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I would 100% have called the police and filed a report. After I got into my car and grabbed his license plate. Can’t trust anyone these days. Too many local deals have turned deadly.

It's just a MAX-Q VBIOS of the X-Vsion one... The eDP is set to disabled once you install the regular drivers. I don't know if ZRT have any special drivers for that, maybe it'll fix the issue for everything?

Hello. Has your work settled down? I've lost contact with ZRT. It seems difficult to purchase it. Could you please upload the ZRT VBIOS?

You'll have to test to find out. If 970M boots in M15x as is, then no vbios change should be needed

Budget aside, Roman is probably too smart to waste any more than $200K on advertising. I know I am not alone in saying that I cannot identify many purchases based upon advertising. There are exceptions and fringe examples, but I generally view people that purchase items based on advertising as being "not very smart" people, and smart business owners know that. The best advertisements are (a) results and (b) word-of-mouth. Marketing is for muppets.

Thermal Grizzly's Scale: While Thermal Grizzly is a premium, highly respected enthusiast brand founded by der8auer, it operates on a smaller marketing budget compared to past mega-corporation sponsors like MSI or GALAX. This suggests the partnership was likely structured around a mid-tier six-figure multi-year contract rather than millions of dollars. From between $100,000 and up to $500,000. Probably not much above $200.000 - $250.000. Black or white edition cable?😀 What worse than burnt connectors is missing cores and memory. Aka scammed. The scammers now glue the screws so you can't open your graphics card to check if your scammed....

I wonder how much Roman paid in advertising costs to have the company name appear in the benchmark? Probably more of a business / marketing move than a sponsorship.

The only reason I am not selling my 5090 for $1500 more than I paid for it ($2000 more than it is worth) is because I'd not be able to replace it. The only option would be a downgrade because I would never pay the current market rate (new or used) for a 5090 at this point. They were not even worth what we paid for them before prices basically doubled.

It's so important that Thermal Grizzly sold their soul.... 3DMark’s Next-gen ray tracing test adds native 4K, AI upscaling and frame generation According to the video description, Thermal Grizzly is the first sponsor of the new 3DMark benchmark and is showing the teaser exclusively at its booth in Taipei.

Good observation on the status of Ray Tracing: Not a sham, but the actual hardware chops required in raw power just haven't been delivered by Nvidia and many games don't even bother with it or give it token lip service. Feels like the long con from Nvidia to switch reliance to DLSS and FG.... Nevermind the VRAM regression or at the very least lack of progression considering its need for RT and PT.... -------------------------------------- Dude...... Good thing you know what you're looking for in these situations. Next time, tell them you will be testing it on the spot before purchase to weed out a lot of chuff even if that means lugging your son's desktop with you to a Starbucks, library, police safe trading zone, BNN or more to test it out. PCpartpicker shows the cheapest 5090 available right now in stock is $4200. With the market the way it is, any sub $3k deal has to be sus. Anyone who has a 5090 KNOWS it is valuable so selling it for cheap doesn't make sense. Not that it can't happen, but you have to protect yourself first. (HUGS $1971 MSI Vanguard 5090 1.125 Open Box MC special even harder while checking WV2 connections 🤣)

We live in a dangerous world and scammers are becoming very common. Did you file a police report? That SOB (and all of the others like him) needs to go to jail and get brutally beaten by other inmates while awaiting for his arraignment. I'd also report the Marketplace post as a scam.

Has anyone done this?

that's not too bad considering it was a much newer card than the M15X supported "officially" Regarding the Dell 970M card I purchased, The only thing I'll need is a modded driver? No need for a Vbios change?

I ordered the mounting bracket from Amazon. The only very cheap one i can find anyway. The same seller who sold me the adapter has a bracket as well, but i refuse to pay that insane amount just for that. Speak of the devil, i just got it today, the adapter, and so far so good. Was able to OC a bit more to 4.79 ghz. Tried to get it to 4.8 but it kept getting BSOD, it did hit 4.84 before it did though lol. Im not that much of a wizard, so im not equipped to figure that out lol. I hope i still will be able to keep it the same speed when i get that card seeing as the PSU is 780w, though i doubt this machine even with that card would be able to get close to that amount of power draw lol. Thats good to know then. Idky XVsion says it doesn't come with VBios. Maybe things have changed since? i guess ill find out. No big deal if it doesn't. Thats easy to do. I also ordered more PTM 7950 so that'll help with cooling not to mention i also have a Llano cooling device and that thing works wonders lol. Well worth the money, imo lol.

I almost got scammed on a 5090 tonight!! I drove 65 miles to buy a ASUS RTX 5090 TUF which was listed for $2,800 USD. After meeting him, I inspected the card, no core, no memory chips, fans unplugged etc, stripped screws pure junk, I turned him down right away and explained the situation (He played dumb of course) , then I quickly left feedback to try and help any other potential buyers, let’s just say I didn’t buy it! See my review below. (He had like (5) 5090’s apparently) Here is the Facebook ads attached as well. It’s still up! What a scammer!! This was not a FIFTY-NINETY but it was a FIFTY-NONE-dee lol. https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQULuMgY3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

i left this here if anyone have the same Aetina card and want to try this own modified vbios by me, it spoof the subsystem ID of the card with the MSI one and have a +10w of TDP overclock. their checksum is the same as the original unmodified VBIOS. if you flash it with a SPI programmer may be go working. i dont flashed it on mine because i am trying to upgrade the entire GPU and i dont like to dissasemble all the system only for this moddedaetina.rom

video outputs works fine? and you need to modify .inf to get it working or the system detects it as an msi card and allow you to get installed drivers without modify them? one time i tried to make a VBIOS modification of my Aetina GTX 1060 to modify its subsystem ID and stop modifiying the drivers. but since "Pascal TDP Tweaker" had a bug with checksum offset by flashing it the gpu got error 43. i noticed about the bug a few months later but i dont like to disasemble my system only for that.

