Recent content by Azrak

Did you flash the latest BIOS? Newer BIOS might have better support for 7800X3D.

UPSes designed with SLA batteries in mind are constantly charging (float charging) the battery because that's how you keep SLA batteries healthy and ready to power the load for the longest period of time (talking lifespan of the battery here, not uptime while on battery). Other battery...

What if you take a full screen snapshot when FF is making the noise, then shutdown FF and just view the screenshot full screen. Do you still hear the noise? If the answer is yes, then it's the pixel colors/dithering/patterns that FF displays that is causing the noise. If not, then maybe it is...

OK, I guess I never clicked on it to see who the seller was. I apologize for making a false statement in my previous reply.

horse Your original post did not include the name of the seller or a link to the eBay item. That is why you received those replies. If you had included the item link originally, we would have seen the seller was Adorama and congratulated you on what might be a great deal instead of words of...

The plastic did exactly what it was designed to do: crumple under impact load and protect the drive inside. It's fine. Install it and use it.

Partition alignment issue? 512 byte vs 4096 byte sector size issue? I have no idea what else could be if the problem follows the drive to another system.

Just different design, I guess. Maybe there is better circuit design in the PC power supply on the AC input side that suppresses inrush current in a better way. I don't know exactly why. You might get better answers on https://www.eevblog.com/forum/ where very knowledgeable people can answer...

The monitor power supply is a "switching power supply". Google it. Basically, there is a high speed switching circuit that pulses power to charge an output supply capacitor and a feedback voltage sense circuit. Once the voltage in the output capacitor reaches a set threshold, the switching...

That is the Conifer Seed Bug. This time of year they are looking for a warm place for the Winter. They can be a nuisance. Glad your system survived the short circuit sabotage.

Why would read speeds be affected by the amount of free space available?

12GB will be better than 8GB for the next 4 years on max settings, everything else ignored. The writing is on the wall that 8GB is not going to be enough to last the next 4 years as I'm sure you've seen Steve at Hardware Unboxed on Youtube attest to many, many times. I have personal experience...

Back in the day I had an FX-57 on an Asus A8NSLI Premium and 2 GB memory. That was the most amount of money I had ever spent on a CPU ($811). It was a good machine and definitely fast, at least until the Core2Duo E6850 came out and destroyed it in terms of performance. A few years ago I...

I saw Snowflake and thought "Really? GN CEO Snowflake?" :LOL:

This one sucks to remove. Now if a new exploit is found in Windows parsing of image data (which has happened before), someone just sends you a picture, overflows the Windows image parser and now your PC has got malmare installed. When it was configured to just show icons, it never opened the...