Recent content by mgutt

I have an Asus Rog Strix B550-I Gaming and it was a huge pain to fully disable the RGB controller. Finally no BIOS setting helped. I needed to disable the device through the Windows device manager. Only after that step the C-State of the CPU changed. Sadly I didn't tested with Linux, but I will...

Yes, I imported myself the C246M-WU4 and W480M from the US. We have the strange situation that the manufacturers do/did not offer consumer versions of the C256, W480, W580 or W680 as ITX. ASRock Industrial will for example release the ITX IMB-X1231 (W680), which will cost more than 500 €. Crazy...

If you compare an i3 T and Non-T model, they will consume the same in idle. There is absolutely no benefit in buying a T-CPU. Instead it's the opposite. Let's say you convert a video. The T-CPU needs much longer, which means longer running HDDs, RAM, Chipset, CPU package, etc. which means more...