Mr. Fox

Quake II RTX - silky smooth on Linux at 5120x2160. Had to lower my power limit with LACT to 500W because the shunted 5090 with the 800W Matrix vBIOS was making the WireView Pro II scream like a stuck pig. My UPS also started squealing because it exceeds its 1500W capacity.

That level of caring died when EVGA left the building. Their competitors never gave a damn, and now there is no reason for them to even pretend they do.

He does not seem to be into that nonsense. Cherry-picked CPUs, GPUs and RAM seem to be more plentiful in China and neighboring Far East nations and Germany for some reason. The crappier stuff seems to get shipped out to the rest of the world.

Here is what I use. Save it as Boot-to-BIOS.cmd (or whatever you want) and run as admin. I added it to my right-click context menu using File Menu Tools. Very handy when you plan to reboot and enter the BIOS to make setting changes. @echo off shutdown /fw /r /t 0

I do not have any Windows 10 devices missing drivers, but after installing AMD chipset drivers I always have to browse from Device Manager and point to the C:\AMD folder to get one or two items to install because the automated chipset installation process skips them for some reason. This has always been this way for me since I first purchased an AM5 system, on both Windows 10 and 11. I'm not sure why. I can't remember now which device(s) that occurs with. Maybe the PSP or I2C device? I used to have something similar with Z790. I think it was GPIO or something like that which I had to always manually select the driver from Device Manager.

I returned the X870E Taichi because installing anything in a PCIe slot dropped the GPU to 8X. It was installed and running 30 minutes before I started the RMA. Functionality is the equivalent of an ITX board with only a GPU slot. Very idiotic engineering and lousy bifurcation design decisions are a curse on MOST X870E mobos. We can partially thank AMD for mandating the waste of PCIe lanes on USB4/TB (which most never use and never will). I could see limited use cases for it with a turdbook (like using an eGPU or having no external display options without it) but USB4/TB is irrelevant and mostly worthless on a desktop with a dedicated GPU.

For the past 6+ years I have used my own desktop PCs for work and now I will be using a company-issued turdbook for work. I repurposed my dual Acer 4K 160Hz panels for the work PC since I will be needing the massive screen real estate for work. I grabbed a 40" Samsung Odyssey G75F 5120x2160 180Hz WUHD monster on sale at Micro Center for $638 (model LS40FG75DENXZA) and it seems pretty great so far. It doesn't like the 4090 and neither does my ASUS 4K 120Hz monitor. I have to lower the resolution to not have a BIOS or Windows Boot Manager black screen (same problem using the ASUS screen with 4090) when using DisplayPort. Something about 40-series firmware and high refresh rate 4K on DisplayPort is glitchy. There are many examples of people complaining about this online. Using HDMI 2.1 it functions flawlessly. The 5090 doesn't care whether I use DisplayPort or HDMI.

I normally do not because people like that are not worth the effort. Nothing said can address their mental illness. I started/stopped more than once before replying, but when I noticed him being an ass to multiple people I decided it was worth the risk. The response I posted was much kinder and more humorous than the few I started to post and did not. I also pinged the moderators to draw their attention to the butthead.

https://www.overclock.net/posts/29562444/ What grade are you in? Are your classmates really mean to you, or is it a parenting issue?

I am using the new 9961 beta BIOS on the Apex and it seems OK so far. So, I may test 2101 on the Strix. AGESA 1.3.0.0 sucked for me on the Apex and the Strix, but 1.3.0.0a may have corrected the bugs that I had with 1.3.0.0 AGESA. Nah, I was wrong. AGESA 1.3.0.0a is still garbage. I still have random freezes at idle and light load from excessive vdroop using this AGESA that I don't have with older versions.

Thank you. Yes, it is definitely a relief. As a side note, I am more excited about this new role than any I can remember before. It is a newly created position in a new department. The job description reads like it was written for me by someone that knows me well. It will allow me to lean into my strengths and skillset. This will be the first time in around 25 years that I will not be responsible for the performance of other employees, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations. Data analytics has been a big part of what I have been responsible for in terms of people performance evaluation for 2.5 decades and that will be the bulk of my daily grind, but from the perspective of evaluating process and program performance rather than execution (or the failure to execute) by individuals. Apart from the previous 6.25 years working for a small business, the previous 32+ years I have worked for huge fortune 500 corporations with many thousands of employees. I am also looking forward to going back to that again. The small business experience was wonderful until it wasn't. And, another plus is that I can continue working remotely. I haven't worked from a corporate office location since 2000. I have been a remote employee ever since, before the term "remote" was even invented. Most of the jobs I applied for would have required working on-site daily or hybrid with with only 1 or 2 days a week remote. I'm so glad I don't have to waste time behind a windshield going to/from work and battling traffic every day.