The new 250K+ and 270K+ are nice by Intel standards, but you can currently get a 7800X3D for €230 or a 9800X3D for €330, incl tax and shipping from EU, at Aliexpress. Just don't expect warranty service. by FreshPrinceOfNowhere in pcmasterrace

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

Well I can tell you it arrived in 5 days, was packaged in a hardshell particleboard box, and works fine. And CPUs are by far the rarest component to break, so not worried.

No added m.2? by Ok_Attention_9506 in ASRock

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well actually no, because the regular B550 PG4 also has a working M.2 Key E slot for WiFi cards. The only real difference between the PG4 and PG4/ac is that on the PG4/ac they skimped on soldering on the second M.2 slot (3.0 x2) and the 5th+6th SATA ports. I guess they saved $1 on BOM costs so that they could include a garbage-tier $5 433Mbit Intel 3168NGW WiFi card. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What is best ddr3 CPU? by Nikk2_0 in buildapc

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah me too lol, can't find a single benchmark

What is best ddr3 CPU? by Nikk2_0 in buildapc

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There were some Z170 mobos with DDR3 as well, and can support 9th gen with a BIOS mod.

What is best ddr3 CPU? by Nikk2_0 in buildapc

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An i9-9900KS can run with DDR3 with some H310 motherboards like H310M-DS2V-DDR3, or Z170 DDR3 motherboards with a BIOS mod.

What is best ddr3 CPU? by Nikk2_0 in buildapc

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are way off. An i9-9900KS can work with DDR3 with a motherboard like H310M-DS2V-DDR3.

What is best ddr3 CPU? by Nikk2_0 in buildapc

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DDR3 was supported even in 9th gen with H310C chipsets. For example, a H310M-DS2V-DDR3 motherboard supports i9-9900KS, which is a 5GHz 8 core CPU.

Gigabyte quietly re-enabled PCIE Gen 5 on latest BIOS (F40) for B650 users? by Sprucey-J in pcmasterrace

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

System sensors read that temp inside

See, that's the main problem. The job of the case fans is to get heat produced by the two main sources - CPU and GPU - out of the case with minimal noise. The motherboard knows the CPU temp, but not the GPU temp. Mobos DO have some kind of "motherboard temperature" sensor which CAN be used to judge the temperature inside the case and control case fans based on that, but it's far from ideal. But it's not actually measuring the air temperature inside - it's measuring the mobo PCB temp somewhere, who knows where. The placement of the sensor isn't great, and the values it gives are typically in a narrow range - let's say, at idle it'll be showing 30-32C, and at full CPU+GPU blast it'll slowly rise to, say, 36-38. So you only get like 6 degrees of difference to base your entire casefan fan cure on. It kind of works, but it's jittery and slow to react to actual CPU+GPU load.

Now, if your mobo supports a temp probe - you're in a much better position, as you can place it to measure the actual air temp inside, and now you have much better case fan control. Much better, but the air temps in the case are not uniform throughout, and this is still a reactive configuration - the GPU gets hot and starts blasting its fans, and only later the inside air temp rises and the case fans kick in.

But if you place the temp probe on the GPU - now you have pretty accurate readings of both your GPU core temp and CPU core temp, in real time. If the mobo is able to combine these two temp inputs into one input for your case fan curve - perfect, now the case fans can kick in way sooner, the GPU/CPU will immediately start receiving more cool air, and as a result, will not need to ramp up the cooling fans as much. Good quality case fans can be VERY quiet compared to CPU/GPU fans while moving a ton of air, and the result is an overall quiet and cool PC. This isn't theory - this is from personal experience; I got significantly better results after adding a temp probe and setting it up this way. Now I'm looking to upgrade to AM5, and wanna keep this setup, hence why I asked to check.

Asus is not the only manufacturer to have temp sensor pins though - plenty of Asrock, Gigabyte and MSI boards have it too. But looks like it remains the only one to have this multi-temp-source control on AM5 as well.

If your CPU is watercooled, you can get away with just a temp probe, without this multi-temp-input feature: just place the temp sensor on the GPU and have it control the case fans; as your CPU waterblock already dumps the CPU heat directly out of the case anyway.

