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Every time I see more reports of cables giving up the ghost, happy to see my 7900 XTX still chugging along even after I pushed 850w into it. Though while I may think of my card as something akin to a muscle car, 4090/5090 are still going to dust it like some exotic supercar. Rest of the watercooling stuff showed up today, tomorrow I run to Home Depot for some wireframe shelves and distilled water. Once that is done I have to move a bunch of stuff around which will probably take the better part of a day alone, then get to flushing the loop if I have enough time. Trying to not get too excited, dont want a repeat of the Sage motherboard.

Ed Crisler, Radeon-exclusive AIB Sapphire thoughts on 12VHPWR. I wonder what he really think when he see their 9000 series AMD cards being hit by smoke and fire but not their competitors cards running on the well proven and reliable 8-pin connectors. “Inserted nice and sturdy”: 16-pin power damage claims AORUS RTX 5090 Master and Sapphire RX 9070XT NITRO Can't beat double up with tiny trash. And tech tubers prefer that you buy PSUs with 12V-2*6 connectors on both ends of the cable because it's the newest tech. Yeah. New is always newer. Not always better😎 Manufacturers of RTX 50 series graphics cards are advertising a return to the 8-pin connector, leaving behind the 12V-2x6 connector in mid-range models.

EDIT: I was wrong about that, as the (big) board on top is actually the GPU; so, yeah, don't charge it in bed or on the couch! EDIT 2: be very careful where you buy the PTM7950 from, as there are a lot of fakes!

Hmm. Had the same issue on the Strix. The ASMx4242 firmware update did not seem to run. Then I remembered I had USB4 disabled in the BIOS on both of my systems. I toggled it back on and the firmware update for ASMx4242 completed on both... but with a bit of a scare... (see below). When I ran the ASMx4242 firmware update all of my USB and LAN stopped working on both systems. There was no visual indication on my screen that anything was taking place in the background. After what seemed like a long time the USB came back (maybe 20 seconds, but seemed like a long time waiting) and I was prompted to reboot. After rebooting and making it back to the desktop it seemed like a long wait for USB and LAN to power on again. This was exactly the same behavior on both systems. After the initialization the first time after rebooting the USB and LAN is working normally after multiple reboots. Apparently the flashing procedure does this since both systems behaved exactly the same when flashing the ASMx4242 firmware update. Did you experience the same with the ASMx4242 firmware update? I am glad I did not get impatient and power off in the middle of an invisible firmware update procedure. A$$zeus should have something in the Readme file about that. I could see some people flipping the power off before it finished. The PD update flashing provided a very visible indication it was working while it was happening.

Does anyone know of a better bios for the RTX 4000 Ada than the Lenovo model bios? Any good custom bios?? This seems to be the most powerful bios for the 4000 series, from Lenovo.

The bulk of my work is with external media both personally and professionally. Main reason I jettisoned AM4. To suddenly see USB port issues pop back up caused immediate concern. Installed the firmware update a bit ago..... And just like that my second front USB-A port now connects every time......like before the last BIOS update. I was ~3 BIOS updates behind though. I updated mainly for more 8000 stability on the Hero.

Hmm. Interesting. There is a firmware update for both the Apex and the Strix. In fact, it appears to be the exact same firmware update for both systems... same SHA-256 hash even. The PD_UPDATE_TOOL_V0206.exe flash completed successfully on the Apex, but the second ASMx4242 firmware update doesn't seem to do anything. Running it gives a momentary cursor circle icon that goes away immediately. I rebooted and it still does not seem to run. I wonder if the Readme.txt file has erroneous information about installing both updates. I will see what it does on the Strix. I haven't had any major USB issues except for my USB mic would intermittently and randomly throw a device descriptor failure error message on the Strix, but never on the Apex. Maybe this will fix that.

Is the limit 4.88 MB ?

