Recent content by pparks1

Yeah, too literal. We are buying another 32gb kit of DDR5 for the new box. Had these kits not been so expensive, we probably would have gone for 64GB as a upgrade from his old machine, but not spending a grand on RAM. He can do what he wants with a 32GB kit. He's being very responsible...

Yeah he won't. He will have both machines running for some time before he moves over the drives from the other one.

Yeah, the prices on RAM and SSD's is just absurd. But waiting it out, isn't going to be a shortgame. So, we gotta bite the bullet and just buy now. Because of the prices through, he will stick with 32GB of RAM instead of upgrading. He's been on 32 for years and it hasn't been an issue...

Yeah, he started with his part list on PC Part Picker. I wasn't enamored with his original NVME drive, so I suggested he go with that WD SN8100. It was more costly, but it was PCI Gen5 and 2x the size he originally picked. He has about 8TB of NVME he is bringing over from his old machine.

Yeah, he looked at the 5070TI's, but didn't feel it was worth $250-$350 more to get more or less equivalent performance. He said he can easily live without raytracing performance and sure he will lose some FPS without DLSS, but again, he'd rather have $300 in his pocket towards another...

He decided to go with the Gigabyte OC ICE Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB Video Card. He currently has an EVGA 2080 Super. He refuses to pay the cost on Nvidia cards this time around. He's gaming at 1440p, so the 9070XT should suit him fine. He looked at 5080's, but out of principal he wont...

His old gaming desktop is 7 years old and it's time for a new one. As much as we don't want to buy hardware in this day and age with absurd prices, we don't really have much choice. He's going with an all white build. so that makes things a bit harder as well, as we are very limited on the...

Yeah, I built my own computer and it's running Windows 11, and it has never bluescreened, therefore Windows 11 never bluescreens anymore. I think staying up to date on security updates is highly important. Lot's of things can be avoided using a bunch of common sense, but any backend site...

Yeah, Steve's rant on micron is spot on and he's fired up. Lol @ tech jesus.

My son was installing some new games on his PC and i guess some of the anti-cheat stuff is requiring TPM2 and Secure Boot to run.

I won't be building or upgrading any PC's in the near future. On the flip side, for the first time in as long as I can remember, the price of RAM upgrades on Apple Devices seem way more reasonable. LOL.

Yeah, this could explain why I don’t debloat. I use OneDrive and more so since I have office 365. I do make use of copilot, not heavily at this point but more and more as time goes on. I keep edge around for times when I need to run a browser without an ad blocker or am testing something for...

I don’t bother with ant type of debloat process. Juice not worth the squeeze for me.

Just tested it, changed value, rebooted, tested and no change. This is exactly the experience that I am seeing https://superuser.com/questions/1876857/why-is-the-calculator-taking-a-long-time-to-load-since-windows-11-24h2-update And it's only happening on my gaming computer, the one i...

i have noticed that on my gaming PC, since upgrading from Windows 10 to 11, that when I launch the calculator, it used to open almost instantly and now there is a second or so pause. I can see the window, and almost like a thumbnail of the calculator icon, before it finally opens and lets me...