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Intel is now sending out guidance to motherboard manufacturers to enforce power limits more closely.
Intel wants Default Settings with PL1/PL2 at 125W/188W to be implemented by motherboard vendors by the end of May - VideoCardz.com
About freaking time!

No, I would never do that.

So, will this device require a PSN account?

No, I would never do that.

So, will this device require a PSN account?

Jumping off the PlayStation band wagon after the PS3 was a damn good decision. The less i have to deal with Soyny the better i am.

Both Steam and Sony had willfully allowed sales of the game in countries where you cannot create a PSN account.
 
Refund the game or retract the requirement.
 
Or this will be escalated to the media and consumer protection authorities in the 190 or so countries where customers are about to get burnt. They will collectively send Sony to the depths of hell

IMO they should be heavily fined for making false claims about a product tied to safety. These slaps on the wrist are pathetic. 

Yeah i think this falls firmly into "Fuck Around, Find Out", or possibly "Do Stupid Thing, Win Stupid Prizes".

If one manufacturer does something to get ahead, everyone else has to do it to keep up. So they end up all about the same anyway.

I bought a new i7-14700k, the out-of-the-box motherboard configuration turns on optimizations of "ROG STRIX Z790-E GAMING WIFI II"

Notice what's default. First thing I did was "Enforce All limits" and then turn XMP off so I could update the BIOS. Cause it literately would not update the BIOS with XMP on.
 
Right beneath that:

 
Note what BIOS version introduces the Intel baseline profile:

 
Anyhow, I'm disappointed that manufacturers are still "cheating the benchmarks" after all these years. The out-of-the-box configuration should be the CPU manufacturer's settings. I don't know how these MB's pass QA checks being able to burn out the CPU.
 
 

Which is why Intel is blaming the mobo manufacturers for using these unsafe defaults in their BIOSes.

Overclocking has always been at the user's risk. The problem we have is that mobo manufacturers haven't made it clear what settings would count as overclocking and/or setting it as default. Even on an AM5 build I recently got I might have the opposite problem. Asus description for a setting in bios was "overclock CPU and ram for more performance" so I disabled it. The CPU wouldn't turbo. Put that setting back to Auto, I get turbo.

Alibaba is looking like a good option about now.
 
 

I'm surprised the devs haven't thrown the publisher under the bus for this. If there's been any internal revolt over this decision, I wouldn't be surprised if a dev goes public with it.
 
Meanwhile, I hope the devs have their resumes up to date and ready to jump ship when the time calls for it.

Escape from Tarkov is self-published. Battlestate Games is both the developer and publisher. You can't blame publisher interference for this.

Your claim makes no sense. No one just charges premium and everyone's like "yup, all fine". You earn the right to charge premium and EK has always been the premium brand. Guess what, premium brands charge premium prices. People also forgot how copper prices increased through years and how machining specific blocks simply costs more.
 
As for EVGA, do you realize EVGA was actually making the "NVIDIA" branded graphic cards for NVIDIA back in the day and that it was known as brand with toughest PCB's and power delivery circuits? In similar way how Sapphire has been making "Built by ATi" back then. Also your warranty claim makes no sense. Last thing any company wants is for most of their products to be processed through warranty. It's just absolutely worst for business. Either you lower the warranty period and risk people avoiding your products or you raise the warranty to attract customers with longer warranty and ensure most of your sold products survive warranty period without any need for service. This is the best outcome. But if something goes wrong, users have the peace of mind warranty will cover their expensive graphic card and as far as I know EVGA has always correctly dealt with warranty claims and was actually know to be very "pro consumer" oriented.

Alibaba is looking like a good option about now.
 
 

This is the service manual in PDF

https://dl.dell.com/content/manual13059505-inspiron-15-3511-service-manual.pdf?language=en-us

Page 14 shows the two WiFi antenna cables connecting to and through the Display assembly. You need those those reconnected, or obtain an aftermarket antenna and connect it to the WiFi module.

If you look on Page 68, you'll see why you need those reattached: the backside of the display is basically the antenna array as you trace both the blue and orange wires around the perimeter of it.

Cool ! government oversight on Ai training models, im sure this wont be co-opted for political and/or social agendas........   /s
 
 
You give these models ALL info ..or none ...otherwise they end up biased. if you dont like the outcome from said Ai after giving it ALL the data available ..dont interact with the Ai to begin with.

Most video decoders these days are not as fixed function as you might think.  

https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/#hardware-video-decode
 
The HW itself, even the firmware, does not know how to decode any video. The instructions on how to decode the video are provided by use-space applications (the sys lib) when you call the apis to decode a video.  There is a good reason for this, once you look into all the differnt permutations for a given video coded (including color formats etc) you very quickly sendup with a huge permutation of possible sequences of tasks, having dedicated HW pathways for all of these would take up a massive amount of silicon. 

Some other SOCs do the same but they do not have it on a co-prososor they have these units within the GPU or within the CPU (see intel cpus) and in those cases some of the compute is offloaded to the cpu or GPU (or cpu's vendor engines) were that is possible. 
 

 
 
 

There was probably a minimum quantity they had to order and expected to profit from low volume with high margin. That's a very bad idea when dealing with a enthusiast market with high turnover in technology.
 
In this market, you need both high and low volumes. High volume for market share, stability and to keep your suppliers happy, and markup the high-end because you're also catering to a very noisy enthusiast market; you want brand recognition.

These guys fucked up in a multitude of ways.

From fire to water. During bankruptcy, liquidation can be part of that process.

Well that's all fine and good but we can more accurately go by past history from YouTube itself and also it's technical information on what they actually do.
 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips/
 
So I can very confidently tell you they aren't going to be AV1 only, not for a very long time/ever.

Sounds like having many dozens of bespoke designs for custom supplier GPUs and high-end motherboards, things that will be low-volume sales, yet EK has to have larger production runs of each SKU made to keep production costs down, is an unsustainable practice.

Just to make my position on this more clear. In a **perfect world, I'm not opposed to an official ID. However, there's three outstanding problems I take issue with.
When the SSN was debated in Congress, it was forewarned it would be used carelessly and abused. This turned out to be correct. SSN are being exposed with regards to how Personal Identifiable Information (PII) gets secured; or the lack thereof. It rewards false intentions, if not outright lies when being legislated by our elected officials. This is a moral hazard where the ends don't justify the means. If there's going to be a national ID, there needs to be stricter regulations with how this is applied, accessed, and stored. Though it's a bit late when over 143 MILLION records have been exposed from one of the three largest CRAs (in this case, Equifax).

**We don't live in a perfect world, so I'm exceedingly skeptical that this wouldn't be abused; either willfully or through negligence. Identity theft is a big deal.

I quote SSA.gov in bold per the PDF linked above from page 1.

"We don’t give your number to anyone, except when authorized by law. You should be careful about sharing your number, even when you’re asked for it."

Uh huh, about that...

^ LOL, you just described the US Gov. The SSN is one giant moving goalpost in terms of scope-creep.

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