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OpenAI bursts its own AI bubble: from $1.4 trillion in investment to just $600 billion by 2030 OpenAI is at a slight crossroads, having decided to recalibrate its financial narrative after only a few months in which it had projected staggering figures...

Grab it before its too late😁 Remember its an limited edition. MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z GPUs listed on eBay for almost $27,000 — limited edition graphics card demands 500% premium from resellers

Not sure if it'd work on other mobos, but i bet there is a generic tool out in the wild somewhere. What happened to memory prices? Chip shortage? I've a brand new unopened 2x16gb Trident Z5 6000mhz rgb kit, and feel extremely wealthy! 🤣

Afte debloating windows some more, and switching of memory integrity - plus using EPP 220 (with the old tiger lake that was too slow) - I'm now around 6.2% battery use per hour with 55% display brightness which is equivalent to 85% on my old Gram (though likely when it was new more 70% - IPS get darker over years of usage) - and around 4.5% at night with 15% display brightness. 16-18 hours of real world use time. Yeah Panther lake likely can still do it quite a bit better - as it can get much more work done at very low power states. The only slow down with pretty tough restrictions is app launch. Launching a bigger program takes 2-3 seconds longer - however sustained demanding tasks are just as fast as without power restrictions - it just takes some time for the CPU to ramp up. The advantage is even surfing the web, editing texts, C10 package states of 60-70%. Meaning 60-70% of the CPU cores are fully switched off. The key was making the ramp up slow - otherwise Windows very often spikes up power. Panther lake seems to be great with higher EPP values in still just sipping power. So instead of 1-1.5w power usage for the package with those light tasks, it can do them with 0.5-1w for package. Meaning with panter lake you don't even need to debloat that much - just set high EPP and get great battery runtimes. Getting runtimes longer will after panter lake mainly be possible by better displays - and that's getting tough with the 2026 generation OLEDs already very power efficient and during daytime easily beating IPS. I also got rid of most LG tools. I think it's better to use intel for driver updates, and so far LG hasn't pushed a bios. So I disabled the LG services and run them only on demand, only intel update manager and windows update manager are allowed to run. And fan setting I just do via throttlestop/windows power plan. Yeah no AI fan mode, but the old ones all available and it just is more efficient. I have basically any hidden setting on the power plans enabled via registry - which helped a bit too. Oh and the battery now has 81wh capacity - that's 4wh more than claimed. But we all know the 80wh to 77wh was just a change as often LG batteries didn't reach full capacity. Seems to be a bit luck of draw.

I can only agree with some of the previous speakers. Unfortunately, genuine DTRs are completely extinct these days. This has mainly to do with Nvidia's contracts. I know from reliable sources that they want to control everything and only tolerate soldered variants, especially for laptops. The only exception Nvidia makes is for industrial devices and military technology. Clevo was really the last major milestone in terms of BIOS and MXM standards. I had the ideas for my P870xx projects years ago because Clevo was still doing real high-end development with the greatest possible flexibility. I would like to thank the people in the forum for their support. I hope my desktop extension will be fully operational soon.

niiice, nifty lil tool. would it work on other mobos as well? or asrock specific? wtf 😮 i wonder how many IMCs he had to bin for that RAM speed (and how stable it is).

Yeah, got $2900 for it which is about $500 more than I paid a year ago. 1440p was definitely holding it back. For now I will just run my desktop as iGPU only which works fine for what I am actually using it for. All that I ended up using on the Vcolor kit was 8400 C40 as beyond that was unstable and I could not pinpoint what was causing the issue. iGPU may be an issue now with the higher MT as well.

I wonder why he say please don't. Maybe he doesn't understand that the card might be modded/or uses a different vbios with higher TDP. It seems there are quality problem or a batch problems with MSI's 12V-2*6 cables/adapers. Several see the same after some time use with the yellow tip connector. The tiny trash will creap out from the connector on the GPU and from the connector on the PSU panel. So double trouble with double of trash😆 Several Users Report MSI’s Yellow-Tip 16-pin Connector Pushes Out Itself, Greatly Increasing Melting Risk After some time you'll see the yellow-tip smile at you😀 How dumb is it to make/design the popular Stealth cable design for some modern GPUs? @Mr. Fox🤔

Firstly, love your AW collection and upgrades. That is some serious dedication to the cause. You can use the extra drive slots for general storage but I believe the only way to have them directly linked to your OS drive would be to set the drives in RAID. This wouldn't be ideal as you will lose the NVME speeds. Although, I'm just looking at something called JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) and maybe this is what you're looking to do. It looks like it can combine different physical disks into one volume without using RAID.

