Recent content by lucas122478

I haven't updated yet. I promised my daughter years ago that I'd get her an iphone pro max on her 18th birthday, (and forgot) she made sure to remind me lol! That set me back $1400. :/ I've also had a horrible time trying to find the corsair dominator platinum 64 (2x32GB) kit here. I've went...

Has anyone considered this was all intentional and just backfired? Akin, to when Apple intentionally degraded batteries in iPhones. What if the degradation of the Intel CPUs was always meant to happen and they just screwed up and it happened much sooner than they intended. I used to build new...

If it is the latter, and most likely. It just reaffirms what we see every few years from another entity, that companies loyalties lie with their stockholders, not the customers. The responses that I read that were supposedly from INTEL - I get the impression from their wordsmithing that this...

Article I read, they did not outright deny that it affected laptops.... Since they danced around it with this response. quote from the article where they asked intel questions in an email an this was the response:

Bro, that was so long ago I don't remember details just that the first was DOA (replaced), the 2nd lasted less then a month (replaced), then the 3rd lasted a little over a year before it quit working. And yeah, it gives me pause, I don't mean I'm breaking out into hives and huffing into a...

I haven't got the time to read thru 53 pages of comments on this. But, I did read the first and last page and I see what I just read about it effecting 65W+ processors is actually being discussed here. The last time I bought AMD was back in 2000 and it was a horrible experience. I am by no...

Wow, it's been almost 16 and 1/2 years since I proposed this idea. Smartphone manufacturers now use it in phones such as Apple to dissipate heat. So it has been used in some capacity since the proposal for heat dissipation beyond its previous usage back then. Since it's hydrophobic, why hasn't...

Has anybody picked up one of these yet? Thoughts? https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B650E-AORUS-STEALTH-ICE#kf

X3D - CPU if everything drops by SEPT then sure can wait, probably take me 2 months to get around to doing everything anyhow. SD CARD I just looked up SD Express and from what I understood it is backwards compatible with UHS-I formats so should work fine with her current camera? Nikon D7200...

What exactly are you trying to convey? Are you trying to marginalize my question because I used chatGPT in the original post to edit grammar and insinuate I'm not real flesh and blood? Do you want me to upload an image of this morning's finger prick while checking my blood sugar? Yep, that was...

Thanks for the reply guys. It looks like the Lian Li O11D Mini Snow Edition will work fine. Corsair didn't have any PSUs that would fit in the LO11D Mini that were white at least, so I went with the Cooler Master V850 SFX GOLD 850. Appears everything above will still fit in the Mini as well...

It's been a long journey. I built my last custom computer in 2017 and have run it continuously, despite occasional brownouts. Over time, the LAN port failed, multiple USB ports stopped functioning, and the reboot and power buttons ceased to work. I now have to use the BIOS reset button on the...

We have miners here, but nowhere near as many as you will have in the states due to many factors. Electrical rates currently run around 0.21 to 0.22 USD per KwH (The Philippines). Thankfully the exchange rate for the USD is higher than it has been in years. A few years ago electricity was a...

For the poor saps like myself that never got around to upgrading in the past few years I about hyperventilated when I came across today's costs for DDR4 and video cards. At some point either at the end of '16 or beginning of '17 I had written up a sticky note detailing the costs for: 2x8GB DDR4...

I’m looking to finally start a new build in the next couple of months. I would prefer to wait until Cannonlake is released but I don’t think my main rig will last that long. I don’t really have a budget in mind. Most important to me is longevity, performance and lastly appearance. I’ve...