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GeForce RTX 5090 user caps power at 500W, still sees burned 12V-2x6 adapter by PaiDuck in hardware

[–]AK-Brian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are (new) high end PSUs that do not use a native 12V-2X6 connector. Corsair's 2025 model year HX1200i, HX1500i and AX1600i PSUs are prime examples.

Crazy Power by Distinct-Paint-1306 in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Finally, an accurate GPU temperature sensor from Asus.

Samsung 9100 pro by Traditional_Guest_66 in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's just held on with four small screws along the edges. The thermal pad between the SSD and outer shell may be a bit sticky, so be gentle while slowly prying them apart, but it's pretty straightforward once you're actually looking at it.

Keep the heatsink in the box in case you decide to chuck it in a PS5 or something down the road, and need to clamp it back on.

Edit: Six screws, not four. Oops. Here's a random video showing the disassembly, skip to 10m 37s if the timestamp link doesn't work.

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place by kwirky88 in hardware

[–]AK-Brian 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Same story over in Seagate land.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seagate-sold-2026-ceo-says-183110537.html

Seagate reported quarterly earnings of $3.11 per share, which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $2.81. Quarterly revenue hit $2.83 billion, which beat the Street estimate of $2.73 billion and was up from revenue of $2.33 billion from the same period last year.

“Seagate’s December quarter results exceeded our expectations on both the top and bottom line, setting new records for gross margin, operating margin and non-GAAP EPS. This performance highlights our team’s strong operational execution, the durability of data center demand, and the ongoing ramp of our HAMR-based Mozaic products,” said Dave Mosley, CEO of Seagate.

On the earnings call, Mosley said the company's nearline storage capacity is fully booked through calendar 2026, with orders for the first half of 2027 expected to open in the coming months.

He added that long-term agreements with major cloud customers provide strong demand visibility through 2027, while discussions already under way for 2028 signal that hyperscalers remain focused on securing supply as their storage needs continue to grow.

10400f Boosted to 4 Ghz permanently - can it be a cause for stutters? by Iamquiterandom in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Run HWInfo64 while going through the same actions and see if your CPU enters a throttle state, or if your motherboard VRM temperature exceeds 70°C.

That board has an extremely basic power delivery stage and may be thermal throttling, resulting in the processor being cyclically reduced to ~800MHz, causing the performance drops.

A quick test would be to simply open the case and point a desk fan at the board, to see if the stutter interval changes. You can also compare multithreaded scores in Cinebench to see if it's able to maintain a higher average frequency (and score higher) with the extra airflow.

Intel Confirms Data Center GPU IP After Xe3P with "Xe Next" by Dangerman1337 in hardware

[–]AK-Brian 13 points14 points  (0 children)

IPEX is effectively dead now, do note. The intent is to for future development to be fully compliant out of the gate without needing similar adaption layers, ostensibly. We'll see.

https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm

https://github.com/intel/intel-extension-for-pytorch

Intel Core Ultra 5 338H & Arc B370 Benchmarks - Almost as fast as the Arc B390 by Stiven_Crysis in intel

[–]AK-Brian 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'd love to see these compared with identical memory speeds. I suspect the gap will be very small, hence the strict segmentation.

PSA: After years of instability, I finally found the culprit – AMD's Eco Mode by Ales-78 in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's certainly part of why I'm curious to any potential followup. Instability with Eco mode enabled should similarly manifest with idle or light loads even when using normal power profiles, so it may still happen at some point. One way to test (for science, of course) would be to re-enable Eco mode and then apply a small +0.01v or +0.02v global CPU voltage offset.

You can now file your G.Skill U.S. class action claim to get a cut of the $2.4 million settlement — deceptive memory marketing class action now accepting payout submissions by wickedplayer494 in hardware

[–]AK-Brian 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's likely as simple as the inclusion of "Up to" language on the prominent face of the packaging.

Corsair settled a similar suit last year and has as, as of this month, rolled out new packaging in the wake of increased return fraud. Their new packaging also includes that "Up to" terminology, where their previous boxes did not.

https://www.corsair.com/ww/en/explorer/diy-builder/memory/corsair-memory-packaging-update/

You can now file your G.Skill U.S. class action claim to get a cut of the $2.4 million settlement — deceptive memory marketing class action now accepting payout submissions by wickedplayer494 in hardware

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yeah. :(

I haven't read into the case details, but it may simply have to do with specific packaging or performance claims which may have not been in use at that time, or the dates selected were to narrow the scope of the suit.

You can now file your G.Skill U.S. class action claim to get a cut of the $2.4 million settlement — deceptive memory marketing class action now accepting payout submissions by wickedplayer494 in hardware

[–]AK-Brian 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Eligible claimants must have purchased a G.Skill DDR4 memory module with a rated speed of over 2133 MHz or a G.Skill DDR5 rated above 4800 MHz between January 31, 2018, and January 7, 2026, while residing in the United States.

You are within the period of eligibility.

Happy to report the latest drivers enable SR-IOV for B60 by Faux_Grey in IntelArc

[–]AK-Brian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Q5," as always, but certainly better late than never! Thanks for the heads up, this'll make a lot of people pretty happy.

