Mr. Fox

10 hours ago, Jarhead said:

Nevermind music back then, as it does now, also was sending some kind of message, albeit exactly what changes depending on the then-current trends/issues/blah. Beatniks of the 1950s, hippies from the 60s/70s, punk/ska/etc from the 90s/00s, etc. 

This is exactly why I have gravitated toward music without lyrics. Some bands that produce great-sounding music ruin it with poor vocals, offensive lyrics, or by their activist stance on a matter that places them at odds with my position. If they are blatant about it that makes me dislike them and their music because their message ruins it. If there are no lyrics and it just sounds great it makes me want to bang my head, air drum or fist pump. 

I remember the Monkees and their Saturday morning TV show quite well. As a kid I enjoyed it as well as Lance Link Secret Chimp. I remember The Partridge Family as well. Susan Dey was one of my teenage heartthrobs and the girls were wild about David Cassidy.

There have been lots of one hit wonders over the years that were famous only for one song. There are many very popular and successful bands that have enough great songs that I can still count them on one hand. Rolling Stones and The Beatles are both examples of that. There are not very many bands that produced tons of songs that I love. That's probably because the primary determining factor of whether I like a song or hate it is how it sounds. One of the great things about digital music is that we don't have to buy an entire album just for one song anymore. We can download just the one song we care about for a buck or two and totally ignore the rest of their music.

I guess I said all that to say that what matters to me is the song(s) more than the person(s) that made it. If the music doesn't entertain me then I don't care about the music or the musicians. Fanboyism sucks no matter what form it takes.

I know my surprised look is not on my face.

On 8/1/2025 at 6:00 AM, Papusan said:

Edit. See stupidity in action with bios update @Mr. Fox

 

Some users have reported that their B650 non-E motherboards, despite being ocially listed as supporting PCIe 4.0, were in fact capable of running at PCIe 5.0 speeds. This was confirmed by using the latest generation graphics cards that support the PCIe 5.0 interface:

 

It is now being reported that the latest 1203E BIOS update for these motherboards reverts the specication back to PCIe 4.0.

 

Gigabyte removes unocial PCIe 5.0 support from B650 motherboards in latest BIOS update

 

 

Heaven forbid that someone would get PCIe 5.0 without having to paying extra for it. Goes to show what we already know... "compatibility" is generally a fabrication and controlled based on price not hardware or software functionality. Micro$lop is the biggest offender of deliberately fabricating artificial conditions that make things "not compatible" with their older OS versions to try to entice people to move to a newer OS with more cancer, bloat and data theft spyware.

Isn't it is amazing how many undesirable free games they give away? They should try giving away desirable AAA games that don't look like something released in the 80's or early 90's for DOS and Windows 3.1, LOL.

I have free bags of trash for anyone that wants them. First come, first serve. When they're gone, they're gone. Hurry kids. FREE!

3 hours ago, electrosoft said:

@Talon  Jarrod really loves the Acer Predator Helios 16S 275hx + 5070ti ...... 🤣

 

5070ti is capped to 115w as is the CPU to ~95w and a 230w PSU tops comes with it. It scores lower across the board vs similar, bigger, stronger versions of that same combo.

 

Curious to see what the 5060 version has in it and what it is capped to on the GPU when it finally arrives.

 

 

When the turdbook manufacturers start capping power levels like that it dramatically (and unfortunately) diminishes the value of buying what should be remarkably stronger and faster hardware and it begins to have an effect of leveling the playing field with the more anemic mobile rubbish that costs a lot less. The benefits of spending more for something better is muted to some degree, when the products should be miles apart in terms of performance that scales with the price tag. Now we are starting to see shades of similar nonsense on the desktop side. If it costs twice as much it should be twice as powerful and twice as fast, but it's usually not the case.

13 minutes ago, Yarema said:

Sup! Guys what do u think, this guy did shunt mod for his AW18 r1 ( 13980HX, 4090)

cuz almost 27K in Time Spy graphics is NUTZ on par with top 5090 OC results
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57554922

I never heard of shunt modding AW18. Lenovo legion, Asus Scar, Hydroc 16 - yes , but never Alien. Is it possible to reach this guy somehow?

If you can identify the correct resistors you should be able to shunt mod any GPU, whether desktop or laptop. Brand does not matter AFAIK. Results might be mixed based on cancer EC power caps though. If the EC limits total system power draw the shunt mod might yield lackluster results on one brand versus another without as much cancer in the EC.

I am not sure how to identify the user or contact them based on their UL/3DMark ID. Maybe there is a way, but I do not know. Maybe see if they are on HWBOT and contact them that way. If you can find that score and the validation URL on HWBOT that links to that submission that might work.

