Recent content by Crag_Hack

@USAFRet My use case is a stick I carry on me at all times for backing up super important work that gets powered on pretty regularly, and then boot drives for Mac OS versions, Win 10/11, and another boot drive with 20 or so different boot setups created with Yumi (I'd hate for that guy to crap...

Hi I did my homework investigating data retention length for flash drives. There seemed to be some disagreement about how to prolong data retention periods on these drives when not powered on frequently. Some people claimed the flash drive controller would refresh the data when plugged in for a...

Hey guys I have a wifi signal in a building I need to convert to ethernet to segregate a wifi network from its parent/source wifi network. The easiest way would be by hardwiring the existing router that manages the downstream network to a device that connects to the parent wifi network...

@sonofjesse I worry that the HX850 doesn't have the headroom for the spikes since Nvidia says the 5070ti requires at least 750 W. Also I'm kinda sold on Nvidia because of ray tracing and other new techs that the AMD's don't have... at least I know that was the situation a while back.

It's 4 years old this June. It powers a Ryzen 9 5900X with a GTX 970. I totally don't mind spending the $$$ for a new PSU.

@GarrettL Thanks will probably do.

Hi I am thinking of buying a 5070ti once the prices drop to ~MSRP. I currently have a Corsair HX850 Platinum PSU. I am wondering if I should invest in an ATX 3.0 PSU to accommodate power excursions. From what I read it looks like my old PSU is ATX v 2.4 and its 850W rating might not be able to...

Hi I am thinking of buying a 5070ti once the prices drop to ~MSRP. I currently have a Corsair HX850 Platinum PSU. I am wondering if I should invest in an ATX 3.0 PSU to accommodate power excursions. From what I read it looks like my old PSU is ATX v 2.4 and its 850W rating might not be able to...

@ohio_buckeye I actually used windows on arm in vmware fusion on a client's computer and was able to get two ancient 95 or so era programs running via emulation. Donno how capable the emulation layer is though. @COLGeek @wyliec2 32 would be ideal but i guess 16 will have to do for now. The...

Dell Inspirons only come with 16 GB RAM, XPS 15s are unavailable, HP Pavilion 15" are out of stock, can't find an ASUS 15" for less than 1k$ available at a retailer other than Amazon which practices deceptive sales tactics selling computers, however I found the MS Surface for affordable with 32...

Hi just wondering if Windows on ARM is going to stick around in the long term. I'm contemplating getting a new Snapdragon laptop for my dad; I just want to make sure it's going to stay supported for the lifetime of the computer. Thanks!

@Misgar Thx this guy's on all the time and I live in sunny CA so we don't get below 32 or so in the Winter....

@helpstar @Paperdoc Thx guys I have been enlightened!

Hi I just noticed the ambient operating humidity for the Ubiquiti U6-Mesh is up to 95%. This is obviously an outdoor WAP, doesn't the humidity get above 95% sometimes? Like when it's raining or something? What gives? How come it's not 100%? Thanks.

@beyondlogic Found a manual via seedy manual websites but it had no instructions since this printer was not user-serviceable for the printhead. Anyways I'm done with this time to move on. Thx tho.