I found really nice spreadsheet that covers all AM4 socket compatible motherboards: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wmsTYK9Z3-jUX5LGRoFnsZYZiW1pfiDZnKCjaXyzd1o/edit#gid=2112472504

They have instruction on how to filter so you can easily filter out older chipsets or exclude form-factors you don’t want (for example ITX). There primary factors for motherboard like supported CPU, power quality etc. And very often you have at least few motherboards that are good by primary factors and then there a lot of small details that can help you choose right motherboard. For example:

  1. Diagnostic LEDs
  2. VRM phases
  3. Audio chip used and audio connectors.
  4. Network chip.
  5. Number of USB ports and their type and how many USB headers available and their type
  6. Count of fans you can connect to this motherboard
  7. Video connectors, if you are buying CPU with built-in GPU

Update April 22: Well today Skype won. I updated to latest version. I was getting strange issues like showing that person deleted me from their contacts and I need to send request. Then I was seeing strange order in chats where person answers me and they answer always appends to previous answer even if I did reply.And at the end Skype forced me to update anyway. After I updated all these issues were gone. But I have to state that all issues that I experienced are still there except that now it is possible to send message by pressing Ctr+Enter instead of just Enter. It still quite bad version of Skype. I'm still using it but many people moved to

Not many people aware that recently NVidia enable their video cards to work with FreeSync monitors. If you don’t know what is FreeSync then you can stop reading and search internet about it. But just to better understand what happens here there is short history.

Sometime ago NVidia introduced G-Sync that suppose to “reducing tearing and stuttering caused by misalignment with content's frame rate”. It does this very well, but it is proprietary, expensive and works only with NVidia video cards. Monitor vendors should pay royalty to NVidia and final products are quite expensive. Moreover, it requires to use specific proprietary hardware. And lastly NVidia will certify monitor before it will have badge “G-Sync”. All of these adds a lot

I have to admit that I’m quite technical person, I know how to hardware and software works together, I can find solutions for different technical problems. But I don’t really enjoy doing so for devices that should just work.

In my view huge success of Apple in mobile world based on following pillars: design, hardware, software and Store. Let’s see each of them in details.

Design

As you probably aware, most products are designed by engineers. They are quite practical people. They don’t need bells and whistles. I should work and do its job. Design will be absent or extremely basic. At the same time in many areas design is quite important. Nobody would like to drive car that looks

Since inception most editors on PC platform have overwrite mode and it suck. Let me explain in detail.

Normally most editors from 1990 are using insert mode. And when you type character then this character will be inserted at place where caret is blinking and text to the right from caret will move to the right.

Imaging you have text “This | a car”. Symbol | showing where is caret is. And when you type “is” then text will look like this “This is| a car”. It is trivial, and everybody knows what I’m talking about and it is everywhere like this from PC to tablet, TV’s and phones.

But there are still many applications on PC that can switch

Current keyboard layout was born long time ago with release of IBM PC. Later it was changed with AT model where modern keyboard layout was born. Not every key is used how it was intendent. Some keys are doing nothing like Scroll Lock and there only few applications that uses it. Some keys doing stuff that most regular users are not aware of. For example: “Print Screen” or “Pause|Break” key. Numeric key on digital section to the right are also confusing to people because depending on Num Lock key they can do different roles. They can be keys or can be keys that move cursor.

But there is one key that not only useless but it actually probably most annoying

Today is the day when I stopped using old good Opera browser that was based on Presto engine. It is sad day for me because I believe that it was one of the best browsers and it is really sad that it switched to use Chromium engine.

Why should I stop using it? Well most web sites are not showing properly because HTML 5 is updating and improving every day. There are a lot of updates around SSL and old Opera obviously does not support them. So

What I really like about old Opera

It was quite fast, due to fact that it is rarely used it was secure, because nobody cares about hacking browser that has 2% market. It

I personally don’t like Google Chrome browser and I don’t use it at all. And here is list of reasons why I do not like it.

First and most important reason, that it was created by evil (at my option) company. Google for so long time blamed other software companies for many different sins and now they are repeating exactly the same things. For example: Google fined a record $5 billion by the EU

You can find their comments when Microsoft was fined with about 10 times less fine. There were talking about fairness, good business practices and in general put themselves as “good corporation” and put Microsoft as “evil corporation”. And now they are about 10 times worse