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Yah, Trump is the one who should be charged with treason.

I bought a nice NAD stereo integrated amplifier back in February this year, and in three months the price of it has gone up by three hundred dollars. JFC!

once I dropped the RTX 4070 Ti Super back in, the system went back to being stable...as stable as WIndows 11 ever is. :rofl:


That didn't last long.
The random reboots and freezes I was getting with the Gigabyte mobo and Ryzen 7 7800X3D led me to believe that one of them was borked, as the ...

Hey Grogan,

I didn't even think of trying a live Linux distro. I should've done that. I guess I still can.

My luck with computer hardware is generally pretty shitty, not helped at all by my even more shitty 60 year-old eyesight. I somehow managed to bend a couple of pins in the USB header on the ...

I just recently bought a new Gigabyte AMD mobo, with the B850 chipset, and I put an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU on it. The Ryzen CPU is also brand new. I had been running an RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU on the system, and it was very stable, as far as I could tell. I decided to move the entire system into a ...

I love all of the Indiana Jones movies, so a game based on them sounds very interesting.

I went into task manager and enabled only cores 0-7 for Firestorm. I still had a lovely lockup and black screen. I went on the assumption that 0-7 were P-cores, and 8-17 were E-cores. Maybe not. I may just wipe this system and install Linux. There is a Linux version of Firestorm.

I've run all of those, and even did a run with CPU Burner running at the same time. No crashes, stuttering, or any problems at all on the Intel system.

On the Firestorm Second Life viewer:

Intel i9 12900KS
Asus Z790 Mobo
XFX Radeon RX7800 XT
16 GB DDR 5
Frequently crashes/locks up/black screens ...

I quite like the superposition one, with all of the interesting lab and test equipment imagery.

I did wonder if it's just crappy software, and not a hardware issue. I have the "enforce limits" setting enabled, so nothing is overclocked. I'm actually already using the Firestorm viewer for that game.

What benchmarking programs are best for really testing for stability?

I don't use security software, so my Windows machine didn't get a BSOD.

I'm running his latest optimized Windows 11 Pro 24H2 build. It works for me. He yoinks out Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft Store (but provides installers to put them back if you want), and gets rid of alot of other fluff. There's options to bypass Microshaft account creation and hardware checking ...

I have an i9 (12900KS) on an Asus Z790 mobo, with a Radeon RX7800 XT. I really know how to make bad decisions. Even this 12th gen Intel is shaky as hell. I'm sure the Asus(pect) mobo doesn't help! I'm really not a gamer much. I'm a Second Life (3D virtual world) user. Second Life uses Havok, and on ...

Mike,

It seems like it was a server issue, because now Windows is activated again. I still haven't changed anything, lol.

I've been recently having a fresh installation of Windows activate with a digital license when it connects to the internet. I buy Windows 10 Pro keys from those sites like urcdkey.com . Since the Windows 10 keys will activate Windows 11 as well, I don't see the point in paying more for a Windows 11 ...

Hey Michael!
Good to see you here.

What do you guys think of the https://windowsxlite.com/ customized and heavily tweaked builds of Windows 10 and 11? The guy that makes them seems like he's just doing it because he enjoys it. It doesn't look like he's trying to sell you anything. I've tried several variations of his Windows 10 and ...

They really do look pretty cool. I'll admit, the one for Canada made me giggle.

Now you can charge your Tesla on the go!

Thanks Steve! The APNX C1 case has the cutouts in the motherboard tray to support those new mobos with all the connectors on the back. I wonder if those will catch on? I might buy one someday if they do.

I had never heard of APNX before seeing the lovely Nada from Techtesters on youtube do a review ...

Thanks for the suggestions!

I had this Asus board before, but I'm not buying it again for $600!
https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-strix-z ... 6813119371#

I don't know, maybe I should just sell that Intel CPU. I certainly don't need another computer, lol.

I have an Intel Core i7-11700K CPU that needs a decent mobo. I had a nice Asus Z590-A mobo, but I managed to kill it. (with my poor vision and somewhat impaired fine motor control, I'm really good at breaking stuff, sadly) The Intel LGA 1200 motherboards I can find on Amazon all seem to be low-end ...

Those aren't cable extensions, they're complete 3rd party cable replacements from CableMod. I'm not 100% happy with CableMod. Their QC seems suspect. I have one cable set where the locking tab on the PSU end of the ATX cable just broke off. I have other CableMod sets where the braided sheath has ...

I was sorting through stuff, and found a poem I wrote for Grogan years ago. 🤣

My name is Grogan, and I'm very excited
I met a girl, to her house I've been invited.
Pickled eggs and Guinness for dinner, pure bliss
As we feast with abandon, I get up to piss.

When I return, the air smells like shit ...

I can't remember for sure what my last used username was at BBF. Was it TheeRadioDJ? General_K or GK a loooong time ago, lol.

This is my main system build.

Asus ROG Strix Z790-A
Intel Core i9 12900KS
Arctic Liquid Freezer III 280
XFX Speedster MERC319 RX 7800 XT
Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 16GB (2 x 8GB) 5200MHz
SeaSonic FOCUS 1000W 80 PLUS Gold Modular PSU
CableMod RT-Series Classic ModFlex Sleeved Cable Kit
APNX C1 Mid ...

To be fair, that Meshify 2 Compact is one of Fractal's smaller cases. I also have the Meshify 2 (not compact version) which is very roomy. If you want to see a really small Fractal case, have a look at the Fractal Terra. It's a Mini-ITX case that I bought to house a Mini-ITX AsRock mobo I bought. I ...

Hey Jan!

Glad you could join us!

I have a fully modular 850 watt EVGA PSU that I purchased in 2021. Somewhere along the line I managed to lose most of the stock cables. I debated for a long time what to do with the PSU, since I couldn't use it without cables. I decided to reach out to EVGA to ask if I could purchase a replacement ...