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I have a new EVGA 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra I'm selling, with a few interested buyers, none of them local (unfortunately). I'm wary of selling a high-value item like this online via shipping/Paypal/eBay/etc. given the horror stories I've heard of sellers getting scammed due to payment services nearly...

Generally, does distance between m2 slot and CPU bear any impact whatsoever in terms of latency/performance/response time? Specifically, on a Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (with a WD Black SN750 1TB NVMe drive), there are 3x m2 slots. I've RTFM already (attached) and have had the SN750 plugged...

Those with Amazon Prime (and its fast receding benefits), "Madden 22" and "Surviving Mars" are available for "free", though must be claimed by March 31st. Prime Gaming

Is there a way to disable the utterly annoying mouse middle-click autoscroll function? It's activated by pressing the middle mouse button, usually in web browsers (but also other programs). When pressed, it changes the mouse cursor to an omnidirectional free-flow cursor, and wherever the pointer...

Twitch got leaked, and leaked hard: source code in its entirety -- not only Twitch's, but other Amazon/Twitch subsidiary projects like Amazon's Steam competitor, et al -- login/payment data (change your P's and 2(FA)'s), and the real juice: streamer payout data. It was no secret xQc was making...

...and with Freesync or G-sync? I grabbed a Dell 32" 1440p Freesync (S3220DGF) last year only to discover that the thing is straight up haunted with all the ghosting going on in it. A shame, as it looks great otherwise. Though its Freesync feature is also pretty janky (unofficial using an...

Can Cyberpunk still be saved? Is there a Cyber-"Witcher3" in the rough? I've been waiting to play it, but I want it to be, you know, finished, beforehand. Sounds like this may be a year out or so, which is fine. What I'm down about though is commentary saying there's no amount of fixing that...

On an EVGA 3080/3090, how does the "ordering" of power draw work across their 3x power ports (+ PCIe slot)? For example, if a 3080 FTW3 suddenly needed 450W of power, how or in what order would that be drawn from: would it grab up as much power as it can get from one source before moving onto...

tl;dr: Windows 10 sucks I was just in the middle of debugging a network stack when I noticed connections going out to Microsoft going in the background. No biggie, I thought, Windows Update/Defender/whatever. I decided to peek at some of the packets, out of curiosity, and found this: These...

With the infinite loop of update insanity that is Windows 10, I've considered dipping my toes into LTSC waters again and again, each time thinking (foolishly) "Surely next update they'll iron everything out and it'll all be good." Well, I think it may finally be time. In context of...

With Mozilla selling out to Google/Chrome by moving to WebExtensions, thereby destroying their best asset of an extensive addon community, what's the next best choice as far as browsers go? Looking through my list of addons, I get depressed when I realize that most of them will die in the near...

I want to test how a program generates a seemingly unique system-id by "feeding" it parts of another (virtual) machine. For example, say I have VMware #1 and VMware #2, both "physically" identical machines, but with separate non-cloned Windows 7 installs. On VM1, test.exe generates a system-id...

Anyone know of any type of easy software method to "switchboard" individual audio channels from a 5.1/7.1 mix of an .mkv movie? I'd like the ability to easily switch through the audio channels of a playing movie file -- without too much trouble. In other words, I'd rather not have to extract...

Couple questions: *Is there a performance to be gained between methods of enabling vsync? (In-game, RP's "Direct3D Tweaks" (enabling/disabling via keyboard), "Visual"/CCC option ("Off, unless app says; On, unless app says; Always on") *What happens if more than one vsync option is enabled at...

In "Matrix: Revolutions" bluray (movie opinions aside :)), I'm hearing something that sounds reminiscent of blown speaker equipment, perhaps a tweeter or crossover. It happens at 0:12:48-0:12:54, when Neo is talking with the programs in the train station as they await the train. As soon as...

I'm seeing strange behavior on a W7 installation I've been using for years -- All of a sudden, it's like the machine has "forgotten" that I'm an administrator. I'm getting: Permission warnings when trying to write to Program Files directories (which continue after I click continue, no...

When upgrading to a new GPU (particularly a different generation), should one do a full BIOS reset, clearing the CMOS? I ask because I'm getting artifacts on a brand new 290 Vapor-X, and came across suggestions elsewhere for doing a full BIOS/CMOS reset, as it could have something to do with...

Could GPU artifacts manifest over virtual displays, like a remote desktop connection? My understanding is that hardware-related anomalies display wouldn't appear over a "virtual" display, like a Teamviewer connection, for example -- only on a physical display connected directly to the GPU...

Any thoughts on whether to wait for the impending 390x release vs. getting a 290/290x now? I usually buy a generation behind, so I most likely won't be getting the new series, I'm just wondering if 290's and 290x's used/resale prices will fall much with the new release. Bonus: I've seen other...

