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From the album: neurotix's graphic design
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From the album: neurotix's graphic design
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[Official] EHW Retro - The EHW Retrogaming club
neurotix replied to neurotix's topic in Gaming General
Hey @Fluxmavenidid you see my last post? -
7900X3D, G.skill Flare X DDR5 6000 cas 36, Asus ROG Strix X670-E gaming, and a lightly used Corsair H150i off Ebay (current cooler won't fit because of the VRM heatsink on the top of the board).
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Update: got the 7900X3D. Asus ROG Strix X670-E Gaming is coming tomorrow. Bought one of the simpler designed H150is used for cheap on Ebay, this one I think: https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Dynamic-Radiator-Software-Compatible/dp/B09YCHFXQL/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=1B7HK43G5MHTV&keywords=h150i&qid=1678223975&sprefix=h150%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-4 Compared to the Elite Cappelix model or whatever at the top of the list when you search H150i, as that one has a separate RGB controller box you need to use to control the rgb, but I already have a rgb box that all my fans connect to and it connects to the motherboard header. This model of H150i should probably have the Corsair Link usb cable you connect to the block. As per my sig, my lighting matching is important to me and now I will end up having to install iCue to make the leds on the block match. My mother-in-law is coming to visit this weekend and the big foldathon is the weekend after that, so I may not be able to put the new stuff in til the weekend of the 25th, as I will need my wife to help me rebuild the machine (pain issues). Anyway, that's my update. The 7900X3D us kind of a turd, actually I think that Zen 4 in general is, but the point is that when Zen 5 launches in a few years and they shrink the node, I'll be ready for it and can buy one and just drop it in. Hopefully it's awesome when it launches. I'm still excited about this upgrade though.
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Thanks, I'll be sure to look into those voltages since I am getting the Asus ROG Strix X670E Gaming. Already have the 7900X3D. Board should be here tomorrow and I'm waiting on a H150 cooler I ordered on Ebay to arrive. (current cooler won't clear the top VRM heatsink of the new board- it's a thick rad) My mother in law is coming this weekend, and next weekend is the big foldathon, so I might be waiting 3 weeks til the weekend of the 25th to be able to rebuild my rig. Need wife's help to do so and probably can't do it all on my own because of pain. I could use some advice though. The one (and biggest) thing I'm worried about with this rebuild is getting the current small heatsink off of my NVMe drive. When we originally put this together and put the drive in, it had a really really sticky thermal pad thing on the back of it. What's the best way to get this off and not ruin my boot drive? I intend to keep the same Win10/Linux Mint installs that are on that drive and really don't want to break it trying to pull off that thermal pad. Should I heat it up with a hair dryer and then wear gloves and it'll peel off easier? Edit: Also, does anyone have a video or a guide to totally removing the VRM heatsinks on the board I'm getting, or a similar Asus board? If I did, I'd be able to fit and use my vastly superior Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 instead of the stupid H150 with RGB on it and a bunch of cables coming off of it. Since my rig is full RGB I'd need to connect the Corsair link cable to make the block match the rest of my LEDs and fans (synthwave cyan and magenta)
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Lowest it's been here all winter was 5f but "feels like" -20f according to my weather app.
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Conclusion - The AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD's Fastest Gaming Processor WWW.ANANDTECH.COM Just read this Anandtech article and it seems they are saying/implying that the V-Cache is on the slower CCD, however it can still boost to 5.2GHz.
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I mean, I imagine it would be as the other CCD is locked to 4.4 GHz, from what I understand.
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techspot UEFI bootkit can defeat Secure Boot protection
neurotix replied to UltraMega's topic in Software News
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Passwords That page had been around forever, but will tell you everything about configuring and encrypting GRUB2 passwords on boot. I don't on my rig (I just set an encrypted admin password that works with both Win10 and Linux to boot them) but if you want you can even have separate passwords per boot entry, so Windows requires one and Linux requires a different one. -
techspot UEFI bootkit can defeat Secure Boot protection
neurotix replied to UltraMega's topic in Software News
Linux can do what you're talking about. I have my system set up so it requires a password to start an OS fron GRUB2. The password is additionally encrypted using AES-256 encryption, so the password to boot cannot be viewed in RAM by anyone trying to boot an OS on my system. I love Linux. -
I just ordered the 7900X3D, have it, getting the Rog Strix X670E Gaming, and an H150i because my current cooler is very thick and the fans won't clear the upper VRM heatsink on the board (midtower case). I just have a question about the X3D- is the extra L3 cache accessible and connected to the faster CCD (that boosts up to 5.6 GHz)?
