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

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Well I'm disappointed to say the least. I tried getting my PC speaker to work under Windows. Under 10/11 you need a modded driver from a website that's no longer online, but I have it backed up. Thing is, there are two versions of it. One is meant to use Windows' HAL layer, the other is meant to instruct it directly. The former wouldn't make a noise, the latter drives the speaker incorrectly.

In hopes that it's just a problem with Windows, I've live booted into EndeavorOS. pacman -S beep, nope, can't find the device, couldn't get it to beep under that either. Oddly enough, the POST beep works just fine. However I've noticed that when it's driven incorrectly by that Windows driver, it sounds the same as it did on some occasions after reinstalling UEFI. So it seems that my dogshit Gigabyte motherboard, that I have to run on modded UEFI just to have AVX-512 working, is the culprit.

I hate it so much. I just wanted my funky beeps man. :(
 

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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Nvidia RTX 5090 beats RTX Pro 6000 in tests after shunt mod to a staggering 800W — consumer flagship barely scrapes past the $10,000 Pro despite eye-watering power modification
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A note here is that despite bumping up to 800 watts, its a really mild overclock to around 3000mhz, other OC models hit 33-3400.
Wonder what could be hit with that 1900 watt cable. Other than nuclear fission.
 
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I'm getting mixed signals if Alder Lake/ Intel Gen 12 supports M.2 5.0 drives. Does anyone know the answer to this?
 
Lol, I've been so out of the loop that I didn't even know until now that non Apple Arm based workstations are a thing. Apparently really good in parallel shit when you've got nearly 200 cores but has bad single core performance.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
I'm getting mixed signals if Alder Lake/ Intel Gen 12 supports M.2 5.0 drives. Does anyone know the answer to this?
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I'm assuming it depends on your motherboard like with DDR4 vs DDR5 on that gen.

EDIT: Looks like someone on reddit has a more concrete answer - only 16 lanes of 5.0. So if you use a GPU, you're out of luck.
 
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Tech Grug did a review of the RTX PRO 6000
And apparently he got it from none other than Brent Rambo.
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Fcret said:
Looks the RTX 5050 is coming out soon - $250 is still pretty steep but it's not like anyone else is making something in this price class
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For small power-efficient home theater PCs with full support for all the latest codecs
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Why is it not using 75W, then?

The price is shit for something that resorts to using prev-gen GDDR6 and a smaller GB207 die to cut costs. The 5060 costs 20% more but offers 50% more CUDA cores and 40% more memory bandwidth, at a similar TDP. The only good point I see is that the 5050 matches the 5060's 32 MiB of L2 cache.

Put it at $200, and give the 5060 12 GB at same MSRP, then we're talking.

We've heard that AMD might make a 9050, which could be copying everything wrong about the 5050 here. I would like to see a 9040 at 75W with 8 GB. Intel rumors point to a B770 but no low-end B380 sighted.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
Intel Arc doesn't have any brand recognition among gaymers. It must be better than zero, but not by much. Tech enthusiasts who read too much news know they exist, and are exponentially more likely to try to rejuvenate an old CPU with a new GPU (GPU typically being the bottleneck for gaming). By offering display output tier GPUs near $100 like the A310 and A380, Intel could have had an ideal choice for older systems and CPUs. And you do get Intel's decent Quick Sync on steroids, with AV1 hardware encode support in Alchemist. But ReBAR/CPU overhead can be a problem for gaming.

I have seen some OEM systems pairing Alder/Raptor Lake and Arc GPUs, not many though.
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I'm an oldfag, and remember when Intel dominated the CPU market for gamers (It's all about the Pentiums, Baby). It's probably why I still have a modicum of loyalty to Intel. That and I really liked the NUC form factor. But they fucked up when they decided to stay out of the console market. Devs need to optimize for console as the lowest common denominator, which means AMD/NVidia. If gamers cared about Intel CPU they would be more interested in GPU, but even Intel doesn't care about gaming anymore.

Intel has some good performance tools, but even those are used to optimize for AMD.
 
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I bought my mom one of those dinky little N150 micro-computers. I had my doubts about only 4 cores for Windows, but reviews were very pos [EDIT] itive.

Baggywrinkle_v2 said:
But they fucked up when they decided to stay out of the console market. Devs need to optimize for console as the lowest common denominator, which means AMD/NVidia. If gamers cared about Intel CPU they would be more interested in GPU, but even Intel doesn't care about gaming anymore.
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I have optimized a lot of code, and there is so little difference between one x86 core and another that it really comes down to whether you your code is capable of efficiently using multiple cores or not. Like it doesn't even really matter that much if the target architecture is Skylake or Zen 4. There was some finickiness about AVX-512 in early implementations, but the most you did there was just not use it at all.
 
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Recently found a 5090 for 3500CAD, but reviews say it has some noise issues. Is that still an insane price or the best people are going to see for a good long while?
 
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