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Merry Christmas, everyone. Blessings to all of you.

Merry Xmas and happy holidays to all! It bit funny and ironic we just talked about your adventures with Best Buy.....good luck! Two observations on the yellow tip again: If it were black, you wouldn't be able to see even the mild scorch marks. Companies should start including these in white or yellow for clear visibility of scorching. I still suspect there are plenty of black connectors out there already with scorch marks. You just can't see them. The bottom row strikes again with the weaker, [ ] design which I posit is susceptible to physical stress and speeds up the cycle as they are heated up and in conjunction with the physical stress are pulled ever so slightly open making them even more susceptible. --- These connectors really should not be physically stressed at all and the weaker the design (like MSI's bottom row array) the more the stress can cause meltdowns in conjunction with migrating imbalance of amps over time for various reasons.

Merry Christmas to all my extended family in this thread!!! Now, I am in a bit of a dilemma. Bestbuy has the Prime 5070 TI for $749.99, brand new. I just spent that on the "Like New" card from Amazon. I am going to cancel the card from Amazn and begrudgingly buy from Bestbuy. Here goes nothing....

Congrats brother. Have fun. Here's some ideas for the 3D printer jockey🙂 I'm sure you could do it for the Prime 5070 Ti or any GPU. Maybe some fun for the coming Christmas/New Year holidays. Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5070 with 3× Arctic P9 PWM PST Deshroud

Absolute banger card. My local MC sold out of all 25+ they had over the weekend. $749 beast with high power limit, good cooling and compact size. I sold mine recently, but honestly such a great card.

Just snagged a PRIME 5070 TI from Amazon Resale - Like New condition for MSRP to compare to the 9070 XT Red Devil that is coming before Christmas. Due to all of the fraud I have heard about, I am going to unbox both on camera. I am hoping the 5070 Ti has damaged packaging and isn't actually used. Whichever card performs the best for my use cases will stick around and I will probably either send the other back or sell locally. I saw a 5080 for a little over MSRP, but I can't justify spending over 1K for the same 16GB and average of 15% better performance over the 5070 TI. Even in video editing apps, the 5080 isn't much better than the 5070 TI. I don't understand Nvidia's thoughts on the 5080 but I assume they were always planning on making the 5080 Super (which may or may not be cancelled). At the very least, if GPU pricing goes all to hell again, I can resell the 5070 TI for what I paid for.

My update was in two parts (ASUS 4242 and PD-GX) and each firmware update was run independently and worked automatically unattended. The first,4242, gave a clear and present progression status in dos text showing each step. The PD-GX showed me absolutely nothing on the screen so I checked events / task manager to confirm it had run its course. Then I rebooted After a reboot, all ports were front and center and my second (of 4) USB-A front port now works normally where before it basically did not work at all after the bios update. This was after a BIOS flash from 1512 -> 1805 as previously mentioned.

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.

290K only most likely, even if I already know that all Intel has likely done is set D2D and NGU to 32x on both, and slightly binned or overvolted the cores a bit to push clocks. Very likely some sort of Intel APO fluff with new titles as well. If they've somehow fix latency a tad I'd be really shocked but I don't expect it. Still, if I can eek out a couple hundred Mhz on the P/E cores over a 285K, it will be worth it for fun. I imagine we will get a CES launch/announcement with a late Jan street date on the refresh. It sorta blows my mind Intel has waited this long, but it is what it is. I'm also hoping they launch the Sapphire Rapids HEDT at CES. The cache on those chips looks insane, and honestly it might make for a very expensive gaming CPU if it can be clocked. HEDT was always more fun.

God Jul (Merry Christmas) to everyone🙂

Great card! Congrats on the snag! I also like the all dark aesthetics. I am almost certain you will pick the 5070ti over the 9070xt. When push comes to shove, it is the superior card. The 9070xt shines MSRP vs MSRP but if the prices are anywhere near close, 5070ti would be my pick everytime. Amazon Resale is so hit or miss and the descriptions rarely match. "Used - Acceptable?" Well hello, it's basically brand new. "Used - Like new?" Hey, looks someone ran over it 10x before shipping it out but made sure to remove all the accessories before doing so.... --- I still have a sealed Nitro+ 9070xt that was planned for my daughter's rig but I am almost certainly going to send back unopened to Amazon. WoW was running great the last 3 months but with the new patch/update, it has gotten super chunky on the wife's system and suddenly my old friend AMD timeout errors have returned on her Gigabyte 9070xt. Googling wow crashing and 9070xt for the last month and yep, it's back. Nvidia? Smooth sailing as always. With the Xpac around the corner, I can't really take any chances of incurring her wrath. I woke up Saturday with her literally standing over me going, "WoW has crashed 2x already....FIX IT!" 🤣 If things don't change quick, I'll be picking up a 5070/5070ti myself for her rig and the 9070xt becomes a backup/play around/sell off candidate.

