Mr. Fox

Murphy's Law. More dead RAM kits when RAM prices are at their worst. This seems to be happening freakishly often.

Having rich people pay the way of the poor is always a stupid idea and a plan destined for failure. AI is a stupid "investment" because consumers do not need it or want it bad enough to pay for it. The crazy people sinking billions into it are going to lose their butts and it will bring a smile to my face when they begin to collapse like the Hindenburg and fall from the sky in flames. I use AI, but I won't pay for it. If it is not free then I will not use it. That is the majority sentiment and there is not enough need for it in business for them to be able to charge enough to make a profit. It is causing first-world problems for consumers, system builders and consumer-focused hardware manufacturers with limited supply and stupid GPU, RAM and NVMe prices, but this will pass and all of the money spent to ramp up production to feed the AI pig that collapses will leave those companies in the same dire straits. We will just have to wait for stupidity to runs its course. How long it will take remains to be seen. It will happen when they run out of other people's money.

Employers that do not value their employees often view them as a liability or overhead expense rather than an asset. Companies like that do not deserve to be profitable or successful. They deserve the same treatment as the employees they abuse.

He mentioned it in the post linked by Brother @electrosoft

Best wishes on your new family business venture, brother.

I am glad they did. I hope more AIBs start throwing them under the bus. Maybe even do a burnout on their head, then back over them a second time for good measure. That is better than what they deserve.

It is a great example of an outcome where novelty and the importance of aesthetics triumph over intelligence. There will always be a market where stupidity flourishes.

Hopefully the idiots like Jensen, Lisa Su, Nadella and the rest of the AI cartel will be the first robot-murdered human beings when the machines take over.

Oh yeah, I still need Revo. I use it all of the time for software removals, not just to uninstall Edge. However, it is good that the CTT script allows it in case anyone doesn't have Revo installed. You can also make Edge removable with a couple of minor registry tweaks, but that is more hassle that using CTT debloat or Revo. Revo works good for uninstalling everything. It removes all traces of file remnants and registry keys very effectively. Windoze is such a slop bucket and most program uninstallers do a half-assed job. Revo makes it convenient to uninstall all of the digital UWP app filth from Micro$lop Store. It let's you nuke it like it never existed, even if the UWP crap has no program uninstaller of its own.

Enterprise is the same as Pro except for some added crap for domain networking. LTSC in totally different and dramatically less bloated. IoT has a longer service window than LTSC if you care about updates. Rebloating to play games is only necessary if you play games that are trash-dependent, like crap from Micro$lop Game Studios. Enterprise (non-LTSC) has all of the same bloat you find in Pro already baked in. No difference in terms of bloat between the two. Server performs the same as W10 and W11 IoT LTSC overall. W11 Pro starts to show its bloat a little bit in terms of CPU overhead, but still so close between the three that I don't think it warrants the effort of a clean install for the sake of performance gains because the results are within a normal margin of error. If one needed to do a clean install for other reasons (cancer updates, corruption, malware, etc.) then IoT LTSC is still probably the best option. There is less trash in IoT LTSC to deal with. Server is similar, but has other added nonsense that has to be disabled (like Server Manager loading at startup). At the end of the day none of them are particularly good OSes and there are no dramatic differences. W11 Pro is the slowest OS of all due to the payload of filth and product regressions in general. We already knew that, so no surprise. Unfortunately, I do not have W11 IoT LTSC installed on this system, but that is probably good for the average user in terms of this comparison since it highlights the dumpster fire better. Here are some additional photos with just ordinary gamerboy PBO overclocking (thus lower Cinebench scores and higher CPU-Z single thread scores) versus manual overclocking. Using PBO is probably a better way to compare them since you are leaving the OS to impose its will on hardware versus hardware imposing its will on Windoze. Here are the same images before that you could not see for some reason. The drive tested is the W10 OS drive so take that into consideration on the write speeds.

https://www.overclock.net/posts/29552735/ OK, I have run disk benchmarks and CPU (Cinebench) benchmarks and there is really nothing to write home about. Essentially a waste of time IMHO. I am probably going to reclaim the drive space for storage again because I see no meaningful benefit to having Windows Server installed. I did not run any 3D benchmarks. My W10 and W11 OSes are fully debloated and optimized. I did a bit of debloating to Windows Server as well, but I am not convinced it is worth the effort. I also found a couple of my applications do not install on Windows Server. I get an error telling me the OS is not supported. The disk benchmarks were all run on the same NVMe to avoid variance as much as possible. The caveat is it is the Windows 10 IoT LTSC boot drive, so the speeds will be a bit less on Windows 10 for that reason. But, from my perspective it is within a normal margin of error regardless. Certainly not enough to matter in the grand scheme of things. I may run a couple of 3D benchmarks and if there are any meaningful differences I will post the results, but NVMe and CPU performance offer no meaningful benefit using Windows Server. https://www.overclock.net/attachments/w11-vs-server-jpg.2749319/ https://www.overclock.net/attachments/w10-p310-os-jpg.2749320/

9070 XT is definitely a solid option for raw performance. Radeon features are comparatively low and the hotspot temps are comparatively very high. The minimal amount of time I spend gaming either one would be fine and I would buy the cheapest option as long as a water block is immediately available. I don't think I like any GPU enough to get excited about using it with a stock air cooler.

It makes we want to sell my 5090 for enough to build a complete new system with a nice used 3090 that uses three 8-pin PCIe power connectors.

I will have to test this to see how it compares with the consumer feces versions in benching.

I had already done that and I cannot find anything in my FedEx account relating to it. I do find the delivery several weeks ago but nothing else I can find.

I still have not received one.

PC enthusiast do not have any friends left in the industry where hardware is concerned. We are an annoyance and inconvenience that has been cast aside.

I've applied for a lot of jobs I am ideally suited for and could do with my eyes closed that have not worked out. Ageism is illegal, but it is more real than anyone wants to admit. I have one that looks even better that I have my third interview for today that I pray works out and it would probably end up being the best one I have applied for. The one that looked promising that you referred to is not off the table, but the President wanted to see how how the financials looked for 2025 and how January revenue looks before adding a new c-suite resource to staff. On the WireView Pro... when you get around to it, this screenshot might be useful if you run into any complications getting Windows to correctly identify it. I think the key is manually installing the driver in Device Manager, immediately powering off and unplugging the PSU long enough for the board and everything attached to lose power. It appears there was some sort of delivery failure. I replied and it shows to have been sent, but you evidently cannot see the reply on your end. Thanks for checking on me, brother. I really appreciate it.

Thanks, brother. Still kickin' and looking for work. Sorry to hear that you have been ill, brother. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.

I literally just now watched this video and was coming here to post it. 👍 @tps3443 might want to watch this.