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Thanks for the reply. It is the full atx version B450 pro4 r2. Plus the Kingston drive works in that slot running at Gen3 x2 lane speed. So nvme does work in that slot according to the manual and my own testing.

My new Crucial P3 won’t show up in UEFI if plugged in the second nvme slot of my motherboard, but an old kingston A2000 drive works in both slots. I'm not sure if its because the crucial can't run on x2 Gen3 lanes instead of the full x4, or because of the nvme 1.4 vs 1.3 difference that prevents one from working. Any opinions or ideas on what to do are appreciated. Is there anything else I should try, if you have any suggestions for drives I should look into if there’s no other way than to buy another one. Can drives even refuse to work on 2 lanes? does the second slot being chipset driven play into it? Below are the details Hardware: Asrock B450 pro4 R2.0 (manual) (storage QVL) BIOS: P5.0 with Ryzen Summit Ridge CPU. 2 NVME slots M2_1: 3.0 x4 (4 lanes) M2_2: 3.0 x4 (2 lanes) 2 PCIe x16 slots PCIE2: 3.0 x16 (16 lanes) PCIE4: 2.0 x16 (4 lanes) What I want to work: I want the crucial P3 drive (CT1000P3SSD8) to be detected in UEFI and work when plugged into the second M.2 slot (M2_2). This is so that I can use the second x16 slot (PCIE4) for a GPU. M2_1 and PCIE4 are mutually exclusive, so using M2_1 isn’t an option. What works: My small Kingston A2000 drive works and boots in either nvme slot (4 and 2 lanes).The P3 works only in the first M.2 slot (4 lane). I’ve checked this with different combinations of ssd<->slot combinations. What I’ve tired: Tried all pci related setttings in the UEFI turning off the sata ports since some of those are mutually exclusive with M2_2, changing vfio related settings, changing pcie gen for all slots, etc) Rollback BIOS to a last recommended version for the CPU (3.50, but rollbacks are not possible) Tried populating the second pcie slot to force M2_1 to be disabled (which it does, but doesn’t change M2_2 detection for P3, so not some pcie resource allocation issue) Booted into widows and tried crucial storage executive, latest firmware according to it, no fw updates on the support site for ssd either for manual download. What I suspect: When writing up this post, I realized the M2_2 runs only at Gen3 x2 speed. The Kingston seems to handle it well. I used CrystalDiskInfo and confirmed that the A2000 was indeed running at gen3 x2 on M2_2. I also noticed that it was nvme 1.3, while the crucial P3 was running 1.4 (checked using smartctl). P3 also has HMB and other extra features. tl;dr: The crucial P3 doesn’t seem to like the lack of 4 full gen3 lanes, not sure how the nvme 1.4 standard plays into that. I couldn’t find anything else online about this issue.

It probably will, considering it's a 120 mil fan, that also has a heatsink block on the bottom, which should help the wider part clear the IO and the memory modules. I mean look at that thing, the top section is not that much wider than the bottom, which is obviously socket size compatible. So following that logic, yes, It should almost certainly fit in between the IO and the standard profile DIMMs. Of course, the whole logic sits on the assumption that the cooler is socket compatible for the board.

Lol just watched it, it's like 5 frames at best of Linus fumbling in a HMD. I'm pretty sure this is nothing. Nice find tho.

LOLL How the FUCKKKK?? I read this forum post and then guess what: I duckduckgo'd the discord user and guess what post turned up! What a small world we live in. BTW: He got the discord users from the r/Steam public server, I already contacted the mods and the quickly banned this account from the server, tho I doubt it will help anything. They'll just keep creating new burner accounts.

Well... they have the demographics data you know, and they realize they have a majority US audience and are hence making sure they understand the metrics.

Yeah, congrats man! Last WAN show linus talked about a BUNCH of these giveaways and he told to contact support if you receive anything different that what you ordered. You should watch the last WAN show to find out which one you received. The chat said the shirts were gonna be in someone's mom's closet waiting for christmas, glad to know someone who's gonna actually understand the significance got it.

Yeah at that point won't it make sense to just scour the internet for an old DSi just for replaying the old titles and it might make a lot more sense cost wise.

I mean, what's the point of asking this question you know. If you have a Pi, you might as well set it up and try it, and if it's performance is not satisfactory you could do things like reducing the render distance and other good stuff. So just trying it out and asking how to improve the performance on a low spec machine would've been a better question tbh. Simply, yes. Would it be playable? it's for you to try and figure out. Don't use vanilla and use something more optimised (Paper?), and also change the server.properties to be a bit more practical.

wendall from level1techs (and level1linux) also suggests running a windows VM inside of linux with a hardware passthrough for gaming on linux instead of using things like wine or the wine based proton for gaming, and he uses his personal machine like that too apparently. So what you ask for isn't the worst idea, and in fact, it's probably the best solution to get windows only programs or games running on a linux machine, if that's what you're after. if your hardware is good enough to run a Windows VM, then yeah, whatever issue you're having with running DRM / anticheat protected software on wine will work flawlessly in the VM since the VM provides a full windows environment. Though like others said, I'm not sure if you have a good enought HW spec to run the VM and have a good experience.

Yeah, as others said, you either need to reset your browser or try another one first. Also, if you neighbor was using the wifi, what's the point of tracking it down, wont a credential change be enough, both on the gateway and the wifi password. Since you talked about it being an issue only on certain sites it's probably not a system wide issue like slow storage media or running out of memory, its prolly just an extension/browser thing and Firefox at least provides a reset button to get a fresh start. Don't know about chrome.