Awesome. Glad you were able to snag one for a proper price. I think things are going to continue to circle the drain in the PC space for the next couple of years and anything that can be purchased now at proper pricing will likely hold its value longer than it normally would or should.

Hard to not get excited about things like this.

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.

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.

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.

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. 😑

WOW is that Uncle Ted now....I'm getting pretty old, he must be way up there in age. He used to play like this Ted Nugent - Wango Tango

It seems Nvidia have no problem serve the users with loads of vram if they can pay for it. NVIDIA Announces General Availability of RTX PRO 5000 72 GB GPU Press Release The NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 72 GB Blackwell GPU is now generally available, bringing robust agentic and generative AI capabilities powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture to more desktops and professionals across the world. With the flexibility to choose between this 72 GB variant and the existing NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 48 GB model, AI developers can right-size their systems for a wider range of budgets and project requirements. The forecast forwards. 3x price hike in 2025, aint enough... DRAM memory will skyrocket in 2026 with increases of up to 80%, while NAND Flash will climb by 50%. Goldman Sachs A particularly relevant point in the report is that Goldman Sachs does not identify HBM as the primary driver of price increases , but rather as a secondary factor. The bulk of the inflationary pressure comes from conventional memory, which is the most sensitive to capacity cuts and has the most direct impact on the consumer market. This implies that the price increases will not be limited to data centers, but will drastically affect PCs, laptops, smartphones, and home storage next year. Nice. Forced to enable Secure boot and TPM to play ain't enough anymore. Now you'll need to update the bios as well to be able to play some of the games. What will come next? If your computer is affected by this bug, you’ll be given a restriction, and you won’t be able to launch Valorant. You can resolve this by updating your motherboard’s BIOS to the latest version and by ensuring that all security features like Secure Boot, VBS, and IOMMU are activated and working properly. Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS Riot Games, the developer of several popular esports titles such as Valorant and League of Legends, just discovered a security vulnerability affecting several motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock that cheaters can use to bypass hardware security checks and make it impossible for the game’s anti-cheat software to detect them.

Like @Rage Set and @Mr. Fox said, this is a blessing and a curse. Actually forcing optimizations in software to compensate is a blessing. Luckily (unluckily?) the memory shortage hits VRAM, RAM and potentially storage. If it only hit VRAM, nothing would really change. You just lower the resolution and asset requirements. RAM? Well, now you're talking not only assets but asset management and actual game code Storage? Well, not you have to be cognizant of your total install size which encompasses assets, asset management and game code. I think when all is said and done, high end GPUs won't be hit as much because texture sizes are variable and selectable. Even now, most 6GB video cards can run just about every game out there if you lower the detail level unless they take a shared memory model approach and dump off into normal system ram to compensate for texture sizes. As a precaution, I picked up a few Samsung 9100 Pro 1TB NVME's a bit ago and prices have already spiked from what I paid (~$130) to now $170 each. I already had a few 2TB SSDs (990 Pro, 9100 Pro) and a boatload of laptop SSDs (512GB to 2TB) sitting in the ~7 laptops on my shelf. Some of these have to go, though. I feel like a mic drop was done right after saying that.... 🤣 It is most likely going to be a UNIFY or APEX. Do you plan on using an Apex for some 270k/290k binning? Maybe I'll put out a WTB on the OCN forums for a tested and certified 9000 G2 Unify or Apex.

The current situation sucks. However, there is always a silver lining to a dark cloud when you are forced to look for it. This will likely benefit those selling spare used PC components. They (we) may be able to sell things used for the same amount or more than what was paid for them new. And, an additional benefit is that consumers will probably stop wasting money upgrading systems that still work fine for the tasks for which they are used. If games are dumbed down or "optimized" to function well on less capable hardware, the notion that an upgrade is needed should also be dramatically reduced. In practical application, systems that were nearing the end of their service life due to performance limitations may get a new lease on life. Another potential benefit is this may pressure the Redmond Reprobates to back off on their idiotic OS system requirements if their intent was to contribute to e-waste development by forcing people to buy newer computers. That may become more difficult for consumers and cause Winduhz 11 adoption to stagnate even further than it has. And, another potential benefit... perhaps the best possible scenario of all... AI development will implode, end up in a state of ruin and self-destruct. The very thing causing these problems may burn itself out due to astronomical costs developing something that their intended victims will not be able to leverage due to not enough consumers having the resources needed to utilize the garbage they are hoping to capitalize on. The idea of spending gobs of money on something that will not generate enough revenue to offset costs will ultimately fail. This is what I am hoping happens.

