Recent content by idigweeds

Would it be safe to say that if I buy a Windows 11 supported CPU, it, or the MB I have to buy to put it on, would have a current TPU 2.0? So far, I cant even find a MB that has TPM mentioned in the specs listed on a store's sales page.

This user is decidedly unhappy. I have 4 fully functional Windows 10 pcs in my house, and not one is upgradeable to Windows 11. I have no budget to replace even one of them, at least anytime soon. I'm hoping to eventually swap out parts of my workhorse desktop PC, but I need to educate myself...

I ran the W11 system check to see if W11 could run on my systems. It tells me that I need a more recent CPU and needs a Trusted Platform Module. Question is, is the TPU part of the motherboard or the CPU? Is it hardware, firmware, OS, driver or software?

I was recently gifted a low end HP Laptop 15. I am having major performance issues. After using for a short while, the system disk IO flatlines at 100% (as seen in Task Manager) and remains there for several minutes (or even tens of minutes). This problem is worst when any browser is open, even...

Are the fans on AMD's Wraith coolers replaceable with a standard 92mm fan? As quiet as the Wraith fans are, I am still thinking about getting something even quieter.

"I'm going to assume that the fans that you have plugged into said four-pin headers are in fact PWM, yes?" I don't know the answer to that question. I am not really clear on what PWM is, though I have Googled it, and am confused by the contradictory info I'm getting. However, I think it would...

Actually this question really has little to do with overclocking, but it's the people who overclock who would be most likely to have the answers I need. I have a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P motherboard. It has two four-pin fan plugs, one for the CPU and another for a chassis fan. It also has one more...

I just took a half hour to type a page long response to your posts, and it evaporated when I selected submit. For the time being... I give up. OK...I'm back. Can't decide who had the better answer. All of them had valid reasons, so I will just select the one that made the most sense to me...

I recently pulled two of the four DDR3 2gb PC-1066 modules from my computer and replaced them with two 4gb PC-1600 modules, for a new total of 12gb. Not thinking, I didn't realize that even though the two sets are in separate banks the whole lot of them are running at 1066. Would I be better...