Yup, I background watched that recent Nvidia presentation. All corporate babble babble.
https://forums.lazytown.eu/forum/sec...530#post207530
https://forums.lazytown.eu/forum/sec...530#post207530
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operation convincing my parents to get me a macbook pro ( from 2012 )
mission details : get it for school and because of the built-in dvd drive. also because its better personally.
step 1: make long slideshow convincing them - check
step 2: promise to do boring chores - ???sportacus10.lazytown.eu / okdvd.neocities.orgComment
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I just bought a Samsung T7 Shield 2TB external SSD drive to use for file transfers from the old comp to the new, and from then on, for backups from the new. I basically haven't backed up this comp since I built it in 2019, but I am going to start backing up the new one. I am looking into getting Version 6 of CopyWhiz, the program I used to use on my last comp. Version 6 was released in 2020 and there have been few updates since then.
https://www.conceptworld.com/copywhiz/RevisionHistory
I really liked this program because instead of images I could make individual file and folder backups, and I could set up profiles of which folders and files to back up, and where to put them (the external drive), and have it only overwrite if newer. Then I could just run the profile and it would back up the files I cared about, and only if they had been changed. No sense backing up huge Steam games that I can reinstall from Steam any time.
The lack of updates does have me wondering if this program is essentially abandoned or whether it just is working well and in its final state. 2020 is before Win11 but it has had a few updates since then.
Also BJ is it possible to copy Photoshop from one computer to another or do you have to do the whole pain in the neck, turn off the internet etc and install it from CD thing? I have CS6.l i t t l e
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No matter what the instructions state, I always disconnect from the internet when installing and setting up any cracks or keys
and adding the block in the firewall.
As for CD, depends if it's in an ISO format. If it's just the installer, nope. But luckily that's all built into Windows now
by right clicking on the ISO file and selecting mount.
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A clone disk? I am moving from Win10 to Win11. So no it will be a totally new install. I guess you are saying it has to be installed not just copied over like the Steam games.l i t t l es t e p h e r sComment
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If you are doing a Windows 10 clone onto the new drive and then upgrading to Windows 11 via Windows 10, you can keep everything installed by selecting "Keep personal files and applications" option.
But yeah if you are doing a complete new install of Windows 11 from scratch, yeah everything needs to be re-installed. Except for the steam games of course.Comment
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I don't know how to do a clone install, sounds like it requires third party software, but it doesn't sound like a great idea anyway, I'd end up with a six year old install on a new machine, and then an in-place upgrade. Probably better to start fresh.l i t t l es t e p h e r sComment
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Cleared off the gaming table as the parts start to arrive.
I don't think I've ever been less excited to build a new computer. I don't expect it to be able to do anything that my current 6 year old one can't do. For me, I think computers hit their maximum usefulness years ago. On my current rig, which was not high end, I never hit technical limitations for anything I wanted to do including gaming. I don't know a single game I'm interested in that my GeForce GTX 1660 Ti can't run at highest settings.
If not for this stupid monopoly forced Windows 11 thing I probably would have not built a new one for years more. I just don't want to risk upgrading the current one and have it fail and end up with no working computer. Also since it's six years old I figure sooner or later something will crap out on it so I might as well build the next one now and not try to upgrade the old one. If something goes wrong with my new build I will still have a working computer to troubleshoot from and RMA etc.
Win10 end of life is in October so I have some time to get everything settled. I only moved this fast because the GPU situation is ridiculous due to the AI nonsense going on, not to mention the tariff uncertainty and general insanity, and I wanted to grab the new low end card (RX 9060 XT) at or close to MSRP while they were available - got it on launch day. The 5060 Ti's that I see reviewed in Europe are not even in stock here anywhere. And they cost significantly more than the AMD cards.
Linux seems as crude and unusable as it was 30 years ago. It's really pathetic that there are like 100 distros of it now rather than everybody working on just one and polishing it to be better than Windows and easier to use. A lost opportunity. Imagine if the last 30 years had all been spent by all Linux system developers on polishing one distro like Red Hat to be better than Windows. I don't ever see it happening, the mindset is not there. It will always be an OS for tinkerers who like things to be hard and complicated, and non-gamers.
I wish Apple would get their stuff together and make the platform either easier to cross develop for, or else able to work effortlessly to run Windows games. If they ever do, my next comp will be a Mac. Used Macs for 16 years and only left due to the game situation. I think they underestimate the opportunity right now, so many people hate Windows because of this Windows 11 forced upgrade thing, Microsoft Recall, ads in the OS, forced OneDrive on install, on and on. Everybody would love to switch if there was something reasonable to switch to.l i t t l es t e p h e r sComment
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I didn't mind Linux when I was using it for a bit. If I was just gaming, it would be fine. But there's just too many other Windows
programs I use. At the time, the other downside was the VPN didn't have a GUI for connecting to servers and settings. It was all command line ugh.
It's got a GUI now.
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Speaking of Apple again, I had caught this a few days ago
possessor of mine You should find the below video informative.
Memory Wars! Apple vs Ryzen - Is Unified Memory Faster than Shared GPU Memory?
Last night I came across something about AMD going to compete with Apple unified memory architecture
in CPU with Unified memory. Was looking for an article about it but I'll use this link for now: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/..._max_cpu_from/
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Very slow and difficult. Spent the morning watching videos - the Linus Tech Tips build guide is semi-useful but skips around and skips steps often - and then about 7 hours since trying to put things together. Getting ready to put the mobo into the case. Wondering why the case has 8 standoffs with screw holes and one standoff that is just a post, while the mobo has 9 holes, and whether I should be trying to remove the post and put in another standoff with a screw hole.