I'm still on 1805 from last month (newest) on my hero , but I went and checked and a new firmware update was available for connected devices for stability. Makes sense. Since the last bios update, my front USB-A ports are suddenly sporadic in whether devices connect or not. Check to see if there is a firmware update available for your board. Yeah, if you look back through some of his other videos, DIMMs are dying with a quickness recently. I actually enjoy his Fix or Flop series. If anything, it shows you the power of having spare parts laying around.... Arrowlake is new to me and my favorite part is the beginning stages of a brand new platform and slowly exploring all the nuances over months. Just realized fabric potentially comes into play with OC and optimal freqency. Looks like ~8600 might be the sweet spot for dialing in timings in correlation to AL OC especially for gaming. The deep dive will continue over the next several months. I may keep this Strix board if that's the case since it can do 8667 and just focus on binning chips around ~8800. I did put up a feeler on OCN and of course got hit with the mailbox full of "message my friend at IWILLSCAMYOUHARD AT SCAMUGUD DOTZ LULZ" to report and ignore as always.... Did get 9200 back up and running in G4. I'm also realizing these "heat blankets" as @Mr. Fox calls them are coming into play on some of these stress test runs... Good video showing speed tiers (but without super deep timings optimizations) on 14th and Arrowlake: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Whenever @Papusan shows new Crocs on the forums (timestamped) 🤣:

Haven't bothered updating to latest Asus Apex BIOS yet, but this has been my daily Arrow Lake tune for around 6 months. I just laugh when I see 80+ns as "fast" Arrow Lake memory setups. This is on a clean install with shitty virtualization/hypervisor running on the system which hurts latency a tad. It absolutely wrecks gaming performance on Arrow Lake. In Cyberpunk 2077, it's almost a 17% penalty at 1080p high settings in the benchmark.

@Rage Set it must be DIMM dying season. Check this out. Weird short circuit on this PC at the DIMM module.

Forgot to mention that the IR camera requires the lid without the WWAN antennae But if having a webcamp doesn't matter, you can always keep your current lid+bezel and just swap the screen and display cable

Looks like PMP16 is a better choice than the P16G3. The only thing that worries me is that the OLED display seems to add 20-30W(!!!) to idle power consumption. This hurts run times BAD. I would love to have a tandem OLED display, but I'm not willing to sacrifice the battery life.

No never. They aren't from ZRT. Two members confirmed it. They are from X-VSION with the same bad VBIOS. I told you, you can buy ZRT and then return the MXM card back to them so you can get a refund. Thanks.

Oh,great thanks!

Hello, nice to meet you. Is this graphics card made by ZRT? If so, could you please extract the VBIOS and release it on TECH POWERUP?

It would be great if they sold to individual customers too.

Hello. Are the RTX4080 and 4090 used in the morefine g1 manufactured by ZRT? It seems like buying these would be less expensive than buying the 4090 separately through an import agent. (Although it's still expensive 😢)

A test BIOS (9923) dropped from ASUS for AM5 and it seems like an improvement. I cannot get 8400 fully stable, but I think that might be a CPU/IMC limitation. This is my weakest CPU. I may try my better 9950X or my 4585PX, but there is almost no measurable difference in performance between 8200 and 8400, so no biggie either way. These Kingbank XMP/EXPO 8400 sticks that @gupsterg turned me on to have been great. They were dirt cheap when I bought them on Amazon back in the "good old days" (not long ago) before the tech world went off the rails with the crazy AI nonsense. I've never seen so many stupid people that would otherwise be viewed as intelligent. Now I wish I hadn't sold that second 8400 kit. Kingbank no longer sells memory on Amazon, and even if they did the price would suck now. 😑

Tested, mine does it too. Clearly a platform problem. Like I have said before, we have tested it, me and my friend. He has basically the same config as my PMP18, in his P16 G3. It is much slower, especially in GPU power and sustained CPU power, due to the power limit. Cant beat physics there, that 180W cap has its price. The cooling system is also smaller in size.

You can use copper IHS and then you do not need the direct die frame. The main reason for the DD frame that you can skip the IHS. I think its only worth it if you can skip the IHS layer from the cooling.

I will solve it by using a copper block with the same thickness as the IHS. I will use LM Extreme between the CPU die and the copper block, and also between the copper block and the heatsink. What do you think?