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Qualcuno ha migliorato in qualche modo il raffreddamento di questo PC? Esistono ventole aftermarket migliori? Quelle che forniscono più pressione (più alette) e magari sono più silenziose?

Had this happen to my p870 a few years back. Both the motherboard AND the cpu died.

lmfao, based on the board design I'm just gonna flatten out the heatsink and then use the back of the Motherboard as the mosfet heatink lmfao.

Here's the two cards along with an overlay of both of them for reference.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm optimistic when I shouldn't be most of the time, but I honestly believe (and truly hope) the AI clown circus house of cards will very soon collapse super hard and burst into flames. I hope that it spooks investors badly enough that they all pull out frantically and leave the developers with no operating capital to function with and cause GPU and memory prices to hit history-making rock bottom prices with an oversaturated market flooded with new and used parts and cancelled orders that have to be sold for pennies on the dollar in order to get rid of it. I think there's a good possibility that the stock of parts available, (or visibly seeming to be absent,) in reality, is not an accurate reflection of the apparent lack thereof we see at the storefront. I suspect there are secret GPU and memory stockpiles that nobody knows about that are being held for the highest bidders and reserved for corporate customers that pay excessive prices and submit to scalping just to get whatever they want and need. It would be awesome and hilarious if the highest bidders and corporate buyers all suddenly have no money and most of them go out of business, vanish or change their focus to something else. It would be fun to watch Micron/Crucial, NVIDIA, Samsung and others in the silicon production space have to get down on their knees and beg consumers to buy their brand and offer it dirt cheap, even below cost just to unload it, after their back-stabbing treachery.

Whoa, 9070xt prices just jumped massively at Microcenter almost across the board. Probably a product of the expected price increases due to memory and 5070ti being sold out everywhere increasing demand for the 9070xt. The Red Devil I just picked up for $719 (MCC price was 683) is now $849. $780 on da Egg. Challenger which was $569 late last year is now $649.99 and the cheapest model available on PCPP is now $699 for the Hellhound. ------------------------------------------------------- RAM market is an odd beast atm. Lots of overpriced memory in stock. Plenty of overpriced (but not AS overpriced) new/used memory on eBay that is either not moving or taking quite awhile to move. End user demand is low because supply is grossly overpriced. SSD prices have jumped stupidly high but nowhere on the level of RAM but still..... I really feel like the AI boom is either going to crash or greatly recede sooner than later but we will see. Microsoft CEO openly questioned its profit viability.....May just be wishful thinking.... --------------------------------------------------------- WV2Pro arrived yesterday along with my brackets for DDR5 140mm cooling and Lian Li AIO. Piles of new parts everywhere for several projects/builds. First up is repairing my daughter's laptop though.... Just got an email from MSI they received my faulty Ai1300P PSU... --------------------------------------------------------- Yeah this is definitely the price/performance bundle that is going into my "I ran AM5 9800X3D for a year now let's give Intel's Ultra a fair shake till Panther" run unless it proves to be absolute trash (I'm looking at you FO76). $176 Strix Z890-A is hitting every criteria I need and the second $205 265k with some tuning now passes TM5 at 9066 G2 no problem which is the MB's limits and wouldn't be my D2D tuned settings anyhow so I'm good. I'll be keeping an eye on the Ultra refresh to maybe bin a few of them for shiggles.... WOW, didn't even know the 12 core Bartlett was up for order! I hope it is available and you can test one to compare to your AM5 and Ultra rigs. Did you hold onto your AM5 or jettison it? 🤣 -------------------------------------------------------------- @win32asmguy Midnight pre-launch 12.0 patch is definitely working with some secret sauce. When Tazevesh launched, performance was poor especially on the 9070xt but subsequent patches improved performance greatly along with Nvidia, but the 12.0 overhaul has now taken my fps in the exact same testing spot with the same drivers and rig as is from ~132 to frame locked 175 with the exact same settings. One thing I notice, though, is VRAM usage and CPU usage has increased drastically at 4k in the same spot from ~6.5GB to ~10.5GB. Not that players should be running WoW at 4k Ultra RT Max with 8GB or less cards, but they may be in for a reality check with the engine updates/overhaul. CPU utilization went up by 50% on basic reporting as did power draw so definitely some tinkering under the hood. RAM allocation is also up from ~13.5GB to ~20.6GB. Much more efficient, pulling less power and getting more fps than before. I've seen them do this in past xx.0 xpac pre-launch updates. GPU usage didn't even cap out with the 12.0 patch at frame locked 175fps. I'll need to go in there and remove that to see where it actually goes. One thing Blizzard does do is improve their graphics engine before, during and after launches. Before and after testing (note, both tests were at 8000 not 6400. Need to update AB descriptions). Of course Dornogal is an absolute sludge fest now on both my rigs and player data. Classic pre-launch patch Blizzard. Doesn't matter 14900ks + 9070xt or 9800X3D + 5090. It is absolute trash right now and chunky. Blizzard seriously needs to overhaul their CPU multithreaded utilization ASAP.

