Mr. Fox

Well, ASSuS received my dead Apex Encore motherboard yesterday, but they haven't updated my RMA ticket to reflect receipt of it. I hope this doesn't go like my past experiences with these retarded monkeys have gone. If they don't take care of me I may replace it with a Tachyon. I refuse to purchase a 4-DIMM POS motherboard and it's really the only 2-DIMM alternative to the Apex/Apex Encore at this point unless I downsize to ITX. @electrosoft how is the Z90i Lightning? Any regrets? Compared to the Edge? From 5:48 in the Doofus comparison video...

It bothers me that only one party to the debate was "fact-checked" in the 3-against-1 rigged journalistic assassination attempt. 25 Lies Kamala Harris Told In Her Debate Against Trump Megyn wasn't the only one disgusted...

I find it difficult to identify any politician or media source that I like, or consider good or honest. I think that most are unworthy of trust, motivated by an agenda, panderers to special interests, rather than motivated to do the right thing for their constituents. I consider myself to be a conservative American with traditional family values, not a Republican or Demoncrat. When it comes to choosing how to vote it is generally reduced to identifying the lesser evil and choosing the option that is least likely to screw things up worse than they already are. It never has anything to do with the person I am voting for or whether I like them. Chances are pretty slim that I do. That's unfortunate, but it is the reality we are faced with. It's getting easier to choose only because the options are polarized and diametrically opposed extremes... one extremely corrupt and the other less screwed up, but neither one a great option. There is no longer such a thing as middle-ground or moderate. Principles don't matter enough. So, voting is basically an essential and critically important form of damage control.

Yes, that is correct. I know I am not planning to buy any new tech at this point in time. I might buy a better bin CPU or something like that if I stumble upon a fantastic deal, but I don't see any reason to spend any money. I do not expect Arrow Lake to be anything special just as it is looking like Zen 5 isn't anything special. Another example of the fact that newer is always better newer. It seems this is the new normal now. Lots of "meh" everywhere we look.

I watched that video before work this morning. I am puzzled by it to some degree. Maybe everyone that was planning to buy/build a Ryzen system is already set and nobody is shopping now. Was there a big uplift? No. Would there be a reason to upgrade from prior gen? Maybe. Like 13900K>13900KS>14900K not much difference, but minor improvements, which probably don't matter much to people that are mostly gamers and don't care that much about overclocking. I don't want to stereotype people, but from my perspective that seems like it applies to many AMD owners. While there are exceptions, if a person is happy with what they have and are not pursuing bleeding edge incremental or fractional increases in performance it would most likely be a really silly waste of money if there is not going to be a corresponding measurable benefit. If one were going to build a new AM5 system then buying Zen 5 instead of Zen 4 would make sense. Moving from Zen 4 to Zen 5 while sticking with the newer equivalent probably doesn't make good sense for most people. But, buying a more powerful and higher core count Zen 5 CPU to replace a weaker and lower core count Zen 4 CPU would be logical.

Awesome video and makes me even sadder that the best the world has seen is dead. Vince talks about why the idea of working for another company has been difficult for him... essentially a lack of innovation and commitment to being better.

This guy's candor is refreshing and we need a lot more of it. I am surprised the speech-censoring Nazis on YouTube haven't nixed it already. What do you think, @Papusan? I think he has very clearly identified one of the major reasons why gaming in 2024 is often sucky.

I usually avoid using the term "never" because crow meat doesn't taste good. But, I think I can use it safely in saying that Crapintush will never be viewed as an option. The brand is an abomination and I think I would prefer to not own any computer or a smartphone if it meant I had to purchase filth from crApple. That doesn't excuse Micro$lop for producing trashy OSes or absolve them of any of their unacceptableness, but they are definitely the lesser evil by a pretty wide margin.

My reply to their video...

That is accurate. You can add adjectives, such as epic or unmitigated in front of disaster for added emphasis.

I use that and the old version of Chrome that still works for Windows 7, but the Chrome nagging really pisses me off. They really need to mind their own business. As long as it works I simply do not care if it is updated.

I really like this one. Their style and sound reminds me a lot of Iron Maiden.

As long as they can get away with charging more because something has their name on it they will, and as long as the sheeple believe the brand name is something that makes it special they will continue to get away with charging outlandish prices for their junk. There is probably a total system power cap and whichever component (CPU or GPU) is pushing the system to draw the most power gets emasculated. It's unfortunate that this is how turdbooks are made now, but it is very common among all of them and has been for a good while. Even the Clevo systems that had desktop CPUs had power caps, which is super stupid. There should not be any such thing. The power limit should be determined by the maximum power-drawing capacity of the components and/or the AC adapter and not limited to something that offers anything less than full and unmetered performance.

