Recent content by cpufrost

Losing 21:9 was one thing but 1080P is another! No flagship device in 2024 should be less than QHD period. 4K defined Xperia and now that's gone. If it were $999 then maybe, but users wanting the Xperia experience weren't particularly concerned with cost. Now if the camera is an across the...

From elevated command prompt: manage-bde -off x: where x is the drive letter you want to decrypt. While it's running check out disk transfer rate in task manager. 🙃

The resistor is around a million ohms (1 meg OHM) limiting the power to around 15 milliwatts! (120V example). That's just over a tenth of a milliamp which is less than most people's threshold to feel it. To get 1W, the resistor would be around 15,000 ohms and the current would be approaching...

Sounds like a floating ground scenario where your case was not earthed. If it's plugged in (obviously it was as you said it was running), this should not happen as the PSU screws will ensure that part is indeed earthed as long as your power supply is connected to a properly grounded outlet. If...

Yes. Ideally you want the dissolved oxygen to be close to zero too. It's hard to get things near perfect in a home environment. Additives, in theory can help but without monitoring cycles of concentration, flow control and delta across devices that have backpressure it's hard to tell...

Nostalgia. Same reason why some will pay $$$ for a scratchy old 78rpm Wurlitzer jukebox with bubble tubes when a phone and partybox would be louder and more detailed. ;-)

Just like oil additives (eg. Slick50) they are both un-necessary and will introduce problems of their own. KISS applies here with liquid cooling.

Yep, that's your answer right there. Purest water (ideally 18meg+ RODI) measuring 00000TDS is best. Keep it dark as possible (completely opaque hoses and reservoirs), NO boutique reservoirs (waterfalls, lighting, et al). Pure silver kill coil OK. Also it is a very good idea to assemble...

Always use Laing OEM parts and pure distilled water. 100s of k hours. But run dry and the bearing is toast. If you need higher flow and head use Iwaki RD30. They deliver the goods.

This. D5 pumps will last well past any Asetek junk. As long as you *never* let them run dry. Even cavitate.

Heatkiller for me. Worth the price.

$650 at my local Microcenter with 5 in stock. My 14900K has more "biscuits" than the 14900KS does according to the Aorus BIOS (like ASIC quality on NV). The 14900K will run 192GB RAM at DDR5 5600 and the KS is stuck in training hell. Go figure.

My biggest issue with Teams is default auto starting. It's amazing how much faster a well optimized Windows system is compared to the out of the box experience. Particularly with vendor preloads with ridiculous amounts of crapware.

Anyone using SSDs for caching larger volumes of spinning rust? We had an issue with a few Synology Rackstations where copying/reading hundreds of thousands of small files into a database application was chugging even on 10Gbit. Added a pair of 2TB nvme drives and performance went back up to...