When I booted my Asus ExpertBook B1500 laptop yesterday it presented me with this message: "power problem, check battery is connected and charged to at least 20%" Don't know why this problem occured, but charged the laptop for some hours. When I now boot it it just goes to a screen with the text: "PD Firmware update. Progress Update. ERROR: erase timeout 1" Then the screen goes blank (but backlight stays on). What has happend? How do I fix this? I can't access BIOS, and can't boot from external USB either :-(

@jaybee83 in case you were not already aware, the WireView Pro II sensors now show in the latest beta version of HWiNFO64, but the drivers need to be installed for it to be visible to Windows for sensor reporting. Otherwise, HWiNFO64 will not be aware it is present. If you haven't already tried to get the WireView software working (which is NOT needed for HWiNFO64) I found it to be a bit tricky. Hit me up here if you run into any issues. It took three tries for me. If you change vBIOS after installing it you also need to delete it from Device Manager and let it reinstall itself for it to be visible to the software. Also very important after installing the driver in Device Manager to shut down and disconnect the PSU from power completely. Then restore power and boot up. Otherwise, the software update will not take effect. The WireView Pro II requires a full removal of power from the motherboard and GPU to initialize after the driver installation. Of course none of this is necessary to use the WireView Pro II as a standalone device without any software monitoring features.

OpenAI will go down in the history pages in the very near future, despite the arrogance displayed and passed as false confidence. similar historical events teach us important lessons if we choose to use the data when evaluating the current landscape, the good news are they will not disappear completely, case and point https://myspace.com NVIDIA is also about to be put in its place imho https://notebooktalk.net/topic/2901-the-madness-has-begun/page/2/#comment-64434

If this is accurate it is wonderful news.

This reminds me very much about the fake glued on heatsink grills Dells design engineers added for the sake of "better cooling" for the older slimy modern Alienware Jokebooks. It was there only for the design😄

Hello everyone, first of all I am very happy to have found this forum. I have been a hard-core & die-hard user of the AW18 for 12 years now and simply refuse to buy another laptop for daily use. One of my 4 models has developed the following problem: The DIMM RAM access controller 1 seems to be faulty. I have switched all kind of RAM to all positions and found that whenever any RAM is placed in controller 1, the laptop does not POST and I get four beeps. I have tried all combinations, so the access controller seems to be faulty. There is no visible damage and I have tried cleaning it, but that didn't change anything. As the maximum RAM for my processor running Windows 7 Ultimate seems to be capped at 32 GB, I wanted to ask if it is possible, instead of changing or repairing the motherboard to use the following combination on the 4 controllers: controller 0: 16 GB controller 1: leave empty controller 2: 8 GB controller 3: 8 GB Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Omadon

Nice results! That board and CPU look like a great value. I'm extremely confused by Intel's decision to delay a Refreshed SKU until that time frame given Nova Lake is supposed to be out later this year. Reminds me of 11th gen and 12th gen. Either they had to heavily bin to get chips able to run the new clocks or they actually fixed some things under the hood. I'm leaning towards heavy binning, but hoping for actual latency fixes that can make the refresh something that will be more impressive over an overclocked ARL chip. I also ordered a 12 core BTL-S chip lol. Mouser had them as out of stock backorder, and I decided I wanted something else to mess around with. The order went through and according to them, they have ordered one from the factory lol. I'll be shocked if it ever arrives, more shocked if it works. 🤞🤞

