GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

Betonhaus said:
It's probably cheaper then carrying several different sizes of card slots. Then you only need to carry x1 and x16 connectors instead of x1, x1+, x4, x4+, x8, x8+, and x16.

But you definitely need to read you manual carefully to figure out which are actually x4 or even if they disable SATA ports when used.
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Also, GPUs being stuck at x1 is a recurring thing.
 
Betonhaus said:
It's probably cheaper then carrying several different sizes of card slots. Then you only need to carry x1 and x16 connectors instead of x1, x1+, x4, x4+, x8, x8+, and x16.

But you definitely need to read you manual carefully to figure out which are actually x4 or even if they disable SATA ports when used.
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The point of having the different slot sizes was to be able to maximize use of space. If your board can accommodate 4 x16s, no use using a different size as the smaller cards can fit in larger slots. The limitation on lanes was always sort of part of the standard. The connector and the lane definitions are independent. So a 4x PCI-E slot can be in any of the 4x, 8x, 16x form factors.
 
Betonhaus said:
It's probably cheaper then carrying several different sizes of card slots. Then you only need to carry x1 and x16 connectors instead of x1, x1+, x4, x4+, x8, x8+, and x16.
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that's why all of the good shit is reserved to enterprise consumers... because they should be able to handle the hassle while the general user don't need to get confused with all of these things, making the product cheaper in the end but chinkshit is that mindset but only to fool suckers, i've seen a few B450 boards all fucked up per chinkoid factory to a point they made x16 run at X8 even if the board itself supported X16 no problem from the competition with a negligible change in pricing, i was going to say it's retarded but it's just bug greed so i don't get it why.
Betonhaus said:
But you definitely need to read you manual carefully to figure out which are actually x4 or even if they disable SATA ports when used.
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you should always read the manual for pretty much everything that has it, i ordered a C246M-WU4 and here's her ports:
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size wise i kind of get the X16 or x8/x8 tho, still a bummer nonetheless.
 
The Ugly One said:
We are in the best era of gaming hardware ever, where computers a decade old can run brand new games.
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The GTX 970 is like the Toyota Camry of graphics cards. I really can't say enough good things about it considering it can be found for like $40 on the marketplace. My opinion is biased as an e-waste rat king that doesn't play modern games.
 
unaboomer said:
The GTX 970 is like the Toyota Camry of graphics cards. I really can't say enough good things about it considering it can be found for like $40 on the marketplace. My opinion is biased as an e-waste rat king that doesn't play modern games.
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you can always overclock, here's a monkeytuber overclocking his GTX750Ti to run modern games at a decent framerate.
 
VideoCardz: Exclusive: Intel readies Core G3 “Panther Lake” series for gaming handhelds, up to 14 CPU cores and 12 Xe3 GPU cores

Alleged 2P + 8E + 4LP with 12 Xe cores for handhelds. Dropping 2 P-cores for better efficiency, but keeping the beefiest iGPU.

VideoCardz: GeForce RTX 50 SUPER release reportedly put on hold

Another rumor that 50 Super will be delayed indefinitely due to memory pricing/supply.

Seems like it would be cancelled in favor of moving onto 60 series if it doesn't come out this year.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Alleged 2P + 8E + 4LP with 12 Xe cores for handhelds. Dropping 2 P-cores for better efficiency, but keeping the beefiest iGPU.
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What's the anticipated performance? Im curious how this solution will stack up at the low wattages like the Steam Decks APU and not just the juiced Z1/Z2 extreme chips at 25+ watts.
 
4090 Chad said:
What's the anticipated performance? Im curious how this solution will stack up at the low wattages like the Steam Decks APU and not just the juiced Z1/Z2 extreme chips at 25+ watts.
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Not sure, but it will be a great test of the 18A node. It seems likely that it will crush almost everything at most TDPs, with the exception of Strix Halo pushed to 45+ Watts or something.

If I'm not mistaken, the lowest TDP you can run the Steam Deck at is 3W. At that point, it might be time to turn the P-cores and E-cores off entirely, and run the indie game on the 4 LPE-cores only.
 
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