270K and 5090 in the main setup and 273PQE and 5070 in the tinkering rig lol. My 9850X3D lives in the living room, now GPU-less 🙁. I do have a B580 brand new sealed from Intel as an RMA replacement that I could put in there if I feel like using it lol. If Zen 6 ends up being amazing and Nova Lake a flop, maybe I'll switch it up and drive the AM5 for awhile.

Hi again, I've been reading though these conversations to try to fix my issue. Whenever under load, the (RTX A5000) GPU throttles at 55W; it just stays at that limit, despite: temperatures being in the 60s/70s for cpu and gpu computer always being plugged in and with a full battery. (played with different battery settings in BIOS, nothing) This usually happens when under load, closing down the heavy program restores the limit to 115W/130W, also the power limit will only show 130W when idle, under load it always goes to around 115-120W, is that normal? Honestly, I have no idea when this start, I only recently decided to investigate this, which was why I updated my BIOS. Most recent BIOS, 1.41.1 I think. Adaptive C-states for Discrete Graphics is off I played with different thermal settings from ultra performance to optimised. I am on Arch Linux. I don't have a Windows drive to test, but I think that a Windows user also had a similar problem somewhere in these pages. Updated driver/firmware, relatively lower temperatures, could it be possibly a short spike in temperature leads to a throttle that then does not properly exit? I ask because running the following more generic version of the original command outputs some interesting lines, this is just a snippet of the full output: Thermal slowdown is active right now despite cpu/gpu temperatures being in the 50s/60s, causing a 55W throttle to the gpu. The only way that I have found to correct the power limit without shutting down the computer or the program is by unplugging the charger for a few seconds, then plugging it back in.

MSI

New keyboard most likely, the are multi layer PCBs that use a circuit to minimise traces meaning the keys influence each other if they misbehave.

Turdbook garbage from the Green Goblin, in partnership with the identity theft trashmaster Nazis at Micro$lop.

Maybe the difficulty (or inability) and financial prohibition to insure all of the AI crap data centers will help put things back on a good path. I had not thought of it before I saw this article, but the AI clown posse is going to have to insure all of this stuff. This will limit where they can build and whether or not they can afford to buy insurance to cover it. Building a data center in an area prone to tornados, hurricanes, flooding or other natural disasters might make them uninsurable. Any insurance carrier with just a smidgen of common sense would be insane to underwite that kind of risk. I think it would be a real blessing and a hilarious outcome for the prohibitive cost and availability of insurance coverage to cause progress to come to a screeching halt for these clamoring morons. Imagine the tension explaining to the shareholders and board of directors that plans are being scrapped or scaled back because they cannot find a company willing to insure it or the cost is so astronomical that it decimates all earning projections. Way too funny... poetic justice. If the insurance carriers are smart, they will be scalping the AI companies on the cost of insurance and give them a nasty, bitter taste of what they have done to us on PC part prices. "So, you want to insure your $50B data center against equipment losses and operational losses caused by an insurable risk? OK, no problem. That will be $25B annually, but only as long as you have no loss experience." "Wait. What? You've started building this data center where? Are you stupid? Um, yeah, no thanks. Oh, sure, we get it... it's cheaper for you to build there due to lower property costs, lower wage market and tax advantages, but we're not interested in providing insurance for it at such a disaster-prone location. Have a nice day, and good luck." Data centers straining U.S. insurance capacity | Property Casualty 360 "For some of the largest projects, it’s impossible to insure at full value."

Maybe the difficulty (or inability) and financial prohibition to insure all of the AI crap data centers will help put things back on a good path. I had not thought of it before I saw this article, but the AI clown posse is going to have to insure all of this stuff. This will limit where they can build and whether or not they can afford to buy insurance to cover it. Building a data center in an area prone to tornados, hurricanes, flooding or other natural disasters might make them uninsurable. Any insurance carrier with just a smidgen of common sense would be insane to underwite that kind of risk. I think it would be a real blessing and a hilarious outcome for the prohibitive cost and availability of insurance coverage to cause progress to come to a screeching halt for these clamoring morons. Imagine the tension explaining to the shareholders and board of directors that plans are being scrapped or scaled back because they cannot find a company willing to insure it or the cost is so astronomical that it decimates all earning projections. Way too funny... poetic justice. If the insurance carriers are smart, they will be scalping the AI companies on the cost of insurance and give them a nasty, bitter taste of what they have done to us on PC part prices. "So, you want to insure your $50B data center against equipment losses and operational losses caused by an insurable risk? OK, no problem. That will be $25B annually, but only as long as you have no loss experience." "Wait. What? You've started building this data center where? Are you stupid? Um, yeah, no thanks. Oh, sure, we get it... it's cheaper for you to build there due to lower property costs, lower wage market and tax advantages, but we're not interested in providing insurance for it at such a disaster-prone location. Have a nice day, and good luck." Data centers straining U.S. insurance capacity | Property Casualty 360 "For some of the largest projects, it’s impossible to insure at full value." Why Liability and Insurance Won’t Save AI: Lessons From Cyber Insurance | LawFare "...the insurance industry has at various points asked the government to provide a backstop or some sort of federal reinsurance program for catastrophic cyber risk, to ensure that in the event of such an incident they would not go bankrupt. But this, too, has been complicated to figure out as it’s not immediately clear what types of cyber risks the government views as catastrophic or what it might ask of the insurance industry in exchange for such support. In the absence of clear government support, many cyber insurers have taken to excluding certain types of catastrophic risks (such as state-sponsored cyberattacks and attacks on critical infrastructure) from their coverage and strictly limiting how much cyber coverage they sell."