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porina got a reaction from leclod in Moving to a different country, what should I do with my pc?
It's OP's decision at the end of the day but I recommended what I would do.
Why keep the original SSD? Presumably it has the OS on it and personal data. It is easier to me to keep it. Otherwise you'd have to make sure you moved everything you want to keep, and make sure you wiped your data so there are no traces left. It's just a lot easier to keep the whole thing and swap in a clean one.
I know many wouldn't recommend it, but I've had pretty good success with OS device transplants between systems in the Win10/Win11 era. There's a good chance you can stick it in the new system and, after some driver updates, it'll work pretty much where you left off. Saving reinstalling and configuring everything.
If the Windows activation is kept or left is something to consider. I usually get OEM as cheaper but not transferrable for example.
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porina reacted to Poinkachu in gn fps sucks and we are reading it wrong...
I think GN showed a ningmei x inwin waifu case in that video as well, which has an LCD screen inside the case showing a dancing waifu.
I wonder how much FPS will that increase
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porina got a reaction from Poinkachu in gn fps sucks and we are reading it wrong...
Thanks. Have gone through the video, which is 3 years old now. This specific one isn't for me, but I hope to see more accessible collab designs in the west. Been watching Hyte for example who have done vtuber/game collabs. Having the right waifu on your case will increase fps more than blue LEDs or airflow ever will! 😄
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porina reacted to Poinkachu in gn fps sucks and we are reading it wrong...
https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000920082580.html
Didn't look into it much, but considering the character has a Ningmei logo on it's chest armor, probably an original character made by either Phanteks or Ningmei.
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porina got a reaction from leadeater in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
Not sure what you're trying to say here. If it is there are 0 PCIe lanes between CPU and chipset, that is correct and normal. Intel use their own protocol connection. You still use chipset lanes like normal.
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porina got a reaction from dogwitch in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
Intel chipset connection doesn't use PCIe lanes at all. They use DMI 4.0 x8 which is equivalent to PCIe 4.0 x8, and 5.0 x4. So same bandwidth available between CPU and chipset as on AM5.
The user available CPU PCIe lanes is a small advantage to AM5, which has 16+4+4 supporting 5.0. The remaining 4 lanes go to the chipset so are not user accessible. Intel side has 16+4, with the 16 supporting 5.0 and the 4 supporting 4.0 only. Without impacting the x16 slot, if the AM5 mobo is wired to give such (they may use some lanes for other things instead), then you could have two 5.0 SSDs connected to the CPU, vs one 4.0 SSD on Intel. In practice, on Intel side you can slap extra SSDs off chipset connection for no real world impact outside of extremely niche scenarios. Platform lanes are about the same on both. If anything I'd have more concerns about bandwidth choking with the two chipset AM5 implementations.
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porina got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
Not sure what you're trying to say here. If it is there are 0 PCIe lanes between CPU and chipset, that is correct and normal. Intel use their own protocol connection. You still use chipset lanes like normal.
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porina got a reaction from AI_Must_Di3 in Worth upgrading from 3070?
Depends on performance expectations. I have both 3070 and 4070. After moving them around a bit, I have settled on the 3070 in my 1440p desktop where it is still plenty powerful enough for my personal uses. The 4070 goes on a 4k TV where I can still use as much performance as I can get.
Basically if you want more performance now, go for it. But if not, see what is around when you actually do feel a need to upgrade.
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porina got a reaction from filpo in In a rut? Reduce VRAM! RTX 3050 6GB launching with a rumoured MSRP of $180 with 96 bit bus
I get that, and saw similar where I used to work. The last main laptop I was issued was a dual core Broadwell model which I had that until I left some time during lockdown. I also ran a test lab so had a bunch of much more powerful desktops for any heavy lifting.
Still, Intel desktop iGPUs with regular JEDEC standard DDR5 (not faster LPDDR or XMP) is 84% of recommended, so not that far off. Far higher than the ~27% that minimum would be.
I ran RT on the Arc A380 but that was more to see if it could than expecting anything playable. In Watch Dogs Legion it was 30fps class with RT low 720p effective. 3050 6GB should be way faster than that.
