Mr. Fox

Fortunately, gaming is an expendable and totally unnecessary pleasure to me. The solution for me is a simple one: don't purchase any games that mandate the enablement of Secure Boot or TPM. There is not any, and never will be any, game important or enticing enough for me to make an exception or compromise my personal choice of disabling or enabling anything that is against my personal preference. The part that angers me is the carte blanche requirement for those that do not care about online multiplayer gaming and find online gaming cheating to be totally irrelevant. If they are going to make it a requirement on that basis, it should only apply to online multiplayer and not single player campaign. I know they are stupid and I know that can't fix that. There's no point in trying or allowing them and their hopelessly idiotic nonsense to waste my time. At the end of the day I view it as a first-world problem for the game devs. I am more than happy to ignore their products and not give them my money. When all is said and done, "not my circus, not my monkey" and "frankly, Scarlet, I don't give a damn" is my position on the matter. They can join the Redmond Reprobates in having a standing invitation to kiss my butt. It sucks to be them more than it sucks to be me. I only care about me and what they want doesn't matter.

AI: The Final Countdown No idea why this is age-restricted. Maybe the information conflicts with the public school system gaslighting agenda.

Now is a good time to opt out of the identity theft cartel with a Linux distro. Stupid people actually volunteer for this. I think they call it the "insider program" LOL. Can't fix stupid.

Nice! Thanks for sharing the photo, brother.

Yup, icky is the new normal. That's the business world we live in today, and it is especially true in the technology space. Nobody competes and wins based on merit, virtue or added value. In fact, being competitive is no longer important to most companies. Winning is the only thing that matters to most, and whatever amount of deception, unfairness, treachery, fraud, smear campaigns and showing of malice is necessary to win is how it is done. The harm it causes to consumers and competitors is just viewed as collateral damage and confirmation of their weakness and irrelevance. The prime directive is to maximize the revenue stream, or advance the agenda (or both) by hook or by crook. What anyone else wants is a distraction and an inconvenient annoyance. And, the sad truth is that consumers have themselves to thank for most of this. We have the power to kill companies swiftly and without mercy by closing our wallets and vetoing their existence, but we don't wield that sword effectively because too many sheeple need to be told what to believe and what to buy. There is still hope, though. What we have seen in recent days with Budweiser and Cracker Barrel needs to become a frequent and common, everyday demonstration of consumer intolerance for businesses that dare to step outside of the lines. If only we could see similar demonstrations of coordinated assaults on wickedness from consumers in the technology space.

It seems Intel bet harder on Jokebooks, tablets, consoles and similar mobile trash. A nice way to improve their processors... I mean iGpu performance. The worst that could happen is if they move away from desktop graphics cards. They need a partner to compete with AMD's APU's. Interesting news for me? Nope. This type tech ain't for me (see bolded text above). I suspect it is all part of the Green Goblin's evil master plan to eff things up for everyone in the world except for themselves, but especially AMD. Stats quo. Best time to make a strike against the enemy is when they are at their weakest. And keep hitting them until they are dead. Playing fair and allowing them to come up for air is a stupid idea if you're playing for keeps. Dead enemies don't fight.

Interesting news...

I've thought every release in the Borderlands game franchise sucked due to crappy-looking watercolored cartoon graphics. It feels like an animated comic book to me. I greatly prefer games that strive to achieve photorealism and the less realistic the graphics are the less I like it and much greater the likelihood I willl never play it more than 1 or 2 hours tops. Too bad we live so far apart or we could have swapped WiFi cards from either of my motherboards. This is an area where cheap motherboards sometimes have a design edge over the more expensive models. The cheap models often have the WiFi/BT modules mounted in the same area that the M.2 SSDs are installed. It sucks having them under the rear I/O cover. Both of mine would be in the motherboard box if they were not installed in such an inconvenient spot. The one and only thing I dislike about the AORUS Master is that Gigabutt provides no option in the BIOS to disable the onboard WiFi/BT module. It is the only brand I am aware of that omits that option in the BIOS. I contacted them almost immediately when I first installed it and discovered that firmware defect. I alert them to their engineering mistake and asked them to provide me with a custom BIOS that wasn't missing that feature and encouraged them to include it in all BIOS releases going forward. They replied quickly but refused and said I was the only "customer" that has ever complained and requested that option, and they won't consider changing anything unless numerous customers begin to complain about not having it. I contrast that sort of disregard for customer experience with EVGA, who made several BIOS changes at my request and made them standard options in firmware releases going forward.

