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Mr. Fox

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  1. I totally get what you're saying, and I agree that what's happening is problematic. It is corrupt and nefarious by design, and a product of wicked invention for sure. But, it's not a legitimate example of free enterprise or a free market. It is an example of an industry that enjoys all of the benefits of operating in such an environment, but abuses the privilege and manipulates circumstances in surreptitious ways to enhance their ill-gotten wealth at the expense of all who are willing to accommodate them.
  2. Yes, totally. They should be required to unlock the bootloader even on brand new devices on launch day. They have no legitimate right to block anything. They can void the warranty if you brick it, but it's otherwise none of their business what happens to it as soon as someone purchases the product. It no longer belongs to them and they should not legally be able to interfere with the use of it, regardless of what that use entails. OnePlus as well as Google phones. That's why I own a OnePlus phone. But, you need to buy a generic one some place like Amazon. If you buy a phone from one of the cellular Nazis like AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile or Sprint it will have their special cancer.
  3. My wife hates it when I state the obvious, but I still do it because I enjoy listening to my own sermons. In case it is not obvious for some reason, I am a ultra-conservative, Christian anarchist that is generally of the opinion that less government in our lives means more prosperity, happiness and healthiness. Government (any government) should exist only to enforce laws enacted by the people and provide a formidable and aggressive military force to protect the freedom of its citizens and the private property owned by them, and control the borders and territories of the nation it is hired to serve. When they assume a right to do anything more than that, it is a servant that needs to be fired, and its rule is an illegitimate, overreaching, derelict government that no longer serves a useful purpose. Our current government is the worst in our nation's history, and the current incompetent and exceedingly corrupt administration is a joke that has made us laughingstock to our enemies and allies. The EU rules its citizens subjects by fiat, and while we aren't there yet, we are headed in that direction. I hope we can stop it before it is too late. Americans used to consider dictatorship an evil form of government. Somehow we have lost sight of that. Probably a symptom of stupidity becoming normalized. Trump was hated and maligned by a minority because he was a wealthy businessman that sought to restore order and had no respect for the uniparty mafia and its media stormtroopers. He, and the majority that support him, still strike terror in the hearts of the uniparty mafia, its zombie sheeple minority, and they are still scrambling to misappropriate taxpayer-funded resources to prevent him from being reelected.
  4. Macrium Reflect image. https://www.techspot.com/downloads/5442-macrium-reflect-free.html
  5. OK, latest beta of HWiNFO64 has a bug. Brother Martin will fix it in the next build. https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/hwinfo-v7-47-5135-beta-released.8970/#post-40604
  6. Yeah, it seems like we can have anything we want as long as we are willing to accept what is being offered and pay more than the product is worth. And, it is starting to seem like almost everything (regardless of who made it or what brand it is) is broken garbage. The tree-huggers can ram the electric cars up their tailpipe. To be blunt, I think EVs are an extremely stupid money-driven gimmick. They add no value and I am not interested in reducing my use of fossil fuels. The US already does more than their part and until all other countries are jumping through the same hoops the idiot environmentalist hoaxes are making us jump through, I'm not willing to lift a finger to contribute to their stupid nonsense. The harder they push, the more I want to drive an older vehicle with a huge, inefficient gasoline or diesel engine, just to spite these idiots. They can kiss my battery shiny hiney.
  7. One of the comments I heard (not verified) is that AMD is more restrictive than NVIDIA in some ways and EVGA historically bucked the system and did things their own way, which was usually better. (Anecdotally, that being one of the sources of friction with NVIDIA.) From my understanding, which may not be accurate, one of the reasons EVGA took so long to release an AMD motherboard was AMD's insistence on trying to control the layout and limiting what is allowed in the firmware. ASUS addressed it by having a very confusing BIOS with standard AMD "features" that potentially creates conflicts along side ASUS's more advanced way of doing things. That sometimes caused unexpected behavior. When EVGA did eventually release an AMD motherboard, the firmware environment and functionality closely resembled what their customers preferred about EVGA's Intel motherboards. Severing ties with NVIDIA, in part, because of their control freak approach to things and artificially limiting performance, made the idea of partnering with AMD like jumping from the frying pan to the fire. My conspiracy theorist nature (that exists because human beings are naturally evil and selfish creatures) causes me to wonder if one of the reasons EVGA bowed out was the 12VHPWR cable being a mandatory NVIDIA design defect. EVGA produced one GPU that used it (3090 Ti). I suspect they saw trouble on the horizon and ultimately decided that they did not want to not be part of that problem.
