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Hopefully they save the battery obnoxiousness for the $3000+ body crowd.

I have all my customers on Google Workspace in part because I hate Outlook so fucking much. Being able to ditch Exchange for the people who wanted it was a game changer for me, and I'm never going back and I won't let anyone I support go back either. Because many people want the Outlook-like...

Speaking of batteries, I wound up needing to buy an LP-E6NH while I was in NOLA because one of my OEM Canon ones wasn't charging and appears to have crapped out. I couldn't get a real one overnighted and none the local shops had them in stock, but the knock off I could get overnight has a USB-C...

Discord is a way of burying information, full stop. Things go in the black hole of Discord and they don't come out. It's one thing if it's a social group sharing memes, but even then, that's something that could be done through a more open platform like Signal or a private Teamspeak server, if...

Outlook is a poster child for deeply shitty software and that's a hill I will die on with a steely glint in my eye. It sucked in 1997 and it sucks today. Your corporate PC probably has shit tons of monitoring agents, group policies and access control lists you aren't going to see on a home...

Yup. I noticed ages ago that drives reserved for Windows Backup have a GUID but no other assignment and I've done it a couple other times to hide things from end users in the habit of messing up their PCs.

There are two beautiful things that Windows has been able to do for a very long time that most users do not know: Windows can use Directory Symbolic Links (filesystem-level shortcuts) and also Volume Mount Points (mount an entire drive or array as a directory) to lessen the need for drive...

This is mostly for voice communications. Games may or may not be cross platform. Communication services might be cross platform but only in a single game, platform wide but only for a specific console, or rely on a central service. The most common central service these days is just the one that...

Is it to exceed Zen 5, though? AMD's has been bringing the heat for multicore or all-core workloads on its mainstream desktop CPUs basically since Zen 2 and Intel has voluntarily dropped hyperthreading on its P-cores for Arrow Lake. Intel's bragging rights since Skylake was released have been...

One of the problems I have with multiplayer electronic gaming is that every related to communication wants to be in a walled garden. The consoles all have some kind of chat service and so do many baseline multiplayer titles like Fortnite, Call of Duty or Overwatch. On Windows, you have comms...

There's probably a way to save the result and upload from another PC. The Ultra 9 285k has a TDP of 125W with 8P/16E and no Hyperthreading. Curious how it will stack up.

LM, even boomers might've bought a Pong console in 1975, when they were already fully adults and on their way to the disco, cocaine and herpes -exposure parties they were undoubtedly having before that generation pulled the ladder of fun up for all time. The most active gamer I know is a retired...

Where are you getting 40? Standard AM5 tops out at 3x m.2s and m.2 tops out at 8TB/drive. Sure, you can get a 4x4xPCIe to m.2 HBA if your board happens to support lane bifurcation but that's not as widely implemented as anyone would like and when it is, different OEMs are picky about which...

Yes, and I don't think that's unreasonable for storage at that density. The port is more valuable the bigger the connected drive happens to be and 16TB is an absurd amount of data even for 4k video editing needs.

This is in "favor for a retiree" territory. No one is getting paid. It's also exactly the reason I keep ~12 year old CPUs around. I'm actually surprised that it was an easy upgrade. I was a little worried that the shitty 180W PSU would handle a 95W part but it seems to be OK. I probably have a...

I'm reading sed's very helpful reply here and ironically I have an i7-2600k I'm about to stick in someone's POS-but-still-in-use Inspiron 660. It's replacing a Celeron G470 and the only reason I'm bothering to do it is that I have a small box of CPUs I've salvaged from PCs I've tossed. Ask me...

Remember that NAND cell endurance drops by a power of 10 with every generation. QLC drives have whole-drive write endurances in the four digits as it is. I realize that there aren't tons of people writing 16TB per day of anything but at PCIe 5 transfer rates, it's within the realm of possibility...

Probably a Samsung PM1733. PCIe 4.0, 1 DWPD @ 16TB or 3DWPD at 12TB and it's a TLC drive. The Intel P4510s I've been swearing by only go up to 8TB and the successor P5316 is QLC-based. They aren't cheap yet but I suspect they will be before too long.

It's a ~$300 Host Bus Adapter. No RAID functions at all. It treats all the drives connected to it as independent disks. And that's perfectly fine if you have some other way to set up your storage arrays such as ZFS or Windows Storage Spaces (ZFS also works on Windows, by the way. Not WELL, but...