I saw something on overclock.net that a guy that done something to override the flash blocking but it was not clear if it works on FE. I saw someone ask, but he had not responded last time I checked the thread.

That sounds very exciting. I'd love to get into something like that if I had to money and space for the equipment. As far as overclocking goes, you're not missing much. The idiots that design and manufacturer PC components are ruining everything for overclocking enthusiasts. Pretty much because they are all incompetent dumba$$es that survive by clever deceptive marketing and gaslighting the crap out of consumers. Most of what is produced now is locked down trash or overpriced unusable junk. What I mean by "unusable" is (for example) an enthusiast motherboard with a CPU socket that all of the CPUs that fit in it are trash that suck at overclocking, or the imbeciles that made it ruined something that could have otherwise been great by adding two extra memory slots that eff-it-up. And, any hardware that is not dog crap becomes worthless garbage because its gonads are crushed by cancer firmware. They should all feel very grateful that I am not the one that gets to decide their fate. The story wouldn't have a happy ending for any of them.

We missed you, brother. Hope all is well with your family, too.

This is what happens when you build a desktop GPU like a turdbook instead of a one-piece PCB. This is why I instantly rejected it when I saw how it was made. Predictable outcome with a product deliberately designed with multiple points of failure.

I have three of these. A desktop on one each and the chiller and 5 gallon tank on the third. I think it would work well for your desktop. They are impressively sturdy. The bottom shelf supports 100 pounds and the top shelf 80 pounds and the height is adjustable. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SCYSFP9?th=1 I would like to be able to appreciate WiFi 7 but can't go there because of Micro$lop's harmful influence and chokehold on the industry. I really don't understand why any of the feckless hardware manufacturers allow them to call the shots. They should have to fall in line and bow to the hardware makers to maintain relevance, but we've got the tail wagging the dog with the Redmond Retards in control. No way in hell I can embrace the notion of installing hardware that only has driver support for the Winduhz 11 trash OS. I already have two desktops with crappy WiFi 7 cards installed that I can't use because of that. If I actually needed to use WiFi on either desktop I would be pulling off the VRM/IO shields and replacing both with WiFi 6 or older technology so I can make my own decisions about what OS I am going to use.

That's good to know about the 9000D. The Corsair Airflow case I used to have a few years ago was very well made and had thick steel panels. It was too small for a decent custom loop to fit inside of it and I ended up not liking it enough to keep it because it was too small. Sad to hear they started cutting corners. Corsair has some really good products, but some of their stuff is totally junk. Not very consistent. I honestly can't see myself doing anything other than sticking with the two O11D XL Evo cases that I already have. It wouldn't work for a big mobo like the one you have but for my two current ATX builds is just about right overall. I'd like it better if it were about an inch or two taller at both ends of the motherboard tray and and about an inch or so wider between the motherboard tray and glass side panel. That would make it close to being perfect but I can't remember the last time I owned any computer component that I actually viewed as being perfect or a completely satisfying product. Seems like there's always one or two things that suck about anything available for purchase no matter what it is or how much it costs.

There is never a shortage of stupid. I expect demonstrations of stupidity now as status quo. Intelligence is something I appreciate because of its rarity. On that basis it will probably sell well and become popular. It doesn't need to be good RAM. It doesn't need to be fast or good at overclocking. It merely needs to be a shiny object. Good catch on the typo correction. The word "and" is more accurate because you do not have to choose between top or front, you can have both.

