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    Zando_ reacted to Needfuldoer in What is this used for when swaped down on iPhone?   
    I guess it's so you can reach stuff at the top of the screen with one hand, without changing your grip on the phone?
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    Zando_ reacted to mr cheese in Can you add a Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor to a Dell PowerEdge 2950   
    My friend, I believe you had a thread from January 19th asking about this, I don't believe you can do that on a Xeon Phi.
     
    EDIT: Apparently the Phi shows up as a NIC you can SSH into, running cut down RHEL on a sort-of-x86 instruction set that requires a custom gcc Intel provide(d). This means theoretically you can compile Java on one... but I'd warn that minecraft servers are mostly single-core and this is far from a well-performing single core card. You could try Airplane or Purpur as I know those use multiple cores to split chunk loading and rendering, massively increasing performance over vanilla/spigot, but even if you get it working I doubt it can manage to use that many cores.
     
    This appears to be a common problem, I doubt you'll know until you try unless you happen to get lucky and stumble across a random person with your same setup
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    Zando_ got a reaction from ZaziNabu in New build, 4K$, not sure if I sould go AMD or intel, the rest is kinda set (build's inside)   
    If you care about power draw, AMD. If you play big sim-type games or RTS ones that scale well with lots of cores, then AMD (see Linus' video on deciding this question for his own home rig - he picked AMD). Otherwise, Intel. It's within margin of error or imperceptibly faster in most games, out of games you have Intel QuickSync which is incredibly good in the Adobe suite and some other creative software. 
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    Zando_ got a reaction from mr cheese in Can you add a Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor to a Dell PowerEdge 2950   
    You would have to hunt down a manual or other official documentation that says yes. Boards can support the features needed to run a Phi coprocessor and still just... not work. My X299 Dark supports everything needed, but putting in my 5110P just throws some error about PCIe resources and refuses to boot. 
    To fuck with I assume, same reason I have mine. It was like $50 or something for a 60c/240t SOC-thing with 8GB GDDR5, interesting piece of kit for pretty cheap.
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    Zando_ got a reaction from Middcore in Looking for new mice   
    Check if it's in warranty, they should have a 2 year warranty so you may be scraping in. Last time I had a Logitech up and die I called them and they had started the process of sending me a new one within 5 minutes or so, received it a few days later (that was a G602 that I still have). My Current G502 I've had for... 5 years or something now, my thumb has worn through the soft bit around the side buttons. Still works fine, and I got it on sale for $35 or something. 
    OP specifically asked for the same weight, why would they want a zoomer gamer ultralight. 
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    Zando_ got a reaction from Deadpool2onBlu-Ray in Looking for new mice   
    My recommended upgrade from a G502 is another G502. 
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    Zando_ got a reaction from SpookyCitrus in Looking for new mice   
    My recommended upgrade from a G502 is another G502. 
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    Zando_ reacted to TW_LANDONKUCHER in What is good upgrade for my pc for not spending too much   
    Yes that would be a better idea 
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    Zando_ reacted to SorryBella in Is PC Builds Bottleneck Calculator accurate? Could an RTX 4080 go with Ryzen 7700X?   
    "Generally" is a very generous term for "always".
     
    Most of your issue is going to be on GPU regardless, 4K is still GPU bound even in 2023.
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    Zando_ reacted to Brownfletching in New Chinese GPU "MTT S80" has been benchmarked, with 3060 level performance   
    Summary
    A new Chinese GPU, the MTT S80 manufactured by Moore Threads, has been benchmarked by video card collector Löschzwerg. It averages between a 3060 and 3060ti in TFLOPs, although the drivers are rough and tessellation is currently broken. Oh yeah, and it can run Crysis.
     
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    My thoughts
    Player 4 has joined the game? Who knows if we'll ever get these in the West, but it seems to have impressive performance assuming the drivers can be fixed. That might be a big assumption though, so I guess we'll have to see.
     
    Sources
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-homebred-pcie-50-gaming-gpu-benchmarks-shared
     
    https://wccftech.com/it-can-run-crysis-chinese-mtt-s80-the-only-pcie-gen-5-gpu-runs-dx9-dx10-games-well/
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    Zando_ reacted to Alex Atkin UK in 3060 + A770 in one system?   
    I see no reason why not, its exactly the same principle as running an iGPU and dGPU at the same time.  I'm not sure how good the Intel drivers are for the use-case though.  Hardware encoding probably has more overhead if done on a different GPU as its having to move the frame buffer over PCIe between the cards, and your second GPU may have to go over the chipset lanes, so might be worse than just using the same card.
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    Zando_ reacted to igormp in Why Crossfire and SLi is no longer available?   
    But they're not a thing in other places, not only for games. Nvidia doesn't make any dual GPU in a single PCB anymore, even though there are plenty of systems of theirs with 8, 16 and even more GPUs, and I still believe that's still due to power draw and cooling limitations.
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    Zando_ reacted to Bender Blues in Sons first build. Ryzen 5 5600x / 3060ti - mobo recommendations?   
    Stay away from the AM4's with the 5600x? As you mentioned, the chances of upgrading the CPU option.... down the road is a must on my end.
     
    Maybe I should have initially said in the first post that I kinda don't want to get locked into a mobo that in two years, theres no CPU upgrade path 😉
     
    Thank you for pointing out the Newegg boards. On that NIC issue you brought up in the beginning, where those driver issues possibly that have been corrected maybe later on?
    I'd be a little surprised if any manfucature would sell boards with flaky NIC's for long period of time.
     