It's somethings to keep on in third person single player games like tomb raider maybe, but anyone that plays competitive games like csgo is going to turn it off since it makes tracking your shots on a moving target that much harder, and flicks are almost impossible with motion blur. I used to play with motion blur on when I was playing on a old laptop but ultimately, I realized that I was losing out on a ton of details if I had it on once I built a PC. So I turn it off if I see it most of the time now. Regardless, I get it why someone would want to use it, it is very cinematic afterall.

Firefox as I appreciate the open-source and privacy first approach, and I want to support the non-profit model. It's also basically the same as chrome in terms of functionality, and also works well across my phone and my PC. Things like send tab to device are really useful to me. Also some of my time is spent on old web 1.0 sites for old sdks and software libraries that are impossible to read without the Firefox reader view. I also moved away from a lot of google products, leaving youtube as the only service of theirs that I really use a lot (but im eyeing at freetube project on github to switch over). I use it with 3 EFF extensions and ublock origin. Theirs home page with the Top Sites is also pretty handy to me. Tor is built on a Firefox fork for a reason you know.

As an Indian, all I can tell is no one except the political fans of the current government are going to try this shit. The current government has already made tons of apps that are not so popular outside of those circles, and there's no possibility of them making a better product than the playstore. If massive tech companies like Samsung fail to make good app stores, I don't see how the Indian government (hell, any government) can make a better service considering the fact that every government around the world is know for being decades behind in terms of tech, and the Indian government is no better. Ultimately, unless they go full CCP, I or anyone I know won't be installing that pile of shit.

Windows has the feature where you can set how long does a hard drive idles before it powers off, after which any data accesses will require a drive spin-up. Now we all know that every HDD much like people only have a limited number of hours in them before they fail. So a feature like this is definitely appreciated, especially for those of us that love to keep our PC running 24/7. Windows defaults the setting to 20 minutes across all the power plans, which looks like a good default, but have you ever found yourself increasing the duration or even lower it? To me initially It felt like having a low power-off timing for a drive would reduce the number of hours on it in the long run and help the drive survive for longer, but then I realized that having to spin up a drive also comes with its own costs. A motor that spins up from rest takes a lot more current and also undergoes more stress (See Inrush Current), which means there's also a higher chance of a mechanical failure. So, just for fun, what do you think is the optimal approach (apart from the default) if you were to change the drive sleep timing. This is not a serious question to be honest, just something I found myself asking when I thought of changing that setting for an old secondary drive I had in my PC that wasn't being read or written to often.

Thanks for the instant response guys. Both the sticks running at the same speed is a huge deal breaker, so I guess I'll have to get rid of the old one completely. You've all also given me the push I needed to get a better memory setup. Thanks!

I currently have a 8gb 2400mhz (Corsair LPX) module in my ryzen 1600x PC, and I'm increasingly find the 8gigs to be insufficient. I wanted to get more memory and looked into the price and realized that RAM prices have dropped significantly now, and a 3000mhz 8 gigs module (Corsair LPX again) is half the price of what I paid for the first module. So here's my question: Can I just buy the 3000mhz one and run it in mix with my 2400mhz one. Additional Info: a new 2400 and 3000 module both cost the same price, literally (ikr) I know ryzen benefits from higher freq memory, and thats why I'm kinda leaning into the higher freq option. What kind of compromises am I look at if I get the 3000 mhz module? I know that it can run in that config mostly but I was wondering about the quirks about the memory channel modes and what implications it has.

This is only a issue in DirectX games, if it was a psu/power draw issue OpenGL and Vulkan games would crash too. Edit: The crash is not limited to DX games. Vulkan games die too.

I've been having the same issue for a year and tried everything you listed, I'll test this too and tell you if I see it work.

any updates?

for starters gpu z has a new feature where it can tell if a gpu is genuine or not, it would be what I test first and foremost. Also look at the other stats (if it's an actual 580) on there while you're at it and maybe even bench it and look at the general scores online (gpuz's site has an index if I'm not wrong). Stress test it and maybe use something like furmark on there, if there's anything faulty on it and the guy's tryna swap it out this must give it away but I wouldn't wouldn't entirely rely on it. I also wanna make it clear that I don't have any experience with second hand market.

framerate and FPS are two different things now are they? higher frequency ram can improve performance in professional workloads all right. Hell they'll even give you an extra 10-20 fps in games. if you actually watched the videos of llt you would know that they did a ram speed analysis and its effect in framerate in games. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Yt4vSZKVk) OP here is not talking about workloads like that, he has clearly stated that he's seeing drastic underperformance for his gpu in normal games.

I actually have 2400mhz as well and I run a 1600x, I don't run into framerate issues. the cause here seems to be something else Edit: yep, the reason is very likely to be the cpu. 2200g is a very serious bottle neck for a 1060. even a slight upgrade to 2400g might have helped. or maybe the game is rendering in your integrated graphics. please make sure that the game is rendering in your 1060

AFAIK, cmon a fly can't do anything to your pc, it's (fly) pretty dry actually so there is no risk of shorting. chill out dude, you're over stressing.

hey, since this is a GAMING laptop I'm gonna assume that it has 2 sodimm slots with only one currently filled. I looked it up (1min google) and your laptop has ddr4 2400mhz ram. that's all you need. just get another module of ddr4 2400mhz ram (sodimm) and you're good to go. based on your post it seems like you might have been considering replacing your existing 8gig module with a single 16gig module, let me tell you something... stop wasting memory and your money. go get another memory module since one of your slot is free as I told. ps: get a good branded one, reply if you want to confirm before buying the memory if you're unsure if it's right.