Recent content by HiggsField

Thanks. It's not clear to me from Adobe's page whether the Mercury Playback Engine would work on the Iris Xe. (On my desktop it uses my NVIDIA GPU, but my desktop doesn't have integrated graphics.) However, I imagine even if Mercury can use the Iris Xe, it would work much better with the RTX...

Thanks for your reply. Damn... 402% is a HUGE difference. Interestingly, the same site tells me the i7-12700H is only 12% faster than the i7-1280P, so if it was only about the CPU, I guess the XPS 13 Plus would be the better choice - since I get the better screen and portability with only a 12%...

I'm having a hard time choosing between these two laptops. First of all, I should clarify that I already have a high-end desktop computer which I use at home. I need to buy a laptop for work (I'm a university professor), but I still need it to have the highest performance possible while...

Update: I found the answer to my own question. According to this Reddit post, if the M.2 heatsink is mounted too tightly on this particular motherboard, the M.2 card may be lodged out of its socket. I must have tightened it too much the first time, which is why it was not properly connected, and...

Hi everyone, I got a new XPG SX8100 4TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4 SSD. Yesterday, I installed it in my motherboard (MSI MEG X570 UNIFY with AMD Ryzen 9 3900X CPU), in one of the M.2 slots, and covered it with the motherboard's M.2 heatsink. There are two other SSDs in the other two M.2 slots, both PCIe 4...