It looks like you got it installed. Nice job. The clock dropping is most likely controlled by the firmware/EC on your turdbook and you might not be able to correct that without modded firmware. You can try maxing out the minium and maximum clocks on both sliders and if it still does that you're going to have to live with it or find someone that can locate and correct the cancer code in your turdbook firmware. I have a friend with a newer ASUS gaming turdbook with a 13900HX CPU and it won't hold its overclock under load. I have tried everything I can to help him and it is hopeless with stock firmware cancer.

Hopefully stupid won't win again, but I won't hold my breath. If it does, the social media censors will silence those that are not drinking the Kool-Aid and believing all of the mainstream media lies.

I generally use Linux distros that automatically manage the NVIDIA drivers and it is generally hassle-free that way. Many of them have the option during setup to choose the installation and use of proprietary drivers, but POP!_OS and Zorin and Kubuntu make it pretty effortless. Some things are worth doing the hard way, but to me that's not one of them. I think Kubuntu is my favorite distro. It is closer to "ready to use" for me with a default installation in much the same way Zorin is.

Same kinds popular in other places. Then there is the Viking music... https://www.youtube.com/@nordikido

kind of creepy not so creepy

CPUPower-GUI may help close the gap on Cinebench by forcing maximum performance mode instead of balanced or power saver mode. Below are screenshots I just grabbed on my Dell Precision turdbook with the CPU and GPU stuff showing. The big white window in the first screenshot is "hardinfo" (aka System Profiler and Benchmark Tool) that should be available for download from the software center. Laptops wiht Optimus can be tricky in terms of forcing the discrete GPU. On my Precision I can disable the Intel GPU in the BIOS so that it has no switchable graphics. In order to overclock the GPU using GreenWithEnvy you need to be using X.org display manager. I do not think it will work with Wayland. To enable overclocking, from a terminal you need to run this command once to update the X.org file and then reboot to unlock the core and memory clocks.. Sadly, my Quadro P5000 (and all others, including desktop Quadro P5000) have locked core and memory clocks. Nothing can overclock this GPU model in Windows or Linux AFAIK. sudo nvidia-xconfig --cool-bits=24 That is truly repulsive. Using a PC should not feel like you are attending a circus. They did not even have any calliope music. They should have been playing this in the background.

CPUPower-GUI is what I use for CPU clock control and power profile management. Try installing it from the Zorin software center first. You can install it from the .deb file on Github as a last resort if it is not available in the software center. Linux tries to force the CPU to use minimal power rather than balls-to-the-wall performance, which is annoying if you do not override the default settings. https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui/releases/tag/v1.0.0 If it does not work you have have to install pyxdg and libhandy if they are not already installed. If you need to, probably won't need to do more than sudo apt update, then sudo apt install pyxdg and sudo apt install libhandy from a terminal. CPU-X is basically the Linux equivalent of CPU-Z. GreenWithEnvy will allow GPU core and memory overclocking.

https://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ https://openbenchmarking.org/

Well... The Apex Encore motherboard failed last night. It had been giving me trouble off and on for a month or two not completing POST and hanging with a green light and Q-code 99, but pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del one or two times had allowed it to complete POST until last night. Thankfully it is not the CPU. I stayed up all night farting around with it trying different things. I swapped CPU, RAM, GPU, removed all NVMe and SATA connections and tried moving keyboard and mouse to other USB ports, but no change. I even tried doing the recovery flash on the BIOS, which completed successfully but did not change the behavior. It goes through all of the normal startup routine, as expected, but hangs at the very last part for I/O initialization. The monitor power light comes on like it is receiving a signal, but never has anything on-screen. Before it quit working I had a hard time getting it to boot earlier in the day yesterday. I had to power it off and on about a dozen times and then when I went into the BIOS the image on the screen loaded sluggishly. I obtained an RMA today from ASUS, paid $60 for shipping (boo!) using their label. But, they will return it using ground (slow and cheap) shipping. Hopefully they won't try screwing me over like they have in the past. Took lots of pictures in case they try pulling the "physical damage" or "bent pins" liar routine like they have with so many people (including me). Hopefully it won't be a month long wait like it has in the past. Maybe all of the recent negative publicity about their warranty service will change the dynamic. Crossing my fingers.

I have not seen that on OC.net forum so I am not sure. I will have to look.

WINE is kind of antiquated and using it as a standalone is more difficult and it has less support. I would recommend using Lutris as the front end/GUI for it. I found that to be more forgiving. I suspect you will find more tutorials for Lutris. That is what I use for Cinebench.