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Goddamn MSI. What a bunch of shitbags- skimping on BIOS hardware to the point where they cut chipset features to maintain socket support, and leaving us end users waiting weeks and counting without a straight answer as to whether we'll ever have RAID on Zen 2.

Goddamn MSI. What a bunch of shitbags- skimping on BIOS hardware to the point where they cut chipset features to maintain socket support, and leaving us end users waiting weeks and counting without a straight answer as to whether we'll ever have RAID on Zen 2.

This is why I hate how small all computer stuff is getting. I miss being able to just add/remove/piggyback DIP chips to add functionality. now everything seems like it's BGA soldered or some miniscule-pitch surface mount. No feasible way to just add a bigger ROM and take the problem out of MSI's hands.

Would also be nice if motherboard vendors would share specifications enough to make implementing FLOSS bioses easier so people didn't have to depend on them as much for software fixes.

And what exactly is the issue? Is it impossible to use a separate hardware RAID card/a software-only RAID? I don't usually pay a lot of attention to MSI since I haven't bought anything from them.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 15 2019, 09:52

What would be cheaper?

Management of a fan, setting modes, playing a prerecorded message when needed, morse code status, and decoding of DTMF tones for a peice of radio equipment.
Found a couple of boards that combined with logic already in the radios and the commercial interface between them, I basically just have to plug wires in the correct spots and set jumpers and trim pots right.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Sep 16 2019, 14:00

And what exactly is the issue? Is it impossible to use a separate hardware RAID card/a software-only RAID? I don't usually pay a lot of attention to MSI since I haven't bought anything from them.

The BIOS EPROMs are only 16MB. With the latest AGESA updates the new ROMs are larger than that. Expansion cards are not an option for a lot of us since we're on pre-X570 boards, where adding expansion cards (apart from being an unwanted expense) cuts into the limited PCI-E lanes available. You have to gimp your first slot to half speed for measly SATA performance. Some of us are on m-ITX boards, and have all our expansion capacity taken up by GPUs.

MSI have actually released otherwise identical revisions of the problem boards with 32MB EPROMs, so it's not as though they don't recognise their fuckup.

A user on Reddit claimed MSI are preparing a better-supported Zen 2 BIOS which lacks AGESA code for earlier series CPUs, thereby being small enough to fit on those 16MB EPROMS, but I've yet to hear anything concrete from MSI to confirm this. Which is not to mention how sacrificing backwards compatibility for forwards compatibility is senselessly convoluted.

I'm not particularly keen on using software RAID for a striped array. I'll just have to just settle on it if MSI don't get their act together somehow. It's still vexing having paid for functionality that I probably won't receive.

This post has been edited by VeganWerewolf: Sep 17 2019, 23:56

Just considering can i write a concert tix bot this weekend.
And a bit wonder will intel new 10nm beat amd 7nm.
#AMDRyzenUser

Really want to build a new PC this year,
but for god sake, i am poor.
really want to play apex legends over 144fps
my 1070 and 1700 really sucks on it, like 0.1 sec delay on every mouse move.

Just considering can i write a concert tix bot this weekend.
And a bit wonder will intel new 10nm beat amd 7nm.
#AMDRyzenUser

Really want to build a new PC this year,
but for god sake, i am poor.
really want to play apex legends over 144fps
my 1070 and 1700 really sucks on it, like 0.1 sec delay on every mouse move.

Just use 60 if you haven't got money.

When or if Microsoft convert their Windows 10 OS from pay-once model to a subscription service, I hope it will become a tremendous failure financially with tons of bad press that will endure for years to come so that Satan Nadella will never attempt the same shit again.

This post has been edited by Super-hujan86: Sep 23 2019, 06:55

When or if Microsoft convert their Windows 10 OS from pay-once model to a subscription service, I hope it will become tremendous failure financially with tons of bad press that will endure for years to come so that Satan Nadella will never be attempt the same shit again.

You and me both buddy.

