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    AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X review roundup : Confusing and all over the place

    HUB and GN are two of the top reviewers who have a credible record of basing conclusion on data, not promises, and I'd trust them far more than Jayz2c(who drilled a motherboard near the socket to mount a cooler or something) or LTT (with their trash culture, surface level knowledge and often...
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    Amazon India lightning deals

    But how do you know that's an affiliate link? Ref is not always referral, could be reference as well. For example, a link I just generated in incognito (not logged in), by going to amazon.in, opening the first product I saw, clicked on share, opened the resulting link in a different browser in...
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    Amazon India lightning deals

    How do you know that's an affiliate link? That's the format amazon generated when I clicked on the share button on a random product (and I am not part of the amazon associates program).
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    Another day, another random ass attempt at fixing (avoiding) the issue for my system. Asus thankfully has an option called CPU IA VR limit, which is a hard cap on the voltage delivered by the voltage regulators, the regulators will never under any circumstances deliver a higher voltage (if this...
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    Cheap alternative to raspberry pi

    Opnsense doesn't support ARM, so the options you have left are either openwrt or x86 hardware. You're asking too much from an SBC, even from a x86 tiny pc TBH, and the price point for all this is unlikely to be cheap, used. If you intend to run all this on a single device, I'd recommend running...
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    Cheap alternative to raspberry pi

    Do mention what you intend to do with this machine. If you want a low end headless linux machine to run some services, an used pi for a few k is good enough. If you need access to gpio/dsi/csi, you'll need to use an SBC. If you want to run a gui, use desktop apps (linux or windows), an SBC is...
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    Linux How to dual boot windows with Debian

    As others have pitched in, this is no longer an issue with uefi, windows and (most) distros use their own directory inside the efi partion, and I've never (in the last 12 years that I've been dealing with uefi) had an occurrence of windows wiping the efi partion unless instructed to do so. All...
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    WTB Quadro T400

    Want a T400 for a HTPC build, let me know if you have one and willing to sell.
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    ****ing hell, if this is the RMA experience on a 14900k, that too in the States, I have no hope of them doing the right thing here.
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    In my understanding, if your CPU is not degraded, an all core load will not accelerate the process, as all core loads typically see lower voltages (stock config, all core boosts are lower due to higher current requirement and thermal limit). It's only when the CPU is boosting one particular...
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    Official post by Intel employee, they're planning to extend warranty by 2 years. 2 probably isn't enough, but it is something at least. ---------------------- Have been running hwinfo64 for a day now, max core VID (voltage requested by the CPU) is 1.415v, max reported by the motherboard Vcore...
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    PC Peripherals Intel Quad NIC availability

    I stumbled upon Sai Retail when looking for an i225v/i226v single port nic (https://sairetail.com/product/2-5gbase-t-pci-express-gigabit-network-card-for-gaming-streaming-2-5g-1g-100mbps-pcie-ethernet-network-adapter-rj45-lan-controller-for-pc-support-windows-10-11/). This listing mentions an...
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    PC Peripherals Intel Quad NIC availability

    Can you please share some links, recently purchased a x540-t2 off of ebay, and in my experience even decent gigabit dual port nics are expensive af here.
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    Certainly (probably) the case for me, power limited my CPU as my aio can barely handle 200w, no crashes so far, fingers crossed.
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    No need to get on the offensive side. The stock v/f line is kept very lenient to account for silicon quality (too little voltage for a target clock on lower quality chip and it'll crash). If your chip is good enough, you can undervolt it a little and still target same clocks without crashing...
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    Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues

    My 13700k is rock solid, probably because I run it with PL1=PL2=200W (cooling reasons), but who knows if it's degrading measurably at these specs as well. Bought it back in 2022 Nov, so if oxidation is a thing, mine will probably have it. Kinda scummy how Intel is not releasing a statement...
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    TCS partners with BSNL in Rs 15,000 crore 4G deal- Tata to work on fast internet service in India

    Here be me, in the heart of Bangalore, rocking BSNL 2G like it's 2009 (all network types enabled).
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    Linux The GNU Linux Thread

    They are likely not same, from the installer help section (top section in your screenshot ) it looks to me the + option creates new mount points from unallocated (unformatted) space, but to assign mount points to existing partitions you need to type, and select update.
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    Linux The GNU Linux Thread

    Not a complete noob, only somewhat. You've not changed the default btrfs option, which your partitions clearly aren't, you haven't typed any mount points into the input boxes that say "Mount Point". The installer even says on the very first line that you've not define any mount points. At...
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    Graphic Cards RTX 2060 - Query about Sound Quality over ARC

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't audio over HDMI/DP entirely digital (PCM bitstream at the very least)? HDMI isn't supposed to carry analog audio, and would simply pass-through the digital data to the device, be it a soundbar/tv/monitor. The DAC on the other end then has to convert the digital...