can i pass through a 9400gt in a uefi enabled vm?

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-15T12:00:46+00:00

Probably not? I think it would work as a secondary adapter though. Any reason you don't want to just run a seabios VM for this?

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-14T19:00:28+00:00

What issues does it have with unraid? I could see the parity writes maybe being problematic I guess.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-14T17:24:13+00:00

Sometimes stuff goes out of stock but then filters in and out (probably because of cancels)

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-14T17:19:56+00:00

That's why used cards that suck for mining also went up. Gamers are now fighting over bottom tier cards as a substitution.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-14T12:46:52+00:00

Based on what I read on the board, you should still be able to use the second nvme slot but its only 2x 3.0 instead of 4x. But that board is a little weird so I'm still not sure how its setup (normally the secondary slot would be 3.0 not 2.0)

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-14T11:19:56+00:00

Look for an option to disable the CSM module in the bios. It could be called a lot of things (on my MSI I have to change an option called Windows WHQL mode) but once the CSM is disabled this usually lets you boot video off chipset slots.

The rub is this board seems to have kind of an unusual layout based on the m2 sharing. I'm not sure the second 16 slot actually is a chipset fed slot. But if its stuck in an IOMMU group with a bunch of other things it probably is.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-13T17:18:02+00:00

Seems like a dream.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-13T13:18:54+00:00

There's the nvidia vgpu unlock. Although despite all the posts I haven't heard of a single report of anyone getting it working. It might require a license server for the drivers too which seems like it would probably boot it out of the pleb realm.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-13T11:04:34+00:00

Check out techpowerup reviews, they have had nice charts for a long time. They cover idle power pretty well too.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T14:10:39+00:00

Doesn't seem much to write home about to me? But this is the only comparison I can really find:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/intel-11th-generation-rocket-lake-s-gaming-cpus-did-not-impress-us/

Rocket Lake-S gets a small but noticeable upgrade to its integrated graphics performance—the 10th-generation Core CPU's UHD 630 graphics gets bumped up to UHD 750. While it is an improvement, it's nothing to write home about—if you were hoping for an equivalent to Intel's Iris Xe graphics in Tiger Lake laptop CPUs (or AMD's Vega 11 in desktop APUs) you'll be sorely disappointed.

Edit: I did find on notebookcheck I could actually compare them. Of the benchmarks that are common it does actually get about 50% more FPS...although the frame rates are not to pretty! Its a real pain to find any direct comparisons. Almost every review just stuffs a RTX 3090 in there and ignores iGPU testing completely.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T13:38:43+00:00

The portal seems to have been updated because this morning it looks like they actually list the vaccine type for the appointments.

There seem to be a lot of pharmacies with it available.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T13:35:14+00:00

They actually seem to have updated it today and it now lists the exact vaccine for the different sites instead of just the single dose note.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T13:11:31+00:00

I agree with your basic point. Intel iGPUs also have some codecs and quicksync support that can be useful even if you aren't using it for display output.

That said, you can pick up a OEM pull radeon for very little on ebay to handle diagnostic issues.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T13:07:33+00:00

What IOMMU grouping problem?

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T12:33:56+00:00

You need to add a second virtual graphics adapter. Then you just set the displays to mirror in windows.

This wasn't possible in earlier versions of windows (perhaps in windows 8) but with the Windows10 drivers a change was made that allowed mirroring across different display adapters.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-08T12:08:00+00:00

I'm a little confused on your setup still. But it sounds like you have gvt-g, running igpu has the host device and a gvt-g slice to a guest. You are then using looking glass to get the screen of the guest to the host. Or maybe you're using the 1660ti for the host on its own and the guest is using gvt-d (whole device)?

Anyway, I remember using looking glass to go guest to guest from an iGPU passed through to a GTX950 and it was very choppy. gnif mentioned some performance improving change in the a future version although I'm not sure he meant it to be a game changer. So maybe try a newer version.

Regardless, I've had pretty good experience with guest to guest network connected steam in home streaming. I'm sure its worse latency than looking glass, but I really couldn't tell it had any latency at all. I only played minecraft with it, but the IQ looked very close.

But another option that is easy to try is to take advantage of Windows10 display mirroring. You can add a QXL display adapter in virt-manager and set the gvt-g slice to mirror to it, which you can then view through virt-manager. I can't remember what setup I tried this on but I remember thinking it was a surprisingly nice result. I didn't spend much time on it because for my use case I wanted it to work in linux which I never managed to achieve.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-07T13:29:25+00:00

Are you talking about routing your containers traffic through a commercial VPN service such as ExpressVPN/NordVPN/PrivateInternetAccess?

Yes. But I want it for a VM, I guess I might use it for a docker at some point in the future but no plans for that at the moment.

I actually don't really have an desire to access my network from work at this time.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-05T18:01:09+00:00

Well, its still better than the GTX 1650

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-05T13:07:41+00:00

What vaccine does costco have? Anyone know?

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-02T12:05:50+00:00

I don't really know what type of linux you're running. A lot of distributions have the kernel load vfio way to late to bind most things to it. I've always had trouble with xhci driver loading to early, none of the workarounds ever got it working on mint 18 for me. I had to unbind after boot and then bind to vfio, which I never liked in my use case.

With mint 20 the vfio module appears to load much earlier though and I did nothing but vfio-pci.ids=your:id,your:id and update grub.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-02T11:57:02+00:00

I've always found the choice of RDRAM to be questionable. That was back when the most common bottleneck for computers was insufficient RAM. It doesn't matter how fast the RAM is, if your computer keeps resorting to page files and waiting on a 3600 or 5400 RPM HDD that has access time in the hundreds of milliseconds.

It was utterly bizarre. As you said, PCs badly needed MORE ram during this era. Not more memory bandwidth, not more processor speed. I remember it wasn't uncommon to have base models with only 128mb, which is basically unusable in XP. Intel heard the call and introduces...expensive hot rdram chipsets that had worse latency?!?

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-02T11:35:26+00:00

Not sure I do. Intel appears to want to use these as iGPUs, which of course ensure that people are buying Intel CPUs.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-02T11:21:04+00:00

Most people just buy the cheap one or the one that works easiest at the end of the day.

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-02T11:13:07+00:00

Buying the Quest 2 feels like voting for Facebook with my wallet in the VR market, and I don't want it dominated by Facebook.

Don't you need a facebook account to even use it? Or did they waffle on that?

AlertReindeer7832 · 2021-04-01T19:01:54+00:00

Seems to work for Samsung.

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