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    Moto G100, what is the difference between the XT2125 and XT2125-4?

    My Moto X(1) was the best phone I ever had (followed by iphone and two samsung galaxies). By far. Is Motorola still great in that way? Where: everything makes sense the first time and doesn't require years of wrestling to get the phone to stop doing stupid things?
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    Strange price spike on older Samsung EVO microSD cards

    Can anyone explain this? Why is the price of Samsung's older (green) MicroSD cards 5x the price of newer (blue) cards? What don't I know? Maybe the old one is TLC and the new one QLC? It's not just amazon, I'm seeing this all over.
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    How do graphics adapters order multiple displays??

    Ugh... why are people not listening to me? I *know* that can be done in windows, but I want the *adapter* to configure the monitors the way I need, because I have two such docking stations.
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    How do graphics adapters order multiple displays??

    Be that as it may, I have two such docking stations and don't want to reconfigure the monitors in windows every time I change docks. My question is about what logic the graphics adapter uses to pick displays so I can avoid this problem (in windows and otherwise).
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    How do graphics adapters order multiple displays??

    I'm running into weird display ordering. Can someone explain what this thing wants from me? I have an old dell laptop, two 2x monitor setups, and identical dell docking stations. The existing one is wired 2x DP->DVI, and output 1 is always the left, primary display. I set up a second dock...
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    The elusive logic of multi-display ordering

    I'm running into weird display ordering. Can someone explain what this thing wants from me? I have an old dell laptop, two 2x monitor setups, and identical dell docking stations. The existing one is wired 2x DP->DVI, and output 1 is always the left, primary display. I set up a second dock...
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    What was that AMD? Did you say Samsung is announcing an 8k Ultrawide?

    not sure it's a step forward so much as a price increase. i'd get a G9+ but trying to find a decent kvm that fully supports it is hard just at 5k / 120
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    What's the deal with Honeywell PTM-7950 paste? Scam / Legit?

    I've been seeing posts about Honeywell PTM-7950 (or -7958) phase-change thermal paste, mainly on reddit. They say it's the bees' knees, and also only available from one website in china with questionable reputation. I see no mention of it on [H]. If it is what they say, its performance...
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    What idle wattage should I expect from a new system?

    I'd like an actual case, I have a handful of drives to plug in. I've considered just using usb3 and samba from my dd-wrt router, but I don't like the drives not being secure and actively cooled. So what do I look for to insure super low power consumption? There's no ratings for mobos and...
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    What idle wattage should I expect from a new system?

    In my long experience with computers, all desktops seem to settle at around 60watts at idle. Has this changed? I'm trying to build a new file server from newer old parts and am surprised that like the previous two, they also idle at 60-ish watts. So if I were to get a totally new...
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    Alternative P2V option for VMWare

    Macrium reflect backup can mount its backups as hyper-v or virtualbox, fwiw. It greatly simplifies p2v. I'm guessing you can clone that VM to a file structure that can be mounted into vmware if that's what you want.
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    What can I mine with a Geforce 760?

    interesting. how does the pay compare with mining?
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    Seagate 16TB HDD Exos X16 7200 RPM (ST16000NM001G) $289.99

    Chiaching: Is that for a "chia refurb"?
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    Can you mine with a cell phone

    Yeah, i can relate to it as a hobby. It was kind of diverting and addictive.
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    Can you mine with a cell phone

    So it would take a little under 2 years to recoup the investment. I don't understand why you'd want to do this.
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    Can you mine with a cell phone

    what phones are these? how much revenue on one of them per day? Is there any site that provides profitability calculator with particular cell phone models?
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    Can you mine with a cell phone

    Seems to me you'd want those screens off to minimize consumption --- not to mention keep resale value high.
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    Why would a non-active GPU be showing activity?

    How do you know that shutting down afterburner eliminates GPU usage? If you're using another tool to verify that, which one? If any tool that monitors the GPU causes the activity to increase (What Mchart says above), how can you know if there is no activity on that GPU?
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    Yes I understand that. But this is not a reasonable amount of CPU for this task on these CPUs
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    Why would a non-active GPU be showing activity?

    alright. Send some details. How are you measuring the GPU activity?
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    You can be working on the computer. I see it both at idle and when the cpu is high doing something like firefox tab-whoring. But in the latter.... of course... it's slowing down legit activity by quite a bit. Generally it's a few minutes and it kicks off. After I updated to 4.8.9 it took a...
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    Mainly this is a 4-core laptop (i7-6820), but I'm also seeing roughly the same thing on another 4c laptop, a 2c laptop, a 6c desktop...
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    I'm saying it's not necessarily 50% of the cpu, it depends on the core count. 50% of an I7-6820, 24x7, definitely isn't normal.
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    I spoke too soon, it's still doing it. 4.8.9 and there it is eating up CPU.
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    It was both sustained and repeatable. Something was triggering TG to consume 50% cpu. Though actually the % seems to depend on the core count... fwiw
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    I tried updating to 4.8.9 on two computers. So far it seems to have stopped. Did the app stop notifying about available updates?
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    There's a built-in vpn client??
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    And boop! It's gone again. The background is the screenshot I just posted.
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    You can just look at task manager and see if they're competing for CPU. Let me know what you find.
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    Why would a non-active GPU be showing activity?

    Nothing is using it. According to TM. GPU0 is the integrated intel HD530
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    So I may have gotten an unwanted crypto miner

    But it's only using the HD530 for that, not the M360. Nothing is mapped to the M360 and no processes are using it task manager.. For the HD530, GPU-z shows that behavior as you would expect, occasional peaks, not these cyclic pulses.
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    So I may have gotten an unwanted crypto miner

    You're looking at Zepher's screenshot, not mine. I had everything closed when I took mine.
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    So I may have gotten an unwanted crypto miner

    But the activity shown with the HD530 in GPU-z is much more what you'd expect: mostly idle with random peaks. This is a pulsing that's longer than the polling interval from GPU-z.
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    Torguard VPN client will consume 50% CPU when you're not looking

    I know that's quite an accusation but listen to how weird this is. I don't know if malware got into their code or they're running some revenue generating resource theft thing, or what. So I've been using Torguard for a while. Recently (in the last major version) I find my computers spinning...
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    So I may have gotten an unwanted crypto miner

    Ok here's that pic you all wanted. This is my fresh win10 install in high performance mode but with nothing running (applications). The speed/utilization pulses are more sparse today and aren't going as high. The gap in pulses is from when GPU-z was looking at the HD530, which shows erratic...
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    So I may have gotten an unwanted crypto miner

    Task manager reports almost nothing for GPU1. It shows no process using it. It thinks utilization is zero. I'll get a picture of that tomorrow...
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    Why would a non-active GPU be showing activity?

    Not since I reinstalled Windows, I'm just using the laptop screen. It shouldn't be doing this, afaik. But before that it was docked and that has 2 monitors plus a third on a USB video adapter. It's possible that it uses both GPUs.... but the activity is still high. Is it possible that GPU-z...
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    new Samsung 980 Pro reported as SSD 980 - what gives??

    So it seems that this drive needs to run in AHCI mode to get full IOPS and support from Magician. In fact, even just to recognize the drive properly you need AHCI. I was upgrading from a Samsung 860 EVO SATA drive which was using RAID/RST (and had some issues with magician). But I'm also...
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    Why would a non-active GPU be showing activity?

    I have a laptop (Dell precision 3510). Normally I used the integrated Intell HD530 video. However, in GPU-z I often see activity on the discrete Radeon R9 M360. It's not all the time - sometimes it's some constant nominal amount. But here it is using the GPU and increasing the GPU temp...
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