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Daniel Owen's 5090 Connector Burned Out After 15 Months

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terraphantm@reddit

It’s the same connector. The H200 is a little odd in that the connector is soldered to some massive wires which are then soldered to the pcb

Daniel Owen's 5090 Connector Burned Out After 15 Months

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terraphantm@reddit

Yep, if this connector was rated for 300W there’d probably be minimal issues. But they got ambitious with the 600W requirement. If they really wanted to run that close to the margin, they should have enforced a requirement for some sort of drive safety at the PSU level

NVIDIA Reportedly Prepares RTX 5090 Price Hike Amid Rising GDDR7 Costs

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DOJ Orders Apple, Google to Hand Over OBDII App User Data in Emissions Probe

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2027 BMW M3 Handschalter Breaks the Rules by Giving the CS a Manual.

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Installing Linux on a PlayStation 5 and Overclocking It

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[Throttle House] 2026 BMW M2 CS Review

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[Throttle House] 2026 BMW M2 CS Review

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Nintendo Announces Sweeping Price Hikes For Switch 2

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

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Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards in 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

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terraphantm@reddit

It's about the usual generational gap. PS4 was about the performance of a gtx 760 and base PS5 about the GTX 3060. If anything 5080 would be selling it short if it has the usual generational jump.

Sapphire RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ BIOS brick recovery – killed both BIOS chips, recovered one with CH341A, flashed the second via hot-switch

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PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

Is there any confirmation that the epyc am5 CPUs work as expected? Would be particularly annoying in the case of the 9950x3d2 as it’s being marketed as more of a workstation part and they haven’t made an Epyc equivalent (yet)

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

Not sure why it’s hard to believe that someone with a clear conflict of interest would act in accordance with their wallet. It might not be effective, but people get stupid about money. 

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

And yet it definitely happens. Tesla and all the musk adjacent subs are well known for their mods being nuts and being shareholders. Wouldn’t at all be a surprise for amd and nvidia to be along the same lines. They certainly suppress negative news there And it’s almost certainly retail guys. Hedge fund managers have better things to do than mod a sub

ASUS Equalizer - The 12VHPWR Solution? - YouTube

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terraphantm@reddit

>There should be some PSUs coming to support this but nah It 100% should be on the GPU Side. That's not really standard in any other industry, I don't know why PCs evolved this way. The supply side should limit how much current can be drawn per connector / per wire. Instead we have power supplies that will let a single 18ga wire try to draw >70A without batting an eye.

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

Agreed. And if it’s not literal employees it’s often shareholders. I kinda knew that would be the outcome when I saw the sub is on manual approval mode. It’s definitely annoying how much control mods have over shaping a narrative (you can even see that here with how certain key words causes threads to be instantly locked)

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

Isn’t real ECC already a pretty good mitigation for the various hammer attacks (which to date don’t seem to have been deployed on a wide scale anyway)?

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

Have you ever tried getting support from a multinational company with regards to a new bug? Damn near impossible to get through to anyone who would actually understand, especially when the bug is something that affects a small niche. Stirring it up on social media is about the only way to draw attention these days.  

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

I’m still not convinced it isn’t a bug. It’s not simply limited to a max of 5200. You simply can’t set any frequency other than 5200. Doesn’t matter if your ram is rated for less than that. 

PSA: AMD is locking ECC UDIMM frequency on consumer AM5

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terraphantm@reddit

Yep found this when I did my recent CPU upgrade (during which time I also updated the bios).  Thankfully downgrading to 12.7.0 os easy enough with bios flashback and even the newest CPUs don’t actually need the agenda update  I’m still hoping it’s a bug on AMD’s part. Seems really odd to fix the clock to 5200 rather than allow anything 5200 and below. 

After swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, AI data centers are now going for CPUs

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NVIDIA RTX 6000D with 84GB GDDR7 memory appears in first teardown video

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The BMW M3 EV Has Four Motors, Fake Engine Noise, And Simulated Gear Shifts

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https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T0454962EN/the-beginning-of-a-new-era:-fully-electric-bmw-m-models-set-unrivalled-high-performance-standards

[der8auer] - 12VHPWR Cables Are Just Too Fragile – WireView Pro II Preview

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terraphantm@reddit

10 awg solid is pretty stiff. Even stranded tends to be pretty stiff.  Not really practical for a PC which needs periodic maintenance and such.  Really should just bite the bullet and go higher voltage so we don’t need such ridiculous currents

Thunderbolt 5 is here! But is it better than Oculink?