At the end of the day the functionality is there, and it is up for any user what they use it on. It doesn't have to be limited to AAA gaming.
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porina got a reaction from WereCat in Ram scaling in Cinebench 2024
I'm starting to look at how the balance of CPU and ram performance impacts Cinebench 2024. Above is initial data I got for my 11700k. I want to expand that to other CPUs, but since I only have 3 different systems I can run at home right now, that's not a lot of data. So I guess I'm looking to crowdsource it.
Before anyone points me to the existing Cinebench scores thread, that is useless for me. It doesn't have the information I need to do this. To be useful I need the following information, some mandatory, some optional but potentially useful.
If you can help, please reply with the following information. NO SCREENSHOTS PLEASE! They just clutter the thread when only a single number on it is useful.
Required info:
Multi-thread score:
CPU model:
CPU configuration comments: e.g. if you have adjusted the clock, power limits or similar, disabled cores, turned off HT/SMT
Average CPU clock(s) when benchmark is running: ideally run fixed clock. If variable you can use monitoring software to get an average while it is running
Ram operating speed MT/s: this is the speed the modules are running at
Ram channel configuration: note the convention for DDR5 seems to follow DDR4 in that one module width is considered one channel, so consumer tier systems support dual channel only
Optional info:
Ram module rank: this can be shown in CPU-Z or Thaiphoon Burner, typically 1 at lower capacities, 2 at higher capacities
Ram timings: CAS latency or primaries only
Ram DPC: DIMMs Per Channel e.g. a dual channel system with 2 modules in it is 1 DPC, with 4 modules it is 2 DPC.
Example for one of my 11700k runs:
Multi-thread score: 678
CPU model: 11700k
CPU configuration comments: turbo disabled, fixed at 3.6 GHz
Average CPU clock(s) when benchmark is running: 3.6 GHz
Ram operating speed MT/s: 3200
Ram channel configuration: 2
Ram module rank: 2
Ram timings: CL16
Ram DPC: 1
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porina got a reaction from filpo in In a rut? Reduce VRAM! RTX 3050 6GB launching with a rumoured MSRP of $180 with 96 bit bus
Market: Anyone who wants a new dGPU not requiring a power connector with the highest performance available. There is one Pro card that does better but no consumer would pay for it.
iGPU have the problem you have to buy them at the start. You can't upgrade them later on without replacing the whole CPU, at which point a dGPU may make sense. Also as others mentioned, even the best ones today will fall clearly behind the 3050 6GB.
Following that logic, APUs shouldn't be marketed for gaming? Current handhelds specifically come to mind.
You forgot to x2 for channels. Dual channel DDR4-3200 was already 50GB/s. Two way DDR5-6400 takes us to 100GB/s.
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porina got a reaction from Pakwarrior in is 11.2v bad for 12v rail during 100% load ont psu ?
Where is the measurement defined and happening? It is normal for the voltage to drop over practical cables as the current goes up. The voltage measured at the PSU might still be higher, but it droops by the time it is at the GPU.
The GPU doesn't directly use 12V anyway. It converts the power to lower voltages. If the input voltage drops, it increases the current to give the required power. As long as the current is still in limits and the PSU doesn't fall over, it should be ok.
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porina reacted to Naijin in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
Correct on all those points, so I hope to see some good results soon. Right now there's no CPU that does every single task best, it's either THIS or THAT. It will be an interesting few years to come 🙂
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porina got a reaction from starsmine in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
The target customer is someone who wants the best CPU performance at any cost. 7800X3D might on average get ahead in most gaming, but not everywhere else. If it has customers, it isn't senseless.
The bad decisions were made perhaps 10+ years ago now. Their approach to fab progression fell apart. It isn't something you can fix overnight. They knew what they needed to do, and they're still doing it. The next year or two sees Intel returning to a competitive process node and Arrow Lake should be a major step forwards on the desktop as they get over two node uplift on top of updated core design.
