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Following this review in Tom's hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-prime-b550m-a-wi-fi) the VRMs get hot but well within specification limits, so I guess it's fine if I don't overclock or go for the 5900x+. My main gripe with the upgrade is not price per se but return per investment. £100 more for an 5800x3d is definitely not worth it on a 1440p+ scenario like mine. Anything AM5 starts with a £500+ cost just to change mobo, cpu and RAM for a not really better performance, whilst future proofing is not going to be better than switching in the future anyway. So the question is rather between 5700x and 5800x for the roughly same price or keep waiting until a 5800x appears in the used market whose owner doesn't find fitting to ask for 10% over new price like everyone else.

Hey folks, sorry for creating another one of these, but I wanted to get some information checked for one specific scenario. I have a Ryzen 3600 with a 5700xt. I'm already looking into upgrading the GPU looking at the 6800xt or maybe the 7800xt when it launches. I wanted not to bottleneck it and was surprised on how much an upgrade to AM5 is expensive right now, so I'm definitely staying on AM4 until a few more generations cheapen it out. My current mobo is a Asus prime B550m-a Wi-Fi which is said to have weak VRMs, but I'm not sure how much that's exaggerated especially for stock clocks. I also have a hyper 212 for cooling. The options in the UK are the 5700x and 5800x for basically the same price ~£160) and the 5800x3d for an extra £100. Used market is terrible here but a 5600x or 5800x are often available for around £110-£150. I'm not finding any reason to go for the 5800x3d. The 5800x is easier to find used, whilst the 5600 is definitely easier of all, but I'm worried about its performance in a couple of years. Usage will be gaming mostly and "future proofing" enough not to bottleneck the new GPU on 1440p. Any thoughts or recommendations?

I wonder if more people are also affected like me in which the recent show size makes it completely impossible to listen on my free home time. So, I'm listening through a podcast app and that makes it extremely jarring the huge amount of time they started spending talking about lttstore and showing things on screen that I have no way of knowing, because I'm listening while commuting. Sometimes I check the timestamp and try to get back to it at home, but most of the time I just skip until I think it's good and maybe lose something in the process. Last week episode was hard. Between the affiliate controversy and ltt products they might have spent more than 1 hour. Really hard to keep the attention.

Hello, I was using my laptop while it hard froze. I forced shutdown it and when I turn it on, there's no Sata drives in the BIOS. I've opened the laptop up and to my surprise, the m.2 Sata SSD does not have a screw on it, it's being hold just by the slot. I've removed it, put it again and screwed it in, but no luck. Did the same in my desktop, not detected on BIOS as well, so I believe it's dead. As this being my first M.2 SSD that dies on me, I was wondering if this is common, as I've seen far more HDs fail, not even being detected in the BIOS is not that common. The laptop is over 4 years old and has been travelling with me a lot on the past years, so it's even surprising that it did not have any issues before. I've already ordered a replacement, but was wondering if I should push on bringing this SSD back or if it's probably dead for good.

I have the same keyboard and same problem on my MSI B450 mortar. I've tried several things and completely random sometimes changing USB ports after the computer is turned on makes it work, but as soon as I turn it off it stops working. Did you get any input from the support?

I was really curious about thermals, as I have a 3600 with a 212 Evo that keeps on the 70s on full use and I've been told that's normal. A 3800x must have to be running in very low clocks to be able to cool with such a small cooler in a tight case like that.

Yeah, I can see that. Steam, I'm looking at you! I usually think that falls upon the distro to maintain a fair share of libraries and support for most mainstream features so this should be fixed by a simple repackaging like Steam AUR on arch. This way if the developer maintains support to a mainstream distro it should be fine. But there's always outliers and legacy binaries, which are definitely a problem on this environment. But again, users can work around that if they decide to thread away from mainstream distros. ButI agree that still for maintaining only the mainstream usually is a problem.

I don't really get that people might think that having many distros is a downside. For people who don't want to mess around much, they'll probably be better off choosing basic Ubuntu right away. It's not overwhelming to just do that. But if you're thinking about the feeling that they might be losing on something better because they don't want to research other distros and other WDMs, that might happen, but is that a downside? Feels like is better to have a monopoly because it's overwhelming to look at all competitors.

One of the best things about opensource software is that something really bothers you, you can absolutely have all the details of how it works, and even change it if you have programming skills. But usually just understanding and having enough knobs is enough. Once you're used to this kind of power over your OS, it's really hard to accept something someone thought would be better for you for whatever reasons (specially when they're shady).

I'm pretty sure that they don't mean that windows is better in every one of those steps than BOTH Linux and Mac OS. Linux is obviously one million years more customizable than Windows, but Windows is a bunch more than Mac OS. On the other hand, whoever claims that Linux has better hardware compatibility than Windows must not have tried different configurations like multiple monitors in an active dock like the Lenovo ones or practically almost every fingerprint reader I've seen on a laptop, but is also nothing close to Mac OS for more obvious reasons. The point of the video is that picking all those reasons, Windows would still make more points than both other OSes in their view, in which obviously gaming has A LOT more weight than things like OS Unity. Maybe with Google stadia we can start seeing a change in focusing development of games that work on Linux, but otherwise, Linux will never win a comparison among a gamer community.

Am I the only one that wanted to see how would be the scores for Luke if he used the APU and saved the money for the 950ti?

The XPS 13 I'm looking into is the 9360 with the 7200U processor, FHD Display, 8GB of RAM and 128GB SSD. Gaming with it with an EGPU is a plus, but at first not intended as I plan to build a desktop just for gaming someday. The likeliness to have problems with it being refurbished and from a third-party retailer and the time I have to deal with it (approximately 10 days) is the real threat here.

Hello guys, Recently I'm on a dilemma to choose between 2 thin and portable ultrabooks. I would use them for travelling and day-to-day use. The Dell XPS 13 is known to be a very good, solid and a little pricey but beautiful laptop. While the ASUS has surprised me on how thin it is and how good specs it has. I've recently found a refurbished XPS 13 about US$ 100 more than the brand new perfect UX330UA and this doubt has come into my mind. I'm buying this on a trip to the US, so a long warranty may not apply and I also won't be able to spend a lot of time returning and getting refunds to buy again. As of now, I've come up with these pros/cons: Dell XPS 13 pros: Full thunderbolt 3 implementation port Infinite display Smaller 12" factor but same screen size NVMe SSD A little better battery cons: It doesn't have a fingerprint reader Refurbished could have problems Webcam placement on the bottom-left of the screen Only 128GB of storage US$100 dollars more expensive Third party Retailer (but fulfilled from amazon) ASUS UX330UA pros: Fingerprint reader 256GB SSD (Sata) Thinner and lighter Brand new from Amazon cons: Big bezels around the screen No thunderbolt 3 port (only a Type-C USB with no laptop charging) A little less premium build-quality While the cons for the XPS 13 are bigger in number, the pros are very important as well. Are there any other points that I should take in consideration? What would you guys choose between those two (or any other with similar specs and finality)?