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    What's a good backup program for Linux?

    Borg is good. But it's all terminal based. No idea about graphical frontends. I just run the script to back up and prune. If I need something I run a command to mount the backup as a FUSE filesystem, browse as normal.
  2. K

    Where did Oscar Wu go after DFI?

    Mystery solved! Thank you.
  3. K

    Where did Oscar Wu go after DFI?

    Title says it all. Curious minds want to know.
  4. K

    Occasional System File Corruption 7950X

    Run ycruncher VT3 on loop if you think it's a stability issue.
  5. K

    Microsoft engineers pitch for Windows handheld mode

    Surprised Microsoft is interested in this, handhelds have a lot less screen real estate for ads. Though it would be quite funny if they had to fix most of the major issues with 11 to make this work.
  6. K

    3/4 birch plywood desktop, good enough for dual 32" monitor arms?

    I'd go for half inch and add a bit of bracing underneath, probably cheaper than a full tabletop of 3/4.
  7. K

    Digital Fairness Act (EU)

    Here's hoping it does what it says, I still have the "marketing rental NZXT computers to kids playing Fortnite" burned into my brain.
  8. K

    The Post Your Old/Retro Builds Thread

    The great ones did 100% but practically all of the cheaper chips would do 50%+. Intel had tons of headroom on them and the boards usually had FSB headroom too. Good times.
  9. K

    The Post Your Old/Retro Builds Thread

    Retro is a state of mind, unlocked multiplier and locked bus overclocking doesn't feel retro to me. It will undoubtedly be 15 years old either way. I really need to amass a small collection of 775 CPUs to play with. They might be too slow to run anything new but they'll always be fun to tweak.
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    y-cruncher VT3, How many cycles / hours should I run it to consider my OC stable?

    Late reply, but I've personally found that ycruncher's benchmarks will fail immediately if I have any memory instability. I've seen people talk about how AM5 CPUs can take hours to show instability but my 3000 will immediately fail out the longer benchmarks. If I can pass the longer benchmarks...
  11. K

    Cleaned my TRUE Copper after 17 years.

    Now to find someone with a machine shop to make a secufirm II mount adapter for it.
  12. K

    Anyone remember DFI Lan Party Motherboards?

    ^^^ Overpaid like crazy for the 875 version of that board on my first build. I miss it now, not because it was particularly good but because I'll take the UV plastics over RGB any day. Someone could bring it back on some cheap matx board and get a ton of publicity, maybe start selling UV LEDs.
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    Intel CEO admits 'I've bet the whole company on 18A'

    Nvidia has always been fabless, they could get chips made on GloFo if they really wanted. Not good ones...
  14. K

    just wanted to touch on the ol' terminal discussion

    Biggest problem I have in the GUI is knowing what the name is for the application that does the commands I know in the terminal. But they can be largely avoided now.
  15. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    Got my 3950X, didn't get a $30 discount on my B450 motherboard :( But a good day none the less.
  16. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    Thanks! Got one reserved now.
  17. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    I know people want their CPUs, but don't pretend paper launches haven't been a thing for a long, long time... Though I wish AMD would be more clear about availability.
  18. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    I'm in the "3900X if I can't get a 3950X" club at this point. Will find out tomorrow. Gonna be smug as hell if I actually pick up a 3950X that's for sure.
  19. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    I remember reading about the 3950X having a "65W" mode but I don't recall any of the reviews actually testing it. 105W TDP, actual power consumption is well above that. But it's VERY close to the 3900X because of binning and how AMD handles power limits.
  20. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    Haha yeah sounds like there might be a mini [H] meet if MC actually has any in stock lol I called Duluth myself. From the sounds of things I'm not optimistic about either having any in stock :(
  21. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    Should give him a ring, I'd rather not drag myself out to MC at 10am if they're not gonna have what I need in stock. :( I'm assuming they ACTUALLY know by now what they'll have in stock come Monday.
  22. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    Called my local and they basically just said they didn't know. If they don't I think I'll just pick up a 3900X and be done with it, not willing to wait another 2-3 months for a CPU. Would also be very disappointing to see AMD do a paper launch, particularly when they had a time gap between the...
  23. K

