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If the 5090FE cost $2000 then should this be the normal MSRP for the 5090 Astral (10% extra).

Well, this custom coreboot need more polish, but seems it works !

I just placed a big order for 70g of "medicine" so I am celebrating some pain free days with this deadly tune! My dream job would be to be the band photographer for either Phish or Goose. So many possibilities there.

Just has to be in the right setting. Being in Nova Scotia at peggy's cove by the lighthouse, or at the Citadel, they are very euphoric because of the setting. In your home, or something like that, YAH they would grate on my nerves too. ha ha.

This has been a thing for years. I agree, but a simple setup with rufus and away we go. I did it on two of our systems without issue.

function over form my friend, function over form 😛

Happy at least it can be shunted so we can see what it can do shunted and blocked. Hopefully Nvidia doesn't figure a way to shut that down on their FE's next go around when they'll only be $2499.99 🤑 I'm so torn between wanting to see FE cards remain sealed and aesthetically pleasing and torn down and blocked. 🤣

Hi all, Swapped my m290x for a rx480 last night, card isn't detected in bios. I've switched to sg mode, tried setting peg always enable to both on and off, and have tried setting to igpu only and still no discrete graphics found. I've heard these cards can be finicky with BIOSes, but is this uncharted waters? Thanks in advance

Yes confirmed 100% the RTX 5090 FE can be shunted just like any other 5090 and it works. Waiting on my block still. Hoping EK is faster than the 6+ weeks I have been waiting already with Aquatuning. If I would have originally ordered with EK, I’d already have one. I’m merely after a 17K Steel Nomad results that are stable for gaming with my ambient custom loop with no more than $2,350ish total (GPU+Block) which is great. This was all I wanted from the beginning. 😄

A-volute Nahimic APO4 driver version 4.14.0.0 from Microsoft (cab file download size 5.3 Mb)

I've that subset of feature on my thinkpad thanks to ultrasonic and IR camera with windows hello. It worked great on AC but it accelerates CPU to top speed even on battery. Currently I've trouble with hawk point aka Zen 4 with NPU 8840HS pushing the clocks 5.1G on single and 3.8G on all cores pushing temps to 97C and app performance gets stuck/tanked at balanced preset. I went Manixx low power balanced and tweaked turbo boost mode from aggressive to efficient aggressive and disabled on battery to get good battery life similar to Zen3+. CB R23 MC 9000 points on 24H2 balanced and with tweaked boost mode pushed the score to 13k with same 97C peak and sustaining at 87C. Eventually switched to 23H2 because recent update after a reboot took out my IR, fingerprint and camera with object not found code 37 error. Seeing very inconsistent CPU performance and battery life. Very strange issue and I did check with few YT laptop reviews and I didn't see any replies from author or community. BTW, I used Power Settings Explorer from Guru3d and saved power profile are imported manually every reboot. @Mr. Fox @Papusan @jaybee83 Its my first AMD CPU in 25 years and driver or firmware wise I'm completely dependent on lenovo because generic chipset and gpu drivers caused more headaches and random BSODs halfway during Zoom meeting due to NPU suddenly disappearing.

This is a much better video of Desktop mode in Android 16. If Xiaomi don't mess maybe i will be able to have extended monitor until the end of the year.

Well, what I have determined is that the actual UEFI-BIOS is flashed by the last command in both of the *.nsh files I quote above. The rest first flashes the descriptor and ME regions of ROM file, i.e. the line with fpt -f %BIOSROM% -a 0 -l 0x1000000 -y flashes the first 16MB of the ROM, making whatever there is of the BIOS in the file (the second and last 16MB of the ROM) completely superfluous, as that is also contained in the *.efi executables in the last line. There's also some variable assignments and a conditional, the purpose of which I am not entirely certain I understand (I have a hunch, though, but I need to understand the EFI shell and scripting a bit better). I believe the BIOS region can also be flashed with a command like fpt -f %BIOSROM% -a 0x1000000 -l 0x1000000 -y if one wants to flash the second 16MB of the ROM file, but as I am not certain that the *.efi files do some decrypting and/or encrypting of the BIOS contained in them (I suspect they do, considering the Insyde H2O BIOS is encrypted), flashing that way may not be recommended. Now, as I want to use the full 128 GB of RAM the computer is capable of handling, I only have two options: either get a 10th generation CPU, or flash the XMG BIOS. I mean, the 11900K my computer has is very nice, but I may benefit more by having more threads with a 10900K. It seems I have a choice to make, and both options have pros and cons.

Need a spare keyboard part for my laptop since a few keys are worn out, this is what the keyboard looks like.

That is spot on... Dell can continue with their business as long consumers throw away their hard earned money... From the OP post..... I’ve done loads of research to the point where I think I’m just running round in circles now with the little understanding I have of gaming pc’s. I understand that I would be paying a premium for this particular PC but that doesn’t bother me. Not from Dell but still an disgusting deal... Gold-plated RTX 5090 for up to 19,200 euros net on eBay

Nah. For me bagpipes are stiffling and neurotic 😁 I just like to hear them for variance to the sounds of what i usually hear.

You would be surprised how many people do not know that. Only works with FAT/FAT32 (no NTFS). Off-topic... saw the new John Wick movie last night "Ballerina" and it was awesome, just like all John Wick movies always are.

LOL i had no idea, now i feel like a moron 😄 thanks for the tip! ill try it next time in BIOS 🙂

@Khenglish @panda_zzz Since the driver 528.49 can allow power limiting for laptops. But the latest can't allow it on laptops, only desktops can. Is it possible to hack the new drivers and allow power limiting? We need to find the file that allows the power limit adjustments

I will. You know you can just press F12 in the BIOS to take a screenshot and save it to USB rather than using a camera. This Strix has the same features as the Apex. That BIOS Q-screen thing with the mobo map. Also has eCLK (asynchronous BCLK) like the Apex and AORUS Master.

be sure to post ur VF curves, as well (9950X and X3D). lets get some comparisons going here to put some proper context to the curves 🙂

Thanks. I will have a closer look tomorrow. My 9950X3D is SP120 as well. I just got the Strix build put together and have about 2.5 hours to sleep before work tomorrow. No problem running 8000 C36, but still need to tune it. First distro plate I have owned. I like it, but getting the air out of it was a little bit tedious. It was very noisey when it had tons of air in it. Now that most of the air is worked out, it is cranking out some decent flow (318-320 L/H). It started out less than half that rate. Top and bottom rads both push/pull. I purchased a second set of KingBank 8400 and will probably sell my G.SKILL 8000 EXPO kits (3 of them).

When I say I develop and build everything myself, there is no other source!

Agreed. Hearing them play live in the Halifax citadel in Nova Scotia, is amazing. I have photos of the person playing the bagpipes at both the Citadel and in Peggy's Cove. Just part of the experience.

Yes I have a 1.8V adapter. X-vision is trying to understand how I managed to limit the power using drivers.