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So if plugging a dirty USB device into your computer can potentially infect the hard drives, can it reach a locked but plugged in external drive? Specifically, I keep my personal and sensitive documents on a couple Samsung T5/T7's that are always plugged into my computer which I try to keep...

What in seven hells does a washing machine need wifi for??

My 4080 FE has about 1/4" clearance in my Fractal Meshify case, which is not exactly a tiny case.. lol. But honestly I love the beefy coolers. The thing runs about 65c tops. My 3080 FE ran about 78c with an undervolt, at much lower frame rates, and lower resolution, consuming more power. 4080 is...

I'm sure Nvidia will take the charitable route and make them cheaper.

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The drive reads fine, I can copy files on it and paste them on the internal drive at normal speeds. Samsung magician scan found nothing wrong but trying to copy a 2Gb folder (or anything) writes at 2mbps. Tried different cables, ports, a restart. Copying onto my T5 2Tb writes that same 2Gb...

Are you a child? Serious question.

This is S-tier satire. lol

The CPU's contacts down on a carpet is at best a heinous aesthetic.. and almost certainly a cursed image. lol

I'm unfamiliar with Chrome OS and it's security, I had my Mom call me saying she was worried about hackers and thinks she got scammed, this is her story, "dun-dunn": - googled how to talk to a real person from comcast, and found the following number: 1-888-927-0775 (I googled this number itself...

But at what temps/power draw is the real question? As a consumer it's not that impressive if it draws 300w and needs to be built into the side of a glacier to maintain a functional temp. Like thanks Intel but I'll just wait the extra 30 seconds for my render to finish...

I use VRR religiously on my desktop system (screen tearing is my bane, latency be damned) but after over a year of owning a steam deck, and hundreds of hours logged on it, I have never seen a screen tear or felt the need for VRR. If you use it with an external display it might be a different...

You mean vs all the "real" tangible pixels? It's just a new and different tech and achieves excellent results. At least DLSS does, FSR doesn't tend to look at as good.

Plus the mod community is going to make this a whole'nother experience by next year. I'm definitely waiting for all the patches and mods.

"I also can’t find a single, must-have feature in Windows 11 that I don’t have in Windows 10." Tabs in Explorer vs multiple windows in 10. That's a godsend. But oh my life the right click menu in 11 is asinine.

Yes...but at what cost?

Gonna give you the green as it sadly was a hardware issue and a replacement fixed the issue. I saw a variety of bizarre graphical errors mostly with RT on that it eventually became apparent it was the card itself.

I was successful in eliminating the issue by switching VUlkan to off. However I saw other bugs while using RT and the card was indeed defective. I exchanged it and the new one shows none of the issues the past one had.

Is there an app that allows you to select a certain amount of the monitor that a game will then recognize as the new border? I have a massive screen and for some games I'd like them to only use like 70% of the screen. So something like when you open a game in a lower res in windowed mode but...

I am just wondering if cheap android tablets from Amazon could be a security risk? My mom wanted me to get her a tablet "for her cat" so I got this super cheap one and as I was about to log it on to her wifi when it dawned on me this no name (literally no branding on box) Chinese tablet could...

Oh god no haha. Yeah just pulling out the M.2 drive while I install the Win10 on the sata drive.

You mean: Power down PC>Switch off PSU>Hold PC power button for 30+ seconds>unplug PSU> then I'd be ok just slotting out the GPU with the 12 pin attached still?

It's so I can test the GPU and same settings that caused issue in Win11 in a Win10 environment. Win11 apparently has some issues with Vulkan, more so than Win10.

-Definitely using 2 different drives -Do I really need to unplug the GPU in order to disconnect it from the motherboard or can I just slot it out safely? EDIT: (with everything powered down obviously after holding power button for 40sec while PSU is switched off to dissipate power. )The 12pin on...

I have Win11 on my main M.2 drive and want to install Win10 on another Sata drive. So I downloaded the Win10 media creation tool, installed it on a thumb drive and now best I can tell I just rearrange the boot menu in BIOS and install win10 on that SATA drive like normal. What I am wondering...

- Yes to the DDU update - I want to believe its just the game and Vulkan but I wonder why there aren't many more reports for this issue then. I tried loading it up on my girlfriends 4070 machine with a driver that is not the newest, but newer than the one I just upgraded from and the game had...

EDIT: Switching from Vulkan to DX12 has eliminated the issue but I am still wanting to understand why or at least if this is a software specific error in order to rule out it being my GPU. Video linked below text I recently built a new system and got an OLED screen and have naturally been...

System is a fresh build from last month. Updated to latest BIOS and the GPU driver is just shy of the absolute latest. I guess I can try the latest. I should mention between getting the 4080 and my first OLED tv I have basically been on a game testing binge to see how everything looks. This is...

I am noticing these flickering black boxes as I run around in cyberpunk. The video linked shows the only place they were a constant which was in front of a brightly illuminated sign. Usually they just pop in in passing in shadowed areas or by light sources. Turning off RT completely seems to...

Did you figure this out? I am getting it in Cyberpunk on my new 4080. Can't recall seeing them with my last GPU (3080) but it seems to go away with RT off.

Good to know, thanks!

I first used file explorer then did it from disk manager then again in command prompt. How would you suggest totally wiping an ssd in the future?

-No ability to suspend/resume game. -About half the performance as the Steam Deck at 10w. These two things alone make it unappealing as a handheld. I run almost every game I play on S.D at 9w to extend battery since that is the whole point of having a handheld in my mind, and being able to...

What system do you mean? The drive has been formated and cleaned. Why would it have files from my old Win installation still?

Interesting. The SSD had "My Documents" and "Pictures" from my last computer, so I assume they are Windows system files? The initial scan stopped on a password protected file call D:\$RECYCLEBIN..etc and asked for a password to scan it. It wouldn't accept my old Windows login so I don't know...

I just formatted an ssd and then scanned it with Bitdefender which says it scanned 4 files. Why are there 4 files on an empty drive and why can I not see them? Is this normal?

I am copying over folders to a new backup drive and it keeps changing the date "created" and "modified" to todays date. For files and folders it changes the "modified" to todays date but SOMETIMES leaves the "date created" as it should be. Annoyingly it isn't even consistent. I copied my mp3...

Ayyoooo lol Good to know. I feel pretty confident about that then.

Imho, NEVER, go with an F CPU. If for some reason your GPU fails or needs an RMA, the 30 dollars or whatever currency is going to seem like chump change compared to being completely unable to use your system for that time. You are already spending ~3000.. just go for the extra 30 and call it...