Mr. Fox

Excellent. I do exactly the same thing, even with the chilled water. It rarely actually gets "cold" here (almost never below freezing) but having my office around 40-50°F then turning on the chiller for 20 minutes before powering the computer on works much better than trying to chill the water after the office is already full of warm air. It takes a lot longer for the water to get cold and it is more difficult to keep the water ice cold if I am pushing warm air through the condenser.

I would just delete the AMD and Intel MC files from Windows on any version of Windows unless it is a very old version. Totally unnecessary to have them. Just rely on whatever the BIOS has. Locate mcupdate_GenuineIntel.dll and take ownership, then delete. Or, a person can rename it with .old or .not after the .dll if they are weirded out about the idea of deleting system files.

Use Easy Services Optimizer to create an "Extreme" profile with everything disabled, or run MSCONFIG, hide Micro$lop Services and disable everything else (have to reboot). Use Defender Control (or just run a script to remove Defender completely). That will help in addition to setting priority to High or Realtime.

Nice. If you change the priority from Normal to High or Realtime and kill all of the worthless background services and processes that are running and do not need to be, you can probably go even higher.

Because the truth is sometimes painful, people do not like being told that their baby is ugly.

I am not hiding, but for a couple of reasons I do not publicly disclose my first and last name together. The obvious is privacy reasons and identity protection. The second reason is that I like to keep business and pleasure completely separate and my personal comments and opinions are neither the business of my employer, nor a reflection of the values of my employer. Given the nature of the idiotic cancel culture we have lived in for close to a decade it is best that nobody that has any direct influence over my life can connect the two. There are some pretty demented people in positions of power at large corporations and in social media, and I don't want some vindictive militant retard that doesn't like my opinions messing with my career. Better for me if they can't clearly connect the dots. That actually almost happened to me about 10 years ago. I was asked for my opinion. I shared it when asked, then HR placed me on a "final written warning" for answering the question. They didn't like my answer. Since I am in a relatively high position of power, they cared more than they had a right to care that my opinion didn't mesh with their woke definition of political correctness. Basically placed on a "gag order" by HR that I could not ever express my opinion at work again, even if solicitied, without cause for termination.

I am Mr. Fox. My first name is missing, but my last name is Fox. My first name is also a last name. There are a few famous people who have my first name as a last name and it is the German word for "burner" (like the burner on a stove or a Bunsen burner used in a lab). I don't post my first name in public, but I would tell you in private. In that respect, I am the literal FireFox (by name) even though I don't like that browser very much at all.

I can't believe the brand new sealed box Z590 Dark has been sitting on eBay and Mercari for $170 below retail since Jan 24 with zero interest. Not even any low ball offers. Maybe the gamer kids will go wild if just keep it and instead offer the craptastick Strix Z490 mobo with a CPU and RAM, since they tend to value branding more than quality or performance.

If it is cold outside, put your laptop on the patio, turn it off and let it normalize with the ambient temps. Once it is stone cold and matching the outside air, then go out there, turn it on, max out the fans and run the benchmark again before it has a chance to heat itself up. You'll probably set a new record with that hardware config.

They probably do not, but the bottom line is that it is none of their business. I am glad it did not stop you and I feel bad for people that are so locked up with worry about voiding their warranty that they are willing to tolerate products that malfunction because they were poorly engineered by the nitwits that designed it. It really begs the question about the point in purchasing something specifically because of its potential to be special if you plan to leave it floundering in mediocrity.

Is GPUPI 3.2 a "portable" app that you simply extract and run? If not, did you uninstall it as well? If it has no installer, delete the folder. If you get an error about a file in use or needing permission to delete when trying to delete the folder after running System Restore and rebooting, then it could have been packing some extra stuff that is nasty. You could try deleting it in Safe Mode if that happens. If you start Windows Task Manager, see if something is hogging up CPU and/or memory resources. If something is running in the background it could affect the audio.

Unless the Redmond Retards disabled it and you didn't notice they had, run System Restore and it will probably be as good as new.

@ryan that is really strange. Not sure why that would happen with GPUPI 3.2 being installed.

I don't disagree with you conceptually, although I do not consider that rejecting what you find objectionable is tantamount to virtue-signaling. It is the opposite. Pretending to be inclusive or embracing everything can also be a form of virtue-signaling. Virtue-signalling is very popular among certain groups and hypocrisy in any form is repulsive, but the word "notebook" existed before computers were created or Apple hijacked it. It is also not particularly descriptive and is as misused as the terms "Sheetrock" and "Kleenex" are, but it is generally associated with thin and light stuff. That is why I invented the term "turdbook" (very descriptive) but I now apply that universally to include the so-called DTRs that are equally compromised. Note that I own a turdbook (in my signature). I don't like it very much and don't use it except when necessary, but it is directed in a derrogatory manner toward products and not the people that own them.

Yes, I use a dark theme from Chrome store, but some of them I have used in the past do not render pages correctly. The one I use now does not force dark mode on web pages that do not already have a dark mode option. It generally works best when it is natively supported. Otherwise you get random weirdness like text being too dark to read or black everwhere except text with the text being white over a white background make it as impossible to read as black text on a black background.

Brother @ryan - here you go, buddy... in all of its glory.

A great reason to call them laptops instead of notebooks. Notebooks carries not only the Mac stigma, it also seems to align with the emphais of form over function. That is fine if it is what makes someone all warm and fuzzy feeling, but it is good to avoid making it appear to those looking for a place to hang their hats that this would be a community that primarily caters to that.

I'm glad this form is not part of the XenForo mob. I really dislike it and the original NBR was never as good after the downgrade to XenForo. I think that also contributed to the overclock.net fall from grace in the eyes of many. While my preference is vBulletin, this is a good alternative. I like the Dark Bravo 6 theme. It is much better than the eye-searing and ugly white and cornflower blue bloat-UI mess that seems to be wildly popular with the W10/11 fanboy masses.

By virtue of having all of the notebook manufacturer subforms and threads you still appeal to the narrow interests of notebook brand niche without losing any appeal to folks that have different interests. For example, there are also subforms relating to general hardware, software and operating system discussions that are not specific to laptops. I would love to see some major emphasis relating to driver and firmware mods that free computer users of any and all form factors from the bondage of draconian Nazi control freak computer manufacturing practices. The only way computer owners are going to continue enjoying autonomy is to beat them at their own deceptive and dishonest puppeteer racket the general population of sheeple have bowed to. If we prostrate ourselves before them they will continue to play the role of digi-gods.

A generic focus on all things relating to PC can only be beneficial in terms of driving participation and engagement.

I think you're the winner of the longest URL award this month.

The fact that you were able to keep your hands off the internals of your system for that many years is something in and of itself. I have never managed to use any system for more than a few months, at most, without having a reason to tear things apart for some kind of hardware mod, new experiment or test compelling me to disrupt everything. When laptops were still something I cared about, sometimes I would go for many months without even installing the screws in the lower cover or keyboard. The magnetic keyboard feature on the Clevo P870s was effective enough by itself that it was a waste of time reaching for a screwdriver.

I prefer something that doesn't place a focus on notebooks or laptops in the name, so the first two options or Core-PC are my idea of better choices. I consider that a possible limiting factor to the community because potential members might not have any interest if that is the focus. I am here because I have friends here, but I have no interest in laptops. Does "efgxt" actually stand for something? I have been meaning to ask what the story behind that is, if there is one. Or, is it a meaningless hodge-podge of random letters?