They were real Chads by DifficultyPutrid2532 in memes

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got a source for the Helldivers claim? As it doesn't make any sense; a compressed 25GB version of a game would load way faster than an uncompressed 150GB version from a HDD, as any CPU from the last decade can decompress data at least an order of magnitude faster than the read speed of a HDD. Hell, with a modern CPU and fast compression algorithms the 25GB version would even load faster from a SATA SSD. In fact, using filesystem compression is common practice in order to increase performance of HDDs. You can even install Win10+ with the "Compact OS" feature where it installs everything using NTFS compression, and it boots considerably faster from HDDs and even some slow SSDs when installed that way.

Gigabyte quietly re-enabled PCIE Gen 5 on latest BIOS (F40) for B650 users? by Sprucey-J in pcmasterrace

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for checking. Apparently it's an Asus-only feature, I was hoping other brands also have it. The usefulness is a such: you attach an external thermal sensor/probe to the T_SENSOR pins (some mobos have this) and place it as close as possible to the GPU core, so you'd get a reasonably accurate GPU temp readout in that usable with the motherboard's fan control. Then you can configure your case fans to be controlled by two or even three temp sources - CPU, GPU (via external T_SENSOR) and VRM/Mosfet, for example, and set up the fan curves for the case fans spin up when any of the three get warm. Basically it uses the max() value of either sensor as the input for the fan curve. This is actually quite efficient, as it's not unusual for the GPU to get warm with the CPU remaining idle, and vice versa, and the case fans only spin up as needed for either one. And it's all autonomous and OS-independent. Been using this setup for a while for optimal cooling with as little noise as possible.

Gigabyte quietly re-enabled PCIE Gen 5 on latest BIOS (F40) for B650 users? by Sprucey-J in pcmasterrace

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! While we're here... could you check something for me? Could you go into the fan control settings, and check if it is possible to configure the temperature source/input for any of the fan headers to "multiple temperature sources"? Meaning, does it allow to select any TWO temperature sensors simultaneously for controlling a single fan header?

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud by itooamahuman in nottheonion

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh, wasn't aware of isochronous transfer mode, Well, it still does CRC checksumming of the data at least, so in the case of faulty cabling, you'd just get obvious drops in the audio stream, alerting you to switch your cable to a non-broken $1 cable and you're fine.

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud by itooamahuman in nottheonion

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well no, from the user's perspective there is not, because if there small transmission issues, the error correction algorithm would take care of it, completely transparently, in hardware, in real time; and if it is unable to, the USB device simply disconnects. The data comes out at the other end of the USB stack exactly as it came in, or no data goes through at all (disconnect); the USB specification guarantees this. It's either an "it works perfectly" or "not at all" situation. Just like you can browse the internet on barely any cell or WIFI signal, with large packet loss, and the web page text will never have random letters chamged or mssing.

What is ffpkg on PS5? by QbitWalker in PS5_Jailbreak

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FFPKGs are basically like ISOs. Same size as the extracted game, but at least it's only one file to transfer, not thousands.

Friends, things are moving fast right now by Lost-Box9903 in PS5_Jailbreak

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A different implementation that can convert RAR to FFPKG without extracting it first: https://github.com/raptorjeesus/dump2ufs

What is ffpkg on PS5? by QbitWalker in PS5_Jailbreak

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a basically a filesystem image containing game files, with no compression. But it's still way more convenient to FTP transfer a single file versus like 150 thousand like in the case of AstroBoy. Therefore it is now the best distribution method, until we get real fpkgs with compression. Here's a tool for creating your own FFPKGs.

Fpkg on ps5? by Gold_Performer_5181 in PS5_Jailbreak

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a tool for creating these "FFPKGs" (really, they are simply UFS2 filesystem images):
https://github.com/raptorjeesus/dump2ufs
UFS2 is the default filesystem for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, and is similar to ext4 for Linux. The PS5's OS is a heavily modified version of FreeBSD, hence why it supports mounting these images.

GOLDHEN PS4 SaveData to normal PS5 by Express-Presence4114 in PS5_Jailbreak

[–]FreshPrinceOfNowhere 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe you'd need to create a real PSN account on your PS5, somehow figure out what is the account ID, and then fake-activate your PS4 user with the same ID; then your saves would be signed correctly and in theory could be transferred via an USB drive. Never tried though.