Recent content by philb2

I'll need to check the BIOS. No time right now. Too much else that HAS to be done today. (ain't life grand :rolleyes: ) 8-10 hours overnight? Just some SATA SSDs and HDDs. OK. I do intend to upgrade that NVMe drive, but I'm hoping I can outwait the recent price increases.

Yes. Good to know. One less thing to add to my "worries" list. I wish that someone can come up with a diagnostic that would probe the innars of an NVMe drive. I guess that unlke HDDs, there isn't anyone like Backblaze to provide performance stats on a large installed base of drives.

OK, but why would my system still be doing memory training, since I built my rig well over a year ago. My system is rock-steady, so I haven't updated Have not updated the BIOS or the chipset driver in a long time. No BSODs. No overclock except BPO. I know I should update the BIOS, the...

Yes you are adding to my misery. Fortunately I already have a robust backup routine that runs daily.

The drive is a Sabrent Rocket 1TB PCIE-4, purchased around April, 2020 with 6800 total power on hours, per HD Sentinel Pro. It started out life in an ASUS X570e motherboard, then was moved over to an ASUS X670e motherboard (with no real issues). Sometimes when I turn on the system from power...

I don't want to be permabanned, so I really can't comment on the substance of what you said. I've learned the house rules after being warned a few times. I'll just say I'm uncomfortable right now.

Ooops. Responded to wrong thread, which was about new Asrock board with PCIE-5 support.

This board is still lousy for adapter slots.

I know about how engineers optimize the output of a chemical plant using massive Excel spreadsheets,. See above. ^^^^

Why???

And how exactly is this a selling point in a corporate environment? Imagine explaining this to an end-user, who probably had no input to the Linux choice decision, and probably doesn't know what the word "distro" even mean.

Irrelevant in the corporate market. Since everyone uses MS Office, it is a DE FACTO standard. And no one gives two hoots about Office being the least compatible, because there is no need for ISO-compatible software w/r/t Office. When I was a consultant, I was told I needed MS Office, because...

Any idea why?

It's not just the low market share of desktop Linux. it's the large number of versions and releases. Maybe Linux as a catergory has 4% market share, but what is the market share of any given distro? How much less than 1% You aren't going to get Adobe or Intuit interested in developing (and...

I agree with you, even though I have an MS account, so I can transfer licenses. But sadly, you and the other guys who posted in this thread are a minuscule percentage of total Windows home users.