technically I think this would be considered m.2 SATA (I have one of these so I can fit 6 drives in my Dan A4 lol), “NVMe SATA” would be a contradiction since that refers to the bus, not the slot. but yes, they exist and can be confusing
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Yeah I couldn’t remember the term, but that’s right.
I cannot figure out a reliable way of preventing tearing on a 60hz display connected to my radeon iGPU (my projector) other than turning vsync on in-game, which I can’t always do because in many games enabling DLSS disables the vsync toggle. like the nvidia global fast sync option seems not to apply to rendering on the iGPU, but enabling the AMD equivalent (enhanced sync) also does nothing because it’s not actually doing the 3D rendering on the AMD GPU. I think I might just have to swap how my monitors are hooked up to fix this so I’m only ever gaming on displays that are connected to the nvidia GPU.
Are your display’s refresh rates integer multiples of each other? Bumping my secondary (on the igpu) down to 60hz from 75hz made it play much nicer with my new 240hz
Got it from a hot tip from way down in blur buster’s announcement about the CRT shader
I would not be shocked to hear that desktop compositor does things tied to the refresh rate and eventually the two displays will need refreshes too close together and there’s probably contention for a lock or a hardware resource or something and the output will hitch
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great tip, I will take my two 144hz desktop monitors down to 120
Ughhhhhhhhhhh
I thought everything was working right after I did a clean install of windows but fortnite went back to crashing mid match with a gpu removed error. Did a bunch of stability testing, vram, system ram, and gpu all tested fine, temperatures looked good. So I thought I’d try disabling the igpu, didn’t help (I think I’m maxing out the “display heads” inside the discrete gpu because at least one of my displays requires DSC?) so I turned the igpu back on and now it completely refuses to boot past memory training, regardless if the igpu is on or off or expo is on or off. I’ve spent at least an hour staring at a black screen because it has to do memory training TWICE every time
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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fwiw, my experience right now is that if memory training takes longer than like a minute, it’s not going to post at all – I went through this when I updated from 32G to 96G just this weekend, I was waiting it out because of how bad the situation with all that was when AM5 was new, it went nowhere while I was out of the house for an hour, then I finally decided to just update the bios with the old memory back in there and even the 96G basically needed no time at all to train. it was an extremely bad platform regression at first but they have mostly patched it out
I also had a funny experience with my new ram because it came with rainbow LEDs which I did not want and I was trying to figure out how to turn it off and reddit said “install armory crate” which is the ROG motherboard RGB utility and so I did and I was amused to find that literally just installing this application turned it off, I didn’t have to configure anything, it went from the hardware defaults to the software defaults
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I installed the armory crate horseshit one time and spent like a month trying to figure out how to get the audio shit it installs removed and stop reinstalling itself
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If my ram had stupid lights and I was obliged to install some kind of horrible malware to turn them off I would just physically shatter the LEDs instead
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I feel like OpenRGB supports addressing RAM now unless you have sticks from a specific company, where trying to write to the LED controller nukes the XMP profiles
I love gamblingcomputers
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the funny thing is that it stayed off after uninstalling armory crate, which in any other scenario would not be desired behavior, but in this case was exactly what I wanted… “install armory crate” took care of it to the point that it now seems annoying to revert
good to know about OpenRGB though.
it’s kind of silly how much you absolutely need to update your bios whenever you swap AM5 components, I have no idea how a memory controller is still under such active development, seems weird tbh, but I guess the ridiculous premium I paid for this board was worth it because the continuing firmware support was totally essential?
this build is definitely pushing the very outer limits of how remotely enjoyable PC building can be… like my attachment to this hobby is totally vestigial at this point but otoh it also enables a lot of lifestyle that seems (barely) more trouble to give up than to keep maintaining. it’s not like exclusively using my macbook or getting a prebuilt wouldn’t be worse, right?
btw I cooked the iGPU off of my old 3570k at one point so I am familiar with this conundrum but if you have not had any voltage-related oopsies that you could attribute that to, I would just say “update the bios again” because AM5
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oh I almost forgot the high point of this, I think I didn’t seat the memory sticks quite right at one point because one boot resulted in an extremely high pitched and very alarming electrical whine, like the computer kept going awoooooooooooooooooooga in a bad way and half the monitors kept dropping
luckily I clued in that “extremely high-speed bus not quite making contact” is one of the few very dangerous things you can do in terms of burning the pins and damaging the board, but I have no idea how anyone who hasn’t been doing this for 25+ years is supposed to like it at this point
also I am now totally convinced that my aluminum case is a load-bearing heatsink which was not really my intent with this build but I guess rips off Apple very effectively
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oh, does anyone need 32G of DDR5 5200 for cheap? list for this is like $95 now so I guess I’d let it go for $60
I works if I enable expo from windows with ryzen master, so glad I spent 3 hours on that
Still don’t know why this stupidly expensive graphics card can’t handle 3 displays. Something about internal display heads maybe? There’s 4, a display that needs DSC takes up 2, but I don’t think a 4k120 display is supposed to take 2 as well. Not like any of this is actually exposed anywhere except for mentions in obscure tech support articles
Thought I had waited it out but I guess a two year old video card and motherboard combined with a year old display is just too bleeding edge
I think the 50-series supports dp 2.whatever so that I wouldn’t need dsc anymore, but the only variant of this panel that supports dp2.1 doesn’t have any digital audio out or even usb3 ports
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this is right on the line, it takes 2 with HDR but 1 without
Nvidia was pretty lazy about this in the last generation, the good news is that if you have an X670E board, AM5 actually supports 4 with no limitations
Dang that must be it then. Wish the app or something would tell you that instead of just freaking out. What’s annoying is that even disabled displays (apparently) take up heads!
I have an x670 board with x670e in the name but the non-e chipset lol
I don’t need more than 3 though, so it all works out but I was trying to eliminate the igpu/drivers as a variable and ended up slightly worse than before
FN did not crash when I had EXPO disabled which doesn’t mean it fixed it but maybe it did which is really annoying. This memory is actually on the QVL ffs!!
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I actually had to look up CAS latency and UCLK values when going from “dgaf just get this built” to “ok let’s get my money’s worth” ram this weekend, for the first time in years and I am not better for the experience
and yeah the whole idea that your $1000 GPU can technically support fewer displays than there are ports and doesn’t document this anywhere in software, but instead disables some at random until you unplug one, is extremely dumb
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did I mention I had to sand down the connectors of some “lowest profile sata cables” to get them to fit in here
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