That's actually great news. It will force developers to optimize for all levels, instead of the high end. Don't get me wrong, this will make those that have invested thousands on high end GPUs a bit angry, but those people only account for about 10% of the market. The true adverse thing to come out of this RAM shortage is Nvidia and AMD will continue to push 8GB cards in their next generations. Or worse, the reintroduction of the 6GB or lower "midrange" GPUs....Lol the 6070 coming with 8GB and 6070 TI with 12GB above $750

This was/is inevitable... Those with sligth older gen cards/new low mid end saved by the dram crisis. Game development is now affected by the RAM crisis TL;DR: Rising DDR5 memory and storage costs, driven by the ongoing DRAM crisis and AI demand, are causing supply shortages and higher prices through 2026. This forces game developers like Larian Studios to optimize AAA titles for limited RAM and VRAM, impacting PC gaming performance and hardware upgrade cycles. What does this mean for gaming, specifically high-profile AAA-style experiences with a focus on immersive and detailed visuals? Well, a fundamental shift in how game developers will approach making games for the "foreseeable future." And with that, game developers will be forced to optimize performance for systems with limited RAM and VRAM. G.Skill And Micron Share Depressing Update On PC Memory Crisis by Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 18, 2025 Just in case anyone needs to hear it again (as if!), we're in the midst of a memory crisis that has seen the cost of DRAM catapult to unsettling levels. G-skill statement. https://www.gskill.com/community/1502239313/1765875574/Why-has-G.SKILL-DRAM-memory-prices-increased-so-much-recently-since-2025-Q4

Ugh, full day of Xmas shopping with the wife..... me at the end of the day..... ----------------------------------------------------------- Time to pick another motherboard as the TG 8200 sticks, which I had running at 8400 no problem on Z790i Lightning and 14900KS also borked out in G2 and G4. So that's three sets of sticks (8200, 8400, 9200) giving up the ghost on the Z890 Strix-A in G2 and G4 at 8400. Even boots at 9200 G4 and AIDA64 run with the Vengeance sticks, but passing TM5 is a whole different story... This is when having other CPUs / MBs is a plus to start bouncing off each other. At least I have 3x sets of DDR5 in the kitty though so that's a blessing.

Just the beginning. Before it was mostly the xx90 series, now we will also see xx80 series in smoke and fire. Second in a row. One after one as time go on forwards. And of course MSI's fantastic Yellow-tip. I wonder how many use the Yellow-tip disaster from MSI. I think the xx90 owners is more careful and those with xx80 series cards think their cards is safe from meltdown. Hence we will see more smoke and fire from lower tier cards. Rare to see. You can see the beginning before the meltdown. You can see slight burnmarks. Asus want maximizing the profits from the vram price hike. 24GB is cheaper vs 32GB. Hence they now cater to China with a new sku of their overpriced 5090D V2. Same price for 24GB cards just means higher profit margins. ASUS has listed a TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5090D V2 OC for the China market, with 24GB of GDDR7

I actually like that a lot! Speaking of 3D printing/CNC - this is what I want to ultimately get into. https://modcase.com.au/ A lot of his PC cases are fully 3D printed or a mix of 3D printing and CNC milled. He actually released a free version of one of his cases here: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1740435-modcase-hyper-compact-atx-pc-case#profileId-1849515 The crazy thing is, with certain filaments, you can print out a case that would be as thermally safe and rigid as steel/aluminum with massive weigh savings. I am going to buy the premium version of the MASS NAS ITX and print it out. I want to make my own NAS case with custom colors and my own logo.

Thank you. Just using a basic Barrowch memory cooling kit similar to this one from Titan Rig (slightly different appearance to the block on top). The memory kit is the same one I have had since May. G.SKILL F5-6000J2636H16GX2-TZ5NR was $189.99 when I bought it. Now I wish I had purchased a dozen at that price. Could easily sell for double what I had paid for them, maybe triple. Edit: here is the exact cooler kit on the Strix memory. I think it looks great, and it works great, but I do not recommend it because the spacing of the screw holes to attach the block to the RAM jackets are not spaced according to common standards. They do not line up with the spacing of any generic memory cooling parts I have purchased in the past, so this kit is sort of a proprietary piece of crap in that respect. I recommend sticking with the generic stuff like Bykski, Freezemod and the stuff that the eBay/Amazon counterfeiters sell. If you don't care about that then it is a great product. The reason I hate it is because I cannot simply move memory modules around between systems without disassembling everything and transferring the memory jackets to other sticks. That sucks. For a person with one PC that doesn't fiddle around with things it would be totally fine.

