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If you have to leave Outlook or a couple browsers open and want to switch to a game while waiting on something coming in you will generally find that 16GB getting eaten into pretty quickly. It's not even just 100 open tabs in the background at this point - Chrome and Teams are memory hungry and...

Dibs on card per PM.

Dibs on Logitech MX 3 mouse. YGPM.

YGPM

I'd think using the dGPU to handle graphics acceleration would actually improve performance vs. running it off of a Sandybridge iGPU. Removing the 210 might actually be a worse option in this case.

Family/friends cheap upgrades, or external USB adapters. Not a bad option for a giant and fast external flash drive. Sometimes I use them on client machine upgrades if I just want to get rid of them and replace a HDD. Anything 256gb with low writes I hold onto for my pfsense box. If I get a few...

I have the R1850DB from them and they're well-built and sound decent. I use them in my office when I don't feel like wearing headphones for music and for team meetings. The RB1280DB set pendragon1 linked should be fairly similar.

My first SSD was one of these. Worked just fine until sections of the Windows control panel completely disappeared. I got to watch as folders and files became inaccessible in real time. RMA'd it for a Vertex3 and sold that immediately with an acknowledgement to the buyer that it was a...

Sunbeam rheobus extreme bought for $30 in 2012. Still using it to this day as it can run my case fans slower than the motherboard headers. Much lighter duty than when it was running old Delta, Panoflo, and Sanyo Denki monsters.

Generally these days if you really need a DVD drive the recommendation is just to get a USB external version. I was connecting a PCI-E SATA card to add some additional disks anyways so I decided to use one of the ports for a DVD drive. I actually used it for the first time in a year last month...

Drive B has 4175 reported uncorrectable errors and >5 years power on hours. I would replace it based on the SMART value 187 count. I am not seeing any major errors for the other drives. Edit: Actually the reallocated sector count it worse the that as I forgot to convert from hex.

Antec used garbage OST and Fuhjyyu caps in those models so they weren't good new, but after a decade+ I'm surprised that computer will even boot with that PSU. Replace it ASAP.

I spent extra on a VESA certified Club3D DP cable when I got my new monitor. Kinda expensive but it let me use 165hz and 10bit color simultaneously with Freesync over a ~10ft cable reliably so I can't really complain about it.

If you need a Windows 7 Pro key I can send you one. It was pulled from an old recycled PC and could be used during Windows 10 installation.

Heck it could be just the 9900K heating up to the surface of the sun with all threads active. Already tried re-pasting it. I tried adding a AVX CPU speed drop of a couple 100mhz, but it turns out tons of apps use occasional AVX instructions so that was borderline useless unless I always want the...

Good info here. I knew that TR was selling products through Nans Gaming Gear but I didn't realize they had Amazon direct sales. It isn't so much that the original HR-02 cooler is defective, just that it was designed for a specific heatload, beyond which faster or more powerful fans stop having...

I've swapped screens and logic boards for E6410 and E6420 laptops, although it generally ends up making more sense just to go for a newer model. Like you can basically just buy used E7450/E7470 models with SSDs and 8GB-16GB RAM on eBay for the price it's going to cost for a mainboard and LCD...

I'm actually using a TRUE (non-copper) on my 6700 with a gentle typhoon fan. I considered using that on the 9900K but I put it under the HR-02 instead so I could run it with an extremely low-speed fan. Both of these coolers are like 15 years old and still work fine, although I'm not sure I would...

The dev abandoned it, but Classicshell still technically works in Windows 10 without issues. Although you will want to do a custom install for Classicshell by itself - do not install the classic explorer, classic IE, and updater components (certificate is revoked and will generate errors when it...

The last motherboard I had that actually failed was a socket 775 board and I really had to go out of my way mangling a HSF installation for that to happen. I have never actually seen a failed CPU, but plenty of dead or dying power supplies.

I always use the BIOS/UEFI update methods, except for on Dells as they've long managed to get Windows BIOS updates working without issues. I'm not sure I'd trust an in-Windows BIOS patch on other manufacturer boards. Gigabyte sticks dual-BIOS on most of their more expensive boards. I've only...