AMD's hardware is valid and works well under Linux. This suggests to me that Windows is the place to put blame for not understanding something fundamental about how AMD's architecture works, or possibly a limitation of what the PPM drivers can do within Windows to keep performance on track...

Ebay is our friend, LM. There are even multiple auctions selling these for around that price. I'm perfectly happy using drives secondhand but my strategy for getting to SSD nirvana is definitely to get u.2/u.3 compatibility and purchase of older enterprise units rather than whatever is coming...

I am genuinely conflicted. If it were a wallet or purse or valuable item that clearly belongs to an individual, no question that I'd turn it in (I have in fact gone out of my way to return working phones I've found) but in this case: 1. These items weren't delivered properly to me in the first...

It's more that I'm not sure I want to. I got about $2200 more product than I ordered!

I've found that those systems can be really finicky, for example not working with a larger than 64GB drive even when only the first 1GB was even formatted.

The first rule of taking one's own computers apart: Never take all your best buddies down at the same time.

The same company that once left my shoebox-size carton of enterprise SSDs outside an office next door to gas station that does a brisk business in crack pipes* has kind-of delivered a pair of LG ‎32GS95UEs (32" 4k 240Hz OLED gaming monitors) instead of the pair of 32ML600M-Bs (32" FHD 60Hz IPS)...

Just install Ryzen Master and IIRC it's just a one click "enable PBO" button.

That is actually terrifying.

Just to amplify: you have to find your people somehow. I tried a bunch of different things. I don't feel comfortable by myself in bars, which immediately eliminates a good 70% of everything adults do aside from work. Some people play in co-ed sports or LARP or karaoke. Whatever. Find a thing...

Gamers want lopsided cache. As far as gamers are concerned, there's no other reason to have PC. Even the 5800X3D is an amazing chip for gamer needs and that thing is now two generations old. The PCIe limits aren't an issue for those gamers, either. All they want is as much GPU as they can...

I've never messed with a Getac system at all. dd with his background at a construction company probably has more of a feel for rugged devices than I do.

There are leakers with very good reputation. If you're looking for that information, you'll see the same names come back up for specific types of info. Everyone is going to shit their pants over the X3D products next month because gaming is the only thing the majority of enthusiast media cares...

IIRC the Toughbooks pass one more MIL-SPEC standard than Thinkpad T series do at a cost of reasonably contemporary hardware, but they're Greg's brand and it's his money. I messed with an Acer Predator gaming laptop a little bit ago. Gaming laptops are an absolute scam. Four months old and it...

You may have already uninstalled it. I habitually remove most Windows Store apps from my installation media but I suspect most people will have it. AMD has already indicated that it's going to ship a BIOS update for Zen 5 to allow them to run at the Zen 4 TDPs and pick up better performance...

You can uninstall it through Programs and Features, just like anything else.

Ironically, I also live in a tourist destination. Scads and scads of Chicago residents have a beach house on Lake Michigan in either Indiana or Southwest Michigan. My apartment is walking distance to beach access for the national park and "The Region" for all of its superfund sites and rust-belt...

Quick Share from Google has had a Windows client for quite some time, but now Microsoft is in the process of adding Nearby Share access to Phone Link. I don't need Quick Share very often but I do appreciate having it. Phone Link works best with Samsung phones, to the point that I'm a little...

Xbox Game Bar is a standard part of any Windows 10 or 11 installation, even if you never bother to use it.

So far as I can tell, the Xbox KGL is not something end users can control, so it's probably games-only and worse, there's a record of games that should be on it but aren't because of software updates on one side or the other.

I think the idea is that you'd leave some performance on the table by not parking a CCX when running applications that are lightly threaded, but associating all of that with "game mode" leaves me wondering whether or not only games can benefit from doing so, or if there's a broader implication...

The understanding I have is that there is more or less never perfect parity between the CCXes, so Windows does a bunch of tests and determines which of the two is better when it needs to favor fast, lightly threaded workloads. Given that the hardware is drastically better on Linux than on...

From the conclusion of the piece: "In total I ran nearly 400 benchmarks across all the CPUs. When taking the geometric mean of all the raw performance results, the Ryzen 9 9950X came out to being 17.8% faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X. The Ryzen 9 9900X meanwhile was 21.5% faster than the Ryzen 9...

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...