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    I've been using this for about five years and I don't see myself ever going back to MS File Explorer. You can get a 30-day trial and extend it once (60 days total) to try it out. I ended up getting it cheaper than the list price through a Humble Bundle deal (which was conveniently timed for around when my trial period was running out). There is periodically a sale, maybe around Cyber Monday time you could see one. There's a bit of a learning curve if you really want to figure it out and use the full potential of the program. It is customizable to an absurd degree. There is a support forum as well and the developer is responsive there. I've had a couple of minor bugs fixed promptly, and he'll also answer some "How do I.....?" questions. Also, version 12.x has been current for a long time. If he ever bumps it up to version 13 then it is expected that there will be an upgrade fee. (Using a Start Menu replacement as well. ...If there was a decent taskbar replacement then it wouldn't really feel like I was using Windows anymore. :-P)
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    Sigh. https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-patch-tuesday-kb5013943-causing-bsods-black-screen-buggy-teams-discord/ Did they really remove .NET Framework 3.5 as part of a routine monthly patch? That's the sort of change that should (at least) be reserved for a feature upgrade. If they're going to be doing those yearly, they can afford to wait for one.
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    Intel Ark pages for the 7X70 CPUs: i5-12600HX, i7-12800HX, i7-12850HX, i9-12900HX, i9-12950HX Looking at i9-12900HX vs. i9-12950HX: These CPUs have the same clock speed (base & boost), same power limits, but a different feature set. These features are listed for 12950HX only: ECC memory support Intel vPro platform eligibility Intel vPro enterprise platform eligibility Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) Intel Total Memory Encryption Intel Total Memory Encryption - Multi Key (TXT is interesting to have missing on the 12900. My ten-year-old Ivy Bridge i7-3820QM supports that, as do the 6th- and 8th-gen non-Xeon H-series CPUs that I have used in other Precision systems... I've never actually used it for anything, though.) 12900 does have "better" overclocking capability but I'm not sure what the ins and outs of that are, yet. Overclocking might not even be enabled in the Precision systems. Dell has typically locked this out at the BIOS level. Curiously, the 12950HX is listed as cheaper than 12900HX if you look at "recommended customer price" on the Ark pages. Intel is also stating that these CPUs support 16 lanes of PCIe5, and that this is for "future proofing" with PCIe5 storage and graphics options hitting the market. Storage makes sense, I guess (though there is no indication that 7X70 will support PCIe5 storage). On the graphics side, I've seen rumors floating recently that NVIDIA's upcoming Lovelace GPUs will only support PCIe4 and not PCIe5, so there might not be much to use those PCIe5 lanes for in the near future.
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    Had a Dell rep tell me that Precision 7770 will be available to order by "end of May".
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    Alder Lake HX is public as of now. [Edit]
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    The Precision 7770 spec sheet has been "unlocked" this morning. You can pull it straight from Dell without an account login required. (Full CPU spec options are included.) https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/workstations/technical-support/precision-7770-spec-sheet.pdf 7670 still requires a login at the moment. This just to say, something is happening on the Dell side. Intel event starts in 30 minutes.
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    Another thing that you could try would be disabling scaling for Thunderbird. Find the executable and right-click on it. Select "Properties", go to Compatibility -> Change high DPI settings -> Override high DPI scaling behavior -> System (from the drop-down). Then restart any running Thunderbird instance. (Text won't look as nice but maybe the graphical issues are gone?)
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    Well, I skimmed the presentation and it looks like it didn't have anything to do with Alder Lake HX after all. 🤦🏼‍♂️ They are copying Apple's "here's everything about our product in boxes on one screen" format... The products were mostly "thin and light" type systems that wouldn't make sense for Alder Lake HX. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-zenbook-duo-pro-flip-mid-2022-price-specs Anyway... until tomorrow! It might be a very interesting day (and I might have a huge hole in my wallet).
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    ASUS has their "pinnacle of performance" event starting momentarily. The purpose of this event seems to be to drop new information on their Alder Lake HX laptop lineup, so, until recently I was expecting Intel announce Alder Lake HX this morning via press release or something, before ASUS's event. Something similar happened last year with Tiger Lake H45; ASUS announced their event in advance without really saying what it was for, but everybody "knew", so we suspected that was the Tiger Lake H45 reveal date — and then Intel indeed had a CPU information dump shortly before ASUS's event. However, nothing has come out of Intel this morning, and it is now widely expected that Intel will unveil Alder Lake HX tomorrow at Intel Vision 2022. So, I am supposing that ASUS will do something similar to what Dell did and announce these laptops but without including full details on the CPUs? (Unless perhaps Intel is going to be announcing Alder Lake HX simultaneously with this ASUS presentation, which would be a first I think.) The interest here being that Precision 7X70 laptops cannot go on sale before Intel actually formally announces Alder Lake HX, which is a pretty poorly kept secret at this point. Intel Vision 2022 starts tomorrow at 10 AM U.S. Eastern time (14:00 UTC). An announcement during the opening keynote seems quite possible, or it could maybe even come slightly before the conference starts via press material.
