Recent content by dan_L

My experience with Asus support has been the complete opposite of ProjectV's. In about 30 years of building PCs using Asus motherboards, I've had two go bad during warranty and had no problem submitting an RMA and getting the board replaced or repaired within 2 weeks. The most recent one was a...

For what it's worth, I just bought the ASROCK AMD Radeon RX6600 with 8 GB memory for $179.99 at Micro Center on Nov 11, 2023. I believe the price is good to the end of the month.

The ongoing problem with the otherwise most excellent Corsair keyboards are the key caps. They are uniformly cheap and wear out all too quickly — namely the black paint on key caps wears off both in the middle of letters and along the edges. This happens even with the space bar. Actually, I'm...

With two Micro Center stores in the Chicago area, we're in computer heaven, so to speak. Seriously, though, the Micro Center in west suburban Westmont is a sheer joy to visit. The salesmen (and strangely enough the sales force is, sadly, nearly 100% white males which doesn't happen by accident)...

With all due respect, AMD's Adrenalin drivers have been quite stable for the last few years. I realize that my own experience is purely accedotal, but the AMD drivers on our desktops have been rock solid for at least 4 years while the NVIDIA drivers on our laptop has been problematic at best and...

Now what about these large and tall heat sinks on these forthcoming PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs? The new x670 motherboards include built-in heat sinks. One would think that these built-in heatsinks ought to be adequate for these new PCIe 5.0 SSDs, wouldn't one? The bottom line is will we need to use the...

News reports say that the new CPUs, motherboards, and RAM will be sold beginning Sept 15.

Given the way manufacturers like Acer and Dell rip off consumers with terribly slow HDDs that make their Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers incredibly slow, I think Microsoft's decision is prudent and consumer-friendly. I have a friend/client who bought an Acer Aspire TC-885 recently (on his...

This article is pretty disingenuous when it says Microsoft "finally" fixed these issues. The update that fixed these issues was released before Nov 26 - more than two weeks ago which wasn't much more than a month since Windows 11 was released to the public. Frankly, that's pretty quick. The way...

While I'm extremely disappointed to see Fry's Electronics close, the writing was frighteningly on the wall. The shelves in the Fry's in Downers Grove, IL have been more than 95% empty going back to autumn 2019 well before the Trump Pandemic started. When I asked salesman John Fry (no relation to...

Wow, your headline made it seem like some terribly cruel new return policy. Actually, it's a pretty fair policy. If you purchase a two or three item bundle, then it should be treated as a bundle and if you want to return any of it, you should be returning all of it. Newegg.com;'s motivation seem...

When I first bought a 32 inch Samsung monitor, I got one with 1080p resolution. I can attest that is a lousy resolution on a 32 inch monitor -- no matter what settings you choose. Fonts simply were not very sharp, nor were many graphics. I returned it and got a Samsung 32-inch monitor with 2560...

This computer is deja vu all over again. It reminds me of the early Compaq "lugables" that weighed over 30 pounds with small screen and heavy hard drive -- and 5-inch floppies. Next somebody will produce a computer with a keyboard that instantly prints on paper -- OMG, a typewriter. What will...

A $10 price difference. Seriously, why even bother?

Even with this newest version, I get the same Error 1720 messageas before: There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A script required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Custom action GetlnstalledDrivers_up script error...