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Looking for an AM5 mobo with several specific requirements. 1. 2 M.2 PCIe 5.0 4x slots. 2. 4+ SATA3 ports. 3. 2 NICs (at least 1 2.5Gb) Bonus points if the spec sheet does not lie. The MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI is almost there, only lacking in that second NIC. Asrock X670E Steel Legend has 2 NIC, but only 1 M.2 5.0 slot. The ROG Crosshair Extreme which covers all but price is absurdly utterly insane, AND it lies on the spec sheet. Also RGB . Maybe the MSI Carbon with an add-in NIC on the bottom-most PCIe slot (Chipset)? Honestly, the carbon looks like the most sensible PCIe lane layout out of literally all the X670 mobos, when you consider the chipset diagram. I'm working off the diagram on this page when considering the layout of IO for the X670 platform. And no mention of any caveats where plugging in 1 port disables another. For external IO, MSI gives us all the USB 3 ports provided by the platform (tho 4 are only 5G instead of the possible 10G) and 6 out of the 12 USB 2 ports (which is plenty). Are there any other recommendations I may have missed?

I hope linus realizes that this backlash is not over this ONE THING, but that it was the spark over many small things that have been building up. That's how this stuff works.

1st one 6-7 yrs, second 7 yrs, 3rd is going on 4th. Oldest one's collecting dust at my parent's, but I think it still works so maybe you could argue I'm still holding onto it? Second one's the first that I built myself and is currently sitting next to me as a NAS/media server.

Interesting to see Steve guest-starring on LTT. Incoming GN merger? Buy more LMG stonks!

What the Captain said. I'm not sure we'll get a main-channel video about it this time - but I am still curious what happened. It'd be cool if they at least acknowledge it, but I don't know what channel of communication I should be watching.

Just theory-crafting here, but... Encrypting cookies with a hardware-based key? Kind of like salting passwords in that regard. The internet is decentralized, so there could always be local issues. Or things can break in unexpected ways. I have a channel that shows 404 for me, even though I can still watch videos from it. But in this case it seems to be global.

Maybe that's why I was the first. It's noon here. I just had lunch. This is gonna be a funny video after Linus' serious "everybody do better" last one.

This is getting silly at this point... Nor do I see a thread about it. I'm never the first to notice, so... Could it be something local? The nearest google datacenter having a stroke? (Surely not threads getting removed.)

Must be MAJOR if the channels aren't back up yet. Next WANshow is gonna be saaaaucy.

Windows REQUIRES a minimal amount of swap space because its memory manager does not support overcommit. It needs to be able to promise overeager or poorly written programs more capacity than they will ever require. This is the difference between system commit and physical memory usage: Commit=how much was promised, memory usage=how much of what was promised contains actual data. Example: I on my machine currently have 27.3 GB of commit charge and 18.0 GB of physical usage.

I know I'm late to this party(I'm a bit backlogged on the main channel), but I have this mouse. My previous mouse was G500s - it broke with the double click issue. My first G502 broke/experience the legendary double-click issue. I RMA'd, got replacements. The reason I use this mouse(and its predecessor the G500), BY A LONG SHOT is the button arrangement and programmability. I have all buttons mapped in every application I use frequently or require productivity in. Browsers, explorer, photoshop, excel, code editors, etc. I even have entire scripts attached to certain buttons/apps to do more complex things. Ironically, I rarely use the extra buttons in games. I mentioned the button arrangement - I specifically do not want an MMO mouse, because all extra buttons require essentially the same type of action - press on the side. The G502 has only 3 buttons on the side. But you can click the scroll wheel left or right, which can be mapped to many logical actions such as horizontal scroll, zoom, or similar directional actions. It helps build the mental map of "what do with which finger" to "action on screen" significantly faster and much less error prone. Don't care about the DPI, though I do run it at 15,000 with a very low pointer speed in windows (second slowest bar). As for light mice - I will take productivity over less weight any day. It does have one very annoying firmware bug that has existed since its release - when an application profile is switched, all mouse button states are released/reset - making drag-and-drop between applications that have different profiles impossible (because the thing you're dragging gets released).

Does not actually answer the question. But I have been meaning to try the fancy zones, so I downloaded powertoys and I can answer the question: Powertoys Run does not support the advanced queries. But hey, if a tech tips forum doesn't appreciate free tech tips, who am I to argue.

Why is it a downgrade? All the tricks and queries from the link work on W10. Can the powertoys search do the same things from the link I posted?

This is related to the techquickie video that just went up (I suppose techquickies don't get threads of their own, so this will do). A long time ago, Microsoft themselves maintained a useful help page with advanced tips for using the file explorer search. It has since vanished, but through the awesome power of the internet archive, we can still access it. Behold: Advanced tips for searching in Windows

Good suggestion. It looks neat. Thing is, it's always the main mouse buttons that fail. All the others work fine. Also... "bottoms"... *snigger*

Well that's... unfortunate. But at least it means that I might use the good switch from my old G500s to replace the bad one from the new... I also found this mouse: https://steelseries.com/gaming-mice/rival-500 ...which it says is no longer available. Just my luck.

