I have a Turion X2 HP from 2007 and a Sandy Bridge HP EliteBook from 2010. Both work beautifully in every respect and still see regular use around the house.
My recent Ryzen Pavilion 13 was also an amazing laptop for the money.
Sold my Fury Maxx last year for $500 on eBay. Maybe I should have waited, haha.:p
Edit: Nevermind. After checking Sold listing, I've apparently set the bar over the past year. :D
I feel like all of the negatives that x86 had 20 years ago have been either mitigated or outright fixed.
The power-efficiency argument is mostly out the window now already - and that's with AMD tuning-down architectures that were designed for the mid-to-HPC end markets; I have to imagine that...
Wah-wah, everything sucks. Nothings is a good deal for a fun tinker. Wahhh.
We can all thank operations like this for the modern CPUs we buy not costing more than they do; if overstock inventory never found a home and needed to be written off, you can bet those losses would be passed on to...
It's this guy here; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMPXQ2RK
I spent WEEKS looking for a case that was compact, didn't look stupid, and would still fit a decently sized GPU and PSU. Very happy with it.
It's alright - AMD can lay claim to basically every x86 design breakthrough since Intel put out MMX almost 30 years ago... And in a market that has turned against x86, a thinning herd that results in AMD being the lone remaining steward is a good thing; fighting over a shrinking pie is bad for...
There's these things called external RAID enclosures - perhaps you've heard of them in the decades they've existed?
...and your bitey reply aside, who in their right mind has a gallows as their profile picture? 🤨
My $100 NUC the size of a baseball does 4K transcoding without even warming up; buying an Intel graphics cards for that purpose alone is ridiculous.
Set up an old $20 laptop with Remote Desktop in a closet for Plex - let your actual desktop have a graphics cards that was installed for more than...
Traditional dough recipes for high-heat refractory ovens rely on the fact that they're going to be exposed to 700+ degree(f) temperatures for performing all of their tricks in 2 minutes.
If your dough recipe is designed for a home oven then it's likely doing what it's supposed to. But pizza is...
Every reputable reviewer has the 7700 XT and the 9060 XT in a dead-heat across game averages, plus or minus 2-3%. And that's with RDNA4 drivers being much less mature.
Not to mention the architectural and thermal advancements... zero reason to get a 7700 over a 9060 if they're readily available...
The compressors at this point are all incredibly efficient, and that really is the heart of the fridge. The basic electronics are also simple enough nowadays that none of them seem to be issues either.
Re: Top-freezer, side-by-side and french-door/bottom-freezer...
The refrigeration side of a...
Well... obviously.
But where are all the people chiming in with LG fridges that have never had a problem? Because they outnumber the sour-experiences exponentially; LG's failure rate was so much lower than Whirpool/Samsung that we actually lowered the cost of extended service plans for their...
The amount of complaining in this thread is truly unreal.
I managed indoor appliance showrooms for 10 years that did $5-6m in sales annually. LG had the lowest failure rate of any major fridge manufacturer and it isn't particularly close.
I had a handful a year that were problematic. Out of...
...that's ****ing depressing. But it only reinforces my decision to dual-boot my BD790i X3D system between Windows and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
There are too many architectural advances that I don't think Windows is even addressing in day to day work.
It used to be that if you were an existing player, installing the client to Steam instead basically required a new account - and thus, no carry over of anything including stats.
I'd much rather run my Wargaming stuff from Steam. I wonder if they ever fixed that issue...
I wanted the soundtrack so I ordered the Deluxe.
You can get it on GreenManGaming for $42.49 after code 'APR15' - and GMG doesn't charge tax, like Steam.
Ordered, instantly delivered and installed.
There are enough disconnections from the reality of the situation in your posts that I'm not going to dive too far in.
But I will say that Intel will be the savior of nothing in any of this; every sign points to them exiting the GPU market again once their recently launched SKUs see inventory...
You seem to have a very solidified for opinion for somebody who has been paying zero attention to nVidia's financial situation for the past 5 years.
They will toss their least-desirable yields into consumer products from here on out. That will be the extent of their focus on consumer graphics.
I'm ready to buy, but I really need an ITX-esque depth card outta the 9070/9060 lineup.
The PCBs aren't that long. I'm hoping an AIB does a unit that favors width over depth soon.
Can you imagine how much untapped capability there is in GPUs that might actually be found by thousands of people contributing to ever-improving open source drivers?
Instead we only ever get what's found by the small teams of paid employees who work on the drivers for the short few years that...