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  1. Etern4l
    What's particularly sad about this is that every dollar spent on this garbage is not spent supporting proper PC builders and component manufacturers.
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    None that I could see.
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    So the actual "evidence" is of a reverse situation: C... selling rather than buying a CPU. I would say if want to get to the bottom of this and it is indeed EVGA-related business, contact them for verification/clarification.
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    Alright, so the library I had in mind is more for in-depth CPU performance monitoring, but found a way to access wattage too: https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Tuning-Performance/Is-there-an-energy-profiling-tool-to-monitor-CPU-power/td-p/1167463 sudo turbostat --debug A bit of a raw solution, not sure there is any GUI, but if you make the terminal wide enough, it's usable verbatim - look for PkgWatt.
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    Not very impressed by their choice of comparison pastes. Also, no W/m*K this time. I guess it's not record-beating then. Intriguing though, looking forward to further reviews..
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    Yeah I could use that too. It doesn't look like lm_sensors provides that, I'm running through full config (sensors-detect) now. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/lm_sensors There is an Intel library that provides that and loads more (actually more that's available in HWInfo as regards the CPU itself), I'm trying to find it, although it looked a bit heavy at first glance. In the meantime, perhaps @Mr. Fox will have some tips. Edit: nope, lm_sensors won't show power.
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    Just a sanity check: this "server" is actually a laptop, so no UV in BIOS? If so, I would start with this: https://github.com/georgewhewell/undervolt seems like it event takes a Throttlestop.ini file... As for monitoring, things are a bit trickier. Live voltages/power are particularly difficult, I found one library but haven't had a chance to use it. On a very basic level you can see temps in Htop provided lm-sensors module is installed. You can also try HardInfo (pretty sure it's going to be available as a package from the app store). @Mr. Fox
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    Imagine how you'd feel if there was just a shipping confirmation on the left... Even if there was just a 10% chance of something going wrong, would you be happy with that? 10% sounds quite conservative now. A very minor lesson learned, moving on.
  9. Etern4l
    Ugh, a bit of a mess, sorry about that. To be fair, I did warn you but the guy was supposed to be legit.... Good thing you got the last minute warning I guess. I'm sure you can contact PayPal support and tell them to cancel the transaction and refund the guy. Fair to assume he won't do an F&F payment, even if he is legit.
  10. Etern4l
    Well, if something looks too good to be true, it probably is. Interesting to know how a scam like that might work (other than the EVGA mobo not materialising). Did he send you the money already?
  11. Etern4l
    Well, recessions generally pull prices down. As for holiday season, well, true, although Black Friday is coming. I wonder what will look like though in terms of graphics cards... Hopefully not "2% OFF! Expires is 2 minutes!". Basically manufacturers figured it's cool to do semi-paper releases. There is still no 4090 FE stock in NVIDIA shop in the US and UK. It's a joke. Intel was only a bit better. Now, it's possible they've recalled the cards to fix the 12VHPWR issue, but then one would expect some sort of statement.
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    Haha. I mean it's not too far off scalped prices during the crypto boom, except we are in recession, GPU mining is dead, and crypto is going from winter to collapse. I'll bet though some people will rationalise the spend by comparison to prices 18 months ago... Exactly as per Jensen' s plan: to party like it's 2021.
  13. Etern4l
    Looks good, congrats. Did that offer arrive after you pointed him to the unicorn chip pricing advice people provided in this thread?
  14. Etern4l
    Artificial scarcity, or real shortages? We'll get some hints soon by looking at Radeon 7 availability.
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    Yes, it is a bit weird. While apparently Arizona is only the 31th state in terms of population density - which could be a factor, Phoenix itself is the 5th most populous US city (I didn't actually know that). You would think this would be high enough on the priority list. Still, probably best to avoid jumping to loosely founded conclusions, there could be some legal issues for instance.
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    Good news: TSMC Reportedly Looks To Raise a Second Arizona Chip Fab And an answer to an immediate question an outsider would pose: Here’s why TSMC and Intel keep building foundries in the Arizona desert It's also interesting to take a look at the broad overview and history of the CHIPS and Science Act which basically enabled this. Kind of beggars belief not everyone was onboard, but I guess let's leave it there.
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    Will be interesting to see the pricing of both the Max GPUs and Sapphire Rapids....
  18. Etern4l
    Have you had a chance to compare Vivaldi with Brave?
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    BTW is it just me or is it very difficult not to using the standard interface if replying to posts across more than one page? Adding a quote, responding and clicking next results in a loss of comment (or at least resulted for me at least once).
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    They could also just offer a single Pro/Home OS and make it more customisable. They could allow the user to choose which features they prefer at install time and dynamically, Linux style. 'Home', 'Pro' would just be default templates, or discounted feature bundles. The fact that they want to charge extra for "pro" and enterprise features, while keeping the pricing model simple would complicate this, hence all this editions mess. That's solvable though, and would probably generate some extra revenue for them (e.g. they could charge $10 for bitlocker, and some people would pay that, but not pay for a whole "Pro" bundle). Ads and tracking should only be present as an opt-in and this should result in a heavily discount or provision of a free licence. More choice and transparency for the consumers. I think that is how Windows might move towards making people feel a renewed sense of purpose of the OS in the modern world, rather than through virtue singalling around Apple's negative PR events.
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    While I generally agree with the sentiment, I would point out that you would see the same ads on a $10k and $10 TVs. The solution in the case of a smartphone is to avoid YT or pay for their ad-free service. Again, if the stipulation is that a notional $1500 Android device should include ad-free YT, I agree in principle, knowing full well it's not realistic as YT has essentially no competition - a corollary from which is that their main competitor Apple wouldn't be able to offer ad-free YT (or equivalent) either.
  22. Etern4l
    $1500 for an Android device is more on the extreme end. Sounds more like Apple pricing target, although these days there is indeed little difference. Bear in mind, that while your smartphone use is minimal, for many (if not most) people the device has become a daily driver and a main camera, and a fashion item, hence the pricing. To be fair, I doubt anyone stable particularly likes ads, and an Android device doesn't really display them other than in the browser and YouTube (both are platform independent). It's just that most people see no choice but to hand over their privacy in exchange for access to what they find to be essential services....
  23. Etern4l
    The proposal to get rid of Enterprise and just offer everything in Pro (as currently priced) would sound good. As long as they don't remove Pro and start charging people who would like the basics such as remote desktop, basic encryption or bitlocker $500 for an Enterprise licence. Or rather it would be great if they did that, as the resulting pain would likely motivate more people to break free of the shackles :)
  24. Etern4l
    Well, Pro is definitely preferable to Home, but I would not require any features offered by Enterprise on a personal device. They should just scrap Home, as this is essentially nothing more than dumbed down Pro (or merge Pro and Home if you like) to reinforce the renewed sense of Windows' purpose in the world ;)
  25. Etern4l
    I tried updating XTU recently, and the garbage OS Windows 11 wouldn't let me because it couldn't find an uninstaller of the earlier version (which probably got deleted by M$'s own system cleanup utility). Whatevs.
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