple weeks ago when they took it and I got the rental Camry. The insurance company has finally decided it's...

There's also the matter of software updates. The A53 is supposed to be getting major Android updates for 5 years, whereas Lenovo has promised nothing like that for the Motorola phones. Plus, the A53 is a lot more likely to get custom ROM support seeing how it's using an Exynos for both the...

Anyone have anything good to say about CyberPower? They seem like a more budget brand but that they don't really skimp on the things that matter. I found this unit on Amazon that seems like I could live with -- I'd prefer something rackmount but that seems to tack about 300 dollars onto the...

Holy ish, that price though. Absolutely not, no thank you.

I'm still using a surge protector for my home rack under the false assumption that it'd be fine -- lo and behold a couple weeks back my nearly brand new dumb gigabit switch got murdered by a lightning storm. Curiously my modem is fine, my router is fine minus a dead port (the one that was hooked...

I personally keep a separate work and personal phone. For a while I was working from my personal but that got to be annoying. My personal is an A53 5G and my work phone is an S20 Ultra 5G. No, the irony is not lost on me that I live out of the worse phone and work from the one that arguably has...

In the wake of one of my friends doing something similar I reacted in much the same way. I'm just terrible at keeping in touch anyway, but I want the people I care about to know I care. But then I get busy, life gets in the way, I don't have the sheer amount of free time that I used to. There's...

Well, considering I don't have it anymore, I can't really supply much more information outside the fact that I used NT-H1 paste with a Phanteks Enthoo Pro (solid side panels version). I have the 200mm fan in front as intake, the 140mm fan in the rear and a 120mm fan up top as exhaust, and at the...

I wouldn't trust a Lenovo-owned Motorola as far as I could throw them, anymore. Samsung has pledged to offer, what, 5 years of OS updates for all their phones now? Lenovo doesn't seem to promise much of anything. I did end up needing to replace my XR. It had a screen issue where it'd keep...

Maybe I was just surprised at how high Zen2 and up idle -- 50C felt like too high for an idle temperature of anything to me. It never once thermal throttled or went past 75C under load, but I don't consider that to be particularly amazing either -- I know these things are considered safe up to...

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...