*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[ryan]

7 hours ago, Raiderman said:

Hahahaha.... Bro @Papusanyou know I thought of you immediately when I saw this 🤣🤣🤣

https://twitter.com/theleneshop/status/1661607812387213312?t=oR-WQZQwoBC3q-Qi7QNsfA&s=19

I had no idea what you posted but the second I saw the crocs I thought yep papusan joke. truly funny imagine wearing those

 

On 6/9/2023 at 6:54 PM, Mr. Fox said:

That's not good... sounds like somebody turned on drive encryption. If you don't have the key then you might be in a pickle. Secure Boot is bad enough, but that plus Bitlocker... 

 

Try this...

1. Launce cmd.exe as admin, then type diskpart and press Enter.

2. Then input these commands below in turn:

• list disk
• select disk n (here n stands for the disk you want to format)
• list partition
• select partition n  (here n stands for the encrypted partition you want to format)
• delete partition override

3. Type exit to close window. This will wipe all the data on the encrypted hard drive. Then you could create new partition on that drive again.

 

If that doesn't work you will need third-party software . Try nuking the drive with this... https://www.diskpart.com/articles/format-encrypted-hard-drive-5740i.html

 

Sorry brother, I missed your post, no idea how. But I just installed windows 11 from the desktop, everything is ok and I think ill be ok but ill archive that for reference thanks a million

[tps3443]

Just a quick update this OLED panel menu under system says it has only 37 hours of actual on time. 
 

Working great so far. The picture is just unbelievable. I took a picture of my desktop wallpaper below. 
 

The speakers are phenomenal! They are a little too loud at volume of just 30%. And they are front facing at the bottom front bezel and facing you. Never had speakers this good in a monitor before

 

This thing is almost too good to be true for $500 bucks. I’ll keep you guys updated.🧐. 
 

[Papusan]

On 6/9/2023 at 3:16 PM, Mr. Fox said:

Gigabutt's cheapness is showing its ugly colors again. Sometimes cheaper isn't the smart way to go. Even sadder to see Gigabutt actling like ASUS when it comes to shirking their responsibility for selling defective, poorly engineered garbage.

 

 

As of now... Avoid Gigabyte at all costs 5:23

Gigabyte RTX 30/40 PCBs are cracking, the company rejects RMA claims

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Gigabyte RTX 30/40 GPUs suffer from PCB cracking Pay attention when installing GeForce cards manufactured by Gigabyte. Gigabyte PCB cracking, Source: Louis Rossmann The problem was first brought to light by Louis Rossmann, a known personality advocating for self—repair laws. He has a long...

 

 

[Custom90gt]

@Mr. Fox, is it worth paying for this ISO?  Can't say I've ever paid for someone to trim down an OS before.

[Raiderman]

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

Yep, I know. That's why I have sixtuple multi-boot setup on my desktop. 3xWin10, 1xWin7, 1xWin8.1 and Win11. And I will add the 7th OS on my desktop for gaming when I get a new NVMe ssd. No need for all this on my Clevo laptop. But I prefer the old Win 1809 LTSC version as main OS. And I have loads of older cards I enjoy have fun with, so... One for all, doesn't fits all needs. The time with one great OS that managed everything is gone.  

Sixtuple?! Holy crap dude. I have enough issues booting 2 OSes, let alone 6!

 

I am using a hacked, lightened Win 11 22h2, and it seems pretty snappy. Not sure if ghost specter cripples AMD as much as Intel though. I am not going to get to comfy with win 11, as I have heard Win 12 will be out next year. Probably full of UWP filth.

[Custom90gt]

So after messing around for reinstalling windows multiple times, it appears that the intel chipset drivers cause my second NVMe drive to disappear.  Totally unsure why that happens, but now I know.

[Papusan]

3 minutes ago, Custom90gt said:

So after messing around for reinstalling windows multiple times, it appears that the intel chipset drivers cause my second NVMe drive to disappear.  Totally unsure why that happens, but now I know.

What chipset version? 

