Kisai

Most "basic" speakers are worse than 25 dollar ear buds. For a computer to sound decent, it needs to be at least a 2.1 subwoofer set. Anything without a subwoofer requires a much larger set of speakers and you just won't find those anymore since they went out of style in the 90's.

Well, ideally you donate the stuff you have but haven't actually used, and don't see any foreseeable use for. Like you can keep a computer around that has a CD/DVD-R and 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives and save that as the "reads everything going back to the 8088" PC, and let the retro enthusiasts take everything older than a Pentium 4 off your hands. Everything newer than a Pentium 4 but older than a Core i series before 8000 you should just donate to something like freegeek or another company that reuses computers / lets people build their own stuff they can then take home. Basically if it won't run Windows 11, and you don't need the media drives, donate it. Only something like a Tandy 1000 / Amiga 500 / Apple IIgs / C64 I would even advocate to "keep one" for fun. But even then basically anything older than a 486 can be FPGA emulated and keeping around legacy hardware that you don't have a large software library for is a bit silly. We will eventually hit a point where anything that has DDR/DDR2/DDR4/DDR4 is considered "worthless" as far as reuse goes, since they're too old to run Windows 11, and without being able to run 11, you have to put Ubuntu or something on it for it to have any value.

If you don't care about those features, then be my guest. The problem is AMD doesn't care about countering those features, so people just go "Hey AMD, where's your RT solution? Where's your DLSS? Where's your CUDA support?" Nah, the implication is that AMD is failing to market their cards, or failing to go "no wait, we do that too!" The CUDA problem is not going away any time soon, and you need it for Tensorflow and Pytorch. Note the crossed out ROCm AMD's site: Basically installing Tensorflow or Pytorch is already a pain in the ass. AMD just makes it an extra pain in the ass because now not only do you need to hunt down an obscure ROCm enabled version of the respective library, but you need to rewrite the app to not use CUDA itself but the generic version of the same function. To be honest, I'd like to see an actual compute comparison between AMD and nvidia cards, but thus far this is basically an impossible task outside of some benchmarks that use OpenCL.

KVM is for when you need to switch between multiple always-on systems. Monitor switch is for when you need to switch between sometimes-on systems. The different largely comes down what's more annoying, waiting for the OS to recognize the switching or physically doing an action. My suggestion is if you have two computers with their own monitors, you should have separate physical devices (eg keyboard/mouse). If you have only one set (eg two computers but only one screen/mouse/keyboard) and you're not intersted in a hardware solution, use RDP/NDI/VNC and access the second computer headlessly.

The EDID doesn't matter in a KVM, however if it doesn't emulate the EDID of the monitor connected to it, then when the KVM switches away from the monitor, the OS will treat it as a disconnect. If the KVM puts out a blank or wrong EDID, then the operating system will not remember the settings. Think of it this way, either the OS will treat it as a new monitor every time, or it will treat different monitors connected to the KVM as the same one. Most of the time it will not matter, because a KVM is only used in a server environment and doesn't need to support more than SVGA resolution.

Usually a power loss during sleep mode results in a loss of the operating system state, but depending on the power settings, the hard drives might be powered up or powered down. Data loss will only happen if the drives are being written to when power loss happens. This shouldn't be an issue if the system had enough time to actually be in a c-state sleep and not merely turning the monitor off.

It'll probably come back around once the over-reliance on CUDA for AI swings back towards dedicated NPU logic. Like the problem overall is that there three must-have features (CUDA for AI, Tensor cores for RT, DLSS upscaling) and without equal parts on the AMD part, you basically are picking the "loser card" if you don't pick Nvidia. This also applies to Intel. Like we're not at a point any more where you can get away with the lowest tier parts and play a game at 480p. Most games using Unreal simply require enough compute power to run 1080p high, or you don't run it at all. Like there are some cinematic-quality games being put out that just make high end GPU's grind to a halt.

You gonna buy a Wind Turbine next? You know we have these in BC right? As much as the super computer would be cool to have, I think it's best the winner of the auction just part it out to the blade level and recycle the rest. If it was possible to have bought the entire thing (including storage) intact, someone might have a use for it, but without the storage it may as well be a paper weight.

