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by Krogoth
Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:22 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Intel's 11th generation Rocket Lake on 14++++++ nm
Replies: 7
Views: 3686

Re: Intel's 11th generation Rocket Lake on 14++++++ nm

Comet Lake looks to be more of a joke/mistep then ever. The platform itself just another rehash of 1xx chipset series. The extra cores on Comet Lake are going next to useless due to being thermally limited. Why does Intel even bother? They should wait until 7mn/10mn. 14mn node simply isn't up to tas...
by Krogoth
Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:44 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19
Replies: 115
Views: 22900

Re: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19

It is crazy that there's not enough WUs to go around. It is usually the other way around with distributed computing projects. There's plenty of volunteering going on.
by Krogoth
Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:43 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19
Replies: 115
Views: 22900

Re: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19

Vega64 knocks out one of those 70k+ point CoViD units in under two hours when it's not idly waiting for a new assignment. These work units are running the newer OPENMM_22 core that is supposed to be compatible with RDNA GPUs. I might see what it takes to get folding going on my second PC. https://f...
by Krogoth
Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:38 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19
Replies: 115
Views: 22900

Re: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19

I have been undervolting my unit between 800-1050mv with power limit set to 50% and fan profile going from 25-75% utilization. Folding only pushes the GPU @60-65C with reference cooler running at 2600-3000RPM. You can certainly hear the fan but it is not obnoxiously loud. It manages to keep a stable...
by Krogoth
Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:43 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19
Replies: 115
Views: 22900

Re: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19

Stress testing my current parts in my new Define 7 chassis. :D

Vega 64 seems to be running cooler since it has more dedicated airspace since PSU is isolated from it
by Krogoth
Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:24 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19
Replies: 115
Views: 22900

Re: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19

It'll be a good stress test for my new Define 7 chassis once I get the new PSU for it and do a system transplant.
by Krogoth
Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:33 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?
Replies: 639
Views: 91285

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?

This whole thing is shaping up to be like a common influenza outbreak and showing how ineffective we are at containing viral outbreaks. We are lucky that the current strain is marginally more lethal than the flu and measles. It is nowhere near smallpox-tier.
by Krogoth
Wed Mar 11, 2020 6:08 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?
Replies: 639
Views: 91285

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?

Methinks, all of this panic and anxiety is from the spectres of the past haunting us (Spanish Flu). There are over two generations of people in the developed world that have lived their lives being blissfully ignorant on the horror of deadly contingents (Smallpox, Measles, Wooping Cough) that even o...
by Krogoth
Tue Mar 03, 2020 5:29 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?
Replies: 639
Views: 91285

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?

tanker27 wrote:
JustAnEngineer wrote:
You wouldn't want any of the millions of people forced to stay at home playing that instead of Counter Strike.
https://hothardware.com/news/steam-conc ... oronavirus


Counter Strike is not a game! It's training! 8)


Player Bomb has been planted......
by Krogoth
Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:37 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: AMD Navi / RDNA Topic
Replies: 121
Views: 33669

Re: AMD Navi / RDNA Topic

Knock on wood - so far both my Vega 56 and the Radeon Fury I snagged for cheap a few weeks ago have been as solid as ever on Win10. I'd say it sounds like GDDR6 is the culprit, but Radeon VII users have had problems too, so I've honestly got no idea. So far I'm just glad it hasn't gotten me, too. H...
by Krogoth
Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:52 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: My plant based Keto diet experience
Replies: 57
Views: 9286

Re: My plant based Keto diet experience

The diet is meant for sick people but if a normal person with a family history of diabetes/hypertension/cardiovascular disease etc. were to adopt it, it would prevent or greatly delay them from meeting the same fate as their ancestors. ... I would replace the word "would" with "might...
by Krogoth
Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:14 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: AMD Navi / RDNA Topic
Replies: 121
Views: 33669

Re: AMD Navi / RDNA Topic

I suspect almost all of the black screen issues stem from super-aggressive power management (set by default) not dancing with GDDR6 chips on some factory-overclock SKUs. The WDM on Windows 10 puts out a surprising amount of GPU utilization if it needs to pool enough windows and screens (a bit more t...
by Krogoth
Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:24 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: 3950x temps high, thoughts
Replies: 34
Views: 17238

Re: 3950x temps high, thoughts

Think I'm going play with reseating the heatsink a few more times. If it is a fixable seating problem then it should be very obvious if I finally get it right. My i7-3770 was going higher than 80 degrees celsius in stress testing the first time I booted it up. After reseating the heatsink, the diff...
by Krogoth
Thu Feb 06, 2020 7:30 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Warcraft III: Reforged
Replies: 17
Views: 5244

Re: Warcraft III: Reforged

Most of the people who know the old codebase are gone or retired. It costs time and money to maintain it all while it is generating nothing in return. This is the dilemma that faces all commercial software well past their prime, especially when the ecosystem is undergoing a paradigm change. Windows...
by Krogoth
Wed Feb 05, 2020 8:18 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Warcraft III: Reforged
Replies: 17
Views: 5244

Re: Warcraft III: Reforged

It is because they ported the entire codebase to Starcraft2/HOTS family. It isn't fully compatible with old Warcraft 3 codebase so there's a good chance some of the old custom maps wouldn't have work anyway. Blizzard-Activison was going to retire the old Warcraft III client and servers. This was co...
by Krogoth
Tue Feb 04, 2020 8:40 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Warcraft III: Reforged
Replies: 17
Views: 5244

