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    Cat-proof laptop for light use?

    I hadn't even thought of a tablet, but it's an interesting idea. It would more or less preclude any serious form of gaming (unless we're talking about an x86+Windows tablet), but it could be convenient, and quite cheap. An external keyboard remains an option too. I tried encouraging her to do...
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    Reopening Architecture and Products + rules and guidelines changes

    But what about me? šŸ˜­ Anyway, the reopening of the A+P section would be great, I'd appreciate it, even though I haven't been very active here lately. Thank you for giving it a go (along with everything else). My only piece of advice would be to prioritise your time and sanity, so if you find...
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    Cat-proof laptop for light use?

    I did come across this, but when I Google for "LG Gram bottom" I find plenty of pictures showing vents, and a few that don't, so I'm rather confused. LG's website doesn't feature pictures of the bottom side of the laptops, unfortunately. The choice of Intel CPUs with questionable graphics is...
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    Cat-proof laptop for light use?

    Hi! I love my wife very dearly, but she's a bit of a laptop-destroying machine. Part of the reason for that is she likes to sit on the couch with a blanket, put the laptop on top of it, and use it like that. That would be fine if it weren't for the fact that most laptops have vents on the...
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    Then it could be useful to unplug the laptop and test it running from the battery, couldn't it? We'd need to make sure it runs on the same performance profile, though.
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    Wouldn't this trigger crashes in OCCT? Or do you reckon the CPU throttles so that it avoids them? If the power supply were somehow insufficient, wouldn't the laptop just drain the battery?
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    I think we have a solid lead now: disabling Turbo enabled the computer to run games for a few hours, until it finally crashed. This is still annoying, of course, but a big improvement over the few minutes it used to last. Still, it's hard to say whether the CPU itself is at fault, or the...
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    I need to take another look at the BIOS but aren't displays connected to iGPUs on laptops?
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    It said so in this case because my brother tried running the game on the iGPU instead of the dGPU, to see if the dGPU was responsible for the crashes. Worth a try, but since crashes also happen on the iGPU, I'm not too optimistic about that one. :( Also, he tried underclocking the GPU, but it...
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    Chipset driver updated, to no avail. I guess the BIOS would be worth a try. I can't see much of anything else to update. It's a laptop with internal monitor, so no display output is involved. What do you have in mind regarding CPU detuning? Just underclocking it? Done for drivers, will do for...
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    We're talking about high temperatures during stress tests, around 80 to 85C, which is still within specs, I believe. During games, things are cooler. Running Furmark and OCCT at the same time to max out power consumption did not cause any crashes, which is why I figured the PSU was probably...
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    Warnings like "Loading driver\WudfRd failed for peripheral X" where X is the GPU, so in the case of the latest crash, the Intel iGPU. And errors like "the computer restarted after error checking" And "Dump file creation failed due to an error during dump creation", because I guess a dump file...
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    Mysterious crashes on a computer whose components all seem fine

    Hi everyone! My brother's laptop crashes almost systematically in most games, after a few minutes of gameplay. The weird thing is that I can't identify any software or hardware issue that could explain this. Why I think the software's fine: He did a full reinstall of Windows, with fresh...
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    CryptoCurrency Mining with GPUs *spawn*

    Aren't those crossing points just by-products of arbitrarily chosen scales on the Y axes? It seems to me that by adjusting the Y scales differently you could also get zero crossing points, or a whole lot of them.
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    AMD: RDNA 3 Speculation, Rumours and Discussion

    Isn't that pretty much what Infinity Cache is in RDNA2?
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