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  1. Coaxialgamer

    i designed a thing. i'm gonna provide no contex…

    Smileyface attachment for my batteries?
  2. It's really no closer to the 1650 than the mobile variant of that chip, with the exception of the CU count match on the desktop card. PCIE revisions still don't match, and the MX has less L2 uses a fraction of the power. Fundamentally though they're still all TU117 GPUs with very similar core counts and performance levels to other TU117 cards. That's not really what I'm complaining about though. If Nvidia really wanted to showcase the MX450 as a Mobile 1650 "but better" (in some ways...), they had a truckload of names to choose from that didn't entirely shield it from comparison from their existing mobile lineup. They could have named it GT 1640, GT 1655, GTX 1640 Boost, or any number of other similar names that would have allowed consumers to easily know its place in Nvidia's mobile lineup. Heck, performance and power would have been right at home for a 40 class card too, and if they really wanted to push the power-optimized nature of the product, "MX 1640" would have done the trick. They could even have named it "1650", given how little Nvidia seems to care about selling products with similar or even identical names despite different performance and features. Heck, they could have even made a mobile/OEM-only lineup (eg a GTX 1750 or 1740) like they did with the 800 series. Not saying that those are necessarily good names (I still think GT 1640 is a better option), but basically anything that would have enabled comparison with their existing GTX line would have been a decent choice... It's not even like the PCIE 4.0 connectivity of the MX450 matters for a card of that class anyway, and that's basically the only "feature" it has extra compared to other TU117-derived parts. But no, because "GT 1640" sounds low-end, and Nvidia can't have that. Never mind that performance and power are in line with what we'd expect from a card of that performance class.
  3. For a component such as a CPU to fit onto a motherboard and actually function, you need 3 things: Electrical compatibility: your CPU should be designed for the same socket its being put in, otherwise it simply won't fit. That means an LGA 1151 board, as you've already found out. Chipset compatibility: just because a CPU fits doesn't mean it'll run. Your motherboard's chipset needs to be appropriate for the model of CPU you're trying to run. The chipset is the piece of logic that holds all the hardware in your system together. Specifically, with the LGA 1151 socket, Intel designed the 100 and 200 series chipsets for 6 and 7th gen core processors (and any board of that family should be able to handle any LGA1151 CPU from those generations), with the 300 series chipsets being used for the 8th and 9th gen core processors (and again, any board using one of those chipsets should support any processor from that series). Do not try to run a 6/7th gen processor on a 300-series board or a 8/9th gen CPU on a 100/200 series board: it won't work. Finally, you need firmware compatibility. The first Intel 100 series boards came out in mid 2015, while the 7th gen CPUs came out about 18 months later. To accommodate newer CPUs designed and released after a board was initially released (assuming official compatibility, as seen in the last two points), the board's firmware (called the BIOS) often needs to be updated to retroactively add support for those newer CPUs (a process which itself often requires a supported, working CPU from a previous generation). You have an H110 chipset on your motherboard. Officially, that gives it support for Intel's 6th and 7th generations of CPUs, up to the Intel i7 7700K. Newer 8th and 9th gen parts are not supported here. You already have a 7th gen part installed, so the currently installed BIOS should already support any processor you can install into it without any hassle. Unfortunately that does mean you're limited to quad-core CPUs like the 7700K though, and a platform upgrade to a newer socket and chipset will be needed for anything faster than that specific i7.
  4. IMO, it needed to go. The fact that there was basically no correspondence between MX and the rest of their consumer lineup (GT, GTX and RTX) only made things more confusing for consumers. And that's disregarding the fact that the existing main-line naming scheme is arguably already too complicated and subject to Nvidia's marketing whims for most people. I mean the MX series as a whole is made to look like it basically exists in a vacuum relative to the rest of their mobile lineup here. I have no way of comparing something like an MX450 to their other cards without bringing up a spec sheet. It's basically just a GTX 1650 Mobile with a lower TDP, PCIE 4.0 and a few fewer CUs (and less/slowrr ram on some variants). Nvidia should have named it something like the "GT 1640 Mobile" if they were actually trying to construct a practical naming scheme but I guess that makes it sound worse than "MX450" and Nvidia couldn't have that.
  5. Iirc, Vega64 uses PCIE 3.0, not 4.0. You'll be limited to 3.0 speeds between your GPU and the rest of the system. 24 lanes will most likely split into 8x lanes per GPU, getting you a PCIE 3.0 8x link between your GPUs and system.
  6. if you can feel the water moving that's fine. It's just that sometimes pumps fail or aren't configured correctly and the loop contents stays stagnant.
  7. so your BIOS is reporting a constant 3000-ish RPM on the pump? No major fluctuations? If you put your ear near the pump/block and start your PC, you your hear the audible "swish" sound of the water flowing?
  8. Might seem obvious, but is the pump running on your AIO? It should be audible up close, especially at startup (you can hear the fluid moving). You should also be running the pump off a header designed for pump use (check your board manual) and you want your motherboard to run said pump at 100% all the time. You do NOT want PMW or DC control of the pump to occur as a result of changing system temperatures. Check your BIOS settings for all that. If that fails, you may want to try reapplying your thermal paste and re-mounting your cooler. Make sure you've also removed the sticker on the AIO coldplate
  9. Especially with GPU pricing, you have a lot of people who either bought a GPU at pandemic pricing (and don't want to make a loss on their card when reselling) or don't stay all that informed and think last year's situation still applies. This combined with a bunch of old listings that were genuinely written during the pandemic, which further increases the number of listings for out-to-lunch prices. As far as motherboards are concerned though, while I'm not saying that people don't overvalue them, there are legitimate reasons for the high price of old boards, and especially high end ones. This is something Linus may have touched on on a few occasions, but given that motherboards are typically far more prone to failure after 5-10 years than a CPU is, you eventually get into a situation with older platforms where the CPUs are very cheap but the lack of available working motherboards tends to drive up the price of those components. This is something you probably noticed when shopping for a good X58 board for that i7 975. Typically you'll get the lowest platform cost for systems approaching the 10 y/o mark, aka probably SB/IB/HW stuff on the Intel side.
  10. The problem you tend to run into with old hardware on local marketplaces is that you get a sort of "bathtub curve" on pricing that's largely a consequence of the people who sell these parts. Who sells 10 y/o PC equipment? Large businesses tend to have a shorter upgrade cycle and might not even sell their used hardware at all. Enthusiasts and workstation users typically upgrade long before that. The people who sell such old equipment are often either small businesses or simply your average household trying to subsidize the cost of their next family PC upgrade. In the latter case especially, you're likely to end up faced with people who have no idea what their stuff is really worth (just that they spent "a lot of money a few years ago"), and the volume of people like that biases market prices in their favor.
  11. So I'm "learning" C++ for a personal project right now (writing an emulator), seeing as Python really isn't the tool for this particular job.

