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    Cyberpunk 2077

    I played through CP2077 with mouse & keyboard. Driving was ok, but maybe I should have tried a controller for driving. Flight stick? Wheel? Nah, not going to bother. Not for a game with multiple console ports. I'm sure CDPR put a lot more work into making an XBox controller work well than...
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    What Is Your Personal Favorite Video Card of All Time?

    Probably the Matrox Millenium 4MB I had back in the 1990s. Vid cards became a pain in the ass once 3D acceleration hit, and they're still a pain in the ass. If you're talking GPUs, that's tougher. Probably the GTX 680 4GB cards I bought to run a surround setup. Those lasted me a long time...
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    Okay time for a major upgrade…

    If you game and do text-based work in your office I'd go for an L-shaped desk setup so you can support separate monitors for work and play. I have one and I love it. OLED for gaming and IPS screens for work, at least in my case. That way you don't have to compromise. 2 keyboards and 2 mice...
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    recommend 10gb nics for esxi 8.0.3j

    Haven't tried them on ESXi but I have several ConnectX-4s and they work well on Linux and client Windows (aka 11 and previously 10). Best RJ45 SFP+ I don't know about. I don't have any 10Gb RJ45 clients. All my 10Gb rigs are using fiber or DAC cables. Mikrotik makes a multi-gig 10Gb SFP+...
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    Anyway to make a 10700K SKU downclock and behave like the non K SKU

    That's good and at least you're not in a hurry. Must fix right now is much more likely to get expensive.
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    Anyway to make a 10700K SKU downclock and behave like the non K SKU

    I built an i7-10700 machine for my dad back in 2020. Gaming board, so it defaulted to no power limits and thermal throttled right away during a stress test. "65W" 10700 non-k will pull 250W+ with power limits disabled. Also built an i3-10100 box for myself as a NAS/home server. Both of those...
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    WTB: old cpus

    Usually in this situation I'd rattle something off about modding bridges, etc. to get what you want working. As a general rule Athlon XPs could be converted to MPs by modding bridges. I had a couple "Barton" MPs for a while. AMD never released an MP version of the Barton chips, but you could...
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    This is one of the stupdest things, I've ever heard.

    Same thing I do. OLED for gaming & media, IPS display for work. Having multiple screens also lets you avoid compromises. On my gaming/media OLED I'm looking for speed, color quality, HDR, stuff like that. Go fast and make my games look good. Don't care much about RGB stripe OLED and I'm not...
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    Valve Steam Machine, SteamOS Desktop, Steam Frame VR and Steam Controller

    My ideal living room cube wouldn't even run games. It'd be a game streaming box that runs off my main rig. Fast networking, high performance video decode hardware, etc. Pair it up with a PCI-e 4x card with a high performance hardware accelerated compression engine and a fast NIC. SFP+/28...
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    Amazon no longer showing 1 Star Reviews

    Really not sure what in the hell people are talking about with "Amazon not showing 1* reviews". I just searched for a USB cable, pulled up some random one, and filtered for 1* and hey, they're still there. Tried a few other items. Still have 1* reviews.
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    NVIDIA and OpenAI Reportedly Discuss $250 Billion Deal for 10-Gigawatt Ohio Data Center

    That's one reason putting this in Ohio makes sense, or could depending on where in Ohio. As long as they build enough power plants states putting datacenters near the great lakes make a lot of sense aside from perhaps Illinois & maybe Indiana. The area near Lake Michigan in the...
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    Very poor performance inside Comcast backbone - Can I route around that?

    Still having trouble? My general experience with Comcast is that if issues like this pop up they tend to get magically resolved in the middle of the night a few days later. Just enough time to call 2-3 times, end up with a tech appointment, tech finds nothing wrong with the line, and then the...
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    Best laptop for daughter @ college?

    That's exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. Same brand as mine too (Pluggable). I'd have gone for something like that if I hadn't wanted the multi-display capabilities & port flexibility. My 2023 fancy one has 2xDP, 2xHDMI and a Thunderbolt 4 uplink. That one would actually be better...
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    Intel’s Nova Lake-S LGA1954 52 cores

    You can turn HT off, so we just don't know what could have been with newer chips that don't have HT. I'd have to find it but a couple years back someone posted a big long video on here comparing game results on a Raptor Lake chip (14900k or 14700k, forget which) trying all 4 combinations of HT...
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    Website access blocked but not sure why

    If you think it might be DNS you could try a public DNS server & see if that works. There are plenty around. Just do a search for them. Google has some, but they're far from the only option. Years ago I kept using my alma mater's DNS servers for a few years after I graduated because my ISP...
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