Recent content by Oldcompsci

Best solution for web bloat is an ad blocker. Writing clean web code is best done with a text editor using pure html, css, javascript and whatever server backend language that is kept up-to-date. I don't see many doing it this way any more.

Are there any editors involved in proof-reading these articles before they are posted? It also shouldn't surprise anyone that life-based complex hydrocarbon materials are useful for all kinds of stuff.

I'd really love to see MB manufacturers install more x4, x8 and x16 PCI-E expansion slots that can be used to host these NVME drives in vertically. The current trend to try cram more NVME drives in the limited horizontal space available on the motherboard is a waste. Also, most users don't...

THIS!!!

Insider threats are always going to be with us. The fact that this hack required direct physical access with specialized hardware shows how robust the current security is. Not losing any sleep over this particular issue.

Now if only we could get motherboards with enough PCI-E x4 and x8 ports to take advantage of this. Here's a hint MB makers, reduce the number of USB and SATA ports and give us more PCI-E

Any time I buy a pre-canned PC, I buy the absolute lowest amount of RAM and Hard Drive a vendor offers and upgrade the unit myself. Usually "save" between $100 and $200 per unit in doing so, which adds up quickly.

Why bother when you can get a full linux distro that also brings all the apps.

Why do motherboard makers keep wasting lanes on USB ports? Give us more x4 and x8 PCIe slots and we can expand the NVME solutions via vertical, vice horizontal, expansion options. I'd also like to see a revamp of SATA. Base it on USB 4.0 and make removable, hot swap, hard drives useful again.

With AMD's committment to staying with a motherboard and chipset architecture for longer durations, initial investments will allow future upgrades with fewer components changing, reducing overall upgrade costs for the platform ... not having to change the motherboard is a big deal especially if...

So my Ryzen 7 5700x (65W TDP) with 64GB ram and RTX 3050 card will cover my needs for quite a while then ... awesome since my money is continually depreciating in value right now, I'm going to have to string out any future upgrades.

What good is giving out rewards for products nobody can buy? What a lousy year for PC hardware ... wanted to get excited about it, but once I saw the prices and availability it was clear that we had another full year of excuses instead of results. Hey industry ... let's make 2022 about results.

Psssst ... Somebody let Tom's Hardware know that upgrades in CPU performance mean next to nothing while graphics card prices and availability are near "unobtanium" levels ... in fact, it's comical that the availability of silicon for motherboards and CPU's has been virtually unaffected yet GPU...

Been putting together an AMD Ryzen 5000 series system and I ran into an issue. I was successful in installing the Ryzen 5 5600X processor, booting and installing Windows and my apps. After letting it run over night I turned the system off to work on other things. When I went to turn it back...

This is the most ridiculous GPU situation I've seen in a while. Bought MSI GTX 1650 Supers in March 2020 for $159.99 on Amazon ... it's been nearly 18 months since that time and the vendors still haven't, or don't want to, figure out how to increase supply to get the prices down ... back to to...