Mr. Fox

Don't do it bro. If you really want to try it then use an SPI flash programmer to save a chip dump to a .BIN or .ROM backup and use it to put back the old firmware when you confirm the latest sucks. If you do it that way the motherboard won't have any say as to what gets flashed. I used to do this frequently with unsigned turdbook BIOS mods. If I am not mistaken using the programmer will not downgrade the Intel ME. You would be stuck with a crappier newer ME version. To avoid that you would use the programmer to flash the newer BIOS and that would leave the better older Intel ME. That board has dual BIOS, right? You should not flash both chips.

I hope he puts a 1000% tariff on all transactions with China... buying and selling. Instant death to GPUs and motherboards assembled in China using parts patented and made by American companies. 💯 Buh-bye China. RIP.

Yes it is very close. This game benchmark seems more CPU heavy than most as well, so the minor difference might be largely your CPU if the benchmark using more the available cores.

Somebody needs to deliver the message to NVIDIA. Roman and Steve (GamersNexus) are doing that, but the bottom line is NVIDIA don't care. They never have. The difference now is that they care less than they used to. Hey, Jensen...

Unfortunately, I would not consider any laptop GPU as being a "good product" because they are all overly expensive for what little value and performance they deliver. They are all pretty lackluster products. The high P5000 price is likely a combination of scalping and having an unusually generous amount of video memory. Laptops are designed based on a premise and mindset that high prices, poor value, sketchy quality and compromises are status quo. Probably the cheapest way to get your hands on an MXM P5000 is to buy a functional Precision equipped with one that is in very rough aesthetic condition for around $500 and yank the GPU from it to upgrade your own. Salvage whatever additional spare parts are worth keeping (or selling) and toss the leftover junk that isn't worth salvaging into the garbage. Plus it never hurts to have a spare motherboard in your parts stash. It is the part most likely to fail on a laptop.

Totally get that and agree. 4K is not great below about 27-inch. Text is too small unless you increase scaling above 100% and I do not like anything except for 100%. Increasing the scaling just makes everything uglier because it jacks up too many elements and makes them all out of whack proportionally. Even using 100% scaling for 4K on my 27-inch screen I increase the font size for menus and desktop icon text to make it as easy on the eyes as 1440p. My Precision 17 has a 4K display and I manually change the resolution to 2560x1440 and that works fine. 4K at 100% scaling is horrible on a 17-inch laptop... borderline unusable and miserable. And, I have very good eyesight other than a touch of colorblindness.

Looking at it now. I like it all except for the white keys. Not fond of the look of that. How do you like yours? Not a bad price for a durable American-made product that would be used for many years. I do not like TKL so it is good they offer a "normal" keyboard. https://system76.com/keyboards/launch_heavy_3/configure

I have never truly liked any laptop with a screen smaller than 17.3" (as the minimum) and I ended up not keeping anything smaller because I found them extremely annoying and unpleasant to use, not to mentioned being further compromised by the size reduction.

Is that keyboard sold by System76 on their web site, or is it marketed under another brand name?

I can set aside my fondness of overclocking high-end computers if I need to. Stuff is so crippled now that it is looking like this hobby might be systematically eliminated for us by the idiots making the products we buy. China doesn't offer anything the world actually "needs" when you stop and think about it. Unless cheap slave labor to make electronics and silicon trash for the rest of the world at the lowest possible cost and the maximum profilt possible is something of a "need" for someone. They bring nothing of value except for cheap labor for the manufacturing of electronics and that eliminates jobs at home. The reliance on them is created and artificial and they are actually expendable. They are reliant on foreign trade for some of life's basic necessities and survival will be more difficult for them. Without help from the United States and a few other nations they will starve to death because they import most of what they need. Between 2000 and 2020, the country’s food self-sufficiency ratio decreased from 93.6 percent to 65.8 percent. Changing diet patterns have also driven up China’s imports of edible oils, sugar, meat, and processed foods. In 2021, the country’s edible import-dependency ratio reached nearly 70 percent. We should stop giving and selling them what they need to survive. They are a third-world nation with a few wealthy dynasties and the most evil totalitarian government in the world and the most-polluted environment in the world. As a nation they only possess what they can buy or steal from other nations. I am OK with not having high-end computers and other digital rubbish this is not necessary like camera doorbells and eavesdropping digital assistants and smartphone operated thermostats.

COVID-19 was China's gift to the world as payback for including them and giving them a place to sit as the world's table. Now it's time to pay them back. Not too worried about electronics and silicon trash. The reset needs to happen or things will only get worse. Kicking the can down the road and leaving it to our children and grandchildren to fix things tomorrow because it is too inconvenient today never ends well. Too many stupid things have been allowed to happen for too long. I can do without my computer hobby if I need to.

