Notices by Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf), page 2
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 12:18:34 JST Mikoto BSD
kinda thinking of moving back to using local media storage instead of the S3 bucket -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 24-Mar-2025 09:42:38 JST Mikoto BSD
looks like dolphin changed how the breadcrumb navigation looks, not sure how I feel about it -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 02:11:55 JST Mikoto BSD
Hate it when I try to look for something, only to forget what I was looking for in the first place -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:27:32 JST Mikoto BSD
Starting with the ASUS.
Pros:
- Cheapest board of the three ATM ($370 CAD)
- Has the most USB-A ports, and most are 10 Gbps
- No lane sharing between M.2 and PCIe slots, GPU will have 16 lanes no matter what
Cons:
- No USB4
- Uses debug LEDs instead of a post code display
- Wifi 6E only (but to be fair I don't have a WiFi 7 network, plus I use Ethernet, speaking of which...)
- Uses the Intel i225 ethernet chipset, which has a history of stability issues. Not really clear if those have been fixed or not.
- ASUS warranty is also not the best from what I've heard so I'm probably on my own if this breaks it seems. -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:27:32 JST Mikoto BSD
Narrowed down my motherboard choices to these three models:
Gonna make a post for each board detailing the pros/cons from my perspective.
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:27:31 JST Mikoto BSD
Next the Gigabyte.
Pros:
- Cheaper than the MSI
- Has a post code display
- Not hearing about as many customer support complains as with ASUS
- Seems to have the most stable BIOS based on reports
- Has USB4 ports with 4 lanes allocated to them at all times
- Has WiFi 7
- Aorus styling is probably the best of the three IMO
Cons:
- Two of the M.2s share lanes with the main x16 slot, so using all of them will result in the GPU only having 8 lanes
- Less USB ports than the ASUS; with 4 being 2.0 only. I don't mind 2 ports being 2.0 for the mouse and KB, but 4 is a bit excessive
- ITE SuperIO chip might not be as well supported with lm-sensors in Linux (though it seems the it87 driver does support the specific chip this board uses so it might not be that bad)
- A bit more pricey than the ASUS ($425 CAD atm) -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 11:27:30 JST Mikoto BSD
Finally the MSI
Pros:
- No lane sharing with the x16 PCIE slot
- New MSI BIOS looks pretty nice
- Has three USB C ports (2x USB4, and 1x 10 gbps)
- Wifi 7 is apparently a bit better than Gigabyte's; not that I would be able to take advantage of that
- Has 5 Gbps LAN (RTL8126) vs the Gigabyte (2.5G RTL8125B) or the Asus (2.5G i225)
- Uses a Nuvoton SuperIO that is well supported in Linux
Cons:
- Lane sharing with USB4 ports and one of the m.2 slots
- Green accents are a bit weird, coming from the grey X570 board I'm currently using
- Most expensive ($460 CAD)
- Some sporadic reports of instability with the X870 version of this board, unsure if this also extends to the X870E and to what extent
- Has the least USB-A ports available on top of having the same 4 USB 2.0 ports as the Gigabyte -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 02:31:05 JST Mikoto BSD
Tons of people in this blood test lab -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 22:59:43 JST Mikoto BSD
Morning -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 02:28:21 JST Mikoto BSD
I FELL OFF THAT CLIFF OMFG :alloutakali_laugh: -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 01:25:00 JST Mikoto BSD
@NeonPurpleStar how the heck do I do that? -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 01:20:39 JST Mikoto BSD
@NeonPurpleStar o haven't beat the guy, thats the thing -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 01:11:48 JST Mikoto BSD
this margit guy is super annoying -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 09:44:08 JST Mikoto BSD
@ezio icewm is my fave wm for old pcs, there's this one theme that has this late 2000s look that I really like as well that it includes -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 03:19:33 JST Mikoto BSD
https://twitter.com/picowan11/status/1900317950919180445 -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 10:59:00 JST Mikoto BSD
> me notices vram clock being oddly high
ok let's see if this is a problem on linux
> sees posts of windows amdgpu users also reporting stuck high mem clocks
:woozy_2x:
apparently the solution is to turn down refresh rate, disable secondary monitors, or a custom edid. All of which seems to have their own downsides so uh i guess i'll just put up with it... -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 00:42:23 JST Mikoto BSD
@tk I just want a middle ground between consumer platforms and the workstation stuff, with say 32 lanes for instance -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 00:41:01 JST Mikoto BSD
@tk yeah, main issue is that mainstream desktop platforms like am4 and am5 only have like 20-24 pcie lanes. Most graphics cards use 16 of those lanes, and then each m.2 SSD will use 4 lanes each.
Boards with more than 2 m.2 slots can either use additional PCIe lanes from the chipset or take some lanes from the GPU. But since the number of PCIe lanes per device has to be a power of 2, it means the graphics card will end up with only 8 lanes
Whether that matters or not really depends on what you want to do. Gaming wise going to 8 lanes of PCIe 4.0 might not be a big deal. Not sure about how much it would affect AI stuff though -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 00:40:06 JST Mikoto BSD
@epsi @Ollie even here there's some people who don't bother cwing uspol stuff but it's certainly a lot better than bluesky where that doesn't exist at all -
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Mikoto BSD (mikoto@akko.wtf)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 00:34:27 JST Mikoto BSD
@tk yeah, I even have one in my current system
Main problem really is the PCIe lane splitting situation with some boards, there are some that share lanes with the GPU slot so if I use an m.2 in some cases that reduces the bandwidth available to the gpu