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I’m playing Minecraft Patch Download right now and having a great time exploring new features. The update makes the game even more fun with better tools, blocks, and adventures. It’s exciting to build, mine, and survive in my world!

This heatsink comes from clevo laptops. You can unscrew the four screws and uncover the xbracket. I used this one for my RTX3000 for my AW17 R1. Needed some trimming to make it work. I doubt if it can work inside the M17x R4. You will have to remove it.

You will never make Gsync work on P870 series with rtx 3080, as the gsync cookie does not exist for that model from Nvidia.

Did you crack and buy the 2025 version? Arrow lake or Panther Lake? RTX5050? Also Windows sleep has improved a lot from my 2023 model, now I can leave it one day in Sleep and will lose 1-2%, the older 2023 model had to be put in hibernation, otherwise I was losing more than 7-8. I told you the improvements of the 2025 versions are massive, even for Arrow Lake and not really appreciated. This is why I believe Panther Lake would not be such a huge upgrade. EDIT: Sorry just saw your other post. don't bother to reply

Any news about ZRT? Because the whole China is going to holidays

Hi, Many thanks to Darius. I'll pick up the card on Monday and continue building and developing. The first small subproject is the internal and external cable so that an internal display and an external display can be connected. I've already developed the schematic and, with Darius's help, I can now determine the exact length of the FlexPCB and start routing once I know the exact geometric ratios. The cables should work for all future generations. The second project will be the cooling system. In the short term, it will be water cooling, but there is also the option of making a vapor chamber like the original. However, I don't know the exact costs for that yet. That's all from me for now. Thanks for your support.

You can only try it out and use trial and error! To be honest, I don't really understand the need for Gsync. It's supposed to be a synchronization technology, but I think that if the graphics card, display, and CPU are good, this technology isn't really necessary. Sure, you can talk about personal preferences, but I think that's all it is!

Oh its just the waterblock (EK-WB) not the GPU proper, if someone listed a 3090Ti for 70 USD I was assume its a scam be it from the sellers end or my own lol

You better snag that 3090 Ti while you can. Hopefully it is not a scam. If it is not that is an insanely good deal. If you are not going to buy it, I will.

So just happened on a listing for an EKWB EVGA 3090Ti for 70 USD on ebay. Looks like its still NIB guy never used it I guess. Im trying to think of my replacement motherboard as "Showing up sometime this month", ETA is Feb 9th-22nd. Havent been able to much anything this week, been really busy with work.

@SamSTG44 check please on the main forum for “Official Clevo X170KM-G Tread” Is all posted there or click this link for the last Benchmark results.

Which 9070 XT do you have, Brother @Rage Set. (I think you mentioned it before but I do not remember.) I got bored and decided to mess with slower memory speeds to see how fast I could make it go. This is stable so I will see how low I can get tCL before it unravels. 6400 1:1 is snappy feeling even though it is a bit slower on read/write/copy.

Thank you. I installed this version after removing all display drivers with DDU but unfortunately it did not fix the issue for me. I notice that when I put my grahphics card settings to discrete only in BIOS, the screen brightness goes to peak directly from the next BIOS boot. I also noticed that the Intel graphics card remains active in the device manager even when I set my BIOS to only use the discrete graphics card. Do you have the same quirks?

No BIOS would ever make Gsync work, that is a closely guarded NVIDIA secret.

Yep, more than what they do for their GPU division.....

14900KS + 9700XT - 14900KS is in Extreme mode. Yes, my memory sticks are mixed, lol. The PC is located in my basement office - which I keep frozen. Ambient is 20 to 25F. Stock: Timespy - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/61860414 It's okay, middle of the road performance. Graphic Score: 29578 The CPU is all over the place. Stock with only a -100mV offset on the core: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/61860626 Still middle of the road performance, but the GS jumped nearly 1500 points. Graphic Score: 31075 Results: AMD is drunk.

Obvi Zen 6..... 🤣 One thing we can always give AMD is socket longevity. Intel could learn a thing or two. Remember Skylake? Trying to lock out processors on the same socket with bumps to chipsets.....how the mighty have fallen (but clawing their way back with a vengeance) Hey, as long as you don't murder this chip this time around, it's a win win! 🤣

More hardware will be shuffled into the landfill. Because Microsoft have no love for older hardware if used with their latest and greatest OS ever. Microsoft purges Windows 11 printer drivers, putting millions of devices on borrowed time Microsoft is preparing a major change to how printers are supported in Windows 11, pulling the plug on drivers that primarily support older hardware. Beginning with a non-security update that was released on January 15, Microsoft will no longer support legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers, which were announced as deprecated in September 2023. Now that support has officially ended, users of printers that rely on V3 or V4 drivers may find that their printers fail to install or stop working altogether. Microsoft, however, notes that most users will be unaffected because most newer printers use driver architectures. For those who do run into problems, Microsoft recommends that users contact their printer manufacturer and update to a supported driver or upgrade to a more modern printing solution.

