WhiteSkyMage

Well there is one thing you did overlook though - Grace. Yes I know, it is for datacenters and HPC, but before you toss it out, not buying ARM doesn't mean they can't make ARM SoCs... https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-big-cpu-plans-with-20-year-arm-license That is why I'm expecting them to become an Apple competitor in the coming years. I'm certain that Grace is just one chip of many that they are playing around with. They know the danger forming in the x86 market. Both Intel and AMD will be producing APUs and NVIDIA will likely be losing marketshare. For NVIDIA to have an APU - they have to go ARM. They have the engineering talent and are already building ARM chips. What stops them from putting together a Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone chip with ARM CPU cores along with their GPU-architecture and AI? NVIDIA has enough cash and expertise to go and compete in mobile. Can they beat Apple? That's a different story.

Hey, I happen to have this Chinese GPU waterblock and I was wondering - if I used it on some lower end or mid-range GPU (such as a RX 6700XT or RX6600), can I cool the VRAM and VRMs with just small aluminum heatsinks like these: I got smaller ones for VRMs and chokes. But has anyone tried it?

It would be such a great thing if another competitor with lots of cash and experience in building ARM chips could challenge Apple in the premium/high end... I'm talking obviously about NVIDIA. They've got enough engineering prowess to design an ARM CPU and use their own GPU. Obviously it's gonna take time to design their own OS, and the way they've been doing things proprietary, I'll be surprised if they just took an Android kernel (or a Linux kernel) and just made a simple flashy GUI like everybody else in the Android industry... Honestly I thought that Microsoft was serious enough to go ARM with their new Windows 11 and begin their journey away from x86, but guess that's not happening any time soon.

So basically, Apple has effectively a "monopoly" over the tablet market and although every single android company is competing against them, nobody has an Apple-like comparable expertise to make themselves an ecosystem out of android with their own tweaks and software (and custom ARM SoC architecture) other than Samsung (who seem to be the only ones actually trying in this market). Lenovo has gone into light Chrome devices... Guess android is best for phones, and for anything bigger...somewhat meh... but at least DeX works quite well. I aplaud Samsung for making this desktop environment for android. Ipads dont have macOS...

I guess the only other competitor who has any chances of competing against Apple is Nvidia. They are working on their own CPUs with ARM uarchitecture and they have a 20 year contract with ARM. The moment these 2 start competing, Qualcomm will have 2 choices - specialized ASICS or bankrupsy. Nvidia's chips will end up in mobile phones, tablets and thin, light notebooks. Nvidia has demonstrated that they are capable in this area. And while AMD and Intel dominate in the x86, Nvidia will go ARM and have their own APU. I didnt think that Qualcomm is this bad and I thought that the 8cx is fast enough znd efficient enough to use in tablets like the M1 inside iPad. Well, I was wrong. I am not really liking this Apple monopoly. And why is Qualcomm not using Nuvia's engineering talent to jump ahead?

Hello, With the rising GPU power consumption and heat, as well as electricity prices, and the ever growing demand for higher memory bandwidth from the hungry GPUs, do you guys think that there is now an opportunity for the High Bandwidth Memory to show its face again? I am not expecting AMD to use it any longer as they have been pushing their infinity fabric and L3 cache and are back to an amazing efficiency. But how about Intel or NVidia? Surely if they wanna cut on power consumption and heat and still beat AMD, it only makes sense to go HBM2e right? Otherwise 600W GPU would be a meme like Vega was...

DeX is really amazing at what it can do. If only it had the power of the M1. If only Samsung could design an SoC like the 8cx and use Radeon RDNA, it will be a powerhouse! I am surprised how i managed to run a php/mysql webserver on my Galaxy Tab S6 with an editor which allows coding in many different languages. The fact that you can have a phone and plug it to a screen and use it as a desktop is amazing. Why would anybody buy a laptop when you've got a computer in your own pocket? With just 7W of power...ok 15W if you buy a big fat tablet with powerful SoC... you can game and do your work on the go. Laptops are old tech.