  8. Time to start shipping the FBI leaders that refuse to answer these questions to Gitmo and waterboard them to extract the truth. The evil clowns protecting our illegitimate, senile, corrupt president and his family of criminals are domestic terrorists and deserve to be treated like terrorists. They should be stripped of their rights as American citizens due to treason and spend the rest of their lives in prison. I know a lot of people don't like Ted Cruz (puzzled why to be honest) but all he does is ask totally legitimate hard questions that the corrupt traitors always refuse to answer. Their job is to serve and protect, and they are an utter embarrassment to our nation.
  9. Yeah, that same guy. I got that golden 10900K sample and Supercool block from him. The CPU worked fine for a few days, but I did not even have a chance to do any serious benching with it and it just mysterious died during normal use. He was trying to sell an Apex motherboard that had burn marks on the PCB as a bundle and nobody wanted it. I never said anything to him or anyone else about it because it was working when I installed it. When I looked at it under my digital microscope it looked like there were a couple of pads on the bottom of the CPU that were burned, but I don't know if that had any direct relation to it becoming non-functional. Because I never examined it under the microsoft before using it there was no way of me making any accusations, but there is no question in my mind that it was like that when he sold it to me. I think it had been rode hard and put up wet a few too many times before he sold it to me, and I was just the poor unlucky person that had the privilege of owning it when it gave up the ghost. It was fully functional when I installed it. Can you access the forum with the VPN uninstalled? I used Nord VPN for a while and decided that using VPN wasn't worth the loss of internet performance and stopped using it. I bought it as a 3-year subscription and stopped using it within 30 days. I have never been one to worry much about internet security and there was no way I was having any part of the slower connection and higher latency. I use Adguard on my phone. The VPN slowdown is not enough to bother me because I do not do anything serious with a smartphone. I only use it when I have no option of using a PC because I absolutely hate smartphones. There are times that I have to disable Adguard because of the VPN, privacy and annoyance filters blocking access to legit web sites. I need to to try to finish my formal review on the Sabrent 4-drive NVMe add-in card this weekend. That thing is really sweet. My next product review may be on a Dark Base Pro 901. That should be fun. Looks like a really nice one if it works out.
  10. Maybe your hosts file got jacked up? Have you looked to see if something got blocked in the hosts file or in your firewall by accident, or due to malicious intent? If you are using Adguard, something may have gotten added to their block list by accident. There have been a couple of times over the years where an accidental right click got something added to a blocked URL list on one of my systems.
  11. Well, it is good that you pinged @Recieverto alert him. That is very strange. It may be an issue with the hosting service. I can no longer upload any files. It gives an error message when I try and I have to upload anything somewhere else and only link it here. I haven't been on the forum much yesterday or today, and probably will not be tomorrow, because things are super busy at work and I just don't have much discretionary time at the moment.
  12. I had to go back 8 years to find the first comparison. It was on page 62 of 92 pages of thumbnails, LOL. Buried among 5,477 images. After Windows 7, Windows began to age like the finest quality of milk. It hasn't improved since July of 2021, but I haven't formally measured the degradation. It is a lot of effort to go to just to prove the obvious for people that are blind and gullible. Now more than ever, people believe what they want to believe, even if that means ignoring facts and disregarding truth because it is convenient than changing course. Or, because foolish pride precludes their ability to admit that they were wrong. (Sounds like people are getting dumber, just like Windows, LOL. I think that is much truer than I would like to believe. We live in an era of unprecedented stupidity and corruption.)
  13. No risk using a trash-free OS. If you want the best performance, using a fully debloated Windows 10/11 ISO mod is your only real option. There are some things that become difficult or impossible to correct on a fully installed OS. Only you can decide. Don't use the 2H22 though. Stick with 21H2 if performance is your goal. Newer is not better. Exactly that. 100%. This needs to be done on any system if you want to avoid wasting time installing drivers and software when you already did it once before. I consider it silly and foolish to not do it.
  14. Did you use the recommended Windows 11 Oprekin mod I suggested in a previous post? If you are running a 2H22 version of W10/11 your performance is likely going to be stunted. You're already doing all the right things. It comes down to how cancerous the version of Windows is that you are using and what kind of performance-limiting filth the laptop manufacturer has spewed into their firmware. Unless something has changed since I had the 3090, you will possibly get better results from a driver in the 470-480 version range on a 30-series GPU. The Green Goblin started poisoning their then-current GPU lineup close to new product launch like they usually do. It helps widen the gap between old and new.
