Paul Siu

Thanks, I am using AMD.

I was trying to experiment on which gpu driver runs better on Linux (popos 22.04) , so I ran Phoronix benchmark's Unigine Heaven. What seems to be happening is that the benchmark will run and eventually the screen will blank out. I can't tell if the issue is just the card. Thinking that it was temperature related. I run sensors and monitor the temperature while the benchmark is running. As predicted, the temperature increase to 80C, but never reach the cutoff point of 100C. What do you think I should do to diagnose the issue. I am thinking of running it next time and then SSH to the box when it fails and look at the logs, but I am not entirely sure what logs to look at.

I don't think this is because the OEM allow some hardware change. Everything changed on the box except the hard drive. It appears that MS has changed how licensing work. Now an OEM key will get attached to your MS account and then can be transfer to different machine, but you can use it only one at a time. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/i-have-a-digital-windows-10-key-attached-to-my/8663d2bd-0190-4abe-93b2-faaeae60a2ce It would probably suck to lose your MS account then.

Recently, I build a PC out of old parts. One of them was from a dell XPS desktop. Much to my surprise, the hard drive boot properly on the new computer and Windows 10 activated without issue. When I look, it said it was digital license associated with my windows account. I was expecting it to say that you can't activated it because it was an OEM license. Do we not have OEM license these days?

may be I am reading the list improperly. I was expecting it to be on all of the list, but I think perhaps Seasonic doesn't do multi-rail.

In the old days, if someone wanted to buy reliable psu, I would recommend Seasonic. They weren't cheap but were mostly consistently good. I notice that Seasonic don't show up much in the tier list. Have they gone a bti downhill in quality or have other manufacturer gotten better?

Thanks everyone. I notice that majority fo the links are not in English, so perhaps a majority of the Enermax are sold outside of the US, which is why I never see them in stores.

I notice that Enermax DF revolution are on the tier list and is quite reasonable in price. However, there is no review on Enermax on sites nor forum nor youtube. Why is this brand so hidden? How did it end up on such a high tier in the tier list?

Thank you. HI neither troubleshooter nor powercfg -restoredefaultschemes fixed the issue, I end up running powercfg with the GUID to add the missing profiles. If I run powercfg -restoredefaultschemes, it actually erases all power config except balance. Technically, it's not erased but more like making them not available to be selected.

Recently, I have notice that all of the power profile on my laptop has disappeared and the only power profile left is balanced. Since the machine sits on my desk, I would like to change the profile to something higher performance. What is the cause of the profile disappearing and how can I get them back?

I was thinking of doing a budget build using a cheap Intel i3 12100F. What GPU should I get with it. The plan is just to play general games on 1080p or 1440p. I was thinking of RS6600 or the 6600XT or may be one of the newer Intel models. What do you thinK?

I think people who want the fastest will buy the highest end card even if it will give them may be 10% for a great deal more money. However, I don't feel that there is a large population of those users. Most will go for a low or midrange card. For people in that group, value might matter. They might for example get the next fastest graphics card if it will save them a lot of money. I wonder if this is some sort of extreme negotiation tactic by EVGA. With crypto-mining down, and possible reduction in economy, EVGA might want to have more flexibility and at least more timely information about the product from Nvidia. EVGA might feel that it's not worth the strong possibility of losing a lot of money since Nvidia may turn around and introduce a founders edition on then. This allow EVGA to exit without losing too much money and kick Nividia in the balls on the way out. EVGA appears to have about 40% of the USA market. While I think other AIB will gladly take up EVGA's share, it's still going to be some disruption. This will also signal that EVGA won't be pushed around if AMD were to approach them for a deal. While they said EVGA said they are not going to make more graphics card, just think of the market opportunity if they announced they have a new deal with AMD a few months later.

A question I have, is Nvidia's treatment of partner typical of the GPU industry? Is AMD and Intel just as bad? I have heard that one reason Nvidia view their partner in disdain is because they want to eventually manufacturer and distribute the cards directly, but cannot at the moment because they don't have the resource to do that yet. EVGA might have seen the writing on the wall and exit the relationshiop early because they don't see a future in it.

Are there software that can play Blueray DVD? I tried playing using VLC, but it requires installation of software that may be of questionable origin.

I don't mind having at least 1 MS account on the box. I used MS stuff and will require a MS account any way. However, I usually have all of the user accounts as standard accounts and have 1 admin accounts and I rather that admin account be local for security reasons. I really don't want to have to setup a single admin online account for all of the W11 machine or separate admin online account for each machine.