captain cactus

Mobile Ryzen 4000 series would be nice... Top of the line 15W 8-core 16-thread little beast with a great iGPU, especially at those resolutions.

Looked more into it. Shame it doesn't have any eMMC capabilities, not even as an add-on board. Micro-SD is sloooow.

For the 4B+ maybe?

*pop*

noice

aaaaaaand rip to that franchise

So you got a MacBook Air with no usable ports whatsoever (literally the last reason to buy the old Air was because of the useful ports like USB-A and an SD slot) , an iPad that doesn't have a headphone jack but a Lighting adapter doesn't work because it now needs USB-C, any non-Apple USB-C adapters that probably don't work because USB-C is a massive steaming pile of hot garbage as a "standard" with every company doing their own thing and the last good Mac keyboard is now gone. 

How are these upgrades again?

Would like to see a Ryzen Pocket with like a 2500U or something. Yeah 15W TDP is a lot more than 4.5 but that should be coolable right? With true 4/8 cores/threads and a Vega GPU in it.

Right but it is still flat as a pancake so it won't dissipate any more easily than all the other crap slabs of aluminium slapped onto other boards. 

Then comes Gigabyte (of all the manufacturers) and puts an actual "old fashioned" heatsink with actual surface area onto their VRMs on that X470 board of theirs which actually proves the entire point of more surface area is more better, yet people still fall for shit like this (and manufactures still advertise it this way).

If anything, this is more of a heat insulator than a heatsink.

GimpWorks can fuck right off.

Tear the cooler off of that 1060, make high-res pictures of them and send them to Buildzoid/Actually Hardcore Overclocking for a PCB VRM analysis I wanna see that PCB. 

16 minutes ago, Notional said:

My RM650 has the same cables. But what I love about Corsair is that they have really high end sleeved cables. You can buy a complete kit for the Sf600 for very little. They are not bad cables. It's much more difficult to get sleeved cables for Silverstone

But that means extra expense when the cables shouldn't be crap in the first place. SilverStone's cables are more flexible to begin with saving the extra cost.

49 minutes ago, Notional said:

My concerns exactly. I am looking at the SF600 for my build as well, but I don't want it to be noisy (why I'm going for a 600w instead of 450w, which is more than enough.

Don't get the SF600. I have it. It's silent when idle but as soon as you game on it the fan turns on and becomes a loud obnoxious piece of garbage that won't turn off when you return back to idle power, not even after a restart. You have to turn it off, let it cool down and then turn the PC back on again for it to remain silent.

Also, the cables are stiff as wood. In cramped ITX cases you want some flex in your cables since you're space constrained in a small case, the SF600 cables don't want to flex at all.

So, any store in the world or EU that accepts PayPal and ships this product to the EU (or more specifically, the Netherlands)? Amazon doesn't ship this to the EU it seems.

Nice that we have fast RAM chips, now for some bad-ass memory controllers on the CPU that can officially handle it...

"The dating feature is likely to be a free service"

Yeah right, you mean like they know your every move you do on a minute-by-minute basis?

Free my ass.

2 hours ago, jj9987 said:

GDPR includes this too. If your company has any EU customers, they must comply with the GDPR, at least for these people.

If this is the case and FB knows this, aren't they shooting themselves in the foot right now? I'm an EU citizen, so these GDPR rules apply to me, does this mean the EU could theoretically sue FB for not following these rules and force them to do so anyway?

2 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

Except when it really counts:

 

 

 

AMD can't open source what isn't theirs. The PSP is an ARM SOC with ARM code so if there's anyone that should be open sourcing stuff it's ARM, not AMD.

55 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes FurMark is pretty useless truth be told... Not only because it still kills GPUs by today but because what is the point to use it as a stability test for an overclock when it already crashes most cards on stock to begin with?

 

If you want a gaming card the gaming demand will never reach any where near the FurMark demand meaning you could probably be running it at a higher clock and gaining a few extra fps with it opposed to what FurMark would make it seem and so on... There's no reason why to use it...

 

And oh i have so many tales of Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell cards that died because of it.

 

Just stick to Superposition and Heaven and I also dislike Wattman software I'd just use MSi Afterburner instead... either ways a Vega graphics card is known to love sucking power from the wall... a SF PSU certainly is not the best alternative in the market and could be the cause of issues indeed but to be sure we'd have to go through a greater troubleshooting.

Ok so I ran Heaven with a static cam on lots of moving things, then ran OCCT on all threads. The entire CPU, so cores and SOC, is pulling around 150W. Put the Vega on a +50 power budget to get it pulling 205W (on powersaving BIOS). FPS was stable at 105, OCCT didn't crash, system stayed responsive the entire time.

Then again, I'll try again tomorrow when it could be a completely different story.

1 hour ago, Notional said:

N1V news, N on all keys. I wonder who they are talking about.

0:31

DELL AND HP AIN'T DOWN WITH THE GPP - PCPERSPECTIVE as a title on the TV screen

damn son

4 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Yes FurMark is pretty useless truth be told... Not only because it still kills GPUs by today but because what is the point to use it as a stability test for an overclock when it already crashes most cards on stock to begin with?

