Hardware support: Nvidia Product Page Reveals GeForce MX450 With PCIe 4.0 and GDDR6 Memory

So recently I have been doing a bit of research on different types of SSD's. I understand that multi level cell SSD's suffer from higher wear rates. SLC is prefered for running an operating system or something on and MLC/TLC/QLC is more price-efficient for data storage.

Things can get theoretical really quick, so I was wondering if there an actual, practical difference for the average consumer which should influence my choice in buying an SSD?

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Chipset Question

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:51 PM PDT

In my circuits/microprocessors classes, I remember using truth tables and such to design hardware that had a well defined output given any input. In other classes we wrote code to run on microcontrollers that take input and the output depends on the embedded code.

Is there a a word or lingo that people use to distinguish between these two types of hardware? Are hardware components such as the motherboard, chipsets, memory controllers, and NICs just logical circuits or do they have embedded code running on them?

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Team Group 1TB SSD same price as Seagate 2.5 inch 2TB HDD

Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:38 AM PDT

https://www.newegg.com/seagate-barracuda-2tb-st2000lm015/p/N82E16822179107 ($76.99) https://www.newegg.com/team-group-gx2-1tb/p/N82E16820331316 ($79.99)

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[Gamers Nexus] Ask GN 114: My AIO Will Explode? Tubes Down Don't Reach? Cavitation? Custom Loops?

Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:12 AM PDT

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PC sleep mode like PS4

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:09 PM PDT

So this is more of a question out of interest. Is it possible to replicate the sleep mode of a PS4 for downloading games etc. on PC and If not is it a software or hardware limitation/both?

My basic understanding of the differences in sleep modes is that windows suspends everything bar the ram and the PS4 actually keeps most things powered but on a low power draw. I confess i don't know anything about programming and probably less about the hardware so please excuse my ignorance.

Windows 10 Modern Standby sounds pretty similar to what I'm talking about: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby

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My endless rambling about XMP

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 09:59 AM PDT

The first part goes into some simple details, 2nd part explains my issue with it.

In the past decade, people have made quite a few misconceptions about what XMP is and how it works and that has lead to a lot of issues.
Let's start with what is the XMP profile. XMP is a set of primary timings at some frequency and given voltage written in the SPD that the manufacturer has validated in their test system. So "what does that mean?" you may ask. It means that on one test system manufacturer was able to train the RAM chips to work at a certain speed, which means that in a real real-world application XMP only is a reference that the RAM kit could reach advertised speeds (e.g. 3200MT/s* at 14-14-14-34), but even if it does, it doesn't mean that it will be stable or by any means usable as a daily driver.
Here comes the rambling part of it, XMP has been misconceived as a one-click performance boost when in fact it is not, even a RAM kit running at JEDEC speeds can be unstable and require some additional timing switching, usually though most mobo's + CPU's can handle, create and calculate somewhat stable secondary and tertiary timings in auto mode, which means that JEDEC spec more often than not will be stable enough for daily usage, but XMP, on the other hand, is harder to calculate due to higher frequency, different voltages, and often borderline stable primary timings, which leads us to situations where users have unstable XMP profile set and have memory sensitive driver crashes (such as GPU drivers), BSODs, file corruptions, etc, at this point, most users begin to throw faults at AMD graphics drivers(they are very memory sensitive), at nVidia graphics drivers (even though they are less sensitive), at bugs in windows and other things, which gets us to my point XMP misadvertisement and the lack of general user knowledge has lead to a point where a lot of people that build systems never even consider running RAM stability test until they have a lot of issues and someone with more experience points them in RAM direction and then all of a sudden they find out they've been running unstable RAM OC for the whole time and often not even understanding that it was the main cause for many of their issues.

*Yes, it's, in fact, MT/s or Mega Transfers per second or effective clock, for Double Data Rate RAM calculated by doing just that taking physical clock e.g. 1600MHz and simply doubled getting the 3200MT/s.

TLDR, XMP is misadvertised and everybody using it should run a memory test such as TM5.

Useful resources for memory OCing:
https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/master/DDR4%20OC%20Guide.md

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(Buildzoid/AHOC)The final core OC of the Ryzen 5 3600 on the MSI X570 Tomahawk

Posted: 25 Aug 2020 04:01 AM PDT

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