Recent content by Dragos Manea

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    Question How did I do with this build ?

    I know, i watched the video when it got posted, that is why i said we have no informations about all the details but from what i saw and howq i know Jay, it definitly was not stock config. I have 5 friends with 14700k-14900k since it was lucnhed, no issue at all, i have 7 computer at work all...
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    Question How did I do with this build ?

    There will always be products that will fail, also you dont know how he used that cpu previously, especially from an overclocker. You dont know all the details. I agree that is risky and you NEED TO BE SURE YOU ARE ON THE LATEST BIOS for intel motherboards but from what i seen the issue is fixed.
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    Question How did I do with this build ?

    Yes they fixed the issue, independent laboratories including hardwareOC measured the voltage physically with ossciloscopes and the voltages where in the safe range, dont spread missinformation based only on your feeling.
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    Question My PC constantly lags when gaming ?

    Also storage can have a BIG impact on stuttering, you did not mention your storage.
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    News User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft sus...

    Nowdays ZFS has autoscrub every few hours with checksum, total resilvered data from autoscrub is about 200-300 GB until now in 10 years. How i said, no data lost (RAID-Z2 allows 2 hdd to fail without data loss), every single file in its place, private enviroment, if you know a bit about linux...
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    News User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft sus...

    That is why i created a nextcloud server at home with 5 x 10TB drives in zfs RAID-Z2 around 10 years ago and i dont have any wories.
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    Question Motherboard lost a transistor, will it impact performance ?

    It is realated with the sound card, so as long as you dont use integrated sound and you have other usb soundcard/headphones you are ok
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    Question Lane switching on ASUS TUF Z790-PLUS WIFI ?

    From 12th gen cpu lanes have been increased from 16 to 20 so you can run a m.2 ssd at 4x and gpu at 16x in the same time.
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    Question Replacing a fried motherboard component via microsoldering ?

    "they do a thorough repair", i could comment on that part a bit, replaced a microprocessor on a hdd board and it did not work, well it did not work because they left some pins shorted and they left it that way and said it could not be repaired, but i dont want to create a flame, anyway, Lutfij...
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    Question PSU cable melted in GPU connector

    100% agree, this is so underated as an information, if your card pulls more the 200W use 2 separate cables and not just 1 daisy chain cable
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    Question I just installed windows11 latest update 24h2 from windows update and i dont see amy performance improvement for gaming at all.

    You dont see any improvement because they already implemented the fix (boost) in a update for 23h2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1f38y30/new_optional_windows_11_update_boosts_gaming/...
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    Question 14900ks not all threads running 100% in cinebench

    Check if in cinebench is set a custom number of threads, there is an options to manually set the number of threads.
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    Question MSI Ventus 2x OC RTX 4070 - Ridiculous hotspot temps?

    Ventus is a very low end card from MSI, expect problems or bad temperatures
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    Question Is it possible to display anything GPU through motherboard even if CPU does not have iGPU?

    No, you need an iGPU for displaying anything on teh motherboard output (even if the processing is done by the dGPU)
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    Question When Will BIOS Kick-in Heat Kill Switch?

    On short, it will not shut down so easily, there is a thing called thermal throttling which reduces cpu frequency to lower temperature to stay under 90 degrees, if cpu reaches minimum frequency and still goes over the temperature set in bios ( 90 degress by default) then it will shut down how...