Alvar "Miles" Udell

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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News Most GeForce Now tiers are currently sold out — Nvidia blames high demand for unavailability.

    Geforce Now makes a lot of sense if you combine it with an XBOX Game Pass. $100 a year for GeForce Now Performance (2x6 months at $50)...

    Yesterday at 6:42 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News RTX 5090 FE unboxing reveals eco-friendly packaging — an inkless box made of "paper fibers.

    Accounting department: You know, by using no ink and minimal packaging we can save xx% on each box and increase our profit margin...

    Yesterday at 5:59 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News New MSI promotion offers up to $100 Steam codes with hardware purchases.

    It's worse than just taking money off the price instead but at least it's a Steam Wallet code and not just game codes which will be...

    Yesterday at 4:51 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News Most GeForce Now tiers are currently sold out — Nvidia blames high demand for unavailability.

    Considering the Ultimate tier is still available I'd say it's more nVidia wanting people to pay more money.

    Yesterday at 4:39 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News MSI's upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs to feature yellow-tipped 16-pin power adapters.

    My desire for an RTX 5000 series continues to diminish with every new report...

    Yesterday at 11:48 AM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News Nvidia hints DLSS 4 Frame Generation may extend support to past GPUs, including RTX 30 Series.

    Ah yes, yet another feature us Turing adopters will miss out on.

    Yesterday at 11:19 AM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News The Asus RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming has allegedly been unboxed, suggesting ready stock at retailers.

    I've seen $599.99 for a 9070 XT price, so it'd be more fair to say $600 territory since we know the different OEM editions of the card...

    Sunday at 6:37 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News The first-ever ransomware dropped 35 years ago disguised as a floppy sharing 'AIDS Information.

    https://ransomware.org/blog/the-first-ransomware-attack-lessons-learned-from-history/ $189.

    Sunday at 3:01 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News The first-ever ransomware dropped 35 years ago disguised as a floppy sharing 'AIDS Information.

    Encrypted file names are a bit more damaging if every file were renamed to KdArDj~1.doc in the age of command prompt.

    Sunday at 11:25 AM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News RTX 5090 beats RTX 4090 by 36% in the Blender benchmark — RTX 5090D is 40% faster than RTX 4090D.

    But the 5090 can predict the future and generate multiple fake frames so it doesn't need to actually be faster!

    Saturday at 9:24 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app.

    For many people (not businesses) it's not so much "I can't afford to upgrade" it's "My current hardware is fine for what I do, so why...

    Saturday at 3:06 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News Microsoft auto-updates consumer PCs to Windows 11 24H2 — you can defer the update for five weeks.

    Installed it via ISO in November, haven't noticed any difference or issues, but that's to be expected on a well maintained non-OEM...

    Saturday at 11:22 AM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News AM5 copper guard stops you from making a mess on your Ryzen CPU — also improves heat dissipation.

    If you're applying TIM like this, you are not appling it correctly. The goal is to fill the microscopic grooves in the IHS and heatsink...

    Friday at 5:35 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal.

    You can stack Microsoft 365 subscriptions bought on Amazon and elsewhere for up to 5 years (I believe is still the case, may be only 3)...

    Friday at 3:39 PM
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    Alvar "Miles" Udell replied to the thread News Microsoft 365 users still on Windows 10 will be out of luck when Windows 10 is retired in October.

    Also the blog post in question has been removed by Microsoft.

    Wednesday at 6:55 PM

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