Crunchy Dragon

Assuming the scuffs are just cosmetic, they shouldn't have much impact on device longevity.
 
I don't think it's a terrible idea to buy a newer model 3DS, just because it'll be more recent and the battery will probably be healthier, but I don't know how much it'll matter with something that old.
 
Personally, I would probably save the $50 and put it towards the new model further down the road.

There are stand-offs that are different thread types. Are these the stand-offs that came with the case? Are you sure the threads are good? Nothing has been cross threaded?
 
Also many times if you move a stand-off you may actually need to use a wrench or driver to tighten it down. Many times the unused thread holes are coated over, so things may not thread in by hand easily the first time. 

I prefer creeking my music personally

I prefer creeking my music personally

I prefer creeking my music personally

You present a risk by opening the port in the first place. RDP is an encrypted protocol, but you can allow unwelcome traffic by opening 3389 in your network firewall.
 
The most secure option is use of a VPN, there are a couple that let you self-host a VPN server and install a client on other devices, so your VPN connection will take you inside your home network, from which you can access all your network resources and do what you need to do. I've used SoftEther VPN for this in the past, but there are other options. OpenVPN is another popular choice.
Port forwarding is essentially opening a port in the firewall. The port being open is what allows traffic to come and go through the firewall, via that port.
 
RDP is awesome, but there are much better options for remote gaming. I would look into a cloud service like GeForce Now for your games, and keep RDP around for accessing files and media, but still run it through a VPN.

I don't think it's LTT related but I'm pretty sure most discount coupons cannot be applied to gift cards since you basically get free money if you did. 

What you talkin bout....
 

Competitive shooters and especially esports tend to be more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy.
It's more likely that your performance is being held back by your CPU rather than your GPU.
 
What games are you playing, what settings, resolution, and refresh rate are you playing at, and what framerates are you getting?

On low settings, you really don't need much GPU. You need more CPU to feed the frames. You upgraded the wrong part for your situation.

Competitive shooters and especially esports tend to be more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy.
It's more likely that your performance is being held back by your CPU rather than your GPU.
 
What games are you playing, what settings, resolution, and refresh rate are you playing at, and what framerates are you getting?

Competitive shooters and especially esports tend to be more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy.
It's more likely that your performance is being held back by your CPU rather than your GPU.
 
What games are you playing, what settings, resolution, and refresh rate are you playing at, and what framerates are you getting?

If you copy your documents etc it'll be fine, if you try to copy the entire drive... likely it'll break, and if your goal is for the new drive to replicate the old it's drive cloning software you're after.
 
As usual it's always best to state what you actually want to achieve.

Competitive shooters and especially esports tend to be more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy.
It's more likely that your performance is being held back by your CPU rather than your GPU.
 
What games are you playing, what settings, resolution, and refresh rate are you playing at, and what framerates are you getting?

Competitive shooters and especially esports tend to be more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy.
It's more likely that your performance is being held back by your CPU rather than your GPU.
 
What games are you playing, what settings, resolution, and refresh rate are you playing at, and what framerates are you getting?

Mods be like: "Last Christmas I gave you a Warning point but the very next day I took MOTF away"

All I want for Christmas is MOTF to get unlocked

They were ordered

Followed orders.

Agreed.
 
Maybe if these had 12-16 core variants with more cache, they'd be decent bang for buck in 6-8 years on the used market, but outside of their targeted market of small businesses and essentially small cloud/server applications, most of us regular folks won't really have a use for these chips.

Being a Xeon CPU, they're also not going to work on the consumer platform. Xeon support in consumer motherboards has been incredibly hit or miss since Skylake, and practically nonexistent since Kaby Lake. Intel's doc states support for C262 and C266 chipsets, which might mean these will appear in smaller servers and higher end workstations, akin to the older Dell PrecisionTowers and Lenovo ThinkStations that ran server chipsets and Xeons.
 
The boost clock is nice, but one thing a lot of people overlook with running a Xeon is that it tends to take more work for them to actually reach the maximum boost clock. I have a Xeon E5-2690v4(2.6Ghz base, 3.5Ghz max boost) and that topped out at 2.9Ghz running Cinebench R23 for the full 10 minutes.
 
Xeons are designed to be workstation and server powerhouses, so their behavior when you put them to work reflects that moreso than your typical consumer/enthusiast-grade CPU that's typically meant to run as fast as possible all the time. Occasionally, you can do some funny things to a Xeon by tinkering with BCLK, but that can also induce instability elsewhere in the system.

Agreed.
 
Maybe if these had 12-16 core variants with more cache, they'd be decent bang for buck in 6-8 years on the used market, but outside of their targeted market of small businesses and essentially small cloud/server applications, most of us regular folks won't really have a use for these chips.

All core boost is usually much lower than single core max boost. Also do you know what power limit was enforced by the system? That can cut things back earlier compared to practically unlimited enthusiast mobos. Or even thermal limits.
 
 
On the others things:
 
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/236182/intel-xeon-e2488-processor-24m-cache-3-20-ghz/specifications.html
Doesn't list AVX-512 support there.
 
People getting this class product don't buy CPUs, they buy systems. The platform as a whole is the offering, not the CPU in isolation. Consumer tier gear likely fails in other areas. Basically don't say this sucks as a consumer product when it isn't a consumer product.
 
Not every task needs more than 8 cores. Other products exist if you genuinely need more.

Best option, I would say, is probably looking at a Ryzen 5 or 7 from a recent generation, upgrading to B550 and DDR4 RAM.
 
Your graphics card should be okay for another few years, if you're willing to not crank settings high or play higher than 1080p.

Agreed.
 
Maybe if these had 12-16 core variants with more cache, they'd be decent bang for buck in 6-8 years on the used market, but outside of their targeted market of small businesses and essentially small cloud/server applications, most of us regular folks won't really have a use for these chips.