jagdtigger

While overclocking almost isn't a thing anymore, to really peak the full potential of components, good cooling is required. I mean, Ryzens will clock themselves as high as they can until they hit 90°C these days. But if you hit those 90°C really quickly, you're leaving a lot of performance on the table. If you can keep it a bit below that limit, it'll perform at its 100%. And it's not really that different with old Ryzens either. If they go near thermal throttle, the boost will slightly decrease, losing maximum potential. So, water cooling still makes sense. Also there is noise. Even AiO's can soak a lot of heat before they need to kick up fans so you have a much more lazy fan curve that's easier on ears.
 
I honestly never understood EK's approach to all the super expensive, super custom "this fits this exact model only" approach to be profitable. I'd understand if they made the best AiO's in the world by building all in one solution with stronger pump and their signature CPU blocks that can fit many CPU's and they'd just be selling extra socket plates to adjust to new ones, basically creating a dominance in AiO segment where everyone's basically the same. But all the super expensive full cover blocks that only fit super expensive motherboards that are bought by 1000 people worldwide, I don't know.
 
Same goes for graphic cards. Too many too specific boards that require too many specific blocks. And when you're talking 500€ a full cover block, I'd then just rather buy a new graphic card instead of squeezing those few extra FPS from old one, noise or not factored in.
 
They really need to narrow down and optimize because they've gone so wide with their offerings I don't think it makes any sense anymore. Best would be to focus on CPU's more as they are much more universal and maybe try to convince graphic card makers to standardize their GPU designs so more universal water cooling could be fitted to graphic cards. Hell, even go as far to make them CPU AiO friendly, so you could just buy 2x CPU AiO and slap one on CPU and another on GPU. That kind of universal approach that would in the end benefit EK too as they wouldn't have to make all the expensive full cover blocks down to specific revisions of a single graphic card from a single graphic card maker.

Yeah sure, it isnt like they made that an exclusive feature of edge........ 🤣 And shady? Thats rich coming from the ppl who made a browser that silently steals profiles without authorization.

Except for the "gamers", the majority of people I know keep their computers until software support is gone or it just starts getting too slow for everyday use.
 
Even myself, my rig doesn't have AV1 support...because why would I upgrade?  I would say there is a large amount of people with older systems

I don't get it how can Germany criminalize USERS for this crap? By what dumb logic? It's not users responsibility to go full Sherlock to figure out if company is screwing them over or not. Users shouldn't be liable at all and Germany as government should prosecute Lamptron in this case. As simple as that.

Summary
 As I understand it, Lamptron is mass reselling the AIDA64 software as the core component of their products, but they never actually bought the keys they are “reselling”.
A discovery that is causing issues for many distributors now they know about it and maybe customers too.
 
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 Based on what was said in the video, it sounds like everyone who has bought and used on of the many Lamptron products could face legal issues if they now learn of this, or simply figured it out on their own.
I find it very interesting that a company can keep doing such an illegal activity at such a scale for so long, while putting anyone they distribute through at major risk of legal trouble.
 
 
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I can't wait until the government completely kills interoperability between different government agencies because every branch has its own flavor of Linux and uses different software for menial tasks. And suddenly the tax office can't communicate with Customs anymore because they can't open each other's files. Man, that would be so German.

Windows 11 is like Oprah, "Everyone get more clicks!" 

Replying to you, but I think everyone interested in the timeline of Asus f**kery is welcome to read this reply.

Advertised or not, the feature existed:


 


I personally ordered my Zenfone 9 after that:

 
I didn't use the bootloader unlocker immediately because:

 
My original plan was to unlock it after Asus stopped pushing out updates.
I was fully aware it was going to receive only 2 years of updates, and I was ok with that as long as I could unlock my bootloader and load something else.

~Mid 2023 the unlock device app stops working, because it relies on Asus backend to operate.
A mod on the Asus forum (zentalk.asus.com) then says:

 
Also:

 

 
Anyhow, Q3 passes and:

(which is a huge pile of BS if you ask me)
 
This is what the "broken promise" refers to, they gave the tool, took it away, said it would be coming back and then it didn't.

Oh, but there is more... An unofficial way of unlocking it was found out and shared on XDA.
Next Zenfone 9 updated removed that option:
They went above and beyond...
So much so that I will not be buying anything Asus for a very, very long time.

Definitely nice to see. Hopefully they will open the boot loader on those phones at somepoint.

It seems that current Microsoft`s menagment forgot lessons from previous browser wars.
Oh well.
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"

Not when you have ad blockers enabled. 

I ran my XS Max 256GB for nearly 5 years before I broke it by accident. I would still be using it. I moved into a 14 Pro 1TB and no regrats.
 
Op and a few others are just hopping on an Apple hating bandwagon that gives them the warm and fuzzies.
 
Love my phone btw, its awesome.

More proof that smart home are always better hosted locally.

That's one reason I like my Panasonic DECT home phone system. It connects to both my cell phones with Bluetooth, the handsets just use off-the-shelf NiMh AAAs, and the only way it's connecting to the Internet is via a POTS to SIP gateway.
 
If it can't connect to Home Assistant and work without an Internet connection, I don't want it.

Good move. 👍 Now we only have to figure out how to cure the already existing smombies.........

This is just plain stupid. A pathetic attempt at shouting "we are still relevant, we are still the king, look at us"............. 🤣

While it is cool (or actually, really hot), the E-Cores are complete garbage.

true. they don't need to be exposed to toxic media like twitch and twitter because of that though. 
 
you can game perfectly fine without posting about it on "social media" all the time. 
 
 
 

The poisonous mindset that makes ppl into a smombie. No you dont have to be available at all times, no you dont have to reach anyone at anytime and instantly, and this is especially true for kids in 99.9% of the time. There is always a tomorrow and there is always a game they can play at home when for whatever reason they cant go outside.
Never had a phone as a kid until i got into middle school (even then it was some cheap basic one) and still survived and still had friends. And i mean real friends who help in trouble instead of running.

Good move. 👍 Now we only have to figure out how to cure the already existing smombies.........

Good move. 👍 Now we only have to figure out how to cure the already existing smombies.........

The poisonous mindset that makes ppl into a smombie. No you dont have to be available at all times, no you dont have to reach anyone at anytime and instantly, and this is especially true for kids in 99.9% of the time. There is always a tomorrow and there is always a game they can play at home when for whatever reason they cant go outside.
Never had a phone as a kid until i got into middle school (even then it was some cheap basic one) and still survived and still had friends. And i mean real friends who help in trouble instead of running.

Good move. 👍 Now we only have to figure out how to cure the already existing smombies.........

Good move. 👍 Now we only have to figure out how to cure the already existing smombies.........

The poisonous mindset that makes ppl into a smombie. No you dont have to be available at all times, no you dont have to reach anyone at anytime and instantly, and this is especially true for kids in 99.9% of the time. There is always a tomorrow and there is always a game they can play at home when for whatever reason they cant go outside.
Never had a phone as a kid until i got into middle school (even then it was some cheap basic one) and still survived and still had friends. And i mean real friends who help in trouble instead of running.