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That sounds like the vendor submitted shit to Windows Update for that, but boards nowadays can drop a driver on your windows filesystem, which executes an updater. I had such a setting in my new BIOS and I disabled it (though that wouldn't be able to do anything to a Linux filesystem I wouldn't thin...

My bios was dated Jan. 2021 (older than the first bios on their web site). My guess would be that was written before the boards were even sold :lol: But no, I wasn't prompted for anything, it opened to EZ Mode with very conservative clock settings (the intel defaults... 3.2 GHz base frequency with 2...

Linux 6.8.1 released
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel ... eLog-6.8.1

It mostly consists of CPU mitigations for KVM to pass to guests, and another that might let userspace read stale data from floating point registers.

Yipee.

So the new bios, when it comes up with defaults for the first time, presents a big dialog to choose the cooler type, seeing as that's such an important setting that governs power limits. That was foolish the way it was before. Also, in the new bios, Secure Boot is on by default (I checked and didn't...

The bios download was simply the wrong format for the M-Flash method. The "Download" button way off to the right was a different link, and the one I'd want to use. Clear as mud, MSI, sometimes. I thought it might be too large now, because my last Gigabyte board was like that. It could no l...

Damn, the reason my bios update didn't show up is that you can't update the bios with that M-Flash utility anymore (my guess would be it's too large now), the instructions on the web site are bogus. I wondered why there were firmware flashing .exe's in there along with a .bin file. The "SOP&quo...

Well, I officially hate this board. I copied the bios file to the root of a FAT32 USB stick, but it shows only directories (it has to be its folder). So I had to go back to the OS to put it on the disk again. Just ENTERING and exiting flash mode (doing nothing) loses ALL settings, back to defaults a...

Back to what I said about the language, MSI are really awful. On their web site, bios updates they make it look like there are two different types of firmware update. - ME Firmware ver: ME_16.1.30.2330 (download) - ME Firmware (update SOP) Both are zip files, but the SOP is just the instructions in ...

Another thing about bios updates nowadays is that you might get unwanted microcode updates that cripple features and behaviour of your CPU. You can't just stop loading that microcode either, like you could with a blob.

You said those words, bios update. Right before I came to read this, I was going to go look for a bios update (I don't wanna!). The bios date is 2021, but maybe I'd be better off leaving it alone. Last night (well, until 8 in the morning) really took the wind out of my sails, with unseen, incorrect ...

Jeeze... I took off those overclocking genie/xmp profile settings and configured things manually, the same way hoping to be able to change some of those locked auto settings (like the short and long power limits) but it still doesn't let you change those directly. There's the CPU cooler power settin...

That turned out to be only the 32 bit build of DXVK that broke on -march=alderlake. It was easier to isolate that with my system wine and DXVK for Lutris. So I built my Proton-TKG with -march=alderlake everywhere but that, where I used "-march=nehalem -mtune=alderlake" (nehalem always has ...

Well, I can say the -march=alderlake wasn't good for some 32 bit parts of Wine (or at least in my Proton-TKG build... I also built a system wine 9.4 (TGK) that I haven't tested yet, I might not bother lol) The Ubisoft client was crashing out on me, wouldn't start. I tried some other games and they w...

Fascinating stuff. A bootstrap LTO build of gcc isn't helped a lot by -j24 because it can't just go ahead and compile all the objects (I'd think a plain build could do more in parallel). OK, that's boring, but it gave me a chance to observe Turbo Boost behaviour on a workload where cores are idle. I...

I found an article at Tom's complaining about the AVX-512 thing: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-nukes-alder-lake-avx-512-now-fuses-it-off-in-silicon Intel's support for AVX-512 instructions with its Alder Lake processors has been a confusing affair. The company initially claimed the feature...

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.