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Hey, How did this work out? I am thinking Zorin 18 will work perfect for this device. I have it on a dell inspiron 3169 touchscreen 2 in 1 device and it works great. Touch and flip works as intended on my system.

My current linux wallpaper on my secondary Linux laptop.

Gigabyte and Asus raising prices of the 5080..... Prices on the rise again....Microcenter Edition Cheapest 5060ti 16GB is now $739.99 Cheapest 5070 is now $769.99 Cheapest 5070ti is now $1159.99 Cheapest 5080 is now $1779.99 5090 is vapourware atm but my Microcenter does still have a singular Asus 20th anniversary kit in stock for $11k+ after tax (More below) Microcenter does have the best overall prices on Nvidia cards across the stack compared to PCPP of cards actually in stock.... Asus has the 5090 Astral (all three editions white, black and LC) in stock on their site for $5500, $5600 and $5700 respectively but it's a sham. It is part of a bundle deal you have to order with a slew of their other items coming out to $9107+....at that point, I'd just pony up for the 20th anniversary edition....which means never. After that, cheapest third party 5090 available is $8599.99 on Amazon for the GB Aorus Infinity Edition... ---------- Cheapest 9060xt is $799.99 ($589.99 on PCPP) Cheapest 9070 is $719.99 ($699.99 on PCPP) Cheapest 9070xt is "on sale" Steel Legend for $799.99 (normally $899.99) ($829.99 on PCPP) One of the few rare times MC has the worse pricing across the board for AMD cards for normal pricing.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @Papusan look at this 5090 "conversion factory" just sucking up any and all 5090s and converting them for rack AI deployment....can't blame Nvidia for capping that cheaper source of 5090s and funneling that $$$ into their own pocket instead....right? https://videocardz.com/newz/heres-where-the-last-rtx-5090-cards-are-going-massive-ai-conversion-factory-exposed-in-china-founders-edition-included By the new year, if not sooner, I expect them to be offering $6k+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Galax HOF 5080 with dual 12vhpwr connectors but only one or the other alternative mode? But swarovski crystals and a $3k price makes it perfect?! Ewwww, I'm good.... https://videocardz.com/newz/galax-launches-worlds-first-rtx-5080-with-dual-12v-2x6-connectors-costs-3000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like I said, locally buyers will come to your place or meet up locally, have rigs to test your 5090 and hand you a fat stack of $5500 to buy your 5090. They used to do Zelle, but methinks that is a bit too traceable..... One of my Fallout 76 buddies who lives up on the other side of Philly caved and sold his Founders Edition for $5700 locally to someone who actually wanted it for their own use (in theory). I think I mentioned him last year when I got to experience his coil whine first hand. He got in on the VPA program with Nvidia summer of 2025 and snagged it but he needed the $$$ and replaced it with an open box Reaper 9070xt for $679.99 (~$634.99 after MC discount) so when all was said and done he netted a ~$3k profit even after the 9070xt pickup and more importantly the $5k he applied to some bills overall. We were playing and I asked him how was the downgrade on his 9800X3D system and after struggling for a few days at 4k max settings (over chat all I kept hearing was 'sheesh this SUCKS....CHUNKEEEEE!') he admitted defeat and dropped down to 1440p and swapped his 32" 4k display for his secondary 27" 1440p display. In his words, "this sucks, but it is what it is..." 🤣 He has a 2x32GB of G.Skill kit (I think it is F5-6000J2636H48GX2-TZ5NR) I know he picked up before the ramapocalyse that he is going to sell as soon as he can land a "6000 anything 2x16GB kit for sub $300."

You could boot the system blindly from a USB drive and ensure that a boot script will launch the EC flash commands and shutdown the system upon completion. Once you verify that EC has been properly flashed by checking fans with Fn+1, clear CMOS by pressing Fn+D and keeping it pressedd while you press the power on button. EDIT: The EC Flash fw includes EFI commands (in the *.nsh script file), so use EFI shell.

