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I'd like to remember all of you that the real first Mac is called Lisa and so it's been 41. Yeah, I know, I'm older than you. I may turn 60 this year. 👨‍🦳 :) An it was far from being my first computer I used and I knew..

Not really Pat fault. It's Brian Krzanich fault (I don't have a clue how to pronounce his name). He let Intel lose advance on process and Intel didn't chose the good direction for their GPGPU and so he just abandoned the market instead of changing their solution, but pulled from the company...

Low cost 16GB card needed to compete against 4060Ti 16GB. 7600XT 16GB, here I am ! :LOL:

It's the graphics card fault or some system upgrade (I mean the OS). You can find whatever new driver for the motherboard at Intel if not by Microsoft OS. The driver from the 4080 even if it's the same install file as the 3080Ti doesn't use all the same software and API. I don't see how the PSU...

It seems AMD is betting on IA too. They won't use much silicon for gaming on next gen, meaning no high end, just to use all their reserved silicon at TSMC for CDNA GPGPU. Their CDNA high end chip is very powerfull, on some tasks better than Nvidia's.

Massive parallel computing was at the center of the discussion on the future computing at Nvidia and ATI/AMD. While Intel was testing architectures based on x86 and failed. Even more, they missed the gaming GPU times after they bought that company who made the i740, and Intel never followed the...

Yes and no. This is a temporary cure. If there is noise and vibration it is not the oil but the fact that the mechanical part is worn out. However the fans are not always replaceable on GPUs. There was a time when you could replace all the cooler with its fan with some standard one from the...

For some years now Autodesk policy has been to refuse to validate valid keys of their older software sold for life. Including their products that have been sold for around 10 000$. Their argument is that validating a key (when you change your hardware for instance) is part of the support and...

Just posting this on Windows 7 Pro with Firefox. Why do you need more ?

Actually RDNA 3 is ok. It's not great because of lack of support in development. It's ready as a hardware not as an API with full features in development tools. And this is bad. New season we'll have RDNA4 (Which should be called RDNA3++ since it's a optimization upgrade from RDNA3 as reported)...

And if you look into what is happening, AMD is abandoning for RDNA4 the next release high end gaming GPU to Nvidia and eventually to Intel, but concentrating on AI and CDNA on servers for the year 2024. This is where the big business is now. Frankly, you don't need a 4090 to play. It's not even...

Oh. Si it doesn't take the "e" in english like in french. :LOL:

I am very not impressed. Apple is using much better node for its chips than competition and does not even come close for the price to what x86 hardware world does. Also using parts of GPU, special memory to actually beat old 7950X not even 3D chip. I'm waiting to laugh at their expensive...

I bet this is going to be TRX 50 2GB and WRX 90 4GB, since Samsung announced a while ago 512GB RDIMM and I bet Hynix will also do before Micron goes EUV and does too. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-512gb-ddr5-memory-module But do you need more the 256GB on a standard workstation ...

Well this was two weeks ago. But this is not the case anymore. New TR and TR Pro platform is out, and there is a big difference with older non Pro platform. It uses 4 RDIMM slots, not UDIMM. This changes in the way RDIMM can hold bigger memory size. New TR platform has 4 slots vs older 8 UDIMM...

As far as I remember SIS chipset for Pentiums had the same problem. Only compatible with Sata 1 and some Sata II but not all (probable those that could retrofit entirely in Sata 1 mode).

Excel in need for more than 128GB. Really ? If you're that on the edge, you need to get a database for your job.

The WRX 90 boards will be plenty of PCI slots but mind that to fill all of them you'll need slim GPU cards. Best value will be the TRX50. And the Asrock TRX 50 board has a bad distribution of PCI slots. No way to put 4 double slot GPU in a EATX case. The position of the 3rd slot should be one...

Be carefull about the RAM. Old HEDT had UDIMM mémory. New one has RDIMM. And this is very good, because the RDIMM RAM can be much bigger. It's standard to have 64GB DDR5 RDIMM (ECC of course) and you can find 256GB. So with only 4 slots a TRX50 can go up to 1GB of RAM, and it is standard to put...

