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Zach Williams - Heaven Help Me. 

Yes. 
I have an operating system: Windows 11, and it looks good, but it's annoying to see that the UEFI menu is still at such a low resolution! 
That should be upgraded too!

I disagree. 
Technology must advance! 
We are in the "AI era" but companies failed to figure out how to make a menu look clear? 
Imagine how bad that resolution looks on 8K displays! 
 

Yes. 
I have an operating system: Windows 11, and it looks good, but it's annoying to see that the UEFI menu is still at such a low resolution! 
That should be upgraded too!

Yes. 
I have an operating system: Windows 11, and it looks good, but it's annoying to see that the UEFI menu is still at such a low resolution! 
That should be upgraded too!

Yes. 
I have an operating system: Windows 11, and it looks good, but it's annoying to see that the UEFI menu is still at such a low resolution! 
That should be upgraded too!

you're partially correct. they make multiple boards that actually use the exact same PCB layout for ram. so they effectively have identical electrical performance. so they test all those 100s of kits on like 5 different boards for their whole lineup. a kit on the list should always perform as expected because things are built to tolerances, we don't live in a world where they tested the one unit and that one works but all the others from the same factory are all different enough that they need individual special sauce.

the thing is when they find a kit that behaves oddly they add tweaks to the bios to account for that. that's what in bios updates. predefining how it finds ideal timings and what ranges to test first for optimal performance without literally testing every possible value because you have 10s to boot before the user thinks everything is broken.

 
 
 yeah DDR5 is still really new and acting pretty different between kits so it's more risky than usual. it's more temperamental than ryzen 1000 at launch. I personally don't like the annoyance of having to make a return and wait for some other order to come in. depending on what store they might make me pay restocking or shipping or both. if you're going in a microcenter or you're relying on amazon not ever giving a single fuck about returns those drawbacks basically don't exist. you'd at worse lose a day waiting.

and the way ram works the only bad thing that can happen without the QVL is that you can't run the XMP/DOCP profile. it's basically guaranteed to run at JEDEC spec of 4000MT/s unless it's DOA.
 

my AMD Epyc server is running with non QVL ram, and it's fine. (sligtly cheating here.. i'm pretty sure my sticks are identical to some QVL options..)
 
the thing with QVL is though... that it's at least a guarantee that *someone* got it to work.
it seems like for now at least DDR5 is extremely picky.. so unless you're up for some tinkering in case it doesnt run at the spec that is on the box, you might want to check if any QVL memory is available.
 
so.. to answer your question:
1: most likely
2: risky? not at all. perhaps a bit of manual tuning to make it work at more than jdec speeds, but it's gonna work regardless unless you get some pretty esoteric stuff.

1: It will most likely work just fine, but you might have to find out which settings to use. There isn't a known list of specs for your motherboard/memory combo.
2: QVL just means that the manufacturer of the motherboard has confirmed the memory works with this specific board. It might not show up on this QVL list. But I bet it does show up on loads of other QVL lists. >>> it being non-QVL memory only relates to this motherboard, not others. There is no "risk" of you buying worthless junk. The only risk is that it might not work as intended on your setup, or might not work at advertised speeds "out of the box".

Most likely yes. Not really. It's a matter of time before the QVL is updated and the kit will be tested and most likely approved. HTH!

Hello! 
 
I recently purchased a new PC monitor: Dell P2415Q (4K, UHD, 23.8”, 3840x2160 @60Hz). 
 
This monitor is amazing! 
It has crystal clear image, with great colour accuracy, good contrast, and the best monitor stand I know of. 
 
SCALING IN WINDOWS 10: 
•As you can imagine, the display is being scaled by Windows by default at 200% (recommended), so items won’t look too small. 
•All Windows 10 & Microsoft Office tools will take advantage of the scaling immediately. 
•New programs will take advantage of the scaling immediately. 
•Some programs won’t take advantage of the scaling by default, but they can be fixed by editing program properties, and changing “High DPI settings” (example: Propellerhead Reason v5.0). 
•Some older programs won’t work well, no matter what. They’ll either look big & blurry, or clear & tiny (example: Nullsoft Winamp v5.66). 
 
Overall, the 4K experience is a positive one. It’s a forward move.
 
PS: I hope this will help someone...
 

GDDR performs 4 operations per clock cycle. The operating frequency is 1750 MHz and the transfer rate is 7000 MT/s, often labeled as "7000 MHz effective".

Already waiting that my 1080p screen fails 🤪

Hello! 
 
I recently purchased a new PC monitor: Dell P2415Q (4K, UHD, 23.8”, 3840x2160 @60Hz). 
 
This monitor is amazing! 
It has crystal clear image, with great colour accuracy, good contrast, and the best monitor stand I know of. 
 
SCALING IN WINDOWS 10: 
•As you can imagine, the display is being scaled by Windows by default at 200% (recommended), so items won’t look too small. 
•All Windows 10 & Microsoft Office tools will take advantage of the scaling immediately. 
•New programs will take advantage of the scaling immediately. 
•Some programs won’t take advantage of the scaling by default, but they can be fixed by editing program properties, and changing “High DPI settings” (example: Propellerhead Reason v5.0). 
•Some older programs won’t work well, no matter what. They’ll either look big & blurry, or clear & tiny (example: Nullsoft Winamp v5.66). 
 
Overall, the 4K experience is a positive one. It’s a forward move.
 
PS: I hope this will help someone...
 

Yeah. 
Basically, when I started looking for a monitor, I didn’t really knew what to look at. 
I just wanted to replace my old 18.5” DVI-D connection monitor with one that will have good contrast, clarity, brightness and colours. 
But I thought that those parameters are being influenced by response time and refresh rate too. 
Later I found out that cd/m2, high resolutions and PPI density deliver those sharp images. 

this is correct. GPU-Z should tell him this in the little tool tip, or in the render test.

bandwidth is cut to reduce power, since the card is at idle. when gaming, it'll be @PCIe x16 3.0

Hello! 
I’ve learned something new today about ImDisk program. 
It has an option to allocate memory dynamically. 
So with other words, after assigning a size for the RAMDisk partition (8GB for example), the PC won’t keep all of that memory amount unavailable for the system. The only amount unavailable for the system will be the amount of occupied space located on the RAMDisk partition. 
 
https://www.ghacks.net/2014/01/26/create-dynamic-ramdisk-imdisk-toolkit/

You should never do that. It's almost always better to have a page file even if set to something small like 256 MB .. 1 GB.
The amount of writes to page file are low and won't hurt your SSD.

Apparently yea I thought it only used the amount when needed but I guess not 
Well we learned something today lol

I have the 8700k, but the 9700k just seems like a better buy.
 
8 true cores
no toothpaste between the ihs and the die
easier to OC in my experience

I was in the same boat. Got the 8700k. Kinda wish I got the 9700 but after all this back and forth and them being so close, I realized I should have got the 9900k. 

8700K for its HT
9th gen desktop i7 are the only i7s ever in Intel history without HT. 

I think that you, also, need better cooling!

I’d worry if the temperatures of my CPU (i7-9700K) would get over 80 celsius degrees! 
Investing into a liquid cooling solution is vital!
Mine ain’t that beefy (Corsair H45), but it keeps my CPU below 80 celsius degrees.