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Oh I fully realize it will be unavoidable eventually, that's why I said "as long as possible". But as long as I ahve that option, I will choose it. Mostly on principle at this point. I having tech-company *******s telling me what I want. As a consumer I should be in the drivers seat. They...

Ah, well that was not the intent. Choosing one over the other implies that you have the choice to begin with, which many do not!

That's silly. If you don't like it, don't install it. Problem solved.

Yeah, that is why I wanted to do my own custom encryption at the block level locally, before it ever leaving my Linux based NAS, and have the NAS push those backups to OneDrive directly, without installing any Microsoft software on the machine. If I can do that, I will consider it. Otherwise I...

Anyway, I came here to say, I know lots of people were disappointed with Zen5's performance upgrade over previous gen, but having just sat down and looked at CPU's and prices, I think the cost to performance ratio is pretty good. The 9700x gets you within shouting distance of the 7800x3D...

I've posted this elsewhere on this forum, but the MSI B350 Tomahawk I bought for the kiddo back in 2016 (as part of a Microcenter bundle with a Ryzen 5 1600x) has been a goddamn trooper. It started its life with said 1600x and my old 6GB Titan (roughly equivalent to a mid range RX480 at the...

Even the cheapest boards rarely hold you back these days. They may look less fancy, and offer fewer features, but top level performance is typically pretty much the same. I do agree with the single channel RAM issue, but if you add a second stick (for another $54.99) you are still tying the...

Indeed, which is why my post included this: :p

That's great, but I will - as long as possible - resist buying absolutely anything with an NPU/TPU in it.

Hmm. I'm not usually a fan of Microsofts cloud integration, but if these are affordable enough and I can figure out a way to push pre-encrypted incremental backups (like with Borg or something) to OneDrive without exposing my files and content to Microsoft for analysis, I could totally see...

Same here. Well, sort of. When I bought the 5800X3d's for my better half and kiddos builds, the 5700X3D hadn't even launched yet. That said, there is a lot of fear involved in these purchases. Some Fortnite kiddo might worry if that 5%-10% is going to drop his framerates at key moments...

You can. Usually you have to enable a permission setting in Android settings to allow it to occur. (But I think this varies slightly from device to device. This is certainly how it has worked on my Pixel devices for the last several years. I can't speak to Samsung or others) My thought...

Intel bundles aren't bad either, but top end 13th and 14th gen CPU's are notably absent, making the offerings somewhat sparse.

All of that said, For those who have a MicroCenter nearby, they still have some pretty amazing AMD bundles

Should be fun at 4k :) I'd welcome that. While I love Civ, the one thing I hate about it is that difficulty is based simply based on production, money, etc. penalty points. Back when I played Civ 5 all the time, I could reliably win most games at King, and sometimes at Emperor, but I found it...

I had an epiphany here on the forums several weeks back about why Apple was able to beat Epic's similar lawsuit, but Google was not. I wish I could remember what the reason was. I pictured them side-loading the EPIC store, and having it be its own store app. I imagine Android security is...

It is true, that is a lot of performance for the money, but lets not forget that it is two generations behind at this point. It may only be 5% behind the 5800X3D, but when you start comparing it to the 7800X3D or 14900KS those numbers are much larger. And the 9800X3D and Intel Ultra9 285k (or...

My biggest annoyance is the more eastern style of games (both artistically and content wise) which I have always disliked becoming more and more unavoidable. ...and having more and more games in the west become subject to authoritarian Chinese censorship laws is troubling. Sure, not every...

They are probably just discounting what isn't selling. There is still demand for the 5800X3D because if you have an AM4 system, that is the - as far as gaming is concerned - peak of the AM4 platform you can upgrade to, so everyone who is looking to stretch their AM4 system a little bit longer...

These are indeed good prices! Right now is a great time to do an end of life AM4 platform upgrade. If I hadn't already moved both of the AM4 systems in the house to 5800X3D's I'd probably be thinking about it. ...but I am still not sure they are good enough to convince me to buy into a dead...