Hmmm. Everyone know that Asus have never told the media/press why they put the $4000 USD Matrix on hold. Then put it back on sale a few days later. But as everyone know... Proper QC cost money. And proper QC reduce profits. It seems there is always a drama around the tiny trash 12V-2*6 connector😀 Misaligned 12V-2×6 port leaves $4000 ROG Matrix RTX 5090 owner unable to connect cable Perfect timing... But you don't have to deal with the fragile tiny power connector. Better than nothing. Isn't i? When RAM is tight, NVIDIA limits GeForce NOW usage to 100 hours of gaming per month If the exorbitant prices of PCs were pushing users to the limit, and cloud platforms like NVIDIA GeForce NOW stood out as the perfect alternative, this perception will fade on January 1st. Edit.This is why Nvidia and their partners are able to keep the prices well above MSRP for 5090's months after months. China just love them. Can't get enough of them. Thousands of Smuggled GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs Appear in China On Reddit, a user named "Zestyclose-Salad-290" posted a couple of images revealing thousands of smuggled NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs in China. It's worth remembering that the GeForce RTX 5090 is banned in China, This time a 5080. But MSI so the yellow tip made it possible😎 And now he will go with MSI PSU and double up with yellow tip. Double up has to be better, LOL Yep, make China bigger and stronger. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot/head. And the leaders will never understand why China should never get access to western tech🥴 Stupid is the new normal!

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.

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) 🤣:

That is the only solution that I would deem acceptable. Although disappointing, the fortunate thing for me is gaming is not important enough that making an exception and compromising my position on the subject isn't necessary. I won't lose any sleep over no longer playing new titles in game franchises I have enjoyed since the initial release. Seems like status quo that good things eventually turn to crap. Not a matter of if, but when. Easy come, easy go. Que sera sera. 🤣

After owning several MSI boards (Unify X and Carbon) and numerous ASUS boards, if it were me I would stick with ASUS if for no other reason than much better firmware. Apex is a great motherboard generally. Every MSI I have owned has something in the firmware that was irksome to me. They were OK in terms of hardware. Svet deals with fixing lots of MSI firmware messes. They are never-ending. MSI forums are littered with examples of problems caused by screwed up firmware. That sucks donkey butt. These idiot game dev clowns are going to FAFO what happens to dictators. They usually end up dead. I am happy that I don't care about Valorant. If I did, I would no longer. It would be dead to me, just as Battlefield and Call of Duty titles that require this stupid nonsense are now. Nasty finger salute to all of them, with both hands. No game is good enough or matters to me to such a degree that I will be told what I have to do in order to play it. They can drop dead and I hope that they do.

Yes, he is smart. But, thinking that raises questions about his ability to think clearly. Only a small number of people with misinformed bias think such things.

Nice. Very under rated artists, although some of his songs are too religious for my taste. I first heard The Ship Song and thought I got to hear more of this band. It was so different to anything else being played at the time. In the early 1990's I went to a Triple J Big Day Out music Festival and saw them live. early 1990's?.....Man Ima gettin old

The size of the videos.

R.I.P - Chris driving home to Jesus.

I had a weird one when I had a ranger I had a 60 hz panel that had both edp and lvds connectors . Both plugged in so the panel would work with sg or peg . I was confused . 8 sold the ranger last year now I have an 18 plus my clevo p870tm1

So with the new BIOS and further tuning and goosing, I've encountered a few new things. Vengeance 9200 sticks wouldn't boot with XMP timings because Corsair was Pushing Dram Write Recovery Time to 138 for some reason. That one, single XMP setting was shutting down the Strix every time. Took a little to track that one down. This 265k gives up the ghost at 8400. The Z890-A Strix gives up the ghost at 8800. I can't do G2 8400 fail I can do G4 8400 pass I can do G4 8667 pass I can't do G4 8800 fail So the Strix-A is doing better than expected and it did fail HUB's 8800 check during its review so no shocker. May come down to binning boards at this lower tier. This is the entry level Strix board. That Unify-X I ordered won't ship till next week so that gives me a few more days to at least see if I can get the board to 8800 which is my return/keep threshold. If I can stabilize 8800 I'll keep it. If not, back it goes. I'm thinking this 265k was an open box return to MC because someone tested the IMC and went "garbage!" and returned it. I'll probably go ahead and put some feelers on the OCN and/or grab at least 1-2 more 265k's to bin. But the testing continues....

