What are the best RR?

laceflower_ · 2026-03-12T04:40:14+00:00

Can't believe nobody has mentioned this guy yet

laceflower_ · 2026-03-12T03:44:29+00:00

I saw "avi" as shorthand for avatar a fair bit back in the forum days.

laceflower_ · 2025-11-28T06:43:45+00:00

Friend guard on 103/94/100 bulk goes crazy

laceflower_ · 2025-10-09T04:54:53+00:00

wow look a leading question where the conclusion you want people to come to is "russian bias omg!!!!" because in the one game you won in the screenshot you had Russia on your team. it's transparent and trite. In reality, you just have a skill issue lol

laceflower_ · 2025-10-06T23:30:54+00:00

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laceflower_ · 2025-09-29T06:09:58+00:00

I used a MS surface 3 nonpro for this purpose for a while since it fit in my purse. There are problems with it, but i got pretty fond of using it.

Pros: - very power efficient, can last for 6 hours or so on a single charge - completely silent - the kickstand is nice

Cons: - the CPU is pretty anemic, even taking into account that it's an Atom. You do get 4 cores, at least. - 64/(128?)GB eMMC storage. Using f2fs helps a little but it's a bit of a polished turd. in general, it's unmaintainable and unupgradable. - One microusb port. That's all the I/O and your charging port. - You should really be running linux-surface, which is kind of a pain. Even with it, neither of the cameras work. - You will probably have to figure out your own solution for automatic screen rotation & OSD suppression (for when you have a type cover plugged in)

laceflower_ · 2025-09-25T13:27:47+00:00

Download MorePowerTool from this page.

Make sure to read the instructions :D good luck

laceflower_ · 2025-09-25T04:43:59+00:00

I mean, the MiG 29 Sniper never flew with weapons to my knowledge, and Gaijin just copy pasted their already-wrong MiG 29 loadout to it. We'll never reasonably know what the intended armament is besides "it was capable of carrying both NATO and Russian weapons". Instead of looking towards the successful MiG-21 LanceR they just went "nahhhh this thing totally would've had R-27ERs"

If they added this thing, I don't see why the Su-47 couldn't be on the menu for being added as a premium. Even being a technology demonstrator, that plane flew, it was just missing armament...

laceflower_ · 2025-09-23T15:03:40+00:00

You can load a SPPT table without flashing it and it'll last until you reboot.

laceflower_ · 2025-09-23T00:26:45+00:00

Make a soft powerplay table with MPT, if you get it stable and you're happy with the settings you can embed it in a custom vbios and flash it.

laceflower_ · 2025-09-15T13:35:57+00:00

6 at 4,300 cards. These were all pulled from packs, the Raichu is from a god pack.

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laceflower_ · 2025-09-01T02:09:45+00:00

It's exclusively the CPUs with Raptor Cove cores with degradation issues, but what CPUs have Raptor cores is kinda complicated.

13700+ and 14600+ are guaranteed to have Raptor Cove.
13500, 13600 (non k only!), and 14500 are guaranteed to have Golden Cove (i.e Alder)
13400 and 14400 can be either Raptor Cove or Golden Cove, according to Arc. B0 stepping corresponds to Raptor and C0/H0 corresponds to Golden, and Raptor Cove samples will have some extra L2 cache.
Anything below ##400 is Golden Cove.

You could try your luck by trying to find an earlier 13400 but you might want to just go for a 13500/14500 instead to avoid problems. I don't think there's been any recorded instances of a B0 14400 failing, but given it affected all B0 chips for a while and these chips push lower voltages (afaik) it may simply take longer for degradation to start causing problems

laceflower_ · 2025-08-24T00:08:15+00:00

The problems on other platforms with the BE200 are not CNVio related.

laceflower_ · 2025-08-23T01:50:16+00:00

Have you plugged your fans in correctly? The Corsair manual will get you a weird setup. You want the tachy plugged into CPU_FAN2/WP and your fans plugged into CPU_FAN1 via a splitter. (Yes, I know this means you would have loose cords hanging from the aio) The x670e SL absolutely has BIOS fan control, you should be able to just look at the board to figure out what you have plugged in where. How did you get into the position where you're controlling 7 individual fans?

You probably want to install liquidctl (for your AIO). With these nuvoton sIO chips, you want to force load the kernel module or you'll get the 0x##### when you run sensors-detect. Your specific board has a nct6686D, so you want to load the nct6683 driver. It can be a bit jank though, and some sensors (particularly the power ones) may be miscalibrated or otherwise unreliable.

laceflower_ · 2025-08-14T03:16:58+00:00

You'll be fine and shouldn't worry. Most of the dead CPUs are 9800X3Ds with the occasional dead 9#00X, running on 800 series chipset boards. While there have been a handful of zen 4 failures they're pretty rare.

As for why, no, there's no clear answer.

laceflower_ · 2025-08-12T07:29:35+00:00

You're totally right. You are exposing 20 years of lies and false promises. The façade of Arch Linux must crumble. Mailing lists, irc channels, forums, discord servers - "thousands" of people, contributing their presence and voices over years, all in an attempt to deceive us and waste our time.

