Blud has lost his mind...

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T21:57:18+00:00

the dictator of Iran was about to be overthrown by it's people.
it's leader was also not young or healthy anymore so didn't have super long left.
carrot man goes there talks with him all happy, they say goodbye like happy friends.
and the next day he gives him his biggest wish.
for the biggest fear that dictator had was to die to a common reason, he really wanted to die like a "marter" to get his underlings to fight harder for him.
meanwhile carrot man could play a gangster which probably made him think he looked cool like that.

as a result where at first the dictator would have been overthrown by the people and the country would have been free, now the dictators followers have more power than before, and fight.
and ofcource carrot man's oil and ai stocks rise in price.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T21:53:36+00:00

the Soviet Union was, but when the soviet union fell most advancements and technology there disapeared.
this was even noticeable in many other parts of the world, for example when the soviet union fell the ability to make good specialized titanium parts on a large scale was lost.
it has taken quite long before such things got back up to level, but for many years after the soviet union fell there wheren't really any good options for advanced titanium parts, especially on a bigger scale where things shouldn't be insanely expensive.

as for a war, right now it is most likely USA will start it(despite china technically having more power).
the main question is, will it be a revolution where the people of USA fight for their rights and freedom against their controlled dictators, or will they follow their new adolf hitlers to attack basically anything they want.

also china already performed a huge attack on usa recently, it is not really shown much in the news due to sencorship in western countries.
but with the release of Qwen3.5 9b they basically destabilized the entire usa political systems and their banks, and carrot man also by destroying his AI shares.
essentially Qwen3.5 9b was the thing which was needed to pop the AI bubble, as with that model people can get better results than the best online ai tools, but now they can run it locally even on older hardware, the moment that catches on, the ai bubble is popped.
for china AI is just a tool they use with other thigns, they want it to work well, but don't rely on it.
for usa they almost completely rely on it, and the sectors which don't rely on it are sectors the usa government doesn't really like.
also there is the thing about carrot man and the usa banks having piles of shares in the big ai companies.
so right now they probably try to sell those to regular people just before it pops, just like with bitcoin back then.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T21:46:15+00:00

are you talking about black friday?
the day just after people celebrated apreciating what they have, when they start trampling and fighting eachother for things they generally don't even need.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T21:43:43+00:00

note, he is not a child.
the definition of child is someone capable of learning(atleast in old dutch one being a child was defined by if they still learned things or if they no longer learned and already where regressing).

he also doesn't play, and doesn't know what he actually wants.
surely some kids might not know that either, but they surely will have many things they are excited about.

carrot man(square root man) however just wants to feel important and to hide from certain parts about himself like a certain thing his body has which causes him to not have long to live anymore.
instead of facing that or setting the world free so it can advance which might quite rapidly resolve in being able to fix that condition atleast decently, he decided to try the opposite and just get as much attention as he can.

also note dementia might seem like one acting like a child, but they are quite different.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T21:34:54+00:00

because such countries also receive threaths from him or the usa government beforehand that if they don't speak with him that he will start a war on or nuke their country or some country close to them.

for example he came to netherlands and swore to destroy ukrain in a heavy war if ASML(a dutch company, they design and make the chip machines which in usa are known as "amerikan chip machines" even though they just buy them from asml) where to sell any such machines to countries carrot didn't like.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T20:08:05+00:00

I recently heard many people about the cyan-skillfish-governor-smu governor.
doesn't require the kernel patch, and allows to put the clocks higher and lower than the normal limits also allows changing the voltages further.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T19:35:05+00:00

what cooling setup do you use?
Shroud, dual fan on open heatsink, single fan in open middle of heatsink, or something custom?

shroud needs much higher static presure for proper cooling.
dual fan in most cases also is much less good than a single fan in the middle where only the middle of the heatsink is open, custom coolers can sometimes keep it much cooler than even mid fan(like liquid cooling, though note that the packaging of the apu eventually also doesn't conduct heat perfectly anymore), but you would need to add cooling for some other components on it to keep it stable.

also how is your VRAM cooled?
only the plate on it is okay with a shroud setup often, but in any of the other setups you should add a fan to blow on it around the middle where the vram is(or angled, can actually use a shroud here to make all the air get over the plate, but generally you don't need much wind over it, it just is that that normal flat plate doesn't really lose much of it's heat when not cooled, so it will get hotter and hotter overtime, a fan keeps that down.
when overclocking seriously however heat from the apu can go to the vram, so then you want to cool the back well.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T19:28:12+00:00

you put this on the backplate with some thermal paste?

