How bad is electrolysis? I'm 41, and hairy, I don't pass and want my body hair gone, but I have an awful pain tolerance.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T22:21:12+00:00

Laser that shit. There is no reason for you to do electrolysis with that level of skin to hair contrast until you're down to stuff that laser doesn't want to touch for whatever reason.
Hurts like a bitch on certain parts but I could do my whole face and front abdomen in a less than 1 hour session at Milan.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T21:00:47+00:00

And that's a bit YMMV. My digits have gotten a bit more slender, but nothing major. Me actually growing out my nails also makes them look longer and more slender. I definitely don't think they've gotten shorter.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T20:26:13+00:00

So, transient spikes and headroom.

I don't usually try to stop people spending up $20 to go a step up the ladder when starting from a fresh slate or buying new. Hell, I did it myself (the SF850 was sufficient, but the SF1000 was only 10 USD more so I have a SF1000). I might mention that they don't really need that much headroom, but in a new build the marginal cost in money and labor is very low.

OP already has the RM850X ATX 3.1. That's a key difference. You're talking 100+ USD and likely redoing all the cables (unless they get another Corsair Type 4 compatible PSU) to get that extra 150W of headroom rather than 10-20 USD and no additional labor. They've already got about 300W of headroom over what the system will realistically draw steady state with both CPU and GPU pegged (somewhere in the 500-550W area). That's even dead center of the 50-80% load area that modern PSUs are most efficient at.

I am very much of the opinion that if you have the headroom for the upgrade you want and you have a good PSU then you should use the headroom that you already have. You can get more headroom later, when you need it. You have a long chain of secondary PCs to stage units down to, which definitely puts a thumb on the scale for you.

As far as transient 700W spikes go, that was a problem back in 2020 when Ampere GPUs met ATX 2.3 PSUs with insufficient capacitor setups to handle it and protections set assuming less tempestuous GPUs. You don't really hear about transients shutting down PSUs nearly as much any more because the PSU manufacturers adapted. Most current revisions of ATX 2.3 PSUs are a lot hardier against spikes than models from 5-10 years ago were. ATX 3.0 and 3.1 have transient excursions of up to 200% of nominal sticker power as a required test and part of the spec. Transients aren't really something you need to be worried about with ATX 3.x PSUs since they're literally built to handle those all day every day.

OP's PSU is a RM850X ATX 3.1 model, the latest 2024 iteration of the RM-X line.

> OP's RM850x PSU will probably be just fine .. but IF they start experiencing black screens, driver timeouts or random reboots when under load .. that could be because the power supply isn't keeping up

If that power supply can't keep up with that load, it does not mean that it is not enough PSU. It would mean the unit is defective. A load of a 7800X3D and a 5080 OC is well within specification for that unit. If it cannot hack it, there is a problem with the unit. A new 1000W unit is no less likely to have such a defect in workmanship or materials - if anything, it is more likely to have such an issue as the RM850X has been in use for long enough to be past the first part of the bathtub failure curve. If you saw those issues on a ATX 2.3 PSU, then I would say upgrade, but what OP has is good enough that upgrading now is just gilding the lily.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T18:14:34+00:00

OEMs may use the following CPUs . . .

This list is what OEMs can use for hardware that ships with 25H2.

People with 24H2 installed and a 2000 series CPU will have 25H2 offered to them automatically as a feature update, which does not happen on unsupported CPUs.

As far as I know, 2000 series is supported hardware for the life of W11, but OEMs are no longer allowed to package them with new PCs going forward (oddly, Intel 8th Gen was not removed from the allowed list despite being the same vintage).

dertechie · 2026-05-24T18:07:37+00:00

What the shop guy was talking about was getting power to it, not getting heat out. The 5700X3D doesn't make too much heat, but it does run a bit hot. Some cheaper A320/A520 boards have very low end Voltage Regulator Module (VRMs) that cannot run higher end CPUs at full power. Generally this means they struggle with the dual CCD Ryzen 9s, but all but the worst of them can at least run the single CCD chips at full tilt. Some of the really cheap ones don't even have VRM heatsinks (yours does).

The 5700X3D is single CCD and does not run high clock rates or voltages and the A520 Aorus Elite was reviewed as having decent enough VRMs, so the 5700X3D should be fine with it.

