Mr. Fox

I think what we often overlook is the fact that most of the CPU, GPUs and motherboards that are sold are NOT enthusiast products. I only want the enthusiast products and have no interest in wasting my money on consumer-grade trash, but that is not the norm. We are outnumbered by people that just want something that works OK, gets the job done without any effort on their part, and doesn't cost a ton of money. If Intel can produce GPUs that compete in the lower and middle price range and simply get the job done for consumers and "normal" gamers they will be successful. Even if they are not the most powerful GPU option available, they're still going to be a WHOLE LOT more powerful than the integrated graphics trash, and many discrete graphics solutions that most people are content to use. Some gamers are still very happy and satisfied using very old products that are extremely slow compared to the products we are using as long as their games are playable and no drama is involved.

I am going to take a wait and see attitude toward it. We don't know what the pricing is going to ultimately look like or what kind of overclocking potential they will have. If Intel GPUs end up having overclocking potential to the same or similar extent their CPUs do, it might not matter so much if the "stock" performance is medicore like a 3060 or 3070. For the typical gamerboy, I don't see where that needs to be an issue. If the price is right and it runs like a 3060 or 3070 it will be good enough for all practical intents and purposes and what will matter more to them is how cheap they can get it. For example, if we look at the comparison between Intel and AMD processors, AMD might have a minor performance edge in some things running BIOS defaults and stock clocks. But, they really suck at core and memory overclocking. As soon as you punch the throttle on the equivalent Intel CPU it opens a can of whoop ass on the AMD CPU. If an Intel GPU can have the living crap overclocked out of it, then it might not matter that much if the stock performance isn't anything to write home about. I find that to be a lot more prefererrable than something that runs nice stock but sucks at overclocking. Stock performance isn't really that important to me. I care more about how far I can push it. That would be very refreshing for GPU experience since GPU core overclocking really sucks for both NVIDIA and AMD, and has been a sucky experience for Turing and Ampere. Take the 7960X and 7980XE as extreme examples. You could push them to a 100% (double stock clock) overclock. They performed like an entirely different product when you put the pedal to the metal. If you can push an Intel GPU core clock to even 50% higher than stock, the overclocked performance might stomp the life out of what we are used to seeing with overclocked NVIDIA and AMD flagship GPUs today.

Far and away my favorite products, of unmatched quality, but no longer within an acceptable price point for me to view it as a viable option. The value is just too difficult for me to identify. Being a very late arrival to virtually every launch is also an issue, even if money were no object.

LOL. Too funny. Maybe what they meant, and failed to properly articulate, is that their drivers don't suck as bad and remain in a perpetual semi-stable beta state like AMD graphics drivers. With a few random exceptions, their drivers have been a mess for as long as I can remember, and their firmware is equally perma-botched.

I use the Chris Titus debloater script and he is about to release a new and improved version. Video below. Should be out soon.

He did show the "unlock" command. If the IC itself is write protected at a hardware level then the answer might be grabbing the soldering iron and installing a new blank chip on it and programming it using the software for flashing AMD cards. I certainly would not have a surprised look on my face about them going Nazi on something that is supposedly for enthusiasts given the fact that they are generally anti-overclocking in their approach to things. It certainly wouldn't be the first time that enthusiasts got sold a bill of goods, and definitely it won't be the last.

Oh ye of little faith. With great coldness of GPU cores great things are possible. The secret to the gold is hidden in the cold. Since turdbooks are air cooled what you need to feed your laptop is freezing cold air. Have you found a place to purchase fans that rotate in the opposite direction? I don't think I've ever seen any that you could buy that spin the opposite of normal.

I played around with the longer and more challenging versions of TM5, but I haven't really found a need/benefit for it. Some people are really anal about their memory running under max stress for days with no errors. I haven't identified a need to be stressed out about it. I don't recognize the GUI for MemTest Pro. I have MemTest Pro, but it doesn't look like that. That kind of looks like OCCT. The MemTest Pro I have is very plain-looking test on gray, like CPU-Z or the other RAM Test GUI. Is that a different brand that uses the same name, or is "RunMemTestPro" the actual name of it?

Interesting 6900XT vBIOS EEPROM failure.

Looks like I have had it since 2018. Probably the last time I used it as well. I totally forgot about it until seeing your screenshot. 🙂 That kind of sucks because it looks like I paid money for it at the time... then spaced it off. https://www.karhusoftware.com/ramtest/

Why is that Windows Product Engineer banging on his keyboard so hard? He must be frustrated that Windows Store is refusing to update his UWP smartphone app trash. Yes, whenever I go for a while without using Windows 7 and log in, it always amazes me how much better it is and it makes me sadder than normal to see what a botched up mess newer versions of Windows have become. We quickly get conditioned to tolerate garbage based on nothing more than familiarity.

This is an interesting project. Props for the ingenuity and creativity elements. Maybe you should get a water block for the GPU and include that in the loop along with the CPU. Not only does it take up less space than the stock air cooler, (will end up as single versus dual or triple slot,) but it will work better for thermals and maybe give you room for a couple of added 2.5 inch internal drives in the space gained by eliminating the GPU air cooler. I think having a liquid cooled GPU is an often overlooked opportunity for improved thermals while simultaneously occupying less space in the chassis of a SFF build that can be used for something more useful and important, such as additional storage or space for wiring, coolant tubing, fans, etc. Air cooling is not only less efficient, it takes up a lot more space. A pump like an AIO has is a good idea as long as the z-height works. You could use two of those in series. The second one would not necessarily need to actually be cooling anything, but they take up little space. It could be use only to enhance flow rate and liquid capacity. You could mount it to the chassis using the existing hardware you would normally use to mount it to the CPU.

