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The SP99 chip is running about the same as the SP98 other than 20°C higher load temps due to the stock solder/IHS. They are remarkably close to one another. The memory controller and ring (and their SP ratings) are higher on the first CPU. Both are one SP point lower installed in my systems than they were in the marketplace photos. I am eager to get it on direct die and see how it does with CUDIMM modules and get those crazy CPU temps under control. At P58x and E52x all core it hits 100°C in Cinebench R23 even though VCore is only 1.375V. What is nice is the VID is almost identical on every single core. There is no meaningful variance in quality among cores, so I don't need to use more voltage to account for weaker cores or tune voltage differences on a per-core basis to account for variance. Here is the SP detail on the first one I bought... Here is the SP detail on the second one I just bought... The Unify-X motherboard is not nearly as capable as the Apex(s) are. It's awesome in most ways except that MSI firmware sucks. It looks fantastic and I love the design and layout. (I think any firmware that is not on a ROG board leaves performance and stability on the table.) I am using the SP87 CPU from @Talon in it at the moment and it doesn't run nearly as well on the Unify-X as it did on the Apex. NGU and D2D and memory overclock capacity are lower and memory benchmark results are slightly reduced. I might sell it and buy another Apex or an mATX board if I could actually find one worth purchasing. A good mATX or ITX mobo is extremely rare, especially on Z890. I wish ASUS made a black and chrome Z890 Apex. About the thumbs... I had arthritic bone spurs in the joints closest to the thumb nail. That was not really causing any issue on its own. It wasn't really painful and I would not have even known about that, but the bone spurs caused ganglion cysts to form on the joint and it was affecting the nailbed, causing the thumbnails to get flattened, rough and ridged. The left thumb cyst got huge (about the size of a pea under the skin) and the right one started growing. So the surgery was to grind off the bone spurs and surgically remove the cysts. (If you just drain them they will return.) They did the left one the first week of last month and the right one on Monday. It hurts like son-of-a-gun, and I have a high pain threshold and seldom complain or have trouble tolerating it. Even the one they did last month still hurts, and range of motion is still severely limited. I'll be glad when they stop hurting and I regain normal function. Hopefully sooner than later. Below is a picture (in the spoiler). Just got the bandage off the right one yesterday and haven't been able to wash off the iodine stains yet. (I can't scrub it or lather it up with soap yet because the incision is still easy to fracture.) Sutures come out Friday of next week on the one they fixed on Monday. Removing the stiches was the worst part. There are more sensitive nerves in the the thumb than I ever realized. Appearance-wise the left one is looking good, but it doesn't feel good yet.

Pretty cool to see these next to each other! I do not need a high performance GPU so the Legion 9i is too expensive for my needs but from what I have seen it would be my choice if I was in the market for a laptop with a 5080 or 5090.

Typical Microsoft. I'm sure they screwed up own services du own homebrewed updates for the month. Don't blame hardware upgrade. Can't put the blame on homebrewed AI, LOL Microsoft: AI, hackers not to blame for Outlook services outage Microsoft blamed its own network errors for the outage that took down its Outlook email and other consumer and enterprise services on Thursday. Struggling to print after the Windows update? Here's what's causing it Windows update KB5132061 is causing headaches with restart loops and document printing errors. Yup, My main point it was a stupid suggestion from the old man.

I tried Dell 770m and 880m. Same problem like SSJ92 with no audio.

