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All of my boot media is GPT formatted. Are you like trying to defend Gigabytes poor BIOS implementation just to be contrary?

You'd think so, but even if I set CSM options to UEFI only on the boot page I still see all the MBR entries in the boot menu and priorities. So I don't know, unless I'm unaware of a setting somewhere else the BIOS is disregarding that selection. The only way to get rid of MBR entries is to...

You can, but then you're getting into the "used parts" potential for headaches. I've bought used parts before and most times it's a good deal, but I've had a few bad deals. Generally I don't buy used parts except for less expensive stuff that's not a big risk. For something that expensive I...

Not sure what you mean by that. CSM is a function provided by the BIOS to boot from MBR which is the legacy method. It can be required if there's a specific need for it, but UEFI has been around long enough that MBR is pretty much deprecated. It should actually be disabled by default. It...

Yeah that's a big drive, QLC though, lower endurance. Would rather have TLC. I have a Sabrent Rocket 4.0 and I'm pretty happy with it. That 8TB model is up there with their cost for PCIe 4.0, around 200 USD per terrabyte. Should be running the Rocket Q rate, around $120 per terrabyte. Maybe...

Yeah it would be nice to have a 10Gb LAN, but is it something I need, not really. I do large LAN transfers once in a while and it would be nice if it was faster, but I can get by on 1Gb. I suppose if 10Gb over copper gets cheap enough I'd upgrade, but there's other stuff I'd spend money on...

That's a pretty popular x570 board. If it has the features you want it should do well for you. Really the main difference for most of these x570 boards are minor features, most of them don't justify the big difference in price from one model to the next. For example the Aorus Ultra is fifty...

I agree, NVENC is faster, but software encoding provides better quality and smaller files. That's to be expected, in general hardware encoders shoot for speed at the cost of some quality and bit rate by design.

What!? Stock?, that's not allowed here, haha

That's great to hear. Cold boot speed has always been a complaint with my X570 Elite. Though still I'm going to wait until the BIOS comes out of beta to load it. Mainly convenience, don't want to see MBR options in the boot menu or boot priority page in BIOS. Also there's an obscure boot...

I can't say it's 10x, but comparing my desktop to my laptop for encoding at least (3700x versus i7-8750h), the laptop runs 6c/12t around 3GHz all core where the desktop runs 8c/16t around 4GHz all core. So the desktop is around 50% faster and cooler/quieter doing work like that.

Sounds reasonable, has to be something making a difference.

I'm all in on that one. My desktop computers I've built recently are hugely quieter than the days of 80mm two wire fans. That would solve a lot of problems, but we only get what the makers of these products decide we get. What baffles me is the GPU can consume more power than the CPU, but...

Default is enabled. Disabling CSM causes a black screen longer on boot and lagginess when navigating through the BIOS menus. Others have reported this, but it could be something limited to the X570 Elite which is the board I'm running. Not the same board as the Pro, but takes the same BIOS.

I have a 17" Acer Aspire with i7-8750h and GTX 1060 that's not much thicker than that one. The cooling system seems pretty decent, gets loud under heavy load though. I retired my old desktop and used only my laptop for a couple years. I was doing a lot of video encoding on my laptop which...

Wow, that's a lot of disk space. All the games I keep on disk are older and don't take up that much space, can keep them all on SSD (my video library is what takes up the bulk of space). Now I get why the AAA gamers need those 10GB spinners.

Oh cool, some BIOS activity. I'm not going to try it until it gets the "beta" letter off the end. I'm not having any operational issues and updating the BIOS can solve old problems while creating new ones so I'll wait until it's an offical version (without the letter on the end). Just would...

I think Acer has more monitor models than anyone. I'm sure they have the same thing in a flat screen. Trick is finding the various models in stock, though the Acer store sometimes has them when you can't find them elsewhere. I'm on my second Acer monitor now. I have an Acer laptop too...

They're coming out with new PCIe standards way faster than anyone can implement them. Intel is determined to stay on PCIe 3.0 long as possible. The only real benefit for PCIe 4.0 right now is faster hard drives. However the difference in speed for day to day use is debatable. I have it and I...

Yeah I'd be happy just for that, they really lowered the bar since the last desktop system I put together. Had to laugh, with you on that one. Seems you either love RGB or hate it.

