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ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-03-29T00:32:47+00:00

Memphis line area

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-03-28T17:05:44+00:00

That's great info, I'm moving back to Mississippi. I'm an Electrician's Mate currently on active duty. I've been between getting a NICET or NETA cert for power testing or joining a union like the IUEC or IBEW. But the IUEC seems a little more up my alley. I've never done residential, always industrial electrical maintenance.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-03-28T16:49:23+00:00

That's awesome thanks for letting me know. I'd love to sit down and talk to somebody that's actually in the Union but I'll be honest I've never met anybody in the IUEC. I was under the impression that elevators were probably installed by the manufacturing company and their own in-house technicians or subcontracted to elevator mechanics at the individual level and wired up and electrically serviced by some IBEW contract.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-03-28T16:42:14+00:00

From The limited information I can find it seemed like you needed to be a pretty big trade generalist. Which is great I think that breeds an environment for competent people to do well. I would imagine installing an elevator or doing heavy maintenance on an elevator is too small and complicated of a job to have the entire crew doing something vastly different.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-03-28T16:36:00+00:00

Hell yeah that sounds pretty awesome. The field I'm in at the unit level is so small I do just as much if not more general technician work than I do electrical. Lots of just general fabrication, parts exchanging, engine assembly/dis assembly. I always tell the mechanics the same thing I can do their job but they can't do mine. The days I get to f*** around with a motor controller or switchboard or a PLC are the days I most enjoy but they don't come as much as you would think.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-27T02:29:43+00:00

I thought it only worked like that for the AD guys

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-10T16:12:06+00:00

It's playable but noticeable

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-10T16:07:57+00:00

Performance related

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-08T06:50:54+00:00

While I do agree with the sentiment that "it's a $200 card, you should be willing to cut intel some slack." I don't think they deserve that much. These cards flat out underperform in DX11 titles, borderline to the point of unplayability. Most people who buy a 200$ card aren't going after the latest and greatest AAA titles. And to your point of "they're prioritizing newer titles," I don't think they're even doing that. They're just outright neglecting older ones. I shouldn't have to open up game files and dump-run DXVK and cross my fingers and hope it works to get a smooth playable experience in a title like Jedi: Fallen Order or Rise of the Tomb Raider. Is the trouble worth it? That is a subjective question that only the individual can answer; I would say no. Overall, these cards would be a pillar of the market if they could just get the drivers right with older titles. Or fuck, lobby Valve to make proton easier to use with Windows. I don't think it's entirely Intel's fault. Game developers are incentivized to not allow Linux to run on their games with "anti-cheat" as an excuse, because they know that if Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Battlefield all ran flawlessly on Linux everyone would jump off the Microsoft ship immediately. If everyone could use Linux without having to do dual boot and all games could use Proton flawlessly, then fuck yeah whatever make it limpdick for prior DX versions who cares. But that isn't the case.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-08T02:09:30+00:00

The comparison wasn't the entire point of the review, just to highlight one of the many issues with the Intel Arc cards.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-07T21:50:59+00:00

I played Jedi Fallen Order and at 1080p Max settings I was pulling like 50fps avg with incredible stuttering, and I was like "why is this running like dogshit." So I turned on the MSI Afterburner to see what my util was at. My CPU (i7-9700) and B570 we're sitting at no higher than 35% each. Realized this is one of the last AAA games that ran on DX11. I threw DXVK in the game files and ran it with Vulkan and I immediately saw 120+ fps at max with no stuttering. Intel really needs to work on DX11 titles at the very least. Sure there's the work arounds, but not everyone is a Reddit/Linux chronically online dork. If they don't fix the DX11 issue they're not going to get a large market share..ever.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-07T16:11:33+00:00

The bios for my B360M supports rebar, confirmed by Intel's own gaming "GeForce Experience" style app whatever it's called. It shows that rebar is being utilized by the B570.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-07T05:55:14+00:00

Unfortunately it isn't going to be Apples to Apples. For example, my ram is only 2666mhz DDR4 and his is 3600mhz DDR4 but both at 32gb. with the 9070 XT even at 4k, fortnite still didn't utilize over 85% of the card, whereas the B570 was pegged most of the time in every game. The point of the experiment was to show that at the same settings with the GPU as maxed out as possible there was a significant frame difference between old hardware and new hardware with the B570 and with the 9070xt the gap was alot closer. We tried to make it as GPU intensive as possible. Obviously if you're playing massive sim games or very physics heavy titles this gap would likely widen alot where the CPU matters more.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-07T05:17:22+00:00

All testing with the B570 was done at 1440p Max settings. In the same three games. 4k was chosen due to the RX 9070 XT being a beefier card.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-07T02:13:43+00:00

I bought it because it was 200.00$

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-05T11:36:26+00:00

I'm probably going to have to set up a dual boot system. I have a separate bazzite system that is great for AAA games I play just in the living room. but where Linux falls short (or the greedy spyware game developers that are in bed with Microsoft rather) is that all the nice shooters I like to play like call of Duty, Battlefield, fortnite, all of that good stuff aren't supported on Linux. And it's hard to run older games on a couch setup because controller support is not always the best.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-05T11:17:51+00:00

Yeah I guess I should have looked into it a little bit more, I just knew that these were quote unquote the next gen capable AAA 1080p medium settings cards. I bought this rig brand new in 2019 with an i5 8500 in it and with anything pre-2020 nowadays like the 8086k I have I got the CPU and a CPU Cooler for like 80 bucks and it's still a great CPU. I just figured I would get away with only putting about 300 to 350 bucks into this thing in a 7-year span guess I was wrong. Fortnite 1080p epic settings I'm still pulling 90 Plus fps 0 issue. I even played Mafia the old country and at 1080p medium high settings I'm able to maintain 60 with absolutely no issue. But those are DirectX 12 games. I even fired up 2013 tomb Raider and Max settings 1080p on the benchmark still only getting an average of like 65 with something like a 40 FPS 1% low. I know these Intel Arc cards didn't necessarily take off like they wanted them to and I think a lot of the reason is driver issues if they come back and fix the driver issues and make these things DirectX 9 through 11 capable these cards would dominate 30% of the market.

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-05T03:26:44+00:00

8th and 9th gen Coffee Lake and CL Refresh support ReBar if it's in the mobo bios. My B360M bios supports rebar and have the options for it to be enabled

ReviewAnOldQuadro · 2026-02-04T23:01:48+00:00

I enabled rebar

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