Having it doesn't necessarily mean they will benefit from it. But, the OEM can market it as having it without being sued for lying. It can be 100% true, but totally meaningless. But, it certainly gets the kiddos that don't know any better all excited. It needs to have a power limit that exceeds the functional limit of the GPU, have higher than normal voltage limits and run freakishly cold. Only then will the power limit (or lack of it) actually matter and serve a useful purpose.

The TGP "power limit" is nothing more than an arbitrary number the numbskull(s) designing the turdbook decided was needed for it to work according to their plan. You can remove the limit in the firmware, but you won't get any further than your temperatures allow. It does not have to be hot or in danger of overheating to be limited by temperature. The only way to avoid that is by abnormal cold. The more abnormal and extreme the cold is, the higher it will clock. The next roadblock is voltage. You can only clock it as far as the locked voltage cap will let you. Yes, that's right... we're all puppets with our strings being pulled by self-anointed dumb dumbs.

What version number? I will see if I have it in my archive. I don't think it shows the version number any place visible in the GUI. You have to look at the properties of the EXE file or the name of the zip archive. I just checked and the one @Papusan posted works on W11 cancer, too.

That one @Papusanlinked seems to work on the Unify-X and Z490 Dark just fine, even on my LTSC 21H2. I have not tried it on Winduhz 11 CancerOS yet. I should go ahead and do that and mention whether it does or not. It is also a standalone EXE file, no installation required. I don't know what changed with Windoze, but that is the only one I could get to work on any W10 version after v1809. All of the other recent versions pitch a fit about needing to install the Intel ME even though Intel ME is already installed.

LTSC 2019 is clearly superior. LTSC 2021 is better than the Pro equivalent, but it is still based on the newer virus variant and not as clean and fast as 2019 (v1809). Once in a while there are games or applications that won't run on 2019 (v1809) so having a multi-boot setup is very helpful. That also allows me to load up the less desirable newer OS with all of the crap so I can keep the older OS crisp and clean for benching. If you compare the default number of services on a clean install of LTSC 2019 versus 2021 you will see the amount of unnecessary trash running in the background is approaching twice as much. Comparing LTSC 2019 to the Pro version of the newer releases it is less than half the resource-sucking garbage.

Now Geralt doesn't have to work so hard. Your overclock is making his life easier.

Good to see you, Brother @jaybee83

Another lie from the Redmond Retards exposed. First it was DX12 isn't "compatible" with W7. Then it was SpeedShift. Then it was Resizable Bar support, and now the Alder Lake scheduler. When will these morons produce something worth of installing on its own merits and knock it off with the lies that make the gamerkidz think they are going to miss out on something special if they don't drink the Kool-Aid? Answer: Never. (They are compulsive liars.) Anyhoo... myth busted. https://notebooktalk.net/topic/109-official-benchmark-thread-post-it-here-or-it-didnt-happen-d/?do=findComment&comment=6420&_rid=87

I just LOVE exposing all of the lies and gimmicks about Windows 10+ being needed to support gamerboy crap. Another fake system requirement exposed. Myth busted. Behold! Windows 7 with Resizable Bar support enabled and working. This was not because I care that much about the feature, I just wanted to show another example of the Redmond Retards being liars. It is funny that EVGA Precision X1 "assumes" the BIOS has CSM/Legacy mode enabled. It does not. GPU-Z, NVIDIA Control Panel and PX1 all show Rebar is enabled. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/geforce-rtx-30-series-resizable-bar-support/ https://imgur.com/a/k4v8qRE

That's about par for the course with laptops. They are not built for that. There is just barely enough room for the basics, and the effort to keep the chassis smaller and lighter just adds more physical limitations. Even the Clevo DTRs with desktop CPUs were not designed by people motivated or driven by a passion for tuning and overclocking. The utterly worthless stock firmware is the first clue that they really just don't get it, and don't care. And, that is/was the best the industry has to offer. Now even that is gone and there is nothing left that is worth modding. These are very dark days for laptop enthusiasts, and the abyss mobile computing has fallen into is bottomless.

This is a pretty cool self-contained unit that is no more expensive than buying separate components. It is unfortunate that it is only a 120mm radiator. Too small to be useful/effective with such a mickey mouse radiator. It is sad that it is not at least 240mm. Looks like it is designed for liquid cooling laptops though. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001305678450.html You could easily build something like this yourself with very basic tools and standard PC cooling parts and use a 240 or 360mm radiator.

That's nice of him. I would recommend getting a D5 pump and tube reservoir combo. You can mount it directly to whatever radiator you choose to use and it will make organization of the wiring and tubing easier than having it loose as a separate component. Primochill makes some very nice pump/res combos and they sell the fan/radiator mount brackets, tubing and fittings as well. One-stop shopping. The hardest thing might be finding fiting to fit tubing of such a small diameter.

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