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I have not personally seen anything like that, and I've got it on many machines that do not have Secure Boot. I would say that there are only one or two things that might come into play when Windows 11 is installed on unsupported hardware: 1. (the only thing in most cases) The once-per-year...

Yes Windows 11 will work fine without UEFI. It works fine with MBR. You can do an upgrade from 10 without any issues. Skip messing with rufus, just open an administrator Powershell prompt and launch setup from an unmodified Windows 11 ISO by first mounting the ISO (double clicking on it)...

I still use a local account and it still has not created any issues for me. Fake outrage over a prompt inside windows settings is stupid. Why are you spending so much time within Settings anyway to the point that you get offended by this? If anything, isn't that where a prompt like this...

Reality check: The article linked by TomsHardware is a Chinese news article, written in China. So if you are claiming that Chinese newspapers are writing articles pushing pro-US, anti-China propaganda, I'd say that's pretty unlikely... or an author is about to fall out of a window. The...

I don't think you appreciate how large California is. Northern California and Southern California might as well be two different states. Driving from the Bay Area to Los Angeles would be like driving from New York City to Durham, NC. Even just looking at the Bay Area, it can be over 100 miles...

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I was trying to argue with you. Thanks for posting your resume though?

OK, thanks for the tip. I only knew that the SE had a handful less fins, and so I assumed that was what pendragon1 was referencing when he mentioned the 5 pin difference, since it's the only Phantom Spirit version that has fewer fins. This picture was created using official product images...

Funny how they push the propaganda about their domestic tech getting better and better, but in reality they are still desperate even for low-end Nvidia technology.

All of the Phantom Spirit models with the top cap have 5 more fins compared to the SE versions. The 5 extra fins are part of the top cap. The SE versions have no top cap, that's why you can see the tops of the heatpipes.

Impressive to see the Phantom Spirit beating many 280mm AIOs and hanging in there with many 360mm AIOs. I don't see that they actually improved anything compared to previous Phantom Spirit models other than the fans though.

Yeah I know that diminishing returns is part of the equation. But clearly diminishing returns aren't going to be the exact same for every single AIO. This difference is what I'd like to see covered more in various reviews. Not just "It's too loud because I can actually hear the fans". I'm...

You have to go back 7+ years now to find CPUs that don't support Windows 11. Any system that can still reasonably be considered new will support Windows 11. If your PC is only "a few years old" then it's almost certainly supported. Most CPUs that are even somewhat new have TPM built-in to the...

What happens when you press the power button on both of the side monitors (power them off)? It should interpret that the same as if those monitors are now disconnected, and automatically switch to just using the center monitor. And when you power those side monitors back on, it should...

It seems like you're trying to make things way more difficult than they need to be. If it works from the rear port(s), then just buy an extension cord... Either one just for the mic, or two and run the whole headset from the rear and ditch the USB adapter completely...

Drives that are stupid expensive aren't particularly impressive IMO. Get it down to a realistic cost per TB, and only then does it become noteworthy. For the price of this thing, I'd rather just get a PCIe riser card and load it up with high quality Samsung drives, example...

If your screen space is that limited, then why not just auto-hide the taskbar?

The newest CPUs that don't meet the official Windows 11 requirements are now over 7 years old, and will be ~8.5 years old by the time Windows 10 hits EoL. Honestly, that's a pretty good run. The only reason why they aren't officially supported in Windows 11 is because they contain known...

When Windows 10 hits EoL, Microsoft isn't obligated to release any operating system updates for it after that point. Although with past operating systems (XP, Win7, etc), they did make a select few exceptions and released some updates after EoL. If you're talking about Windows Defender...

On a new system: #1 Chipset drivers directly from Intel/AMD. #2 GPU drivers directly from Nvidia/AMD/Intel. #3 Sound, Network, and Storage drivers directly from source if possible, otherwise motherboard website. #4 Let Windows Update fill in the gaps for other random things (SD card reader...

Too much effort and/or too expensive. Yes, but I doubt that point of diminishing returns is the exact same for every single radiator design. I'm sure that there are certain radiators that would benefit from more airflow more than others. That's the kind of info that seems difficult to find...