I was not sure how that shunt modded mobile 4090 score compares to desktop GPU performance. Out of curiosity I compared it to some of my results and it wasn't on the same level. Since I do not pay attention to laptops any more I did not realize they have fallen so far behind. Even a 9070 XT beats it by a significant margin. How low is the score for a typical mobile 4090 that is not shunt modded?

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/57554922/spy/56867844/spy/40813006

On 7/28/2025 at 7:15 AM, Papusan said:

Today 29. July is my and my lovely wife's 30th wedding anniversary. Also known as a pearl wedding. That's something to celebrate🙂 Then the 5 years we lived together before that sunny and beautiful day we put on the wedding rings. So 35 years now together as couple. Oh' as the years have gone. A bit above two weeks and I'm passing 60 as well. The life go damn fast now. And faster and faster the older you become. At least the way I see it. And I'm sure many others also see it the same way as me. I wish the speed could be slowed down a bit. Oh'well, it's what it is. 

Happy Anniversary and congratulations. We live in a day where marriages that last the test of time like ours have is becoming more rare and commitments don't mean as much as they used to. Getting old sucks, but getting old with the person you have given your life and your heart to make the years go by faster and with more happiness. We will celebrate 39 years in November and it seems so weird that so much time has passed so fast. Sometimes I forget that I am approaching 63, but my real life started only 39 years ago. May the rest of your years together be filled with love and happiness.

5 hours ago, Eban said:

So I was trying to listen to some "modern music" recently. Kanye West and a whole bunch of other names I don't know....yeah. I'm old.

 

They just don't make em like this any more...auto tune my ass

 

Heart - Barracuda

 

I like a wide variety of music from multiple genres, unlike many people in my age group. Around the time I turned 60 I began gravitating more toward music without any lyrics, but nothing is as good as the classic metal and hard rock stuff like that one in your post.

I do not view music as being an artistic expression. If it doesn't entertain me then I don't like it. I look for demonstration of superior instrumental or vocal ability and melodical excellence. I simply don't care about a person "expressing" their self, the underlying message or whatever agenda they are peddling, or the cultural relevance of their musc, etc. If that even becomes evident to me I tend to reject it. Entertain me... now... or I am turning it off. Music without lyrics seldom annoys me, but often entertains me.

Perhaps one of the reasons us older guys like the older music is because the older musicians were focused on entertaining and producing melodic excellence as "entertainers" rather than trying to be artists or cultural influencers. That kind of crap just turns me off.

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

Once they fix this something else will be broken. Be you sure.

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 24H2 stability issues, affecting games, tests performance fixes

Microsoft has now quietly admitted Windows 11 24H2 stability issues after recent mandatory cumulative updates.

 

Yet the Micro$lop Kool-Aid drinkers continue to gobble it up as if nothing is wrong.

15 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

China ia already in work being independent of Western tech. They have words largest float of engineers. Maybe not as fast as western tech but they will survive. And if they need something faster/better they will pay for it on the grey market. Will US earn on this from increased tariffs. Nope, I don't think so. Only the smugglers, Intel, AMD and nvidia. Only a real ban can stop it. And track every AI hardware sold. From birth to the death of the hardware.

 

China advances toward tech independence with new homegrown 6nm gaming and AI GPUs

In that case then it is all pointless and a waste of time and energy. Just let them do whatever they're going to do and stop all trade with them. No buying their products or selling anything to them. Just pretend they don't exist. Seize all of their assets in America, revoke all visas and expel all non-citizen Chinese, ban travel and deny entry.

5 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

What I meant with my latest post... This one.... Nvidia is even allowed to sell out the last batches of inventory in China. Where is the US chip ban? A Joke? I'm sure Jensen with Nvidia (shareholders) and their partners is damn happy for the weak US leadership....

 

The US Government/bureaucracy could easly say nope. But they didn't. They put a green lights (special approval) so Nvidia's partners could sell all remaining cards. Both are banned server and 5090D cards that we know they can't/or shoudn't sell. That's on the US leadership. Not Nvidia that begged for help so they could sell it. This is bad/weak leadership. 

 

I wonder what Jensen did to get green lights from those higher up for continuing with their circumvent of infused rules. Rules is rules. Not something you play with. 

 

3 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

This is exactly what I was implying/asking in one of my posts. 

 

What changed? It went from serious restrictions to a personal meeting with Jensen at the white house to even less restrictions on Nvidia than even the Biden era and trump literally singing Jensen's praises at an AI summit.

 

What changed?

Not sure what changed. Maybe the expectation is to rake in tons of cash in tariffs? If that is the case and China ends up paying a crap ton in tariffs to the US then I can see why. If it costs them more than any other country to play the AI idiot game then that would make more sense than a "ban" that is more difficult to enforce.

I stopped paying attention to this stuff because I no longer care about 5090 price or availability because I am not wasting money on an absurdly overpriced 5090.

Honestly, I do not understand why China hasn't just stolen the GeForce tech and counterfeited it like they do so many other things. They do not respect patents. They could just create their own counterfeit GPUs with stolen technology.