Agreeing with jmilcher above regarding the Magni/Modi. I have the Modi 3+ and Magni Heresy on a shelf connected over optical. Should have tons of power (410mW at 300ohms) for your 990s even in low-gain mode. The Schiit Hel looks like a neat product but it has the same posted shipping time as the...

FSP usually works as an OEM for other companies like CWT in that they make some very good units like the Aurum series, but they'll also put out priced down models. They made a ton of straight up bad power supplies for years around the late P4 era, but their reputation is a lot better nowadays.

I did the same thing recently with the super flower 1000w Platinum SE. Previous Seasonic had noticeable coil whine, this one doesn't.

That sounds like a fairly involved gotcha. I'm skeptical that it will ever catch on outside of OEM market though, as motherboard makers would have to dedicate a bunch of space for power distribution stages on their boards while simultaneous being on the hook for a surge in RMAs when buyers...

I mix in disabling certain services, O&O Shut up 10, and powershell to remove components depending on how much I want to bother with the system. Then Start10 so I never have to look at or use the new start menu. I gave the default start menu a brief go initially, and it caused Explorer to crash...

If it's Windows 10 you could use the sandbox feature, or just use Hyper-V as it's basically built in already.

I am dreading possible ATX12VO adoption outside of the OEM markets. Would instantly obsolete a few PSUs I have lying around including the big one I just bought.

If cleaning the contacts works you may want to run at least two passes with a memtest USB install to confirm that the modules are not reporting any errors: https://www.memtest.org/ Also verify that you are running the RAM at the correct timings and voltages in case the system is detecting them...

Most JRPG series. I haven't played a Final Fantasy game since 7. FIFA/Madden Diablo Civilization, except for Civ2 years ago. Any of the Total War games after Empire. Europa Universalis, which is weird as I bought it and loved CK2 but mostly I'm just worried it would become a massive time sink...

I've disabled the audio install in the driver and Windows 10 will sometimes install it anyways, so it's better to just disable the Nvidia audio device(s) in Windows directly if it's not being used.

When the warranty runs out. I always over provision for my needs so it's never been capacity issues. Generally the replacement has improvements that help make it worth it, like quieter operation or no more electrical noise when opening documents (looking at you, Seasonic 1050W).

That would be a downgrade from a 2990wx for anything multithreaded. Flight Simulator (at least currently) barely takes advantage of multiple cores so a processor with faster per-core performance would help you with that game specifically. I would not replace an entire platform for a single game...

Getting a freesync/gsync-compatible monitor really sucked the wind of of my GPU overclocking sails. If 90fps looks pretty close to 100fps I'm not going to waste a bunch of time to try to get another 2-4. I started to work on a custom fan curve until I realized that I was basically getting the...

They used that dithering effect for shadow edges in Witcher 3 and once I noticed it I couldn't stop myself from seeing it everywhere. Less noticeable on higher resolutions but still present. It looks like they used it for all the vegetation in those screenshots, but if it gives you the option to...

Random companies for the most part. The stock APC and Cyberpower batteries I've replaced have all be generic units with the OEM label slapped on it. I just get whatever's cheap and decently rated and swap them out every few years. I have a 1000VA APC unit someone left in the hallway for trash...

Unlocked 6950 in a drawer which isn't worth selling and doesn't have modern driver support. Maybe also the 1050 in the HTPC as it is literally just used to send a 4K signal.

I actually never tried connecting my DAC over USB and went straight to optical, although in my case it was to avoid needing drivers. I didn't even consider potential ground loop isolation although that is a nice side benefit.

That's basically what I'm running - a Modi 3+ and Magni Heresy for headphones, with the Magni's preamp output going to a pair of R1850DB powered bookshelf speakers. Unless you're using analog outputs on your onboard audio chipset, you generally need a DAC of some sort even with powered speakers...

486 DX2 66mhz Pentium 75 Pentium overdrive (166mhz IIRC) Pentium 4 2.4C Pentium 4 3.0E (possibly a downgrade vs. above) Pentium D 940 C2D E6600 C2Q Q6600 i7 920 2600K 9900K Along with some other parts here and there for other machines, but the above list is main desktop progression. I never...