Recent content by budget_Optiplex

Today's ghetto mod is another idea for a cheap GPU support brace. I finally upgraded from an 11 year old GPU to a 5 year old GPU, and thusly my previous brace which was a cut down dental irrigation syringe wouldn't quite work here as I wanted something smaller in diameter. So again I wandered my...

I've had to do the INVALID trick on pretty much every older Lenovo I've put an older AMD GPU in. These machines almost always had just Nvidia based options if you wanted GPU upgrades from Lenovo. I've also had to do the INVALID trick for most any Wi-Fi card I've installed in the machines as...

Interesting, but doesn't explain why both CPUID HWMonitor and HWiINFO64 show 1-2 cores occasionally turboing to 4.0GHz under single threaded loads like they should be? I have experimented with the limited C-states in this Lenovo BIOS and so far nothing seems to change the behavior of CPU-Z only...

Interesting, I've never tried anything as new as an RX 6400 in these various systems I've worked on. Mostly cheap GCN 1.0 cards like R7 250s, HD7750s, HD 7850s, etc. Newest card I've tried was a GCN 2.0 R7 360 and that was in a ThinkCentre M93p. I know with my particular W7000 on an M93p...

There is a simpler way to do this. Download a Lenovo BIOS for your particular motherboard, and run it. When it asks about updating the Machine Type and Model, as well as System Serial Number, replace those with the word "INVALID'. You will get an error about this when the system boots and you...

I posted in the 'latest tech purchase' thread about my latest cheap Xeon upgrade: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/whats-your-latest-tech-purchase.225885/post-5162210 One very interesting thing I have discovered in setting this system up and running diagnostic software to make sure...

In my usual quest to get more performance using trailing edge hardware spending as little as possible, I have upgraded my previous iteration of cheap hardware from a Haswell Xeon 4c/8t system to an X99 system using a Broadwell-EP 6c/12t CPU as Cyberpunk 2077/Phantom Liberty really needs more...

Bummer, good time to pick up a CH341A BIOS programmer. Am wondering if the BIOS from the Asus R7 250 2GB GDDR5 card would possibly work as it's got at least one DisplayPort output? The CH341A really comes in handy for situations like this, as when I was looking for a BIOS to unlock the Dell R7...

Just caught this and don't have a lot of time. Will come back to it later! First, nice OC on the W4100, one of the few ultra cheap on ebay OEM type GCN 1.0 cards I've never had in hand besides the W5000. I wonder if you can adapt the copper cooler from the Dell R7 250 2GB card to the W4100? I...

That's odd, as I've been using this to keep Windows update from over-writing the 3rd party Amernime AMD drivers on multiple systems for a long time now and have never had a problem since. I've also used it on machines with specific Nvidia driver versions that I wish to keep around without those...

https://chanmingman.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/prevent-windows-from-automatically-updating-specific-drivers/ Install drivers you wish to keep, then use group policy to force Windows to keep those specific drivers. Windows 10 is a joke in this regard!

W5000 and W7000 have same voltage regulator. I found in the way back past when I first started modding GCN 1 cards that afterburner and AMD driver software overclocking were not very reliable back in apx 2014, so I've always just flashed in modded BIOS files and then tested the card for...

Ooof, that 79.4 AMD ASIC quality is pretty bad as far as heat and efficiency go.......how are your temps right now? Remember this card runs on PCI-E slot power only, so one of the reasons why I always undervolt (AMD cards always seem to have default voltage that's too high) is to reduce power...

Interestingly, the W5000 is probably one of the only GCN 1 cards I've never had in my possession to bios mod. I have done Firepro W2100s, W7000s, W9000s, and W4100s though. On the Radeon side I've done plenty of HD 7750/7770, HD 8570, R7 240/250, R7 350/450, and various other R7/R9 cards. The...

VBE7 works fine on my Firepro W7000. Have a modded fan curve, increased core clock and an undervolt (1GHz at 1.0volt), and reduced memory speeds to keep the crap Elpida memory on my particular card alive as long as possible (1200 to 1100MHz), then new UEFI module added back in. I have ran my...