Timon 🛠
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I work on embedded systems and other hardware hackery.
Fucking nerd. Likes birbs.
Hardware, software, manufacturing and art.
Open for freelance work.
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In response to this post@gsuberland @manawyrm it worked out!
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@gsuberland Yea assembled on a table and I quadrupled checked that it was really alligned right in the notches, still I did not feel right to need to apply that much force to get the lever down 😬
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The tension on the AM5 socket clamp is *intense*. I've never been this scared to clamp down a CPU.
@timonsku as long as you assembled it laying down you're good ^^
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@timonsku “hey, where did Tweety go?”
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@gsuberland oh? Are you sure that works without any TPM? I thought it was just for TPM1.2 that they allowed this. Maybe it was just for in-place upgrade, they are weirdly in-consistent there.
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@gsuberland heh was just editing to add a link to that.
But yea there is a way to get it done on basically any machine, hopefully MS will drop it for in-place upgrades eventually as I'm sure that there are many people for whom those methods are still a major hurdle.
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As its been a topic lately, you do not need to buy a new PC to use Windows 11 in probably 99% of cases.
If your CPU does not come with a built-in TPU you can buy a TPU module for your motherboard for almost any model of the past ~10y for around 10€
Just search for "<vendor of your motherboard> TPM"
@timonsku you can also just say "ok I don't care" during the installation and it'll warn you that your hardware is not supported (i.e. you will not be able to get support from Microsoft for things being broken, but... like... when do you ever get useful support from Microsoft as a home end-user?) but still install just fine.
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@gsuberland
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Not the CES guy calling it Ni-vidia
@timonsku isn't that a skincare brand
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@manawyrm @gsuberland searched around a bit, seems like some had trouble booting that kit on a (technically 8000Mhz rated) 9800X3D lol
Mentally perparing to need to underclock that kit, I guess "free upgrade" for when I get whatever is the last AM5 CPU that hopefully actually hits those speeds relliably.
Mainly did not want to repeat the mistake of my AM4 system and be stuck with really slow RAM in 4 years that bottlenecks an upgraded system.
@timonsku @manawyrm DDR5 memory controllers and board layouts have been a major challenge. most of the memory vendors have started putting caveats in their marketing copy explaining that they can't guarantee that a kit will work at full speed on your board even if it's on the QVL, since it's down to a lottery on getting a CPU with a good IMC and a board with good tolerances.
board vendors have even started advertising their use of DIMM slots with stub elimination features in the pin design.
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@gsuberland
7950X
MSI MPG Carbon WIFI AMD X870E
and this RAM kit is whats its gonna be I think (motherboard and RAM already here)
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@gsuberland wild! I already bought some 6600 RAM (2 slot), didn't think it would matter at such low frequencies.
But I guess maybe less so at 2 DIMMS. I got a 96GB kit, that should last me for a bit, I'm only occasionally hitting the ceiling with my current 64GB.
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@gsuberland oh vs the 9000 series? Wild I thought thats one of the things they upped.
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Ok given that the 9950X3D is not gonna release before March I think I'll just go with the 7950X. The 9950X is 200€ more and is barely faster or sometimes slower in most workloads I care about and it seems for gaming the 3D V-Cache is not very relevant beyond 1080p with all the high end CPUs on par.
@timonsku the 7-series memory controller seems to be more capable too, at least going by the compatibility lists for motherboards.
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