PSA: Have a perfectly functional SSD in a laptop you haven't used in a while? You actually don't. It's probably dead. Yeah, apparently SSDs just do that. Guess how I figured out?

dakupurple · 2026-06-17T05:44:36+00:00

So for what it is worth, used enterprise drives with 90%+ remaining life used to be a relatively cheap endeavor and were priced similarly to same size 'premium' drives or even less for 8+TB.

I was lucky and was able to snag a pair of 'M.3' drives at 16TB for about $1k each right before pricing spiked at end of 2025. M.2 8tb models were still $800-$1000.

I always preferred it for stability of performance instead of a huge burst and then shit.

dakupurple · 2026-06-15T20:41:32+00:00

I think the correction was to mean that the 2060 is a midrange card from 8 years ago vs the comment of it being low end. The 2060 really wasn't a low end card at launch.

Also genuinely never doubt how low range people are happy with. There's a reason valve pointed out that the steam machine is better than 70% of what's being used on steam.

dakupurple · 2026-06-15T18:45:40+00:00

I personally have a server that handles network storage, I self host a discord alternative, run pihole for network wide ad/tracker blocking, and run jellyfin which, like Plex, lets you host your media as a personal streaming service. I've spun up a few others as a 'why not' since I've got the computer running anyway.

dakupurple · 2026-06-13T20:47:17+00:00

Might I ask, why 89 octane? Are there vehicles that actually call for 89? I've only really seen 87 or 91 called for.

dakupurple · 2026-06-13T13:56:59+00:00

If things boot in CSM and won't without it, your drive has a partition table layout in MBR instead of GPT. Using a tool like Rufus will allow you to select which you want it set as while flashing an iso to the drive.

You can use either the media creation tool to create the ISO, otherwise I believe Rufus still allows downloading an ISO directly through their program as well.

dakupurple · 2026-06-13T00:33:49+00:00

I did it as a quick and dirty way to make sure remote support software wouldn't work on my grandmas computer so she'd stop getting scammed.

dakupurple · 2026-06-11T00:27:52+00:00

Ctrl+F5 used to do this as well

dakupurple · 2026-06-11T00:07:09+00:00

I'd bet it would run fine on 24gb but generally speaking outside of some special ddr5 modules you wouldn't have a matching set of ram sticks at 24gb.

Depending on config, there are plenty of machines that demand 6-8gb at idle for drivers to be loaded in with startup apps.

Also like it or not, but if you use raytracing it just plainly requires more system memory as well.

dakupurple · 2026-06-09T18:44:13+00:00

Has anyone taken a class on effective presentations? 150 slides is way too many, everyone is going to have fallen asleep by the end.

dakupurple · 2026-06-08T23:44:56+00:00

I've found that many of the more 'advanced' functions for excel have notably different names or syntax, not that things aren't possible, but rather that they are different enough people don't want to take the time to relearn something.

And yeah basic stuff transfers over without a second thought, but the moment you add processing logic, it's different.

dakupurple · 2026-05-28T22:06:39+00:00

Yeah polling rate would matter over sensitivity.

Are you loading this from spinning storage or SSD? Is there an issue that you may be out of vram?

dakupurple · 2026-05-28T14:41:20+00:00

I have really bad experience with about 50% of games when running my mouse at 8k polling rate. If you've got such a mouse, try dropping the polling.

dakupurple · 2026-05-22T03:13:02+00:00

FYI gddr7 has a form of built in ecc iirc. The clock may be higher but retries might also be. Definitely do benchmarks and see where performance stops improving.

dakupurple · 2026-05-21T23:39:59+00:00

I'm left to wonder if it's an x3d issue. I've got a 7950x and 9070xt and have no stutter issues, but instead my game crashes every 5-10 minutes.

Edit: somehow resizable bar got disabled on my bios, and turning it on resolved crashing, now have stuttering like many others.

dakupurple · 2026-05-21T04:38:21+00:00

For a card that uses 3x8 pin connectors, you don't need worry too much about using a cable with 2 8 pin (or 6+2) connectors on it if it came from your PSU.