That's what "S" parts are on Intel. non-K, K, KS non-K parts are fundamentally disabled from overclocking/boost features. K is unlocked, and KS is unlocked and "best binned" Take note of the P core speed. The P core and e-core speed actually goes down on the i7 and i9, these have TDP at 65w. Then you have T parts: T parts are the same as the non-K and K parts except they are thermally limited to 35TDP Meanwhile K parts at 125w TDP: What do we see in common? i7 and i9 have lower base clock speeds still. In a sense, buying a T or a non-K part doesn't make sense unless you are building a specific TDP target (Eg most ITX systems, SFF's that aren't laptop parts, and some mATX's in small chassis) The thing to keep in mind is that most CPU's aren't outliers. If you go to https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html#xy_scatter_graph you'll usually find the best value parts (closest to the lower-right) are the i7 parts. The KS is the blue dot in the upper right. Even if you ignore that one, those two red dots are the EPYC parts, and the two closest red dots near 60,000 x $600 are the 7950X and it's 3D version. Like in general, there are just a lot of options for the low/low-middle tier. There's not enough downward pressure on the highest end parts, which is why they're expensive and usually not worth buying except for bragging rights.

You shouldn't even need to have swap "enabled" but more to the point you need to have some swap so a memory dump can exist after a BSOD. The rule used to be, back in the 386 era, to have 1.5x as much swap as you do RAM, but we've largely been able to install more RAM than the OS can use since Windows Vista and other x64 bit compiled OS's. You only want to turn page files entirely off if you're going the full way and turning all the logs off as well so that the device writes nothing to the OS partition. In which case you'd have things that only need to exist and be writable to a RAMdrive, and when the system is rebooted, the contents are wiped. Nobody does this outside of embedded systems and it's usually not even worth attempting on a desktop.

I bought a new i7-14700k, the out-of-the-box motherboard configuration turns on optimizations of "ROG STRIX Z790-E GAMING WIFI II" Notice what's default. First thing I did was "Enforce All limits" and then turn XMP off so I could update the BIOS. Cause it literately would not update the BIOS with XMP on. Right beneath that: Note what BIOS version introduces the Intel baseline profile: Anyhow, I'm disappointed that manufacturers are still "cheating the benchmarks" after all these years. The out-of-the-box configuration should be the CPU manufacturer's settings. I don't know how these MB's pass QA checks being able to burn out the CPU.

Office Workers and Apartment dwellers would beg to differ. If I turn pairing on, many devices sit there in "I'm listening" mode. The only devices in that list that are "my" devices are the "Arb" ones which are the Stadia controllers.

Probably wasn't worth it to them. I see a lot of "usable PC's" from time to time either in the recycling room or at the Encorp recycling depots, and really anything older than a 8th gen is probably "too old" to salvage unless you want to make a Linux box with it.

This is why we're likely to see the scenario I mentioned earlier, where people have to park their cars on the periphery of large cities. Gasoline-only cars will have to be parked there because there will be no fueling stations. EV owners without a charging solution, likewise. Like, let me show you something. This is what charging presently looks like over here. If you need to drive between Vancouver and Portland, you're covered. Meanwhile shell locations: People like to whine and argue about EV's not being as good as ICE but the reality is that they last longer, far longer, than ICE, and a lot of that is due to innovations in ICE for saving fuel/emissions that put far more wear on the car (eg the auto stop feature) that EV's don't have to deal with. The market that EV's will have a hard time penetrating will be the "my first car"/"new driver" market because EV's don't come in "basic" models. Where as traditionally, you would have a 4-cyclinder 1-3L compact or small car with a manual transmission and no power steering as a first car for maybe the cost of year on a part time job. Automakers aren't selling as many EV's because only the battery pack ever needs to be replaced, and that's when people trade them in. Car's require so many safety features today to be street legal that you will find it difficult to have a car "cheapened" to the point where you are buried in it in an accident. That said, North American's are super fond of their over-sized vehicles for "Safety" reasons, and that's another reason why we won't see an EV uptake in the rural markets. Battery fires scare away people, despite ICE's result in fireball in most of the same scenarios. The "self-ignition" and "ran over something and it punctured the battery pack" are scares against EV's. My aunt has a Tesla, and has to drive all the way to Vancouver to get it serviced, 4 hours away. The problem is not going to be fueling, the problem is going to be servicing. Anyway this is extremely off topic.

MSI has 147 SKU's, what the crap. Pare that to two models per chip. "Stock configuration" and "OC configuration" Geez, how is there even that many SKU's Are we missing something? Is there a bunch of separate SKU's for different countries?