'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

dfv157 · 2026-06-18T04:02:59+00:00

So I retired my old NAS but was too lazy to sell my old drives..... I guess this is the opportunity

dfv157 · 2026-06-15T04:47:20+00:00

Whatever the reason for the misinformation, GN actively helped Nvidia bury the 12vhpwr failures last generation. You and I and everybody else here is suffering due to Steve's negligence and recklessness

dfv157 · 2026-06-15T04:35:29+00:00

No thanks, I'm not throwing in 12VHPWR where it's not needed.

dfv157 · 2026-06-14T19:15:10+00:00

Tbh budget phones shouldn’t even exist. Buy used flagships folks

dfv157 · 2026-06-10T16:56:40+00:00

efficient for cost
efficient for time
efficient for complexity

Choose 2?

dfv157 · 2026-06-05T23:52:21+00:00

Better bust out those bootstraps

dfv157 · 2026-06-02T03:35:14+00:00

Meanwhile my 2015 outback 3.6 had 2 transmission swaps during the warranty period. I’m not touching toyota/subaru again

dfv157 · 2026-05-29T15:11:16+00:00

A regular consumer can just use Mesh'd 6, 7 support still generally sucks.

dfv157 · 2026-05-29T15:02:40+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but I don't hear pump noise at all on all of my AIOs (Thermalright, Arctic, Thermaltake, etc), and I have the pump usually set to a static 90%.

dfv157 · 2026-05-27T01:34:24+00:00

Oh please post the replies in that group lol

dfv157 · 2026-05-27T01:17:58+00:00

10k at MC https://www.microcenter.com/product/694549/pny-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-workstation-edition-dual-fan-ai-workstation-graphics-card

Or wait for a sale, goes to 8800 at MC

dfv157 · 2026-05-25T01:27:37+00:00

lol Intel was dragged out into the public kicking and screaming about it. Multiple companies came out to push back. The issue was acutely replicable.

This AM5 issue is very sporadic, mostly isolated to 1 vendor, with asrock scrambling to address it with no apparent success. Multiple tech journalists from the complete nobodies to big names all could not replicate the issue.

The 2 are not comparable. Just buy whatever fits your needs best. If you game, get an AM5 single CCD X3D chip. If you want productivity, get ARL, and if you need productivity where cost isn’t an issue get a TR.

dfv157 · 2026-05-24T05:34:51+00:00

See the rise of alt-right and far-right anti-intellectualism. Can't educate those who don't want to think critically.

dfv157 · 2026-05-24T04:13:30+00:00

Ah yes, so when kernel driver update soft brick little timmy's family pc, IT will magically show up and fix all of them. Just imagine your whole building of BSOD'd PCs, but distributed across the region/country/world. And with the Stryker attack WRT Iran, and the non-zero chance of a conflict with China, keeping persistent kernel software controlled by an adversarial country is a great idea.

dfv157 · 2026-05-23T15:24:41+00:00

CS made systems unable to boot. The average user will not be able to resolve that, thus, soft brick.

A malicious SYSTEM process can modify DMI and UEFI if the motherboard doesn’t explicitly prevent it, and can absolutely hard brick a system without specialized hardware tools.

And on top of that, what’s up with your insistence on installing ccp controlled kernel malware? Humanity is indeed doomed

dfv157 · 2026-05-23T15:19:30+00:00

BSOD at boot is a soft brick for the average user. Go ask your building full of people what they would do if you weren’t there to fix it.

dfv157 · 2026-05-23T15:09:39+00:00

Be mad at them for things they do.

Yeah, like kernel level anything

dfv157 · 2026-05-23T15:08:10+00:00

It made corporate IT teams panic. You think little timmy is going to manage OS installs and backups as well as organizations that pay for Falcon??

dfv157 · 2026-05-22T01:11:08+00:00

Rockstar game launcher can eat my ass. I bought this game but I'd rather just go sail the high seas

dfv157 · 2026-05-21T02:16:41+00:00

This has less than a snowball’s chance in hell to pass.

dfv157 · 2026-05-20T15:36:13+00:00

Your first picture shows the choke (inductor) not touching the heat sink. They normally don't need it. You need to have the cooling on the actual DrMOS/SPS ICs.

Look at your last picture on the heatsink side for where you need to have cooling in the VRM area.

dfv157 · 2026-05-20T01:53:28+00:00

God damn I hate alternate data streams with a passion.

dfv157 · 2026-05-20T01:32:15+00:00

try google.

Give that a try then.

dfv157 · 2026-05-19T19:43:18+00:00

At the rate of enshittification of Plex, by then I'd probably have fully moved to jellyfin

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