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https://www.amazon.com/Antec-Nine-Hundred-Mid-Tower-Computer/dp/B000I5JHB0?th=1 " The Nine Hundred can hold a maximum video card size of 16" (406mm) and is compatible with Mini-ITX, MicroATX, Standard ATX motherboards." It doesn't say whether you'd need to remove a drive cage to put in a 16"...

I don't know where the dimensions in the Amazon listing came from, but I believe they're incorrect. Using a crude measurement from the pictures, the card is roughly 9.4" long. (A monstrous RTX 5090 is a little over 14" long.) It's not obvious why "p5200" is unhappy with the graphics of a...

I may be mistaken, but I believe that you can delete all partitions on the target drive using the Windows installer. You can then let it automatically partition and format the drive. While doing a clean installation, that's what I'd normally do with a target drive that isn't blank.

The downloadable manual for your B650 Gaming Plus Wifi doesn't give a lot of details on BIOs settings. The online description of the board claim that it's easy to set the fan profiles in the BIOS. I wonder if there's a suitable pre-defined profile for the CPU fan? The fan speed should be low...

I've never understood it. I have a 4090. If I maximize its settings, it draws 600W. (Default is the standard 450W.) The cabling hasn't burned. so far. My connector is the original 12VHPWR one, not the new and improved version.

My optical drive is an LG WH16NS60 in an external USB enclosure. For DVD, it's spec'd to read at X16, but in CAV mode (constant angular velocity). The nominal speeds are: https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1746162&seqNum=8 As a test, I prepared a single layer DVD with a 4.575GB...

This is probably a stupid question, but what does CPU-Z think that your system is? (It's not very informative for mine, but it does state that it's an AMD system.) I didn't follow your first post properly. I'm ashamed to admit that I thought that your problem was probably PEBKAC. I haven't the...

I've always used the latest chipset drivers directly from AMD. My motherboard manufacturer (Gigabyte) hasn't updated the chipset drivers they offer for more than a year. Maybe sticking with the latest chipset driver from Gigabyte would have been a good idea, but I've suffered no issues so far...

If it's a response to me, that PC is long gone. It has probably been long retired by the person I handed it down to. https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/athlon-64-x2-3800.c432 I don't know about hacks to install 8.1 X64, 10 X64, or 11 through 23H2. It definitely has no SSE 4.2. It was...

8.1 introduced the "CompareExchange128" requirement. It wasn't present in 8.0. (It means little to me, but I recall the issue.) I believe that any CPU that supported Win7 X64 would also take 8.0 X64. I had an Athlon 64 X2 that didn't qualify for 8.1. I probably handed it down with 7 X64.

Strange, if you specifically got the ones for the X570 chipset. I had no trouble with the TRX50 version, within the past few days.

Is this where you got the chipset drivers? https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/chipsets/am4/x570.html

Intel launched Itanium in 2001. But it wasn't a desktop CPU, and required a different version of Windows than X86. It never caught on at a large scale. AMD produced 64 bit CPUs that were backwards compatible with X86. First product in 2003. Early versions didn't permit Windows 8.1 X64. (Windows...

The download includes Recall if you don't have a Copilot + certified PC (required to run it)? That would suck.

Aargh. Seems mostly aimed at Copilot + PCs. Does anyone want one? :(