Mr. Fox

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Micro$lop are professional gaslighters.

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.

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.

Micro$lop makes embracing Linux easier than ever. 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.

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.

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.

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.

They (Micro$lop) can kiss my hind end, Brother Papusan. I will be sure to let a big wet and smelly fart right as their lips touch my butt.