I upgraded to an open box 7900 XT from my Vega 56. I tried getting a 9070 XT and was still in my return window, but damn am I glad I got the discounted previous gen card.

I definitely could not play all the latest games on the highest setting with the card I’d been rocking since 2017.

Absolutely.

Well, of course. What can you expect from a Chinese PCB that costs only 2500 USD, right?

Right.

The problem seems to be load balancing, or lack thereof. A German guy on YouTube noticed that his cable got up to 150°C at the PSU end, due to one wire delivering 20 or 22 amps, while the others were getting a lot less pumped through them. 22 Ampere is pretty much half the power draw of the card, through one wire instead of three if the load was properly balanced between them. That’s why it ran so hot and melted to shit.

If you’ve ever worked on your car’s 12 V electrics system, you’ll know how thick the wires (and corresponding connector sizes) are for things like window defrosters that will run through a 20 or 30 amp fuse.

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36 Watts idle sounds like a lot for a 5800X3D. I’ll see what my 5700X3D does, never checked that. Not in software and not at the wall.

I am already doing that, but YouTube doesn’t like uBlock Origin. The browser is not the problem.

I purchased the Mafia remake some time this year and had to realize that it can’t run that game at decent framerates. I don’t necessarily need 1440p at 100+ fps, but somewhat stable at 60 would be good. I decided to put the game on my pile of shame until I have a new GPU. Even the 7900 GRE will on average be at least 3x faster than Vega 64.

Vega has served me very well though and I don’t regret building a 500€ custom loop around the 400€ card back in 2017.

I’m very much an AMD guy and need to replace my Vega 56 asap. I’d still love for Intel to deliver a good product with the A770’s successor. I don’t wish that company well in general, but we absolutely need more competition for nVidia. And we can’t just look at the high end segment.

age of consent is 18 regardless of age difference for a reason.

Where is that the law?

I compared my Vega 56 with the RX 7900 GRE, which would be a 2.5x to 3x performance upgrade. I’d imagine the RX 580 to B580 swap would be in the same ballpark.

Looking at Vega’s release reviews though, it was 40% faster than the RX 580. I assume your gains would be higher than 200%.

Global users can unlock Xiaomi phones, but have to jump through more hoops and deal with restrictions. For example, there now seems to be a daily limit on how many devices their server accepts to unlock. Took me three tries to be successful in the “first come, first serve” line.

Afaik, Chinese users are now dependent on paid services to unlock their phonew for them. How they get around the official restrictions? I don’t know.

More recent Xiaomi phones for the Chinese market have locked bootloaders. Their European counterparts can still be unlocked, but they have tightened that as well, supposedly because the CCP told them to.

Typing this on a Poco F6.

The way I understand it is that once they release an update for your board, it should cover all the processors compatible with it, not just the one you have specifically.

I wouldn’t think updates would be rolled out for each CPU model, or am I wrong here?

Why didn’t you call me to fill one seat?

Ooooohhh… Been using Ubuntu and Mint next to Windows for a couple years and always right-clicked to paste. So that’s the secret sauce!

So a USB-C puch hole, like for smartphone cameras?

I think I read about minor improvements in Zen 3 as well.