Mr. Fox

Hopefully ASUS won't kill anyones new CPUs with their cancer firmware blasting it with a ludicrous amount of voltage and ruin it for everyone else that doesn't have an ASUS mobo.

Ah, that makes sense. It might not be obvious unless it is a first-world problem if the media hasn't gone overboard making a mountain of a molehill (as they usually do everything).

Hmm. That's really strange. I don't think I've ever heard it mentioned anywhere that there was some kind of problem with NVIDIA 40 series on AMD. Now suddenly it is a problem never mentioned with a fix ready for roll-out? That doesn't make any sense to me. Something about that feels off

Yes he does, and I am always amazed at how many terrible messes he is capable of fixing. He is very talented. I enjoy Tech Notice as well. I am not into content creation, but his videos are very good quality and have useful information. That is a funny clip about ASUS motherboards. Don't admit to it, LOL. This is an interesting video, too. He did not use the 7900 XT very long. It was not good for his use scenario.

Yes, I really enjoy that channel. Very good information. I am not sure why the fuse did not blow, but there could be a valid reason it did not. The damage looks almost like it was user-induced. It looks like physical damage with the chunk broken off. If the owner of the GPU broke PCB at the connection on the edge and the contacts pads were out of alignment when the GPU was inserted into the motherboard that may have shorted in the socket without sending any power through the GPU PCB. If the short was in the PCIe slot it could burn things at the point of contact without any power being routed through the fuse or the PCB. That could explain why the fuse was not blown. I would like to see what the PCIe slot on the motherboard looks like. There may also have been something foreign in the PCIe slot that caused the short without sending power through the PCB, which could have burned the connection. If that were true (like a screw or washer in the PCIe slot) and the owner forced the GPU into the slot with the obstruction, that may have broken the PCB and shorted those connections.

At least he got back on the right path for using dry ice with a pot. But, his results were not impressive due to lack of experience. I've done better using chilled water. But, it's still good for entertainment purposes.

New releases... Nice. Victory has an awesome classic rock vibe. Interesting that Wikipedia shows Victory as being from Germany. You cannot really tell that from their music. Turbokill is also from Germany. It is more evident that it is with Victory.

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*sigh* so many stupid people... so little time for stupidity 😑 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "TargetReleaseVersion"=dword:00000001 "TargetReleaseVersionInfo"="22H2" "ProductVersion"="Windows 10" Or, for those who have already embraced degradation... Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "TargetReleaseVersion"=dword:00000001 "TargetReleaseVersionInfo"="22H2" "ProductVersion"="Windows 11" No 23H2 preventative measures needed after merging the .reg files.

New Zealand Māori Metal...

Yes, I am confident of that. While I enjoy his videos, most of them are more focused on entertainment. Same can be said of Linus. And, that's OK. If they were not entertaining most people would not watch them. Buildziod is the opposite. His videos are very educational and useful, but difficult to watch because they are long, rambling, dry and not particularly entertaining. But, I usually learn something from them. I can't remember ever learning something new from watching Jay's or Linus's videos. I probably have a few times, but I can't remember an example of where I did.

Yup, definitely. It is hard to find anything nice to say or a reason to show any of those imbeciles an ounce of respect. AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, crApple, Micro$lop, Google, Meta... all effing idiots and I hope that they all suffer catastrophic financial losses and lose their fannies with their stupid AI crap.

Yes, it should work. I have PCIe NVMe add-in cards in both of my Apex motherboards. The cards of both dual and quad SSD configuration. The bifurcation works automatically. There's nothing to manually adjust. The feature is not specific to individual PCIe slots. For PCIe 4.0 you would need one of these. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C64FVVHY?th=1 I don't really care whether my NVMe SSDs run at PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 speeds. PCIe 3.0 is fast enough. I have one of these in my Apex: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BRYQH443?th=1 And, two of these in my Apex Encore: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09NQGZ2XJ ASUS motherboards have always been unreliable and unpredictable compared to others, and the one AMD motherboard I owned was never reliable. I am not sure what you are asking about Jay. If he wants extreme cooling with dry ice he needs to use a DICE pot and put it on the CPU. Trying to use a conventional loop makes no sense.

