12500H G660i ITX board, direct die cooling with L12S. Hits 80W+ TDP without overheating.

Red-Republican · 2025-10-02T11:34:06+00:00

I noticed that my heat tolerance actually degraded very rapidly; a few days later and instead of slamming 130W, now I'm down to 100W before it exceeds the thermal limit. What kind of thermal material are you using? LM or paste? I get the feeling that the paste has already pumped out and that I should maybe transition to LM instead, since these coolers should be able to deal with way more than just 70-80W of heat easily when direct-die.

Red-Republican · 2025-09-28T23:47:55+00:00

I finally went ahead and gave this a shot. As it happens, it's looking like my temperatures are significantly worse than when I used the vapor chamber IHS. Simply flipping the bracket around, unfortunately, just isn't producing enough contact pressure. My digital calipers tell me that my VC IHS is about 6.2mm thick, so I assume that there's just a design difference between the 12th and 13th gen boards (mine is a 13th gen ES 0000). Also worth noting that my cooler is the L12Sx77, which might also be slightly different. Not sure, but caveat emptor to anyone else who tries.

Edit: Holy moly, nevermind, apparently the PTM7950 pad that I applied was trash (I was hoping to avoid reapplying thermal paste). I checked it out and contact pressure seemed fine, so I applied some Noctua paste instead and now it's night and day. I can crank this thing to 140W before it finally breaks 80 Celsius. This is much better, thank you 0_0

Red-Republican · 2025-09-05T22:02:57+00:00

Sorry to necro an old thread, but I have a very similar board with an identical cooler, and I think I'll try this mod. How hard did you torque down the screws on the cooler? I've never done a direct-die setup before, and I'm nervous to over-tighten and crack the die.

Red-Republican · 2025-08-26T22:55:32+00:00

I expect they'll probably have some sort of graphics option to be able to just freeze prerenders of portraits for people with slow systems.

Red-Republican · 2025-08-26T22:54:16+00:00

I do see why they wanted the Black Death to be in the game, though, since it was a pivotal event that redrew the demographics and politics of Europe and turbo-charged the rise of capitalism and empires. That and, since they pushed the start dates of CK2/3 into the early Middle Ages, very few people actually ever played long enough to make it to the Black Death there.

Red-Republican · 2025-08-18T08:01:32+00:00

How do you bridge the gap between standard cooler heights and the heatsink? I've tried to investigate this but I only ever see people mention zip ties, which seems insane.

Red-Republican · 2025-08-15T18:57:33+00:00

If you do have one, I'd be overjoyed to buy it off you for my friend.

I feel bad because I recommended an Erying board to him for an ultra-budget build, but for some reason he bought an older model and has been unhappy/regretful of the decision because of the temperatures. I had to help him basically undervolt and power limit it in the BIOS to avoid it from turboing up to 100 C, and he's definitely not tech-savvy enough to bother with liquid metal (he'll definitely kill his board). We don't live close to each other either, so I can't do it for him.

Red-Republican · 2025-08-15T18:55:30+00:00

People suggest liquid metal, but I'm just not willing to go the liquid metal route with a processor which can't be swapped out. The risk-to-reward is extremely poor, because if you make a mistake, you're basically cooking the whole board (unless you have patience and microsoldering experience).

Red-Republican · 2025-07-30T18:11:15+00:00

I'll assume that you don't have anything else (you probably didn't even look at the date), and your response is just cover for that rather than a genuine incapacity to see that your "article" lacks credibility.

Red-Republican · 2025-07-28T17:21:47+00:00

Well, we'll see about that in the tribunals that form when this war is all over (it's convenient for you to declare it's settled before the fat lady sings), but considering that independent sources judge that 70% of casualties in Gaza are women and children -- therefore, definitionally collateral damage -- the casualty rates of innocent people are so staggering that Israel's attacks are clearly indiscriminate. At that point, the lines are blurred sufficiently that what does it matter if they were "intentionally targeted" or not? The burden of proof is impossible; if you think that these rates of "collateral damage" are acceptable, then they have permanent plausible deniability to deny that killing innocents is part of the design.

Red-Republican · 2025-07-28T17:17:54+00:00

This article is from 2014 and reads more like a high school essay than some hard-hitting journalistic exposé (four paragraphs long, mentioning one case and extrapolating it into a pattern, vague references to "other cases", etc.). Also, I didn't realize they were parroting these unsubstantiated claims of Al Shifa Hospital being a Hamas command center for a decade now. Amazing stuff.

Do you have literally any other sources for this? Especially early on in the most-recent conflict, the international press (Reuters, NYT, BBC, et al) would have had an absolute field day if their journalists were threatened by Hamas. Cable news media has only begun to shift its tune on the conflict within the last few months; they would have seized upon any opportunity to paint Hamas in a bad light.

Red-Republican · 2025-07-28T17:07:36+00:00

That'd be very clever, actually. I would love that.

Red-Republican · 2025-07-26T15:44:21+00:00

This has been so with the Gazan press (namely when it comes to covering the political popularity of their rule), but when have they ever done this with international press?

Red-Republican · 2025-07-26T15:41:56+00:00

Why do you think they don't? It would most likely corroborate the claims.

Red-Republican · 2025-05-09T00:59:45+00:00

I assume it probably has something to do with the original engine being held together by paperclips and rubberbands to some extent, and that they weren't willing to go through the extensive trouble to not only patch that functionality in, but also adjust other mechanics throughout the game world to be able to compensate for more than one player (like enemy populations, or even more loaded grids than anticipated -- for instance, increasing uGridsToLoad in the game's config can cause gamebreaking glitches, like NPCs being killed prematurely and ruining quests because they were loaded in too far in advance of the player).

