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  1. hfm
    so you just pirate the content? nah..
  2. hfm
    I do not believe they have patched it yet.
  3. hfm
    Asus VG27AQL1A. Wanted a 27" higher refresh monitor to replace the throwaway $110 Asus 21.5" 1080p@75Hz monitor I bought as a stop gap once I knew I was working from home for the long haul. Got it on sale for $299 last year, great monitor for that price. 1440p@144Hz. 170Hz in overlocking mode, but I leave that off 144 is fine. I have zero complaints. I was always skeptical that I'd notice a higher refresh rate, now that I've used one I'm a believer and I'm never going back to lower refresh. I use a CalDigit USB-C dock with HDMI, USB and power delivery passthru for whichever laptop I happen to be using and DisplayPort for my desktop (+ the monitor's USB hub has my wired keyboard and mouse receiver)
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    That's less about performance differences and more about what kind of setup suits your situation and what the goals of your setup are. Too many questions that are up to your personal preference for your setup to recommend anything. We know next to nothing about the next generation GPUs as it is aside from rumor, we definitely know nothing about the 50 series nvidia cards. The only thing that can be said is that eGPU will always come with some performance tax due to bandwidth and latency of TB. But it depends on your setup needs if that's acceptable. Typically you'd want an eGPU if your laptop is somewhat portable and you only want it and not a second computer and you want to "supercharge" it when it's at your desk. If you can get a desktop with no issues, probably a better choice. If you just want a laptop and don't want to really take it anywhere very often and don't mind if it's heavy, get one with a beefy GPU built in. eGPU is really for certain use cases. I ditched mine when I had room for a small form factor PC and a monitor since I transitioned to working from home and we kind of rearranged our living situation to suit that. Previous to that I just hooked up the eGPU and didn't need a desk really.
  5. hfm
    No, it will fall back to TB3 protocol for eGPU, I said that a couple times already. I shouldn't say "fallback" but, use TB3 mode.
  6. hfm
    Still playing AC: Valhalla... I should probably just put this on auto-post for the next month or two lol. Game is huge.
  7. hfm
    Yeah I had a my Gram 17 (which I still use at least once a week) + a Sonnet 550 with a 2070 in it for a while. Worked pretty well even with the 15W 8th Gen CPU. But now that I'm working from home every day I decided to build an SFF desktop instead.
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    11800H has an on-die Thunderbolt controller IIRC, so it shouldn't suffer from interconnect latency as the TB controller has direct access to CPU and doesn't need to travel through the north bridge. It will still be limited to Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth. It DOES NOT MATTER if it's a TB4 controller, it's going to use TB3 mode for an eGPU. What Sonnet says is true, TB4 is not built to handle eGPU scenario. I would think Sonnet knows what they are talking about, they are one of the premier manufacturers of eGPU solutions. If building a TB4 client eGPU solution was going to be beneficial they would definitely have done it already. I don't know why you don't believe their video explanation of why they are not. Another very popular way of handling this is using NVMe to PCIe eGPU solutions as the NVMe interface doesn't have the same bandwidth restriction as TB, you get the full 4 lanes of bandwidth. It's a little unwieldly as you sometimes need to do a little modding to make it look seamless, but lots of people have done it to get better eGPU performance. It's still going to pale in comparison to a good dGPU in a laptop no matter what you do. EDIT: Especially if that dGPU can use a MUX switch to avoid the optimus penalty. I still think for instance a 3080 eGPU is going to beat a lower tier dGPU, especially at 4K where things are mostly GPU limited. Some games are more taxing on PCIe bandwidth than others as well, it varies game to game sometimes. That's where you see some of the benefits of on-die TB controllers when that latency really matters, it's a lot of times use-case or game dependent how much it matters.
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    I believe these 10th gen parts are probably still external TB controllers not embedded. Perhaps it was 11th Gen that had those and I'm a generation off. This could also just be down to 11th gen parts are faster in general. EDIT: 10th gen is where the embedded on-die TB controllers were introduced, specifically in the 4core ultrabook line (H series didn't get it till 11th gen) It would take digging into the laptops used and how the architecture of the chip has changed. One, that H CPU in the Razer on the 2nd video, it has an off-die controller. A on-die 4 core will beat a 10th gen H series EVERY DAY over TB, reduced latency. Again this has NOTHING to do with TB4, it's still using 32Gb/s 4-lane TB3 the same as any eGPU on TB that supports 4-lanes. This is down to any efficiency gained in the TB controller implementation in the CPU die, then given those are equal any CPU speed improvements generation to generation. That razer comparison in Jarrod's video, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Razer's 10th gen implementation used on off-die controller. This has NOTHING to do with TB4 vs TB3, all eGPU are THUNDERBOLT 3. There is NO SUCH THING as a Thunderbolt 4 eGPU, they all use TB3. protocol.
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    2022 LG Gram 16/17 announced

