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mvanorder

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  1. I got it working. Nothing to do with Thunderbolt or USB4. Apparently the Nvidia drivers from Lenovo specifically for this laptop weren't enough. I downloaded and installed from Nvidia's website and it works.
  2. My work laptop (Thinkpad P1 Gen 4) just upgraded from Windows 10 to 11. I have a TB3 to dual DP (Sabrent TH-3DP2) I've been using to drive 2 of my monitors which is plug and play on everything so far(Windows 10, and 11, linux, and mac os) except for after the upgrade. While troubleshooting I'm comparing: - Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen 4 (upgraded from Windows 10 to 11, adapter worked immediately prior to upgrade, but not after) - Azus Zenbook Pro 15 (purchased with Windows 11, and adapter works plug-n-play as it should) What I know so far: Thinkpad: It is showing up in the Thunderbolt Control Center on Windows 11 Zenbook: Thunderbolt Control Center doesn't exist Zenbook: A new "Thunderbolt 3 Device Router" shows up under USB controllers in the device manager when the adapter is plugged in Thinkpad: I can't find any changes in device manager on the upgraded laptop Thinkpad: has 2 Thunderbolt Controller devices under System devices on the device manager Zenbook: Has nothing indicating Thunderbolt until the adapter is plugged in, but it does have USB4 Host Router and USB4 Root Device Router under USB controllers. What I've tried: Installing the latest drivers from Lenovo for Windows 11 Uninstall the Thunderbolt Controller devices and remove the drivers(they reinstall automatically) Uninstalled the Thunderbolt Control Center using DISM in powershell I've had zero luck getting any new results. Does anyone have any knowledge in this area? My best guess would be to get the USB4 controller devices installed somehow, but I can't seem to find instructions on this and the thunderbolt controllers just reinstall themselves.
  3. That's what I'm thinking. The 7313 has better performance per core, and you can overcommit cores to VMs as long as not all the cores will be required by the VMs at the same time. And not only does the 7313 have 10% higher clock, zen 3 is supposed to have a 19% improvement on IPC.
  4. Epyc 7505: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=epyc+7502&_sop=13 ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=ASRock+Rack+ROMED8-2T&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_odkw=epyc+7502&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15 And correction, the lowest price for a good board is $670, or $660 retail Also Zen 3 16 core 7313: https://www.newegg.com/amd-epyc-7313-socket-sp3/p/N82E16819113699?Item=N82E16819113699
  5. I'm stuck now between: Zen 2 is a lot better than what I have so it'll be plenty good enough while also having upgrade options for later, and: spending this much on a new PC I want it to be as fast as possible, but 5990X will probably be the pinnacle of the AM4 and X570. Also looked at the Epyc CPU/motherboards a little more, and put together a list which is 16 core zen 3 and slightly less expensive than the TR Pro 16 core zen 2: https://newegg.io/e6fe472
  6. Ok so looking at Epyc it looks like I could get an ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T for $500 and 7502 as mentioned for $1500, in all about $300 cheaper. That would double my core count, but run at 2.5ghz base to 3.35Ghz boost. The TR Pro is 3.9Ghz base and 4.3Ghz boost. I'm still not sure the price difference is worth it over the 5950X. And how is gaming performance on say 6 or 8 cores of zen 2 based Epyc vs zen 2 TR Pro or zen 3 Ryzen 9?
  7. I definitely want good single core performance as I'd like to use it as a gaming desktop and don't want to be limited if I'm trying to run a game that's not optimized for multithreading. The reason I was looking at TR instead of Epic is motherboard selection for an ATX/EATX case is slim, and the ones I did find had very little I/O and/or SATA. I assume the SATA part is due to servers using PCIe RAID cards. ECC vs non ECC is another thing I was considering. However I'm not seeing any ECC RAM with close to the performance of non-ECC: $1360 non-ECC 3600 CL19 -> faster transfer rate and 8.88ns latency $1100 ECC 2666 CL 19 -> slower transfer rate with 14.25ns latency I get there's not much head room to OC AMD chips, but if I can I'd like to try to get something more than stock. I meant to have them both at 128 GB. So with 2 4x32GB the TR Pro with just the CPU, Mobo, RAM and SSD is now double the price of the Ryzen 9.
  8. I will be the only one using it as a desktop, so I really only need 1 GPU. The rest of the resources will go to NAS and VMs for game servers, web servers, tinkering, etc.
  9. Budget (including currency): 5000 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: NAS and virtualized Windows and with IOMMU for passing GPU, and USB to the guest Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Only part I currently have is a Corsair 900D eATX case. I'm trying to decide between the following: Ryzen 9 5950X overclocked DDR4 4000 CL18 dual channel Parts list here: https://newegg.io/a18a3c6 Currently $2106 Threadripper Pro 3955WX DDR4 3600 CL16 4 channel running at 3200 CL14 Parts list here: https://newegg.io/fb46ca6 Currently $3368 I know the TR Pro can run 8 channel, I put 4 in my list for comparison at 128GB but not 16GB sticks I don't know if I'll get better performance out of the Zen 3 Ryzen or if it's worth the extra $1200 for more memory bandwidth and on Zen 2 with a lot more head room for CPU/memory upgradability down the road.
  10. I'm now on build 20H2. After running DDU in safe mode to remove all display drivers(AMD, Nvidia and Intel), I was able to boot up with the EGPU plugged in(not functioning due to no drivers). I then installed only the AMD drivers, and as soon as they installed the computer froze again. I don't know what to try next at this point. It seems something specific with the AMD drivers and/or software is causing the system to hang.