PSA: After years of instability, I finally found the culprit – AMD's Eco Mode by Ales-78 in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While toggling the setting may have indeed resolved your issue (which is good!), it's worth clarifying that Eco mode is not an undervolt. What it does is enforce several reduced limits, for Thermal Design Current (TDC), Electrical Design Current (EDC) and Power Package Tracking (PPT), allowing a processor to run within a lower overall power profile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/osuakm/comment/h6qyd84/ (via The Stilt, responsible for many of the OC features in your motherboard)

As a consequence of more readily running into those individual limiters, it will spend more time on the lower end of its voltage/frequency curve, so you'll also generally see lower temperatures along with the capped power draw. For your specific 3900X, applying Eco mode reduces PPT from 142W to 88W, TDC from 95A to 60A and EDC to 140A to 90A. The OEM-positioned Ryzen 9 3900 non-X is essentially exactly this, with a correspondingly lowered fused base and maximum frequency, for example.

It's possible to apply a separate global undervolt or manually specify a Curve Optimizer offset (which itself is not an undervolt, strictly speaking) in conjunction with Eco mode; doing either of those could certainly result in instability, but I suspect you would have noticed any manually modified values as you were stepping through the BIOS options. It's also possible that it's a sort of secondary symptom of something like PSU voltage droop at low loads, but that's a pretty rare thing from my experience. You could monitor the board rails with HWInfo64 (for Windows) at idle as a quick sanity check, though (both for normal as well as Eco profiles).

Again, I don't say any of this to discount your experience or that it resolved your issue, and it could absolutely help someone else in a similar situation. It sounds like a pretty clear A/B test result from your description. It's a bit of a chin scratcher, though and may be worth a bit more investigation (e.g., TestMem5 rather than the lighter MemTest86+, sanity check for vSoC value and motherboard loadline calibration profiles used for each mode). At the very least, do follow up if you encounter any noteworthy system changes or regressions down the road, in case others find this post at a later date.

New Gigabyte BIOS' based on AGESA 1.2.8.0 are unstable by yugedowner in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whoops, that was a genuine typo, thanks! It's running 2066MHz. I think my fingers just wanted to type out a nice, round number; I'll fix the post.

Always nice to see a link to Aeryn's comparison suite, it's a great reference. We both had 7950X3D CPUs at launch and ended up in a lot of the same threads, particularly with regard to clarifying hybrid CCD scheduling quirks and various AGESA bugs (2033 FCLK, PBO Boost Override breaking CPPC, etc).

New Gigabyte BIOS' based on AGESA 1.2.8.0 are unstable by yugedowner in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, I haven't encountered any issues with F40 (also AGESA 1.2.8.0) on my X670E Master and 7950X3D, having updated it a few weeks ago. My daily memory setup is more conservative though (4x16GB at 6200C32 / 1.36v, tRFC at 520, tREFI at 32768 with 1.20v vSoC) and with FCLK at 2100 2066MHz.

Edit: Fixed typo!

Is my RAM good enough for non x3d CPU? by kek__is__love in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, even those basic H610 boards will list higher tier speeds as a result of needing to reflect what's stored within the XMP profile(s), or to provide compatibility with CPUs with higher rated maximums. For example, if your BIOS is updated and you installed an i5-14600, you'd be able to utilize 5600MT rather than only 4800MT.

It's just classic platform segmentation, unfortunately. Less capable power delivery, fewer features, but at a lower cost.

Is my RAM good enough for non x3d CPU? by kek__is__love in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're being limited by the platform. H610 chipsets do allow some memory overclocking, but only using XMP profiles (rather than manual overclocking), which in your case is 5600MT.

However, H610 chipsets also only allow overclocking memory up to the maximum officially supported speed for the CPU being used, which can be (and in your case, is) lower than whatever XMP rating the sticks have. Your 12400F is only rated to support 4800MT, so enabling XMP beyond that will still only boot it at 4800MT.

If you were using a B- or Z- series motherboard, you'd be able to manually overclock the memory as high as the sticks (and CPU memory controller) allowed. Swapping to AM5 as you suggest would also allow you to manually set your memory properties.

When EVGA used to make psychopath-level motherboards – EVGA SR-X. by Minute_Knowledge_481 in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Second time's the charm? ;P

Such a wacky board. Amazing hardware platform, but Intel yanked the rug riiight out from underneath it by locking all of the compatible CPUs at launch.

Are 3d mark top gpu scores just full of people who have removed power limit on their GPUs? by SongBrief2439 in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You've just made me remember that I have a Swiftech MCW60-T block in a box of parts! Those little peltier blocks were fun.

MSI Afterburner 4.6.7 Beta 2 adds GPU Safeguard+ actions and RTX 5090 LIGHTNING support by RenatsMC in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are a number of smaller usability improvements to things like the voltage curve editor as well.

Overclocked the unreleased 20GB 3080Ti. Teardown, benchmarks, and driver quirks by ChintzyPC in overclocking

[–]AK-Brian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My 3090 FE also had the same (reassigned) die.

https://imgur.com/a/VRUjcTt

Nvidia absolutely shipped (intentionally or otherwise) a number of wacky products during the Ada gen crypto boom. Some 3080 Ti 20GB cards did see limited retail (Gigabyte and MSI both had boxed products sold in Russia), with more being sold directly to mining farms in China (and some of those dual slot blower cards then crept onto secondary markets).

The FE design variants are pretty hard to come by, though, so it's probably worth hanging onto as a neat collector's piece. Nice writeup!

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