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BFG-9000

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Joined: Sep 17, 2016

Last seen: Feb 17, 2025

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- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News No, Notepad for Windows 11 doesn't require you to use a Microsoft account — unless you're trying to use AI.
  
  Is everybody already forgetting the great UWP app disaster of 2024? After a Windowsupdate, all UWP apps failed to launch unless you...
  
  Feb 17, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Quality differences between resolutions on same size monitor ?.
  
  Scaling looks fine if you have an analog display such as a CRT. On a fixed-pixel display such as LCD, plasma or OLED it can look...
  
  Feb 17, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Older Amd graphics cards had a pixel limit do modern ones still have this?.
  
  Well the last nVidia series that could only do up to 2k textures was GeForce 2 and Intel was GMA3100 + AMD hardware has been able to do...
  
  Feb 16, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News AMD exec sarcastically teases RX 90700.05XTXT Max GPU with 320GB of VRAM and '1.2 Gigawatts' power supply requirement.
  
  Meh, nothing about whether the RX 90400 will continue the trend and drop to PCIe x2 interface? Maybe a board partner will put 32GB of...
  
  Feb 16, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread News Intel 8th, 9th and 10th Gen processors absent from Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 CPU support list.
  
  Not supported is not the same as won't work. May just mean untested so you are on your own and try at your own risk. When Microsoft...
  
  Feb 16, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Need help building fanless PC for my wife.
  
  As mentioned, choosing a 219w CPU for a fanless build is pointless as it would throttle all of the time so would only be as fast as an...
  
  Feb 16, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question fan replacement for a chip damaged gtx 760.
  
  Do you feel lucky? GK104 die shot and block diagram: Should work fine right until it tries to use a part that's missing. A working GTX...
  
  Feb 16, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Old PC from 2002 boots up, but monitor doesn't display anything ?.
  
  Solid HDD light is usually floppy cable installed upside-down, grounding everything. While you appear to have an Alps Electric Co. FDD...
  
  Feb 16, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question New SSD is much slower than the original one ?.
  
  SSDs are one of those things you really should read reviews of before buying. But given you could buy the fastest PCIe 4.0 SSD for $170...
  
  Feb 10, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question USB PORT intermittently fails to accurately track mouse movements ?.
  
  You have another USB controller onboard. I suggest using a USB 2.0 header to attach additional rear ports to it The reason is USB...
  
  Feb 10, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question 4K vs 2K vs 1080 ?.
  
  Well sure it's useless so long as they insist on making the fonts larger the wrong way. But if your buddy ever got a clue and stopped...
  
  Feb 10, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question 4K vs 2K vs 1080 ?.
  
  macOS scales fonts way better than Windows. With Windows, not everything gets scaled properly or sometimes the edges of text gets...
  
  Feb 10, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question New SSD is much slower than the original one ?.
  
  They are both DRAMless SSDs, but the original is TLC and the new one is QLC made of mystery components. Here's the sad review of it...
  
  Feb 10, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question My Router selects 5 GHz instead of 2.4 GHz, why?.
  
  The latest TP-Link firmware added a separate IOT network. Unfortunately with TP-Link you may not be able to upgrade to this if your...
  
  Jan 24, 2025
- BFG-9000 replied to the thread Question Server Fan for normal pc.
  
  It's this fan. It has 9 blades and to be honest, I haven't used it in decades. The PC that I used it in still has the made-in-Germany...
  
  Jan 24, 2025
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