There’s a little ramp on at least one edge of the socket that lets you lift the CPU so that you can then take it out. It may even be on both sides.
Voyager is giving me an error when I try to attach a photo, but it’s visible in the thumbnail for this video
Whole thing is really quite dumb. The cat just walks towards / stares at the drone, it does not physically prevent it from landing - the operator just gets spooked and flies off.
Not to mention that this is an article about a video that links to another article about the video.
The Nazi attempt at extermination of entire ethnic groups is not really the same as a work program for reduced sentencing
The whole West Coast does not have a separate minimum wage for waitstaff, so tips are on top of wages. Makes the whole “20% tip” culture feel a bit weird to me, but it’s still the norm.
Been to a few no-tip restaurants, cost of individual menu items was higher relative to comparable items at other restaurants. I feel like I remember the final bill being comparable to or lower than meal+tip elsewhere.
Food establishments I am familiar with see tips split/shared between front of house (servers, host, etc) and back of house (kitchen staff)
Fucking finally
For starters, there’s more to gpu performance than memory speed and quantity.
believe that everybody should skip them
This strikes me as a bit weird. Everyone uses graphics cards for different things, everyone has different priorities, and most people who have a PC have different hardware.
I’ve got clients who edit video for work, and others who do it as a hobby. In the professional sphere, render times can have a pretty direct relationship with cashflow, so having the ‘best’ can mean the hardware pays for itself several times over.
I’ve got clients who only play one game and find it runs great on their current setup, others who are always playing the latest games and want them to perform well, and still others who play a game professionally/competitively and need every frame they can get. Some are happy at 1080p, others prefer 4k, and some may want to drive a high-end VR headset.
For some people, taking advantage of a new GPU might also require a new PSU of even a total platform upgrade.
To one person, a few hundred dollars is disposable income whereas to another it might represent their ability to eat that month.
These are all variables that will influence what is appropriate for one person or another.
If someone were to have ~$600 to spend, be in need of an upgrade to meet the requirements of an upcoming game they want to play at launch, and have a platform that will support it, I’m likely to recommend an RTX5070 to them.
If someone were to be happy enough with their current performance, I’m likely to recommend they wait and see what AMD puts out - or potentially even longer.
Personally, I’ve always waited until a game I’m excited for performs poorly before upgrading.
The first link has Nvidia graphics
The second is missing the GPU, VRAM, and related components. The “graphics card”, in a manner of speaking.
You should get the board that matches what you already have because the heatsink will be set up for that configuration.
Worth mentioning that, depending on what “damaged” means, it’s possible the original motherboard can be repaired for less than the cost of a replacement.
You can always use the Windows 11 Upgrade assistant to force it
Until you call around and get quotes, you’re only letting your imagination work against you.
A user powered on a 3090 with missing capacitors at the height of the pandemic GPU shortage / mining craze. A relatively simple repair was severely complicated by damage to one of the memory banks. The card was used for work, not gaming, so the mistake impacted their ability ro earn a living.
That is a MOSFET or Diode
It looks like it took up a portion of the pad when it was peeled off. The pad will need to be restored so that the component can be remounted.
The motherboard’s engineers didn’t put it there for no reason. I recommend that you keep the board off and seek out someone who offers component level repair / microsoldering - for someone with the right tools and skills, this is a soft pass. It should certainly be more affordable than a replacement motherboard.
I’ve had several clients create new problems by powering on devices with missing or damaged components to see if they still work. Hopefully that does not turn out to be the case here.
Maybe. Still waiting for benchmarks.
Nvidia’s keynote was very AI focused. I’m sure that a lot of these performance gains can be chalked up to upscaling and generated frames. I’ll be curious to see benchmarks showing what the actual raw performance is like.
Thing about frame gen is that, in some titles, it can make the frame pacing feel… off. I’m not quite sure how to describe it, but when I had temporary access to an RTX4090 I really didn’t like the ‘feel’ of frame gen in Cyberpunk 2077 and wound up switching it off after a few hours. I’ve heard this isn’t the case with every title.
With VR, it’s pretty critical for everything to feel smooth, because when things aren’t just right sickness often ensues.
Upscaled frames also don’t really look right. It’s one thing when you’re playing on a monitor for a game in motion, but if you stop to look many elements have a ‘fizzy’ quality. That will be compounded in VR, where I want to feel like I’m looking through a pair of goggles into a semi realistic world.
There’s also the matter of titles needing to include support for Nvidia’s proprietary tech.
The OEM Steam Deck LCD screen is $65.
The OEM Steam Deck OLED Screen is $95, $145 for the version with the anti-glare etching.
$140 is totally reasonable for an aftermarket product like this.
It might not make sense for most to purchase and install as an upgrade on its own, but it’s the same workflow as a shell swap so the two upgrades can easily go hand in hand. For users with a broken screen, it also provides a repair option that is also an improvement.
Also, just want to point out that flashing a BIOS is a pretty trivial task, strikes me as a bit weird to list the mildest of inconveniences as a deterrent.
I don’t get the impression this is being presented to anyone as “a massive benefit over just buying an OLED model”, but it does cost ~$400 less and reduce waste.
Didn’t they use this in the LEGO LOTR game?
I don’t know that it is. BigscreenVR is not an Apple product, so your comment doesn’t feel particularly relevant.
They probably chose iPhones because they’re the most common device that has the capacity to get a 3D scan of someone’s face. They’re probably able to get semi-consistent results with this approach, whereas opening things up to the wide variety of IR devices in laptops and Android phones would increase the number of variables and make OP’s frustrating experience even more common.
I’ve never seen this be the case.
For the most part, the files still exist in the local filesystem unless one uses the “free up space” function to unload files to the cloud.
Where users have ended a subscription, they have become unable to add content to the cloud storage, which is to be expected. I’ve never been unable to download a file, it effectively goes into read-only mode.
I run a repair shop and work with consumers on a daily basis.
I’ve had dozens of occasions where a client is about to be spending hundreds on advanced data recovery service, but I had them check OneDrive.com only for them to discover everything they cared about is already there.
I’ve also had plenty of occasions where someone hands me their “backup” only for it to be a blank external drive that they plugged in and assumed would “just work”
I would argue that Microsoft’s strategy is actually highly effective for getting tech novices connected to a backup solution that doesn’t add anything new to the to-do list. Windows Users really have to consciously go against the grain to end up paying for advanced data recovery services.
Care to elaborate on “take away access”?
By default, it simply gets remapped from C:/Users/Username/Documents to C:/Users/Username/OneDrive/Documents and remains accessible through the %USERPROFILE%/Documents environment variable.
Not exactly hard to create a symlink if you need it either.
The pattern looks like a GPU, more specifically a problem with VRAM.
This looks like a low to mid range HP laptop, so I question whether or not it even has dedicated graphics.
Systems with integrated graphics share RAM to use for graphics functions.
To test VRAM, one would use Nvidia MATS/MODS or AMD TServer/Memtune. They are not very accessible for the average user.
To test RAM, use Memtest86. This one is free and relatively straightforward.
I’ve had the issue with the plug falling out, actually bonked my Deck’s screen and cracked the protector while I was fishing headphones out of a bag on a flight.
I use a cable with a 90 degree tip and found that, for the outlets that are on the seat, I can attach the cable to the tray arm with a Clove Hitch to help the plug stay put and catch it if it falls.