Recent content by Gigantopithecus

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Everything going smoothly for you? They released the new BIOS for the B650E Taichi Lite yesterday, too. https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B650E%20Taichi%20Lite/Specification.asp#BIOS Debating whether to be ready for a day-one purchase, or wait a bit for any potential bumps to get smoothed out.

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I am a professor of anatomical sciences (i.e., gross anatomy, histology, embryology, and neuroanatomy) at a well-known US medical school. Here are a few of my observations: - ChatGPT 3.5 and 4 can write well enough to pass general freshman-level English composition courses - They begin...

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One month update: Knock on wood, phone's still working great with zero issues. Still love the screen and the battery life. Have taken it on some hikes up into the mountains in single-digit temperatures and it performed perfectly on those.

Note you can power limit most 4090s quite a bit with minimal performance loss. I have my 4090 FE limited to 70% in MSI Afterburner and am entirely satisfied with framerates at the resolution and settings I prefer in the games I play. Cutting 100W off the power consumption with zero performance...

I replaced all of my desktop's HDDs with SSDs when prices on the latter bottomed out last late summer/early fall. My daily driver now has 2x 1TB WD SN850s and 4x 4TB Samsung 870 EVOs. Backups are all still HDDs.

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I upgraded from an S22U to the S24U, and have been using the S24U since the 26th (received it a few days earlier than official launch). In sum: - I strongly prefer the flat screen to the curved screen. I didn't think this would be a noteworthy change, but it is. Hard to articulate why, I just...