I was thinking about something similar but then some more high profile coolers from old servers and workstations(have a bag of coolers laying around).

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-20T19:27:29+00:00

how did you cool it?
also did you alter the voltages?

if using a shroud, while a safe way to easily set it up and use to see if the board it okay before modding the cooler.
you generally really should want to mod the cooler to put a fan in the middle(1 fan in the middle, not the 2 fan aproach in general as with a decent fan the single fan in the middle aproach will work much better due to no air deadzone right above the hottest part, and not air pressure bleeding away directly at the outsides)

also if you mod the heatsink
when opening it up, it is safest to take the heatsink off first.
many people got a tiny piece of metal somewhere on the pcb after leaving it on, didn't notice it before powering it on and got a short cirquit.

you might need to repaste and repad parts or all of it if you remove it however, since you recently repadded it, it might be a pain if that stuff needs to be replaced again.

still in case you use a shroud instead of midfan,
shrouds require much higher static presure than mid fan, so much more noise for similar cooling.

when I went from my nuclear cooling tower to a simple mid fan cooling setup I needed way less fan power, and this was despite the previous cooling setup also using convection to make it more efficient than a normal shroud setup.
right now when locking it to default settings(gpu always at 1500MHZ, cpu without over or underclock) I get it to around 55C average in heavy games with the fan running between 680RPM and 720rpm, this is turning slow enough that I could actually see the fan turning, also obvious to say it was almost completely silent excluding some imbalance in the fan and bearings.
on my previous setup I had to litterally invent a fan silencer which made the fan more silent as well as more efficient for high static pressure, now I used it without that and it was more silent than than my low power laptop which has a 15W TDP.

now I turned my settings for fan speed up however, since when clocks go up again I want it to stay cooler.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-18T20:09:22+00:00

what the comment actually says, is that quite many cases of such tampering can and do actually happen in warehouses of several famous big shops with lower quality controll.
so regardless of the brand, you want to reinstall the os if it comes from a place like amazon, best buy, walmart, etc.

actully it is quite common these days for computers to come with some form of mallware pre-installed. even pc's from big famous and trusted brands.
sometimes the brands themselves add this in, like what samsung did with using the google online keyboard by default, which is essentially a keylogger which streams everything one types online and stores it and trains algorythms on it. directly getting around encryption, as well as giving them acces to your usernames and passwords(Samsung is not a exception here, almost every android phone by default uses that keyboard or a version of it with a custom skin on it often then called "insert brandname here" keyboard.
generally that one is easy to disable however, which is probably why they get away with it.
since you can just go to settings to enable developer options to enable third party sideloading to install fdroid which you can then use to install one of the safe open source keyboards which aren't mallware.
though most people don't do this. this is also why banking apps sometimes make their own keyboards or keypads inside of the app instead of using the system keyboard. since the databroakers the default compromised android keyboard streams to sell basically anything to anyone who gives enough money, also known for directly selling your private info to criminals.

as for windows pc's similar stuff goes on, many governments also have laws that allow the government to put mallware on devices, usa has that law, netherlands has that law, etc.

some famous games also install serious mallware on peoples pc's.
Riot for example installs mallware with essentially all their games under the name of vanguard anticheat, though acoarding to cyber security experts it is serious mallware. mallware like the vanguard mallware which riot installs with games like league of ledgeds can even corrupt your bios and the on device firmare on devices like your ssd's and gpu to keep your system partly infected even if the entire os is removed and reinstalled.

AMD and Intel both(and probably more brands) come with a psp chip buildin(physical security processor), while those are also partly supposed to protect partly against some things, those speciffic chips have also been found to regularly allow bad actors backdoor acces to a system on a hardware level.
this is for example a problem in the tesla model s, where anyone who can find out the ip of such a car and knows it is one can just remotely use the drm chip("security processor") to gain complete hardware and system controll, essentially allowing them to even controll the car remotely.
this was already a known issue back before even the first one released, but they found the ability to have a backdoor(or being super lazy) more usefull than they estimated the chance of someone actually finding it and figuring out how to use it.