    Thank You too Zando, getting narrowed down! 
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    Zando_ reacted to the pudding in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    Isn't she beautiful!
     

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    Zando_ reacted to Skiiwee29 in This may be a very stupid question, but where do I find an official win 10 pro iso download or can I just use a regular win 10 iso and "upgrade" it?   
    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
     
    Then create a USB stick or an ISO that will have all the version of windows on it.
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    Zando_ got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Why Crossfire and SLi is no longer available?   
    Multi-GPU in games is more effort to implement than it's worth. Single cards are so fast now that we can do away with 2+ GPU setups, and so AMD and Nvidia have.
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    Zando_ reacted to yobamas in rx 6400 on 240 w psu?   
    thank  you so much . I appreciate the time you took to help me thank you
     
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    Zando_ reacted to Bender Blues in Sons first build. Ryzen 5 5600x / 3060ti - mobo recommendations?   
    Wow, nice, thank you a bunch! So glad you brought up the vrm heatsinks, that I would have over looked.
    Clean BIOS like you said, glad you mentioned that too !
     
    Both of those I would have overlooked in persuit of features. But as you said, slots etc, pretty much the same.
    Look forward to your find on the NIC's if you get the chance.
     
    Thanks again!!
    Cheers
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    Zando_ got a reaction from yobamas in rx 6400 on 240 w psu?   
    Should do. Is there a reason the 180W isn't already enough though? Those old i5s don't really break 60W IIRC, the most a PCIe slot powered GPU can pull is 75W (as that is the PCIe power delivery limit) so that's 135W, your HDDs and fans should not pull enough to hit the 180W limit. Just checked, AMD says the typical board power for the 6400 is only 53W too, so it draws even less than that. 
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    Zando_ got a reaction from DonGirses in rx 6400 on 240 w psu?   
    Should do. Is there a reason the 180W isn't already enough though? Those old i5s don't really break 60W IIRC, the most a PCIe slot powered GPU can pull is 75W (as that is the PCIe power delivery limit) so that's 135W, your HDDs and fans should not pull enough to hit the 180W limit. Just checked, AMD says the typical board power for the 6400 is only 53W too, so it draws even less than that. 
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    Zando_ reacted to RONOTHAN## in Need the fastest DDR5 64GB kit that is guaranteed to work with my build   
    First I wanna point out that X99 was a FIVR platform, so the VRM needed to provide half the amount of current that a platform like LGA 1700 needs to since the VRM runs at ~2V for X99 rather than the ~1.2V that Z790 needs. Current is the thing that is so hard for VRMs to run, not the overall amount of power, so for the same amount of power drawn the VRM needs to work a lot harder when at 1.2V than at 2V since power is equal to voltage times current. It's the same way that Gigabyte was able to get away with a 4 phase VRM on the Z97X-SOC, an extreme overclocking focused motherboard, it was only powering Haswell with a FIVR so with the current those chips would pull from the VRM meant while it would run hot, it wasn't running hot enough to be dangerous even when the CPUs were maxed out on LN2. 
     
    For the actual math, I'm gonna be going off numbers I've gotten for my overclocked 13700K with power values reported by my Z690 Unify-X, so keep that in mind. They will be on the low side for a stock 13900K since it does have 8 less E cores, but it's overclocked so that should hopefully balance it out. 
     
    My chip doesn't have any problem pulling over 250A of current under full load, which is approximately 17.5A per power stage. Assuming that the ASUS board is using IR3551 power stages (IIRC ASUS really like International Rectifier parts, and that's their 50A part, so I figure it's a pretty safe assumption for the power stage), that would put it right at the power stages peak efficiency of about 94%. Doing the quick math, that would mean that with a 13900K under full synthetic load you would be having the VRM is putting out over 18W of heat. That's still likely to be able to be dissipated by the heatsink, though it's at the point where I'd want to have a fan on it, and for the same price you can get a Z790 Aorus Elite AX, which would be closer to 15W of heat from the VRM which would be completely fine passive. 
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    Zando_ reacted to jaslion in Is it ok to solder a different connector from a fan to another 4 pin fan?   
    What psu is it?
     
    If a fan is failing in a psu id be a bit skeptical of the quality of the unit
     
    Other than that as long as you dont mess up the ground and positive AND its not a 24v fan you can do it
     
    And the usual watch out when working on a psu its deadly even when disconnected
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    Zando_ reacted to Crunchy Dragon in General Intel HEDT Xeon/i7 Discussion   
    I never upgrade operating systems quickly. I'll give it a few years to mature and then maybe consider leaving 10. I ran Windows 7 until my hardware literally didn't support it anymore, and that was the sole reason I upgraded to 10.
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    Zando_ reacted to mdk777 in Theory on why AMD is releasing the 7800X3D a month after the 7900X3D and 7950X3D   
    My guess is that is simply an allocation of resources.
    They like everyone, have limited capacity.
    Given the limited capacity, where do you allocate resources?
     
    Yeah, to your highest margin and halo products.
     
    I actually think it bodes well for the technology.
    If it ONLY had benefit for games, then they might have only launched the 7800x3D
     
    The fact that they are going across the board and not launching the gaming version only indicates that there should be uplift for many more general applications.
     
     
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    Zando_ reacted to Kilrah in Can someone explain the practical use of bitlocker?   
    Your user account is supposed to be secured enough that if they get the computer, power it on and that unlocks the drive they can't actually log in and access data. So to get at the data they'd have to either boot another OS or take the drive out and put it in another machine, both of which would require the bitlocker recovery key.
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