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

Nvidia is even allowed to sell out the last batches of inventory in China. Where is the US chip ban? A Joke? I'm sure Jensen with Nvidia (shareholders) and their partners is damn happy for the weak US leadership....

It's more of an NVIDIA compliance failure than a "leadership" problem. You cannot control smuggling very well, but they can certainly fine NVIDIA into oblivion and vaporize all of their AI profits. I do not believe smuggling is an issue. The issue is NVIDIA disobedience. The leadership failure is in not fining the daylights out of NVIDIA wiping them out financially for not having a tight leash on who they sell to. NVIDIA needs to be held responsible and it needs to cause them tremendous financial harm if they do not fall in line. The cost and effort of compliance and policing who the buyers are should be NVIDIA's resonsibility. Government needs to put the hammer down on NVIDIA and audit everything they do. They could start by putting Jensen in jail, along with anyone else that has allowed the sale of chips for Chinese consumption.

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

I really hope Intel will fire all the smart assss engineers that wanted to get rid of SMT. They shold never ever be allowed to continue destroy the Intel brand anymore. As well fire all the overlords and bean counters at Intel corp that let this happens. 

 

Future Intel CPUs to Feature SMT Again: Hyper‑Threading Returns

 

In data center, we are focused on regaining share as we ramp Granite Rapids while also improving our capabilities for hyperscale workloads. To support this, we are reintroducing simultaneous multi-threading (SMT). Moving away from SMT put us at a competitive disadvantage. Bringing it back will help us close performance gaps. We are also making good progress in our search for a permanent leader of our data center business, and I plan to share more on that this quarter. Across client and data center, I've directed our teams to define next-generation product families with clean and simple architectures, better cost structures and simplified SKU stacks. In addition, I have instituted a policy where every major chip design is reviewed and approved by me before tape-out. This discipline will improve our execution and reduce development costs.

 

In client, Panther Lake is our top priority as it will reinforce our strength in notebooks across consumer and enterprise. We also must drive continued progress on Nova Lake to close gaps in the high-end desktop space.

 

 

Anyone trust Nvidia's CEO Jensen who frequently visit China and talk with their partners...

 

TL;DR: A Financial Times investigation reveals over $1 billion worth of banned NVIDIA AI GPUs were smuggled into China during early US export restrictions, with Chinese distributors marketing high-priced, plug-and-play GPU racks. NVIDIA denies involvement, while recent US approvals may reduce black market GPU sales.
 

LOL. Nvidia knows very wll where most of their expensive server chips will lands. Of course they will deny it. It would be stupid not to do. So stupid isn't Jensen Huang. Not as stupid as some of the leading politicians at US government adm.

 

$1 billion NVIDIA AI GPU black market smuggling ring unveiled by investigation

 

 

Good news on the Intel front. I agree the idiots responsible for removing hyper-threading should be fired.

NVIDIA should pay a fine of $100,000 USD for every GPU that was smuggled into China and the smugglers should be tracked down and terminated. Jensen needs to decide between being a US citizen or a Chinese citizen and his travel outside of the US should be banned if he chooses being a US citizen. He cannot be trusted.

40 minutes ago, Papusan said:

I'm too old smart for all this new and "fancy" disgusting crap....  

I fixed two typos for you

40 minutes ago, Papusan said:

Microsoft is testing an "appearance" option within Copilot to let you see how it reacts to what you're telling it.

😑 💩

11 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Is that some sorts of brownish cake?😀 Could it be Chocolate cake?😍 Have seen something similar coming from "The Little Thief".

 

 LOL (please see also the whole video).

 

Micro$lop are professional gaslighters.  

10 hours ago, Papusan said:

Microsoft says it’s committed to Windows 11 performance upgrade, needs feedback

My feedback for them is: "Micro$lop, you suck" and you need to stop being sucky dumba$$es. Get rid of everything the vast majority of the technically savvy users of your trash OS has said that they do not like in the next update. Stop listening to your Kool-Aid drinking Insider idiots and start watching all of the YouTube videos showing how to fix your screwed up messes. Stop trying to force people into using things they do not want to use. (i.e. Secure Boot and TPM, arbitrary CPU requirements, blah, blah, blah). Stop trying to control what hardware people use. Get rid of your malware, telemetry, Copilot and general overall disgusting aesthetics. Go back to a legit Start menu like Windows 7 and stop acting like everyone that uses your trashy OS is a child or a technical ignoramus. Pull your head out of your corporate rectum and actually do something right... if you can even remember how. Stop treating the users of your products and your employees like crap.

@Papusan Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella need to be given a one-way ticket to Gitmo.

9995WX scored a whopping 173K in Cinebench R23, LOL. 🤣 Around 26% faster than its predecessor. 5.0GHz on 96 cores.

