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I have had really amazing results with the larger thermalright air coolers in the last year or two. I have two systems with Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPUs on X99 motherboards, which are basically i7-5960X Xeon equivalents, both highly overclocked. Those CPUs are absolute heat factories with an...

I have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT990-Pro 250ohm headphones that I got back in 2008 or so. I enjoyed them for those 15+ years, but they are showing their age and have developed some glitchy cable issues in addition to a deteriorating headband, earpads, etc; so I decided to just get a new pair. I...

It's starting to look like Logitech finally stopped production of the G600. Hopefully I'm wrong, but at this time it's basically sold out everywhere, and the people who have sent inquiries to Logitech have got responses that seem to indicate that it's probably not coming back. The G600 model...

I'm trying to diagnose a particularly elusive issue right now (Specs in signature). I don't use Sleep or Hibernate, but I do have it set to turn my monitors off automatically after a period of time. When I come back to my computer and move my mouse or press a key on the keyboard, the monitors...

I'm looking for upgrade advice for a new monitor, just not sure what good monitors stand out among the noise right now. My current monitor is a Samsung C32HG70, a 32" 1440p 144Hz monitor which dates back to 2017 or so. This is starting to approach the longest amount of time I've ever used the...

I have an issue that has cropped up recently involving G-Sync and games played in a borderless window. It used to be that G-Sync would only control the refresh rate when the game was the active window. If I alt-tabbed so that a browser window (or other non-3D program) was on top of the game...

About 15 years ago I made 24-bit 96kHz FLAC recordings of all of my Vinyl records. At the time, I did this using the nice analog inputs on my EMU 0404 PCI Soundcard and used Cool Edit Pro 2.1 on the software side. For a good handful of years afterward, I also made it a point to try to make a...

DFS quirks aside, it's always seemed pretty simple to understand the 5Ghz WiFi channels that are available to be used with various channel widths. Example: But in practice, what I'm seeing is different. I'm seeing this on two separate Netgear WiFi 6 routers that I have (used as Access...

I was able to get a Netgear RAX50, but with one catch, it has no antennas. Since it appears to use a standard connector, I figured I can just get large dual-band antennas and put them on there. I was looking at these: https://www.ebay.com/itm/141619939495 Any reason to believe that they...

The computer is an HP a6710t. It originally came with Windows Vista, Dual-Core Intel Pentium E2200, 2GB Ram, and a Mechanical HDD. Motherboard uses an Nforce 630i chipset with Geforce 7100 integrated graphics. After digging through the spare-parts bin I upgraded it to a Q6600, 4GB Ram, and a...

I have a Dell 7740 with a i7-9850H, currently with 32GB DDR4 2666Mhz. I'm curious if I would be able to upgrade it to 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz. Most Dell documentation seems to indicate that this would be possible...

I got a 4080 FE and was a bit surprised when I installed it into my Gigabyte X570 Aorus Ultra. The first surprise was that the bottom of the card actually came into physical contact with the chipset heatsink/fan assembly while the card was only about 95% inserted into the PCI-E slot. The...

I recently got a used iPad Pro 10.5. This is my first iOS device in a long time. I'm not a huge Apple fan in general, mainly due to the closed ecosystem, but as an IT guy, I get asked questions about apple devices from time to time and I wanted needed some more first-hand experience with iOS...

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I restarted my computer, and after restarting my computer I went to click on Firefox and it gave me the generic windows message indicating that I had clicked on a shortcut for something that doesn't exist. I checked the Program Files folder, and the "Mozilla Firefox" folder was no longer there...

Right now I run a 6-monitor setup. 4 of those monitors are powered directly by my RTX 2080, and the other 2 were being powered by a tiny Quadro K420 (Kepler based, or same as Geforce 6xx series). Everything worked great. But then last year, Nvidia kicked all Kepler cards off the current...

I have a very strange problem related to the NVMe SSDs installed onto my motherboard (x570 Aorus Ultra). I have all 3 M.2 slots populated: #1 Samsung 960 Pro 512GB (4x PCIe 3.0 bandwidth from the CPU) - OS/Apps and some games. #2 Samsung 980 Pro 500GB (4x PCIe 4.0 bandwidth from Chipset) -...

I notice that every once in a while I will come across a post that looks like this: The only thing is, I don't have anyone on my ignore list. I verified this by checking here: https://hardforum.com/account/ignored, which says "You are not currently ignoring any members.". I'm not discounting...

I recently got a great deal on a refurbished workstation laptop that has a Quadro RTX 5000 (mobile version, obviously). This GPU is actually pretty amazing for gaming, being essentially the equivalent of a mobile RTX 2080, except with more shaders and a whopping 16Gb of VRAM. My experience...