[Custom90gt]

16 minutes ago, Papusan said:

What chipset version? 

 

10.1.19284.8351

 

I don't quite have the guts (or time) to install the latest 10.1.19444.8378 to see if that works, lol.

 

*on edit* well I did install the latest and it works.  Sad I wasted so much time with that.

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, Custom90gt said:

@Mr. Fox, is it worth paying for this ISO?  Can't say I've ever paid for someone to trim down an OS before.

I did. I paid $20 for a year access and harvested what I needed/wanted. It appears @Talonthought so, too. You're paying for access to everything, not just one ISO.

 

If I were a gamer that didn't really care if my 3DMark Physics and Combined scores or Cinebench scores sucked, then I probably would not care and I'd be content with something "nice" like Ghost Spectre.

 

I also don't have a problem paying someone for performing a service if I benefit from it. If you do it on a donation basis... well... @prema can tell you how that works out. I wouldn't build a web site, maintain it, and perform hundreds of mods for free, that's for sure.

  

19 minutes ago, Custom90gt said:

10.1.19284.8351

 

I don't quite have the guts (or time) to install the latest 10.1.19444.8378 to see if that works, lol.

 

*on edit* well I did install the latest and it works.  Sad I wasted so much time with that.

I must have lucked out and never used that version before. These are a good example of "drivers" that never, ever, need to be updated for any reason. In fact, they're not drivers. They are merely INF files that AMD and Intel provide that give devices a name in Device Manager so people don't freak out when Windows doesn't have a name for the device and puts a yellow bang on it in Device Manager. No reason to install any version except for that situation.

[Papusan]

1 hour ago, Custom90gt said:

 

10.1.19284.8351

 

I don't quite have the guts (or time) to install the latest 10.1.19444.8378 to see if that works, lol.

 

*on edit* well I did install the latest and it works.  Sad I wasted so much time with that.

I expected so. And bro Fox is spot on. And the Intel chipset driver isn't an real driver. If everything is ok and no yellow exclamation mark is shown in Device Manager then you really don't need to do anything.

 

Loads of people got bricked machines (no post and they had to re-install the OS) after ugrading to this driver. 

 

[Mr. Fox]

@Custom90gtI can't find the videos. I may have deleted them after losing interest in editing them for YouTube. Or, I may have moved them to a different machine to mess with later.

 

Rather than waste any more time looking for the MP4 files, and making you wait longer, I uploaded a zip file with a bunch of BIOS screenshots for 7800-8000-8200 Hynix A-die overclocking from my BIOS screenshots thumb drive. They're not well organized but they are named in a logical sequential order so they are not just a jumbled up mess of JPG files.

 

You can download the zip file.

[Custom90gt]

2 hours ago, Papusan said:

I expected so. And bro Fox is spot on. And the Intel chipset driver isn't an real driver. If everything is ok and no yellow exclamation mark is shown in Device Manager then you really don't need to do anything.

 

Loads of people got bricked machines (no post and they had to re-install the OS) after ugrading to this driver. 

 

 

Yeah I had a bunch of yellow in the device manager so I thought I'd try that. Silly me for not finding the newest one and just using one I had on the server.

 

1 hour ago, Mr. Fox said:

@Custom90gtI can't find the videos. I may have deleted them after losing interest in editing them for YouTube. Or, I may have moved them to a different machine to mess with later.

 

Rather than waste any more time looking for the MP4 files, and making you wait longer, I uploaded a zip file with a bunch of BIOS screenshots for 7800-8000-8200 Hynix A-die overclocking from my BIOS screenshots thumb drive. They're not well organized but they are named in a logical sequential order so they are not just a jumbled up mess of JPG files.

 

You can download the zip file.

 

I appreciate you, sorry to make you go through all that.

[ryan]

8 hours ago, tps3443 said:

Just a quick update this OLED panel menu under system says it has only 37 hours of actual on time. 
 

Working great so far. The picture is just unbelievable. I took a picture of my desktop wallpaper below. 
 