I tried to examine the mobo CPU plate for bent pins, but I could not see any pins at all, even taking a photo and zooming way in. Just tiny squares.
Spent almost 4 hours on the case alone trying to get the hard drive cage out, uninstalling and reinstalling fans multiple times due to bad instructions, test fitting the PSU, installing a 4 pin fan for use with the fan hub, changing the front door to open to the left instead of to the right...
...and trying to set it up to take an optical drive and actually be able to screw in the back screw for it etc. The Fractal case manual was wrong about optical drive setup, the online video by the manufacturer was wrong and incomplete and doesn't even match the manual, the manuals for virtually everything are mostly pictures with little or no text, I can't understand what they are trying to get across half the time. This is much harder than I remember it being the last several times. It seems the materials provided by the manufacturers are more about trying to make it sound easy to people browsing them online considering whether to buy, than actually conveying complete and accurate information.
Trying to seat the CPU cooler was a real ordeal, it's made in such a way that you can't see from the top or even from a 45 degree angle whether you are landing it on the two screw posts, you basically need 3 hands and a flashlight while bending down and peering in from the side, and if you miss it comes down on the CPU itself, so you think it's right, but it isn't. It was sliding around on the thermal paste as I tried to figure out if it was on the posts. I only hope the CPU has not been ruined by thermal paste going all over the place. I removed the cooler and scraped some blobs of thermal paste off the cooler that had been pushed outside the central area and put them back in the middle. God knows what will happen when I turn it on.
The CPU has a strange design with a raised metal plate and exposed circuitry underneath, looks tailor made for letting excess thermal paste drip onto the circuitry. I've never seen anything like this, CPU usually has a solid surface so the circuits are not exposed.
The optical drive setup has been a real headache.
Here for example is the first step in the Fractal manual in prepping to put in an optical drive.
See that big blue flat thing (a plastic panel) that just swings open to the left? It does not do that. It is completely flush in a depression in the metal backplate behind it and is firmly in there. They show it just coming off easily with the fans in place. The cake is a lie. Both front fans have to be completely removed and then you have to press with a screwdriver, hard, through several slots in the metal backplate against the back of that plastic panel to force the plastic panel off so you can screw in the optical drive from the back side once it's in. There is no way to put the panel back on either once the drive is in place.
As far as I can tell no one on the internet has figured out how to do this but me. Every thread I've read about it has ridiculous workarounds, no one has managed to figure out how to take that plastic panel off but me. No video shows it, no thread has anyone solving it. It took a lot of force with a screwdriver through slots on the other side of the backplate to push it off, it has two tabs and three snap-on attachments holding it in place.
Here is Fractal's ridiculous video on how to install an optical drive. They don't even try to remove the panel and just "secure" the drive with one screw!
My PSU has a knob to let you manually control fan speed, or set it to auto. Before going further (since I am using the PSU - off but plugged in - to ground myself via a wrist strap) I decided to test the PSU and turn it on and manually adjust the fan speed to make the fan go. The fan did not move at all, even for a second. There is no indication whatsoever it is actually working.
I ended up having to use this somewhat hair raising procedure to test the PSU and finally got the fan to spin thanks to a paper clip inserted into some electrical leads.
https://help.corsair.com/hc/en-us/ar...er-Supply-Unit
Taking a break for dinner and trying to get the energy to continue. I doubt I will be able to finish it tonight.l i t t l es t e p h e r sComment
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Found some little rubber parts and apparently you are supposed to put them under your M.2's if they are single sided, which, as far as I can tell, all three of them are, though of course it doesn't say that on the packaging anywhere, so I have to completely re-do the M.2 installations and put these rubber pads under them. So irritating. Hope I can get them out without damaging them, they are under heat sinks with thermal pads, and snap into place.l i t t l es t e p h e r sComment
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Had to remove the GPU, which I had just installed, to get at the top M.2. Removed the heatsinks and the M.2's and put those stupid rubber pads under each one then reinstalled everything.
Enough of that for one day. Tomorrow night I will put in the DVD drive, PSU, and start wiring everything up to all the motherboard headers and connectors, power connectors on the GPU and DVD drive, and data connection to the DVD drive. And rig up the fans to the fan hub and plug it into a 4 pin WPM header on the mobo.
As part of this I have to put the case back together. I don't know if you are familiar with Fractal cases, they are incredibly modular and configurable, but as a result you end up basically taking them apart while building and have to put them back together as you finish working with the electronics. A large percentage of these parts are currently disassembled and I will have to re-assemble them once things start getting put in place.
That diagram actually understates the case, to switch the door to open the other way I had to remove the hinges from both door and case, top and bottom, and the matching plates on the other side of the front of the case to swap with the hinges. So many parts each with their own screw type.
Somebody found a clever way to support the rear of the DVD drive, which sags because there are only the two front screws. He took one of the rear slot covers (more parts not really shown in that diagram) - these are fancy and screw in, not the cheap kind you break off - and screwed it to the top of the case, which has tons of holes and slots for putting in top fans if you want. He had it hang down across the rear of the DVD case and screwed the rear side of the DVD drive into it, so it acted like a support. I think I will do that.
https://imgur.com/a/gA0bw9m
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Same here with the main M.2 drive being located under the Graphics card. I had brought that up
when talking about doing dual booting this computer a while back.
I know the Fractal case name but that's the extent of it. Every time I go looking for cases, I go meh
and stick with my Antec 900.
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