Recent content by QuantumField

Thanks! I do not plan to have the laptop on my lap, it will usually be on a desk. 90% of the time it will be in my office, but I will take it with me for classes, meetings, travel, and so on. So I do plan to use it on the go, and it needs to be portable (hence the focus on 13-14" laptops), but...

I'm having a hard time choosing between these two laptops. First of all, I should clarify that I already have a high-end desktop computer which I use at home. I need to buy a laptop for work (I'm a university professor), but I still need it to have the highest performance possible while...

Update: I found the answer to my own question. According to this Reddit post, if the M.2 heatsink is mounted too tightly on this particular motherboard, the M.2 card may be lodged out of its socket. I must have tightened it too much the first time, which is why it was not properly connected, and...

Hi everyone, I got a new XPG SX8100 4TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4 SSD. Yesterday, I installed it in my motherboard (MSI MEG X570 UNIFY with AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU), in one of the M.2 slots, and covered it with the motherboard's M.2 heatsink. There are two other SSDs in the other two M.2 slots, both PCIe 4...

Update: After trying out around 15 (!) different backup apps, I found that GoodSync does what I want very well. The only downside is that it has to mirror all of the files in order for this to work, which is useless to me since my files are already backed up on the cloud. But I guess it never...

Thanks for your reply, but this doesn't matter anyway since File History just doesn't work at all for the virtual drive created by Cryptomator. It doesn't let me add the virtual drive as a folder to back up. So I am looking for another app without this limitation.

I need an alternative to the built-in File History feature in Windows 10 for several reasons: 1. I've used File History for a while, and I noticed that even though it is set to save files every 10 minutes, it doesn't actually do that. If I work on a file for a few hours, it only saves the...

Update: See cross-post at SuperUser.com for the solution! https://superuser.com/questions/1564874/cant-turn-off-files-on-demand-in-onedrive

I even have 2TB of free space...

I bought a new PC and installed Windows 10. I have almost 1TB of files on OneDrive, and I want it all to be available offline. However, when I try to deactivate the "Save space and download files as you use them" option under "Settings", it just doesn't turn off. I click the checkbox, and then...

Okay, thanks for the help.

I see. So with my 4 fans, what would be the optimal arrangement? The two 14 cm as intake and the two 12 cm as exhaust?

To my understanding, cooling is less effective with positive pressure, since hot air doesn't leave the case as efficiently as with negative pressure. Is that not correct?

That sounds like a lot of positive pressure. Won't that significantly affect cooling efficiency? I would rather have neutral pressure and install additional dust filters...

Thanks, but I think you may have misread my previous reply - perhaps I wasn't clear. 1. Without filters I would have equal intake and exhaust, because I am using two sets of identical fans (same size, same company) - doesn't matter what the CFM is. With filters, even if they reduce CFM just by...