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Gigabyte incorporates 64MB BIOS chip on X870 motherboard to integrate the WiFi driver (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I miss when hardware upgrades actually did something that wasn't capitulating to Microsoft's shitty operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It's nifty that's what's worth the BOM price hike.

I wanted something like Memtest or advanced diagnostics, or a recovery tool which could mount popular filesystems and fix partition tables, or a burn-in suite. Or hell, boot-to-Tetris.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine if AMD did something like this but instead it's for Linux hdmi 2.1 support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would be nice but AMD doesn't manufacture boards or cards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

oh yeah tsmc does it for them

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Use Win 11 LTSC, unplug ethernet, select do not have internet, it will ask you to create a local account

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Its only purpose is to bridge the shitty job M$ does at delivering what is needed in their installer. Had windows simultaneously not supporting the touchpad and drives. Worked fine on Linux ofc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Not the onion, huh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

All of that and it's not even useful, just for Microsoft bullshit...