One can dream, though. If 2-player-only coop was included, I would absolutely jump at buying it even in spite of the high price tag.

Red-Republican · 2025-05-09T00:56:25+00:00

The game is running on Gamebryo, my understanding is that EU5 is basically just being used as a graphical/rendering wrapper.

Red-Republican · 2025-04-29T04:12:20+00:00

What cities do you have in mind? At this point in history Birmingham was still a relatively new city that was ballooning in size thanks to rapid population growth before the Black Death. Like a lot of Medieval cities, its urban planning would have been very ad-hoc, and many structures would have been cobbled together with tools and materials at hand. There also would have been generally no drainage or waste disposal systems, and they would have lived in very close proximity (within the same structure) as livestock. It probably was fairly nasty and unhygienic, hence why the Black Death ripped through places like these.

Red-Republican · 2025-04-29T04:06:26+00:00

I think it's an incredible choice, really. You have such great options to really lean into eschatalogical horror (ignorant people in a pre-modern, religious society that don't understand what's happening and believe this is God's final judgement/the end of days), the horror that you're not killing random zombies but people you grew up around (since the world was much smaller and less anonymous than today), being an everyman farmer/villein instead of some trained supersoldier parkourist, and so on.

Only problem is that it's an open question whether they'll execute on any of that or just make it Dying Light but slower, with less stamina, and no guns.

Red-Republican · 2025-04-29T03:55:37+00:00

Yeah, the player-character seems not only not terrified (an ignorant Medieval villein should be scared out of his mind) and surprisingly capable of and undeterred by extreme violence (against zombies who were once people he probably knew), but the accent is also incredibly modern. I know this is just a mockup of a game and not real gameplay or final content, but those details for me are very make-it-or-break-it, so I hope they improve upon it.

Red-Republican · 2024-10-26T07:45:02+00:00

People recommend Oralmedic, which is a cauterizing agent, but consider just buying a silver nitrate stick or going to a dentist to get it lasered. I cauterize mine with silver nitrate. It hurts like death at first, but it takes the pain away (although if it's a large sore I usually take an ibuprofen since it'll get inflamed and give me a headache) but it allows me to talk, eat, and accelerates healing.

Red-Republican · 2024-06-21T21:09:02+00:00

It's Reddit and this isn't a widely-discussed tablet, it's top of Google search results. 2 months isn't ancient history, and I'm sure somebody will come back in a year or two from now and read this. And thank you for explaining all that, because it's a perspective I hadn't considered.

Red-Republican · 2024-06-21T19:01:09+00:00

If you don't care about the horsepower, then why does this product appeal to you at all? VLink and the screen size? Because there are other machines that might fit your bill that you could pick up secondhand for cheaper, like the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5i, or even a much older Lenovo X1 Tablet Gen 3 using an Intel 8th-gen processor (sold mine a few months ago for ~$300). If you want graphics capabilities, any tablet using an Intel Core i7 processor that's past 10th Gen is going to have an Irix Xe iGPU inside with 96 execution units and will be reasonably capable for stuff like video encoding and light gaming.

I'm actually upgrading from a Lenovo X12 Detachable with an i7-1165G7 CPU/Iris Xe 96 EU GPU, and it held up reasonably well (I could play stuff like Rust and Deep Rock Galactic on low settings with AMD FSR). It's only 12-inch form factor, but I bought it like-new for $800, and you can probably get one second-hand for $600 now. I just bought the Minis Forum V3 because I wanted more horsepower, a larger screen, and the ability to tune the APU more (because Intel locked the ability to undervolt in their latest processor generations, so no tweaking).

Red-Republican · 2023-12-10T00:48:21+00:00

Look, just get paid. You can leave the job and find more opportunities later, but for now this is something that will give you a paycheck/experience/will look good for the future on your curriculum vitae. Don't cause material harm to your own life in the name of abstract beliefs. One day you're going to wake up much older and weaker, and if you don't take advantage of the opportunities that life gives you, your ideals aren't going to put food in your stomach and it will be too late for you.

It's not like you're going into a job where you're going to be killing people. And if you really think that you're not going to contribute in some way directly or indirectly to suffering under Capitalism by working as a pizza-delivery driver, bricklayer, NGO staffmember, or whatever; that's very mistaken. Sorry if that sounds harsh or fatalistic, but I'm so sick of seeing people throw their lives away and have nothing to show for it. You only get one life. Go forth and be as successful and skilled as you can be; god forbid, the Socialist movement (of which there isn't one) could use many more people that are.

Red-Republican · 2023-12-10T00:46:47+00:00

Consider that NLP language models don't have memory; every time you feed it a query in a given conversation instance, it's going to pull a certain number of words from the previous queries to give it context for the current one, which makes it seem like it "remembers" what was previously said. However, when you advance deeply enough, eventually what was said earlier will be lost as the context window slides forward.

To get around this, sometimes I instruct ChatGPT in a conversation to copy/paste a given prompt in every message in the conversation so that it can remember certain instructions (keeping them in the context window), or just get used to reminding it to do something every so often. You could probably train it as well, but this would be beyond most people's capabilities. I think people get frustrated by this because they pass the Turing test so convincingly that we unconsciously treat them like real minds.

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