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I'm sorry, I don't know any nice way to say this. You necroed a year old post to literally say "have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in again"? At least if you're going to necro an old post actually read it. Please.

At this point the only way I could do that would be to send it to AMD under the warranty and telling them "one core runs a bit hotter" when the entire CPU is Prime95 stable and that one core can run Prime95 full speed is probably going to result in a refusal under a warranty claim anyway. I...

I see what you mean. I think that it wouldn't work because the OS would still see it as mostly idle with today's processor handling. What worked back in the day for the likes of Windows XP just doesn't really apply to the latest OSes. Also it definitely would still use a bit of CPU power (if...

Well, I would prefer not to add too much extra complexity with management software and etc. At a certain point it starts to defeat any efficiency improvements when you add on too much to... manually add efficiency improvements. That's why when I initially looked into this my first thought was...

Strangely it really feels like Windows is putting stuff more or less in order. I admit it's hard to really tell, but most games in particular seem to always end up starting from core 1 and just going in order, so usually end up on core 4 unless it's an older one that only truly uses two threads...

If, by that, you mean "core performance order," I guess hwinfo does list that one last (well, it enumerates from 1 instead of 0, so I have to assume it's listing them in the same order.) Which begs the question of why anything that uses four cores (eg most newer games) ends up on that one...

Yeah, that's the sort of thing I'd really like to see. I think maybe that's done too "on the fly" so to speak though for it to be so simple. I think you at least have the right general sort of idea, just even if it can be done that way neither of us knows how, lol.

That would be ridiculously painful to work around getting some stuff to be able to fully utilize the CPU since I'd basically have to manually run each separately. Also, again, I don't really want to disable that core, just make it low priority getting only whatever is left over after the...

EDIT: At this point I consider the question basically answered. I just didn't realize that essentially it's already basically doing what I want. While some things like games are basically ignoring it, the CPU itself is already sending a preferred core order to the OS and, as expected, the...

I'm one of those people. I'm tired of fans grinding. It's an awful noise. I've had quite a number of them do it over the decades I've been using computers including one now that I have to bump around a few times to make it stop (this is the one that is going to go ASAP.) I'm not really going...

That Gentle Typhoon looks really good -- possibly among the better fans even -- but it's about double the pricerange. Not really cheap anymore when you hit the $20 for one range. I know it doesn't sound like a huge distinction, but I have about $20 total to work with for now, so that would...

The topic is "what are my options?" Your response was effectively you ordering me to go buy one specific model immediately without any consideration of other options. That isn't on topic. I've already added it to a wishlist to consider. At this point you're just trolling. I'll save you the...

The point was to see if there were any other brands and models I should be looking at. How is any of this discussion of whether some AIOs are better quality than others and whether or not AIOs existing proves that a specific fan is somehow better in some way on topic? So far people have...

That line of conversation is completed. The loop is closed. Let's return to the original track. Further off-topic discussion is not needed.

I'm in a bit of a financial situation. To you it's no biggie tossing out $35 every few years, but to me it has been problematic for quite some time. So yes, I need fans to last and, as I already said, I needed to aim for something more akin to $20 total. The BeQuiet fans are almost guaranteed...

You... you do realize that AIOs literally are designed not to last more than two years at the most, right? True, usually it's the pump that dies, but the point is that as far as a vote of confidence of durability goes, being part of an AIO design is basically a huge negative, not a plus...

Hmm. Getting a specific exact RPM is... tricky. At least without a dedicated fan controller or running extra software to handle it. Well, my BIOS has pretty surprisingly good controls, just it's in percentage, not RPM, so it will make tuning them a bit painful. Not impossible though. EDIT...

You have to use them for years and it can be a pain when one decides to die at a bad time. Maybe you should pay attention more. No. I get tired of that general sort of attitude. Real life is much more complicated than things are all black or all white. Shades of gray exist. There are...

So I need to replace some old fans that are beginning to wear out, one of which has reached the point of grinding even. But it has to be pretty low budget at this point and the system doesn't get terribly hot anyway, so I don't need high static pressure Noctuas or anything like that. I'm more...

