I try to pay as little attention to crypto as possible but have also seen news about local gov crack downs on mining in China too
Miners are responsible for some of this but actual US consumer demand is outpacing supply well over the last two generations. I wouldnāt expect cards available near MSRP for another year or so.
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the Chinese government also recently directed all of the Major Chinese banks to not deal in investing or trading crypto, which (AFAIK) was a fairly major deviation from what my cryptohead friends expected in the forward progress of crypto as a ālegitimateā currency.
Also yes just in general due to major supply chain problems for, like, everything, all throughout the USA that are expected to continue throughout at least the remainder of this year and most likely into next year as well I would not expect GPU availability to improve, at least in the near term.
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thereās a chart going around comparing the (European) prices of both brands to the value of ETH and thatās great and all that itās dipping now
but this doesnāt suddenly mean 1. the secondary market will be flooded 2. that prices for either new or used cards will suddenly plummet/normalize and 3. that supply will catch up to demand
not that I care, I beat the odds
Once the secondhand market is normalized and 8GB Pascal cards are rightly under $200 itāll be great but thatās a ways out
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hmmm I donāt think I have a TPM header on this ancient motherboard, I might have to forego Win 11 for a while
yup, I definitely donāt have it. good for zotac c. 2012, totally pointless omission that I never noticed, a decadeās satisfyingly cut corner.
I guess Iāll be on an EOL platform for 12-18 months until 5nm ryzen, I think thatās the sweet spot for Microsoft anyhow
the TPM stuff is going to be such a large headache and clusterfuck in comparison to any other concentrated OS rollout that I can only assume theyāre trying to weed out the chaff from their userbsae
but hey, Android apps!
oh and I guess 11 is the de facto gaming OS now that theyāre holding DirectStorage hostage in it
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I canāt believe they renamed Fancy Zones, the cowards
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mine has āIntel Platform Trust Technologyā which you can turn off to use a discrete TPM, but no TPM header, so Iām not sure if that means I can run it or not 
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I think that means youāre fine
conveniently I donāt have NVMe either so Iām ok with all their gatekeeping catching up with me at once, a decade of support for this thing which has been delidded, its ram overclocked, etc., is really very good
Is it actually the case that you need a matching TPM module for your motherboard? Thatā¦ sounds wrong
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only if your motherboard is in a pretty narrow category of hardware for which it was actually optional (which was the case for a weirdly long time since there was not much point to including this piece of microsoft spec that was on every notebook for a decade but had 0 relevance to people building powerful desktops). I donāt have a good sense of how many people are gonna be caught out by this honestly, no hard feelings in my case.
Weird! I have the header only on the two PCs Iām maintaining (ASRock Z370 chipsets). Itās a $20 part so Iām going to buy them now just in case this becomes a bizarre shortage.
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The exposed electrical connections here make me very skeptical of its actual security benefit but I guess no one with a motherboard for home builders needs GDPR/DoD/HIPAA compliance
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in classic microsoft v apple fashion I think itās more or less just āthe T2, but first to market and unpopularā ā itās not exactly powerful or good, itās more that itās so hard to otherwise protect any functions of an x86 personal computer on which a user has root that this is a way of shoving something in there thatās not that
The documentation is unequivocally bad, though - Asrock only has TPM 2.0 support through special BIOS updates you have to request through support (???) and thereās nothing in the manual to indicate whether the socket is backwards/forwards compatible
@notbov might know - will you be able to use the CPUās TPM on Ryzen?
Seems like the ones for all our in-use motherboards had some kinda flaw that got them banned by MS, there might be a firmware update I can cannibalize from a supermicro board thatās gonna be fun
These amazon sellers gotta be wondering why all their stock of old-ass niche accessories is suddenly going, at least $15/ea isnāt horrible
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yeah, AMD has an implementation in the firmware
my main board (Prime X370-Pro, may it continue never getting Zen 3 support) has support for AMDās fTPM or a discrete TPM and my ASRock ITX board has fTPM support
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Yeah I was just about to pull the trigger on one just in case too