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The 42" monitor turned out way too big. I gave it to my wife, she loves it, I'll be waiting for PG32UCDP to become available.

I haven't used adblock in years, but lately so many sites seem to be totally infested with aids. Most news sites, even weather dot com, are slow af from all the ads. I tried to download adblock, but most sites just refuse to work with it. Is there a better solution?

Never played it, but maybe I'll try it now. What are some proper mods to improve the game?

I know this is not yet possible, but I wonder if we'll ever have the tech to do just that. There is so much cloud stuff right now - all sorts of updates, cloud drives, etc. Why can't everything shut down besides the ram, mobo and one cpu core in low power mode just to monitor all that?

I've been having this problem for the longest, all of my wireless keyboards have terrible range, the keyboard almost has to be within 1-2 feet of the receiver or it starts acting up. I am using wireless keyboards at home and at the office, almost all of them have HP Pavilion 800 wireless...

So this is just me ranting, but hear me out. The standard enthusiast form factor is still ATX board inside ATX mid tower case. And unless someone is doing SLI/Crossfire and a crazy custom water cooling solution, it's just a giant waste of space, PCI slots, and loss of any kind of portability...

Built a computer for my daughter about two years ago, and her m.2 SSD failed. It still works, but on reboot BIOS gives warning to replaced, and Samsung Magician shows drive is critical. I ordered a new identical drive, but how do I clone it? I see there are "duplicator" docking stations sold on...

I usually always install Intel chipset drivers, they are probably not as important as they were during Windows XP/7 days, but I still seek the latest version for my motherboards just to make sure proper drivers are installed for motherboard system components. But what about MEI? There are...

Just completed Black Mesa, and want to do HL2. I am sure there all kinds of improvements for it, what are some essential mods without going overboard?

Not the 11900K, but specifically 11900. It is listed as a 65w part, vs 125w for the 11900k. It has hyperthreading and the rest of the features of the K model, except for overclocking, which is getting relatively irrelevant lately. The biggest difference seems to be 2.5ghz vs 3.5ghz base clock...

Ever since the pandemic started both my wife and I started working from home 80% of the time, we barely go to the office anymore. Because of that, I had to give up my upstairs game room to my wife, so she turned it into her office. She keeps a bunch of paperwork there, so she took over the whole...

Looking to maybe play either something old or new, single player. Something with an interesting story, but not too much grinding. Or no story, but good gameplay. I have a huge backlog of games that I didn't play, so let me list what I enjoyed and what I didn't. Enjoyed: Bioshock 1 & 2 Rage 1 &...

I see there are different versions - Steam, Microsoft sore and Rockstar store. Which is the latest and the greatest?

I haven't been gaming much lately, and it seems that there is an explosion of online game stores, and I just want to get up to date. I know of the ones below, but did I miss any relevant ones? Steam - the obvious. Origin - as old as steam, but still ass backwards. Bethesda launcher - I only...

I can't seem to find this in the motherboard manual, but if I install NVME drives in both m.2 slots, are they going to share bandwidth? As when you have SLI video cards, they start working in PCI-Ex8 mode instead of PCE-Ex16 for a single card. It's a regular Z370 motherboard.