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  1. Droidbot

    I thought I found the smallest laptop with disc…

    Alienware M11xR2/R3?
  2. i've had great luck with Recuva for Windows. had a SanDisk card corrupt the file allocation table and it got all my photos off the card with a deep scan, only two had signs of corruption.
  3. Droidbot

    Reported AC 3's and AC Black Flag's awful perfo…

    You playing at 1440p? I didn't have BF4 FPS that low on my old 3700X+1070, but that was at 1080p. Lots of 64p locker and often sitting 300+FPS @ Med No issues on RDNA2 besides flickering on the pause screens
  4. That's very fair. If you are still scared about stability, removing DIMMs until the problem stops appearing would be my strategy, or removing all the RAM and returning DIMMs one by one. Otherwise I'd just go on as normal. Thinking about it again, it could very well be a RAM issue and you've just never tested to this extent before. Why does it appear only under Linpack? Good question - it could be heat or workload related, or even both. The CPUs are much the same during this generation - I wouldn't worry about what the manufacturer says too much.
  5. to rule out the CPU being the culprit - have you tried swapping the 1620v2 back in and running that same test? could be a faulty memory channel or something on the new processor that didn't show up under p95. also, dell has not validated 26xx CPUs with this board, so beware of that. this is a workstation machine, hence why it's only validated with 16xx chips. 26xx chips are supported by the chipset (intel didn't really care at this point).
  6. 64 Audio Nio. I've wanted a high end IEM for a while, and this was it. Super musical, very clean, very fun. Elevated as fuck bass. Loving them so far.
  7. Anne Pro2, turn off the lights. That's as close as you'll get for $150 Get it with the Box Browns, they're usually pretty silent. No media keys though. Maybe a Keychron K2 PBT if you can deal with the layout?
  8. ground loops could help - that's worth a stab too. but I think it's a misconfiguration - usually these things shouldn't have a hum unless they're manufactured incorrectly.
  9. A decent audio interface or dedicated DAC - something like a Behringer UMC202HD or UMC22 (cheaper option, but may have some more noise) would clean that output up quite well, along with giving you an ADC for use with mics and stuff. But you might want to take a stab at changing the settings in the ASUS Audio panel relating to impedance to see if the issue goes away - could be set too high or too low.
  10. from backdoor to backdoor. privacy is dead. if you want to be safe from government spying destroy all electronics with a hammer and live a nomadic life in the forest.
  11. Didn't mention -- anything decent on ITX? It's a touch exxy but considering the gigabyte b550i the board's real cheap -- that's the only time for me that it'd make sense. board's $140AUD for .. what's really an 8x50a stage vrm with mediocre onboard audio and great memoc. i'm coming from a ddr3 platform so i'm buying the whole thing from scratch. budget is soft cap of around 750AUD (cpu/mem/mobo/psu), hard cap of 1k.
  12. Awful support/BIOS/build quality/reliability, my current board has been an absolute disasterfire in everything so I'd just like anything *but* MSI
  13. Ayo. Basically -- 3600 + B550-something-with-decent-VRMs, or 9600KF + EVGA Z370 (I can BIOS update this, dw) Micro (or maybe a 9700KF if I can fit it in the budget). 9600KF comes in at $100 cheaper than the 3600 combo (based on pricing with the Steel Legend, but I'm open to other recommendations for boards) My workloads are: - Gaming (CSGO, Valorant competitively, Forza H4 and COD MW on the side) - Photo editing (Minor edits with Lightroom and some Photoshop, nothing intensive) - Occasional video editing with Resolve, usually H264 1080p but some H265 4k60 The only thing that really scares me is the 6threads on the 9600KF and how that'll age with time - I was burnt hard by the 4670K in games and I don't want that to happen again, so I'm shying towards more threads/cores. Thanks for your responses / thoughts.
  14. Yep, they're $500AUD headphones. (350USD roughly). Definitely a winning situation.
  15. Droidbot

    whenever i see the words "chinese taipei" i lau…

    free hong kong, revolution of our times
  16. Not a purchase, but a pickup. Bose QuietComfort 35 IIs. I live across from a construction site and after drilling under my window at midnight, they gave me these babies as a "PR gift". Nice bribe, but I'm still not happy about the construction
  17. Users are probably used to consumer devices like iPads where everything is on one screen. ... it is on one part of the screen (the fucking start menu), but they just don't learn.
  18. Lucky's gonna get a little bit warmer with the GPU running full tilt.
  19. It's hot, it's loud, and it's not the greatest performer but it's a steal at $300. But you already have a pair of 290s so you know hot and loud well.
  20. Droidbot

    Still seeing laptops instore that market Optane…

    Not as cursed as "16GB Optane Memory + 16GB DDR4" with an NVME SSD as the boot drive
  21. I have space on top, so I have a little MSI dragon plushie chilling on top. Along with a hard drive.
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