    Ryzen 3950X, 3960X, 3970X Availability

    Hoping microcenter has some in stock...
  24. K

    Intel Core i9-10900: 10C/20T at 5.1GHz coming on 14nm in 2020

    Isn't this the same fake leak from months ago?
  25. K

    Intel Core i9-9900KS Review: The Fastest Gaming CPU Bar None

    Intel finding new and "exciting" ways to re-release the same chips and get more reviews to attract clicks. It's all just mildly refined 2017 dies, be it this or the HDET refresh. But reviewers need the clicks too, it's not like they're gonna say "meh it's a clock bumped 9900K, not worth a review".
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    The Death of Overclocking is Nigh...(we knew it was coming)

    Maybe not on it's own, but it's obvious that BOTH AMD and Intel aren't able to just leave clock speed on the table like they have in the past. As soon as AMD started being competitive Intel went from selling chips with 500-1000mhz of headroom to selling chips with more like 100-200mhz of...
  27. K

    AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Overclocked To 5 GHz Across All 16 Cores On LN2

    Or or or, we could all chill out and wait for launch and real reviews with real overclocking numbers instead of angry typing on the internet? Hahaha just kidding. (Also why would you argue with someone whose profile says they're Anti-AMD, just ignore it lol)
  28. K

    The Worlds Best of Best 16 core gaming CPU.

    Plus or minus a mandatory motherboard update :)
  29. K

    Idiot needs help again

    Could use pastebin or something of the sorts.
  30. K

    Idiot needs help again

    Do you mind posting the full output? It sounds like something is blocking apt from removing it.
  31. K

    Idiot needs help again

    The instructions you've read include using apt?
  32. K

    Open letter to Microsoft :D

    Maybe it's been mentioned before... but back to the OP, asking MS to just make 10 more 7-esque. There's another topic in the forum right now about how MS has tacked a bunch of telemetry onto the side of 7. Nowhere near as bad as 10 I imagine, but still pushing 7 in a bad direction. But, let's...
  33. K

    hardware reserved memory?

    I've seen hardware reserved memory for IGP before, but you don't have an IGP in that setup... Have you dug around in your bios?
  34. K

    Removing heat spreaders

    And I guess that's what I'm worried about the most, sticks using adhesive strong enough to actually damage the chips when you try to remove them. It's increasingly hard to find decent speed sticks without gaudy massive heat spreaders on them that make cooler compatibility tricky. I still...
  35. K

    Linux Distro Suggestions

    Sure enough, look what got posted today: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=clearlinux-main-desktop&num=1 I don't imagine it'd be fun to run that in the long term, with having to upgrade all of your packages at once...
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    Removing heat spreaders

    Has anyone tried removing heat spreaders from modern ram? I'm willing to bet they aren't really needed to keep the ram cool, but would help a lot for cooler compatibility, ignoring those weird super tall sticks that some companies make... Were they hard to remove? Did you see major temp...
  37. K

    64GB RAM for Ryzen

    There's also a good chance that ram prices will continue to fall, if you plan on upgrading to Zen 2 already.
  38. K

    Linux Distro Suggestions

    Ah, that makes sense. Kinda foreign... but makes sense. It seems to perform well on AMD as well, based on stuff done by Phoronix. Surprisingly doesn't seem to bias Intel CPUs, from what I recall.
  39. K

    Linux Distro Suggestions

    I wonder how clear linux gets compiled? They do some crazy optimization with that but the last time I read about how they build the OS, it sounded very strange.
  40. K

    Nintendo Switch

    It does look quite good, I want to say there was some water effect in the trailer that looked super nice... I wanna say it was Yoshi. The resolution isn't fantastic... but framerate is important.
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