For a modern enthusiast system, what's a generally "safe" per-process count of handles? And how about threads? Or perhaps better put, what number should set off a troubleshooting alarm for a particular process' handle or thread count?

What's the biggest single hard drive size you'd feel comfortable buying today (assuming no RAIDing)? I need a good storage hard drive, and I'm wondering whether to buy one 2-3TB drive or 2-3 1TB drives. I wince at the size of drives these days and how much data is getting stored onto a single...

I know Firebug and Chrome tools provide the ability to replay browser requests, but can't seem to find this ability in Internet Explorer's developer tools. Is this possible to do?

How could you scrape data from an Android app (one without an available API)? There are some apps I've entered data into and I'd like to be able to hook into and extract the data rather than manually transcribing it all by hand.

Between using antialiasing vs. downsampling a higher resolution, which route would maximize FPS and quality? Which do you personally use? In other words, would you be better off running at 1080p with AA ramped up, or 1440p downsampled to 1080p with no AA?

I've got an Asus 27" 1440p monitor, and I've been having a difficult time getting used to it -- the resolution makes everything so small, it seems you have to be super close up to it to read things. I have hawk-level eyesight, so that's not the issue. I thought I just needed some time adjusting...

Anyone know how to debug/diagnose software hangs/freezes down to the "nitty gritty level" level? I mean like going into something like Process Explorer/Monitor and digging through threads and process trees.

I've been waiting to buy a 290/290X for a little while, but figured I might as well wait for the next gen cards to drop before doing so. Any thoughts/speculation on whether 290's will fall in price, and if so, how much (used and new)?

...besides arbitrary Passmark/benchmark scores? For instance, how would you compare Intel CPU's across the years, from x58 up, assuming they're all at 4GHz (and that the onboard GPU features are unnecessary)? What features or metrics would you look to, and how would you equate the performance...

Any thoughts/input on these ~10 week programming bootcamps that are popping up in CA and other places, and claim to have a ~95% placement rate post-grad, with jobs averaging $80k/year? Anyone have any experience with them, and particularly, any idea what a typical "syllabus" from one of these...

For those with some kind of programming job, in regards to employers and applying for jobs, how public or privately identifiable is your Github account? Do you have more than one account, like a private/anonymous one and a publicly identifiable one? How common is it that potential employers want...

I want to change some of the underlined letters for quick-selecting context menu entries, particularly, for Firefox (but knowing how to do so for general Windows 7 context menus would be great, too). For example, if I select some text on a page and right-click, the entry for searching Google...

In Windows, I'm trying to schedule a task that visits a predefined webpage every morning before I wake up, but doing so in any *already-open* browser (if there's one available). I jump between Pale Moon (32-bit) and Cyberfox (64-bit) browsers. Sometimes one's open but not the other. I want to...

I just noticed a setting in my evga x58 BIOS: "Max PCI payload size" It's been set at 128 for years, however, it's able to be set at a maximum of 4096. I found this explanation, however, it doesn't give much, as far as particulars: http://www.techarp.com/showFreeBOG.aspx?lang=0&bogno=387...

If you have a drive that looks to be on its way out, with SMART warnings popping and intermittent usability, where do you start, in terms of an emergency data-evac? (...while promising to rail on yourself later for not backing up)? I've got a 3TB WD Red drive that looks to be dying, and...

I have a WD Red 3TB drive that's recently been causing problems, with event log saying it's not responding within the timeout period (when I was using Intel's controller driver), and now "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1." (now using Microsoft's controller driver)...

For any interested, an utmost helpful Firefox addon that quickly and easily edits context menus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/s3menu-wizard/ Ability to quick-edit straight from the context menu, ability to move/rename/hide entries, use folders, etc. And based on the reviews...

I think my SATA controller is dying on me. I've been getting lots event entries for iaStor -- event id #9, "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period." Disabling LPM hasn't helped. I'm on an eVGA e758 (x58) and really dreading upgrading before x99. On top of...

Besides standard CPU% and RAM%, what other metrics can I check or monitor to diagnose system sluggishness? This is driving me nuts -- As time goes on, my system invariably slows down, to the point where opening an Explorer window or Task Manager or switching to a program takes like 10-30...

I've been craving DCS' fighter jet action, but can't afford "Flaming Cliffs 3" at the moment. I saw that there's an open DCS beta currently going on, however -- does this allow anyone to join and use the fighter modules, like the F15? On the DCS site, the beta leads to links for the various...

What would it take to code a RadeonPro alternative? It was my surprise the other day to discover that RP's creator, John Matauri, had been recently hired by AMD to work on their "Gaming Evolved" app, and hence, RadeonPro has officially been relegated to the bucket of abandonware. I asked on...