That’s the other thing. My new computer is a Mac Studio which takes up almost no space, and uses like 10-15 watts. Because I can just turn off my gaming computer when I’m not using it I’m saving significantly more power. Like just your CPU at idle uses more than the entire Mac actually doing things.

AMDs dual CCD CPUs tend to perform worse than their single ccd models in games. You can “fix” that by running the game only on one, and push everything else to the second. But I’d much rather not deal with that. A second computer is much easier.

Plus I can fuck with computer A when computer B is still doing other things without interrupting. That alone is worth it.

Also if you’re in a game and you have a video running that taking GPU horsepower. I’m not going to have a second GPU just to avoid that.

Performance. I’m a heavy multi tasker and I want nothing to get in the way of my frame rate.

For context my old second machine was a 2018 Mac mini with an 8th Gen. i5 and 32 gigs of ram. It wasn’t enough.

I have two computers at my main desk at home. One is exclusively used for gaming, the other is used for everything else. In theory Bazzite is perfect for me.

Ok. But this this is a post in a Linux community. So one might assume it’s targeted towards Linux users.

Kids these days….

1st Gen. Ryzen had the worst memory controller known to man. What made it worse is that memory speed dramatically affected performance on those CPUs. Anything over 2133 was a blessing.

There’s no reason why a 32 gig stick of ram should be less stable than an 8. Your ram is defective. Ask for a replacement.

There’s plenty of garbage M.2 ssds out there with only 1 nand chip for 1TB. Pretty much any time you sort by price low to high you’ll see some of the most dire SSDs you’ve ever seen in your life. They suck too, quad chip ones are almost guaranteed to be lightyears faster.

It’s not like the old device is actually getting thrown in the trash. It becomes a used device for someone on the second hand market. For every rich person buying a laptop every year are a few a less rich people buying an older high end machine every 4-5.

Also usually cheaper components.

ITX boards tend to cost more than bigger boards, you’re limited to one slot, and usually the cases are super limited in size for heatsinks or other stuff.

Probably on older hard drives like that hardware raid won’t slow things down too much. But holy shit do hardware raid controllers suck with faster HDDs/SSDs. Also they obscure smart info from your OS so you need special software to talk to the raid controller to know if your drives are failing.

Otherwise they’re fine. If that’s what ya got that’s what ya got. Rung what ya brung.

I’ve pretty much only ever used headphones when playing games. Never been much of a console gamer, always PC. At this point I almost exclusively use my HD 800s. They’re absolutely amazing headphones and the sound stage is incredible for gaming. Far better than any “gaming” headset I’ve used in the past.

30 series undervolt pretty well. You could lose like no performance and save like 20% on power/however that scales noise wise.

Really?!? The company that LTT has invested in might also support some problematic people?

If it’s for new customers only then why do they advertise it in the program for paid users? I’m tired of seeing ads for things I can’t even take advantage of.

As long as the temperature is high enough in the tank there should be plenty of hot water to wash dishes and not have a cold shower. Cooler sure, but just move the handle a smidge.

When Apple doesn’t like something about your configuration they’ll spit out arbitrary errors like that.

I got an error like that at work when someone was trying to do forgot password. Turns out you can’t reset your password in settings or safari if another user account is signed into find my Mac. Dumbest fucking limitation. It worked in chrome I think.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-10-kb5072653-oob-update-fixes-esu-install-errors/

Looks like there’s an issue installing the extended support updates should you subscribe to it. So it makes sense to just give everyone the update.

Also sometimes when there’s security issues that MS thinks are absolutely critical they’ll release those updates to everyone. Windows 7 got a few.

What are the updates? Is it Windows getting the update, or Windows defender/programs that use windows update for updates?

As far as I’m aware even windows 7’s windows defender still gets updates.

NVM looks like that one got EOLed too