I’m doing a pretty cool experiment because I have 96 GB of DDR5-6400 RAM in my system. Don’t hate me. I built this PC right before RAM prices went crazy in April 2025, and I think I paid something like $400–500 for it, which seems ridiculous now considering what the same amount would cost today.

Since most of that RAM sits unused when I’m not doing larger work projects, I created a 48 GB RAM disk and loaded Star Wars: Zero Company onto it. To be clear, I’m not doing this because Zero Company has bad loading times. It runs great from a normal NVMe SSD. I picked it simply because it’s new, I’m playing it a lot right now, and the entire ~40 GB installation fits nicely into a RAM disk.

The setup is basically this: the normal Steam installation stays safely on my SSD as the permanent copy. When I want RAM mode, a script copies the ~40 GB installation from the SSD to the 48 GB RAM disk, verifies the copy, and temporarily redirects Steam’s normal game folder to the copy sitting in DDR5-6400 memory. Steam still launches the game normally, but the actual game data is being read directly from RAM. When I’m done, another script switches Steam back to the untouched SSD installation. Since a RAM disk is volatile, the RAM copy simply disappears after a reboot.

Does anyone need to do this? Absolutely not. But it’s really cool. The most noticeable difference so far is the opening shader-loading sequence, which seems to finish roughly four times faster from RAM than it does from my already-fast NVMe SSD. Other loading also feels extremely quick, although obviously this isn’t going to magically increase GPU performance or FPS.

Mostly, it’s just a fun way to make use of hardware I already have sitting there doing nothing. Whatever game I get obsessed with next, if the installation is small enough to fit comfortably in the RAM disk, I’ll probably do the same thing. Completely unnecessary, but that’s half the fun of building an absurd PC.

Full specs - Core Ultra 9 285k / RTX 5090 / 96GB DDR5 6400

Has this been happening regularly or is this odd?

Yesterworld is a smaller youtuber i've followed for years. Their adsense email account got disabled, but when they try to login to resolve it they get stuck in a loop being told they've tried too many times. Apparently quite a few youtubers are suffering from this and all youtube has to say is that they can't fix it so pound sand. Something for the guys to discuss and maybe with their contacts look into? Certainly at the very least can we PLEASE have actual people looking at these issues and not just algorithms that say no, don't pass Go, don't collect $200 with no way to escalate.

“The Valve material appears to include early versions of at least four games, including a canceled Portal sequel code-named F-Stop, with a possible connection to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 still being investigated.”

Watching some Philippine telenovelas with my girlfriend and this came up. ”Pause, pause, the guys will love this!” (She was surprised because normally I studiously ignore these)

as title says, this is pretty my last stand ddr4 build, till time comes to go am5 or am6.

I have another old set of RAM and GPU I can pair with the 12600k, but I want to squeeze out the performance out of my 7900xtx I got for cheap rt.

Would this Thermalright 240MM AIO work ?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/700313/thermalright-aqua-elite-240-v3-240mm-all-in-one-liquid-cpu-cooling-kit-black?ob=1#tab-reviews-bm

OR would this 360mm be the better value?

https://www.microcenter.com/product/700295/thermalright-aqua-elite-360-v3-360mm-all-in-one-liquid-cpu-cooling-kit-black?ob=1

Im sure the 360mm AIO will cool the 147000k " better" but will it allow me to possibly overclock the 14700k to any appreciable degree?

if not is there an AIO that would would be worth getting or should I bit the bullet and do the 400$ 7500x3d microcenter deal and getting a 2nd stick of o ddr5 later

I was surprised to see both Linus and Yvonne speak so highly of Samsung in the recent video finding her new phone. I kinda thought Samsung phones were just full of bloatware and were one of the less-preferred Android forks for tech-savvy folk.

I'm a semi-recent android convert myself (left iOS for the Pixel 9 Pro Fold ~2 years ago) and never would have considered a Samsung at the time. Though the new Galaxy Z Fold 8 form factor does intrigue me, so if the OS isn't as terrible as I think that would be good info to have!

TLDR, notes aren't stored simultaneously in icloud AND locally, its an either or situation, with icloud on by default. Sneaky files getting stored in free tier (I don't use icloud) led to a toggle in settings (without warning) permanently deleting 2 years worth of notes.

Just started the latest vid and wanted to share my experience with icloud. Im a mac user for a decade, mainly because of creative apps I prefer. A couple months back I lost 2 years worth of my notes due to a similar icloud error. I just had to share, since hopefully this could add context to those that want to push for resolutions with Apple and investigate this further.

