Helping make GPUs faster, hobby semicon/FPGAs and too much Minecraft. Opinions are my own, nowadays I mostly rant. Also on https://xitter.gq/t.co/dulcLVhvfX
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Well, here goes nothing, sometimes to move forward you have to leave some things behind.
From now on I will no longer be making chip annotations and will only be contributing to media in limited capacity. Minecraft testing TBD, but for now on hold too.
Thank you all! 😉
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Why did I not buy a USB matrix earlier, this is awesome.
Replaced a pile of USB switches and half a dozen cables with one box and... well, still half a dozen cables but they are much better organized since they all run into one box and don't need to be manually re-plugged...
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Windows Hello requiring IR cameras and LEDs and then proceeding to literally never work without good ambient lighting is just sad.
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Nemez retweeted
新工具：Die 尺寸对比图生成器
网站新增了一个工具页
勾选任意多颗芯片，一键生成一张大尺寸 JPG，图里所有 die 按同一比例绘制，面积可以直接目视对比
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8960 CUDA cores + 192bit bus at 70W PL = 1.2-1.3 GHz under gaming load, 0.8-1.1GHz under heavy compute loads.
Amusingly it holds 1.8GHz with a raw FMAC rate test (gets 33 TFLOPS), goes to show how power hungry data movement is vs compute in modern electronics.
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So which is it NVIDIA, is the whitepaper lying?
I'm guessing the ECC is actually always there, but RTX PRO cards actually get the reporting wired out to software while on GeForce it is silent?
Odd the whitepaper explicitly says no need for a toggle and then it's there...
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I think I can finally stop flooding everyone's timeline with Amazon crap - refund confirmed (for original amount, so still over a grand short of a new 5090).
Though of course they have to go out with a bang - support guy straight up told me I am free to sue them if I wish to.
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Yeah I noticed.
No I won't contact your shitty customer support any more than I already did, you have heaps of chat logs and a very angry email to still reply to @amazon :)
Aha, finally something noteworthy.
Quite a "coincidence" to finally get an update on the RMA after weeks of silence right as I sent a very long email listing out all the issues and threatening legal action.
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I'm surprised there isn't an M.2 slot for laptops keyed in reverse so you put the drive in upside-down and thermal pad the controller to the mainboard PCB instead of letting it cook itself either naked or with a tiny metal foil over it.
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"We will contact you on Monday"
Monday: nothing
@AmazonHelp can you tell the Amazon DE "repair team" to stop ignoring it? This has now been escalated for the 4th time over 3 business days with no response.
"We are unable to help you" perfectly sums up customer support nowadays
Of course no email after 24 hours.
Reached out again, was told I will receive a phone call within 2 hours.
That also did not happen.
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Of course no email after 24 hours.
Reached out again, was told I will receive a phone call within 2 hours.
That also did not happen.
"Yea just hit us up on the 23rd and we will refund you because this is absurd"
On the 23rd: "Give us 24 more hours"
RMAs with random small CN resellers on eBay is less effort than this
I wonder if they will even refund the self-ship cost, sent the shipment invoice 10 days ago
15 working days and it is still in "waiting for you to ship" status.
The GPU arrived at the @amazonDE repair shop 11 working days ago according to DHL tracking, wonderful.
Support told me to "just wait until the 23rd and then contact us again, oh btw only refund is possible" 🙃
Went through the hassle of actually following up on the request and filled out a form they sent me via DM.
You can't make this shit up I swear...
We're sorry that you haven't received the item back at this point. Please let us know in a short DM and let us know if you have been told to wait to the 23rd of July, so that we can avoid misunderstandings. Please ensure not to include any personal or account related information via X. -Sandra
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15 working days and it is still in "waiting for you to ship" status.
The GPU arrived at the @amazonDE repair shop 11 working days ago according to DHL tracking, wonderful.
Support told me to "just wait until the 23rd and then contact us again, oh btw only refund is possible" 🙃
Monitor so strong the 5090 died.
Hopefully @amazon actually replaces it (since the repair success chance is basically nonexistent, seems like a dead core), since a refund will still be over 1k€ short of a new card.