    hfm replied to hfm's topic in LG

    I'm pretty sure most BIOS have a way, though LG's BIOS have often been pretty spartan, but there was a key combo while in BIOS (alt+F7 or something) that would expose a lot of advanced options. I suppose it's possible that the dGPU would still vampire some current, though the battery runtime they came up with it is quite possible the dGPU was activating for some acceleration activity. There's also going in the nVidia drivers and setting the global option to force integrated for everything. This is all just crazy speculation until we see teardowns of all the SKUs, final regional pricing, battery rundown tests with the option enabled also performance testing if they somehow have the dual fan solution in the model that doesn't have a dGPU. Might not be worth the money in the end at any rate.
  11. hfm
    Define slightly faster? For eGPU usage specifically there's two things that are crucial The thunderbolt controller has direct CPU access to limit latency, pretty much all of them do for Intel 10th Gen mobile and forward, for instance my 8th Gen Gram 17 has a separate discrete vs embedded TB3 controller (Alpine Ridge) which robs a little performance. It uses 4 lanes of PCIe to maximize bandwidth to the GPU. As stated in that Sonnet video, TB4 specifically has only 1 lane available, so it reverts back to TB3 to support these devices, which is fine. Unfortunately this is how Intel designed the spec. Perhaps in the future we'll get a new standard with 8 lanes of PCIe (TB5 or USB5...?) , something like the solution Asus is using for their XG Mobile interface (PCIe 3.0 x8).
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    Yeah, I still like to support the artists on Bandcamp, but I sub to YouTube Premium and it came with YT Music, I just use that all the time now. Now that I think about it, i've been subbed to both of those separately for years, I think they might be one product now as I'm just paying one fee.
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    Ahh, I'm just not a stickler for the quality, streaming is good enough for me lol. The only thing I don't have backed up in the cloud is the device backups and MP3 collection, though the MP3 collection is largely meaningless now as it just sits dormant. Basically it would take a house fire where I wasn't able to grab the two macbooks we have to be any meaningful loss of data. My desktop I could lose without consequence it's just games and entertainment. All my code is already in github I don't care about that. I was considering whether the risk of something catastrophic taking out my backups and devices in one swoop is worth the expense of backing up my NAS to the cloud. Was looking at Backblaze, though I can also just use AWS Glacier... decisions. In the end I wouldn't really care much if the NAS just went poof. It would at most be annoying but not life changing. What IS life changing IMO is the fact that I really don't feel the need to store media anymore, the expense of the streaming services is pretty much negligible for me.. we sub to like 7 or 8 of them hah. My time is better spent elsewhere.
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    2022 LG Gram 16/17 announced

    hfm replied to hfm's topic in LG

    It would be interesting to see a teardown of the model that doesn't have a dGPU. Depending on what they do with the heat management on that unit, assuming they go with single heatpipe+fan, it might be worth it to buy the one with a 2050 and just hardly ever use it, just to get the extra 10Wh and beefier heat management. This is all conjecture and speculation until we see a teardown with our own eyes.
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    lol.. wow.. wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay for a few streaming services hah. I still have an aging MP3 collection on my NAS that I never use anymore. I pretty much stopped contributing to that years ago except for the one off thing I buy on Bandcamp to support an artist, then I end up streaming their music anyway to give them additional streaming revenue. The rest of my 4TBx2 NAS is just incremental backups or time machine for all the devices in the house. I don't bother backing up my game installs just the OS. All that storage just for movies?
  16. hfm
    I stopped using liquid metal, usually ends up causing medium-long term issues with other metal parts and dries up rather fast. Some good quality non-conductive TIM is usually good enough.
  17. hfm

    2022 LG Gram 16/17 announced

    hfm replied to hfm's topic in LG

    That's a super detailed review, the model with the 2050 isn't that much heavier. Not bad, not bad at all.
  18. hfm
    You guys can't take a one-off result as "the result". It asks you to do it over and over and gives you an average at the end. Anyone can hit 50-100ms once, if you can do it consistently and get under 100ms average at the end of the test iterations, then wow, you're fast. 🙂\ I just did it again once without any "training" or warmup sessions and got 199ms average seemed to waver between 180ms and 215ms for the tests. I'm guessing that's probably pretty close to accurate for me as there's no way I'm esports pro level fast and I'm using a wireless mouse (though it's a good one, Razer Deathadder Pro) EDIT: Ok, did it again after that first warmup and got 184ms average. There's definitely something to warming up and practicing to get better at it.
  19. hfm
    lol good times. Man so many 2600 games were classics. Activision used to kill it on that platform. My fondest memories was playing and creating games on the hand-me-down TRS-80 Model I w/Expansion Interface (and then later TRS-80 Model III) that I had (I was 11 at the time..). I was a huge gamer on 2600.. but Midway Campaign by Avalon Hill (review) changed the way I thought about games. Plus it was written in BASIC so I could see how it worked and learn..
  20. hfm
    Oh man, NMS is definitely WAY BETTER than it was at launch, and I haven't played it in maybe a year or so. I'm sure it's progressed even further now. I'm still playing AC:Valhalla, probably will be on that a while. Tried out Lacuna (yeah the adventure game) for a quick change of pace. I liked what I saw in the demo and grabbed it since it's on sale. I'll probably revisit Elden Ring after I finish that and RDR2. Man I still have Hitman 3, and by consequence 1+2 in that engine since I never played those reboots. Plenty to do while From is continuing work on Elden Ring.. hah..
  21. hfm
    I still haven't finished Crysis 3. I'd say I'm lukewarm about it, I may grab it on a sale of if it's happens to hit gamepass.
  22. hfm
    I've noticed that my 2019 model has started to do this thing where audio will get "stuck" for lack of a better term for 3-5 seconds. Not sure it's specifically audio related or if it's something else. I could 100% pin it on the intel RST drivers in the past, but I don't have them installed right now. Shrug.
  23. hfm

    2022 LG Gram 16/17 announced

    hfm replied to hfm's topic in LG

    Depends on how they handle this, I personally am not a fan of the anti-glare coatings as long as the panel has enough nits; those coatings usually slightly dilute the clarity of the panel. But I get that perhaps I'm in the minority here as I don't work outside or have direct sunlight on my panel. The existing panel is far and away bright enough for any other case.
  24. hfm
    I've had RDR2 installed for a really long time, I'll probably get back to playing that once I finishd AC:Valhalla. I think I only got in maybe 15-20 hours into RDR2.
  25. hfm
    Once direct storage starts finding its way into games on PC it's going to be a pretty big game changer for open world games.
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