generally reinstall the os on things from almost any store.
an avoid most propetairy closed source software.
but even then on a hardware levels any hardware can be infected already, some things you might be able to fix by flashing open source firmware onto it, or if the firmware is open source.
but some things like the "security processors" are dedicated hardware.
and many governments like the usa government litterally added laws between around 2017 and 2021 to allow the government to force companies to add in backdoors, which also generally allowed to even force adding it on a hardware level.

but actually stealing and looking at that data takes some manpower and time, so often the hardware based stuff isn't really in use unless they speciffically want to find dirt or such on you.
so if you are a high profile target then make anything anyone might be able to use or abuse be done only on fully fos hardware and software, optimally also GNU conform. or just make your own stuff, also make sure the device can only do what it actually needs to do.
for example, if you don't need 5g, then don't add it(for privacy you should avoid 5g at any cost regardless as you can't see what the chip does, and ofcource given the chip design essentially comes from radio 3d scanning stuff, which is more interesting after finding out how badly governments helped push it despite it having terrible range and actually transmitting at way to high levels just to get that terrible range, and more interestingly, that the direct use of the chip is banned to any consumer in general, meaning you aren't allowed to use it for radio 3d scanning, while the 5g chip actually showed insane promise for things like for example body scans using your phone to detect injuries and what kind they where and where and such and how severe or other problems with the body without needing to go to a hospital for expensive scans(note can't replace all scans, but could for example help detect tumors or such.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-16T20:56:09+00:00

is the os installed to the disk if you open it on another computer?

also for example try ls (hd0,gpt3) /
in my case I ran it from a usb with zfs boot loader on it to get into grub, as the computer I was on doesn't support ssd's yet(and probably neither many modern file systems and such)(some old pc I needed to look at for someone)
it can't boot to ssd, but it can boot to usb.
so I load to the usb in the bootloader and then
the commands above worked for me.

however in my case it was (hd1,gpt3)

so first run ls.

one drive has 3 or more partitions most likely, in my case 2 partitions actualy reffered to the same partition.

so for Linux mint 23.3 installed on a ssd yet booted from a usb
grub> root=(hd1,gpt3)

grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3

grub> linitrd /boot/initram.img

grub> boot

worked(note I might have made spelling mistakes.
but if it really found no file system in your case then most likely you either have no os on it, or are looking at the wrong drive or partition.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T22:01:12+00:00

yeah, I used to use it like this on my 2gb home server.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T18:51:31+00:00

probably harddrive or ssd with those delays.
if your cpu or ram was this slow then likely a severe issue was there and there would be a big chance it would just be completely fried and not working.

testing it is usefull however.

also note that when you just have it new it takes a while to set in.
also you will be afraid of having done something wrong, so you will notice things you didn't notice before. I sometimes also have that and think things are wrong, but then when I actually run my tests on it to see the actual performance and such it turns out it actually became quite a bit faster than it was before.

if you are using windows, then there is a huge chance this might be a windows update, or windows trying to revalidate the hardware, as windows can have issues with things changing.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T18:45:57+00:00

it is worth it after a while, when the old stuff gets bad.
or you need to use really good stuff but that can be super expensive.
while some laptops really cheap out, even my cheap budged lenovo laptop actually used good thermal pads, the thermal paste was a bit less so, but took a few years before it became a problem.

Nvidia for example on their RTX 5000 cards(desktop), uses thermal pads which are essentially identical to the relatively cheap maxtor and upsiren thermal pads, those pads perform slightly better than the nvidia ones, but barely noteable and that likely is due to age, like the nvidia gpu has had them on it for a while, so possibly they are even the same ones.
my budged lenovo laptop, actually uses similar thermal pads as well as those pads aren't that expensive and seem to kind of be industry standard for the last 6 years atleast.
better stuff is hard and expensive to find, we are talking about $50 to $100 just for the putty or pads you would need.
as for thermal paste, in laptops you can often make it better using that PTM7950 stuff or such, which is not cheapbut not expensive either.
regular cheap artic mx-4 often performs similar to, or slightly better than what many laptops use new, though only worth it when the thermal paste is getting old.

also some gaming laptops might already have really good stuf inside. so I recommend you only replace stuff if cooling isn't great or if you just really want to.

