Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Samstag, 8. Juni 2024, 04:05:17 MESZ schrieb Dale: > > >>> DisplayPort supports daisy-chaining. So if you do get another monitor some >>> day, look for one that has this feature and you can drive two monitors >>> with >>> one port on the PC. >> That's something I didn't know. I wondered why they had that when a >> HDMI port is about the same size and can handle about the same >> resolution. It has abilities HDMI doesn't. Neat. :-D > Polemically speaking, HDMI is designed for the concerns of the MAFIA (Music > and Film Industry of America) with stuff like DRM. DisplayPort is technically > the better protocol, for example with more bandwidth and it is open. There > was > news recently that the HDMI forum would not allow AMD to implement HDMI 2.1 > in > its open source driver, which means no 4K 120 Hz for Linux users.
That sucks about HDMI. Next time I buy a video card, I need to get one with display port outputs. It seems more Linux friendly. :-D >> Sadly, the CPU I got is for processing only, no video support it says. > So you got an F model? I got the X model. It's supposed to be a wiiiittttttle bit faster. o_O > >>> But what I also just remembered: only the ×16 GPU slot and the primary M.2 >>> slots (which are often one gen faster than the other M.2 slots) are >>> connected to the CPU via dedicated links. All other PCIe slots are behind >>> the chipset. And that in turn is connected to the CPU via a PCIe 4.0×4 >>> link. This is probably the technical reason why there are so few boards >>> with slots wider than ×4 – there is just no way to make use of them, >>> because they all most go through that ×4 bottleneck to the CPU. >>> >>> ┌───┐ 5.0×4 ┌───┐ 4.0×4 ┌─────────┐ ┌───┐ >>> │M.2┝=======┥CPU┝━━━━━━━┥ Chipset ┝━━━┥M.2│ >>> └───┘ └─┰─┘ └─┰─────┰─┘ └───┘ >>> >>> 5.0×16┃ ┃ ┃ >>> >>> ┌─┸─┐ ┌────┸─┐ ┌─┸────┐ >>> │GPU│ │PCIe 1│ │PCIe 2│ >>> └───┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ >>> […] >> Nice block diagram. You use software to make that? > Yes, vim’s builtin digraph feature. O:-) > I was hoping so. Doing that by hand would take a LOT of time. I never could figure out vim. I use nano on command line and Kwrite in a GUI. Care to guess which I really prefer??? LOL I got the little m.2 thing today. It's a lot smaller than I expected. A whole lot smaller. It's fairly tiny actually. They look bigger in pictures or on video. This reminds me of the discussion on the number of transistors on a chip. I bet they packed tight in there. I bought a heat sink that goes on each individual chip, one on controller, one on data chip, two if it has two data chips. Anyway, it has only two chips so I got extra heat sinks. LOL They fairly large since the mobo has nothing on top of them. I got plenty of room. That said, anyone else notice they make heat sinks for those things that have heat pipes and itty bitty fans?? O_O It does make them run cool tho. :/ I like my little heat sinks better. Pretty good size and no moving parts. They come in a couple colors. Linky. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254119864180 Oh, for those reading this. The data controller chip is a little thinner than the data chip. I confirmed that on mine. If you don't use a heatsink that has a thicker pad for that, it leaves a gap and the controller chip doesn't make contact which means it runs hotter. As I mentioned earlier, the controller seems to produce more heat so it needs the heatsink more than the data chip. On videos, some people use a additional pad to make up the difference on the controller chip. I noticed on a couple heatsinks, they mention the difference and show they use a pad that makes full contact on both chips. It looks like the thermal pad is thicker and more squishy. One I saw looks like it is just a little thicker on the controller end. I guess Monday will be the big day, IF, big IF, they don't get hung up in the local USPS sorting hub. That place is a little better now but some packages still get hung up down there. Dale :-) :-)
