I had to go through this bs as well. I created the secondary account for my kid, but it still pestered me for age verification afterwards. There was no way around it. There is a section in their settings, where you can have them delete all image data used for verification within 30 days...
From a throughput standpoint, I agree, the bus has more than enough bandwidth. In practice its a different thing. I especially see it with x-plane during low level flight. I can average a high fps but every 5-10 seconds, I would get a micro stutter with textures loading in. Usually my...
If you are playing a game that streams a lot of data textures like MSFS and screen recording, it helps to have two separate drives to isolate the recording to a different disk.
For 4k, its 4090 or bust, especially if you like to bump up eye candy. I told myself a long time ago, not to nitpick over a few hundred dollars when purchase will last you for at least a year. I have had my 4090 for over a year now and the pain of the purchase is long gone. I haven't had the...
I got into crypto when you could still mine bitcoin on a gpu and create your own pool. Bitcoin was worth roughly $80. Those days felt like the wild west compared to today. To go back in time and just buy those extra blades I should have gotten.
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If you have a vehicle with Android Auto interface, this device allows you to change the wired connection to wireless. I started using it about a week ago, and it is so much more convenient to just get into the car and not have to plug phone each time. Everything is up and...
I use the main video card for gaming and the secondary cards handles other tasks for the secondary monitors like webcam decoding and watching videos. I found dedicating the main card to the main video monitor eliminated most issues in games when switching between apps and just in general...
In my 30 years now, unless I wasn't happy with the initial application, I have never reapplied TIM to any device. My oldest rig which was on the x58 chipset ran for like 12 years without anything but fan cleaning.