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I get this way too with wallpapers. The motherboard is the conduit to all and if it is system themed wallpaper, it has to be to that AIB. I am also open to mash ups...like I'm running an Asus MB but with an MSI GPU...that's worthy of a mash up.

I had to make a new minimalist wallpaper for the Unify X since using my custom ROG wallpaper with an MSI mobo just feels wrong. Feel free to download if you like. 4K and 5K widescreen. MSI 5120x2160 | MSI 3840x2160 | ROG 5120x2160 | ROG 3840x2160

Co-author of BufferMod's modified PremaMod BIOS here. BufferMod gave two goals to me: 1. Unlock (or fix compatibility in other words) 16GB memory sticks, therefore the total supported system memory is raised to 4x16=64GB. 2. Unlock/fix PCIe 3.0 link speed support, raise it from 1.0/2.0 to 3.0. I do not own a P570WM(3) myself. BufferMod and several other friends of him provided help to test the modified BIOS out. Very sadly, several P570WM motherboards were damaged because of residue electric charge in the capacitors, and, something especially worthes noting: there are SO-RDIMM sticks, which are not compatible with normal SO-DIMM slots. After installing such SO-RDIMM sticks to P570WM's SO-DIMM slot, the motherboard bricked when powered on. Let's come back to the topic of supporting normal 16GB sticks. There's a module named "IvtQpiandMrcInit" in the BIOS which, just as its name suggests, is in charge of memory initialisation. There's an internal "supported SPD" table in that module, possibly is the thing that Intel calls "plan-of-record" ("POR") internally. And then there is a function in charge of checking the SPD data against that supported list. I patched the machine code to skip such checking, so that 16GB normal SO-DIMM turned out to work fine with modified BIOS on P570WM(3). As for PCIe 3.0 support, if I recalled correctly two modules of the BIOS needs to be modified. One was replaced entirely, and the other was patched. (At this time of posting I cannot remember the exact details sorry)

We've banned millions of IP's at this point the bot nets are elusive buggers. Were looking at moving the forum to another server, Hiew may finally be up to getting donations setup but Im hoping to prod him along as I'd like to take some time off from work also.

So I'm in need of a Windows 11 Pro key. Has anyone used gvgmall or ggkeys to purchase a super cheap one? I won't script auto activate, but I'm sure as heck not paying retail off the shelf prices either.... ------------------------------------------------------ Current rig is in "ghetto" mode with the 5080 and X870E Dark Hero running on the Noctua 420mm in the soon to be departed Phanteks. I ordered an NZXT H9 Flow to replace it from best buy on sale for $109.99. The Phanteks has no room up top to seriously mount anything 420 and 360 blocks access to the top part of the MB along with the case being so wide/long that any AIO that needs to front mount has to have longer tubes. Noctua and Lian Li both have too short of tubes to reach. It could use more room in the back too. I've used it for 5yrs and 8 months. It has earned a worthy retirement. I've been testing the Noctua 420mm against several AIOs I have on hand (Yes, I have a problem): Lian Li Lite 360 Lian Li Galahad Performance Arctic LF II 420 ID Cooling Frostflow 280 (hottest of the AIO lot) Arctic LF III 360 Performance (mid 70s...this was disappointing) eK Nucleus 240 Asus Prime LC 360 Trofeo Vision 360 Paladin EX400 Air Cooler Stock AM5 OEM cooler (Insta throttle for shiggles) All with a center dot of KPX Tested on AM5 9850X3D delidded Pure stock (~150w-160w max load) Final verdict? Noctua beats every other AIO from 4c to 10c EXCEPT the $85 Lian Li Lite 360 ARGB which tied with it at ~66.5c. I think I mentioned before the Lian Li Lite 360 was getting best in class temps in testing last year and rave reviews. Downsize is the pump noise but tuning the curve in BIOS to 50% took care of that when not under high load. Don't let the Noctua fool you. That pump is loud. It has three manual selections on the pump high balanced and quiet and only quiet truly made it near inaudible. The other two it is very easy to hear. Fans it is no contest. Noctua is crazy quiet under load vs the Lian Li, but at low loads both are quiet. Difference is the Noctua is near dead quiet. The secret sauce to Noctua are those fans. Under load, the Lian Li fans are definitely front and center. Not a deal breaker but under load the Noctua fan noise level is that of many AIOs at idle. I'm going to switch to the Lian Li Lite 360 for a few days and see how it fares for normal D2D usage vs the Noctua. If I like what I see, I'll probably return the Noctua but we'll see....

