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If you want to keep your current OS installation and files you will first have to clone the old drive onto the new one. Depending on the vendor of your new SSD they might include a free cloning software to do this. Edit: You will need a way to access your new SSD for this to work, either through a second NVMe capable M.2 slot or by making use of a USB adaptor. If you want to do a fresh install, take the old SSD out before you do and copy your files over only after you re-installed the OS to prevent potential data loss (that is assuming you have two NVMe capable M.2 slots). If you only have one M.2 slot (which can do with NVMe drives), copy your files (and settings if you want) to some external drive before swapping drives and re-installing the OS.

Thank you for your input, jaslion. Much appreciated

Hello everyone, I'm currently considering acquiring an Asus ProArt PA278CGV 1440p, 144 Hz monitor. It ticks all the boxes for my use case: USB-C charging and display connection, high refresh rate, decent brightness, good design, VRR. Granted, I don't need a pre-calibrated panel for my work but I'll take it. My main question regards the combination of a high refresh rate with a high response time of 5 ms (GTG). While my primary use case is office work, I do enjoy the occasional game, including titles like CS:GO. Does anyone have experience with this type of combination of response time and refresh rate? If so, what is your opinion on it? Does it work well for (fast paced) games, how does it compare to a 144 Hz, 1 ms screen? If you would recommend another monitor, please also let me know. Requirements are: Brightnes ≥ 350 cd/m2, refresh rate ≥ 100 Hz, resolution 2560 x 1440, USB-C display connection preferably with power delivery (65 W or more), "professional" design Thank you in advance Cheers

I think this is the main thing I take issue with on the GN video. All the other points were for the most part very well founded by evidence and there is nothing Steve or GN needed to do with regards to contacting LMG beforehand. With the block on the other hand I believe this would have been required, especially since they reached out to Billet Labs as well. On an issue where not all necessary information is in the public domain (communication between the two of them, for instance), reaching out for comment is good style. But that's not to discredit anything else GN said, only this would have required more care in my eyes.

Whether one likes an apology or not I think is a very personal question so valid that you don't like it. I personally find it to be a first step in the right direction. The allegations Madison brought up require time to investigate. Much more damage would be done in such a case by a rushed, ill-investigated statement compared to a thorough, third party investigation which such allegations make necessary.

I did read your posts how would I've been able to quote them otherwise? Perhaps you meant to say something else but to me it does not appear to be that way, hence my replies. My main point is not the factory. I commented on it with regards to previous posts where it seemed to me the factory question got an overwhelming weight (see the car analogy). The major point I'm aiming at is why you defend a bad quality product which, adding insult to injury, is obviously overpriced against a high quality product while calling the low quality product "not a bad deal". Edit: I'm not doing this because the backpack is an LTT product but because I don't see how your chain of arguments is supposed to make sense in this particular regard. I'm not even trying to make a rebuttal to your point that a lot of consumer tech like GPUs is overpriced.

I do wonder how this above quote of yours goes together with your previous statement: If someone buys a product from LTT they do so in a lot – I would even assume most of – the cases because they trust the brand (see my previous response a couple of posts further up for a more in-depth argument). I do actually wonder why you call the TH set "not a bad deal" and would be genuinely interested in your reasoning behind it (please refer to my previous post for a counter example as well).