Remember the original Ryzen series didn't do great at gaming too? If all you ran was Cinebench or similar, it was great. Ryzen wasn't really great in gaming until Zen 2 (3000 series), which was their first architecture to pass Skylake levels overall. It was so painful with the AMD fanboys talking about Cinebench like it was the only thing that mattered.
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porina got a reaction from filpo in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
They've had bad takes in the past but this is pretty spot on. I have der8auer's video on my 2nd screen right now since it appeared in my feed. I'm not exactly giving it much attention as I write this reply! Basically it isn't terribly interesting to me either. At most I might look at the summary chart on TechPowerUp later.
Let's see what Arrow Lake brings.
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porina reacted to starsmine in Are you getting Deja vu? 14900KS releases and breaks the clock speed record at 9.1GHz
I can never hate on the ks versions of chips. I think they are just dumb fun. Negative opinions on it always seem to just miss the point hard. its not there to try to beat ryzen, its just there to see how hard you can push it. Competition literally does not mater here. I dont even understand the "dont recommend" statements like that needs to be explicitly said. no one asking the question of what PC to buy is even looking at that budget, the same way you dont recommend a porshe 918.
like a Dodge Demon hellcat, stupid fun, completely unusable.
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porina reacted to Stahlmann in Some questions about G-Sync and V-Sync
This is what BlurBusters says about driver-side V-Sync compared to in-game V-Sync:
Basically, only use the in-game option when the driver-side option doesn't seem to work in that particular game.
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porina reacted to LAwLz in NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang: Don't learn computer science. The future is human language (AI code generation)
Two thoughts I had when I saw this video, and I am a bit scared that nobody else has pointed this out.
1) The video is super heavily edited. I am not even sure this is what he said because it is so heavily edited. Does anyone have the original video? In that 1 minute video I counted something like 18 cuts. That the large amount of cuts doesn't ring an alarm bell to anyone else is in my opinion a pretty big alarm bell. Are people just so used to the jump cuts that they don't notice them? Each and every cut could be taking out important context that may bring nuance or it could also just be stitching together words to form sentences that were never even said to begin with.
2) Is he really saying "don't learn computer science"?
To me, the way I interpret what was said, is that while we used to hear people say "everyone should learn how to program" we are quickly moving towards a world where few people will need to learn how to code. That we should aim to make tools that makes it so that everyone can "program" without knowing a programming language.
That people who used to need to learn programming to make their computers do something that was actually related to something else (like biology) will hopefully be able to just focus on the biology part in the future. Instead of needing to learn how to code because they need to write a program to check some protein reaction or whatever, they will hopefully in the future be able to just focus on learning the biology part and let the computer handle the "how to create a program to check this" part.
That we are moving away from "everyone need to learn programming because programming is a skill every job needs" to "you don't need to learn programming if that's not going to be your primary focus".
I might be misinterpreting what he said, but I think that is a fairly logical explanation and view considering some particular word choices and context.
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porina got a reaction from Tetras in Desktop DDR4 2933MHz JEDEC doesn't exist?
Probably that.
I'd suggest looking at Kingston. This is their UK site but I you can try finding the regional equivalent.
https://www.kingston.com/unitedkingdom/en/memory/client/ddr4-3200mts-non_ecc-unbuffered-dimm
I found them when looking for JEDEC ram for my laptop. They're the only ones that let you pick configuration, so I got some sweet 2Rx8 modules. Keep well away from 1Rx16.
The datasheet doesn't show if they include lower JEDEC profiles but I'd be surprised if they didn't. Give me a moment and I'll extract the SPD table from my laptop ram as example.
Edit:
Yup, it has JEDEC profiles for 2933, 3066, 3200. Probably lower but I'd have to get Thaiphoon Burner to try and read that.
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porina got a reaction from da na in Why are iGPUs no longer done this way?
It was rated at 50GB/s bandwidth, which is about double that of the standard DDR3-1600 ram of the time. It isn't clear to me if it worked both directions simultaneously, or not like normal ram.
Also note it was a victim cache. You don't access it like a separate pool. Recently used data fell into it when evicted from lower level caches. It really speeded up some CPU only workloads, in a broadly similar way to 3D cache.