 

If you want a gaming card the gaming demand will never reach any where near the FurMark demand meaning you could probably be running it at a higher clock and gaining a few extra fps with it opposed to what FurMark would make it seem and so on... There's no reason why to use it...

 

And oh i have so many tales of Fermi, Kepler and Maxwell cards that died because of it.

 

Just stick to Superposition and Heaven and I also dislike Wattman software I'd just use MSi Afterburner instead... either ways a Vega graphics card is known to love sucking power from the wall... a SF PSU certainly is not the best alternative in the market and could be the cause of issues indeed but to be sure we'd have to go through a greater troubleshooting.

Ok, stop using FurMark, got it. To the uninstall button we go.

I'll try running Heaven with a CPU load as well trying to trigger the problem. If it does, I'll update.

Scenario: stress-testing CPU and GPU causes the AMD driver to crash. When it recovers, the GPU stress test (any, FurMark, Superposition, Valley, etc) stopped entirely but the CPU happily continues crunching numbers.

Setup: I have a Ryzen 1600 at 3.8 GHz, 1.25V that's survived a 4 hour pass of LinPack via OCCT aka it's stable at that speed. RAM's at 2933 1.4 V that's also stable, all on an ASRock AB350 Gaming ITX/ac with the latest P4.50 BIOS. My MSI reference Vega 56 though, that's a different story. As soon as that gets thrown into the mix, even at stock profile in Wattman, the system will pull along for a couple of minutes at most, if I'm not moving the mouse that is (but even if I don't it will generally crash within a couple of minutes). As soon as I even look at the mouse, the screen freezes, goes black for a couple of seconds and when it comes back the driver has crapped the bed. But as soon as I keep the CPU at rest and stress the GPU alone the system stays intact, mostly. I say mostly because it really depends on the mood my system's in. Sometimes it crashes as soon as load is put onto the GPU but most of the time it keeps running for hours and hours without a single issue.

My PSU is a Corsair SF600. I've been wanting to swap that out for something quieter as the fan doesn't return to zero RPM when there's no more load on the PSU making it quite load in the process, but I only wanna do that if it also means it'll solve my GPU issues. I don't wanna RMA my GPU that much because a: it's an MSI model and I can't find any RMA info on their site other than "contact retailer" but more importantly b: I bought the Vega 56 from LDLC.com, a French site, because it was the only place selling MSRP Vega 56 in the EU (I'm Dutch) at launch. Sending it back would mean risky over-the-border shipments with a we-no-speak-english company with no guarantee they'll even have a replacement unit in stock meaning I'd be stuck with no GPU at all. I also don't have a 2nd GPU at hand that I could test with which also isn't nice.

So what do I do here? 

sausy sauce: https://gaming.radeon.com/en/radeon-a-gamers-choice/

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Our proud pastime of PC gaming has been built on the idea of freedom. Freedom to choose. How to play the game. What to do and when to do it. And specifically, what to play it on. PC gaming has a long, proud tradition of choice. Whether you build and upgrade your own PCs, or order pre-built rigs after you’ve customized every detail online, you know that what you’re playing on is of your own making, based on your freedom to choose the components that you want. Freedom of choice is a staple of PC gaming.

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Over the coming weeks, you can expect to see our add-in board partners launch new brands that carry an AMD Radeon product. AMD is pledging to reignite this freedom of choice when gamers choose an AMD Radeon RX graphics card. These brands will share the same values of openness, innovation, and inclusivity that most gamers take to heart. The freedom to tell others in the industry that they won’t be boxed in to choosing proprietary solutions that come bundled with “gamer taxes” just to enjoy great experiences they should rightfully have access to. The freedom to support a brand that actively works to advance the art and science of PC gaming while expanding its reach.

 

Asus is first with the AREZ lineup live: 

https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/AREZ-Series-Products/

So rather than locking in partners with non-industry standard crap and limiting customer choice AMD's all like "hey, we open sourced this stuff, enjoy it". And now they're doing the same with GPU branding, kinda like GPP, but without forcing manufacturers to join in or face the lack of supplies and marketing and whatnot. It's the official and kind "fuck off GPP" response from AMD.

"No anti-gamer / anti-competitive strings attached." sums it up best.

Hey look no flashy BS RGB but actual good-looking cards.

Now waiting for a Vega version...

Get DDU and uninstall all drivers. Then grab the latest from the nVidia site and install those, run Unigine Superposition. FurMark is very taxing on your GPU, you can run it but you'd see temperatures that you won't normally see and it stresses the GPU in a way games usually don't. If there's another insta-crash, it might be good to RMA the GPU. Your PSU isn't of the highest quality but you have a 1050Ti on it. That thing sips on power so it shouldn't stress the PSU at all.

Hey a headphone jack.

Large numbers sound great on paper, until you realise No Man's Sky did the same and we know how that turned out.

Bigger isn't always better in games. This is one of those times.