Got about half of the watercooling gear today, for all the hate that EK gets the WB certainly feels premium, fairly heavy too lol, also got the 1080mm rad as well so I can take my time routing cables and such

So this is the cooling system, I think it's not vapor chamber due to it's thinness, but I might be wrong, as I've never seen one. The 2 charging typeC's on the back seem to be on a different board, which is better than nothing, I guess; the one on the left side is directly on the motherboard, so I would suggest avoiding it. One quirk ot TPFanControl is that, after a rendering, the fans remain at higher speed indefinitely, and need to be switched to BIOS mode and back to Smart to settle down. Other than that, if you have any questions, just ask.

Weird. I claimed it and completed that but it does not show up in my Epic library. If I go back to the store it says "in library" on the page but doesn't show in the client. I had to refresh the library. Simply logging out and back in did not work. There is a button up at the top next to the word "Library" to refresh. Never noticed that before. Downloading it now.

So, I replaced the thermal compound with PTM7950, installed TPFanControl and enabled Power Mode "Best Power Efficiency" (it appeared after some drivers update, I think?), and, sitting on desk, in Stable Video Diffusion Generation it goes to about 76 degrees, with memory to 82 degrees, it draws about 60W and the fans at about 3100rpm's. The screen is without PWM, it came with some factory calibrated profiles. The sound is very good, compared with my ZBook G3 (maybe on par with ZBook G6, wich was better than the G8 I have), you can hear the instruments more separated and clear, it's way better. The latencies are not the best right now, but the BIOS version is just at 1.1 and so I guess are the drivers. No undervolting. For video editing it is the best choice, 4K 10bit 4:2:2 are not a problem, similar to mac's, maybe even better. Peronal preference, i liked way better the power adapter plug on the ZBooks; it could be twisted and rotated in any direction, even if bumped in it would just disconnect, and the interios plug was connected to the motherboard via a cable. This one has 3 type-C's, 2 on the back and one on the left and you can choose wichever you want to charge. But they are soldered into the motherboard (yeey for European Community 🤢🤮). The keyboard and touchpad are very good, but on ZBooks they were not bad either (I miss the 6 bottons touchpad in 3D softwres navigation). I'm not a gamer and I'm not interested in top extra fps's, I rather prefer silence, stability and low heat on long renders, so that is how I / it can be configured (I'm keeping the CPU limited to 30W in ThrottleStop). The thing is that the cooling solution seemed to me more like classic heatpipes rather that vapor chamber, but I was not inspired to take pictured when I opened it. Maybe I'll do later. For what I tested, it surpassed my desktop with i7 10700 and GeForce RTX 3070Ti in both CPU and GPU, by about 10%. As I said, having 76 degrees and 82 on memory, with PTM7950 and not stock compound, I wouldn't want any higher power graphics, unless puttining earbuds on 😆. Onestly I had better expectations from the cooling, which has bigger air gap at the back and vapor chamber; it's not bad at all, the air sound iw more constant and nicer to hearing, but weirdly it does not surpass ZBooks G3-G8. Curious about the new 3 fan config on G1i. The weght is just like ZBook 15 G3. Overall I like it very much, it looks, feels, works like a powerhouse that it is, and I kinda recommend it!😊 Wish it was easier on the eyes, (it's not by far bad as others, but that might be from OS/drivers/SW counterpart - dithering and color enhancements 🤢)

And still very smart. Linux creator Torvalds thinks Elon Musk is 'too stupid' to be working at a tech company

Physx support is suddenly back to RTX50 series GPU’s. Very odd seeing this. Only thing I can think, is maybe Jensen him self sat down to play Metro Exodus EE, and was like “WTF Where’s the Phys-X support for my RTX PRO 6000?” And he makes a phone call, and they send him a new driver enabling Phys-X 32bit on Blackwell GPU’s. And he goes right back to playing his game. 😂 I seriously can’t see them enabling this older tech for any other reason. 🤷‍♂️ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/nvidia-reinstates-32-bit-physx-support-for-rtx-50-series-as-part-of-its-latest-game-ready-driver-rollout-9-titles-included-in-initial-release