flibberdipper

On Windows? Not really. I see tons of PCs come in of varying age ranges with (typically) 4, 8, and 12GB configurations. The 4GB ones are always DOG slow, even though some of them are only a year or two old and would otherwise be fine with more RAM. 8GB (or I guess technically 6GB, but that doesn't exist with modern desktops or laptops) is really the lowest one would want to go, especially with Windows 11.
 
Modern Windows 11 tries to idle at like 4-5GB depending on how much shitware there is. When I got this laptop, after everything was settled in and it had time to calm down the lowest I ever saw RAM go was 5.2GB, and after a clean install of 11 I managed to shed anywhere from half to a full gig on that, depending how it feels that particular day.
 

It’s more like windows sucks at memory allocation and has high resource usage overhead.
I don’t like Linux, but install Linux on a machine with 4gb of ram and everything runs smooth.
Meanwhile I have 64gb of ram and windows takes that as “welp, better cache all this useless shit in 12gb of it at idle”

I max the ram on every machine I own because ram is cheap. I have laptops from 2011 which have 16gb of ram even if they’ll never use it. Just because windows sucks and eats up all the ram.

On Windows? Not really. I see tons of PCs come in of varying age ranges with (typically) 4, 8, and 12GB configurations. The 4GB ones are always DOG slow, even though some of them are only a year or two old and would otherwise be fine with more RAM. 8GB (or I guess technically 6GB, but that doesn't exist with modern desktops or laptops) is really the lowest one would want to go, especially with Windows 11.
 
Modern Windows 11 tries to idle at like 4-5GB depending on how much shitware there is. When I got this laptop, after everything was settled in and it had time to calm down the lowest I ever saw RAM go was 5.2GB, and after a clean install of 11 I managed to shed anywhere from half to a full gig on that, depending how it feels that particular day.
 

On Windows? Not really. I see tons of PCs come in of varying age ranges with (typically) 4, 8, and 12GB configurations. The 4GB ones are always DOG slow, even though some of them are only a year or two old and would otherwise be fine with more RAM. 8GB (or I guess technically 6GB, but that doesn't exist with modern desktops or laptops) is really the lowest one would want to go, especially with Windows 11.
 
Modern Windows 11 tries to idle at like 4-5GB depending on how much shitware there is. When I got this laptop, after everything was settled in and it had time to calm down the lowest I ever saw RAM go was 5.2GB, and after a clean install of 11 I managed to shed anywhere from half to a full gig on that, depending how it feels that particular day.
 

I'd recommend downloading CrystalDiskInfo and seeing how hot it's actually getting. Hard drives should be fine until like 50C (not great for lifespan but they'd at least function correctly). Also, chances are unless you're using some goofy ass 6TB+ 7200RPM drive it really shouldn't be throwing a hissy fit with dickall airflow.

Because they use different protocols. Get a bluetooth device if you want bluetooth, its simple as that.

Not to mention they covered the thing in epoxy which would probably make it an absolute bitch to figure out what it actually was... assuming they didn't also scrub off all the markings.

Not to mention they covered the thing in epoxy which would probably make it an absolute bitch to figure out what it actually was... assuming they didn't also scrub off all the markings.

One of the things I love about the 8TB Easystore I use for my Series X, which I'm pretty sure has an EMZZ in it, is how THONKY it is. I can feel it through my table.

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One of the things I love about the 8TB Easystore I use for my Series X, which I'm pretty sure has an EMZZ in it, is how THONKY it is. I can feel it through my table.

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SATA for consumer boards didn't really start to become commonplace until 2002-2003. Given the fact that the board in question has PCI-X that certainly puts it into workstation/server class territory of the era. I'd be curious what the model is, but that's perfectly obscured by the cable spaghetti, of course.

Yup, that's the one and only thing I miss about my H115i and iCUE: where my AIO was cooling the CPU as well as serving as the exhaust for my entire system, I was able to have the fans ramp according to liquid temp to keep both the CPU temps in check as well as the liquid temps.

I agree with this to an almost aggressive point. The fan curve for my system has the AIO (and system, though they bottom out a little higher) fans at 450RPM until 65C, then it's 650RPM all the way until 95C where I have to make them go full bore. The only thing that ramps with CPU temp is the pump speed: 800RPM until 55C, 1200 to 65, 1600 to 75, and then whatever the hell max is starting at 80.
 
My system is functionally inaudible at idle or low load, and the loudest thing by far under load is my 2080 as well as when the PSU fan kicks on. All with no sacrifice to temps, even though I have an SFF build with essentially fully open side panels.

Generally speaking you're not going to be able to RMA anything with coil whine unless it's truly astoundingly bad, and it's kind of a waste of time and energy to return it and buy another one because there's always the chance that the next one will be worse.

How about I buy whatever I want?

You have a 14900K, you're never going to achieve quiet without retarding that thing to unreasonable levels.
 
 

Yup, that's the one and only thing I miss about my H115i and iCUE: where my AIO was cooling the CPU as well as serving as the exhaust for my entire system, I was able to have the fans ramp according to liquid temp to keep both the CPU temps in check as well as the liquid temps.

I agree with this to an almost aggressive point. The fan curve for my system has the AIO (and system, though they bottom out a little higher) fans at 450RPM until 65C, then it's 650RPM all the way until 95C where I have to make them go full bore. The only thing that ramps with CPU temp is the pump speed: 800RPM until 55C, 1200 to 65, 1600 to 75, and then whatever the hell max is starting at 80.
 
My system is functionally inaudible at idle or low load, and the loudest thing by far under load is my 2080 as well as when the PSU fan kicks on. All with no sacrifice to temps, even though I have an SFF build with essentially fully open side panels.

I think the furthest back I've gone are twin 1266 PIII's. I don't think I posted anything from my ProSignia 165 which has a mobile PII 400.

Not VMWare Workstation though. If you don't disable the vmx from running on them, your VMs will be LUDICROUSLY slow. As in, a Windows XP VM will be slower than it would be on something like a Pentium II 233. I'm actually usually very annoyed with my e-cores, to the point that I really want a 7800X3D. VMs are a pain in the ass, Steam downloads are odd shit, but everything else is fine.

Yeah other than the usual Intel cooler motor whine I'm pretty happy with it. 4.4GHz/1.2v on my 6700K and with power draw in the mid-70s the cooler keeps it in the low-70s. I kinda wanna push my luck and try for 4.5 or even 4.6 lol
 
Ironically I like the cooler from my 11400 more than the 11400 itself, it's such a power hungry whore for no reason even though I have power tuned it as much as I possibly can.

"Final" upgrades for now to the "HP" sidehoe. Threw the full-black copper slug cooler from my 11400 in here since my original one finally had a plastic clip fail (and it actually tames the 6700K at 4.4GHz perfectly), as well as adding an Asus WiFi card with an 8260 so I can have Bluetooth. Only thing left I want to do is get an NZXT USB hub at some point, it'll help with cable management and will let me use the card reader again. Still can't believe how much shit I was able to shove into this thing.
 

Yeah the only peeps who really think about it are those of us who border Canadaland. Sometimes it can be pretty annoying bouncing to roaming just because you're like a mile from Canada.

Roaming means when you're outside your coverage area from your provider, you can use other networks to keep communicating.
 
Impactful when you're outside the country.  No one thinks about it in-country, really.