I think a version of this was already in play as we were seeing Nvidia greatly reducing (IE, near zero) output of 5090 cards, they've cancelled the 5080 24GB and now the market for the next year at least looks like a 9070xt vs 5080 war but the 5080 at 2x the price in many match ups. We are also looking at 2028 for anything GPU wise new and exciting at this point. You will get maximum value out of your 9070xt and are primed for Zen6 with your setup. Tim Cook voluntarily stepped down as CEO at Apple and is still on the board. He is 66 and I am sure he isn't looking to drive another ship. He'll gladly sit on the board of Apple into retirement. I don't see him going to Nvidia in any capacity. That is exactly the problem. With all the channel stuffing and in the moment profit chasing and lack of long term perspective, it will come back to haunt Nvidia. They are making enemies hand over fist. Fear and hate drive transvestigations unfortunately. ------------------------------------------------------ Thermal Grizzly clarifies its WireView Pro II warranty for burned/damaged 5090s. Two year warranty Card must remain in spec If they can't repair it they'll replace it but same model is not guaranteed Very fair, and in theory, you could buy a NEW WireView Pro II every two years and extend the warranty on your card.... https://videocardz.com/newz/thermal-grizzly-clarifies-wireview-pro-ii-gpu-warranty-and-cable-requirements I run my card completely within spec except for the occassional test/bench run. ------------------------------------------------------------ AMD GPU supply constraints as drops of 20-50% are experienced in China: https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-gaming-gpu-supply-reportedly-falls-20-to-50-in-china I'm not too sure what's going on here unless AMD is suddenly experiencing an uptick in their AI variants of GPUs..... ------------------------------------------------------------- I'll have to give this a try and see if all roads lead to Rome. The blessing in these times is the limitations on 99% of AM5 chips means CUDIMMS and even highly binned UDIMMs are a non factor. The curse is Z890 has given us a taste of what's to come with Nova and hopefully Zen6. All my kits are UDIMMs except that pair of 9200 Vengeance sticks which had no problems tapping out my Z890 Strix board in G2 at 9066. Ill have to wait for something beefier to see how high they can fly. I just feel like we are hitting peak saturation with the AI bubble and things will be coming down sooner than later and a lot of those "contracts" will either go into default status or be renegotiated. Ouch, sorry to hear about the thumbs @Mr. Fox. What happened? How is the SP99 performing still lidded compared to the other samples you have before they got the Henry VIII treatment?

Hello i have 144Hz Innolux Full Hd display :))

Having DC isnt a deal breaker, just something that doesnt limit the GPU options, LVDS "standard" is 980M max, GuitarG and the DC setup he had was RTX level options, so even if a 4K screen & associated cables unlocks that (or a IPS equivalent for 1080) would work. I plan to use my machine for AI workloads so not so much GPU for gaming, the issue is internal screen display output. Yep saw the manufactured date so assume its a new "clone" So i would assume a DC screen to have the interposer board attached to the back of it as the primary cable '401 seems to be quite long to route through the hinge assembly to arrive at back of screen. so i would assume the "secondary" cable off the interposer to be a short one similar to your 30-40 flat one shown up above? if we can get each cable Primary & secondary pinout known / mapped then its really only the interposer board which poses the blocker for upgrades. To add to the options, could the Dell equivalent cable and assembly work if yours uses Dells DC version? Just a thought.

Muhehee who is already playing as me too? 😄 RTX 4050m with 3 heatpipes from Cicichen and 2 additional heatpipes from me,(total 5 GPU Heatpipes) plus 3 additional cooling places, TDP 71W without bios modifying 😄Power is brutal and i am already done with soldering and power tests and very satisfied :)) Dell precision M4800, i7 4800Mq, 4x8GB Samsung 12800,RTX4050M 6GB,LA9772P, display Innolux EDP 30pin 144Hz,SSD Intel 3510 900Gb, Msata 4G Simcard Cellphone Modem.

It's interesting, don't you think, that the affair with the alleged Chinese spy was known for quite some time (about a year I think), but Jensen was ousted only this week. Possible explanations (theories): - Trump, a public ally of Jensen's, was weakened by the midterms and this provided an opportunity to circles in the intelligence apparatus/judiciary to act. Probably he (Jensen) was given the choice to step down to avoid criminal prosecution for bypassing the export sanctions to China. This is a guess. - The same circles waited for NVIDIA to acquire the largest git repo of LLMs in the world (i.e. HuggingFace) this September for an astronomical price that made no financial sense - probably someone of these guys convinced Jensen to do that. Then, when the deal was done, they ousted Jensen, setting things in motion to replace them with a guy that will be more friendly to the big AI companies. If we read Anthropic's prospectus for IPO, we will find a statement that open weight constitute a financial risk. Investors in these companies - including the U.S. government itself - could feel safer with tighter open weights regulation. The business model of cloud companies works only if access to AI is regulated. This can be easily codified in law in the name of public safety. Plus, the potential control of the largest hardware manufacturers will restrict the capability of using generative AI without the government taking notice. Thus, the following months will be very important for the future of AI. Is it going to be a public utility enhancing research and development worldwide or a control mechanism for mass surveillance, access to employment, intelligence, etc?

