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I'll preface this by saying that I've owned a few Asus laptops, and each of them seem to be plagued by this issue in some capacity. When first starting Windows (10) up from an "off" state, after logging in, my touchpad will cut in and out for a few minutes before ultimately stabilizing. My drivers are up to date as per both Windows and Asus's site. I've also tried doing clean re-installs of the precision driver. Has anyone else ran into this issue?

I want to restore an EFI backup that I had made for an old laptop that was dual booting windows and macos (yes, it can be done, through much trial and error). I'm trying to access the Efi folder by using diskpart, selecting the partition and assigning it a letter, but when I try to access it in explorer, it won't let me in, saying I have no permission. The folder also doesn't have a security tab under properties to try and tweak the permissions. Does anyone have a solution? This is a vanilla win 10 install too.

Seems like the general consensus is that they run hot, and like anything else, things run better when they're cooled. Maybe I can affix a small usb fan onto one so that it dissipates heat better.

I haven't fully dismissed the thought of pulling one of the ethernet lines out of that room and replacing it with fiber, but was hoping that there existed a simpler solution that didn't involve running another cable to that room. I'm not against trying out one of those m.2 adapters and getting a pcie card, but would just have to get creative with a mounting solution

Just finished running Cat6a thru the home i'm moving into. Currently trying to find a way to run 10gbe to an ITX-based machine that already has a GPU installed, so pci-e is out of the question. All the thunderbolt 3 to 10gbe RJ45 boxes seem to have really dodgy reviews, but the SFP+ ones seem to be better. I don't mind getting a transceiver to assist with that, but was hoping I could get some more first-hand experience from members here who have tried things that have/haven't worked so I can make a more informed decision on what to purchase.

Bit of an update here. So, I ended up going with the QSW-M408-2C. It's managed, and has the amount of ports that fits my needs. However, a bit of an odd bug, it seems to think it cannot access the internet (say, when checking for firmware updates, or syncing with time servers), but meanwhile all connected devices are able to access the internet just fine. Normally i'd leave well enough alone, but this bothers me and I'm snowed in, so might as well play around. My house uses the Google Mesh Wifi points (not my decision), and the switch is connected via the LAN port on the first mesh point in the chain where the WAN cable is going into. I'll have to dig around a bit more.

This is getting horribly off topic. I'm going to lay out some information. I just finished playing far cry new dawn for a half hour. My resolution is set to 1440p, and framerate was very frequently pegged at 144 with max settings. The game played like butter. I'm *still* only on 1gbps. To further verify, I ran crystaldiskmark. Sequential r/w on a 7200rpm drive was 150mb/s. The NAS was 118mb/s. Coincidence that that number is right in the neighborhood of 1gbps? I think not. This tells me that a faster LAN connection will further improve these scores, potentially way beyond the 7200rpm drive, but for now, It works. It's no SSD, but it freaking works. Bear in mind the random4k r/w speed was better on the NAS compared to a 7200rpm drive, with the 7200rpm drive scoring 1.15/1.63mbps r/w, and the NAS scoring 37.45/29.63mbps r/w. There are a few reasons I want to do this. One is because I have multiple gaming pcs that (will be) around my house, one in my office for keyboard/mouse gaming, and one in my living room for relaxed couch/controller gaming. Rather than have two rigs with multiple drives (especially in the living room where i'm trying to lower my footprint), I would rather have games stored centrally on a larger NAS so that I can point both machines at it. Both machines will not be used simultaneously, either. And before arguing the whole "if storage is such a big deal, just uninstall the games" deal, I'm moving to a location that doesn't have great bandwidth options, especially not for the money. If I can store my collection locally, then that's less that I have to deal with waiting to play. Also, as a note, I just played in an environment with several Google Homes, wifi thermostats, a few chromecasts streaming, and a few other computers running. Still got those results. So please, the whole world knows SSDs are faster than HDDs or RAIDs based off HDDs. Stop downplaying the performance of a NAS on a faster LAN network. It works. And even if I do encounter a game that's horrendously terrible to play over a NAS, I can just transfer that game over to my machine (possibly quicker thanks to a faster LAN, mind you), without having to worry about clogging up my local storage drive(s) with games.