LOL. I saw this posted on Discord. 🤣

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C5LK9L62/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 It is 33L. 8.7"D x 18.1"W x 13.7"H. For a SFF case it is unusually compelling in terms of capabilities that are usually totally absent or severely compromised. This actually makes it tolerable.

All of us should be, even those of us that are not. We don't know when they will arrive, but darker days than we have already experienced are coming. The signs are there to see for anyone paying attention. Another four years like the last catastrophic four might be all it takes to cause the house of cards to fall. Unprecedented levels of ethical failure, moral decay, corruption and incompetent government, in the US and the world abroad.

Thank you. I bought this used at overclock.net because the one I tried to order from EKWB kept getting pushed out and after waiting more than 2 months I got a refund and cancelled. This one does not have the original fans so I am probably going to move the three fans attached to the chassis to the AIO and move the AIO fans to the chassis. The Bykski fans that came with the AIO are not square, so there is air space around them to leak static pressure. I am not sure why the person I bought it from did not have the original fans. I like the Bykski fans otherwise and it is a shame they are not square so they can seal off against one another. This is yet another example of a popular but stupid trend that demonstrates the sheeple are focused on form over function. They have a nice remote to control lighting and fan speed manually, which is my preference over firmware or software controls. I do not use RGB headers on any of my motherboards because I don't want to have to install the cancer bloatware needed to use them. All lighting on my systems is managed with molex or SATA powered ARGB controllers with a remote control. It's pretty sweet adding manual fan speed control to that.

I was finally able to get the little munchkin on bare die. This reduced the core max 8 to 10°C over the already delidded CPU with a lapped core and IHS on liquid metal. I could see this being easily an 18 to 20°C improvement over a stock soldered IHS. There aren't many SFF systems capable of what this one is. Heck, it's better than most full-size builds, LoL. I am really impressed with what EKWB did here.

The statement "faster in gaming" being tossed around like it is some kind of magical thing makes me kind of sad. It is as if the whole world has lost sight of what is most important. But, alas, they have. In countless ways. But, limiting conversation to computers rather than generalizations about life in 2024, the measure of a CPU that is most important should be how it does at things that only a CPU can do, not have it behaves when used to play games. It feels like a cop out or a distraction to be focused on how a GPU-centric task like gaming responds to a CPU when "better" isn't anything genuinely earth-shattering. If the 9950X does better at workloads only a CPU can do it will be the better CPU than a 7800X3D even if the 7800X3D gets a few more FPS.

Congratulations.

I thought of you as soon as I saw it because I know you are very interested in NAS builds and could probably relate to a time in the past that was like what he was going through. We all start out as a noob at everything in the beginning. I would be right where he was in the video, LOL. What I know about the things I know wouldn't be much help getting started as an ignorant noob. I'm sure you're already familiar with his channel, but this guy has some interesting content relating to DIY NAS builds.

I love what you say because I agree with it, but the brutal reality of what you are saying is extremely sad and hard to find any forgiveness for them. It's like the foolish arguement that a good God would never send anyone to hell, but a good God gives us freedom to choose our destiny and provides us with a way to avoid going there. Anyone that ends up going to hell goes there as a matter of choice and it is a direct result of their stupidity and rejection of truth. The idiots producing trash tech damn themselves and their companies to manufacturer hell and have only themselves to blame for making really stupid decisions. I hope they enjoy the hot weather. They deserve it.

Sweet! I guess my next GPU will be from PNY if it is a Kingpin. Awesome. ❤️ Very telling about ASUS and MSI not being interested. Sucks to be them, I guess. It is starting to show though, so I don't have a surprised look on my face. Gamer trash everywhere. I think @Rage Set might enjoy this storage-related video.