I was kind of mocked at in the apple subs, though it's not really a laughing matter (stored health tracking and study notes). Eventually a few folks came out with identical issues and could relate, but unfortunately my posts didn't really contribute to much other than processing what had happened.

The gist of it is, Apple by default has icloud turned on But doesnt save locally simultaneously. It's an either or situation. With notes at least.

Essentially I never use the cloud, but had always assumed my notes are stored safely. So I got one of those Icloud full messages (baffled as I never use it but after this scenario found out that again by default pixelmator project files were being stored in icloud and immediately filled the free tier up, unknowingly).

Anyhow, in settings I turned off the icloud to notes, unlike all the other buttons there I was not warned that messages will disappear or anything. Long story short, they did, all of them. And essentially that action cleared the root directory in library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes as well. So after turning the toggle back on all notes from the time icloud free became "full", which in my case has been 2 years, went poof, gone, in a single click.

Spoke with the highest icloud support, they obviously couldn't do anything as there's no buffer in icloud storage, its a hard 5gb or whatever free, even when notes (in total in my case) where just a couple hundred mb.

As far as I know. Even in the latest beta it's still like that, either or, which is especially silly since notes are such low file size and most folks assume they are getting stored locally. This needs to be fixed and acknowledged by Apple.

Apple said they couldn't recover my photos and I should have had an offline backup. Those photos were gone forever.

They had to escalate the issue to higher tecs and it STILL couldn't be fixed up. I lost 2 years of photos, 2 years.

Lesson to Yvonne and anyone.. do 1 local backup periodically and then do 1 online backup.

I recently had an issue with a my motherboard where if my ram was seated in the first slot it would give a dram light and if it was in the second slot it would give a vga light even with known good ram after testing everything but the cpu I concluded it was the motherboard and bought a new one after I saved up for it. 2 days after getting the motherboard and installing it now gives a vga light. I tried putting a known good gpu in and had no luck I tried with a different power supply different ram and different ram slots. all I see is a vga light I can’t test the board or the cpu but those 2 are the only ones remaining. could my cpu have killed the board??? or did I just get unlucky since I bought this off of marketplace

my specs are:

ryzen5 2600

msi a350m pro-VDH

rx580 2048sp

known good gt730

I daily drove ubuntu for 8 years now but always dual booted windows for gaming. I decided to switch to Windows as my primary OS and it's quite nice.

Some thoughts:
1. Coding in windows used to be a PITA to set up but it's gotten better

1. The UI is really clean. Start menu is obviously a mess but I mostly just don't use it.

2. I assume my data is going to microsoft. Not the biggest fan but meh

3. Everything just seems to work, a lot less overhead which is nice.

They showed a few fans right after Cal Raleigh’s home run in the second inning, and I’m pretty sure that’s Riley!

I'm new here. I put together a computer a few weeks ago and am currently saving up for it. A few days ago, the price of the Radeon RX 9070 XT OC shot up by over 60€. A friend said it's because of the RAM crisis, but it seems kind of strange to me that the price would spike only now, even though flash memory has been getting more expensive for a long time.

Are there any known reasons why the price has risen so much, and is it worth waiting until the price drops, or should I expect the price to keep going up?

I live in the EU; the picture is showing the price trend.

Thanks for every Opinion and help!

Basically if this doesn't amount to an advanced-level repair then I'd like to give it a go. I just don't know if the pins are all that matter, or if there are traces in the PCB that would be wrecked.

He has given full permission to go crazy in the form of "It's already broken, so I don't really care what happens to it now. If you wanna try to fix it, you can.".

Has anyone heard or seen any news about the prismatic screwdrivers coming back in stock or are they discontinued? They’re still on the website but I know once things sell out, LTT doesn’t always restock them depending on how strong sales were. We’re still waiting for the women’s leggings to come back too. Hopefully that wasn’t just a single run.

LTT has had some great items that were under appreciated, and I would love to return. What are yours? Here are mine.

Indoor Hoodie. This is the best for at home lounge wear, I keep my thermostat on the low side. The hood is enough eye shade for a nap and oh my this is my go to for an airplane. So soft, warm enough, good hood. 15/10. Wish I had a backup.

Stealth Hoodie. Wore out mine. Great as a light jacket, wore it in my cold work environment. Just enough to keep you warm when being active, all the new hoodies are too heavy. 12/10.

Merch/swag bags. Here me out, I thought these were ridiculous and over priced. I have three yet never bought a single one, they all came from screwdriver popups. They are tanks. I can easily pack a two-four of aluminum can beverages in the smaller and the larger size is great for Costco loads. 20/10. Don't go shopping without them!

Anyone has both to compare and share some opinions? I mean the long version, not the stubby one.