Forum is super slow and unresponsive again. We jinxed ourselves by saying something when it was working well.

No way to upgrade rtx 2080 chipset to rtx 3080 chipset … RTX 2080 Mobile (TU104, the N18E-G3 variant): the chip uses the GB4B-256 package with 2228 solder balls, measuring 37.5 × 37.5 mm. This figure is confirmed by NVIDIA's official document (NPN-09178). RTX 3080 Mobile (GA104): I couldn't find a confirmed number in the sources I searched. The commonly cited figure for GA104's package is around 1752 balls, but I'm not sure of it, so don't rely on it when buying a stencil or reballing parts. What is certain is that the ball count and package size differ between the two chips, so a single stencil won't work for both. You also can't swap one chip for the other on the same board.

Hi everyone, I’m prepping a thermal interface overhaul for an MSI Titan 18 HX (A2WJ-1246US) with Honeywell PTM7950 on the CPU and GPU dies. Since it uses a single-piece vapor chamber with varied component gap heights, I'm trying to select the right thermal putty for the non-die components (VRMs, VRAM, etc.). I have two core priorities for this build: Zero vapor chamber standoff: Ensuring full, 100% compression on the PTM7950 die contact without any lifting. Long-term material stability: Withstanding 10–12 hours of continuous, daily intensive workloads for a similar lifespan to the PTM7950, without drying out, bleeding oil, or degrading to the point of failure (or as close as materially possible to that). I'm currently weighing a few choices and would love to hear from anyone who has repasted this chassis or similar MSI vapor chamber setups: Penchem TH949-1: Seems great for long-term binder endurance under heavy daily loads, but its 0.07mm particle size makes me slightly cautious about potential standoff if the gap clearances turn out to be ultra-tight. Sub-0.03mm options (Halnziye HY236 Thick, Upsiren UTP-4 Ultra-Thin): Makes me feel less nervous about particle-induced standoff, but I'm curious if their binders maintain chemical stability over a multi-year lifespan under the intense workloads the laptop will be running daily. For anyone who has worked with the Titan 18 HX or similar MSI vapor chamber designs: What putty did you end up going with, and how have your temps/putty condition held up over time? Did you run into any standoff issues with larger-particle putties on this board? In your experience, would you reach for TH949-1, HY236 Thick, UTP-4 Ultra-Thin, or something else entirely to safely satisfy both of things that I would like to prioritize? Appreciate any real-world insight or hands-on experience!

Hi ssj92, my post is about the Alienware 17 ranger laptop, not the m17x R3/R4. Just checking you didn't make a typo? Do you have a bios that allows both g sync and non g sync for 980m for ranger?

Sure, as soon as I get them from the representative. I've also had an ebay seller to ask in their warehouse. I think now is their Golden Week Holliday

Thank you. I finally got it finished and set in place where I intend to use it. Very solid build and more "portable" than most desktops can be. I forgot how hot air cooled DDR5-8400 can get so I added that articulating fan to blast it is air. I am going to be selling a SFF build with legacy parts (X79 Rampage Gene, 32GB of quad channel and RX 590) on FB. It is so little and cute, and It even has an easy carry handle on the roof of the case. I think it should sell quickly for the $375 that I intend to ask for it. it does a great job with 1080P gaming with ultra or high settings on most titles, and medium settings on the most demanding titles. (As long as there is no ray tracing to turn it into a slide show.) Yes, it is definitely better. It was almost unusable before, so let's hope whatever was messed up stays fixed.

Of course now it seems its responsive again :/ We'll keep an eye on it.

