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My problem with qualcomm annoucements for this platform: this isn't the first time, nor the second, but the third.

Since when is that a "finish" issue? Btw I don't even dislike that look heh. I think it's pretty bold to proclaim the entire range of products is garbage and bad because they don't polish finish areas you don't see and are not part of the cold plate either when everything else is good and additionally some people actually like those tool mark finish (so long as it's patterned nice, eh you get the gist).
 
Not saying it's unfair to expect higher grade finish on those areas for the price though.

Should be fine, I've got both of them mixed, essentially the same drives.

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Yes you can, you can do as many sessions as you want on a Pro card and 5 on a Geforce. People have been doing this for ages, if you can't get it working either it's something you are doing or you are trying an unsupported scenario, which btw wouldn't change if you had 100 nvenc encoders on a card since most have 2 already.
 

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-codec-sdk
 
Also real-time encoding aka live streaming has it's own requirements, it has nothing to do with whether or not you can do multiple sessions. Your scenario is also only relevant to client side streaming, server side wouldn't care about any of that and would multi session just fine up to the real time limit due to performance (for live streaming only). But as mentioned requirements for live streaming and encoding in general are different.
 
If you want to ingest a video file and encode it to 12 different output files of different settings then no problem, just let it run.
 
You might want to have a look at this, possibly helpful to you when available:
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/multiple-encodes?language=en_US

Just because it is the default doesn't necessarily mean there isn't another codec source available. Already lots of videos are VP9 and H264 and which is played is picked via device hardware support.
 
Devices that don't have AV1 won't necessarily be playing AV1 source and software decoding.

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Ah, I'm not sure anyone really wants that though. The Pro cards already have no actual limit on number of encode streams just performance/quality limit and they can do over 30 streams per card on Ampere at 1080p/30 high enough bit rate.
 
 
 

 
https://docs.nvidia.com/video-technologies/video-codec-sdk/12.1/nvenc-application-note/index.html

The only real-time transcoding YouTube does is for Live Streams, they don't and haven't done any VOD playback transcoding in more than a decade. I would say ever but I don't know what YouTube did when it first existed.
 
16 versions of a video is absolutely less costly than transcoding, also it's likely much less than 16 versions, more than 10 is unlikely. Compute no matter if it's CPU, GPU, ASIC costs more than storage and it also doesn't scale anywhere near, like 100 times less, than file storage space and direct download.

In what places? A lot of countries have adopted very similar laws, very very few things require by law physical destruction. Medical information here doesn't for example. We are not required by law to have our LTO tapes destroyed but we do anyway by our own judgment.
 
So no you are not commonly looking at physical destruction, the vast global refurbished supply of IT equipment shows otherwise and that even includes server hardware that were once prior used for sensitive data.
 
And if you want examples of data that would be on our tapes, which again we are not required to under any law to physically destroy, would be: Medical data, personal information about minors, military data (low security), confidential industry data, research data published and unpublished, finical data, employee data, security indecent data (digital and physical).
 
I think you are greatly over estimating who and what MUST be physically destroying data by law. Our relevant laws are current and last updated in 2022 and 2023.
 
FYI a lot of countries updated their laws so physical destruction is not required for a lot of thing so they could utilize Azure/AWS/GCP etc. Prior to this, like here, those were off limits although for us sovereignty reasons not data security/destruction.

Since when is that a "finish" issue? Btw I don't even dislike that look heh. I think it's pretty bold to proclaim the entire range of products is garbage and bad because they don't polish finish areas you don't see and are not part of the cold plate either when everything else is good and additionally some people actually like those tool mark finish (so long as it's patterned nice, eh you get the gist).
 
Not saying it's unfair to expect higher grade finish on those areas for the price though.

I have a lot, a lot of EK stuff and have never had any problems ever. It depends on what you buy, I have no AIO's of theirs and don't intend to buy them. What I do have is a huge supply of fittings and blocks from many different build and not ever had Nickel plating issues. And by a lot I mean more than 40 STC compression fittings and another 40 HDC compression fittings, many angle adapters and rotary angle adapters. Had multiple 6970 full cover block, multiple 290X full cover blocks, 6800 XT, Rampage 3&4 BE full cover, Supremacy CPU block plus more I'm likely forgetting or not worth mentioning and all without any issues and all perfectly good quality.
 
