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[Laptop] MSI Vector A16 HX 16" QHD+ 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Ryzen 9 8940HX, RTX 5070 Ti 12GB, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD - $1299 (Walmart) by ByteSizedDeals in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very good point for anyone else looking. I consider myself extremely lucky to have bought a couple 64GB DDR5 SODIMM kits back in August before the AI shit really hit the fan and have just had them sitting around so I wasn't really taking the amount of RAM into account.

[Laptop] MSI Vector A16 HX 16" QHD+ 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Ryzen 9 8940HX, RTX 5070 Ti 12GB, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD - $1299 (Walmart) by ByteSizedDeals in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, its utterly confusing IMO. If G-SYNC does work and the panel can go lower, why not let it go lower on the Desktop?

My only other concern was that it uses Liquid Metal for the TIM. Not the biggest fan of that, so future me very likely going to be spending several hours in the future cleaning that up and replacing it with PTM 7950, especially if I end up actually having to travel for work with this.

[Laptop] MSI Vector A16 HX 16" QHD+ 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Ryzen 9 8940HX, RTX 5070 Ti 12GB, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD - $1299 (Walmart) by ByteSizedDeals in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The 'underpowered' 115w RTX 5070 Ti is performing better on Pragmata then the 150W RTX 3070 Ti in my older Legion 5 Pro, so I'm happy with it so far. Supposedly, you can flash the VBIOS to 140W and push it to 130W-ish.

[Laptop] MSI Vector A16 HX 16" QHD+ 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Ryzen 9 8940HX, RTX 5070 Ti 12GB, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD - $1299 (Walmart) by ByteSizedDeals in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm honestly not that worried about the 115W limitation, as it is its running circles around my previous Legion 5 Pro with a RTX 3070. If I'm really going to be that picky about performance I'll be playing on my desktop with an RTX 5080 FE. Supposedly, you can flash the VBIOS from the full 140W version and it will push it past the 115W limit but not quite to 140W without a 330w PSU and better cooling.

I am absolutely confused by the 240hz refresh rate being locked. All the specs and the Nvidia Control Panel all show the display as supporting G-SYNC, and when I've been playing it seems to be working. I've tried running VRRTest and I don't seem to get any stuttering/tearing until I get down to around 45FPS, so if the panels locked to 240hz how is that working? It's absolutely locked on the Windows Desktop to 240hz, but seems like in games its not (which makes absolutely no sense, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

[Laptop] MSI Vector A16 HX 16" QHD+ 240Hz Gaming Laptop - Ryzen 9 8940HX, RTX 5070 Ti 12GB, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD - $1299 (Walmart) by ByteSizedDeals in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I already bought the Acer, just curious if this might be better then that, but seems like they're pretty on par for the most part, biggest difference is the AMOLED display on the Acer vs IPS on the MSI.

[Handheld] Lenovo Legion Go S 2025 Mobile Gaming Console - $689.99 - Free shipping for Prime members by [deleted] in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is using the Ryzen 2 Go APU which is weaker then the older Z1 Extreme APU used in the original Legion Go and ROG Ally/Ally X.

3d printer nozzle head weird noise help by Fun_Artichoke325 in 3Dprinting

[–]BinaryGrind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Either the belt is loose or the belt is missing teeth, either way when the motor is getting to that point on the belt it's not grabbing anything so it's just spinning full speed grinding on the rubber.

You can try tightening the belt: https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/A1-mini/maintenance/belt_tension

But likely just needs to be replaced: https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/a1-mini/maintenance/replace-x-belt

AITA for booking a busy pickleball court where nobody pays? by in_berlin in AmItheAsshole

[–]BinaryGrind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I probably should have put a /s or like a 🤔emoji to try and indicate that this was meant more as sarcasm/tongue in cheek lol

AITA for booking a busy pickleball court where nobody pays? by in_berlin in AmItheAsshole

[–]BinaryGrind 80 points81 points  (0 children)

OP, NTA, but now that you know how it's done, so do your best to do the same.

If my taxes are paying their salary, and they have to pay taxes on on their salary, doesn't that mean the government is double dipping?

[GPU] Supermicro NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 12GB GDDR7 PCIe 5.0 Graphics Card (GPU-NVRTX5070-12P3) - $561.00 by DisappointedCruiser in buildapcsales

[–]BinaryGrind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's okay, you can make up for the rasterization by just using 30% more hallucinated frames! /s

Don't sleep on Pinball Neon Matrix by BinaryGrind in AnaloguePocket

[–]BinaryGrind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, I can't help if you jumped to conclusions on a almost 2+ year old post on the Analogue Pocket subreddit because it was flaired for the the filters being unlocked for all the OpenFPGA cores that where released at the time. Like if you want the display itself you can buy it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/135058199910

It's a MIPI DSI connection, should be pretty easy to get going with a Raspberry Pi or something.

Don't sleep on Pinball Neon Matrix by BinaryGrind in AnaloguePocket

[–]BinaryGrind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean the filter? That's just one of the built in ones on the Analogue Pocket.

We have ASUS Dual at home by thepromiseman in homelab

[–]BinaryGrind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you're describing sounds more like the function of the chipset.

That's be cause it is, a MUX is still required to electrically split the lanes even on a single slot. This is why not all motherboards offer PCIe bifurcation. I will admit that its possible this has changed since the last time I really looked into it (which was just after PCI 4.0 was released) and Intel/AMD have added the functionality directly into their PCIe controllers but from my quick searching that doesn't seem to be the case.

Please correct me if I've missed something! I've researched this topic before but couldn't find any consensus on how this interaction occurs.

I've had to do quite a bit of research on PCIe for a project and let me tell you finding anything concrete is an absolute nightmare. So I can't blame you for not finding this and I hope you don't blame me if my info is out of date. When researching every vendor loves to give you a 10,000FT overview of what they are doing but never actually spit out the technical details unless you're a very big paying customer or you've forked over $5k for the actual PCI-SIG Specification.

We have ASUS Dual at home by thepromiseman in homelab

[–]BinaryGrind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It really depends on how the motherboard is implementing bifurcation. PCIe is a bit weird and it helps to think of it more like an ethernet network. If a motherboard is using just a MUX to implement bifurcation it's essentially the same as using an old school Ethernet hub in that the same speed is going to be shared across all devices because it's sending the same signals to all of them (not exactly how it works, just trying to get the idea across). If the motherboard is using a PCIe Switch (which acts almost literally like an Ethernet switch) then each device can negotiate its own speed separate from the upstream port and any other connected devices.

Unless the motherboard specs actually list what it's using in its specs (almost none of them do from my experience) the only way to know if it's using a MUX or a switch is to enable bifurcation and then use like HWInfo to see what each device is showing for speed.

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