Mr. Fox

All they have to do is impose the tariffs to go both ways so that China is forced to pay a very high tax on products owned by American companies to purchase products manufactured in China. The US and the rest of the world needs to grow some gonads and completely decouple from China socially and economically and let them implode. They are overpopulated and under-resourced, and ripe for insurrection and civil unrest.

More evidence of incredibly poor judgment from the Green Goblin. Being super stupid is the new normal. I am glad that Corsair isn't drinking the wee-wee flavored Kool-Aid.

The mere fact that as many sold at insane scalper prices as there were is a very sad testament to the abject idiocy of the average human being. Passion and desire overtake them and they lose the ability to exercise sound judgment and self-control. In this case the market is being driven by fools and extremely stupid people that have lots of money to waste or access to credit cards, but lack sufficient common sense on how to use either of them wisely.

It will update the BIOS (firmware) and CPU Microcode (firmware) but probably not the ME or not the EC (also firmware) if you use the SPI programmer. If you flash it normally and then use the SPI programmer the EC will remain on the newer version and generally the Intel ME will remain the same. Indeed. I don't know why there are so few AMD boards with dual BIOS. Some aspects of that feel insulting to me. Like mobo manufacturers have the attitude, they're just AMD gamers and casual PC enthusiasts. They won't notice or care. It's downright sinful and inexcusable that a $700 board like the Gene does not. This should be an expected standard feature, like having USB ports and HDMI/DP, on all desktop motherboards and GPUs in all price ranges. Honestly, it should even be standard on turdbooks to have dual BIOS given the hazard that Micro$lop Updates flash (and sometimes brick) the BIOS on laptops owned by dummies that leave it enabled on purpose and noobs that don't know they can disable it. ASUS does block it sometimes even with BIOS flashback. But most of the time they do not and you can often flash unsigned firmware mods, depending on what was modded. What they do block is downgrading Intel ME and sometimes the EC firmware. Interesting to see some of the latest AMD X3D chips burning again. I have seen examples of it a few time in the last week or two. I wonder if AMD rolled out a buggy new AGESA and SMU and those that burned are all the same version? Weird that everything was fine and then it was suddenly not OK for few people.

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.