Recent content by BFG-9000

All Intel chipsets for Haswell support PTT which is the Intel equivalent of AMD's fTPM. Unfortunately this is only TPM 1.2 and Valorant requires 2.0. There were supposedly non-motherboard-specific TPM 2.0 add-on cards in the works years ago but but I never heard any more about them.

Don't estimate, measure with a clamp-on ammeter. DC is a bit tricky at low currents, as you have to zero it and take the measurement without moving anything.

I've long held that the best use of UserBenchmark is to see if anyone has actually had a particular hardware combination run well enough to at least run the benchmark, not what the numbers produced are. For example if you have a question on whether an unsupported CPU will actually run in a...

Well I suppose they only print their name on the parts inside, so you'd only see it if you ever took the laptops apart. 30 years ago I had Winbook and NEC Pentium 1 laptops made by them, and most of the more... generic-looking notebooks were theirs too. See, for decades they've been an ODM...

Typically, that just means the power brick is bad. Netgear's lifetime warranty* on business-class ProSafe products such as the GS116 applies to those made after May 1, 2007 and does not cover power bricks. The other thing that can fail is of course the electrolytic capacitors inside, which are...

Starfield for PC minimum system requirements whether from the Steam store or Microsoft store: OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (10.0.19043) Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7-6800 Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 5700, NVIDIA GeForce 1070 Ti DirectX: Version 12 Storage: 125...

Strangely enough, it's in the user manual under "method 2: Via a web browser" They also have a pretty good GUI emulator for that device where you can get familiar with the web settings without possibly messing them up on your device.

While Windows 10 does not even officially support even Sandy Bridge processors like i7-2700k, it has always worked with Core 2 including the Montevina processors in Centrino 2, which were 45nm Penryn. Centrino 2 added switchable graphics, which unlike modern laptops that always render through...

OP has a Legacy BIOS motherboard where even GTX 900 series can be problematic but usually works. I would suggest a GTX 750Ti without a power connector, or one of the MSI versions with a vBIOS switch to force Legacy BIOS mode. But even a Fermi GT730 is faster than the ATI HD4250 IGP in OP's...

Ouch, that's the worst possible GT730 being Fermi so exactly like GT430. It's slower than Sandy Bridge IGP from a dozen years ago and the closest equivalent ATI is HD5570

The second largest laptop manufacturer in the world is an unknown company? They are OEM for laptops from Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP and Toshiba, plus the Apple Watch. The only larger manufacturer is Quanta Computer who make Macbooks.

Sheesh, all they would have to do is ship the machine here. Lots of plastic items are molded in the USA, because the raw materials aren't toxic (no hexavalent chrome in the plastic pellets for the EPA to fuss over) and ship more easily than the finished products, plus most of the machinery is...

It pays to check out the official instructions, but I will point out that USB sticks are prepared differently for Legacy BIOS vs. UEFI even without Safeboot. For example if you run Microsoft's Media Creation Tool to create Windows installation media using a UEFI machine, then the USB stick will...

Wubuntu looks like Win 11 and even has integrated full .exe and .msi support through an improved Wine compatibility layer, but there are good reasons not to use it. If you just want it to look like Win 11, you could always install Win11OS-KDE in Kubuntu.

If they want to keep increasing the power consumption, they should just switch to an external power brick like the Voodoo Volts for V5 6000. Only it should just have a rectifier in it to supply 120v DC. This would allow plugging it into a separate dedicated 15A branch circuit for up to 1440w...