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    I noticed that if you start typing in the tag field, it will give you some suggestions of previously used tags. Not a drop-down but hopefully close enough as the tag list will be huge. (I imagine that mods are already able to edit tags. You just have to edit the top post of a thread to get access to the screen to do it.)
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    I can modify tags on threads that I have made. I was referring to threads that other users have made. I'd like to have some consistency with tags on each thread at least as far as to which systems the thread applies to.
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    So since Super Mario 64 has been fully reverse engineered, there is actually a proper PC release of it now as well (with support for mods and the like), you don't have to run it in an emulator. You can built it with sm64pcBuilder2, and you do need a copy of the ROM for assets. (Same thing is going on with Ocarina of Time, and similar work on other games is in progress.) For N64 emulation in general, look at RetroArch + mupen64plus-next core + paraLLEI RDP graphics engine. Using RetroArch is nice because it consolidates many emulators into one frontend, so while it does take some "getting used to", at least you will be able to put your know-how to use to run games for many different systems and not just one. paraLLEI RDP just came into the picture in 2020. It is actually a low-level implementation of the N64 graphics hardware that runs as GPU shaders, so it is fast enough to run games with the resolution scaled up but provides a highly accurate implementation of the N64 graphics system so you can run pretty much any game without visual bugs.
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    Tags: Is it OK if I send requests to the mods to add / clean up tags on existing threads? I'm looking at the Precision subforum in particular. I did just go add tags to threads that I started, and I'd like to use a consistent format for applying the model names to different topics so that you can just click on a tag and get a list of threads that apply to that system. There's some inconsistency ("precision m6800" vs. "dell precision m6800") and also a number of threads with no tags. NBRCHIVE & data transfer: I'll apologize for not spending more time on getting this tidied up. I do intend to make a more presentable list of threads, and I also want to build a proper sitemap so that search engines can build out the index more quickly. It'll probably be some weeks yet before I have time to work on those aspects, and there are a number of more minor "quality of life" improvements that need to be made as well. If anyone would like direct access to the files to facilitate a transfer of information to this forum, reach out to me via PM and I'll get you set up with SFTP access. A condition for now will be that you have something of a reputation here already and that you agree to not repost the archive in its entirety elsewhere. (I do plan to open the archive up for more easy "full dumping" in the future, so that the archive can persist in the event that something happens to me or my ability to host it; I'd just like to have it in a more cleaned up state first.) I would say, we should generally treat both NBR and NBT content as "owned" by the user who created it (even though I guess that NBR content is technically "owned" by TechTarget). if you are transferring over a guide or something that was written by a member who has joined on NBT, I think you should reach out to them first and see if they would like to repost it here under their name before you go and do it.
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    Almost there! Here are the full details on the HX CPUs. Noticing that while 12950 has vPro and ECC support, it does not have “unlimited core OC” that 12900 has (not sure what that means exactly). 157W max power, wow. (Dell may have limits set lower.)
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    Bottom right corner and unfortunately “invisible” (white icon on white background) unless you are using a dark theme. Hover around and you should see options pop out. You can switch themes with the drop down at the very bottom of any page.
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    Larger XPS systems ship with 130W power adapters. As an example, the Core i9-11980H CPU can draw over 85W of power by itself under high load (turbo boost), so a 100W power adapter wouldn't leave you a lot of headroom for other devices (the GPU, the display, the drives, the fans, USB devices attached, ...). So, if you push the system under load then you will most likely see some CPU and/or GPU throttling with a 100W power adapter. Under a light/"office" workload then it would probably be fine. You'd also want to test how the XPS 17 behaves with an underpowered PSU connected. I think most recent Dell systems handle this reasonably well but I have seen some that throttle very aggressively in this situation. (So, only buy one of these if you can return it, in the case that it doesn't work out.) I'd say maybe this would be a nice thing to put in your travel bag, but keep the original 130W power adapter at your desk or wherever the primary spot is that you use your XPS. USB-C power delivery is still advancing. Just now, cables supporting up to 240W of power delivery over a single USB-C connection are starting to hit the market. Maybe we will see combo chargers like this that can output more than 100W over a single port in the not-too-distant future.