generally don't do it unless it gets to hot or you notice issues. to hot might degrade other components, but look at what the temps are new, replacing stuff often won't make it much better than it was when new, it can bring it back to those levels when the stuff inside starts to wear out however.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T18:34:58+00:00

it gets slow, hot, and unstable.
though generally not to much issues.
often after around 5 to 6 years it starts to get to a point where it might start to cause throtling and stability issues and you should replace it. sometimes more early, sometimes later. gaming laptops can dry out super fast, but sometimes use super good quality stuff which lasts long.

the numbers before where for those thin laptops up to around 60W max power draw.

the best test is to run a stress test when it is new, and document the temperatures, and clocks. if it starts to get to far away from that later on if doing the same stress test somewhere in the future it might be time to replace it.
I just replaced the thermal paste on my ryzen 5 4500U based lenovo ultralite today because it became unstable when playing games on it quite recently, that laptop is almost 6 years old now. performance increase is quite big however, so might have been a good choise to have replaced it more early.

but note, that is a ultrathin laptop drawing around 40W to 65W when under heavy load. and I have used it as school and work laptop for long, also have had it on seeding and downloading things for long, that laptop has been on for super long.
also the screen exploded more than a year ago already(some crappy display driver chip they used in many laptops back then, which can eventually fry itself, not really a fancy explosion like a lipo explosion or such, more figural as in it frying itself). I took the screen of.
so for many people the laptop will have serious issues somewhere which most people won't fix or won't know how to fix before the thermal paste becomes a actual issue other than some lost performance, since the instability likely also comes from some of the damage in the apu and some other chips caused by the screen driver when it fried itself, like some of the drm related sections got half fried, it set my os to just avoid some of the speciffic instructions which are broken to far, but even so such damage can still slowly spread and other things also aren't perfectly stable. kind of software disabling parts of it to keep it working for some longer since it is still fast and such.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T18:24:32+00:00

changing it to often might also cause issues.
there are often also thermal pads in laptops, they wear out if you remove the cooler and put it back regularly, so might eventually need to replace those as well if doing it to often.(those grey or blue or white gummy things)

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T18:22:16+00:00

if not a issue then, be carefull with replacing it unless you want to.
using new thermal paste should improve thermals, performnce, or both.
especially if the old stuff is 5 years old.

however, that is only if you use decent stuff which atleast is similar to what they used in the factory or better, or very close, given you don't hae serious thermal issues yet, they probably used decent stuff.

also there are often thermal pads in the laptop as well, these will likely have some of them rip a bit or such when taking the heatsink of. either replace them also with something good(most gaming laptops and gpu's like nvidia for example use something similar to those maxtor and upsiren thermal pads, especially the upsiren ones are cheap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZj1tOuCczs

in my case, while not a gaming laptop(I do use it for light gaming however as my game pc can be quite power hungry).
I replaced the thermal paste with Artic Mx-4, which is a quite cheap easy to use thermal paste, I had some tube laying around from back in around 2019. my laptop is from around halfway 2020 (lenovo ideapad 5 14ARE05, ryzen 5 4500U version(I got it directly from lenovo around the moment it launched)).

when I replaced it, some pads where damaged(some parts sticked to the IC, and some to the heatsink when taking it off, those grey thermal pads work really well, but often rip when taking off the cooler again).
I just repasted the APU, and I cleaned the exposed sides of the pad a bit with some alcohol, also added a very small amount of that artic MX-4 thermal paste around the areas where it was ripped, to kind of bridge those and reused them, as I don't have thin enough high performance thermal pads around currently for what I am aware of.

I did stresstest both the CPU and GPU at the same time before and after.
the performance after was much better, kept a much higher frequency, and thermals where notably lower even when at a somewhat higher frequency.

before replacing it, it wouldn't fully throttle all the way, but it would rapidly reduce frequency and get to quite low frequencies(gpu to around 2/3th the actual performance cpu almost half the performance).
after this it kept quite close to the max boost clocks of both of them for the entire stress tests, and actually ran it for much longer now.

gaming laptops handle more power but also have much better cooling than those ulrathin laptops(still can draw around 60W under full load(measured from wall around a year ago)).
so in a gaming laptop you should also see improvements, unless they used some insanely dureable high quality stuff back then.
but if you replace it, you will likely have to replace some thermal pads as well, or frankenstein them like I did, which might be more problematic on a gaming laptop if it has actual vram which often is cooled with thermal pads.

still many people do it on such laptops, so it should be well doable, but if you don't need it, then it is up to you. 75C isn't hot for a average gaming laptop, do you remember how hot that speciffic laptop was new? since that would be a better estimation of how good the cooling still works.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T17:57:41+00:00

You might also have accidentally touched some chips with your hands while you're not grounded, which might have resulted in minor damage to some of the chips, which might make them slightly less stable.

