I've never used that. What are the specs and how do reviews for it look?
And as another said, you don't necessarily have to replace the compound if you are just reseating for testing.
Are you overclocking your current CPU at all?
What temps are you hitting under load? What cooler do you currently have? What about case airflow and case air temp vs ambient temp?
Simply cooling your current CPU better may give you a decent boost.
There are a couple EVGA boards that do PCIe 5.0 x8/x8 when both slots are populated.
Most other boards I am seeing only have a single PCIe 5.0 slot and the rest being 4.0
Uggghhhh, what happened to them making workstation boards that have PCIe switches on them that don't require the XEON or Threadripper?
I've got a couple older ones that do and they are great if you need lots of PCIe lanes.
Yeah, my guess is it is the IMC as well as the BIOS not limiting the RAM speed correctly.
I could try these combos at 3200 in the 7740...
2x 8GB
2x 16GB
2x 8GB + 2x 16GB
4x 16GB.
The newer 7550 limits the RAM speed to 2933 which is what the 10th gen Intel CPUs officially support.
Definitely a...
Well, that POSTs but locks up in diags and the system gets way hotter than normal. Bummer.
The ADATA sticks are the only kind I have in 2933 and they are not playing nice with the 3200 sticks as they clock down to 2666 instead of running at 2933.
So I was going through my stash of RAM and found a couple Dell 32GB DDR4-3200 SODIMM modules I had forgotten about.
Decided to try them in my Precision 7740 sporting the i9-9980HK CPU to see if they would run properly.
I already had 4X 16GB DDR4-2933 sticks running in this laptop at 2933...
Look at the ASUS workstation boards that have PLX chips in them.
The boards are expensive but will do what you want.
https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/motherboards/all-series/filter?Series=Workstation
Depends on what you buy. Personally, I would not bother with Arctic Silver 5 anymore as it actually has pretty poor thermal transfer compared to just about anything but the absolute trashiest compound available now days. It will also separate if stored for too long.
I do use Arctic Ceramiq 2...
Download HCI Memtest and test 1 stick of RAM at a time.
You will need to multiple copies to fill all the RAM as the free version doesn't allow a single copy to test all that much.
It is way quicker than letting memtest86+ run overnight or for days even to detect a bad stick of RAM.
Usually...
Hyper-V sucks indescribably compared to VMWare.
1. It puts the host OS on top of the hypervisor which kills performance of the host machine, even without any VMs running.
2. It really, really, really, really sucks if you need an XP VM.
a. Color depth is jacked
b. It is very, very unstable. So...
What GPU is it?
Might want to see if there is a copper shim available so you can get rid of the RAM pads completely.
Most thermal pads are absolute trash.
You can either get trash pads or expensive not very soft pads.
If you get good pads, you have to make sure to get the exact right...
So I am working on getting one of my old programs to compile with VS 2022.
And of course a couple of the libraries I used are super outdated and even the newer versions have not been updated in years thus the VC project files had to be upgraded.
To top it off, I need to set the correct paths...
Tried p designated RAM in the ACARD device and it isn't detected so it looks to be registered as I suspected.
From pictures I am finding, it looks like r was the older designation for registered and p is the newer designation for registered.
1. Prime number sieve
2. Infinite precision math
#1 currently supports 2^32 -1 threads with only a single lock
#2 would have to have insanely large numbers being worked on to use that much RAM.
I have an ACARD ANS-9010BA SATA 2 DDR2 RAM drive I want to use for older systems.
The manual says that it will not work with registered RAM.
There are 3 different designations that I would like clarification on, but only if you know 100% for sure what the designations stand for.
For example...
My main machine has 64GB and I have a workstation now that has 512GB because I didn't want to spend ungodly amounts on larger sticks to go to 1 or 2TB.
It's also possible that somebody bought the laptop, swapped out the drive, re-imaged it and then returned it to NE.
NE has nothing to do with assembling the laptops so it is highly unlikely that NE had anything to do with it.
Plus, if it was happening a lot, then it would have been noticed...
3rd party toner will end high running cost.
That will eliminate small Xerox machines though as last time i tried one with 3rd party toner it didn't work. They don't like fusing 3rd party toner to the paper properly.
HP and Brother work fine with 3rd party toner.
For newer HPs, you may need to...
I just got a retired system with a SuperMicro X9DRG-QF motherboard. The case is also a SuperMicro case and has dual 1KW 80+ Platinum PSUs.
I plan on sticking 4x Quadro cards in this and using it primarily to mess around with GP-GPU programming.
Already ordered a couple 2697 v2 CPUs for it and...
I've never fried one of the cheap HF meters.
They are great for basic stuff.
Then again, I grew up knowing how to use a multimeter. Probably started using one around age 8 or so.
Only time I have seen on fried is when a family member was trying to test voltage and had the dial 180 off...
Maybe I've just had the misfortune of having to fix / reprogram from scratch way too many projects.
Then again, I have also worked with a decent amount of open source code and I usually want to gouge my eyes out.
Heh.. no, the main reason for such small increases in speed for CPUs was because Intel didn't have much competition for quite a while.
The main issue with program performance is because of crap programmers and them not caring one wit about performance.
Usually, when I look at other's code I...
So it is pretty much crap.
I remember way back when nVidia had the cheaty drivers where they would skip rendering some stuff in order to inflate the benchmark numbers.
But now it is ok to do so because it is a "feature" and they aren't trying to hide it?
There are plenty of forums posts (not necessarily here) asking about CPU upgrades and GPU upgrades for laptops.
Not so much anymore, but the Dell Precision 4600 - 4800 / 6600 - 6800 were upgradeable.. had the option of either Nvidia or AMD.
The 4600 is the newest one I did an upgrade on...
I want to see side by side output quality comparisons with it disabled and enabled.
If it turns the output quality to crap to boost the frame rate than it is still crap.
Have you seen the reviews of the RTX 4090 cards? 4k looks pretty crazy playable to me.
So much so that the review I watched said to not bother buying one of you play at 1440p or below because you are going to be CPU limited. The results showed that.
I've done laptop CPU upgrades quite a few times.
Now with newer laptops you have to buy a board with everything soldered on instead of just being able to upgrade what you want to.
All in the name of making devices thinner.
Yeah, if the RAM is at least upgradeable then it is a good thing.
The lower-end Dell laptops already have some models that have the RAM soldered on. RAM goes bad and the whole motherboard has to be replaced.
User needs more RAM... Then they have to get a whole new laptop.
The Precision...
I'm not sure how they have stuff set up but managing user certs doesn't normally require admin access.
I don't have "god" level admin access at this job so I can't really go look at absolutely everything myself.
We have a single Windows 10 computer that is bringing up the UAC prompt in order to open the cert manager.
Anybody have any clue as to what would cause this?