I bought two i7-4770 CPUs from user "Ins0mnyteq", from his thread here: https://hardforum.com/threads/fs-updated-2-1-22-cpu-ssd-mdr-z7-ap-laptop-960-1060-gtx.2015248/ I paid on Jan 26th, and he responded that he would "ship them out today or tomorrow depending on work". I never received a...

I have a bunch of servers running Windows Server 2019. They are all run headless and managed via RDP. I'm going to upgrade them to Server 2022 in the near future. On a test machine, the upgrade went great and the server came back up again as expected after the upgrade, with one exception...

Laptops that use a Trackpoint or Pointing stick go way back. I remember having a 486 laptop that had one. Back in the era of ball-mice and 640x480 screens, it didn't seem too bad. But as time went on, it felt more like a clumsy obsolete method of pointing. Yet for some reason these have...

I just picked up a laptop that has a Quadro K4100M in it (Kepler based, GK104). Currently I have the latest Quadro drivers (v426) installed, and everything works fine. The last time I used a workstation GPU in one of my personal computers was years ago when I used a FireGL card, and back...

My Starlink arrived this morning. I wanted to make this thread to catalog my experiences with the new rectangular antenna and router, and testing the service overall. I'm currently on Mediacom Cable, with speeds about 330/25. It's decent, but it's very expensive (more than 2x Starlink)...

Currently there is no way that I know of to save BIOS settings and then restore them after a BIOS update. If you try to save your settings to a file, it will give an error when you try to restore it because of the different BIOS version. But this is a HUGE pain in the ass.... I understand why...

I'm not sure that what I'm looking for actually exists, but I thought I would ask anyway. Most of the fastest NVMe drives out there right now, such as the 980 Pro, etc, use only 4 PCIe lanes. Well a PCIe 4.0 4x slot has the same bandwidth as a PCIe 3.0 8x slot and a PCIe 2.0 16x slot. There...

I have a Netgear EX3700 range extender that I would like to use. I have a special 5Ghz network, with a hidden SSID, that is separate from my main 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz WiFi networks and not used for much. I would like to use this hidden SSID as the backbone for the EX3700 to connect to, so that the...

Just in case you needed another reason why relying on cloud storage is a bad idea... MS is going to drop support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 in the near future. Not a lot of advanced notice really, especially for those who really use it and rely on it...

My existing Samsung S8+ is showing it's age at 4.5 years or so. I've always loved the Note series and the phone I had before my S8+ was a Note 2 (which I also had for about 5 years). Although the S8+ has worked well for me, I've always missed the Note 2. Since the Note series is basically...

I've had my Samsung 32" C32HG70 for about 3 years now. When I recently upgraded my system from Windows 10 to Windows 11, I was pretty shocked when I could still faintly see the old Windows 10 Start-menu icon in the bottom left... It's harder to see in the picture than when looking directly at...

https://www.theverge.com/22644194/microsoft-windows-11-minimum-system-requirements-processors-changes Of course, many of us have already been running it on older systems, but it previously required swapping a DLL file from the Windows 10 install to bypass the requirements. I have it running on...

I'm curious what people's experiences have been with these tablets. There have been many times when I've been looking for a cheap tablet, for myself or others, and these seem like decent quality for the price. There are just some things that I'm not sure about. A few years ago I might not...

I was given an older iPad Air, model A1475. The iPad won't turn on, only showing an empty battery icon on the screen with a red line at the bottom of the battery icon. I've tried to charge it using 2 different lightning cables, and about 6 different USB chargers including several that can do...

A friend decided to dust out their computer. Apparently they decided to do this while the computer was still turned on. Then somehow during the cleaning they stuck something into the CPU fan (Delta AFB0812SH 80x80x25mm PWM) and broke a fan blade. At that point they decided that they had done...

I'm working on an old computer that was not booting up. The motherboard is a Asus M2N68-AM Plus (Socket AM2 / DDR2). After troubleshooting, it appears to be a RAM issue. With both slots populated with identical modules, the system will not POST. With either module in the first slot only...

Is the Cooler Master 212 Evo V2 a significant improvement, or even an improvement at all, over the older 212 Evo? I'm talking about the heatsink itself. Not the fans. They come with different fans, but I use my own fans, two high-CFM PWM fans in push-pull. It's surprisingly difficult to find...

I'm looking to refurbish an old iMac G3 as a fun side project. It was inherited from a grandparent, and the last time I did anything with it was probably 13-14 years ago. At the time, I upgraded it from OS 9 to OS X, and I believe it's already running the latest supported version which is...

I've been running 2.4.5 for a while. I see that starting a few days ago the 2.5.0 upgrade finally became available. This is pretty significant as it includes a newer version of FreeBSD, etc. I'm just curious if others have upgraded already and what their experiences are. I'm torn between...

Assume that all other aspects of the two monitors are identical, and the system has a CPU+GPU that can reliably push 120fps. Which do you feel would provide a smoother gaming experience, a 60Hz Freesync monitor or a 120hz Non-Freesync monitor?