The speakers are phenomenal! They are a little too loud at volume of just 30%. And they are front facing at the bottom front bezel and facing you. Never had speakers this good in a monitor before

 

This thing is almost too good to be true for $500 bucks. I’ll keep you guys updated.🧐. 
 

haha thanks for the wallpaper, im using it right now. 😛

 

I was wondering where you got it for 500 im looking for it in canada and might buy one for the NUC that I might get if its around. the cheapest I saw it for was 1150 cad

 

I have a x85j and im pretty happy with the speakers and picture, 120hz is hard to get working but im happy, it's just that I want an oled monitor, hard to beat an oled due to contrast making it appealing to the eyes

[tps3443]

52 minutes ago, ryan said:

haha thanks for the wallpaper, im using it right now. 😛

 

I was wondering where you got it for 500 im looking for it in canada and might buy one for the NUC that I might get if its around. the cheapest I saw it for was 1150 cad

 

I have a x85j and im pretty happy with the speakers and picture, 120hz is hard to get working but im happy, it's just that I want an oled monitor, hard to beat an oled due to contrast making it appealing to the eyes

That pic could pass for a wallpaper, hard to believe I just took a picture of my monitor with my iPhone 13 Pro Max.🙂

I got mine on Newegg as refurbished for $480 plus the $6 dollar shipping. They increased the price a little now but it’s still $560 on there which is incredible for anything OLED and 48” inches of it. 
 

The picture quality is beyond insane, the first thing I notice is that response time. No blurring of the image when moving the mouse quickly in games, then just the massive size of the display with such vivid colors and inky blacks. I just can’t get over it. The monitor has set a benchmark the makes everything else in my home look sub standard. 
 

Mine was refurbished and I was worried about that, but it was delivered in one piece, and I can’t find any flaws with it. Just awesomeness. If you’re in Canada they may be more expensive, but even paying $1,000 bucks it’s a reasonable for what you get. (Even though that’s extremely expensive for a monitor, they are definitely worth what they cost new for $829 in the USA) 

[Mr. Fox]

8 hours ago, Raiderman said:

Sixtuple?! Holy crap dude. I have enough issues booting 2 OSes, let alone 6!

The easiest way is to remove or disable all drives except the one you are installing a new OS. Install the OS and make a Macrium Reflect image of it. Remove the drive, install the next drive, install the OS, then make an image of it. Repeat. Once you have installed all of the OSes on a single-drive system, install all drives and each one is independently bootable with no dependency on another. Then you can spam F8 during post and select the drive for the version of Windows you want to load. Once all of your drives are installed, pick one as the primary OS and then use Easy BCD to link all of the other Windows bootloaders to that drive's bootloader.

3 hours ago, Custom90gt said:

I appreciate you, sorry to make you go through all that.

No problem. Glad to help. I hope you find the info useful.

[Reciever]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

The easiest way is to remove or disable all drives except the one you are installing a new OS. Install the OS and make a Macrium Reflect image of it. Remove the drive, install the next drive, install the OS, then make an image of it. Repeat. Once you have installed all of the OSes on a single-drive system, install all drives and each one is independently bootable with no dependency on another. Then you can spam F8 during post and select the drive for the version of Windows you want to load. Once all of your drives are installed, pick one as the primary OS and then use Easy BCD to link all of the other Windows bootloaders to that drive's bootloader.

With QMK, usb Synchronizer, and any system that can register USB handshake, you can create an AutoFire F8 macro so you dont have to spam it yourself. Admittedly might be over the top for a single user type scenario. I need to use sBIOS very often for work so now im not hitting F2, F8, F10, F12 for pro-longed periods of time anymore.

[Mr. Fox]

4 minutes ago, Reciever said:

With QMK, usb Synchronizer, and any system that can register USB handshake, you can create an AutoFire F8 macro so you dont have to spam it yourself. Admittedly might be over the top for a single user type scenario. I need to use sBIOS very often for work so now im not hitting F2, F8, F10, F12 for pro-longed periods of time anymore.

