Affiliate disclosure CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Cooler: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 280 A-RGB 69.9 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler GPU: Powercolor Hellhound Spectral 9070 XT MB: Gigabyte x670e Aorus Pro X Case: Lian Li Lancool 216RW RGB PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 TT Premium 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply RAM:… Continue reading Secondary System Specifications
Category: Announcements
Firestorm Viewer install for linux Mint
First update your environment: Open a terminal and type the following:sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt autoremove Then Download Firestorm from their web site. https://www.firestormviewer.org/choose-your-platform/ Pick the Penguin, and the 64 bit download. Extract the file by either tar -xvf Phoenix-Firestorm-Releasex64-6-6-8-68380.tar.xzor with the file viewer using Archive Manager. Now install. I install to … Continue reading Firestorm Viewer install for linux Mint
Sometimes it’s nice to disable EXT4’s journaling.
I find that when I run Linux natively on a USB drive, disabling the journaling of the EXT4 filesystem improves performance significantly. tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/sdf1
A couple of my favorite Motherboards
Discord Security
Donations
If you appreciate the content I write and create on this site, there is an easy way to help defray my costs for this web site. I pay about $20 USD a year for the domain name and about $4 in electricity a month out of my own pocket. If you buy something from Amazon… Continue reading Donations
Awesome Mouse
Go Team Red!
AMD had a special launch event to showcase their new APU offerings. I waited for 3 hours before the event then was put into a virtual line for over two hours. Reminds me of the 6800XT GPU launch. There’s an interesting problem on the description of the AMD web site for their new APUs. Both… Continue reading Go Team Red!
Intel releases new AX200 and USB 5.0 drivers
Intel released some new drivers for their AX200 series of Wifi adapters. They also released an updated driver for USB 5.0 devices. These definitely improve the performance of your Wifi adapter or did for me. The link to the Wifi driver is here:https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/30542/Windows-10-Wi-Fi-Drivers-for-Intel-Wireless-Adapters OR you may just want to run the Intel update tool.
AMD Stock
If you purchased AMD at 50-60 and are in it for the short gain, this is a great time to sell and take a profit.