youre probably referring to Zen 6? AM6 is still waaay waaaaay waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out... zen 6 on AM5 is basically set, with Zen 7 having a decent probability of also still being on AM5. so AM6 will only come our way once Zen 8 drops. Zen 6 = 2026/27 Zen 7 = 2027/28 Zen 8 / AM6 = 2029+? thatll be quite a solid run for my X670E platform here, 2022 to 2029, nice 😄 btw ill need to check my LM / TIM paste jobs, core deltas are waaaay too high for my taste. im guessing my LM application was a bit too thin this time around.

RIP - Brad

What bios are you using? I used tha danske modded bios and it lists my 3080 as vga unknown so I don’t have gsync enabled

I managed to lay in a nice array of 500gb, 1tb and a few 2tb nvme drives, but I'm kicking myself for not jumping on a few 4tb drives last year. That was a good snag! You also managed to snag your 9070xt and 5070ti for damn good prices before the market went to poo too...... This is how I view it. I've locked down all the hardware I'm going to need to ride out this hardware Armageddon. If the 5090 wants to remain the top dog to 2028? I'm you're huckleberry. 🙂 Snagging a 1.125v Vanguard 5090 for $1971USD that turned out to be superior to both my Astral and Ventus and no coil whine is still the pinnacle of my hardware wins in a plethora of wins hunting down open box / refurb deals over the years. Getting to ride it into 2028? Priceless..... As for other hardware..... 9850X3D is a snoozefest. I'm not seeing the 9950X3D2 being anything magical unless they have somehow fixed that CCD0 to CCD1 latency issues for gaming. AM6 isn't launching till later this year or even early 2027 Novalake isn't launching till late 2026 or even early 2027 too Nvidia 6000 till 2028... AMD RDNA5 not till mid 2027 but I suspect late 2027 Intel basically cancelled their B770 so we don't know what they have planned for future desktop GPUs Basically team, settle in with your hardware and enjoy! There is nothing on my want list till Nova and potentially AM6 (I'm more excited for Nova than AM6 atm) and that's it..... 7600 is the threshold for >=6000 tier performance so you're good in that aspect especially being able to get those tight timings. Maybe dial in 6000 and 7600 and see which one gives you the better performance. While it isn't mind blowing on my end, 8000 dialed in > 6000 and 6400 dialed in across the board even if miniscule so I'm sticking with that. Just like there are Asus and Apple fan boys, there are Razer fan boys and you know some are going to buy this...... I'm a firm believer that someone's disposable income is theirs to buy whatever tickles their fancy, but I'm also silently judging hardcore based on my own biases and purchasing criteria 🤣 As with all things like this, I will seek out a Youtube video on it and live vicariously though that and I'm good....

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/260725/

Hi, tried running this tool on my x170km-g (PCSPECIALIST build) but its stuck at “processed memory blocks 3408 from 4095” Not sure whether it’s safe to just close it out or not. For reference 11900f, RTX3080 16gb, 32gb Corsair 2933mhz, 4tb Corsair NVME. edit* I must have accidentally clicked enter and paused it, pressed enter to see if it would move down a line or anything and it started up again, everything now unlocked! Let’s see if I can undervolt and stop this thing cooking edit 2* couldn’t get VBS to disable no matter what I did. Ran the DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 and now I have no screen, can’t access bios (I don’t think). Any ideas? 🙃 edit 3* (lol) Powered off, removed cables and batteries, booted straight back up. XMP doesn’t detect my ram profile so I’ve manually set it to 2933 with correct timings, overclocking is fully unlocked so now running a -75mv undervolt at 4.4ghz max turbo and it’s gone from 97c during a ThrottleStop 120m benchmark to 88c during the 480m benchmark and dropped from 91s for 480m to 62s. Still gets toasty running games (95c CPU / 80c GPU) and after closing games won’t idle lower than 50c each, on startup I can browse / watch YouTube for hours without it going above 40c so going to tackle a re paste today using PTM and thermal putty because every reference pic I’ve found regarding pads shows different thicknesses. Oh also setting Speedshift to 128 with the multiplier cap and undervolt I can get 2hours of YouTube/Netflix on battery no problem, performance mode, max brightness etc. Not bad.

PCWorld generally is not a good resource for useful technical information. I am not interested in the biased thoughts and personal opinions of their editors. I only care about what I think and seeing how many others share my opinions. It used to be a good source, but not for a long time. They do not allow readers to comment on their reviews and articles, which delegitimizes them in my opinion. I think any media outlet that does not allow readers to comment to support or rebut has an agenda of some sort and they want to control the narrative. I posted my thoughts on the TweakTown article yesterday.