This is not to say EK hasn't or doesn't sell products with problems, like any brand could or has. But I wouldn't go around calling literally everything a company makes garbage based off a tiny fraction of what they have ever made.
 
It's also not like you can't find Nickel plating issues with both brands you mentioned in less than a minute, more recent EK plating being sub standard or not it's almost always user error that is the root cause and the quality merely saves your ass or not, or saves it for X amount of time.
 
On the other hand I've had 3 Corsair AIO fail, 2 same reason and the other different but I wouldn't say all Corsair AIOs are trash and I'd still buy them and recommend them.
 
TL;DR Crappily run companies can still sell good products.
 
You mean the same D5 pumps everyone else sources from the same place and slaps their sticker on or the other same place everyone gets their DDC pumps from and slaps their sticker on? Laing/Xylem.

Since when is that a "finish" issue? Btw I don't even dislike that look heh. I think it's pretty bold to proclaim the entire range of products is garbage and bad because they don't polish finish areas you don't see and are not part of the cold plate either when everything else is good and additionally some people actually like those tool mark finish (so long as it's patterned nice, eh you get the gist).
 
Not saying it's unfair to expect higher grade finish on those areas for the price though.

Since when is that a "finish" issue? Btw I don't even dislike that look heh. I think it's pretty bold to proclaim the entire range of products is garbage and bad because they don't polish finish areas you don't see and are not part of the cold plate either when everything else is good and additionally some people actually like those tool mark finish (so long as it's patterned nice, eh you get the gist).
 
Not saying it's unfair to expect higher grade finish on those areas for the price though.

Sooo uhh, does Bitspower make good blocks? Lol... EK and Bitspower the only name brands that make waterblocks for my GPU. Hear nothing about EK horror stories since this news has surfaced, and I can't really support them if they aren't paying employees + media outlets while they are spending tons of money on a computex booth this year.

I've tried EK's opaque / "Sold White" coolant in the past -- once.
It didn't clog the CPU block, etc, but the pigments did fall out of suspension.
It looks like they eventually got it sorted out, according to people online.
 
Used their Cryofuel Clear concentrate (with the occasional use of their dyes) and so far, no issues since I started water-cooling in ~2016(?).
 
Absolutely agree though, their pricing has shot up over the years.
I'm running a full EK loop right now, but may really look into Alphacool (or other alternatives) products now.
Getting things shipped to Canada isn't cheap - even through the resellers / retailers in Canada, rather than direct.

I have a lot, a lot of EK stuff and have never had any problems ever. It depends on what you buy, I have no AIO's of theirs and don't intend to buy them. What I do have is a huge supply of fittings and blocks from many different build and not ever had Nickel plating issues. And by a lot I mean more than 40 STC compression fittings and another 40 HDC compression fittings, many angle adapters and rotary angle adapters. Had multiple 6970 full cover block, multiple 290X full cover blocks, 6800 XT, Rampage 3&4 BE full cover, Supremacy CPU block plus more I'm likely forgetting or not worth mentioning and all without any issues and all perfectly good quality.
 
This is not to say EK hasn't or doesn't sell products with problems, like any brand could or has. But I wouldn't go around calling literally everything a company makes garbage based off a tiny fraction of what they have ever made.
 
It's also not like you can't find Nickel plating issues with both brands you mentioned in less than a minute, more recent EK plating being sub standard or not it's almost always user error that is the root cause and the quality merely saves your ass or not, or saves it for X amount of time.
 
On the other hand I've had 3 Corsair AIO fail, 2 same reason and the other different but I wouldn't say all Corsair AIOs are trash and I'd still buy them and recommend them.
 
TL;DR Crappily run companies can still sell good products.
 
You mean the same D5 pumps everyone else sources from the same place and slaps their sticker on or the other same place everyone gets their DDC pumps from and slaps their sticker on? Laing/Xylem.

EK CEO issued a statement:
 

Let's hope that with EK himself back at the helm that the ship gets righted and those who are due payment are taken care of in a timely manner.