I see 2 solutions: Custom interposer board + LCD cable Using the stock DC cable, one must design a simple interposer board that has an eDP female port connected to the OEM DC cable + retraces the signals to a 40 (or 30) pin standard eDP female connector + use an off the shelf 40 (or 30) pin eDP cable to connect to the LCD (many can be found on Aliexpress) CONS : sourcing a 40 pin female eDP connector (connecting to OEM DC cable) of the interposer board + sourcing a OEM DC cable PROS : much simpler to get a custom PCB made than a custom LCD cable Custom direct LCD cable Create a custom 50 pin to 40 (or 30) pin eDP cable as discussed before CONS : sourcing a 50 pin female LCD port connector used on the 8770w motherboard + getting a company in china to build such a cable PROS : only sourcing one old stock part, the connector

Hello, yes that 8570w cable is different to the 8770w cable, the pinout in your message is correct. You know that eDP cables are coaxial ? They have an inner core wire + insulation + outer ground wire + insulation, all in one cable. They are EXTREMELY hard to work with if you solder by hand, possible but very very hard, very fine soldering + microscope + tweezers are needed. In the factory they are soldered by laser machines, ordering a custom cable is also manufactured this way. Ali cable isn't the end solution, the best solution in my eyes is to ordering a custom cable, or finding the 50 pin male connector + 40 or 30 pin male eDP connector and making the cable by hand (you can by a spool of micro coaxial cable for cheap) The cable is probably a clone since manufacture date of 2019 is 8 years after the laptop release. It probably works fine. Yes if you want a dreamcolor display to work you need an interposer board, but be careful : signals coming from the motherboard to interposer are eDP signals leaving the interposer and going to the display are LVDS The Dream Color display is a very rare IPS display using high bandwidth LVDS signals, that is why they needed eDP (high bandwidth), converted it to high bandwidth LVDS and then send it to the screen. The confusion comes from the fact that the laptop sees this display as "eDP" since it has to send eDP signals to drive the display, the reality is that it sends eDP -> gets converted to LDS -> LVDS display. The cable doesn't "convert" or "talk", that is done thanks to the chip on the interposer board. A full DreamColor display assembly has : Motherboard to interposer "eDP" cable Interposer board converting eDP -> LVDS Interposer board to LCD "LVDS" cable DreamColor IPS display that uses LVDS signals. Hope this clears things up for the Dream Color technology ! this is the same for dell precision also using the DC screen.

so without chasing the new 4K capability, would that be beneficial to the ageing 8570W, (dont get me wrong its a nice tech to have). Would the simpler 30 pin and IPS capability be suitable? Have ordered one of the '401 cables Vladka shared the link to so looking good. I had seen those converters online but they didnt look "intelligent" hence me thinking we were missing the interposer? Thats actually a good logic of having a 50pin to 40pin option and then if 30 pin screen is your thing then just run it that way. Obviously this is all theory and assumes either the 4K screen or the normal 1080 Dreamcolor IPS/eDP screen would function. if we can indeed make the 50MoBo to 40 (or30) pin jump by coupling connectors (with a few rejumpering wires changed) then that makes it way easier than scouring the internet for remaining OEM DC cables.

Hello, Good job, yes this pinout matching is correct. However I would actually wire this to a 40 pin eDP connection with 4 lanes of eDP because that way you can wire the screen up to nicer 1440p and 4k displays with high refresh rate, if you so chose to. If you want a 30 pin screen you can pick up a very cheap 40 pin to 30 pin eDP converter flex cable such as this one, that way you can make these 40 pin cables in bulk and end users can decide to get one with 30 pin converter or not depending on if they want to use a 30 pin or 40 pin display. If you want to make a custom 30 pin eDP cable then the 2 unused lanes should not be connected to anything, just let them terminate on the 50 pin LCD port on the motherboard -> cut the extra unused cables directly on the port.

