That is a good point! I am thinking it is a regular full size ATX? But I'll try to find a model name and search it.

I posted the system specs here . Apologies if this is not the right way to link to something on the threadiverse. Fun thing, while I was typing this, the system hung for a sec, and then all the letters appeared really quick.

Thank you for the link to explaining computers -- I'll check it out!

$ lspci |grep -i vga 
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation IvyBridge GT2 [HD Graphics 4000] (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 980] (rev a1)

For motherboard, it appears to be this Gigabyte . I found this command online: dmidecode

$ sudo dmidecode -t 2
# dmidecode 3.5
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
        Product Name: Z77X-UD3H
        Version: x.x
        Serial Number: To be filled by O.E.M.
        Asset Tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
        Features:
                Board is a hosting board
                Board is replaceable
        Location In Chassis: To be filled by O.E.M.
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003
        Type: Motherboard
        Contained Object Handles: 0

I will try to figure out the PSU soon.

Thanks, that would probably attract attention lol. I was looking at System Monitor when the stuttering happens and I didn't see a big CPU spike, but I am at a loss.

# System Details Report (Copied from Ubuntu System Information)
***

## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2026-02-05 12:03:11

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z77X-UD3H
- **Memory:**                                      16.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   Intel® Core™ i7-3770K × 8
- **Graphics:**                                    Intel® HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
- **Graphics 1:**                                  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
- **Disk Capacity:**                               128.0 GB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            F20e
- **OS Name:**                                     Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               46
- **Windowing System:**                            X11
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.14.0-37-generic

It doesn't struggle with web browsing per se., just with opening and closing windows mostly. I just experienced it -- I open the file browser, the system hangs for a moment or two where I can't move the mouse. Then the mouse jerks around for a bit. Then the system is smooth again. I looked in System Monitor right after this happened and didn't see any big spikes in storage, CPU, or memory, so I am assuming GPU.

It is probably not physically clean. I should address that first.

It is running on a Samsung SSD 830 series. I tried enabling write cache. I ran into the system stuttering problem (described above) clicking 'cancel' on a random dialog.

I have had a lot of problems with codecs, and video playback being choppy everywhere, which is why I am focused on getting good hardware codecs that are supported under linux.

The CPU/motherboard definitely does have a built-in iGPU. I think I could try it out with prime-select. Maybe that is worth experimenting.

I never saw it but I heard people make fun of the earth bending most.

It's a similar reason that if you mix a bunch of crayons together they turn brown. They don't always turn brown, they just usually do if you use all the colors.

If you dry a load of pure white towels, 100% cotton, you'll get different lint than if you do all black polyester workout shirts.

Thanks

It changes color

Is this an AI space vagina?

I am addicted to threadiverse also???

At least it is better than the corpos.

What do they do then? Wouldn't it be obvious that the person who just started therapy said something?