Recent content by CraigHB

All of my boot media is GPT formatted. Are you like trying to defend Gigabytes poor BIOS implementation just to be contrary?

You'd think so, but even if I set CSM options to UEFI only on the boot page I still see all the MBR entries in the boot menu and priorities. So I don't know, unless I'm unaware of a setting somewhere else the BIOS is disregarding that selection. The only way to get rid of MBR entries is to...

You can, but then you're getting into the "used parts" potential for headaches. I've bought used parts before and most times it's a good deal, but I've had a few bad deals. Generally I don't buy used parts except for less expensive stuff that's not a big risk. For something that expensive I...

Not sure what you mean by that. CSM is a function provided by the BIOS to boot from MBR which is the legacy method. It can be required if there's a specific need for it, but UEFI has been around long enough that MBR is pretty much deprecated. It should actually be disabled by default. It...

Yeah that's a big drive, QLC though, lower endurance. Would rather have TLC. I have a Sabrent Rocket 4.0 and I'm pretty happy with it. That 8TB model is up there with their cost for PCIe 4.0, around 200 USD per terrabyte. Should be running the Rocket Q rate, around $120 per terrabyte. Maybe...

Yeah it would be nice to have a 10Gb LAN, but is it something I need, not really. I do large LAN transfers once in a while and it would be nice if it was faster, but I can get by on 1Gb. I suppose if 10Gb over copper gets cheap enough I'd upgrade, but there's other stuff I'd spend money on...

That's a pretty popular x570 board. If it has the features you want it should do well for you. Really the main difference for most of these x570 boards are minor features, most of them don't justify the big difference in price from one model to the next. For example the Aorus Ultra is fifty...

I agree, NVENC is faster, but software encoding provides better quality and smaller files. That's to be expected, in general hardware encoders shoot for speed at the cost of some quality and bit rate by design.

What!? Stock?, that's not allowed here, haha

That's great to hear. Cold boot speed has always been a complaint with my X570 Elite. Though still I'm going to wait until the BIOS comes out of beta to load it. Mainly convenience, don't want to see MBR options in the boot menu or boot priority page in BIOS. Also there's an obscure boot...

I can't say it's 10x, but comparing my desktop to my laptop for encoding at least (3700x versus i7-8750h), the laptop runs 6c/12t around 3GHz all core where the desktop runs 8c/16t around 4GHz all core. So the desktop is around 50% faster and cooler/quieter doing work like that.

Sounds reasonable, has to be something making a difference.

I'm all in on that one. My desktop computers I've built recently are hugely quieter than the days of 80mm two wire fans. That would solve a lot of problems, but we only get what the makers of these products decide we get. What baffles me is the GPU can consume more power than the CPU, but...

Default is enabled. Disabling CSM causes a black screen longer on boot and lagginess when navigating through the BIOS menus. Others have reported this, but it could be something limited to the X570 Elite which is the board I'm running. Not the same board as the Pro, but takes the same BIOS.

I have a 17" Acer Aspire with i7-8750h and GTX 1060 that's not much thicker than that one. The cooling system seems pretty decent, gets loud under heavy load though. I retired my old desktop and used only my laptop for a couple years. I was doing a lot of video encoding on my laptop which...