I hope AMD's success continues for a while. Intel has needed to be taken down a notch for some time.
Though I still hope my next computer is a Raptor Talos (POWER9 architecture).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 20 2019, 16:53

Just use 60 if you haven't got money.

used to have at least 144hz in other games,
and im using 144hz monitor
thats really bothering and sad

used to have at least 144hz in other games,
and im using 144hz monitor
thats really bothering and sad

Stick in a 3600, 30-40% more single thread = 20% more fps at least.

AliExpress could very well be simultaneously the best and the worst site I've ever shopped on.

[www.ghacks.net] Why bugs in Windows updates increased

Microsoft exchanged the in-house Testing team with Telemetry data that it gathers from Insider Builds that it pushes to consumer and business devices, and replaced much of the PCs that it used for testing with virtual environments.

That explains a lot. Satan Nadella is about making more money for investors rather than making an actual quality product.

replaced much of the PCs that it used for testing with virtual environments.

Good news for linux extremists, they will be able to tell us: the future is Linux, because even if you want Windows, if it's not in a virtual environment they won't have the ability to provide you reliable support.

I hope I never have to fix a playstation disc drive ever again. It took entirely too long to figure out why this POS only sometimes seeked properly.

(Pictured with the topmost gear removed so you can see the chipped teeth)
Thankfully I had a drive from a launch unit (with an uneven sled) to pull a good gear from.
This drive was from a console I bought for 15 bucks so I could replace the drive in the launch unit (which was free because it didn't work). Early models are very prone to failure.
But now I appear to have two working units– one of which has the early revision GPU that uses VRAM instead of SGRAM– so I can program for the playstation and test on both major silicon revisions like licensed developers had to (on the blue and green debug units).
The early units were slower in some cases, apparently due to hardware bugs that had to be worked around in software, but the later units were slower in others.

I hesitate to call my VRAM unit rare (since it's just a freaking playstation), but it certainly took a while for me to find one since most of them developed bad problems with their disc drives a decade or more ago and probably got junked. When I got mine, it would only read discs when upside down. Additionally, mine is so brittle that all of the screw posts have broken and it's held together by hot glue.

And some audiophiles mistakenly think that the DAC's in the early playstation units with RCA jacks are god-tier, completely ignoring the fact that it's still a freaking playstation with a terrible (and wobbly) disc drive, so that probably also has made them trickier to find. Also, some later revisions of the playstation (like the one on the right here) use the same DAC, but audiophiles never seemed to notice that.

Lubricating the spindle motors with white lithium grease did seem to reduce the vibration/rumbling of the drives, though. I don't get FMV skipping on either system, even when using (good quality, taiyo yuden/JVC) CD-R's.
I'd say they're almost as reliable as my Sega CD now, except I have had to do zero servicing to my Sega CD to make it work as well as it does.

Oh yeah, I also zapped myself on the PSU twice. Fuck playstations.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 24 2019, 17:40

Audiophiles are the vegans of tech

Audiophiles are the vegans of tech

No, the ignorant obnoxious cunts use crapple.

i feel like trash. I need to format my pc and this will be her last format until I get to build a new one from the 0.

Almost 7 years of ups and downs. I will certainly miss my PC.

This post has been edited by ImoLoliLover: Oct 1 2019, 00:31

It was so difficult to remove that heatsink because the pre-applied thermal paste had so much suction power. Had I further forced it, I could've ripped the CPU out of its socket, thus burn the RM1000 I paid for the motherboard.

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Small question not worth making a thread for:
I'm looking for a 4-wire 120MM 12V or 24V fan for non-computer use, 100-150CFM or so.
It's to replace a Nidec Beta V- 120x28mm 12V 104CFM 3000rpm. The fan works, but is only two wireand I cant't speed control it.
Anybody have a recommendation?

When or if Microsoft convert their Windows 10 OS from pay-once model to a subscription service, I hope it will become a tremendous failure financially with tons of bad press that will endure for years to come so that Satan Nadella will never attempt the same shit again.

Hopefully the Sheeple won't just follow the Wintendo Sheepleherder. Sadly I fear that the most feasible alternative to that is a big exodus to Apple iOS rather than to something as rock solid as Linux, and gamers shifting to PS4 and XboneX which is even worse than PC/Win10 (no ability to mod).