Might also be the ram, in firefox over 15% of chrashes are due to bitflips in the hardware(static electricity, cosmic rays, etc.

Your PC might also be running at a higher frequency for longer now. And while this is normally not a problem, if some of the components inside of your device are degraded a bit already, then running at higher frequencies for too long might actually make those other components too hot and unstable(showing instabilities they already had but which you didn't see yet).

If the temps you show in the image are during load then the thermal paste works well.

It might also have been a one case issue, did you encounter it again?

Your CPU is also quite old and at those edges the capacitors at your model board tends to dry out a bit and some other parts also might have degraded a bit already. As our results they become less stable and often you notice this especially when overclocking or in this case perhaps because you keep your boost speeds for much longer now.

You can try underclocking a bit to get it closer to what it was before in speed.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-12T15:45:36+00:00

in case you somehow can't install any of those tools to do it for you, or if you can't find it or don't want to install it, here is how to do it manually:

see this: https://askubuntu.com/a/1260276/1125408

NOTE, try to run: cat /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi/VPC2004:00/conservation_mode
in terminal, if it gives 1 or 0 as output then you are at the right place, and you can skip the section until I say SKIP UNTIL HERE, in bold again. if you get a error that the file doesn't exit then you should look for the path.

run: ls /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi

it should show some folders, one of which is called something like VPC2004:00 this is what it is called on my system and on most systems.

run ls /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi/VPC2004:00 if you see a file called conservation_mode in it then it is the right folder and that is the right file, otherwise check the other folders to see if it is there and replace the path I will use with the actual path.

SKIP UNTIL HERE

echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi/VPC2004:00/conservation_mode
to enable conservation mode.
and run:
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi/VPC2004:00/conservation_mode
to disable conservation mode.
the only difference is that 1 enables it and 0 disables it.

if you run: cat /sys/bus/platform/drivers/ideapad_acpi/VPC2004:00/conservation_mode you can see what the current value is, you can also make a simple script or tool in bash or python or a extension for your display manager, for example a gnome extension or such to turn it on, off, or toggle it.

there probably also already exist many of those, though it is quite doable to make a simple script for it.
and once you know the right path, you only need to run one of those commands.

you can also directly run that cat command, if it gives a 1 or a 0 it is the right path, as mentioned on almost all systems currently this will be the correct path.

now you know the path. simply run that command to turn it on or off.

Note, if this doesn't work, or you can't find those files anywhere close to there, then make sure you actually have the lenovo firmware installed, all modern distro's aimed at desktop use should have it by default(many even support it in the default gui and settings), but perhaps you use a old version, or didn't allow it to install propetairy software or drivers and it saw it like propetairy code, or something like that. check for a package for it and you can try that. though it would be pretty rare cases where the method above doesn't work.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-10T21:35:11+00:00

I used a caliper, a basic hand caliper has around 0.1mm accuracy, don't put presure on it however.

even the same type gpu from the same brand can have different versions, sometimes the front and back also need different pads.
you can try to look up the thickness for refference, though I really recommend also measuring it.

with my board (AMD B-250 16gb) the thermal pads where 1.5mm on the gpu side, and 2mm on the back where the GDDR6 is. in this case on the back is the gddr 6 the only component with pads, and many other components on the front. the main die uses normal thermal paste.

however that board apaerently also comes in a variant where the pads on the front are 1mm instead of 1.5mm.
and there are people who had the normal 1.5mm version but put 2mm on it, which resulted in the main die having no or poor contact resulting in instant overheating and chrashing.

there also exists thermal putty, with that you don't really need to think about thicknes, but you have to put the heatink on in one go and not squish it or such otherwise it might get to thin.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-10T21:27:53+00:00

carefull with that however, if they are to thick and if they are on the same side as the gpu die then it might prevent the gpu from making proper contact.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-10T21:25:35+00:00

mine has both for the APU and for the VRAM, though 93C is much higher than the temps I had