Hey I'm just curious. The Snapdragon 8cx platform is a 7W SoC correct. There are tablets that use 8000+mAh battery. So why not use this instead of the mobile phone "efficient" SoCs? Afterall the 8cx is meant for thin and light Notebooks and a tablet is just like a notebook no? Make it thicker, put a fan on it, and you got enough cooling even for an overclocked 8cx SoC. If Apple can put an M1 chip inside an iPad, why can't Samsung (or someone else) install a Snapdragon 8cx, overengineer a tablet and sell it with some premium price tag? I would bet that the M1 is actually larger chip than the 8cx. So why is Apple doing it and noone in the Android ecosystem is taking the risk? Are they incapable? Or am I missing something? I'd be so happy so see someone stick an Nvidia MX550 or some Navi24 chip inside a tablet size device alongside an SoC with beefed up CPU and no iGPU. Nothing more is required - just make the device THICKER and HEAVIER with double the battery and cooling and an active fan that goes 50dbA and there you have it. Id buy a device like that and pretty sure most of you who are looking for a high-performance pocket device will too.

I see. Well I will take a look at it. I will wait to see what Linus shows and might also check L1Techs.

Cool, but isn't that only gonna support multiple video cards? I think in order to use just a single powerful one for multiple people, you will need a hypervisor to split its resources dynamically...

Hey guys, I have a question - how do I share my system with just a single GPU with a family member? You can see my system specifications in my signature below this post. Is there a way to use HyperV or some other virtualization software to share my GPU with a family member or a friend at gaming at home just like how NVIDIA splits their datacenter GPUs for GeForce NOW? Should I have like 2 VMs being run on some debian Linux where I use one and the other person uses the other, or have a single VM for them, while I use the host machine? Thanks in advance

you mean inside the antifreeze/antifreeze mixture that I am cooling? I plan to do a 3:1 (water to antifreeze ratio) with some filter which Timmy Joe showed. I am just hoping that those beads will get the dehumidifying job well enough inside my airtight PC box.

It gets -10C (14F) here in winter. I might as well attach a couple of rads with fans once temps are below 0C because there won't be any need to use the AC in this case. I can just cool my water with outside temps. MORA 3 will do the job....

Thanks for the info. The chiller with my PC will probably be somewhere outside. I will just run a cable or 2 inside. So no worries about the air conditioning in my room. Also - it gets pretty cold where I live so I guess winter would be an overclocking heaven with some really chilly temps.

I thought about oil but the issue then is that the maintenance will get very nasty. I am not going to be OCing that CPU as much as I would the GPU. There are also MB VRM heatsinks that I can use. So I am not sure if that's worth it though. I see a lot more people do chilling than oil cooling or rather they screw around with those Peltiers... Id rather stick to watercooling because I can do it and I do not need to buy that many fittings as I will not have that many components in that case - 2 for CPU, 2 for GPU, passthrough for the box. No need for radiators. So to be honest, so the price may get about as = as the traditional custom WC rigs, but I will be getting way better temps (it won't look as good from the outside though!). I have a Z390 Phantom Gaming ITX from Asrock. I don't think condensation will be much of an issue when the beads are around and I am actively measuring temps inside the box. I might just put a camera inside the box so i can tell when they need to be reactivated (that would mostly be my maintenance. Those beads are cheap anyway.....

Hey there oc enthusiasts, I know there are some of you out there that manage to run your PC under sub-zero daily using an AC-chilled water. I am in the process of planning a similar project, but I just need to know a couple of things. First a couple of things to note - I plan on cooling an i9-9900K and a "worst case scenario" - 400-500W GPU (assume some next gen power-hungry Ampere/RDNA GPU). So the question is - in terms of "BTU" (British Thermal Unit) - what do you think would suffice? I saw a couple of guys on overclock.net do x2 10 000BTUs and 20K. A friend of mine recommended 24K. I've been looking for 2nd hand ACs but I am really unsure what would suffice. I am not really sure what AC Timmy Joe is using here. I think perhaps a PMP600 from Koolance will be good enough pump for this use. Afterall it's an industrial pump... Now as far as how am I gonna tackle the condensation (since water + electricity = bad).... Put my PC in a 2nd sealed box, and put Reusable Silica Gel Humidity Moisture Absorber Beads around the MB. And for activating them - 5min in the Microwave is all that's needed. https://images.app.goo.gl/Je5jYVf6F3UtDsRd9

I was thinking about just making it easier in a way that - a flow meter. Just have the PC shut-off when the flow gets under a certain value. But my MB doesn't have a header for that... uhhh...