Thinking out loud, the AI buildup toward 2025 feels like it triggered a delayed realization at the top of the major CPU vendors like Intel, AMD, and ARM. For decades, Intel, AMD, ARM, and others built their market share through platform control. OEM relationships, ecosystem lock-in, and incremental architectural leverage made the CPU the anchor of the system. Then, almost overnight, they found themselves paying billions to accelerate someone else’s technology, reshaping entire systems around it, and effectively handing over slices of the very market they spent decades carving out. That is a reversal of logic. Instead of defending the platform, they subsidized the erosion of their own leverage. Value migrated away from the CPU and toward an external accelerator that began defining how systems are built, priced, and scaled. At some point, executives notice when they are funding their own displacement. What seems to be happening now is a quiet correction. Rather than continuing to pour capital into accelerating a smaller player’s dominance, money appears to be flowing back inward. Into their own roadmaps. Their own architectures. Their own standards and system-level control. This is not something you see announced in press releases. You see it in behavior, hesitation, and shifting priorities. You also see it in the market. Intel and AMD are no longer acting like companies resigned to becoming feeder components. At the same time, NVIDIA’s stock is not following the straight-line hype trajectory you would expect if total platform capture were inevitable. That divergence suggests reassessment behind the scenes, not universal buy-in. If the AI story were as simple as the headlines claim, capital flow would be one-directional. It is not. This does not mean NVIDIA goes away. It means the assumption that the entire industry will continue financing its expansion indefinitely is likely wrong. Platform owners eventually defend platforms. The AI boom did not just create demand. It exposed a power imbalance that incumbents tolerated for too long. What we are likely seeing now is the early phase of that imbalance being corrected quietly, deliberately, and before it becomes irreversible. The solution is simple, but overlooked: eliminate the silo. Unified, coherent memory allows CPUs and accelerators to operate on the same data without costly copies. Once that bottleneck is gone, the perceived GPU advantage evaporates. CPUs retain their performance, and accelerators return to their intended role: augmenting the platform, not defining it.

In short, A little bit of the bottom of the palm rest (the bottom part of it which faces up when you stare at the bare GPU, would have to get trimmed to make room for the mosfets/PD of the non-maxQ version. However the non-maxq version is the same length as the p5000 that was supposed to fit the 7540/50, as far as I can tell it's just longer between the two of them. the Width is the same and only one screw mount (related to screwing it to the palmrest) is different, other than that, the palmrest + heatsink modification (flatten it out since the "dip" for the mosfets will be in the wrong place, and then either adding a shim/small bit of aluminum to connect the mosfets to the 7550 heatsink), is all that is needed, and since they both share the same BIOS there shouldn't be a whitelist conflict.

or simply a properly debloated, tweaked and tuned system.

I think you mean 38000 and 28200. Your unit should easily be capable of a 35000 score and for example Notebookcheck even got A 38500 score in their review, possibly a better binned chip: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Dell-Pro-Max-18-Plus-Test-18-Zoll-Workstation-mit-USB-C.1167532.0.html

I will check tomorrow morning.

If you can "make it fit" (and I would genuinely love to see that), then it will probably work. I have never heard of this being done, but... The physical interface is the same. I don't think there will be an issue with needing to modify the NVIDIA driver INF.

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Not if you're afraid to make a little modification to the palmrest and the existing heatsink :3 I will make this fit and prove it :3

Asus have now increased the prices on their US webstore. Vanilla black Astral is now $3510 USD. Nice, only $50 higher than previous premium above MSRP. And the Astral LC is now $3870. Or +150 USD. Anyone have seen Nvidia have increased MSRP for their FE models? https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/all-series/filter?Category=NVIDIA&Spec=354488 Yup, custom made firmware only for the very few. Theres no magic in matrix bios, they just needed to up the xbar freq bit to match good effi. Also bios can have same name, for example ending .50 but still have multiple revisions The white Astral 5080 is now $1950 for those that prefer a downgrade. Or for new buyers. Yup, 5080 close to old 5090 MSRP. ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 5070 Ti 16GB is $1170 USD. For xx70 tier card. No one is able to stop this man. Greed and incompetence is the main driver that let Jensen get what he want. Money over the lands own needs and security/global security. This is just sad. Or better say a joke that should never have happened. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to visit China as company prepares to start H200 shipments to the country And no warnings will help... Nothing! What next... Sell AI chips also to North Korea? The outcome is still the same. More cash in and more AI chips out. Anthropic's Dario Amodei says allowing Nvidia H200 sales to China is like "selling nuclear weapons to North Korea" "I think this is crazy"

How will it be when Microsoft increase AI slop from 30% and up to 50% for the coding? Patch Tuesday nightmare continues: Certain Windows apps will freeze during use Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update (KB5074109) continues to wreak havoc, by now breaking applications like Outlook that interact with cloud storage services such as OneDrive. Notepad, Snipping Tool, other apps broken by new bug in Windows 11 Yet another bug in Windows 11 has left users unable to open apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, as they are greeted with error code 0x803F8001.

Forgot to mention it’s Cinebench R23.

Which CineBench exactly?