Yeah, I'm not trying to convince anyone else that my way is better, I'm just trying to find out which AIO is best for my particular use-case scenario.

I'm also looking at the Liquid Freezer III 360 to potentially replace my aging (almost 5 years old) CoolerMaster ML360R. What I find extremely annoying however is the obsessive focus on noise that almost every review seems to have these days. I really couldn't care less about noise. I want to...

I have mixed feelings about this. Net Neutrality is one of those things that sounds like a good idea, and would be a great idea if the government worked like the way it's described in an elementary school textbook.

Everything I've read about the actual earthquake said that it occurred in a relatively sparsely populated mountainous area of the country and that the impact to chip production should be minimal.

They did the same thing with Windows 7 after it hit EoL. This is nothing new. I suppose it makes a good click-bait headline though. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/windows-7-eos-faq/windows-7-extended-security-updates-faq

The new 4070 Ti Super has 16GB also.

For me, Gmail already does a very good job of keeping Spam out of my Inbox. If anything, a bigger problem is legit emails ending up in the Spam folder...

I think that you would actually be better off continuing to use your existing power supply than trying to put the backup (that has not been turned on in 10 years) into service. It might seem counter-intuitive, but many components (capacitors in particular) can actually have a longer lifespan if...

pfsense should not require any special configuration just because you are using an adapter with a higher link speed. All that matters is that the particular NIC is actually supported, and that the CPU is fast enough to handle the traffic (including any extra processing required by...

The Geforce 256 was a great card for it's time, no doubt, but in what way could it possibly lay claim to being "the first gaming GPU"? Honestly, that's a pretty stupid statement. I had an Nvidia TNT2 Ultra prior to getting a Geforce 256, and while the Geforce 256 was certainly an upgrade, it's...

It seems to me that if you wanted to play with AI, that you would be looking for a card with Tensor Cores. Any card going all the way back to the 8800 GTX can do CUDA... but only RTX cards have Tensor Cores. The P40 mentioned above would do CUDA just fine, but being Pascal based (same as GTX...

Source: Some random post on the Anandtech forums. lol... Either way, I'm eager for more details. I'm particularly interested in knowing if there will be a true 7800X3D successor (single CCD X3D Desktop AM5 CPU)

You're assuming that these people are actually smart enough to know the difference between a video driver crash and a forced reset, never-mind be able to actually prove which one occured. It's possible, but then again, these are the same people who couldn't even put together a stable system in...

All you have to do in order to force reset the video driver is hit Windows key + Ctrl + Shift + B, something you could potentially do with just one hand if you wanted. Not all games react well when you do that during a game. I'm sure there are other things that an innovative cheater could come...

I agree, but on the other hand, once you make it known that a computer failure basically gives you a do-over, then you can bet that there will be at least one idiot that will intentionally try to make his computer crash once it's obvious that they are losing the match. Seems like a lose/lose...

It once again reminds me even more of the good ole' days where you used your own computer in these sorts of tournaments. Choosing your hardware and making sure that your system was stable was all part of the process. These seem like computers that were purpose-built for the tournament. On...

If write speed is measured as a singular number, then it's usefulness is limited. But if you can see what a drive's write speed is over time (during a large file transfer for example), you can notice some distinct patterns based on what configuration the drive has. -Write speed will be crazy...

I agree that it would be quite the feat if they are able to distribute the workload to different processors in a way that actually works correctly. But I keep seeing articles like this: https://wccftech.com/intel-outlines-40-tops-npu-performance-minimum-requirement-windows-copilot-ai-pc/ When...

I think that what is interesting is that a lot of the talk about copilot recently has been about a shift from copilot being primarily cloud-based to being more local. This will be potentially tied, in some way, to a minimum AI TOPS processing requirement. Thus far, the requirement has been...

There are a lot of variables with SSDs and places where cheaper drives can skimp to save on costs. As mentioned, things like DRAM cache and SLC-cache. Also, some of those drives advertise QLC flash almost as if it's a good thing, when it's actually the opposite of good. The only good thing...