I know what you mean. maybe I will find a work-around, but what I am trying to do here is to protect the PC from myself. So when I think about watercooling, I also think of how to safe-guard it. But yes, I do agree with your answer - it's just, maybe not from anyone else but myself.

Hi guys, I would like to discuss something important for many of you who would like to take your cooling outside your PC case and are considering using something like the MO-RA3 420 (https://watercool.de/). JayTwoCents recently uploaded a video on “How to install a PC KILL SWITCH” (video: So what do I intend to do is to use a Raspberry Pi to essentially “control” the switching on and off. Imagine a scenario where someone would like to play a prank and disconnect one of the tubes outside your case that is going into your external radiator. Imagine that you forgot to plug them in yourself after a maintenance. What would happen? Perhaps a huge leak disaster that will cost you your whole system. So here – what I would like to do is get a QUICK-DISCONNECT fitting with a 2-pin cable which will return a 1 or 0 depending on if the male part of the quick disconnect is connected or disconnected. Then connect this to a Raspberry pi that is always on (using a mini-UPS). The power switch is also to be plugged in the raspberry pi and to the motherboard power switch pins. The Raspberry pi will: NOT allow the PC to be switched on, if one the quick disconnects reads a 0, no matter how many times you press that power button on your case. NOT allow the PC to turn on at all if the raspberry pi itself is not on (due to power outage). Switch off the pump if one of the quick disconnects is suddenly pulled while the system is ON. Switch off the system by bridging the two power pins on your motherboard for x amount of seconds. Control your PWM fans (and maybe pump) speeds depending on water temperature. The question is whether there are quick disconnects out there on the market that would report whether they are disconnected or connected, like how a thermistor would report the temperature of the water in your watercooling loop to the motherboard by plugging it in the sensor header?

It's actually a good time to get in there if you want to become a good pilot. There is a new flight model in the newest Alpha Patch 3.5. If you want to kick noobs' butts at release (because there is a learning curve!), then yup, it's a good time to start now. In terms of development, for me the 'real' development of Star Citizen Universe MMO has begun in 2015. Before that, they were mostly working on the Arena Commander and Hangar modules. It was about building tools and the company itself. I do not care if it takes till 2025 for the MMO-part to release. To be honest, I am more excited about SQ42 now than anything. I find it a bit shocking that they decided to develop 2 games at the same time - all I wanted was a space sim, Freelancer 2.0 to be more precise. I didn't need it to be MP, much less an MMO. I can't wait to put SQ42 on the hardest difficulty, without any tutorial and have the Vanduul shove 200 million missiles up my ship's engine hole.

yes. But where are the Ryzen/Vega APU tablets then? I will not buy a Surface Pro with the shitty intel integraded HD Iris graphics. They SUCK. I need Ryzen Mobile and Vega 11 in a tablet (15W SoC). That's gonna crush both Apple A12Xs (in iPads) and anything from Qualcomm. Yes, Battery won't be long, but I can sacrifice WEIGHT and THINNESS for an even bigger battery. Maybe dual or triple batteries. I.E. I want to carry powerful BRICK of a tablet. Double the fatness of this first generation iPad. Example:

A surface-like Android tablet is what I am asking for... I don't care if it costs $1000-$2000. This is how much iPads cost anyway...though I wouldn't buy an Apple device, I need an Android with the same kind of power.

Qualcomm announced that really powerful SoC that looks like it can match an Apple A12/X. Why are they marketing it for laptops and not for tablets? You can have a big enough battery in an Android tablet to supply those 7W. I would like an Android tablet with the power of a console...(like the iPad has an Xbox 1 performance). I don't actually care if it weights 2kg and it being fatter than all the tablets that exist on the market currently.

yes, the thing you stick paper to the wall... it seems to work for now. I don't know how much it can hold up but im hoping it would hold for at least until my new radiator is here. Hopefully Alphacool hasn't got this issue. By the way, what kind of screws should I use not to pierce the rad? They say "not long" but you have to use long ones to go through the case and through the fan and into the rad. I am sure I haven't punctured this rad and it's just a defect. But I just wanna make sure to avoid this with the alphacool one.I think they provide 30mm screws but again, isn't that too long?

Blu Tack. Yup, this is water resistant it seems... I have tissues under just in case..