Did you check on eBay cicichen

It is that for sure. Greed and self-aggrandizing business ventures are agnostic to anything else with no regard to who it affects. The agenda needed for furtherance of the corporate enrichment strategy is the only thing that matters. Anything else is an inconvenient annoyance and distraction. It doesn't matter where their money comes from or how it is acquired as long as it comes. He is really skilled at peddling garbage, that is for sure. And, he is worshipped by his garbage lovers.

Hmmm. Nvidia could start competing with their own partners and offer their own homebreved "RTX Spark" laptop and desktops. I’m sure Cook could contribute something with that... He has the needed experience. And Nvidia already do it with their graphics cards. Why not go into Jokebook business once the AI bubble pops? https://packaged-media.redd.it/gl18keksb81i1/pb/m2-res_480p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&c=wh_ben_en&var=sgpssan&v=1&e=1794549600&s=b364c0dda444b14c99bc08dca240849990c596c8

It's a lack of empathy and a long term perspective, just chasing the next quarter IMO. I'm just waiting to hear how my community is also responsible for this from some people. I'm sure we already have some people transvestigating the Chinese spy.

Exactly. And a clown like Cook would be the kind of moron to take that position.

Jensen came up from the GPU market, so I think he might have had at least some desire to have the fastest GPU and maintain a reputation. We could end up with someone who looks at the numbers and goes "who needs geforce?" and just kills the consumer side.

For business-facing markets it is not too far fetched, but hiring that clown for anything that relates to gaming and PC performance enthusiast interests it would be an idiotic decision. Someone like that nutjob would just perpetuate the likelihood of PC gaming and enthusiast interests continuing to be marginalized and no longer a relevant business pursuit. One need look no further than the crApple product stack and the $hitshow that their garbage represents.

Would you prefer that Cook take over and run Nvidia? I am at a loss for words. President Trump says Apple’s Tim Cook is the only man to replace Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO

Speaking of "dark times" it appears Micro$lop services are down. Everything Micro$lop is down at work. Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Office suite, etc. and I just checked on my personal computer and outlook.com is inaccessible.

I purchased this panasonic toughbook fz-55 mark 2 on ebay. I have been a long time dell roughbook user (3 generations, still have 7414), and all those machines had the GPS built in and worked flawlessly. Am a USCG merchant marine and do lots of boat work, and deliveries. It has this double round connector on the back that I am pretty sure connects to the dock, and allows one to have an external antenna in the vehicle. Blue and red wires connect to it. The toughbook has the Sierra Wireless EM7511 Qualcom Snapdragon X16 LTE-A in it shown in the attached picture, and device manager shows a NMEA port 19 on the Sierra unit. Putty sees that port and GPS data is being read, although its mostly empty due to no GPS antenna. I have an external GPS bluetooth unit, with a usb cable and it works fine. I have searched on the web for information on this unite. Sounds like a need to buy and internal antenna setup, connect into those two spots on that daughterboard. Then route wire and antenna likely up into the display. Looking for where to get the antenna assembly, and maybe instructions on how to install it.

We are living in dark times worldwide and things stand to get much worse in the near future. Wickedness is a way of life now. Setting aside all of the extremely undesirable political troubles and inevitable fallout looming on the horizon and focusing on the technology space, a huge part of it is a concerted effort to monetize everything and convert personal computing into a subscription model in every way possible. The big players don't want PC enthusiasts or general computer users to own long-lasting, powerful and capable hardware or locally installed software that allows a buy-once/use forever scenario to occur. We can say we "don't blame them from a business perspective" but the intent is self-serving and nefarious at its root, designed to extract every ounce of revenue possible and make being dependent versus self-sufficient the end goal. I do blame them. It's the wrong path for everyone. This touches all aspects of life in the world we live in. Essentially the same business model as big pharma. Nobody wants cures or permanent solutions. They want lifelong prescriptions that feed the pig for the same reasons that big tech wants lifelong subscriptions. The end user is no longer a valued customer, we are a source of revenue that needs to be captured in perpetuity. No thanks. Hard pass. I do blame them and that business model. It's messed up and unacceptable.