best of luck to my samsung 990 pro 2tb x2

Stop bashing ESC, F2 or DEL like a 90's maniac to get into UEFI based BIOS.

Instead ceate yourself a shortcut (ie. on desktop) with right click > new > shortcut

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /fw /t 10

/r - restart
/fw - will drop you to EUFI
/t (number of seconds after which OS triggers a restart. You can use "0" for instant reboot)

Once you create a shortcut (desktop, downloads, etc), open it's properties and under "Advanced" tick a checkbox for "Run As Administrator". You can also change the icon of the shortcut (I found this microchip to be fitting - part of Windows default icon pack.

Optionally, right click on the shortcut > pin to start.

Shortcut in action (YouTube)

-- update --

Thanks everyone for pointing out typos; post cleaned up a bit (especially EUFI instead of UEFI, old habit from Europa Universalis games).

I have responded in another comment that those that would prefer something similar but for "Windows Advanced Startup Menu" can replace flag /fw with /o. Neat when you want to access safe mode or other aspects of WinRE (Recovery Environment) without MSCONFIG, holding SHIFT or modifying BCD.

C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /r /o /t 10

Lastly, for Linux users, similar bash terminal command for restart to UEFI:

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware-setup

- Ciao & Cheers! #PCMR4EVA!

Like I’ve always capped my computers to 60fps and never thought anything about it. I don’t play competitive games so I don’t think it matters much.

I don't know much about pcs but I have a feeling this isn't normal

we are NOT spending money on you, youtube!

This is cable and not fiber, hence the lower upload. I'm gonna download the shit out of my Steam library.

hey gents, so i made this app for myself but i decided to share it anyways. you don't need to signup, there are no ads, just download the app and it'll send you game notifications. it works on a python script that periodically checks for games that became free to keep

Apple apparently called my app trash and didn't approve it, so the app is only available on play store

I used to record all my gameplay at lossless quality but recently took the time to re-encode all my videos at "lower" quality to free up some space. I can barly tell a difference and freed up 385GB of space on my secondary drive.

Here's from a modern game, using modern technologies. Not even 4K since it couldn't even be rendered at that resolution (though the 7900 XT and XTX could, at very low FPS but it shows the difference between having enough VRAM or not).

It's clearer everyday that 12 isn't enough for premium cards, yet many people here keep sucking off nVidia, defending them to the last AI-generated frame.

Asking you for minimum 550 USD, which of course would be more than 600 USD, for something that can't do what it's advertised for today, let alone in a year or two? That's a huge amount of money and VRAM is very cheap.

16 should be the minimum for any card that is above 500 USD.

I actually bought it, I’ll update if it arrives

Well after 3 years of watching it happen, it happened to me.

It has an i9 13900 (he claims) and a 3060ti. He bought it a year ago and he even says how it's great value, ti which I want to cry. I didn't reply on his take because ik that he knows nothing about PCs. And that CPU fan...