  15. Afterburner will probably automatically create a new one for the Intel GPU but it won't affect the CFG file for the NVIDIA GPU. Here is what is in mine if you want to try copy and paste of that content. It will not cause any harm. [Startup] Format=2 PowerLimit=115 ThermalLimit=88 ThermalPrioritize=0 CoreClkBoost= VFCurve= MemClkBoost= CoreVoltageBoost=100 [Profile1] Format=2 CoreVoltageBoost=100 PowerLimit=115 ThermalLimit=88 ThermalPrioritize=0 CoreClkBoost=0 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  16. Did you mod both of the CFG files? If you did not you may have accidentally modified the one for the Intel graphics and left the NVIDIA file stock. Not sticking generally indicates that the voltage was not unlocked correctly in the CFG file. If that is not the problem then something else is wrong or the firmware has been modified in a way to emasculate the GPU. The fact that your voltage won't lock with +100mV is why clocks and voltage are bouncing around. You won't need to do this with a desktop GPU. The +100mV castration problem is a mobile GPU issue. EDIT: Try copying and pasting the code below into the CFG file for the NVIDIA GPU. You can tell which CFG is Intel vs NVIDIA based on the HWID, or you just can modify both of them. It will simply be ignored on the Intel iGPU. You also need to max out the power limit slider. The modified code below should max out the +100mV by default. I don't know what your powerlimit slider maxes out at. The code below is set for 120%. If your slider maxes at less than 120% it should push that to the max allowed. If it is less than 120% it should max it out at whatever the cap it. (Or, you could replace the 120 below with whatever that limit is.) Delete all of the existing lines in the CFG file before you copy and paste the code below. When you save the file those should be the only lines present in the CFG file. (More lines will appear later after you launch Afterburner, and more add when you save Afterburner profiles.) [Startup] Format=2 CoreVoltageBoost=100 PowerLimit=120 ThermalLimit=90 ThermalPrioritize= CoreClkBoost= MemClkBoost= [Settings] VDDC_Generic_Detection=1
  17. Did you remember to first max out the 100mV slider, too? Shift+L is not needed, only click the dot that corresponds with the highest allowed voltage value, slide it up and press L, then apply. Need to max out the slider first to lock the voltage at the max allowed value. If you do that in the correct order the clock speeds should not be bouncing around. They should be locked and only go down in relation to the temperature based on the firmware algorithm. If you do not max out the slider first you will be locking it at 100mV below the maximum allowed voltage.
  18. Yes, you are correct. Give me time to find it. It is in my imgur account.
  19. Smart kid. The notion of being an advocate against racism by promoting racism is ridiculous and absurd. Good video. Calling stupidity into question and casting light upon evil intentions is always a good thing. If you don't want to watch a 17 minute video, the meat of his message starts at about 10:35. Spot on. This guy is pretty sharp. He calls proper attention to nonsense and casts the lies in proper perspective. The reason truth is no longer taught in public schools is because the truth is at odds with the evil, idiotic, woke, socialist, anti-America narrative. They cannot brainwash our kids if they teach them the truth. Their agenda would die and their mission to create division and conflict would not succeed. The truth will set you free. Through deception, twisting facts, omitting important details and re-writing history to fit their agenda, they make our children slaves to their lies.
  20. Probably a firmware algorithm causing clock speeds to not hold. If you are using Afterburner, make sure you choose the options to unlock the voltage and move the slider all the way to the right for 100mV or the clocks will not hold. You can also lock it down on the voltage curve graph. That makes a HUGE difference. In case you are not sure what I am referring to, I demonstrate it in this video. You will actually want to OVERvolt and lock the voltage at the maximum the vBIOS allows. On a laptop you also have to modify the CFG file for it to work. That is also demonstrated in the video.
  21. I knew you could do it. Congrats, Brother @ryanon the victory.
  22. The RAM might have an issue staying in the slot without the lock, especially if the motherboard is vertical mounted. I would insist on replacement or refund. It was advertised as having no physical damage, so it was misrepresented. If it is the SSD the OS is installed to you can do a clean install and let Windows Setup do the work for you. Just run a diskpart clean command and a convert GPT command and reinstall Windows. If it is a data drive, you can do the same thing or just reformat it and it should not hurt anything as long as Windows did not goof up and install the bootloader to that drive instead of the one Windows is installed to. You can confirm that is not the case by taking the drive out of the system and confirming Windows still boots normally without it. If it does, you can do whatever you want to do to that drive and it shouldn't affect your Windows installation. If you are going to do a clean install, download all of the drivers to external storage media first then the installation should be uncomplicated.
  23. This is really messed up. Even if the guy actually was racist, it is none of Amazon's stinking business and they are totally out of line in their actions. If it is OK to be all of the other things that are offensive to 95% of the country why single that out based on their skewed definition of what that means. Can't have it both ways.
  24. @ryan- Port Royal and Speedway are heavily ray-traced and run at 1440p. That may be a reflection of your GPU model to a great degree. I think it would be unrealistic to expect good results on either of those benchmarks, or a smooth experience with Cyberpunk, unless you have a very potent GPU. My 6900 XT does great with rendering, but quite poorly if ray tracing is thrown into the mix. Bumping the resolution to 1440p throws yet an extra monkey-wrench into the works.
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