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In my previous video, I had a bit of a disaster, I destroyed the USB 3.0 connector on my PC case. It's a cheap Fractal Focus case, so there are issues. While attempting to swap the connector to a different header on the motherboard (for better cable routing with another device), things went south, and I ended up ruining the connector on my case! The broken USB 3.0 case connector, the blue part, and the motherboard header separated. Thankfully, the motherboard itself is fine. I was really worried for a bit there, but after testing, it seems like the motherboard's USB 3.0 headers are still working fine. That's a huge relief!  Be Careful with USB 3.0 Headers! This whole experience was a reminder to be extra careful with those USB 3.0 motherboard header connectors. They can be surprisingly fragile. It seems like the cheap case connector was the main culprit. There's a visible physical difference. A comparison of the cheap Fractal Focus case connector versus another connecto...

I recently started a new PC build, and while it's mostly been going okay, I've run into a couple of snags that I thought I'd share. These are the kinds of things that remind you that building a PC isn't always as simple as building with Legos, as I have said and some others might say.  I made some... interesting choices. For example, I initially went with a ~90mm heatsink for the AMD Ryzen 9900x CPU due to size concerns around the socket and the depth of the case. I realized pretty quickly that a 120mm would probably be better, at least for keeping things quiet. The smaller one's good enough to get things up and running, though. The start of showing the new PC build with the parts listed. Close up showing of the CPU fan and heatsink. Everything functions. So far. But then the big problem of my own making. The USB 3.0 Header Issue The biggest issue I encountered was with the USB 3.0 header for the case. I'm using a Fractal Design Focus G, which is a pretty budget...

Around Black Friday 2024 I purchased most of the components for a new PC build. My old system, sporting an Intel i7-6700 from around 2015, has been a reliable workhorse, but it's showing its age for creative tasks like video editing. I did throw in an RTX 4060 8GB back in March of 2024. At the time, there weren’t a lot of other appealing options that supported hardware based AV1 encode/decode, but it did hold me over for a while in the old PC.  The video covers this topic in more detail. This website article is a summary of the video. I used AI tools to analyze and summarize what was said. I've heavily edited the text because it's not good at following my usual tone and word choices, but there's still a bit of it where I sound more dramatic than I'd normally be.  The RTX 4060 GPU I carried over from my old build. Anyway, the shipping experience has been... an adventure. And not the good kind! Let's dive into the mess.  MSI's online store needs help with thei...

What good is a country that censors what citizens see? Doesn't one side claim to be a bastion of freedom? It goes both ways. Let's see how it plays out. Starting to feel like more of a "we can't lose big tech" or "we don't want to lose our political positions" than anything else. 🤷  The AP article saying Biden will not take action in his term. Finally a bit of common sense. See the latest news here:  https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-trump-executive-order-1e95d9836bf6f8c0c245ed1c3234d968  If there were real security concerns, then our government should work with Alphabet (Google) and Apple to have their mobile operating systems prevent various forms of information from being gathered and transferred through *all* apps on their platforms.  I'll be talking about Android because I have pretty much no experience using Apple devices.  Ever have an Android app literally harass you asking to share your contacts? At least on Android phones, you lite...

In Windows 10 there is a notification side panel. Inside it you could easily toggle the night mode, which they call night light.  What's good about this feature? It's a lot more pleasant to look at screens when color accuracy isn't needed. Windows itself shifts to a golden color cast. It doesn't need to only be for use in the evening.  I looked around in Windows 11, but there appears to be no way to toggle the feature without digging into system settings or enabling a fixed daily timer.  My overall experience with Windows 11 tends to be one of frustration with the limited nature of its interface and intentional inconvenient multi-step design. We see that in the desktop context menu and the taskbar to name a few vital pieces of the operating system.  Do the interface designers actually use Windows day to day? Who knows, lol. Maybe most of Microsoft is using Apple devices or Linux these days, lol.  The Github page. Thankfully,  someone called aouronga on GitH...

 I found the max TDP setting in MSI's bios and currently have my 12 core 9900x set to 45 watts. 😄 Looks like it is capped to 60 actual watts. With CPU ID's stress test the 9900x TDP limited is still a sizable portion of a 16 core 5950x score.  CPU ID and HWMonitor when the 9900x is TDP limited to 45 watts. Also, I'm surprised that PBO was set to enabled by default. At least from what I could discern from the BIOS at the moment. It wasn't set to AUTO. Is this a thing for X670E motherboards or MSI? Anyways, it's neat you can adjust settings toward cool and quiet rather than the opposite for people that like it. This is making me want a second current era computer to mess around with and one set up for full reliability and work. Component makers, let's collab? 🙏 A test bench build would be super useful.

I posted a technology news video on my related channel. These days OBS is a program I use a lot for all of my online video work! It's nice to see it is getting sustained development. Sadly, it doesn't look like the the Application Audio Capture beta functionality was worked on. I use that feature due to what it offers, but it doesn't work amazingly well with my current PC hardware and operating system. I get garbled sound from audio sources randomly.  Timecodes from the video:  0:00 Multitrack Video live on Twitch  2:06 Intel 13 and 14th gen high-end CPU problems 2:31 Intel ARC tested on 250 games.  2:53 Lian Li's weird edge PSU 3:27 Realtek 5Gb ethernet getting cheaper  3:41 CUDIMM memory standard added to the list  4:19 LTT website is live and Gamer's Nexus site talk  Information and links from the video:  The OBS Project information:  https://obsproject.com/   https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/30.2.0   https://obsproject.com/kb/application-aud...