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    I haven't tried streaming gaming yet but I have hard time believing that I'd be happy with it... Unlike streaming video where the endpoint client can buffer up several seconds or minutes of video, gaming has to be real time, so there is no room for buffering. Turnaround time from input -> transmit to data center -> run the game -> encode video output (compression artifacts!) -> send back to endpoint/client -> decode and display has to be what, 50 ms or less before you'd start noticing the lag? And no interruptions in the data flow at all. You'd have to have a really solid Internet connection.
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    So I am having to replace the HVAC system in my home, and I am figuring that I will take the opportunity to investigate smart thermostat options (Nest, etc.). Anyone mess with any of these and have any feedback? I’m mostly interested in being able to set up schedules, control it remotely, and HomeKit support. Not necessarily interested in having it do things like tell me the weather, and definitely not interested in having it listen to me (Alexa, etc.). I’m investigating on my own but was sort of wondering if anyone in the crowd here has experience with one of these and has something that they would recommend or not recommend.
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    Are you running at >100% display scaling in Windows? You could try disabling hardware graphics acceleration in Thunderbird and see if that makes a difference.
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    "Lower temperature threshold" needs to be something that is achievable. (65 °C maybe?) The program will not try to lock the fan speed unless the temperatures are below that value. If it says "waiting for embedded controller to activate the fans", I guess that the fans are off (0 RPM)? The program can't lock in the fan speed until the fans are running. Wait for the EC to decide to turn them on, or run something that will generate a bit of load. (I never have to generate load. The system will kick them on eventually.)
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    Hmm, interesting, I didn't realize that this was a thing. Regarding high-end GPUs, HP does make some Quadro RTX (Turing) MXM cards. The layout is off a bit but RTX 3000 has been demonstrated working in the M6700 (by drilling new holes through the GPU heatsink). It doesn't even have the vBIOS/BSOD issue the Pascal cards have in the M6700/M6800. RTX 5000 has the same layout so it should also work. I'd think that these cards would also work in other systems, if they physically fit (and with a heatsink mod). https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/dell-precision-m6700-nvidia-turing-rtx-card-discussion-thread.833140/index.html (Sorry you can't really see the pictures. Still need to fix attachments in NBRCHIVE.) I also haven't heard a whisper about the possibility of Ampere MXM GPUs. You would think RTX A1000/A2000/A3000 at least would be possible on a regular card.
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    If you did want to raise the power limit it would probably just require flashing a different vBIOS on there... If you could find the "official Dell" vBIOS for this GPU then that would be ideal. It's hard to get to the point of a temperature problem with these beefy NVIDIA GPU chips that are intended to run in desktops at higher power levels. When I tried P5000 in the M6700, it would pull around 110W and I was still never able to get it anywhere near thermal throttling. I have noted that it leveled off at around 76 °C when I put it under an extended load. (That was with the fan running full tilt, though.) Also, doesn't matter to you since you are done already, but to anyone else: the X-bracket is easier to get off if you apply some heat (heat gun or hair dryer).
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    It's not a Windows problem. The BIOS can't see the drive either. I can go to the "Storage" section of BIOS setup and it will show no drive installed int he slot, and in the case of me moving the Windows drive into the PCIe4 slot, the BIOS throws an error about no boot volume available. (It will also be completely absent from Disk Management and Device Manager when this is going on with a non-Windows drive.) Sorry, I missed this post. The setting is under security and it is called something like "UEFI Capsule Firmware Updates". If it is on, you will see a "Firmware" category in Device Manager. If the "firmware" device gets updated with a new driver (which contains a new BIOS image) then the BIOS will be flashed. Microsoft sometimes pushes these down through Windows Update.
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    1.10.1 is removed as well. (Don't know if anyone noted that.) They're all the way back down to 1.5.0 as the only option. All of the newer ones have a note saying that once you upgrade, you can't downgrade below 1.8.0, so if there really is some issue with these newer ones, and you have upgraded to one of them, then you are stuck. I also noticed that MS is pushing either 1.10.1 or 1.11.0 down through Windows Update as of a few days ago. It could be automatically installed if you have capsule updates enabled in BIOS setup (which is the default configuration). If you would like to make sure that you are in control of when BIOS updates happen, turn that off.
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    I have this thread on installing a M.2 Wi-Fi card in the M6700, it would be pretty much the same with M6800. You need U.FL to MHF4 antenna connectors/adapters as well. I have AX200 installed right now; I think AX210 should also work, but haven't tried it. https://www.nbrchive.net/forum.notebookreview.com/threads/m-2-ngff-wireless-cards-in-precision-m4x00-m6x00-my-experience-with-m6700.821863/ (I am pretty sure M6800 does not support XMP memory profiles. I don't think that Dell added that until Precision 7730.)
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