  11. I picked up a Radeon for Linux and Mac compatability. So far it works beautifully on my MBP for work, and I haven't tested on linux. But I need it to work in windows for games that are still borked in protondb. I've installed the recommended version on the driver, but now every time I plug it in, I have about 15 seconds before windows completely hangs(absolutely no response and have to hard shut down). This only happens when logged in though; I can sit at the login screen as long as I want with it displaying on the eGPU and the lid closed. I've tried the latest driver first, then removed AMD software and installed the recommended version hopping it would fix the issue, but no luck. I even tried stopping both the Nvidia services(for the quadro P600 in the laptop), and the AMD services, thinking maybe one of them is causing the system hang. Again, no luck. If is matters, I'm on a ThinkPad P72 with a Quadro P600 running Windows 10 build 1909, and now AMD's adrenalin 2020 20.11.2. Anyone seen this before or have any ideas?
  12. Additionally the last ones to be eliminated from my list were: Ineo C2561 - 50% price increase for 10 Gb/s USB instead of UASP (1Gb/s gain if using an SSD capable of the full 6Gb/s of SATA iii) UGREEN External HDD Enclosure - Comperable specs and price to the FE2010, but has sleep with no indication of being able to wake back up, and while most reviews were 5 star, the ones that weren't were generally due to transfer speed issues. Inateck FE2011 - No documentation on max capacity, but others that share the ASM153E chip have a max capacity of 2TB(the FE2010 has the JMS578 which others that have the same are documented for a tested 4TB and theoretical 6TB).
  13. For anyone looking at this later, here's what I've found: I didn't know UASP was a thing(If you search "uasp" in YouTube the first result is really good, first video I've watched on that channel), so after I learned what it was focused my searches on UASP enclosures which lead me to the Inateck FE2005C I almost went with, until I read the review that said it turned off after 10 minutes of inactivity and it had to be unplugged and re-plugged (also didn't know enclosures powering themselves down was a thing). That review had a comment with a link to another Inateck that didn't have a sleep mode. After searching YouTube for some part numbers in hopes of video reviews and tests, I came across this: There's a link to an updated list, and even a new video for 2019. I'm not going with anything off that list right now, as the compact 2.5" housings don't support UASP, but I will be getting the Mediasonic ProRaid later as a portable RAID 1. Ultimately I've decided to go with the Inateck FE2010 as it has the features I'm looking for and the sleep mode is after 30 minutes and per Inateck's website "a single access to the drive restores the operational mode".
  14. I'm looking around trying to find a good USB 3.1 gen 2 or 3.2 enclosure with USB-C(so I don't have to keep putting friends drives into my laptop to recover their data). I don't want to get a simple adapter because a) I can at times be clumsy and drop things more than Linus, and b) I'd like to use it as a jump drive when it's not being otherwise used. So far, while Amazon and Newegg are littered with these enclosures, every time I think I've decided on one that's in a price range I could justify paying for something that'll probably never hold over 4TB(considering 8TB external 3.5" drives are $140), I read reviews like "high speed transfers drop", "USB 3 doesn't work on type c to type c, drops to USB 2", "Cable randomly disconnects", or the worst one(IMO) "USB 3 transfers at <some stupid low number>Mb/s but while plugged into a USB to SATA iii adapter transfers are <some far bigger number>Mb/s". Does anyone know of any particular devices that are known to be good for a good price? The must haves I'm looking for are: USB actually capable of at least 5Gb/s and 10Gb/s would be preferred A proper SATA iii interface capable of the 6Gb/s so I can get the most out of an SSD as a jump drive. A solid connector(the cable it comes with is irrelevant, I have a few quality cables or various types), with the preference being type c
  15. I don't have a problem with throttling the CPU, but only if I can control when it throttles(and preferably, by how much). For example, if I'm at a full charge and I can afford to drain the battery to get a task done faster, then so be it. Maybe have some way to toggle this if it were implemented, as well as set thresholds. Obviously if the task is long enough I don't want it fire it off, walk away and come back to a dead system. What I wouldn't want is this hypothetical update to just blindly cap the CPU all the time, or even when it thinks I might need the battery life. I didn't give up running Linux on a PC to deal with the headache of learning a whole new system just to have a throttled CPU when I could have requested a Thinkpad with an 8th gen ultrabook i7 and had upgradable memory and storage. Ideally I would like to get more power in. Considering that there's 4 ports that I can plug power into, it would be nice if the circuits were available to handle multiple power supplies. I could then just plug 2 of these 96W power supplies in. However, from what I've read, the laptop would only use the one providing the most power.
  16. So, I'm completely new to apple(well technically my parents had a Macintosh ii when I was a kid), and I know this might not be the most mac knowledgable group of people, but since I get so much of my tech info from the LTT videos I figured I'd start here. Hopefully someone has suggestions to improve my power delivery/consumption situation here. Unfortunately at work they've started buying to the Thinkpad P52s and now P53s as "mobile workstations" in place of the P50 and P51. So after months of debating, when my refresh came due, I went with the Macbook Pro 16" to get the i7-9750H as I need the power. What hadn't crossed my mind until it became a problem yesterday is that unlike the Thinkpad P50 I have to turn in, and my personal Thinkpad P72 which both have 230W power supplies, USB type-c only allows up to 100W, and the apple charger is 96W. This became painfully obvious when I kicked off a task that maxed out my CPU for about 15 minutes while also in a Webex meeting. While plugged in my battery dropped by 25%. I'm glad to see the CPU can run at full speed(even if the fans get quite noisy), but this can become an issue as my work load will be including machine learning and the workloads I'm having to write code for are getting much bigger.
  17. Going back for more of the LTT roast since they have a 50% off deal today and one of the fields is "Support Your Favorite Creator Enter their code here (optional)". Before I send the order through, is there a code for LTT to enter here? Note, this is in the cart prior to entering a promo code.
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