Mr. Fox

Vikings don't have igloos. They have ice castles.

Nothing in mobile computing is worth a damn now. The entire market is 100% saturated with worthless dung from the cheapest to the most expensive option. Even if money were no object, there is not one single option worthy of consideration. The most exotic "high performance" option money can buy is an emasculated, pathetic, ridiculous BGA piece of trash that nobody should waste their money on. Ditto on the cheapest. Throw-away filth... all of it.

Because 99 out of 100 people buying laptops are idiots, and 100 out of 100 companies selling them care about what those 99 idiots are going to spend their money on. It doesn't matter if it is a piece of crap as long as the sheeple buy it, and if they think it's cute and it meets the approval of their flock on Facepoot it will sell like smiley-faced pancakes with sprinkles on top

Well, it took 15 days (ordered 4/25) but I finally got shipment confirmation and tracking information from Supercool Computer on the 12th Gen direct die block. The Bykski RAM water block should be arriving from Aliexpress around Friday.

It is unfortunate to have to provide support for such pathetic turdbook feces, but excrement is all we are left with at this point in time. Being a pile of dung is a pre-requisite for mobile computing devices. That they are is simply taken for granted.

It looks like Brother @Prema is getting some much-deserved publicity on LTT. Mentioned about 14:25 in video.

No, I am not saying Winderpz 8.X is better. It's not. Winduhz 11 has more cancer because it is newer, so from a purely technical perspective Winduhz 11 is worse. It is slightly less ugly than Winderpz 8.X. Both are hideous, but 8.X is more like a tablet/smartphone OS aesthetically so that makes it uglier to me. But, both are unacceptable products, so six of one, half-dozen of the other. Both are reflections of incompetence and stupidity on the part of their creator.

I am sorry, I do not. I hated Windows 8.X almost as much as I loathe Windows 11 and Windows ME so I did not save any product keys, ISO files or drivers for it. Deleting those files gave me great pleasure. It was an ungodly pile of **** OS. Windows 11 is insanely ugly, and a close second place, but I have to say that Windows 8.X was take-my-breath-away, give-me-a-bucket and puke-o-rama level of ugly. An unfortunate reflection on the imbeciles that produce disgusting trash like this. It is probably ludicrous for us to expect anything better from a tech company whose President and CEO is a ~53 year old woman from China. Not exactly PC enthusiast material. Not saying it couldn't happen, but it is very unlikely. She would have to be an extremely rare individual, truly exceptional, (like us,) and I see nothing to suggest we should believe that based on how she runs a company, or how the products turn out that her company produces. To the contrary.

Well, it only makes sense that with so many clowns and monkeys in control that the tech landscape would become a circus. The Macro$lop Monkeys admire the failures of the Cupertino Clown Posse. Children love clowns and monkeys.

They can't won't even do something as simple as securing the border, so it would be foolish to think that they would be inclined to be bothered with the notion of worrying about how dangerous big tech has become. Doing the exact opposite of what makes sense is probably part of the strategy.

It is nice to see the prices going lower, but I cannot really muster any excitement about an AMD product. The risk of being disappointed with the outcome is too great IMHO. I already let my impressions of impressive-looking 5950X benchmarks cloud my better judgment and I haven't stopped regretting it. They were impressive benchmarks, but the overall ownership experience was lousy enough to spoil it. I don't have any basis to believe anything other than the same thing wouldn't happen with an AMD GPU.

So, to be clear, all new devices will ship with a new version of W11 that includes "Smart App Control" and they (the Remond Mafia) want existing W11 users to wipe and do a clean install of W11 that includes this Nazi filth so that Macro$lop can dictate what applications will be "allowed" to run on W11. You can disable it. Should not have to. Shouldn't exist in the first place. BUT, if you decide to turn it back on for some bizarre reason, you'll have to do another clean install. Yeah... I don't think so. Not only no, but hell no. Winduhz 10/11 Kool-Aid drinkers really need to watch this video, but I know most of them won't and some that do with rationalize that the things talked about are OK. Sad times, with even sadder days ahead. The stupid sheeple that surround us are a danger to themselves and to the rest of us.

They could make LTSC widely available to accomplish that, but then they would lose money because they would have less stolen data and personal information to sell or use for targeted marketing, business intelligence, etc. The bigger issue for me is the fact that I no longer view them as being an entity that is worthy of any trust. I have basically zero confidence that they have the best interests of those that use their products at the forefront of how they conduct themselves. And, that concern doesn't even speak to the issue of their lack of intelligence in product design and the low level of competence they demonstrate.

Macro$oft Winduhz 11 Stalin Edition

@johnksss also, this specific Realtek USB Audio driver that is bundled with the AMD drivers found in the first post at Win7/8.1 Drivers for USB 3.0/3.1 Controllers of new AMD Chipset Systems [win-raid] works fine as well and has all of the normal driver configuration options are present and accounted for. Maybe not on ASUS mobos, (not clear on that,) but working fine for other brands.