Yeah I don't like Optimus much either, would much rather have a laptop with a discrete GPU that does not have to support an integrated one at the same time. Is that even an option now? I have a laptop with a GTX 1060 and i7-8750h. The dual GPU thing gives me trouble when using an external...

Yeah you can sideload apps. I haven't actually done that, but I'll need to look into at a some point. I'd like to sideload the Intel graphics control panel for my laptop. Right now I'm using an older driver with the pre-UWP control panel, but it would be nice to use a newer one and install...

LTSC runs games same as Windows Home or Pro. The only game I know for sure it has trouble with is Forza since that's a Microsoft game and requires the Microsoft Store. There might be other Microsoft games that require the store. Even so you can add the store to LTSC and some people do. Of...

I've been using a mobile rack as long as I've been putting together my own desktop computers. I was really happy, just swap out boot drives for different stuff, no boot manager or crazy partition schemes. Most recently I was using a mobile rack with SATA 2.5" SSDs. Before that I was using...

Man that's a serious control center, looks like something out of a movie set. For me it's just a desk and a monitor, super basic.

Yes the Samsung drives are more expensive, but they are the fastest 3.0 drives. If you really want PCIe 4.0 for whatever reason the Sabrent Rocket 4.0 costs about the same as the Samsung EVO Plus and delivers advertised performance. I have one and I'm pretty happy with it. Actually has much...

That's what I've always done. When I was using 2.5" SATA I had a mobile rack and just used a removable boot drive. With m.2 I use the BIOS to select the boot drive now. It saves some headaches when you don't have to mess with a boot manager. Windows does not like to share.

I'm actually using a Microsoft brand keyboard and mouse combo for a couple years now, Desktop 900. It's nice because it only needs one USB dongle. Use it on both my desktop and laptop, don't have to get used to two different ones. Though my desktop BIOS doesn't seem to like it much, rate is...

My wife used to play those back in the day. A bit before my first home computer, an IBM PS2 (8086 processor). Used it to edit documents with some program I don't remember and connect to BBS systems over a 1200 baud modem. Never played any computer games until the 3D stuff came along, though I...

Hmm, I thought 3DFX developed hardware accelerated 3D and brought it to market first. So who invented the idea? Sad but true, then if one bows out we're done for competition. Another area where that seems to be happening is retail motherboards. There used to be more makes than you could...

Haha, Itanic, good one. Sounds like they tried to bite off more than they could chew. Probably a bad idea to require a ground-up rewrite of all software with no outright benefit.

Front panel or motherboard panel? Front panel could give you trouble if not grounded properly. I actually had that happen when I added a front USB panel to an old PC I had some years ago. Plugging in a USB drive would make the PC reboot sometimes. Fixing the panel ground eliminated the...

AMD has done a lot to advance things along. Even if you only ever use an Intel CPU they've made a difference. I think their biggest coup is winning over the 64 bit CPU architecture. Now Intel is conforming to a standard AMD created. I don't understand why IA64 failed though, they must have...

Could be, going back far enough my memory fails me. Anyway still holds true for hardware acceleration, made all the difference.

I've been using Classic Shell and now Open Shell since winXP. My start menu has not changed. Don't need anything different. Yeah I don't get it, changing stuff for the sake of changing stuff. That's not progress, that's just changing stuff, but they seem to mistake it for that which only...

What I think is amazing is there was a time when there were five different GPU makers. I was sad when 3DFX went away, they pretty much brought 3D to the personal computer. I remember playing the original Doom with a 3DFX card at 640x480 on a CRT thinking, "wow, 3D is amazing." Shooters are...

Ryzen likes two sticks over four. Lots of XMP problems with four sticks. I second the recommendation on Crucial Ballistix 3600. It's well behaved with Ryzen, what I'm running. It's not so much that prices have gone up with the latest happenings, but discounts have gone away. Vendors are...

Makes a case for knowing what you're doing. Most people probably don't realize how easy it is to recover deleted files on a disk drive. They think files are gone once deleted. Would be interesting just to see what was left on it. I probably would not make a fuss over it being an open box...

I needed a new office chair recently and went into total option overload trying to buy online. I simply could not figure out the best chair to buy. As a stop gap, I bought a task chair off Amazon for like sixty bucks. It's actually doing a pretty good job, but I'll replace it at some point...

Haha, there are some of us that just don't get it, good to see I'm not the only one. Much rather they put those resources into making the products better. When you're young, you have the time, but not the money. When you're older, you have the money, but not the time. When you're older yet...