Even with this 270K Plus being an unimpressive silicon sample, it performs at a level that takes a great deal of effort and a better than average 9950X/X3D/X3D2 silicon sample to achieve with 8 additional threads; and this sample's weak IMC still outperforms the flagship Ryzen SKUs in memory performance. The contempt for Intel's decisions such as continued use of Atom cores and doing away with hyperthreading caused Core Ultra to be disliked based on principle rather than practice, and understandably so. Those were the reasons I gave Zen 5 a chance to begin with, but it hasn't been given proper credit for being the better product.

Hi Jacke, can you please tell us what laptop you have? The more details the better. Thank you.

It "requires" W11 only because the driver developers are lame Micro$lop butt-kissers and you're required to use the new cancer OS because they've not done right by consumers in terms of releasing drivers for Windows 10 or Windows 7. The Redmond Retards told them not to and they obeyed. There are no true operating system incompatibilities, only a lack of quality product support. It is particularly bad today for me. Accessing anything is met with lengthy delays and unresponsive web pages. I had a good run in the sun with Ryzen and their latest generation is the only product stack that has been any good for me. No regrets, only minor disappointment with the limitations. However, I've always preferred Intel and I still think they make a better CPU all things considered. At least that is true if overclocking is your primary consideration on making a purchase, and it's no secret to anyone here that this is my primary consideration. Ryzen overclocking is very limited in comparison. The SFF build with the B850MPOWER and 4585PX is still in the family. It is my wife's desktop now and connected to the living room TV where she can use it as often (or as little) as she wants. It's a potent and respectable build and I still like it. I like the Unify X a lot, but the 270K Plus that came with it is a pretty crappy sample compared to the other two I have. I'm probably going to buy a better one and sell it to offset the cost. It is a voltage pig with a weak memory controller. Totally usable and a good candidate for a gaming or content creation focused build. I am going to move it to one of the Apex systems for testing to confirm my impressions about the silicon quality. I think it's probably very average and the two that I had already are better than average. I wish I had purchased another 270K Plus when Microcenter had them on sale for $199 about 10 days ago. I'm going to keep watching and snag one when they drop the price again. I'm not going to delid this since it is going to be replaced and will be easier to sell to a normie or gamer boy. That tends to freak them out due to general ignorance and the misguided belief that delidding is bad, or the preference to give priority to warranty over performance enhancement. The motherboard is very nice. Nicer than the Apex even. But the firmware is your typical MSI/Gigabyte "gamer-focused" trash BIOS that is lacking in features needed for world-class overclocking. There is a reason A$$zeus dominates overclocking leaderboards... A$$zeus is the only manufacturer that actually knows what they're doing when it comes to firmware now that EVGA has left the building. I'll probably reach out to Svet about the missing features and VNNANON 1.00V cap that is an impediment to D2D overclocking. It needs to be raised to at least 1.100V. I am very tempted to do something bold and crazy, like taking a dump of the Apex BIOS and forcing a cross-flash on the Unify X using an SPI programmer just to see what happens and see if it would actually work. I think it would actually be safe to try since it has a dual BIOS.

Its slow for me as well. I'm from India. Made me recall GPRS. It seems Qcomm is licensing Logic Folding, 5G and other tech from Huawei. This is pure speculation from me, Qcomm might make few new gen SoCs using China's Foundries to launch in China to get better pricing with Sammy, TSMC, intel, and Rapidus. https://www.techpowerup.com/353397/qualcomm-licenses-huaweis-logicfolding-5g-and-other-technologies

