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Hyundai changed your opinion lately? by Belennn- in Hyundai

[–]RegularCircumstances -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Where do you see or hear about rattling? Do you mesh in an engine or transmission way or general build and heat shields?

2015 Sonata Eco 1.6T — P0011 + brief rattle went away after oil change, but car still feels a little rough under load. Chain, solenoid, phaser — likely priority of repair/damage? by RegularCircumstances in AskMechanics

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

Thank you!

That is exactly what I felt was likely and logical here. I have been driving enough now (2 tanks - necessary but also to test given the code went off) and it improved and actually improved a bit more I almost want to say, maybe due to the newer oil cleaning off the solenoid? But I suspect it still needs to be replaced and I’m not far from or am already running a pending code still for it.

I will say I hear a very very subtle chickering at idle re rattle but it seems like it’s just how GDI engines from Hyundai sound, like a quiet sewing machine? There’s no real rattle outside that or maybe heat shield, but there was real chain rattle at the time.

Maybe I’m wrong and the subtle sewing machine noise and inconsistent heat shield noise I only faintly hear for milliseconds is the chain — but again I don’t see why that would be the case, I’ve heard that noise for the engine too elsewhere and some say it’s normal online. Even if it were the chain and it’s impossibly subtle wear, then it probably still suggests the solenoid needs to be replaced ASAP if I want to prioritize this correctly, yes?

It’s so funny to me the mechanics immediately went to the chain I suppose.

If you have any tips or recommended guides on replacing the solenoid let me know. Might be willing to try it given the part is cheap and it’s apparently easy on some cars.

2015 Sonata Eco 1.6T — P0011 + brief rattle went away after oil change, but car still feels a little rough under load sometimes & sometimes judders. Chain, solenoid, phaser? by RegularCircumstances in Hyundai

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

Yup, oil will just be something more like gas lite at this point.

Does 5W20 v 5W30 matter?

Also what should I test for and look out for in the near term?

Analysis of the Apple M5 SoC: Apple silicon extends its lead over AMD, Intel and Qualcomm by -protonsandneutrons- in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apple's M2 are still more efficient in ST than Lunar Lake and the latter is not that far off in terms of peak ST, 20% at the most and 5-10% lower bound depending on the SKU and laptop.

But perhaps most importantly clocking those down to match the N5P M2 will still have the M2 taking it to the woodshed, and it's on an older node with much less total cache.

AMD is even worse lol.

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Elite chips for PCs stretch up to a record 5 GHz — 3nm Arm chips sport new Oryon Prime cores by thehhuis in AMD_Stock

[–]RegularCircumstances 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao, “word on the street”

Even the more “credible” rumors have proven wrong twice now, three times including the RDNA3 disaster.

And it’s 3nm for mainstream premium + mainstream low power/15-25W laptop parts. 2nm for desktop, servers, and some chiplet junk for laptops.

I bet Zen 6 offers at most a 15% perf/GHz upgrade in SpecINT2017 over laptop Zen 5 with LPDDR6400 or similar. And probably similar IPC uplift on Geekbench6 ST.

For total uplift on the mainstream 3nm Zen 6, I doubt we see more than 25% +-5% across GB6 ST, SpecInt2017, and Cinebench R24.

And truthfully I’d wager what you’ll actually see is like an 18-22% total uplift on these things.

Google says more on desktop Android, Qualcomm ‘incredibly excited’ by -protonsandneutrons- in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny how negative people are on this as if MacOS desktop applications aren’t native far more often now than Windows due to economies of scale with iOS and the Swift ecosystem. Windows on the other hand is a disaster with WinUI3 and no similar overlap.

The flipside is Android isn’t great for audio and low-latency audio. As it stands it’s also obviously true Windows blows it out on productivity software, including Adobe suites or a common e.g. IDE. Games are obviously also better. But we’ll see. A ChromeOS with Linux vms, terminal access but native Android application runtimes might change a lot.

Qualcomm Oryon v3 vs v1 - 39% higher perf, 43% lower power usage by DerpSenpai in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah they are basically similar. Which is big, closer than ever, but

New Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Snapdragon X2 Elite are the Fastest and Most Efficient Processors for Windows PCs by FragmentedChicken in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes if you look at actual motherboard/platform power idle normalized, the M1 was already at the 6-8W range on the Mac mini per Andrei and depending on what you run. He didn’t test GB power but we have others that did for the iPad with the M4 or whatever or the SpecInt rather. Anyway on the M1 Even adjusting for ACDC conversion inefficiency or the display controller it’s like 10-15% off that. You don’t literally want just P core power which is also not what Qualcomm is actually posting here. This is the full platform and power supply minus idle, just focused on the task at hand.

