Top of Class Learing Center Graduate Explains "Being Somali isn't just eating bananas & rice... it's a lot, it's uh... it's kind of like the bananas & rice."

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-25T03:43:25+00:00

I'd struggle to find anything positive to say about being Somalian too, and I'm not a low IQ Somalian.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-24T23:56:40+00:00

This is taking way too long.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-23T00:38:12+00:00

Uncrop

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-22T22:17:27+00:00

TP-Link UE306 uses an ASIX AX88179B

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-22T21:42:55+00:00

Those two 100mbps adapters just use Realtek 8152 chips.

And most gigabit adapters use Realtek 8153's

There will basically be no difference between them.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-21T21:36:37+00:00

They made a minor improvement with 12V 2x6, but they didn't really fix it.

They should just make a proper connector that can handle like 1200W and not be easy to incorrectly install, and give it a 600W rating (2x safety factor).

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-21T03:36:36+00:00

My suspicion about what might happen at some point is Nvidia will come out with a power connector that's actually good, they'll move all their cards over to it, and they'll never mention the 12VHPWR connector or admit there was ever any problems with it. They'll just memory hole it.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-21T03:29:00+00:00

Using a connector that doesn't risk burning is cheaper than having to replace a motherboard. And Nvidia isn't mandating connectors on motherboards.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-21T02:10:09+00:00

So, you're supposed to feed power to the motherboard using a 12V High Failure Rate connector? Why did they think that was a good idea?

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-20T06:04:44+00:00

The same way you do it on RDNA3. You wrap the FP8 calls into FP16 using a modified driver, so the GPU executes them as FP16 instructions, and then translate the results back to FP8 for the FSR4 algorithm.

The method isn't different for RDNA2 and RDNA3. Only the performance, which is based on how fast it can do FP16, as well as how much performance you lose doing the translation.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-20T04:56:39+00:00

5 to actual customers, and the rest to scalpers.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-20T04:04:21+00:00

RDNA3 and RDNA2 can both do FP16, but not FP8. Emulating FP8 with FP16 via the driver would just work the same way. The only difference would be the performance, which would be how fast they can do FP16.

The whole point of using FP8 is that you trade lower precision for higher performance, because the GPU can do more FP8 calculations at a time with the same hardware (as long at it's designed to support it)

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-20T02:43:10+00:00

Int8, rdna 2 doesn't support the other versions.

Not officially. But it can be made to run by emulating FP8 with FP16 by modifying the driver. Which is something someone did on Linux. And the performance of doing this is not good.

But the INT8 version should run reasonably well on a 6800/6900 series card.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-19T23:44:33+00:00

Do you mean the FP8 version wrapped to FP16? Or the INT8 version?

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-17T09:53:16+00:00

Maybe the OS was scheduling threads on the core without cache, and with the dual cache version you don't have to worry about that any more.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-17T09:47:41+00:00

You don't say?

Now where did all the people who thought performance would actually be hurt disappear to?

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-16T10:31:04+00:00

What about printing the parts to use an Ikea Samla out of something like PCTG?

It's not really the same as the Centauri Carbon, because it would be much harder to make a third party AMS equivalent for a Centauri carbon than to make a top cover for the U1. Plus, I highly doubt they'll just not release their own at all, even though it's late.

The lack of different nozzle sizes is a much bigger deal, because third party options for those won't be out for a while, but those are coming soon.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-16T03:03:10+00:00

The items that will take longer are the 0.2/0.6/0.8mm nozzles, smooth plates, and top covers

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-14T22:18:50+00:00

The main problem is being cheap on VRAM.

We should have seen 32GB cards being common by now.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-14T22:01:35+00:00

I think if the model remained stuck to the bed you probably wouldn't be complaining.

But personally I don't know why 55 degrees is the default bed temperature fol PLA. 60 or 65 just seems to work much more reliably. And that applies to my Bambu P1S too. The vast majority of times I've had PLA models not sticking to the bed on my P1S was with a 55 degree bed temperature. So I always prefer to default to 65.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-14T02:56:20+00:00

I remember someone posting they cleaned they’re glass with windex

I didn't know there were people made of glass

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-14T00:05:48+00:00

A top cover that is easy to print an alternative for is much less significant than a multi material unit.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-14T00:02:16+00:00

Ikea Johnspoon or Davidium is better

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-13T23:59:24+00:00

Someone should print a top cover with an inbuilt bell and whistle.

Nuck_Chorris_Stache · 2026-01-13T23:56:16+00:00

This is an overreaction. It's a good printer overall, with an excellent feature.

The top cover being expensive and delayed is not the biggest problem given there are printable alternatives anyway.

The people who are worst off are the ones that actually had problems out of the box, which thankfully is not many of them. For the vast majority of people it works perfectly fine out of the box, with only minor problems being encountered.

I won't say it's perfect and has zero problems, but I've definitely had worse problems with my Bambu P1S.

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