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lightnb

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  1. Step One: Implement a regulation that doesn't really have any direct effect, but establishes the precedent that they can regulate it. Step Two: Once people accept that a thing can be regulated and cede that right to some commission, then the commission begins increasing the restrictions.
  2. I have a ROG Nvidia RTX 3070 as a second card on a host running Debian 11. I run a Windows 10 guest on KVM, with the RTX 3070 passed through to Windows. When the Windows VM is running and the Nvidia driver is controlling the card (from Windows), the fans on the RTX 3070 work properly. The graphics passthrough also works correctly. When I cold boot the computer and don't start the windows VM at all, the RTX 3070 has the VFIO driver bound, and the card does nothing. Which is what it should be doing in that state. Except: the card should have something in the firmware (not the driver) that gives the card a sense of self-preservation and runs the fans if it gets hot, regardless of the presence of a driver. If I leave the Windows machine off, over the course of an hour or two, the RTX 3070's heat sink gets too hot to touch, and the fans still don't come on. If I start the Windows VM, the fans engage as soon as the Nvidia driver takes over. So I have to run the Windows VM all the time to prevent this card from overheating. Is there a solution for this?
  3. I'm in the same boat. Posting to how support. Decided to update the hardware on my computer (Ryzen 3950x + x570 Aourus Master) and while it's on the way, I find out there's issues getting Windows 7 to run with the new Ryzens. I have a Windows 7 that's frozen/no updates. Only used for games. I use Linux for everything else. So now I have to figure out what to do: 1. Hack Windows 7 to work with Ryzen/x570 if possible? 2. Setup a hostile operating system, Windows 10, securely in a sandbox if possible (no MS account, local login, no updates, locked in a VM, triple firewalled. 3. Hack Linux to run games (unreliable, unstable, lots of hassle for each game, Wine prefixes) Seriously, I don't know what we're supposed to do. Any good articles on how to completely lock down Windows 10 (against Microsoft, not against the user)?
  4. Generally, when buying a board, I want to get the high-quality parts that matter (vrm, better capacitors), but am fine with "no frills" in the "features" department. I don't care about bling, rgb lights, wi-fi chips (that never work with Linux anyway), audio controllers (I use USB external audio), onboard graphics (I always use a PCIe card), and so on. But other than "just buy an expensive board", I don't see how one can determine if the components on a lower price board are good quality. Ignoring features and looking only at component quality, can someone tell me how I can tell from looking at a board spec sheet if the components and vrm are good quality? Some say, "don't spend less than $250 on X570". But if I look at a $150 X570 board, what besides the price tells me it's "low end"? How much of this is FUD? Are there simply no boards that use high quality parts with less features, so you have to buy features you don't need to get better components? And even if that's true, shouldn't there be a spec that one can check for part quality? Some boards have 8 phase vrms, some have 10 phases, some have 14 phases. Some have fake phases. Or let me ask another way. How can I compare the quality of a board and the suitability of the board for running something like a Ryzen 3950x from looking at the spec sheets? Or testing? How do I know if the CPU will have diminished capacity/throttling, premature failure of CPU or board, etc. Assuming that I've checked the board manufacturer's spec page and seen the CPU listed as compatible, what else can I check?
  5. I usually recycle my cases since there's no point in buying new ones, but this time I think I need a case with a bit more space in it as this build is very cramped with the giant heat sync. It's a Ryzen 3950x w/ Noctua 15d heatsync on an Aorus Master motherboard. I keep my cases on a rack/stand so that I can work on the inside easily without removing them from the stand and without pulling the cables. I regular cross swap cards and drives between machines depending on what I need. My current case has several problems, but is otherwise great. Looking for case options that solve these issue, without "breaking" anything that I like about my current case. 1. I need at least 5 hard drive spots. Some are 2.5" SSDs on 3.5" cadies, but I do use 3.5" drives too. I haven't reinstalled them all yet due to cramped space. On this case, I can pull out the "drive cage" to easily add and remove drives, and I can plug them in on the left side, which is easy to do. Some cases have the drives slide in front to back with the ports on the back, but I hate this, as it requires having to remove the entire case from the rack and pull the back panel off to plug them in. So the drives need to be side plugable, or if back pluggable, done in a way that doesn't require access to the back panel (ie. like a server where they slid into slots and don't use cables). 2. That said, I need more space between the motherboard area and the drive area. See the Purple region in the picture. I need that wider so I can get the SATA cables on and off without being cramped against the heat sync or graphics cards. 3. (Blue Arrow) I don't need 4 optical drive bays, but I do need one. 4. (Green Arrow) There are seven slot holes in my current case. I'd like a case with 8, where the 8th slot is right under the 7th, so that I can put a two-slot graphics card in the bottom slot of the motherboard. 5. I think the cables will take care of themselves once there is more space... 6. Airflow - this is for Blender/cycles CPU rendering. I have no idea how hot this is going to get until I can get my other drives installed and open a blender project (which is on said other drives). I have no idea what the CPU temp is until I can get Kernel 5.4+ running, which isn't in the current distro. Any suggestions?
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