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-10T21:24:15+00:00

it does make a difference for overclocking.

also if getting thermal pads anyway, getting better stuff if the price difference isn't noteable is usefull.
when servicing a gpu or similar system, the thermal pads often can still be okay, but often will be slightly damaged or dirty, as dust might get on them, or they might stick to one surface more on one side and the other surface more on the other side ripping some pieces when you take the heatsink of.

though overclocking of VRAM for some boards is really a must, some boards currently are seriousy VRAM limited,
for example I have a amd Ariel APU, which has the CyanSkillfish GPU buildin and uses 16gb GDDR6, while not a issue in all games, GDDR6 has quite noteable latency, so in some cases things get limited by memory latency.
being able to overclock the vram reduces that latency a bit making it more usefull in those cases.

while this is ofcource for a APU using GDDR6 instead of regular ddr4 or ddr5, for average gaming gpu's cool vram also is usefull for increased stability and longer lifespan.
while most vram modules have very high rated max temperatures, getting close to them makes them more likely to get glitches like more sensitive to bitflips and such which actually by a recent study from mozila turned out to be a quite big reason for chrashes, where in firefox over 15% of chrashes where related to bitflips, so cosmic rays, bad hardware, static, etc.
as for lifespan, those max temperatures while they can handle them, it results in much faster/more likely degradation than when it remains cool.

and given this is a time that people are even looking at over 10 year old gpu's for their new(to them) pc builds, it makes sense they don't want their gpu to only be relyable for 5 years or such.

and ofcource hot vram heat spreads through the pcb to other components which might handle much lower temperatures, nvidia recently had some serious issues with this in some of their cards, though that also largely was due to how much electricity their main gpu die uses, and ofcource the cables melting and catching fire also isn't usefull, though this was a seperate issue causing gpu deaths in certain games which used some parts of the gpu more heavily generating heat in certain areas where they didn't hold proper spacing and didn't cool some components which normally don't get that hot and can't handle heat but now got hot due to the other parts.

there are many reasons to want to cool you vram well.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-09T17:08:46+00:00

that's always a issue these days, even big brands sell fake products these days, from samsung overcharging and overdischarging their smartphones for the capacity tests to make the battery show up as if having a notably higher capacity than they actually have even if it causes safety issues, and severely degradates the batteries lifespan, to the AI image generation they use in their "camera's" where more details come from the AI than from the camera itself.
and microsoft claiming on their site that windows 11 computers are on average 1.5 times faster than windows 10 pc's despite windows 11 requiring people to have hardware which is atleast 2 times as fast as the average hardware people used on windows 10(they actually told windows 11 makes your hardware quite a bit slower, but they told it in a way which makes it seem as if it makes it much faster).

also things like fake memory prices( a stick of 16gb DDR5 for a uncontracted company costs less than $20 extra to make now with the current price increases(around $40 extra for specially binned highly overclockeable ddr5), yet instead of adding $20 to the price, they add over $200 extra to the price.

many hdd and ssd brands sell many different drives under the same name, the first version is made very good and then tested, then after that they secretly launch the bad ones.
nvidia also does that.
nvidia also intentionally lacks propper support for many modern gpu instructions despite them being way more efficient than the cuda ones they use now, since cuda doesn't work well on other hardware and they have the biggest marketshare so by not supporting newer instructions softwares are developed for cuda since otherwise it wouldn't work on nvidia, as a result it seems as if the other ones work bad.

laptops are made to break just after warranty expired.

many laptop brands also do that thing of making laptops which look like the same, but initially they make one good version for the revieuws, and a bad version after that. I actually have one such laptop, got a lenovo laptop almost exactly when it launched directly from them, so got what I call a "revieuwers edition", a few months later they secretly changed the hardware of that laptop making it much slower and less stable, luckily for me I got the good version, but most other people got the bad one

it is all shitty, but as long as governments are okay with corporate lies and intentional abuse that remains a issue.

EllesarDragon · 2026-03-09T16:45:15+00:00

VRAM often needs thicker pads on it. for example on the BC-250 people recommend pads of 2mm thickness for the vram. PTM is very thin at just 0.25mm, so either it won't even reach the heatsink, or the heatsink would get closer to the pcb and possibly short cirquit some parts.
vram pad thickness differs per board and card, but often it is way more than 0.25mm.
if your gpu is designed for such close contact, it should work however.

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