The boundaries of stupidity are unlimited. Collective Shout is collectively stupid. 

6 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

I've been dual booting for years now with originally RH and then mint and using Kali as needed for work. I prefer a pure Windows environment when needed and a pure linux environment as needed but I can see also using Linux primarily and Windoze in a VM too.

 

Point is to use Linux whenever possible IMHO and WIndows whenever necessary.  

One of the reasons I have so many drives on my computers is that I loathe partitions and multipurpose drives. Both of my desktops have drives with a W10 LTSC NVMe for my work OS, a W10 LTSC NVMe for my "not work" OS, a W11 NVMe crash dummy OS to occasionally re-validate my hatred for W11 and a Linux NVMe. Beyond that I single-purpose other drives as well. A drive for storage of work-related files. A drive for personal file storage.  Drive(s) for games. A drive for Macrium Reflect images. A scratch drive for temporary "garbage" files.

My personal preferences rarely ever change, but my "needs" have and now I need Windows less than ever. There are only two applications my job requires that only run on Windows (Excel and PowerBI). They only function on Windows and there are no fully functional Linux equivalents. My needs for work have changed over time. For a very long time (about 35 years) almost everything I did for work necessitated the use of Windows. But today (the past 5 years) the vast majority of my work is performed in a web-based environment. I'm not benching any more. I seldom game, and I am losing interest in that. In no small part because I have a narrow preference in genres and there are very few titles released that hold any interest for me. 

We are all creatures of habit with preferences that are often shaped by bias and opinion. To some degree, some more than others, we equate preference with need. Distinguishing the two is often challenging for us. My extreme contempt for what Windows has become is a major driving factor behind my pursuit of a Windoze-free life. This has brought about significant shifts in my personal preferences that never would have occurred otherwise. Being a rebel that thrives on resistance and rejects anything resembling command and control, that derives a high degree of personal satisfaction in defiance of status quo and deliberate in demonstrating malice and extreme prejudice toward ideas and concepts I do not approve of, I am finding Linux is a better fit. It nurtures that rebel beast inside of me, whereas Winduhz is evolving into a source of antagonism, wrath and rage against the machine. By nature, I actually like that.

CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

18 minutes ago, KING19 said:

Good news @Mr. Fox Linux is slowly rising in the marketshare at 5%

 

https://www.notebookcheck.net/2025-could-finally-be-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop-as-the-OS-attains-5-US-desktop-market-share-for-the-first-time.1060391.0.html

Micro$lop makes embracing Linux easier than ever.

16 minutes ago, KING19 said:

Im not surprised, They really want everyone to move to 11 by any means necessary even though its still not stable which is bad for businesses and i dont think it'll ever will as long they keep adding more crap to it. I might try Win 10 LTSC when 10 goes out of support, I just reinstalled 10 on my current laptop after 3 years and it reminded me how bloated both Win10/11 are by default... thank god for apps like O&O shutup 10

You can easily convert Pro to LTSC IoT and activate it permanently with a digital license using a Powershell script. No need to clean install. If you are not sure how drop me a PM.

6 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Sadly it will come the time they'll remove all settings in bios so you are forced to have this junk enabled all time 24/7/365. 

 

If/when that happens I will use whatever motherboard I have until it stops working and replace it with another one like it. Or, I will not have a computer. I will not tolerate tech companies deciding things for me. Screw 'em... they will deserve to die if that happens and I will do my part to help.

I don't give a rat's butt about Secure Boot. Always disabled on the first boot of a new motherboard, along with TPM, and never re-enabled again. Ever. Fake security blanket rubbish to make Micro$lop seem more relevant and important than they should be.

CachyOS installed without a hitch on the X870E AORUS Master. Working great. Still rocking Kubuntu on the Strix X870E-E. Week three without using Windoze except for in a VM when it is unavoidable. Not missing anything Micro$lop has to offer, which is close to nothing.

3 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

What I know is that he found same pattern with his several attempts to fix Evga refurbished graphics cards. He have more videos of the problem. Maybe EVGA had other fixes for the more expensive Kingpin cards. Who knows. An awful way to cut costs. 

I doubt there is anyone working at EVGA at this point that know anything about GPU or motherboard repair. Probably handled by another company now. I would not send anything to them for warranty repair at this point because of that. 

8 hours ago, Papusan said:

EVGA made good products but their repair fixes fail hard.... Many ways to cut cost after you bough the cards.

 

I watched that video earlier today and baking a video card to reflow is a terrible idea. I have always thought it was a terrible idea. This video showed a great example of why it's a bad idea. But I'm not sure about the accuracy of whether or not that is how an EVGA refurbish repair is handled. I suspect Tony is going off of what the owner told him. They probably do not even have any electronics repair staff left, so it probably got refurbished by another company on their behalf. The decal could be a forgery as well.