Having my Praxis Wetbench was always a constant temptation. I built systems that I didn't need more than once just because I had it and liked it so much that it made me sad to not be using it, so I sold it to remove the temptation. I prefer an open bench for convenience but don't like it for dust and aesthetics. I could clean it to the point of being virtually spotless and immaculate, and in less than an hour it would be covered with desert dust. I love huge cases, but I don't like how much space they take up in my tiny office. If I had a big home office I would have the biggest cases. The O11D XL EVO cases are a good balance. I wish they were a little bit bigger, but they are large enough that I don't hate them because of everything being overly cramped and cluttered looking. If I were going to replace my O11D XL EVO cases with something else I think I would go with a Corsair Obsidian 1000D or 9000D Airflow. They are both massive and look great. They are the same exterior dimensions, so I would have to decide which one I think looks nicer. They are just a little bit larger than the V3000 Plus... length and width almost the same, but about 30MM wider than the V3000 Plus. Enough wider to install two rows of fans and radiators side-by-side in front or at top.

This assassination was horrible by every measurement, but the indications that is was a planned event and not the insane act of a single young psychopath is truly chilling. Organized evil is real thing. Truly chilling and diabolical. It will be interesting to see how the mainstream media gaslighters explain how the Los Angeles Times and New York Times headlines and the author of the new book on Amazon about the murder were published a day prior to the shooting. Nick's post is spot on... couldn't have said it better myself.

It's an awesome case for sure and I have always liked it. I think it is maybe an optical illusion because in the photos it looks really skinny from the front where the 4 fans are mounted, but the depth of the PSU basement looks very deep when viewed from the side. When I look at the two photos it almost seems like I am looking at two different cases because of the optical illusion. The front panel being removed might also make it look narrower with the fans exposed.

It is interesting how deep the case looks in the side photographs but the last photo looking straight from the front it looks very narrow. It may be an optical illusion because of it being so tall. How many inches wide does it measure across the front (view in last photo showing the four fans)? Is the space behind the motherboard tray narrow?

Rest in Peace, Charlie. Tom MacDonald is donating all proceeds from this song to Charlie Kirk's widow and two orphans.

Well, I can't find any evidence that it did not. And, I doubt we would get anything remotely close to honest and accurate from the media. They've shown us countless timed that we can't believe most of what they report or what they choose not to report because it doesn't fit their agenda. Either way it is still a good story. I hope it did. At the least it is a nice FAFO clip for China. Unfortunately, this is not fake. I wish it was. Very sad. The world we live is in overrun by psychopaths. Fortunately, Utah still has captial punishment.

Suck it, China. Congratulations on showing your military incompentence and tactical inferiority to the entire planet. Hope you enjoyed the payback. There's more where that came from. Bring it on, losers.

My one-word answer is "nope"

They CAN make a proper processor, but they choose not to because they believe in the hoax and they are drinking the Kool-Aid and bought into the "less power is better" tree-hugging idiot approach. The entire technology space is overrun by hypocritical nitwits that don't know the difference between their head and their butt hole. Even the dullards at Micro$lop talk from both sides of their butt about wanting to "save the planet" that doesn't need saving by producing an OS that increases e-waste by making perfectly usable computers "incompatible" with their latest trash OS.

I'm not sure how much harder I am going to push it. I always enjoy it while I am doing it, but find it very difficult to muster the motivation when I am not. Knowing that, now more than ever before, that there is a snowball's chance in hell that I can "win" the prize-less crown because of not getting special firmware and hardware nudges me in the direction of no longer caring. The "winners" (publicity shills) are chosen in advance. To a smaller degree, I have gotten so comfortable with Linux that I just don't like using Windoze anymore. Even for gaming or benching. Windoze sucks. I feel dirty after using Winduhz. The WireView was DOA. I had to return it to Amazon for a refund. No power on the output side of it for some reason. You might have missed that in my reply to @tps3443. I've always had only wonderful experience with them, but the two I already have will not fit either of my GPUs. I need to offer them up for sale but I have been too lazy to bother with it for something of such minimal monetary value.