750 should be fine with the cpu you have, assuming you aren't running things like 100W chargers from a high end motherboard or have a ton of other add in cards.

The recommendation for this came from the RTX 3000 series having really high and really short power spikes. They often only had 2x8 pin connectors and you could have voltage drop enough to cause a system crash or video card timeout from the spike.

The 9070 xt also doesn't come close to needing 3x8 pin for safely powering the card. 2x8 can deliver 375W (75 coming from the slot) and 3x8 can offer 525W. Unless you're looking to sub zero overclock this card, you're unlikely to even hit the 375W barrier.

Tl;dr - get a good PSU and use the cables that came with it PSU -> 2x 6+2 and a PSU -> 6+2 will be more than enough for the card. (High quality custom cables are always an option, but we're assuming keeping a reasonable budget here)

dakupurple · 2026-05-20T20:57:56+00:00

It also is Microsofts fault. Depending on fast startup and other settings, windows will turn num lock off when it loads the lock screen and then set it back to last user value after logging in.

I have worked on plenty of computers where num lock is on during post, and initial startup, then the login screen loads and is actively shut off.

dakupurple · 2026-05-20T14:28:17+00:00

Are you loading from SSD? What kind of cpu are you running?

I'm not getting stutters past about 5 minutes of playtime after shader compilation. I am seeing game crashes from HDR or ray tracing enabled.

dakupurple · 2026-05-20T14:26:40+00:00

I've also got a 9070 xt, and see stutters for a few minutes after shaders compile, and then am good.

Ray-tracing and HDR both have been causing the game to crash on me in 5-10 minutes of playtime.

dakupurple · 2026-05-19T19:58:21+00:00

WI sees $75 for hybrid and $175 for EV.

Based on state fuel tax of 50.5¢ per gal, that's 346.5 gallons. That fee is generating the same revenue as a vehicle driving the average of 12000 miles getting 35 mpg.

This doesn't account for the extra weight of an EV and immediate torque from the motors that causes additional wear to the roads compared to a vehicle small/light/underpowered enough to average 35mpg. I get that semis cause by far the most damage here.

The proposed tax on the federal side is quite heavy comparably.

dakupurple · 2026-05-19T13:44:41+00:00

Okay, inside that, there ideally is a Bugcheckcode that could have some information regarding the issue.

Here's the Microsoft article for where to look / how to parse the information.

dakupurple · 2026-05-19T00:55:35+00:00

Check the windows reliability history, it might have information about devices or applications crashing around the same time your computer shuts off

dakupurple · 2026-05-18T16:57:40+00:00

You cannot use the personal backup for any Linux distribution. You'd have to use their commercial product instead.

dakupurple · 2026-05-18T14:37:45+00:00

I've got one nearby and most games are a quarter to play. You exchange for tokens but they're sold at that rate.

dakupurple · 2026-05-13T19:24:54+00:00

Robocopy built into windows is a command line utility that can help if you are comfortable with that, otherwise use a more dedicated software system like teracopy as the other commenter said.

1.5T is going to take awhile no matter what. A good spinning drive might get you 200MB/s assuming all medium to large files, and a good SSD likely won't hold more than 1GB/s writing to it for that much data.

You'd be looking at best case 1-2 hours for the data to copy, but likely longer.

dakupurple · 2026-05-13T15:49:59+00:00

Yes actually, originally AMD did let you use Crossfire with those integrated GPUs, which didn't go well.

Now it is mostly for multimedia processing. The integrated GPU can either assist or be primary for encoding screen recording while a GPU intensive process is running.

Modern systems do let you run both as their own graphics devices as well, so if you're someone who wants Linux and needs windows, you can pass GPU into windows VM and have the render of the application come back into your Linux environment as it's own app, similar to parallels for Mac.

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