Because you're just playing with expensive stuff by avoiding using some more efficient cheap stuff.

Yes. If you want to put a PCIe x16 card (especially a GPU) on a PCIe 1x (or 4x) slot throught some converter, you need to add power (the missing 75W) to the converter. In principle there is a power connector on those converters.

There is no difference on my Asus B550M regarding RAM. Still have problems with legit Crucial 3200 ECC on 4 slots (128GB). Running it at 2666 for safety (crashed one time on 2866). Only boots once in a while at 3200 then crashes on first occasion. Works great full speed on a Asus 520M-k 2 slots.

Waiting for the first TRX50 motherboard with 8 RAM slots. First one is Gigabyte, only 4 slots. Also looking for DDR5 ECC (real ECC not only on chip ECC). It's everywhere but RDIMM not UDIMM.

I got that problem. Some motherboards don't accept some kind of RAM at their standard speed. Just put them at lower speed where it works. Don't spend time on this. You won't lose much.

Yes. Even x16 high end GPU. They'll lose about 10 to 20% of their speed.

I never reinstall chipset drivers.

If you're limited on budget, Keep your 3070 until next generation. Keep in mind, you're asking this for gaming, and for the look of the game. If it were only for gaming, I'll buy a B450 motherboard, leave only 32GB RAM on the PC, with an 8 core (5800X will be okay and 5800X3D will be great) and...

This is right. It is also utterly expensive. Mainboard+CPU. And TR is not produced anymore which is a shame so there is a big gap between Ryzen and Threadripper Pro.

Speculations are that RDNA4 will be an optimized RDNA3 with more features to enhance speed, not new functions. The drivers and developpement will then be up to the hardware AMD puts on sale, which is currently not the case for some time now. There won't be any RDNA 4 card to upgrade the RX...

RDNA3 cards are good value only for the players playing games in raster mode without supersampling. There is no other reason to buy these cards instead of Nvidia for any other use.

Just choose 4060Ti 16GB or 4070 12Gb instead of 3060 12GB. Forget about 4060 8GB.

Have you tested Cyberpunk on it ? :LOL:

I've been ill for a week but that was just a flu that turned worse. Had to take antibiotics. And all that as the temperature is more than 30°C (more than 85°F). No Covid. Covid is not any worse than a heavy flu today. The virus evolved to be less harmfull. It's a whole different virus. The...

The RTX 4090 will be still good in 5 years and ok in 10 years, for gaming. If you already own it, it's good investment. Professionally speaking, today, 4090 is great for CUDA, Optics and AI. Best for mining, best for anything in parallel computing and supported everywhere because of CUDA, and...

Maybe Radeon HD 7970 (especially the 6GB version) and the Radeon 290/X, especially the 8GB version. Those cards are still able for gaming today, including basic DX12 acceleration, after more than 10 years. They can play anything in HD (no RT and medium details). On the contrary you may have to...

I had exactly the same problem. I had an employee who wouldn't come at the office because of some laws made in France against it during Covid times. Further there were laws that prevent people to come to office on behalf of climate change and some stupid behaviour that I had to prove he needs to...

As will my Windows 7.

So if one locks it's memory on the good and compatible values, fast boot would be the way to go. Good to know. Especially if that memory is ECC. I mean ECC standard in memory for DDR5 +full ECC for the whole system. By this way it would be 10 sec as usual ? And of course no hibernation and all...

XP 64bits will use them up to 128GB or Server for Enterprise or Datacenter 2003/2008 for x86 with PAE will make use up to 64GB RAM (x64 will make use of much more). So it's been a while since one can use much more than 4GB RAM even on 32 bit systems. Not sure one couldn't activate PAE on Windows...

5800X. The sticks are 32GB RAM ECC 3200 Crucial each. And they boot on a Asus Prime A520m-k (2 sticks) and a 5600X with 0 problem. Both motherboards are up to date regarding their BIOS. And I even tested about all of the latest BIOSes if ever some bug or limitation was introduced. But there is a...