Maybe I'm just unlucky but if the switches on both logitech mice I have fail in the same manner, and the internet reports the same widespread problem for the g602 switches, do you think that inspires confidence?

Been using logitech mice for years. My previous G500s died when a button stopped working. Then I got G502. It has an annoying firmware bug that will never be fixed. I kind of learned to work around it. Recently the right mouse button is giving up the ghost (randomly clicking and releasing, or double-clicking). Their "new" GHub software is a universally DESPISED pile of flaming garbage. I think I am done with logitech. Problem is, for all the shit hardware and pathetic software, logitech do make good designs. I value having a mouse with extra buttons. More specifically I am looking for a mouse with at least 5-6 extra buttons, 3 of which are on the side (matching G502's 8 extras would be ideal). Definitely not one of those MMO mice with a bloody keypad on the side either. They need to reprogrammable with anything from keyboard letter presses, to macros, to full on scripting. The software needs to support per-application profiles. And obviously be less shit than logitech (though that shouldn't be a tough bar to clear).

"Encrypted" doesn't.

Just wanted to correct some misinformation that slipped into the latest techlinked. Cellebrite is not a hacking tool. It's a tool for dumping and parsing the data of an already unlocked phone in a way that is convenient and easy for law enforcement to work with. It requires physical access to the device, and requires the device to already be unlocked. I CANNOT be used to hack encrypted devices and obtain your data. Can you guys at least READ the articles before making news out of them? Maybe track the original source (linked below). https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

I am a bit behind following the channel, and I just watched the Enmotus Fuzedrive video from a month ago. This is the first time I've been able to detect this in an LTT video, but it featured a lot of misinformation as to how SSDs work, more specifically how NAND flash memory works. (Maybe because this an area in computer tech I know a little bit more about and I just miss issues on topics I know less about. Or maybe the writer fucked up.) I was unable to locate any post addressing these inaccuracies, so I'll do so here. The inaccuracies start at 2:25 in the video. 1. NAND flash operates on what are known as program/erase cycles. Technically the problem with endurance isn't the voltages required to "write", or program the cell, but the voltages required to erase the cell sufficiently quickly. This however is a minor nitpick. 2. "Multi-level NAND can be used in single-level mode, where only a single layer in each cell is actually used at a time." This is the major inaccuracy of the video - both what Linus says, and the graphic displayed. A cell is a single, atomic unit. It is not subdivided in additional layers. Multi-level cells refer to the amount of voltage levels that can be reliably written or erased from that cell. A triple-level cell needs to be able to reliably read and write 8 different voltage levels (3 bits, hence triple-level). As long as a cell can reliably store the charge and the controller can reliably distinguish between different charge states, a cell may be as many or as few "levels" as you wish. 3. "That means that it will sacrifice, over time, both the performance and endurance that it was supposed to gain from the SLC cache". Filling up a drive that can operate its cells in SLC mode for caching purposes, causing the NAND available for cache usage to diminish does NOT harm endurance. Endurance is based on the number of P/E cycles a cell has undergone, it does not depend on the mode it is operating. It does not matter if you write to a cell in QLC or SLC mode - you're used up one cycle either way. Furthermore, performance is not sacrificed over time (at least not anymore than with regular usage). Performance deteriorates over time with normal usage as a matter of course. A cell at a given wear level, but operating in SLC mode will inherently be faster than the same cell operating in QLC mode, because the controller can "push" the cell more. "[...] it can tolerate a higher voltage change until the erase will be so slow that the block needs to be retired" Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/5067/understanding-tlc-nand/2

Not sure yet, this is more with an eye towards the future when the next GPU generation gets here. Probably around 1-1.5 kacha-chings. I was kinda hoping there'd be something on the horizon by then.

Yea, and 60 Hz min refresh rate. Screw that. So anyway, can we expect monitors like that to come out? They'd be 27 in. sized - what's left when you cut the ultra-part. Although from my calculations, 35 inch ultra-wides do end up a bit taller than 27 normal-wides (y~13.51 vs y~13.24 in respectively).

So there exist a few monitors like the Asus PG35VQ (and a few other brands that make basically the same monitor - check here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/ ) They have more or less everything you'd want in a gaming monitor - 1440p, so not too difficult to drive, HDR1000, proper gsync (i.e. 1-200Hz), not the wishy washy freesync where your min adaptive refresh can sometimes go as high as 60Hz, FALD, not exactly TN pixel response, cuz they're all VAs obviously, but not terrible. Anyway, great stuff, almost holy grail territory (with an input upgrade it'd be better - no choosing between 200 Hz + chroma subsampling or 120Hz + full color). One question: Does a 16:9 version of such a monitor exist?

That section has 4 values: Package IA Cores Uncore DRAM What does each of these mean?