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I just got my hands on a p157sm-a recently, plan to use it for my intro into Linux :) Welcome to the forum!

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Maybe for Papusans Bday next year I can go grab a pair :)

They better pristine if they are white! lmao

Morpheous II will solve a lot of problems :)

Spot on. @bendella Thats why generally speaking I dont mind where people post if a given topic doesnt fall directly in line with a sub-forum, it can always be moved later. If we create a bunch of sub-forums with little to no activity then it gives the appearance to people passing by that the forum is dead or dying when truthfully considering the age of this forum, couldnt be further from the truth. Its like passing by a Grocery store, if it looks empty, under normal circumstances most would just keep going until they find a store that looks like it has inventory. So if you want to make a thread but unsure of where it should go, just get it going and if it needs to be moved now or later, we will take care of it as needed.

Welcome to the forum @lsflp !

Im not sure miners would be on board unless they are buying simply in the hopes of someone else unlocking its potential assuming LHR out of the box. The current launch is not very interesting to me, what is more interesting at present is how AMD will respond. If its same/similar performance but at the same pricing then I suppose that makes things easier since I wouldnt be looking at either one lol Though to be perfectly honest I havent had the time to play any games lately anyways, between carpooling and reallocating other PC's / cleaning up the cards I just got gaming went straight to nil.

I dont think anyone is authentically surprised with the pricing. The market told Nvidia they can essentially charge what they want. Depressing.

Welcome to the forums @Goyo looking forward to seeing you around the neighborhood

Well then, I am glad that my current hardware gets me across the finish line lol

Well if amd follows suit then my outlook on anything new will be locked into an disinterested state regardless of vendor, I'll start looking at old stuff for some fun. Though I already am I guess :/ lol

I like the idea, looks like we will need a little shake-up to make things fit for peripherals, mobile / handhelds. Its on my list for consideration probably over this weekend.

I hope they work out well for you :) Think I still have 16GB of it in my t440p

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255734672297?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=6huhU75tRdy&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=FySCCas2SSG&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Just make sure it's ddr3

You might find them in kits of 8gb single's, it's how I found them a couple years ago on Amazon.

I never had any luck with with SODIMM overclocking in any platform that used DDR3. Even with unlocked BIOS none seemed to be able to manipulate the settings in place on XMP or JEDEC, iirc there was limited success with Thaiphoon Burner but I dont recall how much success there was. I think @Mr. Fox did try it at one point though under similar circumstances (M18xR2)

All roads are looking to diverge towards Linux

Got both gtx 690's and now both have an accelero twin turbo heatsink. Tested the first one and looks to be operating as it should, gpu 2 will be tomorrow. I don't want to get ahead of myself but I do see some benchmarks that look like they could be in reach. I'll upload some pc porn with this post. Basically replaces the single 92mm fan with 2x 120mm fans, though they do appear to be low profile. Going to have to swap a lot of hardware around this week. Looks like the eah4890's are a scam. Guy never sent them, if they exist and created the same listing a day after I made the purchase. Ebay is now making me wait 5 additional days before they are willing to step in, guess I'm going to have to call them tomorrow. I did see an accelero III for 15, probably going to snap that up.

@Ishayin I know this response is a bit delayed. I had seen this post while at work and lost track of this as I continued searching. It looks like what I had been looking for has been long desired by many in the peripheral space. One such solution is "QMK" or Quantum Mechanical Keyboard, which is an open source firmware/software that loads into a compatible controller board which then allows you to pretty much what ever you would like to do with a keyboard. The next trick is to figure out if your board is compatible, and if so, what steps you have to take in order to make it so. If not, if there is someone else out there in the ether who had enough interest to make a replacement PCB with the controller that you want so that you can have the keyboard you want while using QMK. My original solution to attempt was a macropad, but this used a driver called (recalling from memory here) PS2VRGB and as such wouldnt work with my synchronizers that I use to interface with 32x systems at a time. Luckily I was able to find an open box (actually 2) Code v3 TKL keyboards that more or less resolved this issue, for me anyways. I also picked up a Pok3r keyboard but the Pok3r doesnt seem to retain the settings I implement once it loses power. I personally have a Durgod Full-size keyboard and was surprised to learn that it has macro functions as well but I have no idea how to set it up and the software seems impossible to download from their website.

Its currently what I am debating. If there is something you wish to post about now that doesnt fit squarely, we can always move it after certain remedies are made to the forum :)

Its also possible that your motherboard's default option is different from what you had set when you first set up the system. For Dell (I know this isnt a dell system) as an example, Most people tend to set AHCI as a default SATA operation, but Dell's default option is Raid On, which would cause issues after a BIOS update on laptops for example.

I have actually been pondering the idea of expanding on the Desktop sub-forum. I have been split though as keyboards aren't inherent to desktops either so that might fall in line somewhere else

Yeah I am generally not happy about the current paradigm. Basically the reason we stopped getting interesting one off's, especially in the western world is specifically due to Nvidia. AMD tried to keep it running a bit longer but sadly both products were priced high and didnt really attempt to hit the mainstream market anymore. With DX12 and pushing mGPU back into the developers which was odd but also foreseeable. Nvidia after all only really put any effort into games that were attempting to implement proprietary functions they themselves were trying to push. Actually I remember there some buzz about the 460 2WIN because it had the SLI finger still present so there was some excitement about running Quad SLI/Tri SLI just for fun. Dont know if anyone tried this though...

I still have one from the p750fm, but alas the p157sm-a uses a different style. The guy got back to me he just realized he forgot it so I asked him to send it Monday. No rush for this system