Curious Pineapple

Core2 Duo Mac's are already "too old" to be supported these days, unless you run Windows of course. Then they perform just fine and have decent driver support.

And when they deem your machine too old, they won't allow you to run it.

It really does, there's only so much work a GPU can do and if the CPU can throw more frames to render than the GPU has time for, no additional CPU power is going to change that.

Dual Xeon, Linux treats hyper-threading as just having 16 full cores (great when it sticks 2 heavy tasks on the same pair), and doesn't care which CPU memory is on. Didn't work too well for virtualization performance, which was a shame as the setup worked fantastic most of the time.

Proper multi-socket handling would be useful along with giving a toss about the difference between physical and virtual cores. My recent Linux experiance has been less than stellar.

Nope

I bought a wireless charge adaptor for my Note 2 a few years back. It was just stuck inside and made contact with 2 pads on the internal shell. I think it just shoved out 5v. May be able to use one of them, they were available for quite a few phones.

Can we just have the DC barrel jack back?

Piece of the die is missing at the top right. It's dead Jim.

So far I am getting solid reliabilty using the March drivers, it's a bit crap though having to try older driver versions because the latest has stability issues.

I have a 5500XT and there does seem to be issues with the latest driver, I rolled back to March and it's not crashed yet. Got a return lined up just in case it craps out on me again.

All you need is an additional 12v supply. It *should* be possible to use a HP server PSU (they only have a main 12v output) to power just the card. I wouldn't recommend trying if you don't have any real electroncs experiance though.

My machine came with Vista, I just need to jam in a USB installer and it will work fine. Can't use it anyway, some games require Windows 10. I keep the OS up to date, was installed about a year or so ago. No crap on it, just games and development tools. I probably will reinstall at some point though as I have data spread across 2 partitions on primary SSD and everything large installed on a second.

Well as Windows 10 is the only supported Windows OS now, it kind of has to work with it or it's useless.

I have a return arranged for my 5500XT due to shitty drivers causing hard crashes, I'm currently trying it out on the March ones and will be sending it back at the weekend if the damn thing keeps locking up my machine. The 5600XT is on par with the RTX2060

45GB RAM-disk VS cheap SATA3 SSD (3 GBytes/sec vs maybe 300 MBps in the right situation). Difference was not worth bothering with. The only point it made a difference in game was hit and miss anyway as more VRAM fixed that issue. A literal 1024x speed increase made hardly any difference to game loading times. Most SSD's could fill the RAM of your average gaming machine within a minute.

As the return process was going to take about a week, I spent the evening pissing around with the card as it will be tomorrow before I can post it back to Amazon. Last ditch attempt to not end up stuck with the GTX, plus I have plans for it so it's kind of needed for other things now. I restarted in safe mode, ran DDU again, put the GTX in, found and downloaded older drivers, rebooted in safe and DDU the nvid drivers then install the RX again but this time disconnect the ethernet cable and make damn sure it installs the drivers I downloaded and doesn't go to Windows Update for them. Seems to be running fine now using the March drivers. No crashes and I've been running a few games and spent hours in VRChat. Gave it a good 10 mins in Furmark to get the thing hot and it's stayed at 77 degrees. Didn't let it run the auto overclock/undervolt features either.

First time in a while I've bought brand new hardware, not going to bother again. I'll stick to used.

Not even a ti, but at least it will sit on the Windows login screen without hard locking the machine.

My 5500XT is about to be returned. Constantly crashing the machine, quick google brings back a lot of people with the same issue, new RX cards causing crashing multiple times a day. Back to nVidia for me.

Yeh it's the same silicon, but it's the best binned of the batch.

Actually in the UK, the agreement means nothing if the property does not meet standards. A landlord can't just add to the agreement that there is a damp problem and get away with it. Been there, done that, got a revenge eviction notice for daring to inform the authorities. If a landlord is willing to rent out shit, they are going to treat the tenants like shit, we have laws against it.

Nothing will be stored on there

Better call me a white supremicist then, because I do not support rioting and looting, especially when the targets are private companies and peoples livelyhoods. I don't give a flying fuck what started it, breaking in and stealing from businesses is not acceptable.

The whole idea of an SD card is to take a metric fucktonne (or imperial arseload) of images, then just swap out the card. Saving to internal is an absolute swine especially at an event. Carry around your laptop and ask people to hold on a minute while you open it, connect your dongle, copy the images over then put it away? Much easier to go "oh shit, hang on a sec", then 15 seconds later you're ready to go with a fresh SD card. There's a reason batteries and cards in cameras are removable