Appreciate the advice, but my original question was already solved. As for your reluctance to realize that gaming from a NAS is a possibility, i'll leave this behind

I don't care for blazing fast gaming storage, I want larger capacity and sufficient speed. I already have an nvme gaming ssd, but I want to be able to utilize the massively larger amount of space on my nas to store games.

Why wouldn't it? Theoretically, a 5 drive nas (like I have) setup in raid5 should easily outperform a single 7200rpm drive in read speeds due to the ability to pull from multiple drives at once

I'm currently looking at a QNAP QSW-M408-4C My internet speed will be 200mbps (i'm still closing on the home). However, LAN speed is a priority for me as I would like to be able to access my NAS quicker for gaming storage.

Okay, so my understanding was incorrect. Would I need to get a managed switch, or would an unmanaged one do the same? I don't really plan on doing any VLANs

I'm interested in building a home network with capacity to run some devices at 2.5Gbps (NAS, gaming rigs, etc). I'm still looking around and scratching my head at the equipment I would need to make this work. I can find several multi-gigabit/10-gig switches (or even gigabit switches with some multi-gig ports), but very few routers that have multi-gig ports on them. Operating under the assumption that I need a router between my modem and my switch, wouldn't I be limited to gigabit speeds inside my LAN, despite having a multi-gig switch? Also, I'm not interested in routers that also have wifi capabilities. Would be plenty happy with a wired router as I plan to run access points

Disregard, got it figured out

So, a bit of background first. My 3900x and 1080ti (soon to be 3080 once stock normalizes) get a little toasty for my custom loop with a single 360x38mm radiator, which is mounted as an intake on the side wall of my case (Lian Li PC-O11D). I have two intake fans on the bottom (third on the way), and two exhaust fans on the top (can only fit two on top due to reservoir/tubing). I have enough space to put a 240mm radiator up top to add to the cooling capacity, but unfortunately mounting another radiator on the bottom isn't an option, unless there is a sub-1" thick radiator on the market. This brings me to my main question. Should I mount the new 240mm on top as an exhaust? Or should I flip the fans on the bottom to exhaust hot air out the bottom, and have the two radiators set as intakes? I worry that if I set the 240mm top radiator as an exhaust that it would get saturated from the hot air coming from my 360mm intake radiator, rendering it useless if not harmful, but I'm also unsure how well hot air likes to exhaust downwards.

Would a raspberry pi be able to accomplish this at all? Maybe over VNC, but I would need to pass the connection of my interface through it as well.

So, i'm not really sure what sub-forum this would have fallen in, so mods, please feel free to relocate. I have a Ryzen 3900x build in one room that's meant for gaming. However, in another room, I have a more acoustically-treated setup for audio production. The two rooms happen to have cat5e lines ran between them. Rather than have two computers, one in each room, are there any good devices that could pass HDMI and USB over ethernet? I tried some kit off amazon, and while the display works perfectly, the USB functionality is a bit janky, which affects the connection to my audio interface. Ideally, a solution that doesn't cost as much as a second computer would be more ideal.

CPU is fine, 30-50c during the simple tasks I was doing. Grabbed macs fan control and tested the fans, they're both great. Not at the same time but I've reset them both separately at least 2x

Didn't last long. Kernal_task is back on it's BS, using well north of 100% of the cpu. I read it does this to help throttle the cpu to prevent high thermals? But the fans aren't kicking on, and the computer isn't anywhere near overheating. Ran Apple Hardware Test and it found no issues, but i'm going to run an extended test. Does anyone have any experience with this issue?

I did an SMC reset (except instead of just pressing the keys, I held them for about 15 seconds). The machine is definitely running quicker. Cpu usage hit the floor, kernel task is only using about 30%ish percent which is much more reasonable. I think I'm in the clear, but i'll pop back in here if something else rears its head

Looks like this is for imacs. There was no thermal sensor on the OEM drive that came with this macbook.

I used to have an 08 macbook and i put an ssd in that. Never had an issue?

Drive is fine, look up, system task is holding up the cpu. Kernel_task, to be specific

Checking activity monitor shows the system is pegged by "system" at idle. Found that "kernel_task" is using, get this, 1400% ish of my cpu. Also drive SMART status is verified good

Figured a dead cpu would manifest itself in other ways (not booting, more erratic behavior) SSD is less than a year old and saw very light use. I'll check it though