Stange that the temperatures are suddenly good for no explainable reason. Enjoy it while it lasts. 🙂

As expected, Windows 7 memory performance is better. No surprise here, since almost everything works better on Windows 7 as long as you can find a driver that works for it. Speaking of drivers... Brother @johnksss when you eventually get your mobo situation sorted with the numbskulls at MSI, I finally found a Realtek USB Audio ALC4080 driver that works for Windows 7. My surround sound works and everything now. I found a Dell Dock driver that is OS agnostic and used the "Have Disk" method to install it. Docks_Stands_Driver_08CKK_WN32_6.3.9600.2215_A15_03.EXE

I don't really have a lot of spare time because of work. I have access to the forum while I work and take breaks to do what I enjoy. I have been in the same industry for more than 35 years. I could end up having to work to age 75 because my retirement nest egg that I have pinched and scraped so hard to prepare for that has lost so much value the past few months, so that will likely end up looking more like 50 years. Find something you are good at and don't hate doing, then do it consistently to the best of your ability and that will take you far. It is difficult to find employees that consistently produce great work, care about their job, are reliable and trustworthy. If you are that way for yourself or a company, you will be successful. The hard part for good employees is finding a good company. They're sometimes as difficult to find just as good employees are. Some are good for a while, then put bad leaders in place and ruin a good thing. I think there is a lot of truth to the old cliche that "people don't leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses." What I've learned over the years is if you have a truly bad boss, wait a bit if they're not so horrible or abusive that you just can't tolerate them. If he/she is truly horrible, they probably won't be your boss for long unless you also work for a horrible company.

I use Malwarebytes on some of my OSes and nothing on others. I went for probably 5 or 6 years with no antivirus and had no issues. But, I wouldn't recommend it to others because some people have online behavior that is extremel risky even with a robust security suite. For me, using antivirus isn't something I view as being that important.

They should have just swapped it for a new replacement. The fact that they made you send in a new board for "repair" and sent it back not fixed is unacceptable. This puts them into the same class as the idiot losers at ASUS that don't give a damn about customer experience.

Well, I finally got word from Supercool Computer that my order placed on 4/25 should ship sometime today. I am eager to see how well that direct die block works on the 12900K. If it works as well as their direct die block works on the 10900K it is going to be excellent. I should also be receiving the DDR5 water block from Aliexpress soon. I did not like the idea of having a water block on the RAM because it would be really inconvenient having it installed in series with short runs of tubing between the CPU or GPU. However, it should be very convenient and easy to deal with using that EK manifold. I really love how simplified things are using that manifold. It works better than I imagined it would. With each component being separated with its own cooling lines running off of that block it makes working on things so much easier. Removing the CPU or GPU doesn't involve the cooling lines for the other component, and the same will be true for the memory. With the QDC fittings on the manifold, no caution is required in terms of having water drip on the motherboard. If the QDC fittings squirt a few drops of water, the manifold is in an area were it just doesn't matter because there is nothing that can be adversely affected by it.

I found the meaning to "sugoi" using a Google search and agree. They're awesome. Came up empty-handed on this one. Not sure what that one means. Even Urban Dictionary was no help, LOL. I'm not a huge fan of country music... it's ok, and I like the underlying theme generally associated with it, but not my favorite music genre. I absolutely love the message of those two Hardy and Creed Fisher songs and how both of them capture a lot of what is good and right about America that is at risk of being destroyed by a small group of insane, hate-driven, ungodly traitors.

Well, that's not good. Seems like these clowns suck as bad (maybe even worse) as ASUS when it comes to lousy customer service. It is really disappointing. I do like the Unify-X more than I expected to, but I may avoid MSI going forward if this is an example of what can be expected if you need to make a warranty claim. This is an example of inexcusable incompetence and truly lousy customer service from MSI, and companies that mismanage their business this way deserve to go bankrupt. I don't remember what the problem was with your board. Seems like they should just be swapping it out with a replacement. This should have been resolved in a week or less, at most. It is totally unacceptable how long this is taking. I really hate how expensive EVGA Dark boards are, but this makes me think that they really are the only company that deserves to get our money. They are the only company in this space that I know of that handles warranty service in an honorable, timely and customer-centric manner. The LED for the reset button on my tuning panel has stopped working. While it is annoying, the device itself still works. But, I probably should reach out to them about having it replaced for no other reason than an experiment to find out if they are going to give me the same degree of run-around they are with your situation. Here again, this is something I would expect them to just immediately offer to send me a replacement part, no questions asked, with a return label. They can hold my credit card info just in case I don't return the original part or lied to them about what is wrong with it, and I am totally fine with that. They deserve protection from dishonesty and that protects them while taking care of the customer need immediately. If they tell me I have to send in the entire motherboard package or even just the tuning panel and wait for them to do something I am going to blow them off and never buy anything from them again. But, then I will complain about their unacceptable crappy service in public places whenever I find an opportunity to plant seeds of doubt about buying their brand in the minds of potential customers.

One of he most valuable tweaks/hacks that often gets overlooked is eradicating Windows "notification" functionality and nuking Action Center. I find notifications to be an extremely annoying part of Windows. It makes it have that crappy smartphone feel to it, and I don't even like notifications on my smartphones... they are generally obnoxious and no real value to them. Windows Push Notification services are also a bloated waste of system resources. Micro$lop makes disabling this trash very difficult for the average user. I have always hated balloon notifications in Windows 7 and disable them in Group Policy, but they are very mild in comparison to the incessant nagging crap that happens on W10/11.