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I use Ublock Origin, Https Everywhere, NoScript, PrivacyBadger, CanvasBlocker and Ghostery in Firefox, on Linux. I frequently have to do captchas and some sites think I'm a bot. Phone I use Firefox and most of the same addons but not NoScript because its a pain to use on mobile. I haven't gotten any malware, randomware or any crap like that since like 2008 but back then many of these addons weren't available. NoScript gets my highest recommendation especially on desktop, it lets you selectively choose which scripts/outside scripts are being loaded in. For EHW everything is safe, but try going to OCN with it enabled and you'll see it has scripts from Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Google, and others.
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So I may end up getting: 7900X3D Asus ROG Strix X670-E Gaming Corsair H150 - hopefully I can find one without a ton of wires coming off the block and no rgb on it. Still have the G.skill Flare X DDR5-6000 Cas 36. It will be in about two weeks time. The parts will probably not go in right away. We will also be getting a Corsair H100i, to go in my wife's build, as she will have my current C8H and 5900x. She currently has a Kaby Lake i5 so this would be a huge upgrade for her. The reason I changed my mind is that I want to have it done and over with and be ready for Zen 5 and have it be a drop in replacement, ideally I'd like to keep using my Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360mm because it works and looks fantastic, but it hangs down far in my midtower and will probably not be able to clear the top VRM heatsink on the Strix board. I also want it to bench it for HWBOT and redo my 3D benches on my 4090 and get higher scores. Would also be cool to be the first/only person on the forums to have one. But wife is not thrilled with it even though we have enough money in the bank to buy like those parts 17 times over, so we'll have to see.
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techspot UEFI bootkit can defeat Secure Boot protection
neurotix replied to UltraMega's topic in Software News
Great. Jesus. They just keep finding more and more exploits since around 2017. I used to run a rootkit scanner, I think it might have been from Trend Micro. Perhaps I need to run it and check for any crap like this. -
Hi all. I am wondering if there is any advantage to using the beta V8 client in terms of work unit assignment, or it being more efficient and producing more PPD. Before upgrading to it, I figured I'd ask: Will 127.0.0.1:7396 be the same port to access the web interface? Will config files still be stored in /etc/fahclient/ Will log files and the work folder still be at /var/lib/fahclient/ Any reason I should upgrade? I can easily remove the old deb package, and then install the new beta client, but I want to make sure things will still be in the same place. And if there's no real reason to do so and my points will be the same, I'll probably leave it as it has been. Thanks
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From the album: neurotix's graphic design
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Alright Think I got the offenders, let me know.
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Hello guys! I love doing graphic design, but find myself without work for a long period of time. I thought I could offer to make graphics for members of the community to use as avatars or signature banners. See my portfolio for examples of my art. I can do: - Glitch art of your face or your rig or whatever, with the highlights/colors being any two colors you want - Cool gradients for a background - Circuit style traces with a copper gradient - Threshold filter on your rig or setup, basically a cool black and white version of whatever you send me - I can insert anime, manga, or comic book characters, actors, "hot" women etc. - Text in whatever font you want, check out dafont.com and let me know which one you like, or I could use the "Retro Computer" font (it's the one in my current sig image) - Brushes like clouds, paint splatter, swirls, techy circles or hexagon grids, blood dripping, flowers or plants, etc. These work like stamps and they can be in any color or gradient you want. - Can do a panorama of your rig sorta like my current Ai Crystal signature - A lot more, if you tell me what you want I will try and make it Avatars will be 500x500px and shrunk down by the site when you upload it. Signature banner size is determined by your member status. - Regular members are allowed a 250x90 sig banner - Premium Bronze is allowed 450X110 - Premium Silver is allowed 500x125 - Premium Gold is allowed 500x125 - Premium Platinum is allowed 600x150 Please post here if interested, just be aware that because of my pain issues and other stuff I may not respond immediately or it may take some time and this will be done on a first come, first serve basis. Also, my position and work on Foldathon banners, promotional banners for social media, and merchandise art comes first. When the art is completed I will pm you a zip file with the final .png in it, because the site compresses images when uploaded so you don't want to download it if I posted it in this thread as it will be inferior quality. Hope there's some interest in this. Thanks guys.