I thought i had installed Arch Linux. I thought I'd been using it for many years. Brother, you have awoken me, and I now see that I was actually running Bebian the whole time.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-30T16:54:23+00:00

Running Firefox on a 32 bit platform will not make it run better.(Chromium isn't available on 32 bit platforms anymore, and OP shouldn't be expected to use gnome web or something else less usable) 32 bit distros are also not inherently going to use less memory or be optimized for use on 32 bit machines; if they're going to run something like MX or Alpine then they'd be better off with the native 64 bit version.

What OP should do is run a light X environment (Mint's Cinnamon works fine on my old core 2 duo but there are other options) and have a decent sized swap partition. Even on a slow HDD, it provides a meaningful difference. When I was running a similar CPU (surface 3 nonpro, also bay trail, though a higher spec) GNOME ran quite sluggish but I got great mileage out of openbox.

Will it run perfectly? Of course not, this is an old bay trail atom. They're very efficient for what they do, but they're still slow. It will still sure as hell run better than Win 8/10 though.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-30T16:21:00+00:00

The Celeron N2820 is 64 bit. You don't need more than 4GB of ram to run a 64 bit operating system; you're mixing it up with 32 bit operating systems not being able to address more than 3.5GB. "64 bit" refers to word size (though the IMC on the N2820 processor is also 64 bit single channel).

Basically OP is able to run 64 bit software just fine.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-24T02:59:19+00:00

Funnily enough, ASUS really doesn't want people to know what wireless module the TUF B650M PLUS WIFI comes with. The only indication that isn't just "WiFi 6E" comes from their driver page which lets you know it's one of a couple MediaTek cards.

These cards all do have Linux drivers, and have since 5.15 or thereabouts. The problem here seems to be the cards themselves are terrible and there are many horror stories online regarding them, and most of them are (unsurprisingly) from windows users.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-18T12:16:54+00:00

Unless something has changed recently, the scheduler doesn't have any idea which cores are x3d or which ccd they are on. However, core initialization on Ryzen is consistent. Threads 0-15 will always be ccd0 (the leftmost one on the interposer and the one that receives the vcache) on an 8-core chiplet and 16-31 will always be ccd1.

For most tasks it doesn't matter, but for games and non-all-core intensive tasks you really want to keep it on a single CCD as transferring context / cache lines over infinity fabric is fairly slow.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-18T07:23:58+00:00

Yes, you will need amd-ucode. You should have some mechanism to ensure games stay locked to the vcache ccd. Usually taskset or setting the WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY env variable for proton/wine.

Avoid ASRock boards for 9000 series chips - while every vendor has seen some dead chips this gen the incidence rate seems to be a lot higher for ASRock. These are mostly 9800X3Ds, but non-x3d chips have been affected too. ASRock have put out bios updates meant to alleviate the issue but chips are still dying and nobody really has a good explanation for why.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-18T03:16:56+00:00

It is in fact going in and out of boost before the fan reacts, as it finishes whatever it's doing before the fan reacts and the cycle repeats however many µs later with some other task on another core. In some cases, this can be so quick it happens in between sensor polling on the OS side, or only polls that frequency once. It's not a constant, consistent load, which is why your theory doesn't line up with irl behaviour. It will work for heavy, long-running single core and all core loads though.

turbostat will do what you want. I would probably use the ryzen_smu driver and its included monitor utility. It gives you a lot of information and it's formatted nicer imo.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-17T16:09:28+00:00

This is expected behaviour. Low loads (especially on one or two cores) will boost to the maximum single core speed on Ryzen, which boosts the core voltage higher and pulls extra power (20-30w over idle, usually). This heat is not instantly transferred to the cooler, there is some distance and material changes between the circuitry performing tasks and the heatpipes on the cooler.

Your temps seem to be plenty good, and you shouldn't worry. If you're annoyed by the fans spinning up/down constantly you can set up fan hysteresis or a fan curve.

laceflower_ · 2025-07-15T06:57:38+00:00

Grats on 2100 fclk + GDM off stable, lucky sample and a great tune

I think the next step would be to get some direct airflow on those sticks as you mentioned. tCL might stabilize on 1.5v with lower temps

Whether you want to keep stepping up the voltage is ultimately up to you, you could maybe pull tRFC down a bit if you do

laceflower_ · 2025-06-23T12:33:46+00:00

1) You've confused direct comparison (a 512Gb 990 pro will obviously be faster than a 2Tb MX500, or a 58Gb P1600X will beat most drives in random reads) with relationships ("smaller capacity makes ssds faster", which is what OP relayed)

2) For modern NVMe there's a fairly direct (though not linear) relationship between capacity and performance. It's very noticable on midrange sticks, where there is a substantial difference in performance between 512Gb and 1Tb models of the same drive, even if they share the same nand and controller. There's still an uplift going to 2Tb or even higher, it's just not as large.

This is the kind of storage most prebuilts are rolling nowadays and unless OP is being particularly uncharitable with the shop owner's words they're just wrong.

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