Sometimes you have to crack some eggs. But, it is hard to unscramble an egg. The problem was our short-sighted government "leaders" in years past that allowed American companies to do business with China and offshore things to enhance profits. That never should have been allowed. Any ties with China should have been forbidden. Technology and information never should have been shared with them. They have never been a trustworthy nation and it was foolish to think sleeping with them (figuratively) would have a good ending. If will have its pain points, but also rewards and punishments will be earned.

This is potentially good news that might finally free us from our unfortunate dependence on Samsung or SK Hynix (China crap) for enthusiast memory needs with Micron being HQ'd in Boise, ID. I am 100% in favor of any opportunity I can find to stop giving money to China-owned companies and to companies that are not China-owned but have their products manufactured in China. Micron has always been known for producing high quality products, but their focus has been on enterprise and mainstream consumer memory and storage (Crucial brand) rather than enthusiast products. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/micron-unveils-ddr5-9200-memory-1g-process-technology-with-euv

Compared with 4090 FSR3 and DLSSG

The failure rate would look very favorable if counting percentage of GPU cores produced to GPUs sold that the defect has been discovered. And, they are holding back retail distribution so the number sold is very small. That is an easy way to make the numbers look favorable. If they counted GPUs sold at retail versus those found with defect and warranty claims the failure rate might not be so favorable.

And, whether they will actually deliver on what they say they are going to do remains to be seen. Sometimes companies find they can say whatever makes people happy. They earn Brownie points just for saying it, regardless of whether or not they act on it or pretend they never said it. The one thing that remains constant is the fact that if it has ROG or ASUS branding that guarantees it will be uncompetitively overpriced. They believe their own poop doesn't stink and charge as if that were actually true. They sometimes will offer a product unique enough to warrant paying a little extra, (like Apex and Rampage motherboards,) but this is absolutely not true of most of their products. Most of their products are average and offer nothing of value, sometimes less value, than a competitor's products. But they still charge a premium based on their branding. That's really stupid and I feel sad for people that believe they are getting something special when they are not.

Dune: Awakening Benchmark Tool - 3090 Ti - Ultra Benchmark Preset

Amen to that.

Jensen needs to go to prison. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/racketeering Overpriced broken trash produced for the dumbest people on the planet. Nothing is too crappy for gamers. I've never viewed X3D as anything more than a joke. This isn't the first time we have seen their glass hammer CPUs shatter. Trash is also brand-agnostic. Bad people produce bad products. It's no coincidence where all of this broken trash is manufactured. "Made in China" used to be the fastest way to identify trash. It still is.

It is the new standard of normalcy for computer tech to carry defects, suck in performance, lacking in features and/or value. Nothing is actually any good or legitimately priced based on actual value.

The notion of buying anything good from the Redmond Retards is totally ludicrous. They evidently lack the ability to do anything right. The alternative is that their stupidity is either deliberate and malicious or they are so stupid they have no idea how stupid they actually are. I intentionally avoid purchasing anything from them because I know whatever it is, it is going to be effed up.

This was a really interesting video from Jay.

And, unless you find a used 4090 for sale by someone with a shred of integrity left you'll pay 5090 FE MSRP for a used 4090, even more if you buy it from dishonest marketplace sellers on Amazon and NewEgg. Hell, you cannot even buy a 3090 Ti for less than a 4090 from a commercial source right now. The pricing of 3080 Ti, 3080, 7900 XTX and 6900/6950 XT are equally idiotic. Even the Arc B580 sells out immediately at prices routinely 30-50% higher than appropriate, sometimes even more inappropriate. The industry is off the rails insane. It's not because "companies are in business to make money" because they would make money selling the parts at their intended prices. It is due to their excessive greed, immorality and corruption. I hope you are right, but I am skeptical that it will correct and fear it will worsen. The world we live in is circling the drain in terms of decency and common sense, so we will have to wait and see how this shakes out. Again, I hope you are right and hope I am wrong. I am unable to drum up the optimism I once held about the things all of us have enjoyed for many years. I think we are seeing our hobby systematically destroyed by unscrupulous tech industry leaders. What is so idiotic about it is the more they hurt us the more they will ultimately hurt themselves. They might temporarily rake in a lot of money by defrauding the public, but their house of cards will eventually implode when they run out of stupid victims volunteering to be taken advantage of and we will all be left holding the bag. The losses for manufacturers. retailers and consumers will be massive and painful for all.