The laptop can’t show data on screen with rtx 3080 if i disable the UEFI mode in Bios so i cant boot up on legacy mode to upgrade the EC BIOS

Finally! 🎉 I managed to repair an RTX 3080 graphics card that was about to end up in the trash, with a total repair cost of less than $80! Two traces between D1 and C0, which connect to the GPU, were broken. I repaired the GPU by performing a reballing, and the card came back to life! Many people told me to throw it away, that the card was dead, and that I should just buy a new one, especially with prices being ridiculously high. I actually bought another card on eBay from the same seller I had purchased the original one from, only to discover that it was faulty too. I ended up returning it to the seller. That experience made me even more determined to stick with my original card, as long as the GPU was still outputting data and the problem was somewhere on the PCB. What I learned from this journey: Never give up! 💪 Make the most of every repair video you watch, learn from every experience, and keep trying. All those graphics card repair videos I watched turned out to be incredibly valuable in bringing this card back to life. Sometimes, a little patience, knowledge, and persistence can save a GPU that everyone else has already given up on! 🔧🔥

I’m not 100% sure, Honestly, I’m not sure you can do much here cuz you should know that the 8970M is basically a rebadged 7970M, which was already one of the best AMD cards for that slot, I mean I had one these bois earlier, so I know that much but I don’t know what you’d even upgrade to. Putting in an Nvidia card sounds like trouble to me, since the BIOS is built around Enduro and I doubt it would even boot but you could try , I mean risk it for the biscuit situation. The cooling is made for the stock card too. For 50 bucks, just get the 2x8GB RAM, a better SSD, a keyboard and a battery. That’s where I’d put the money. you know for the built to be in sync the built should have components that are right against each other , earlier some hardware issue came in my laptop too and I asked gpt everything , then I realized a few things about this , and I remember gpt sugessted me a site too where they had this cool feature to compare parts against each toher , I think the site name was Etech Devices. anyways, I suggest you before buying anything , you should know what you are buying , hop into some review before it and search a query like this for example "Acer gaming laptop 0001 model issues" like that and im sure there will be a reddit page for that .. if there's not you are good to go

Does anyone know how to flash the EC BIOS on P870TM with rtx 3080 and modded dsanke Bios support 9900ks & 128g ram & rtx 30xx gpu

Got a multimeter? Look for a short

Playing with CachyOS on the Workstation atm.

I’ve had the Fury Impact 6400MT/s CL38 XMP 1.35V single-rank kit for a few months now, and I’m able to achieve stability with (only) dGPU mode: ratio: 216 (7200) tCL : 34 tRCD/tRP : 42 tRAS : 54 tCWL : 32 tFAW : 32 tREFI : 49152 tRFC : 400 tRRD : 0 tRTP : 12 tWR : 48 tWTR : 0 tRFCpb : 320 tRFC2 : 400 tRFC4 : 0 tRRD_L : 16 tRRD_S : 8 tWTR_L: 24 tCCD_L : 16 tCCD_L_WR : 32 tWTR_S : 6 NMode : 2 VDD : 1350 VDDQ : 1250 VPP : 1800

Has anyone overclocked the RAM on a Precision 7540/7740? I’m currently using 4x16GB HyperX Impact 2666MT/s CL15 modules, and I’ve tested it with 2x8GB Fury Impact 3200MT/s CL20 modules—it worked at 3200, which means 3200 SPD is supported. I’m looking to find out if anyone knows the specific command for `ru.efi` to make the RAM overclocking options appear in Smokeless... If I’m not mistaken, memory adjustments were possible using Smokeless on older BIOS versions.

Hello news. The Xeon E5-1680 v2 does 4.5GHz all cores in a ASUS RAMPAGE IV Extreme motherboard. So the CPU isn't dead. I got myself an i7 4960X from that motherboard. The CPU can overclock all cores to 4.0GHz and even 4.1GHz. but... The voltage is stuck at 1.281V max. Why? I raised by 100mV but I'm still stuck at 1.281V. It does lots of errors in ThrottleStop but doesn't BSOD. I get a BSOD when applying on Intel XTU Did anyone overclock with Prema BIOS?