Has anyone actually signed up?
 
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Has anyone actually signed up?
 
Edit:
Created placeholder topic and signed us up, will update tomorrow after I wake up

We always participate, in one way or another 🙂
 
I'll be doing it with whatever I can.

I have a lot, a lot of EK stuff and have never had any problems ever. It depends on what you buy, I have no AIO's of theirs and don't intend to buy them. What I do have is a huge supply of fittings and blocks from many different build and not ever had Nickel plating issues. And by a lot I mean more than 40 STC compression fittings and another 40 HDC compression fittings, many angle adapters and rotary angle adapters. Had multiple 6970 full cover block, multiple 290X full cover blocks, 6800 XT, Rampage 3&4 BE full cover, Supremacy CPU block plus more I'm likely forgetting or not worth mentioning and all without any issues and all perfectly good quality.
 
This is not to say EK hasn't or doesn't sell products with problems, like any brand could or has. But I wouldn't go around calling literally everything a company makes garbage based off a tiny fraction of what they have ever made.
 
It's also not like you can't find Nickel plating issues with both brands you mentioned in less than a minute, more recent EK plating being sub standard or not it's almost always user error that is the root cause and the quality merely saves your ass or not, or saves it for X amount of time.
 
On the other hand I've had 3 Corsair AIO fail, 2 same reason and the other different but I wouldn't say all Corsair AIOs are trash and I'd still buy them and recommend them.
 
TL;DR Crappily run companies can still sell good products.
 
You mean the same D5 pumps everyone else sources from the same place and slaps their sticker on or the other same place everyone gets their DDC pumps from and slaps their sticker on? Laing/Xylem.

I have a lot, a lot of EK stuff and have never had any problems ever. It depends on what you buy, I have no AIO's of theirs and don't intend to buy them. What I do have is a huge supply of fittings and blocks from many different build and not ever had Nickel plating issues. And by a lot I mean more than 40 STC compression fittings and another 40 HDC compression fittings, many angle adapters and rotary angle adapters. Had multiple 6970 full cover block, multiple 290X full cover blocks, 6800 XT, Rampage 3&4 BE full cover, Supremacy CPU block plus more I'm likely forgetting or not worth mentioning and all without any issues and all perfectly good quality.
 
This is not to say EK hasn't or doesn't sell products with problems, like any brand could or has. But I wouldn't go around calling literally everything a company makes garbage based off a tiny fraction of what they have ever made.
 
It's also not like you can't find Nickel plating issues with both brands you mentioned in less than a minute, more recent EK plating being sub standard or not it's almost always user error that is the root cause and the quality merely saves your ass or not, or saves it for X amount of time.
 
On the other hand I've had 3 Corsair AIO fail, 2 same reason and the other different but I wouldn't say all Corsair AIOs are trash and I'd still buy them and recommend them.
 
TL;DR Crappily run companies can still sell good products.
 
You mean the same D5 pumps everyone else sources from the same place and slaps their sticker on or the other same place everyone gets their DDC pumps from and slaps their sticker on? Laing/Xylem.

I would still call that fixed function. It's just that they are using the same function in a slightly more flexible way to reuse silicon.
The fact of the matter remains that those logics on the SoC is only used for decoding video, and the video formats they support are locked and can't be changed. The only difference it makes is that the same transistors that handle some parts of H.265 might also handle decoding H.264 for example.
It's very much semantics that doesn't really change anything I said earlier.
 
 
 
Are you saying some of the tasks for decoding the video stream is handled by the CPU or "general purpose" GPU cores on Intel processors?
Because I am fairly sure all of the actual decoding work is done inside the media engine, not on the Xe cores or other execution units/shaders/TMUs/ROPs/etc. I guess you could argue that the GPU is involved because the decoded video gets copied into the video frame buffer and gets sent to the display, but that's very very pedantic.
I guess things like rendering and upscaling could also be done on the CPU or GPU but that's very different from the actual decoding step. I am strictly talking about decoding here, since that's what is relevant to the news piece. 

We always participate, in one way or another 🙂
 
I'll be doing it with whatever I can.