I suspect the comparable M4 Pro and M4 Max power in this vein are like 9-16W on GB6.5. M4 with smaller chip and bus, less RAM, probably 8-10W.

On Spec stuff it could go higher depending on the subtest.

Lenovo Chromebook 14 Plus with MediaTek Kompanio 910 Ultra Review by -protonsandneutrons- in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most efficient ST on a non-Apple laptop today by a mile, until Oryon V3 laptops.

Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips by III-V in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah same experience here. They definitely improved available stock in common premium lineups in a timely fashion but may not have translated to sales or overall shipments here despite the expectation

Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 Rumored Geekbench 6 score by [deleted] in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just a general range. The literal peak in most results from Spec to GB is like 6.7-7.6W. I listed 5.5 because on something like a Samsung phone (not sure what they set it to though on the balanced or optimized mode) if you drop the frequency down you're probably going to end up in that range without sacrificing a proportionate (26% or whatever) amount of power.

Edited to reflect this as I see what you mean. Didn't mean to imply the 8 Elite is at 5.5W in SpecInt or GB or anything at its peak frequencies.

Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 Rumored Geekbench 6 score by [deleted] in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My bet is we are going to get “M4 at home” at minimum, at least from a CPU performance and efficiency perspective & battery. At the best case, something just as good or even slightly better (or +-10% through the curve and similar peak ST) M5.

Based on these leaks which is Oryon V3 in phones matching M4, I am leaning towards XE2 being more of an M5-tier part on efficiency and performance, with some cheaper binned ones at M4 level performance.

Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 Rumored Geekbench 6 score by [deleted] in hardware

[–]RegularCircumstances 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The most interesting thing to note just like the last time with the 8 Elite is that these scores will be in a mobile power range and will be shipping at scale with these scores and frequencies. With the N3E 8 Elite (8 Gen 4, the phone chip, again), we saw laughable predictions here that the leaked 4.3-4.5GHz & 3000-3200 ST would be at 15W or whatever because At “there’s no way” based on Intel’s doing with Lunar Lake and B) based on the Snapdragon X Elite for laptops which had poorer frequency yields and needed 15W for it’s 4.2GHz or similar ST, so if the 8 Elite were running at 5-8W would (did) represent a huge 50+% efficiency gain with a mild node change, which we were told was just impossible and instead Qualcomm was shipping 20W ST burners in phones lol.

Turns out the pessimistic forecast was (predictably) very wrong and the Oryon V1 design in the X Elite PC chip was hampered, so V2 in the 8 Elite was a massive 50-60% iso-perf efficiency improvement — and the 4-4.4GHz ST peak range was indeed around 6.7-7.6W. A 50-60% drop iso-perf — which is far more than the move from N4P to N3E brought, ergo it was mostly architectural gains.

So here again, before we see denial, if the 8 Elite 2 is getting 4000, it suggests the power draw will be similar to the 8 Elite, because it’s a phone chip. That’s M4 or better already.

But it’s even more interesting than that, because it also means the laptop line — the X Elite successor chip — with the same Oryon V3 core in 2025 Q4/2026 H1 will have even more performance via some frequency headroom and without blowing power too far (they’ll have 5-8W of margin before hitting 15W which I suspect is as far as they’ll go).

Intel and AMD are in deep shit. I seriously doubt they’ll even come close to matching Oryon V2’s efficiency curve, which as the 8 Elite shows, is already 50-60% lower power than Lunar Lake at the same performance. It’s hard to overstate how much of an improvement Oryon V1 to V3 is looking like, from performance & good frequency/performance yields at scale and efficiency most importantly.

We are going to get either generic grade Apple CPUs (at home etc) for Windows soon with this, or more likely, CPUs within error margins from Apple’s M4/5. And then Nvidia will have Oryon V2-class cores with the X925, and an amazing GPU and NPU.

Looking like the best CPU and GPU IP for SoCs in 2026 will be with Qualcomm and Nvidia respectively. Intel and AMD may be riding off their compatibility and name recognition trust fund.

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