    I have to say though: chatGPT is the greatest thing ever for this kind of task.

     

    I don't even need to find countless semi-related SO posts about issues I encounter or look at opaque documentation anymore. I can just ask the machine for some info and it gives me some. Heck, I don't even need to ask semi-cynical, semi-gatekeeping forum members for help anymore!

  12. What even is the point beyond 1080p for your standard laptop, really? The PPI on a standard 15inch laptop is comparable to your typical desktop 4K display, so it's not like pixel density is a problem. Get a laptop with a decent display, that'll do more for you.
  13. There's no good single snswer. Some editors benefit heavily from CUDA. Some don't. Some favor OpenCL and AMD. Some don't scale at all with gpu performance beyond there being one in your system. It's really software dependent.
  14. Depends on your usecase. Esports games and other light titles? You might get away with 1080p 60, particularly at lower settings. Newer, heavier titles though? Not a chance. The 2400g is a decent chip, and GPU wise it's miles ahead of its peers on the Intel side. There's still only so much you can do with an APU though, particularly a 4 year old one.
  15. Except that those franchises have changed. A lot. Take Zelda as an example here. Obviously these are all still RPGs at their core, but BoTW is an open world game wherras previous entries were mostly linear. Pretty much every game is also quite different stylistically too, and that's ignoring the jump to 3d. Metroid is also another good example: what used to be a 2d exploration game turned into an open world first person exploration/shooter. If we want to be asinine, Mario made the jump from 2D to 3d, which is a genre shift in itself. These decisions worked for their respective franchises, but it's hardly universal.
  16. If you aren't planning on hammering your NAS with requests all the time, that hardware frankly seems a bit overkill. I've heard of people using Raspberry Pis as NASes, and even a Celeron box should be able to do the trick. Realistically that 3600 is fine but you'd be using that 2070 super as little more than a display adapter in a dedicated NAS, so maybe get something a bit more...basic. There are various NAS operating systems to choose from, such as OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS (in no way an exhaustive list). I probably wouldn't use old hard drives for this (just use two or more hard drives for redundancy and drop your existing data over) either.
  17. You can't keep releasing the same game with upgrade visuals or new missions all the time. Things get stale pretty quick if you do. Modern games aren't just polished versions of games from 20 or 30 years ago with better graphics. There are many reasons one can cite really: for one, gaming as a medium does actually evolve. This means that styles and genres that used to be popular don't necessarily do well in a more modern context, even if they used to be popular. Duke Nukem as a franchise is a good example of this to some extent. Game development as a whole is also getting more expensive, and that does push studios and publishers to do things they perhaps wouldn't have considered in the past; introducing in-game monetization, adding in "popular" game modes to boost overall engagement and exposure (eg the glut of openworld or battle-royal games we've seen over the last few years). That's not to say that there aren't ever bad creative decisions being made or even straight cashgrabs, but it does help explain some aspects of modern games.
  18. Anyone else noticed that the latest WAN show vids aren't listed on the main channel? I can find them by googling them explicitly, but a look through LTT's recent videos has basically no archives from January. Is this some new thing I'm not aware of or is something up?