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So an update on my pain condition. Remembering that it's my neck, my low back (which has gotten quite a bit better generally from the microdiscotomy procedure), and especially, my hips. I first saw a hip doctor who I never even met: just was attended to by his main PA. They took an MRI of my left hip and I have the cam and pincer impingement, as well as mild to moderate arthritis in the joint. I had steroid injections with a 3 inch needle and 40mg Kenalog in both hips. I hurt really bad from them for like two weeks. I went back, doctor said I needed a hip replacement. Referred me to a different doctor in the organization that does that. Anyway, he brought up my MRI and xray on the screen and said my arthritis in my left hip was mild and he thinks I have burcitis, which is basically an issue with the burca, basically something on the outer leg bone (where I don't have pain, my pain is in the joint itself.) He injected the burca with steroid- didn't hurt me, hasn't helped me. I've also been sent to do physical therapy for burcitis 2 times a week for 6 weeks, and I am going back to the same physical therapist I've seen previously for my neck and low back. I am sure she will take measurements of the angle of rotation of my hip joint before and after, and after will be worse. So essentially, I feel I've been misdiagnosed. Maybe if I do the physical therapy and it makes things worse (which is what happened with my back- on the function scale for low back, 40-60% is severely disabled. When I started PT for the low back the score was 50. Afterward, the score was 70, and 60-80% qualifies as crippled.) I might be able to get a hip replacement but I kind of doubt it and I think the doctor knows my insurance likely won't cover a hip replacement, I think there is also some reverse ageism going on because I get told I'm "young" and they don't want to give me a hip replacement because of that (I'm 38). Anyway, there's my update on what's going on with me. I had a good couple of pain days in a row, but am having a really bad time today, especially with sitting and with my left hip with a constant moderate ache. I hope everyone finds the relief they need. -neuro
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So yeah, a few days ago I ran my card in Linux at it's normal OC with mem OC so it was folding with core clocks of around 2955-2940MHz or so, and the RAM was 12210. Those 2 days I did 27-28m points. This is folding almost nothing but project 18213. The last 3 days or so I just OCed the core to the same clocks but left the memory at stock, and I've done 30m. It seems like memory overclocks on the 4090 do not help and may actually negatively affect your points. I think @Avacado and @keeph8n are correct. See here: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/user_summary.php?s=&u=1311203
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Dunno if I'll do it or not, but yeah the higher boost speed plus DDR5 might help. EDIT: I don't play games much and yes I care a lot about better bench scores on HWBOT as I am in the top 100 in the US and top 100 in the Enthusiast league. I play Forza Horizon 4 and 5 and I haven't tested/benchmarked 5 on the Extreme preset, but on Ultra I get 162 fps or so in the ingame benchmark and I only have 70% GPU load doing so. All the rest if my games are older, I need to play ROTTR and that would run fine on like a 7970 and an old 4 core i7.
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It's a shame how much of a letdown this has been. Do you guys think I would benefit in gaming from upgrading to a 7900x, G.skill DDR5-6000, and a Crosshair X670-E Hero? I'd also need to replace my Arctic Liquid Freezer II with an H150 to be able to fit the board. But I have the money. I really feel like the 5900x in Ai Crystal is holding back/bottlenecking my RTX 4090. I game at 3440x1440, 144 Hz. I think the resolution is high enough that CPU might not matter, but the framerate thing might need a faster CPU. If you think it'd just be a waste of money and effort for no gain, then let me know. (edit: psst I just really want that mobo in my build lol)
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Yes, I really really enjoy doing it, and have been working on GIMP tutorials, collecting more brushes and fonts, as well as a script file that adds back in Layer FX that allows you to easily make glowing text, among other things.
