Mr. Fox

9995WX scored a whopping 173K in Cinebench R23, LOL. 🤣 Around 26% faster than its predecessor. 5.0GHz on 96 cores.

The boundaries of stupidity are unlimited. Collective Shout is collectively stupid.

One of the reasons I have so many drives on my computers is that I loathe partitions and multipurpose drives. Both of my desktops have drives with a W10 LTSC NVMe for my work OS, a W10 LTSC NVMe for my "not work" OS, a W11 NVMe crash dummy OS to occasionally re-validate my hatred for W11 and a Linux NVMe. Beyond that I single-purpose other drives as well. A drive for storage of work-related files. A drive for personal file storage. Drive(s) for games. A drive for Macrium Reflect images. A scratch drive for temporary "garbage" files. My personal preferences rarely ever change, but my "needs" have and now I need Windows less than ever. There are only two applications my job requires that only run on Windows (Excel and PowerBI). They only function on Windows and there are no fully functional Linux equivalents. My needs for work have changed over time. For a very long time (about 35 years) almost everything I did for work necessitated the use of Windows. But today (the past 5 years) the vast majority of my work is performed in a web-based environment. I'm not benching any more. I seldom game, and I am losing interest in that. In no small part because I have a narrow preference in genres and there are very few titles released that hold any interest for me. We are all creatures of habit with preferences that are often shaped by bias and opinion. To some degree, some more than others, we equate preference with need. Distinguishing the two is often challenging for us. My extreme contempt for what Windows has become is a major driving factor behind my pursuit of a Windoze-free life. This has brought about significant shifts in my personal preferences that never would have occurred otherwise. Being a rebel that thrives on resistance and rejects anything resembling command and control, that derives a high degree of personal satisfaction in defiance of status quo and deliberate in demonstrating malice and extreme prejudice toward ideas and concepts I do not approve of, I am finding Linux is a better fit. It nurtures that rebel beast inside of me, whereas Winduhz is evolving into a source of antagonism, wrath and rage against the machine. By nature, I actually like that.

CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

Micro$lop makes embracing Linux easier than ever. You can easily convert Pro to LTSC IoT and activate it permanently with a digital license using a Powershell script. No need to clean install. If you are not sure how drop me a PM.

If/when that happens I will use whatever motherboard I have until it stops working and replace it with another one like it. Or, I will not have a computer. I will not tolerate tech companies deciding things for me. Screw 'em... they will deserve to die if that happens and I will do my part to help.

I don't give a rat's butt about Secure Boot. Always disabled on the first boot of a new motherboard, along with TPM, and never re-enabled again. Ever. Fake security blanket rubbish to make Micro$lop seem more relevant and important than they should be. CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

I doubt there is anyone working at EVGA at this point that know anything about GPU or motherboard repair. Probably handled by another company now. I would not send anything to them for warranty repair at this point because of that.

I watched that video earlier today and baking a video card to reflow is a terrible idea. I have always thought it was a terrible idea. This video showed a great example of why it's a bad idea. But I'm not sure about the accuracy of whether or not that is how an EVGA refurbish repair is handled. I suspect Tony is going off of what the owner told him. They probably do not even have any electronics repair staff left, so it probably got refurbished by another company on their behalf. The decal could be a forgery as well.

They (Micro$lop) can kiss my hind end, Brother Papusan. I will be sure to let a big wet and smelly fart right as their lips touch my butt.

Latest and greatest Kubuntu with Plasma 6. Loving it.

Winduhz 11 is just a scummy piece of crap any way you slice it. The best way to run Windoze is in a Linux virtual machine because it is not a respectable solution any more. I am half way through week #2 of using exclusively Linux and only launching Windowz in a vm when it is absolutely necessary to perform a task that can only be performed using a Windoes-only application. But, I am still not using that ultra-filthy malware version of it. It feels better than it ever has to avoid Micro$lop garbage. Since I'm more or less no longer benching, I don't need it for that and benching was one of the excuses I used for continuing to use it. If things continue playing out this well I will have three NVMe SSDs in each desktop (6 in total) that I can erase and use for something other than a Weendoze digital cesspool.