I have multiple RPis. I disagree about them being particularly usable even for everyday use though. (I use a RPi 4 for a lot of stuff like as a secondary thing to have streams up and free up resources on the gaming system when actually gaming for example. It's painfully sluggish and actually...

Yeah, makes sense. Honestly my suspicion from the very start was that even if it could be done it wouldn't be worth it. Still, it was a slight curiosity. Speculative execution is becoming such a problem recently with a new exploit almost ever day now it feels like and each time the solution...

Gotcha. The L1/L2 prefetch thing seems to have not affected most gaming, but one thing may have gone very badly because of it. (Need to try before and after tests to be sure.) Honestly I don't think turning either off would affect any of the security issues going around though anyway. I just...

So this may sound crazy. But almost by the day now it seems like new exploits involving speculative execution are found. Since AMD seems to rely on MB manufacturers for microcode updates (and even then it takes a while besides) I actually started wondering: is it even possible and, if so, how...

Do bear in mind that AMD from Zen 2 on up doesn't really use the OS to manage the CPU very much. I think Intel will eventually figure out that they need the same design (Raptor Lake should never have been made without it -- it's a good design principle, but needs the SoC to control its...

First thing I did upon getting the motherboard was update it. I find it's best to do that before even installing things where possible. I actually had updated it again not that long ago again (and forgot to save my settings so had to redo them all since the BIOS flasher for this board...

So, first of all, my system specs in case it matters: CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X currently set to run at a fixed 4.4GHz. And of course the RAM: Mushkin Redline Lumina DDR4 4000MHz (PC4-32000) 1.35V To begin with I want to explain the situation. TLD[n]R people skip down please rather than complain...

Sorry, it took me a bit to get to try this. It seems creating a new account and logging in as that account still yields the exact same error when attempting to encrypt something. I still suspect it's an issue with the key store or something along those lines, but don't know enough of the inner...

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So I'm suddenly running into a strange problem. Any time I attempt to set a file or directory to be encrypted, Windows says it is unable to encrypt because "the directory name is invalid." The strange thing is, if I create a file on a root of a partition -- say C:\test.fil -- and attempt to...

Oh, ok. That is an important point of clarity since burning fuses to make effectively permanent changes is an actual thing in some electronics. Ok. It's probably beyond me to do any of the extras (I do have the QMK build environment already setup, but I don't know about making major firmware...

I would definitely have no idea how I would go about doing that. Well, I've been using VIA and QMK. I don't know the precise details, but they do establish a more "open" bootloader that has a few bonuses versus what such devices tend to ship with like being able to enter flash mode by holding...

I have an Idobo75 clone based on the ATMega32U4. I'm still not sure exactly what happened, but during an improper shutdown (my fault I 100% admit!) it stopped working with my computers, yet, interestingly enough still functioned enough to do things like switch layers (I have it programmed to...

I think I found the solution and it's sort of connected (indirectly) to the lower load resulting in lower frequencies thing. There is an option in my BIOS called "uncore OC" which is sort of a misnomer since it doesn't actually OC. It forces the uncore frequency to remain fixed at its base...

Already did. Again. I am asking what it would be. C-states are disabled. PBO is disabled. Frequency and voltage are manually configured. PSS is disabled. This is why the so called one and a half paragraph "wall of text" exists -- I already stated all this.

I'm literally asking what.

Which, as I said, I already did. Something seems to be overriding it.

Got any specifics to that claim? First, I can't replace it. No money. Second, it's a pretty decent board so really shouldn't be likely to necessarily be beyond hope. Third, I don't really like "solutions" where the problem isn't addressed or fixed and merely traded for another problem or...

So I tested with all stock and still got the issues. The closer to stock, it seems the more I see of hitching and stuff. I may have pinned something down actually. Along the way of messing with all this I actually also found an option in the overclocking menu that would let me limit the...

I'm not. That's part of why I kept the original post so simple and didn't go into all that. I realize what the defaults are and it took a lot of time and effort to find what I consider the perfect balance, even if it is slightly below the stock boost.

That's fine. I get where you're coming from. Just, atm I basically am setting them to not be limiting anything until I'm given some sort of reason to do so.