Recent content by KarsusTG

Ya, they really have a lot of the kinks worked out. Fedora + AMD GPU is as close to "it just works" as you can get on linux desktop at the moment. You are not on a laptop but Fedora has made linux on most laptops relatively painless which has never been the case in the past.

Kinda sorta? Its been my experience that it generally is only ~1 ish degree difference between the pad and paste until you get into high wattage chips, which is just not the case in laptops where even a high end cpu is only around 45watt TDP. It also depends on the paste. The benefit is you...

I used to love trying different distros and see how they do things. I have got to the point where I just want my stuff to work reliably, have rock solid stability, and require me to put in as little effort as possible for setup and maintenance. My threadripper desktop has been running MX linux...

You can get an m1 mac mini for $750 and probably be good until he is in the triple digits.

Honestly get a few carbonaut pads, setup a small undervolt and call it a day. I did that with my 10750h and 2070 super and it made a world of difference. https://www.amazon.com/Thermal-Grizzly-Carbonaut-Pad-0-2/dp/B07PHN2ZNY

For a gaming laptop operated by a non power user, I would suggest pop os. Honestly most / all of the configuration and hybrid graphics stuff has already been done for you out of the box. All you have to do is run updates and install your games.

Max Resolution (HDMI)‡4096@2304@24Hz Max Resolution (DP)‡3840x2160@60Hz Max Resolution (eDP - Integrated Flat Panel)‡3840x2160@60Hz I don't think you will have a problem. Servers do not need monitors anyway :p

I think I am wrong. For some reason I was thinking the m series didnt have the VT-x stuff for LAHF/SAHF but apparently all post sandy bridge cpu's have it. No TPM 2.0 so no server 2022. That 1.2Ghz base clock is going to be a real kick in the peter, but it should still run. Nice find btw...

I had one of those briefly. They are bullet proof but real dogs in the performance department. What version of server are you going to run? I know it doesn't meet the requirements for windows server 2019+ but would probably run 2012R2

Ya, I have a surface pro 6, but I setup my brothers company with surface pro 7's and they are not really any better. I don't have experience with the new ones that just came out, but unless its radically different I wouldn't hold my breath.

You can use the $200 microsoft azure credit and not buy anything.

Not in the real world. I used my surface extensively in college classes taking notes with the pen (which is amazing btw,) web browsing, and word/office apps. If I got 5 hours out of it I was doing fantastic. If you cranked it into performance power mode, you would get < 3 hours.

It does make me wonder if the horror stories of these upgrades is less overblown than I thought. Sample size of one and all that, but still. This was Microsoft's dedicated device operating in its target environment predominantly running Microsoft apps....

Yup, finally died, sorta since it goes to sleep before it dies completely. But got it to reboot and right into windows 11. Crazy

I have the family pretty standardized across the board with Surface Pro 7's and their weird proprietary docks (we run several businesses from our home so this has been great for me tbh!) Well, it was inevitable, yesterday someone clicked on the windows 11 update and unfortunately it did not go...