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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.

I hope that they go to trial, lose, spend a fortune in defense costs in the process and get slammed with an absurd jury verdict that breaks their bank and leaves them with inadequate capital to continue with the AI nonsense and nothing left to offer Jensen's commie crony bastards in China. Not just NVIDIA... OpenAI (ChatGPT), Microsoft (Copilot), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini) and Apple all deserve to burn in the same fire pit as the Green Goblin.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm optimistic when I shouldn't be most of the time, but I honestly believe (and truly hope) the AI clown circus house of cards will very soon collapse super hard and burst into flames. I hope that it spooks investors badly enough that they all pull out frantically and leave the developers with no operating capital to function with and cause GPU and memory prices to hit history-making rock bottom prices with an oversaturated market flooded with new and used parts and cancelled orders that have to be sold for pennies on the dollar in order to get rid of it. I think there's a good possibility that the stock of parts available, (or visibly seeming to be absent,) in reality, is not an accurate reflection of the apparent lack thereof we see at the storefront. I suspect there are secret GPU and memory stockpiles that nobody knows about that are being held for the highest bidders and reserved for corporate customers that pay excessive prices and submit to scalping just to get whatever they want and need. It would be awesome and hilarious if the highest bidders and corporate buyers all suddenly have no money and most of them go out of business, vanish or change their focus to something else. It would be fun to watch Micron/Crucial, NVIDIA, Samsung and others in the silicon production space have to get down on their knees and beg consumers to buy their brand and offer it dirt cheap, even below cost just to unload it, after their back-stabbing treachery.

@jaybee83 in case you were not already aware, the WireView Pro II sensors now show in the latest beta version of HWiNFO64, but the drivers need to be installed for it to be visible to Windows for sensor reporting. Otherwise, HWiNFO64 will not be aware it is present. If you haven't already tried to get the WireView software working (which is NOT needed for HWiNFO64) I found it to be a bit tricky. Hit me up here if you run into any issues. It took three tries for me. If you change vBIOS after installing it you also need to delete it from Device Manager and let it reinstall itself for it to be visible to the software. Also very important after installing the driver in Device Manager to shut down and disconnect the PSU from power completely. Then restore power and boot up. Otherwise, the software update will not take effect. The WireView Pro II requires a full removal of power from the motherboard and GPU to initialize after the driver installation. Of course none of this is necessary to use the WireView Pro II as a standalone device without any software monitoring features.

If this is accurate it is wonderful news.

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