Your original argument is revolving about who scams who. You initially state that the Tommy Hilfiger gaming set is not more or less a scam than the likes of Nvidia, Intel, Asus, Apple and Samsung (to re-iterate the brands you named). Before diving into the whole discussion that got unleashed after that I will discuss why this does, in my opinion, not hold against a thorough review. Let me begin with acknowledging that a lot of „tech products“ are, in fact, overpriced, GPUs being a very good example for this. However, there is a distinction to be made here between GPUs (or iPhones, CPUs, … for that matter) and the mouse, keyboard and headset sold by Tommy Hilfiger (which I will abbreviate TH from here on); the product quality. While they are overpriced, the former products are of good quality and performance. This does not hold for the keyboard-mouse-headset combination sold by TH. On the contrary, according to the tests that LTT performed, they are considerably sub-par. If they were of a decent quality and just overpriced things would have looked different. And while I personally don’t think it makes sense to buy grossly overpriced products for the sake of flexing on a brand but if someone wants to do so with their own money that’s not my thing to worry about. You continue your argument stating that the concept of a backpack is so simple that it surely cannot be expensive to produce one of good quality. Shortly after that you state that „in the Tommy Hifiger case you just pay to get something because you trust the brand or because […] it is actually not a bad deal to get 3 things for 150“. Let me begin with the second point. In the case of LTT merchandise I strongly suspect the buyers of such product have a high faith in LTT as a brand. And judging by the reviews and the community discussion that trust is very much justified. You get qualitatively very good products, and that’s the case independently of what you pay for them. The situation is much different with the TH gaming peripherals. The quality of the products themselves is bad and that’s again independent of the price they are sold at. Selling them at a price of $150 makes this a very bad deal. Looking at your comment that "THEY COULDNT ACTUALLY FIND ANYTHING DECENT AT THE SAME PRICE" for a second. As with a lot of things out there the MSRP is typically not the price you’ll pay in retail. It is more of a marketing strategy to make customers think they’re striking a good deal. Thus, going by a "discounted" price is more than sensible to do. I took the liberty to browse to the website of my electronics dealer of choice and entered the terms "gaming keyboard", "gaming mouse" and "gaming headset" into the search field. From the results I picked one product from the top three each and ended up with the following assortment, the prices of which I cross-checked on amazon: Keyboard: Logitech G213 Prodigy, $49.99 Mouse: Logitech G502 HERO, $44.98 Headset: Logitech G432, $35.49 That's just $130.46 and you get way better peripherals. Note that these prices are the ones I found on Logitech’s official amazon store. If you, as you proposed a bit later, wander away from the RGB and gaming-branded products but stay with reputable brands you can still find good peripherals at good prices. For instance a Cherry Stream Keyboard for $25.75 on amazon. In conclusion, with aforementioned setup you get a much better $/value ratio than with the TH one for the same price or less, thereby contradicting your statement from above linked post. Now to the backpacks. To clear up one thing first: A product’s quality and capabilities are not tied 1:1 to the factory it’s produced in. Let’s employ a new analogy here. You can have one kitchen. However, depending on the quality and variety of your ingredients you can prepare a good, healthy meal or something that’s not very tasty or is tasty but very unhealthy. Same with manufacturing. In one factory you can manufacture cheap, low quality products which look good but will not last long and high-quality products as well. The prices of both products will drastically differ even though they come from the same factory. Several previous users have made this and the following points already so I will only sum them up. The cost of a backpack is not only driven by the choice of materials and shipping but also by the scale of the production, QA and the engineering that went into designing the product in the first place apart from more. But this all doesn’t really matter anyway because what you’re getting is an, excuse my choice of words, damn good, perhaps slightly over engineered, but really high quality product. And that stays the same whether you pay $250 for it or not. On the other hand the TH peripherals are of miserable quality, no matter the price.

It appears this is a legitimate process running as part of Microsoft Defender. See https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/all/is-mpcopyacceleratorexe-legitimate-file-in/e560992e-6d4e-4326-803b-91c16a9974a7 and https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/prbaxw/microsoft_malware_protection_copy_accelerator/

Both cases are good, however I would also go with the Lian Li one. Of course it also comes down to your preference of design and Corsair's RGB solutions are very good as well from what I hear (even though I don't use them myself). What for me makes the decision easy in favour of the Lian Li is the price difference of 100+ € between the two and that I like both designs equally

You're welcome, I'm glad I could help Have fun with with the new case!

The lsblk command stands for "list block devices" which shows, apart from other things, all storage drives which are available to you. Another command, lspci, does the same with PCIe devices, regardless of what they are. I would therefore ask you to run lspci and show the output as well. Since you reported the drive isn't showing up in the BIOS I don't expect to see it in the output of lspci either but it might be helpful to see either way, sometimes such information can be of help as well. The next steps, on the hardware side of things, would be to re-seat the SSD in question. Do you have any SATA drives (HDDs or further SSDs) or any other PCIe devices other than your GPU connected to your system? If so, unplug them and check if the drive appears afterwards.

Four screws appear to be alright for this setup. However, you do have more screw holes in your motherboard in the edges as well as some close to your CPU cooler. Installing it in another case would for this reason appear not to be a problem to me

My assumption is that getting the coil placement right would be difficult, unless you move the charging coil into the head straps. High-end over-ear headsets have large driving coils for the speakers in the ear cups which would most likely interact with the dynamic electromagnetic field required to make wireless charging work in ways you don't want them. With that said I'm not an audio or electrical engineer and I wouldn't be surprised if through some clever engineering and optimization of coil placements one could perhaps achieve charging through the ear pieces.

In this case you're good to go. Micro ATX is a standardized form factor which will work in any case that supports it. It's hard to say anything about the PSU since it's not clearly shown on the images. However, I would assume that Aldi went with off the shelf components in a standard form factor. You may want to check screw locations and measure distances as well as the size of the PSU just to double check.