Oh hohoho look what I found! https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/19351/intel-wireless-wi-fi-drivers-for-windows-10-and-windows-11.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/18649/intel-wireless-bluetooth-drivers-for-windows-10-and-windows-11.html?countrylabel=Asia%20Pacific&product=86451 Windows 10 drivers for a wi-fi 7 module you say? I thought wi-fi 7 required windows 11 (wink wink). I finally got the built in wi-fi module working in windows 10 on my Asus Maximus Apex encore motherboard this way. I'd been using a USB wi-fi adapter with wireless AX since I built this machine. I'm glad I get to free up that USB port now and get faster speeds as well. Note that these wi-fi and bluetooth drivers are for intel wireless modules. If your mortherboard has an intel wi-fi 7 module, these drivers should make it work in windows 10. I also found a windows 10 driver for qualcomm since I have an alienware m18 r1 AMD advantage edition (yeah, I know, BGA turdbook, but I can't get away from laptops as I still need them), and got that wi-fi module working in windows 10 as well. If your laptop also has a qualcomm wi-fi 6e module, these drivers should get it working in windows 10: https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=7vt5x I've had some adventures on the m18 and will report on those later. While it is a BGA laptop, it's good for what it is and what I use it for. I also got it for a good price and really needed a second laptop when I got it. It's an excellent linux laptop (since it has an AMD GPU), and it's excellent for my software suite (which has a performance advantage on AMD GPUs, the main reason I bought this laptop). The fact it has an AMD GPU also makes it perfect for use as a Lossless Scaling frame gen machine (hmm, this opens up possibilities like using it as a terminal for a backpackable sff desktop, hmmmm).

I love my PC hobby, but I've been Mac and iphone as my core setup for years now for work along with an iPad. With all the cross platform tools, there's a reason many of the big houses now deploy Macbooks for dev work. I agree with @Mr. Fox on this one @Papusan. You have to attack the problem on all levels and the reason Microcenter implements a one per household / ID checked policy on many products IS to prevent scalpers and also in this case straw buyers and agents from buying up 5090 products and just either finding a way to sell/ship them as is or ripping the cores and memory off the board and shipping them that way. This isn't much tighter than their valid ID on file / One GPU per month quota they had during the Pandemicryptoboom. It is also why Microcenter routinely has items in stock while you can't find them any place else online because bots don't work when you can only reserve items online for pickup and then have to eventually enter the store front to purchase and pick up in person. In short, on any level, any potential scalper/straw buyer/agent that is turned away by this new requirement opening up even one unit for a legit customer is a win. I agree the main culprits are the corporations and big AIBs/resellers, but would you rather scalpers and straw buyers be able to walk in and just buy out everything they want? Toss out the baby with the bathwater? Trust me, if Microcenter decided to go all Newegg/Amazon and just volume sell online, their stores would be even barer than they are now for many products. $7k desktops anyone? It is the one thing still hanging on atm for 5090s..... As for the 5070, at MSRP to me it was one of the sweet spot cards I called around launch. Yeah for a bit there it was running like dogwater.... I just load it up and go get something to drink... 🤣 I usually don't complain. I know you guys are all over it when you get time. Ruh Roh! You tend to keep things in threes.... This means either one of the Apex's is on its way out or you're heading towards being done with AM5 before Nova drops 🤣 Looks nice! Again, I was tempted to snap it up but I've yet shockingly found myself with a pile of hardware again that I will have to wait till January to downsize. I'm on the cusp of kicking myself up into another tax bracket because of this year and I definitely don't need that.... Or I am going to have to go the local/FB/CL route which I haven't done in a bit to offload some gear.

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is 'toothless' and doesn't do enough to protect citizens Meanwhile, local communities continue to push back against data centers over several issues, including electricity bill hikes. Some states are already taking steps to address the hikes.

A free update for Metro 2033 and Last Light?.....kewl

There shouldn't be any other problems, the usual nvidia driver modification must be done on windows to use the GPU and you will be all set. If it's okay with you can you tell us the price for the A2000 and pro 2000 ? It would be nice to know.

New Timespy high score - 28,947 GPU score - 32,177 New Steel Nomad high score 9072 This may of interest to others - https://github.com/Heavyfail/Unbound-Power

AMD Firepro S7100X does not post (black screen) at all. But 970m (MSI 3GB) works nicely in SG & PEG. You included the whitelist in BIOS as I don't need to mod driver, driver installs automatically. That BIOS is a gamechanger for our old R3, install it right NOW! That's great job mate, I'm definitely gonna buy you a coffee 🙂

If people are willing to test I can mod the m17xr4 bios using the same patch I did for m17xr3 which allows both variants of 980m to work including g-sync

Damn no one wants my 4070 bruh