One of the many advantages to going with an EVGA motherboard, and the only brand I am aware of that does it, there is a menu option to always show the boot selection menu. I enable that and it sits there and waits for me to tell it which drive I want to boot. No need to touch F8 or anything else. I absolutely love that feature. It should be standard on all motherboards. Sadly, it is not.

[ryan]

2 hours ago, tps3443 said:

inky blacks.

I cant imagine what it looks like at night in pitch black, and also im literally using that pic as my wallpaper as I cant find the original on google.

[Raiderman]

8 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

The easiest way is to remove or disable all drives except the one you are installing a new OS. Install the OS and make a Macrium Reflect image of it. Remove the drive, install the next drive, install the OS, then make an image of it. Repeat. Once you have installed all of the OSes on a single-drive system, install all drives and each one is independently bootable with no dependency on another. Then you can spam F8 during post and select the drive for the version of Windows you want to load. Once all of your drives are installed, pick one as the primary OS and then use Easy BCD to link all of the other Windows bootloaders to that drive's bootloader.

No problem. Glad to help. I hope you find the info useful.

The one thing I hate is the reboot when choosing the non-default OS. Right now I have Win 10 set as the default, but if I choose 11, it re-posts and starts over.

[Raiderman]

Here is my Windows 11 theme, its a work in progress.

 

 

[tps3443]

11 hours ago, ryan said:

I cant imagine what it looks like at night in pitch black, and also im literally using that pic as my wallpaper as I cant find the original on google.

Here is the original. 
 

https://wallpapercave.com/w/wp7463261

[Mr. Fox]

3 hours ago, Raiderman said:

The one thing I hate is the reboot when choosing the non-default OS. Right now I have Win 10 set as the default, but if I choose 11, it re-posts and starts over.

One of the many things (almost too many to count) that suck about OSes released after Windows 7 is the scummy "modern" Windows Boot Manager with the tiles on a blue background, but the really nasty filth is under the hood of that monstrosity. Running this command in an elevated command prompt should fix that nonsense for you. Once I run this, there is no more rebooting stupidity.

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

If you really want to take control of things and disable driver signature enforcement and enable test signing mode like I do, you can use the commands below. (Note: If you play games produced by stupid developers that use Easy Anti-Cheat digital dung, those games will stop working.)

You can take full control running these commands as Admin. I put them in a batch file.

bcdedit /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks on

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

pause

You will have a desktop watermark if you do that, which can be easily removed using the free Universal Watermark Disabler utility.

[Raiderman]

52 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

One of the many things (almost too many to count) that suck about OSes released after Windows 7 is the scummy "modern" Windows Boot Manager with the tiles on a blue background, but the really nasty filth is under the hood of that monstrosity. Running this command in an elevated command prompt should fix that nonsense for you. Once I run this, there is no more rebooting stupidity.

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

If you really want to take control of things and disable driver signature enforcement and enable test signing mode like I do, you can use the commands below. (Note: If you play games produced by stupid developers that use Easy Anti-Cheat digital dung, those games will stop working.)

You can take full control running these commands as Admin. I put them in a batch file.

bcdedit /set {current} nx AlwaysOff

bcdedit.exe /set nointegritychecks on

bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON

bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy

pause

You will have a desktop watermark if you do that, which can be easily removed using the free Universal Watermark Disabler utility.

Ive done the disable driver signature with windows 10 while trying to get 7 installed in pure efi, but have not done it for my desktop. I did not know that you could rid get the stupid tile boot manager. I always thought that was uefi instead of csm.

Thank you! I will now try 🙂

 

Edit: works perfectly. Whoever thought we needed a gui to select an OS to boot to, is an idiot!

[Mr. Fox]

For our buddies that like SFF, this prebuilt is interesting. I like the unfinished base. 

 

 

[electrosoft]

2 hours ago, Raiderman said:

Here is my Windows 11 theme, its a work in progress.

 

 

 

Looking good! How's the Asrock Taichi 7900xtx treating you versus your former 6800xt? Good uplift? coil whine? Gaming?