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terraphantm@reddit

Seems like the other way actually. The high VRAM cards can do surprisingly well with low PCIe bandwiddth, while the cards with low VRAM can hit the bus hard.

[der8auer] Gigabyte’s Liquid Metal Is Not What You Might Think

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terraphantm@reddit

I'm not 12, I know how ambient temperatures impact things. I promise you I'm not running my PC in a sauna. My thermostat is typically set to 68F / 20C. I also know to use the performance bios. And even manually just forcing the fans to 100C does not get me anywhere near HWunboxed temps at full load. And sure his ingame footage might not be normalized, but running 150W below max load and still seeing temps higher than the reported thermal testing doesn't pass the sniff test.

[der8auer] Gigabyte’s Liquid Metal Is Not What You Might Think

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terraphantm@reddit

Curious about their methodology. Right before the graphs you can see the card is only pulling ~450W in the games they're testing and running hotter than their reported temp. On my own Aorus my temps are closer to what derbauer reports. I thought it was my case, but even testing open air barely changed the temps

[der8auer] Gigabyte’s Liquid Metal Is Not What You Might Think

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12VHFRPWR Connector Claims its First AMD RX 9070 XT Victim

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12VHFRPWR Connector Claims its First AMD RX 9070 XT Victim

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terraphantm@reddit

If they really wanted the GPU to not do any load balancing, the spec should have mandated overcurrent protection at the PSU level. Allowing the possibility of a single pin to theoretically draw 50A is ridiculous.

Noctua was right: two top exhaust fans can harm thermals

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terraphantm@reddit

My CPU temps go down with Noctua's recommended setup, but my GPU tempts (5090) go up pretty considerably. I ended up prioritizing the GPU since the CPU generally isn't under as much load. Best solution would be to 3d print some ducts to optimize everything. But that takes some time and effort

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Benchmarks & Tear-Down | Thermals, Gaming, LLM, & Acoustic Tests

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[Noctua] Introducing the NF-A12x25 G2: A step up in 120mm fan performance and design

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[Gamers Nexus] CPU SCAM: AMD Ryzen 9800X3D Counterfeits & Fraud

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terraphantm@reddit

I don't think I've ever actually made a warrany claim on a CPU. The one time it would have been justified (the first gen ryzen with segfault issues), I couldn't get AMD to approve the claim.

The fastest, brightest OLED. - MSI 272QP X50 - 500Hz 300nits

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The fastest, brightest OLED. - MSI 272QP X50 - 500Hz 300nits

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The fastest, brightest OLED. - MSI 272QP X50 - 500Hz 300nits

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terraphantm@reddit

It’s literally the spec for SDR. When you’re running in HDR mode and going through the calibration, that’s generally targeting 250 nits for sdr content And sure you can prefer to sear your eyeballs, but pretending it’s a normal thing is asinine. Most people doing office work are not doing it on 1000 nit displays set to 1000 nits. 

The fastest, brightest OLED. - MSI 272QP X50 - 500Hz 300nits

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terraphantm@reddit

It's 300 nits SDR, 500 or 1000 for HDR (depending on which HDR mode). That's about how it should be. Monitors that go well above that for SDR content are displaying a much brighter picture than intended.

BOE shows 31.5” 8K 120Hz LCD panel on SID Display Week, mass production later this year

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terraphantm@reddit

Visually lossless is a fancy way of saying lossy. But I do think we're reaching a point where the compression has to be accepted, the bandwidth required for 8k and high refreshrates is tremendous.

BOE shows 31.5” 8K 120Hz LCD panel on SID Display Week, mass production later this year

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terraphantm@reddit

I think software issues like that will probably be more feasible to fix than sending that sort of bandwidth uncompressed. And as you note, the DLDSR issue is fixed with Blackwell -- so that advantage is gone.

BOE shows 31.5” 8K 120Hz LCD panel on SID Display Week, mass production later this year

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iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original

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Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs - Ars Technica

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terraphantm@reddit

So USB3 (ie 5gbps capable) does have a theoretical advantage for keyboards in that usb3 supports interrupts rather than polling. But no one’s implemented that as far as I’m aware. 

[Hardware Canucks] Fractal's Peak Case - Meshify 3 Review

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