Kilrah

Make it pump some water in a bucket before you get too excited, it's likely going to be extremely loud.

I'll get some but pretty much only if I manually click the update button after I'm done with most of those I had. It really doesn't want to give anything in advance

I released about 100 bunkered Ramanujan units. Laptop's running Ramanujan (which still doesn't want to give enough units), desktop's running NF on GPU and alternating between bunkering NFS and running PG on CPU

Also on (of course) my main machine it gets the estimate grossly wrong and that seems to only give a fraction of the credit, and can't seem to fix it... unless it's that it doesn't like you not giving it all of your resources, hmm

Ramanujan seems to be playing the "hard to get" game and only giving as few WUs as possible at a time...

Yeah it entirely depends on the workload. Some won't care at all, some will get murdered. So if you know yours doesn't need much bandwidth no need for crazy stuff. Unless you end up wanting to do something that does mind later...

There are very few LGA1700 boards with x8/x8 support on the main CPU x16, but it seems ASRock Z790 Taichi is one.

16 lanes go to the primary PCIe slot, the other 4 go to an m.2 slot, and all the other slots go through the chipset and share the CPU-chipset bandwidth (PCie4 x8). How/what/how many lanes per device will depend on the mobo.

If you look at the rest of the url the images are actually hosted on discord, and discord has switched a few months ago to making external links expire after 24h. So posters need to actually reupload things instead of hotlinking if they don't want them to die after 24h when they come from discord. Same for this one https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.discordapp.com%2Fattachments%2F1234631220479135744%2F1236405090932232243%2Fimage.png%3Fex%3D6637e378%26is%3D663691f8%26hm%3D05f936b5bb2ad1c628d04fa2bd0ea0a057b376aa43b2c66249b6730ffe3b8581%26

Link to the SUs? Probably bad/expired embeds by the poster.

It's 22% of the updating process, not the download.

It's never been needed. Does it improves thermals/max power? Yeah a little, but that's meaningless unless you want the tweaking experience.

Earlier ones no, but Windows 11 wants at least an 8th gen on the Intel side, and all boards that can run an 8th gen do.

You might need to prepare the USB / install to it in MBR/BIOS/CSM mode instead of GPT/UEFI, or vice versa. Well you're 2 USB drives into it and it still doesn't work, a $20 SSD would have been a better purchase

As mentioned very likely a settings problem. If the display isn't told to display full black it won't do so.