     

    EDIT: never mind that, I've just noticed that most of the semi-recent WAN shows aren't listed either.

    1. Spotty

      Spotty

      You have to go to the "live" tab to view past live streams. YouTube changed it recently so that Livestream vods don't show in the videos tab on channels. 

  19. You can find a lot of info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector The link has info on available physical formats. It's all ISO-standardized. Of course, there's also voltage and polarity to be concerned about, but you're probably beyond that given the nature of this question.
  20. Sure, I get that. But admittedly if you're going HDD-only you probably want density and low cost, not necessarily speed, and I'd bet most backup solutions fall in that ballpark. And if you do there are probably other options to achieve it, be that striping data across multiple drives, tiered storage with SSD caching or even just plain SSD storage. This is an intermediary solution between pure SSD and existing mechanical drives, but frankly it still leans far too much on the mechanical side of performance to fill a niche, imo
  21. The performance advantage of something like a SATA SSD over a hard drive was never about sequential speed though. A good 7.2k RPM drive can do 250MB/s, which is fine for basically anything most people would need a drive to do (and certainly faster than any internet connection if you were downloading something). The problem was and always will be random performance, a problem inherent to the technology of spinning media. Adding a second actuator to improve performance is like putting a band-aid on a small scrape while ignoring the gaping, bleeding wound a few inches below. And the way I see it, that's even more true now that SSDs have become so cheap per gig. The only strength HDDs have left is cost and (for now) density. Making hard drives faster is a cool engineering achievement, but it's sort of like trying to engineer (breed?) a faster horse in an era where cars are available. Edit: yes, I have been made aware that some applications would favor a faster hard drive. I still remain unconvinced that this a viable direction for the technology as a whole, but that's just my layman assessment. In any case, no need to tell me about them.
  22. MSI added support for 5000-series AMD Ryzen CPUs in their latest BIOS updates. Flashing that board with the latest bios should make it compatible with virtually any ryzen CPU ever made, with the possible exception of the older 1000 series processors and even older Excavator-derived parts (such as the Athlon X4 900 series and A-series APUs). From there the 5600x or 5800X should be a drop-in replacement. Ultimately the choice is yours but given the minimal cost of such an upgrade (I spent 100 EUR going from my 1700 to a 5600x after selling off my old chip) it's probably the best value when it comes to upgrading your CPU on a budget. As mentionned the 5800X3D is a significantly faster gamer but it's also more expensive (your call). The 5800x probably isn't worth the premium for gaming, imo. A mobo upgrade would not get you anything performance wise given the aforementioned compatibility with the 5000 series, and I could never recommend spending that much money into what is effectively already a dead-end platform. Otherwise a platform upgrade to 13th gen Intel or AMD 7000 series (if you don't wait for newer stuff) is the only way I'd actually see a complete mobo/CPU upgrade as something viable.
  23. Personally I don't think your CPU will hold that 6800 back all that much, especially at higher-than-1080p resolutions or at higher settings. If you're dead set on a CPU upgrade, this is hat I'd personally do here as far as CPU goes: If mobo is 5th-gen compatible with a BIOS update, get a 5600X. They're cheap and the performance advantage of something like a 5800X is minimal. A 5800X3D is more substantial though. If mobo isn't 5-th gen compatible, I would personally just save for a platform upgrade, be that ryzen 7000, Intel 13th gen or even future stuff. No point in buying new AM4 stuff at this point, especially for the gains you'd be looking at.
  24. Have you determined that the system actually POSTs/Boots? Or does the system appear to be booting normally with the exception of the bank video output?
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