I cannot seem to find the specific screws for the SM-G. I am looking for: Heatsink spring screws (All 8, CPU and GPU) Bottom cover (All) The Standoff for the CPU The 2 small ones holding the socket on the motherboard and any bolts for the opposite side that are required)

Sugi pushing AM5 rig to the max: 5800 on all cores 9950X3D 8800 C34 5090 running 2500w Lightning BIOS clocking 3427 pretty much rock solid the entire play session

^^^ Ended up with 2x Thinkpads. Some price offers I could not refuse speeded up the decision. E14 G5 lower specs (amd 3, matte 45% display, 16gb (8 soldered), xtra nvme slot), P14s G5 higher specs (amd 7, matte 400n 100% srgb, 16gb + empty slot). Satisfied with both so far, a few months use. None of them got the perceived (and proved during years of use here) case\construction solidity\quality of the Dells, especially the Precision. But feels good handling the Thinkpads. Size and low weight is great, silent under normal use, feels overall speedy and responsive, ok access to insides (after done it 1st time...), good battery times, fine keyboard. ...and got those red nipples :O)

Hey @ChildFree001 1. I don't think you would benefit from upgrading to a 10900k or 10850k in games. I beleive they perform very similar. Plus you'll lose PCIE express 4 capabilities for the SSD slot closest to the cpu if you go with a 10th gen chip. 2. Both bioses can run a 4x32 configuration. It is not guaranteed that you'll be able to run the memory at 3200 CL 20 though. Ram is very finnicky on this laptop, so keep that in mind. 3. The profiles should be similar in terms of performance. I have heard that certain applications benefit from lower latency memory more than higher bandwidth and vice versa. Will XMP#2 run either CPU 11gen or 10gen? I believe so, yes.

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thx, seems it would wont fit, thats poop, maybe will find something other then 😕

Yeah he just got that 5070ti the other day. I watched the quick unboxing. He's actually one of my favorite YT'ers to watch as he owns multiple platforms, tunes his hardware decently enough and always buys AMD and Nvidia top end cards with a sprinkle of midrange when he wants to bench. He also keeps Intel and AMD platforms too. He's not wrong and I agree with him. Like I said in an earlier post (and the video I posted is the same argument):

Hard life. But they are still happy.

Hard life. But they are still happy.

You have a superior binned Red Devil compared to mine. My RD, at stock only hits around 3k. With an UV, I get 3100, maybe 3150. Always my luck, but it is still a super quiet card. Sometimes I question if the fans ever spin up.

Sorry I've only got a Ranger 17 But this is the large + key from right side numberpad

This is actually a handy little reboot tool from AsRock! I really hate mashing the Del key, and somehow missing it, and booting to windows.

Hello everybody! 🖐️ Please advice 🙏 I do enjoy my x170km-g (11700k/3080/FHD 300hz) even in 2026 and i'm still happy with it 🥰 and In view of upcoming x170km-g maintenance and good opportunity of CPU & RAM replacement, please kindly advice: 1) Does it right to goes with 10900k (10850k) instead of 11700k in games? (My 11700k looks nice with UV -130mv, 150w at full load @4600, with max temp 80°c, max fan for such test). I'm talking mostly about extra cores/produced heat/4x32 RAM in XMP? (Kingston Fury Impact KF432S20IBK2/64) 2) So, does XMG bios 01.07.09RTR6 isn't suitable with 4x32 ram in XMP, instead of 01.07.09RTR7-G2? 3) Am i correct that XMP profile #2 is better than #1? Will XMP#2 run either CPU 11gen or 10gen?

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My main m18x r2's OS is on a NVME SSD and want to know if I would be able to use the main HDD 3 slot ribbon tor extra storage for my OS since that HDD port is not being used. Is there any way to do that?