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    ASUS TUF B650M PLUS WIFI - PC Not Booting With EXPO Enabled

    Either your motherboard or your CPU is preventing you hitting that clock speed, so its either failing to post or resorting to default settings. My guess is leaning towards the board. See if your RAM is listed in this compatibility list for Ryzen CPUs: [Link] Asus has a similar qualified vendor...
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    71-90K 50-99k Laptop Buying Suggestions

    The Asus and the Thinkpad have upgradable RAM. Perhaps HP deserves to be skipped this year. Even their Rs. 1.5 lakh models have the same 45% NTSC screen, which should have been phased out 15 years ago.
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    Issues and sudden failures with certain ASRock boards and Ryzen 9800x3D pair.

    Tom's Hardware report about this case: [Link] Seems AMD and ASRock are both aware of the issue. Current proposed solution is to update the BIOS.
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    71-90K 50-99k Laptop Buying Suggestions

    Thinkpad T14 Gen5: [Link] AMD Ryzen™ PRO 8040U upto 64GB RAM 14" OLED display 2TB Gen4 SSD 52Whr battery Asus Expertbook: [Link] Intel Core 7 150U 16GB RAM 14" OLED display 1TB Gen4 SSD 63Whr battery HP Elitebook 840 G11: [Link] Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 16GB RAM 14" IPS display (45% NTSC) 1TB...
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    Height adjustable standing desk

    I don't have an adjustable desk yet, but I will be buying one soon. I've shortlisted a few different options, I'll share them below. ErgoYou: https://www.ergoyou.in/collections/height-adjustable-sit-stand-desks Ikea...
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    Impact Drivers

    Try Moglix: [Link] or IBO: [Link]. Also try asking your local electrician if you only need a couple. Chances are he has a jar full of assorted screws or he could point you to the hardware shop he frequents.
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    Impact Drivers

    Screws also have several grades of quality. Cheaper ones are often made of softer metals like aluminum or lower grade steel that are prone to corrosion and rusting. For higher quality screw look for Hardened Steel, Stainless Steel or Titanium screws in ascending order of quality and price. As...
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    Issues and sudden failures with certain ASRock boards and Ryzen 9800x3D pair.

    Came across this reddit post today where a user has been tracking a number of failures on ASRock motherboards paired with a 9800x3D. He links a number of such posts for evidence and ASRock supposedly has been refusing to acknowledge the issue and denying the issues as isolated incidents...
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    Windows Which free torrent client is best for windows 11?

    Short answer: Deluge I was a uTorrent 2.2 user until the infamous update that turned it into crap. I've also tried qBittorrent, but I had trouble with torrents starting immediately. There used to be long periods of silence before it could connect to a peer. qBittorrent also wrecked one of my...
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    How you secure format non encrypted SSDs before selling?

    When you do a 'quick format', it "deletes" the files but they remain on disk for future data recovery. If you do a 'slow format', it will delete and erase each sector one by one, then writes '0' on it. This makes it difficult if not impossible for data recovery softwares to extract data from the...
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    IoT Geysers? Racold or Havells

    For geysers, the most important feature is the internal tank coating. AO Smith pioneered the blue glass coating, that is non reactive to contaminants. Now many brands have a similar coating. Eventually the coating will wear off, but it should last a very long time (7-8 years) before you need to...
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    New user here

    Thank you @bssunilreddy @Dhanush @anpl @Synth-Pop for the warm welcome. Looking forward to being active around here :)
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    New user here

    Hi, I've been a lurker on Tech Enclave since Erodov days. I finally made an account today. Looking forward to learning from the community and sharing whatever little I know and maybe to a few good deals on the marketplace along the way :blush: My username is a reference to a classic hard rock...
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    Help me buy an inverter and battery for a 2bhk in Bengaluru

    There are 3 types of UPS units available for home use: Standby (cheapest, most common), Line interactive (mid range), Online (high end). I would recommend you to watch this short video for the simplest and clearest explanation of the concepts differentiating these types of UPS: Since you are...