AMD brings official Ryzen overclocking to Linux with AOD driver support This is a major milestone for improving the DIY tuning experience on Linux.

AMD brings official Ryzen overclocking to Linux with AOD driver support This is a major milestone for improving the DIY tuning experience on Linux...

AMD brings official Ryzen overclocking to Linux with AOD driver support This is a major milestone for improving the DIY tuning experience on Linux....

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Citadel's Ken Griffin says investors are "almost certainly" in an AI bubble Businesses are paying for AI without consistently getting enough value from it

Yes, it does. Just remember that it's better to look good than to feel good.

no. 3rd gen cpu won't work. there's no point anyways, 2960XM is faster than all the 3rd gen CPUs besides the 3820/3840/3920/3940XM series and even then the difference is barely anything. the 580m sli could be dying, removing them would allow the laptop to work on iGPU assuming there's no other damage.

Just a small update - I put the original GPU back in and Windows detected it. I installed drivers and it works. So that should mean my MXM port is working fine and no issues with my computer detecting a GPU at all. The problem must be related to the 980m in some way. I just find it really odd how my computer detected the 980m when I first installed and booted it up, but then when I restarted the laptop it did not detect it anymore not even in BIOS... Eban - I will go with your suggestion next. A new battery arrived from AliExpress this week. I will install it and see if it makes any difference at all. But... I have a feeling I'm going to have to properly disassemble the laptop and remove the CMOS battery and/or the RAM sticks, to 'fully reset' the laptop. If that still doesn't work, then I guess I will be hooking the bios chip on the 980m to my ch341a programmer and see whats on it?

Nvida and China is best pals. And if they want something from Jensen's company, they will get it. Meanwhile, export-restricted Nvidia AI chips continue to reach China despite the restrictions, bypassing the Trump administration's efforts in the process. China’s tech giants drop $35 billion on export-compliant Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPU orders to power AI ambitions, according to reports — ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order 3 million cards despite warnings that only 10% of orders are fulfillable Surging demand for Nvidia's chips in China isn't stopping... Chinese technology giants ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have reportedly spent over $35 billion on orders for more than 3 million Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 workstation GPUs. The huge order for the RTX Pro 5500, fully compliant with U.S. restrictions on exports of AI-capable GPUs to China Hmmm. My oldest son is born early Feb 1989. Does that mean I'm old too?😀

will this allow 3rd gen cpu's? cause i saw an m18x r1 with maxed out config ( 2960xm and 580m sli) (no charger) for less than a hundred bucks in FB marketplace. Only issue is seller doesn't know if it works. Should i roll the dice on this? Anyways does it allow to use 3rd gen intel cpu?

Eventually, I had a spare heatsink modified by @Developer79. Very satisfied with the result - my CPU, GPU idle temps are even better than the stock heatsink was previously for the same CPU (i9-9900K) and RTX 20xx GPU. It took me some time to add the pads and properly adjust the adapters. VRAM is may not be perfectly cooled at 100% load, which leads to 105 degrees hotspot with aggressive fan curve (100% GPU fan speed above 60 degrees). This must be related to the metal protrusions of the original/modified heatsinks being in different locations than the respective VRAM chips in RTX3080. Using thermal pads cannot fully compensate for this discrepancy. For sustained high VRAM loads, attention is needed. Not sure if the cause for 105 deg hotspot is the VRAM, as the benchmarks did not indicate throttling. No VRAM errors were detected after 1 hour of OCCT testing. Some nvlddmkm errors were fixed by disabling MPO. Furmark results: EDIT: Fixed the hotspot temp issue by reapplying paste and ensuring it covers the entire GPU core before the heatsink is mounted. Now temps reach 87.4/99.8 under sustained 100% load with significantly better performance (avg. Furmark at 131 FPS, score 7829).

You’re welcome! That’s the beauty of the Area-51m. With the right upgrades, even a 2020 laptop can stay relevant in 2026 and beyond. No need to give up on a great machine just yet!