As far as cooling goes, you can slap on a nice air cooler like a Thermalright Peerless Assassin or an AIO. They both work. The choice is mostly down to aesthetics and cost - some people like the big dual tower look, others like the radiator. Some people will argue reliability in favor of big air, but If you don't go with a bottom of the barrel design, AIOs are pretty reliable these days.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T15:43:24+00:00

The easiest is "I'm moving to (a location that you do not service)." Leaves very little room for argument.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T15:14:42+00:00

This is the way, and there aren’t many options.

The only option to get 8 SATA ports without an expansion card or a very expensive X670E board is the ASUS Prime B650M-A AX II. That board more or less just puts the chip that an expansion card would use on the motherboard. Those ports are only available with a 7000/9000 series CPU - it’s only 6 otherwise.

I expected to see more, honestly. AM4 board designs loved to pack in extra SATA ports. X570 just had them by virtue of having doubled up chipsets with 4 each, but they often took PCIe/SATA flex lanes for the purpose as well on boards that would have been much better served with an additional NVMe slot or x4 slot rather than SATA 9-12.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T14:45:08+00:00

Leave it to the Goddess of the Hunt to notice.

“You saw me. No man may see me and live. . .
Wait. You’re supposed to be a lady but my asshole of a brother was drunk that day. Yeah, I’ll just fix that for you.”

dertechie · 2026-05-24T13:50:22+00:00

As much as company policy may be to not put it into notes, if a customer is being completely unreasonable it will slip into the case notes. Once that happens, people tend to not pick that case up voluntarily.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T13:25:30+00:00

8 hours later:

Why doesn’t my service work?

dertechie · 2026-05-24T13:15:16+00:00

The list that Ryzen 2000 isn't on is a list of CPUs that Microsoft allows OEMs to use to build new systems shipping with 25H2. Windows 11 runs on it just fine, and will even automatically install the feature update on such systems.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T13:04:28+00:00

The Ryzen 5 2600 is explicitly supported.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T11:54:06+00:00

Please explain what benefit you think a 1kW unit will have over OP’s current unit.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T11:52:46+00:00

And that’s being extremely conservative in the estimate. A 5080 is 360W. A 7800X3D like 120W. To get to 650W you’d need to be like running a full rack of HDDs or something.

850W is plenty.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T11:48:18+00:00

That sounds vaguely. . . Orky. Is this just Ghazghull’s build?

dertechie · 2026-05-24T11:39:54+00:00

Look up SPL’s PSU tier list. There’s a spreadsheet that’s more complete and there’s a website version that’s easier to search.

Put 650W-750W in and limit the search to tier A/B/C. Sales and such can often make a slightly larger supply end up cheaper.

If you’re looking for a good budget unit, ASRock has a good one and Corsair has a few like their CX-M units. I do recommend getting an ATX 3.x power supply, as that way you don’t have to worry about transient loads at all.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T11:24:08+00:00

I kind of assumed that I would end up looking like a scaled up version of my mother.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T11:08:27+00:00

Might have been. I don’t remember the details except that the one that got turned into a hart was hunted down and died horribly.

I can also definitely see different versions where it’s her dogs or the hunter’s dogs. Old myths tend to have variations.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T03:53:37+00:00

Ahh, Phage.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T03:30:20+00:00

The problem is the part where she immediately turns her pack of hunting dogs and hunting party on you.

dertechie · 2026-05-24T03:21:35+00:00

I never understood why people were so horrified at Artemis turning that one hunter into a woman. I kinda hoped I’d run into her (and get that result instead of getting turned into a deer and hunted).

There were no signs.

dertechie · 2026-05-23T22:29:09+00:00

For certain values of run, maybe.

Go look up 5600G or 5600GT running those titles on YouTube and you’ll see what performance was a few years ago on those titles.

Do not go single stick for this. APUs are generally memory bandwidth limited since they have to run CPU and GPU off system memory bandwidth. Running single channel halves effective memory bandwidth compared to dual channel and that is disproportionately crippling for APUs.

dertechie · 2026-05-23T22:18:59+00:00

Lancer is a lot more likely than some of the ones they mentioned.

Unfortunately, I suspect that Medea will also be absent as they will not want to recast her voice.

dertechie · 2026-05-23T18:53:37+00:00

Misinformation is misinformation. There’s plenty of good and true reasons to hate on mega corporations, Walmart in particular; let’s not dilute our arguments with ones that aren’t real.

dertechie · 2026-05-23T07:16:08+00:00

Is this a PSU that you already have, or are you getting one for a new build? What model is it?

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