I think they were priced appropriately, comparable to the equivalent Skylake -K offerings. I wasn't up to speed when Haswell was current but I wouldn't be surprised if they were similarly priced too.
They were likely only released by Intel for them to say they released it at all. They weren't regular desktop CPUs but the existing mobile offering shoved onto desktop socket. As much fun as some make of Intel's 14nm, it was the first product on that node. It had problems and was very late. It's prime sales window was a matter of months before Skylake came along - May to August 2015. Even Rocket Lake had longer than that - March to Nov 2021.
It was only considered slow because they didn't clock well. From memory they topped out around 4 GHz whereas Haswell refresh was pushing much higher than that.
I kept my 5775C system. Some day I'll get around to benching it with modern games. Don't hold your breath.
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porina reacted to Avocado Diaboli in why most pc port games suck and have always sucked...
Are you a troll or did you graduate from the Dunning-Kruger program?
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porina got a reaction from LAwLz in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
A bit more context would help. It sounds like this is a property that is relatively detached so there is no existing infrastructure reaching it, even if there is some nearby. If there isn't an explicit universal access requirement, then costs can be high. It sounds like this is a push towards something like universal access.
The minimum requirements listed might seem low, but for remote locations it could potentially be provided over the mobile network or even LEO satellite outside of pricing.
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porina got a reaction from WhitetailAni in Bundesnetzagentur requires provider to supply telecommunications services (Germany) 10 mbit download 1.7 mbit upload
A bit more context would help. It sounds like this is a property that is relatively detached so there is no existing infrastructure reaching it, even if there is some nearby. If there isn't an explicit universal access requirement, then costs can be high. It sounds like this is a push towards something like universal access.
The minimum requirements listed might seem low, but for remote locations it could potentially be provided over the mobile network or even LEO satellite outside of pricing.
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porina got a reaction from jre84 in Steam Hardware Survey - GPUs - Feb 2024
Now we're in March the Feb data has been out for a bit and I took a look at it. Before I get into the numbers, I know, there is uncertainty in how they were obtained and they can't be taken as absolutely representative of anything. Still, it is the best data set I'm aware of for PC gaming. I'd welcome any alternate sources which could supplement this.
One thing in particular is I've noticed occasional odd months where NV share spikes a little. Feb 2024 might be one of them. It is not as big as other spikes but it does feel like there is something there. NV overall share went up 2.7 percentage points from the previous month, with the three preceding months spanning less than one percentage point change. So this month's data probably isn't the best to look at for longer term trends especially comparing red vs green.
The biggest gains were in the mid range NV GPUs of recent generations, with the 3060, 4060, 3070, 2060, 4070 taking the top 5 spots in percentage point change. While new sales of 4060 and 4070 would be expected, there can't be that many older gens entering the market?
Of note is a new entry of the 4070 Super, which means with less than 6 weeks of sales it already has a presence bigger than all individual current gen AMD GPUs except the 7900 XTX.
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porina got a reaction from Alinz in Steam Hardware Survey - GPUs - Feb 2024
Now we're in March the Feb data has been out for a bit and I took a look at it. Before I get into the numbers, I know, there is uncertainty in how they were obtained and they can't be taken as absolutely representative of anything. Still, it is the best data set I'm aware of for PC gaming. I'd welcome any alternate sources which could supplement this.
One thing in particular is I've noticed occasional odd months where NV share spikes a little. Feb 2024 might be one of them. It is not as big as other spikes but it does feel like there is something there. NV overall share went up 2.7 percentage points from the previous month, with the three preceding months spanning less than one percentage point change. So this month's data probably isn't the best to look at for longer term trends especially comparing red vs green.
The biggest gains were in the mid range NV GPUs of recent generations, with the 3060, 4060, 3070, 2060, 4070 taking the top 5 spots in percentage point change. While new sales of 4060 and 4070 would be expected, there can't be that many older gens entering the market?
Of note is a new entry of the 4070 Super, which means with less than 6 weeks of sales it already has a presence bigger than all individual current gen AMD GPUs except the 7900 XTX.