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Well, my Arch is about to become x86_64-v3. No, alderlake is not v4, even though it's a newer cpuarch than rocketlake. That's because Intel dropped AVX-512. See why I hate these gimmicky intel instructions? They don't even know what the fuck they are doing... they have essentially guaranteed that no...

It does seem alarming, but "compiling" (with all cores) is not actually normal use of a consumer CPU. You'd never hit that gaming or under normal desktop workloads or even multimedia encoding/processing. These boards have those aggressive settings for gamers. I rewatched that video last ni...

If I had one of those, maybe one of those 4000 VM's could be Windows 11

I found the sweet settings for this game. Refresh Rate 165 Hz, with Vsync (and frame rate limiting) OFF All settings Ultra, except Texture Filtering set to High. It was probably using some aggressive anisotropic filtering or something at Ultra. It was just one last piece of the puzzle, it was pretty...

Meet the Proxinator: A hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives (The tone of that comes from Vmware becoming more hostile since being acquired by Broadcom) https://www.theregister.com/2024...

Well, the data is in. As expected (and previously observed on the old box), the profiled build is significantly better than the non-profiled build. If a PGO+LTO build can't succeed with a particular -march=cputype, adjust the -march rather than dropping the PGO+LTO build method. Rust isn't having a ...

I got a successful PGO+LTO build of Firefox with -march=core2 -mtune=alderlake. (that's one better than nocona and one below nehalem which has SSE4.2 and popcnt). The -march=core2 can do everything nehalem does except SSE4.2/popcnt. export CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=alderlake" export CXXF...

coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +95.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +89.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 4: +83.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 8: +93.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 12: +91.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Cor...

Hahah... I had the CPU cooler bolted on backwards, that's why there wasn't enough clearance for the fan and the RAM modules. My eyes don't judge distance as well as they used to and it looked symmetrical. :oops: But I noticed it today when remounting it (got the Arctic MX4 tube... and put a bit more...

They should actually be sued for that, a "standard" is not a standard if everybody can't use it. I don't care about this personally, but what if someone wanted to connect to a HDMI 2.1 TV set with their Linux computer? They have to use a proprietary driver? Fuck right off. Someone will rev...

You pretty much have to use Slackware Current nowadays if you're going to use Slackware and even then things like KDE won't be shiny new. (may have to consult Alienbob) I remember, maybe 4 years ago I started to see people saying "You should only have one desktop installed". I was all WTF,...

I heard something about a Boeing whistleblower, but didn't get the meme because I hadn't heard about the murder.

I'm sure it was just a coincidence.

I tried a build of firefox with -march=alderlake (and "-C target-cpu=alderlake" for rust). It was the same deal as with nehalem for the firefox 123 cycle, the first stage compiled and profiled and the second stage got almost to the end and the linker segfaulted on the failure, during LTO l...

I'm using XFCE for non gaming, and my trusty IceWM for gaming. This way I can use gaming-adverse settings like focus follows mouse, and workspace switching at screen edges etc. for XFCE. It's better for workflow. I haven't finished populating my panel, and I have some broken icons that no longer jib...

That's probably about as good as you're going to get with air, from what I was reading.

That's a bit better than mine, but still pretty toasty. How many jobs did you start?

I wasn't thinking about voltages, but I knew that the turbo timings curve was aggressive (I also mentioned that Linux frequency governor is aggressive with that too). It won't harm the CPU though, and if it gets throttled, it doesn't matter. You could set less aggressive settings, but then you're wa...

I got my LFS set up now. I blasted the tarball to the partition, dropped in my kernel from Arch, edited fstab, networking files... the only thing I forgot was my udev rule, wrong MAC address. Then once the system was up I recompiled my kernel (slightly different config on my LFS) It actually boots u...

That's good shipping. I wouldn't get anything that fast because I live in bumfuckville.

Corsair was the first for the 10 year PSU warranty and others followed. Hell, I've got two antecs that lasted near 15 years (and they had 5 year warranties I think).

I've been playing that Deadspace remake from EA, now that I can. Well, I could, sort of, before on medium settings but there were period where it would freeze for several seconds when entering a new area (loading textures, shader compiles etc.) and after the first chapter I got rid of it. Now I'm pl...

Life is not over at level 99. I noticed an XP bar, but didn't know what was going to happen when it filled. I've seen games give you one more bar and then stop. But this one keeps giving you skill points. It calls it "Mastery Levels" now, like what you already get post level 50 to put skil...

As I often say, I think I've been had. This isn't bad grounding, it's bad "faraday caging". The only thing that makes sense here is that I'm generating EM interference when I'm all charged up like that and touch the case and its disrupting a signal (or sending a spurious one). It's less li...

I'm a chicken with my head cut off. I go to install my new LLVM packages, and pacman didn't prompt me to remove the Arch packages despite my provides= and conflicts= lines. I'm all WTF, making sure my LLVM installation is OK and then I remembered. I already replaced the distro's LLVM with mine (buil...

Yeah, the temps aren't as bad now with the top of the case covered. That would have been just taking in air and blowing it everywhere and not doing much cooling. I'm doing a sustained compile (compiling LLVM with LLVM... need to ditch the distro packages for that... I build mine differently) and it'...

Another thing I was grandfathered into having was python2. Arch ditched that probably a year ago. (I still need it for some builds and older software) That was an old distro package and I didn't even have a PKGBUILD for it, so I went to AUR and they had one (with patches from gentoo even... it's an ...

Another thing about this. I have aggressive motherboard settings, "XMP Profile 1" which affects CPU clock and memory speed. (I want my memory running at 3200 MHz). It reports a 5 GHz processor. Now... LINUX, is VERY aggressive (at least with only "performance" governors etc.). It...

coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +32.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +27.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 4: +30.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 8: +26.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 12: +32.0°C (high = +80.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Cor...

While it didn't help with the static touch (maybe I'm really some sort of Marvel villain and I don't know it yet lol), covering the top like that did help with air flow in the case. I just did a mesa build (ninja -j24) and while I wouldn't say the temps were good, cores were only spiking up to 100C,...

Sonofabitch... does static ever travel. I got some rubber carpet underlay and tested it with my multitester. It is non conductive, even with the probes a millimeter apart, and pressed on either side of it. It didn't work. OK, not thick enough, so I put two, and three pieces (just for testing). Nope,...

Fuck... so even water cooling would only keep the temps around 88C for these CPUs while compiling ("heavy content creation workloads"), from what I just read. I guess I'll just compile with -j8 or something so cores can juggle more (still have to fix the cooling though).