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Muted? Yeah, the built-in Realtek ALC662 HD Audio is no longer recognized by Win 10. I tried downloading drivers from Realtek and Lenovo. Same results. Device Manager only sees the nVidia sound device on the 650 Ti. which only runs sound out through the HDMI cable. So my Dell display would produce ...

Thinking about going a bit crazy here and just putting together this build https://techbuyersguru.com/5000-ultra-extreme-gamingcontent-creation-pc-build The Ryzen r9 3950x is like....impossible to find in stock. Seems like the threadripper 3960x might be worth the money too, and it'd be super helpf...

The harder they make it for you to contact them the harder it is to return things.

There's not much way around that outside of cross-server / cross-disk erasure systems, and there aren't any good ones for home use that aren't insanely cumbersome or badly implemented. Not to mention that home users generally don't want to spend much more than a car payment on storage, as opposed t...

To add to Igor's points, you probably will need to re-register Windows with the new CPU ID. Again, shouldn't be a big deal, just go through the reactivation process.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15130/anandtech-exclusive-an-interview-with-intels-raja-koduri-about-xe What's funny is how uninformative the interview is regarding what we really want to know: how competitive is their discrete GPU solution. No hints when it might hit the streets. Intel focusing on ...

Netburst at 10+GHz would have thermal output approaching that of a nuclear reactor....

You said the PS made a small noise but that its fan didn't spin.

One troubleshooting step would be to disconnect the PS from everything, remove it from the case, and see if its fan will spin when you plug it in and flip it's power button. If it doesn't, that's probably your culprit.

AMD and Intel have unlocked almost all of the untapped overclocking potential of their consumer CPUs and have made it available to everyone who installs good cooling in their systems. What I'm saying though, is that every CPU basically comes factory OC'd these days. How's that going to turn out for...

I would second Igor's suggestion to try it out before you spend any money. Having said that, you probably will need an upgrade if you want a smooth VR experience. Your CPU is getting a little long in the tooth, your GPU predates most VR implementations, and the nature of VR makes any stutters or hit...

Intel could have an unfair advantage in that it could optimize its drivers to make their CPU's and GPU's work in synergy using AVX instructions and some other tricks that aren't well known. They could even run the iGPU and dGPU in tandem in a sort of SLI scheme to eke out as much speed as possible....

Has anybody seen a benchmark where the 3950x trails the TR2950X? AES encoding at the bottom of the "CPU Performance: Encoding Tests" page is the only instance in the AnandTech review: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15043/the-amd-ryzen-9-3950x-review-16-cores-on-7nm-with-pcie-40 What's odd...

Ryzen R9 3950X looking strong in pass mark: https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-9-3950X-storms-PassMark-s-CPU-Mark-chart-and-soars-past-Intel-s-server-processors-and-the-Core-i9-9980XE.442762.0.html Has anybody seen a benchmark where the 3950x trails the TR2950X? I’d think something would benef...

Wirko wrote:

K-L-Waster wrote:

From 2020 forward, the only safe computing involves an abacus.

PEBKAC thus becomes PEBAAC, which is great for security.

...but today the pattern of beads is all wrong!

https://xkcd.com/722/

From 2020 forward, the only safe computing involves an abacus.

Aww, dammit. Confirmed that the new Threadrippers will need a new motherboard. That sucks, I was hoping to be able to drop in a newer Threadripper into my NAS in the future when they drop in price. Well, you could always drop in a 2950X or a 2990WX after the post-3000 launch fire-sales start. Not a...

Igor_Kavinski wrote:

I'm the experimenting "Let's do first, see/think later" type.

Ok, so you spend oodles of $$$ on gear, then find out if it'll actually benefit you?

Gotta agree with JBI here.

None of which is fatal if you're still selling everything you can put out the door.

https://wccftech.com/intel-cpu-shortages-were-expected-to-be-ending-soon-but-major-pc-oem-execs-say-they-are-here-to-stay/

Sure, nothing they've released in the past 15 months is all that interesting to most of us (I'm certainly not interested in anything in their current product stack), but that in no way means they're about to roll over and die. In the grand scheme of things, we're just not that important to the CPU ...

I do find it interesting that everyone here treats a quarter with $6B NET revenue as just another step to extinction. For perspective, it's only recently that AMD has managed to bring in more than that as GROSS revenue for a full year . Once again, the purpose of a company is to make money for the s...

Otherwise, someone would be saying "Hey, you could buy a $328 65 watt Ryzen 7 3700X with its included Wraith Prism instead of that $614 150+ watt Core i9-9900KS plus a $90 aftermarket CPU cooler and then you'd have hundreds of dollars available to spend on a better graphics card." Heck, i...

Maybe it's just my cynical QA Analyst nature showing, but this sounds suspiciously like an early-development kludge didn't get commented out or somehow got merged back into a late release. Frequently when developers are initially coding new features, they'll put in a hard-coded response for a variab...

Wondering why some developers rely on RDRAND solely? Shouldn't they at least have a fallback using RDSEED, or even combine their outputs to get better random numbers? Just seems outright lazy. "Hey, we need a random number. Just RDRAND and get it over with. We have other, better things to do!&...

I'm really not seeing what buying a GTX card and then minimizing its use is actually going to achieve. Once you buy it, they have your money, so realistically you have supported their business practices. I'm pretty sure JSH isn't lying awake at night obsessing over the number of people who bought hi...

Yeah, but GF didn't have the high-volume, high-margin customers that TSMC has. TSMC has Apple, Huwaei, Qualcomm, and AMD. GF had AMD and... chirp, chirp. Did GF just run out of money, or did they find they had been going down a failed path and not have enough money to restart from the beginning? If...

Yeah, this is a downer if it's true. I just got the parts to build a server I was hoping to put to part-time work with OpenCL, and was hoping I could grab an Intel GPU for under $200 to round things out. Well, that would depend on what "datacenter, AI and machine learning applications” ends up...

I just had a dumb thought: Have GPU makers ever considered including the ability to power their cards off an external brick powersupply? Those external GPU enclosures used by laptops do exactly that, don't they? Not sure it would help in a desktop -- who wants to be fishing a lead from a power bric...

https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-will-take-on-nvidia-and-amd-graphics-cards-by-mid-2020-but-gamers-could-be-disappointed The rumors of a mid-2020 launch for the Intel Xe graphics card come from industry sources, according to DigiTimes. Apparently, the sources have said that: “Instead of purely ...

TSMC plans to begin constructing a facility for 3 nm fabrication at the end of this year. https://www.techpowerup.com/260464/tsmc-begins-3-nm-fab-construction Hmm... I thought Moore's Law was dead, but maybe it's just dead at Intel? Let's not declare 3nm as viable until we actually get shipping par...

No one is asking you to become a believer. The whole point of this thread is to let people know that there is something fishy about 8. This is a straight contradiction. You are asking people to believe that the concept of "8" does anything beyond being a concept. I'm asking people to star...