Your nephew will (should) be super happy. Those are some decent upgrades from Uncle Electrosoft. ❤️ He should be commended for exploring Linux as a solution to the Micro$lop cancer dung OS. I am approaching the end of week #2 using Linux exclusively and only resorting to opening Windoze in a virtual machine when I need to do something that only PowerBI and Excel can do. As soon as I am done I shut it down. No regrets. If I didn't need to use those applications for work I would not even bother with the virtual machine. Kubuntu with Plasma 6 is fantastic. Very satisfied and even more impressed than I have been in the past with Linux. I'm so sick of the nonsense from the Redmond Retards. 25H2 is going to be the most vile strain of colon cancer to have ever emanated from their posterior orifice.

If you haven't already, maybe give kubuntu a try. I like Mint with Cinnamon DE a lot and it used to be my favorite. But now I prefer KDE Plasma over Mint. Both are an easy GUI for Windows users to embrace. One of the nice things about Linux is you can change the desktop environment on almost any distro to satisfy personal preference. Imagine how much happier some Windows users would be to have the ability to install a Window XP, 7, 2000 or 8.X desktop environment on Window 10 or 11 if they dislike the default GUI. Using "skins" works to a degree, but it is never more than a partial and superficial transformation. And doing it tends to break things and sometimes requires some pretty sketchy tweaks. There is certainly a learning curve and those of us that have grown used to Windows over the decades can find it frustrating navigating unfamiliar waters. I am forcing myself to become as well-versed in Linux as possible so I can eventually (hopefully) no longer have any use for Windows. I am closer than ever and hope I can reach a point that Windows becomes as irrelevant and worthless to me as MacOS.

That was a good video. Looks like I got really lucky with the Elite. Clocks higher anyhow, and I bought it for less than it is currently going for. I am looking forward to seeing how the hotspot and memory temps look on water. High hotspot and memory temps is really the only thing about it that I dislike. Otherwise it is a real banger that offers excellent value to performance. I'm not a huge fan of the Adrenaline driver model. It seems very bloated and has lots of unnecessary consumer garbage, but the same is true of a "stock" GeFarts driver install with the NVIDIA App and all of its associated crap. If I didn't have NVCleanstall to exorcise all of the rubbish it would be equally bloated as Adrenaline IMHO. Once I get the GPU block I will tinker more with the RadeonSlimmer application to see how much trash I can remove without breaking things. I really don't get why NVIDIA and AMD GPU drivers have such a huge payload of garbage. Maybe some people actually find value in it. I don't.

Check this performance optimization thing. Uses https://grok.com/

I haven't needed to use Windows with a Windows 10 VM available to run the stuff for work that doesn't function on Linux. It's good having a largely Windoze-free experience. The only game that I have tried lately that is not working (yet) on Linux for me is Doom: The Dark Ages. All prior versions of Doom run like they are native. I decided to play with Bazzite and installed it alongside Zorin, Windows 10 and 11. It's OK but I am not liking the distro. One of its features that many actually like I do not like. The OS itself installs to a relatively small read-only ext4 partition and everything else on a btrfs partition. Installing applications using apt and other repositories is more restrictive as well. That's the part I do not like. I think for a user wanting it to function as a Steam OS for gaming and doesn't do much else with the OS it is an excellent no-fuss option that remains very stable and reliable. I don't really care about having or need for the OS to be in such a guarded state. Security is fine until it interferes with freedom or slows things down, then I'm done caring about it.

There are ways to control the scrolling speed in the mouse setup options. Sometimes things are harder to find and more limited in Zorin. It's a great OS for those new to Linux though. Probably the best option overall. KDE Plasma DE has much more robust configuration options. It can be installed on Zorin. Depending on what kernel you are running you might find WiFi/BT support in a newer kernel.

So, Alphacool Core finally became available for my 9070 XT. I ordered one and should receive it in a couple of weeks. https://shop.alphacool.com/shop/gpu-wasserkuehlung/amd/14780-alphacool-core-rx-9070-xt-aorus-elite-mit-backplate

Breathing air and drinking water causes cancer.

Never-ended drama with security stuff. Kind of like literally every substance known to man causes cancer.