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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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It's Brahma so unlimited. He should consider an EMC Unity XT hybrid array.
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Mist
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There was a brief moment in time where I could have had my own Cisco UCS B-series for a homelab lolllllll.
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Beware Of ASUS 800-Series Motherboards, Quick Release PCIe Design Is Damaging Graphics Card Slots Including RTX 50 Series
ASUS's latest Q-Release Slim design isn't looking good since several reports have recently claimed that this mechanism has permanently damaged the graphics cards' PCBs. The Q-Release by ASUS is designed to detach the graphics card without having to manually push the switch at the end of the PCIe x16 slot. This mechanism is convenient and makes it easier to pull out big and heavier GPUs.
While it looks quite handy on paper, the consequences are severe. ASUS introduced the Q-Release on Intel and AMD 800-series motherboards, and while MSI has also introduced a similar design, complaints have piled up about the former. We have seen several users get physical damage to the PCIe connectors of their GPUs as a result of the Q-Release design.
As you can see, when the GPUs are pulled directly from one end, the GPU connector that goes into the PEG is damaged at the bottom. The ASUS Q-Release mechanism allows users to pull back the GPU by slightly tiling it on the other end and instantly releasing it from the PCIe x16 slot. Bilibili reports this damage to one of their users who used the RTX 4070 Ti Super HOF OC LAB on the ROG Strix B850-A Gaming Wi-Fi S.
Another user from Chiphell showed similar damage at the edge when the RX 7900 XTX was pulled out from ROG Crosshair X870E Hero. A third user had the same situation with his Intel DG1 graphics card when he pulled out the GPU from ROG Strix B850-A Gaming Wi-Fi S. Two more users saw damage to their GPU PCIe interfaces, as reported by IT Home.
HardwareLuxx's Editor, Andreas Schilling, has also had his new RTX 5090 graphics card damaged around the PCIe slot using an ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-E Gaming motherboard.
The problem seems to be shared as there are more such cases. This has already been reported to ASUS, and it has been announced that it is working on a way to fix this issue. However, we do not know if ASUS will take responsibility for such damage to the GPUs.
Suppose you own an ASUS 800 series motherboard equipped with a Q-Release mechanism. In that case, we advise you not to install and uninstall your GPU frequently to remain on the safe side and wait for ASUS's guidelines/announcement regarding this issue.
Malakriss
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Should be noted that there are two versions of the quick release from ASUS, the original Q-Release was on Z690s and Z790s with a button attached to a physical wire that lowers the end latch while the newer boards have Q-Release Slim which has no button and is pulled out directly.
Old Z690 type
Newer X870E type (should start at 7:31)
Old Z690 type
Newer X870E type (should start at 7:31)
Lanx
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heres the q-release slim in action
it's retarded
gamers do not have the finese required for this
Lanx
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Question for you peeps. Are the Noctua 140/120mm fans worth the price/hype. I know they have that god awful brown / tan version but I also see black ones. Does the color matter performance wise?
Reason for asking: Current build , which is a year old next month. At time of build I wanted one of those beautiful Fractal North cases. Video card was too large to fit so I had to go with a different case. Currently using Lain li fans and the RGB software is well a pigfuck. Then Fractal releases a XL version of the case. I picked up one over the weekend and no longer need the Lain Li fans.
Reason for asking: Current build , which is a year old next month. At time of build I wanted one of those beautiful Fractal North cases. Video card was too large to fit so I had to go with a different case. Currently using Lain li fans and the RGB software is well a pigfuck. Then Fractal releases a XL version of the case. I picked up one over the weekend and no longer need the Lain Li fans.
Malakriss
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Performance they are exact same, however there are some cable limitations you should be aware of. NF-A12x25 PWM for example, the black versions have a ridiculously short cable from the fan and you will always be using the extension cable. Literally 2cm + 30cm extension for black instead of 20cm + 30cm extension for the brown/tan ones. Then for extras the black don't come with a Y-cable (brown/tan have one in every box) so you would need to purchase those separately if you need them.
As for whether you should get them they are still ranked up there for quiet noise levels and length of product durability, but there are plenty of other options that match or exceed temps.
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I just got a Fractal North XL myself, with the mesh side so I can add a couple of extra fans. The Case comes with 3 140 Fractal Ascent in the front, and I bought 3 more Arctic P-Series 140 fans for the intake side and rear exhaust. The top will be an Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360. All I think it's overkill for a Ryzen 7 9800x3d, with eventually a 5070ti or 5080. The room it's get's at most 74 Fahrenheit when it's on, but if I'm in the room gaming in the summer I crank it down to 68, so I don't really think the fans will really ever kick in to high.
The arctic fans have an advertised DB of 28, , which I think is when they're spinning high, but since I'm filling every fan slot I can, I'm hoping it'll be cool enough to never really spin up.
28db for the Arctic p12's at ~$13 each
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vs 19-24db for 140's from Noctua for $30ish.
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All that said, If I though I would really need them to be spinning at high all the time, maybe I would go for the Noctua's. But since I'm trying for overkill on cooling by going with larger and more fans than I have in the past, I went with the Arctics.
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Length of service, i have 3 120mm and 2 140mm Noctua fans that have followed me through 3 cases. So I guess that makes them something like 10 years old. Still fantastic.
I just pass whatever fans the current case comes with into the previous case when I sell it. Don't care, that's $150 of fans and splitters I don't have to plan out. The only time I hear the fans is when the case screens get clogged. A reminder to clean them.
I just pass whatever fans the current case comes with into the previous case when I sell it. Don't care, that's $150 of fans and splitters I don't have to plan out. The only time I hear the fans is when the case screens get clogged. A reminder to clean them.
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"Go into the BIOS and set the number of NUMA groups to 0. This will ensure that every layer of the model is interleaved across all RAM chips, doubling our throughput. Don't forget!"
The EPYC processors have individual memory busses on each CCX, and CCX to CCX memory access has higher latency. This is especially true for socket-to-socket latency in systems with multiple sockets.
Disabling NUMA makes the operating system blind to this underlying architecture.
The optimal way would be to have multiple processes, each with a part of the dataset in memory local to their CCX, and each process only searching the local memory.
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Mist
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These could be cool if they're reasonably priced. Decent little gaming/media boxes for every TV in your house.
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That sentiment seems to be far-reaching.
I would prefer a box that only ran Kodi/Plex with nothing else for zero bloat.
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could not decide which option to react ' Truth' or ' mother of god'
Nvidia shield seems to be the closest to what you describe but it does have some non-removable bloat. I did go through and disable the nonsense that could not be deleted though.