Re: Warcraft III: Reforged

More specifically with Warcraft III: Reforged , I think this is false advertising. It was sold as a massive rehaul of the original game (specifically cutscenes), but instead it just got minor tweaks. Then there's the whole copyrighting of mods thing...which is just dumb. Further, they broke a lot o...
by Krogoth
Mon Feb 03, 2020 7:17 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Warcraft III: Reforged
Replies: 17
Views: 5244

Warcraft III: Reforged

I find the whole mountains of salt behind the controversy so amusing. The game itself is nothing more than a Warcraft III total conversion mod of SC2/HOTS. It was pretty obvious from the start that old client and custom map scene was on the clopping block. The decision to force classic-only users to...
by Krogoth
Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Intel 10th-generation Comet Lake in 2020 on 14+++++ nm
Replies: 79
Views: 19130

Re: Intel 10th-generation Comet Lake in 2020 on 14+++++ nm

No PCIe 4.0 for you! https://www.techpowerup.com/263318/intel-400-series-chipset-motherboards-to-lack-pcie-gen-4-0-launch-pushed-to-q2 That was pretty obvious as that would require a complete re-work of the PCI controller on the CPU and platform. Intel wants to avoid sinking more R&D costs into...
by Krogoth
Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:03 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: Dual actuator drives
Replies: 19
Views: 4912

Re: Dual actuator drives

Dual-actuator drives are a meme. It is the grasping the straws of a dying medium. You are throwing in more points of failure and making it more difficult to do disaster recovery for at best, a 100% I/O throughout gain. It is cheaper/easier to slap two HDDs together via RAID/JBOD if your goal is to i...
by Krogoth
Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:29 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: Why are only 3 companies making CPUs and GPUs?
Replies: 12
Views: 1778

Re: Why are only 3 companies making CPUs and GPUs?

The golden and silver ages of digital computing are over. All of the low-hanging fruit are gone and we are almost out of the mid-hanging fruit. Physical and economic realities are here to stay.
by Krogoth
Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:52 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Rise of Skywalker spoilers
Replies: 85
Views: 6553

Re: Rise of Skywalker spoilers

Disney officially killed their golden goose. At this point, they are lucky to recoup the cost of acquiring the IP from Lucas.

So much wasted potential and they didn't have to try hard either.
by Krogoth
Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:35 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review
Replies: 15
Views: 6277

Re: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review

I'm not contradicting myself. Gamers and gaming artist have been preferring allocating the graphical processing budget towards more complicated models/animations, textures, and higher resolutions over more realistic shadowing and reflections. The cost of ray-tracing rendering is simply too high for ...
by Krogoth
Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:40 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review
Replies: 15
Views: 6277

Re: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review

Hate to burst your bubble, but PC hasn't been driving gaming market for over a decade now. Consoles have been dictating everything and set the baseline. It is the main reason why quad-core CPUs that are nearly a decade old and second-generation DX11-hardware (Kepler/GCN 1.x genration) have been viab...
by Krogoth
Tue Dec 17, 2019 5:34 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review
Replies: 15
Views: 6277

Re: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review

Zero RPM is bloody stupid, unless you got an massive heatsink and severely undervolting/underclocking your GPU (well below the factory idle state). It is just an open invitation on killing your hardware. AMD RTG and Nvidia are protecting users from killing their own hardware by accident. That's why ...
by Krogoth
Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:11 am
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Xbox series X
Replies: 43
Views: 8494

Re: Xbox series X

I called it the Monolith.
by Krogoth
Tue Dec 17, 2019 10:33 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review
Replies: 15
Views: 6277

Re: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition Review

The whole list is just mostly pedantic nitpicking over trivial non-issues(s). Boost clocking has always been opportunistic since GCN/Kepler. Clockspeeds are dynamic and depend on the workload/thermals/power limit. The days of GPUs running at maximum clockspeed 24/7 and a single idle state are long g...
by Krogoth
Wed Dec 04, 2019 7:43 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Starfalcon has built a new computer....not a joke
Replies: 35
Views: 8733

Re: Starfalcon has built a new computer....not a joke

It is less than 30% though in most mainstream applications/games though. It isn't that big of a difference unless the older system was starting to struggle (SB/IB aren't there yet). People held on to SB/IB systems (I was one of them) because the Intel cost of entry was so high for what felt like ver...
by Krogoth
Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:38 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Zen 2 Threadripper talk and news (rumors too)
Replies: 49
Views: 6632

Re: Zen 2 Threadripper talk and news (rumors too)

It is Sandy-Bridge-E all over again. A platform that suits the needs for majority of the HEDT userbase while having the potential for a long-shelf life. SB-E rigs only started to show their age around the time Zen made its official debut.
by Krogoth
Tue Nov 26, 2019 9:34 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: And FreeSync comes to the Geforce!!!
Replies: 3
Views: 5332

Re: And FreeSync comes to the Geforce!!!

Thank goodness that open standards finally won out. Gamers are no longer held ransom by their monitor if they wanted to get adaptive sync. Monitor vendors don't have to pick sides either.
by Krogoth
Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:42 pm
Forum: Gaming
Topic: Half-Life: Alyx
Replies: 20
Views: 5863

Re: Half-Life: Alyx

It totally has to do with EGS and Stadia. They need a big PR piece to keep the mindshare with gaming crowd, otherwise EGS and Stadia is going to start drawing away users.
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