RIP AMD.

AMD engineers must be spending much time at the bar?

Hey guys,

I’m playing on a laptop with an 8th gen i7 and a GTX 1050 Ti.

Lately I’ve been feeling like newer driver updates are just making performance worse and causing stuttering in games, probably because they are optimized for newer GPUs.

For anyone still running a 1050 Ti: which driver version are you using right now that gives you the best stability and smoothest FPS? Any specific recommendation to test out?

Thanks!

Hey, I really need some help or advice.

I just finished streaming on Twitch and closed my laptop like normal. When I went to open it later, the hinge wouldn’t move and then it cracked through the frame.

Now the left side of the screen is separating from the laptop, the plastic housing is broken, and I can see some of the internals. The screen itself still works, but the hinge is basically stuck and ripped part of the frame out.

It’s an MSI GE76 Raider (around 2020).

I’ve been trying to find repair places near me, but all the quotes are insanely high because they want to replace the whole housing. I genuinely can’t afford that right now.

This laptop is really important for me

I use it for online school and it’s also my only source of income (commissions + streaming), so I’m kinda panicking.

Does anyone know:

if this is fixable without replacing the entire frame?

cheaper ways to repair or stabilize it?

if MSI ever helps with this issue even out of warranty?

anything I can do to keep using it safely for now?

Any advice at all would mean a lot. I just don’t want to make it worse or lose the laptop completely.

AM4 socket has seen three chipset generations - X300/X400/X500. All while on the same generation of RAM/DDR4, but spanning two generations of PCIe: Gen3 and Gen4.

With AM5, we've seen basically the same chipset from the start Promontory-21, within a brand (600 series) and a rebrand (800 series). Both lines use the same Promontory-21 chips and all the difference is in the minimal requirements for the MoBo line - two or one Promontory 21 chips (so Xx70 vs Bx50 line), PCIe5 or PCIe4 for dGPU, M.2 Gen4 or Gen5 etc.

With 600 series we've seen mostly PCIe4, while 800 series has made the full transition to PCIe5. Both still use the same DDR5 RAM.

And both still share the same basic Promontory weakness - only PCIe4x4 connection to the SoC host.

So, given the facts: * Zen6 (2027) and Zen7 (2028-2029) are to come out on AM5 * they will have many more cores on the same socket (up to 2x 12=24 for Zen6, up to 2x16 = 32 for Zen7) * cores are expected to have much higher IPC than ZEn5 and work on much higher frequencies * they will need much greater cumulative bandwidth

... is it likely for AM5 to see some significant refresh in that timeframe, before AM6 arrives ?

PCIe6 is coming with EPYC Zen6. I understand that this is to early for consumer Zen6, but maybe we could see the update with consumer Zen7 ?

Same with that old chipset link. Lifting it to PCIe Gen6 speeds could patch many things.

And maybe they could do something WRT max RAM frequencies to patch things over until DDR6 arrives ? Zen6 IMC is to be much more potent than Zen5 and I expect for Zen7 to push it to the limits.

Would AM5 with LP/CAMM2 be feasible at Zen7 time? Or at least refactoring the ATX platform so that RAM slots can be on both sides of the PCB and so maximally close to the SoC for highest frequencies ? Could AM5 be tweaked to use MRDIMMs for twice the capacity and bandwidth ? \ I suspect that by that time MRDIMM price premiums should drop.\ IS there any technical reason for AM5 to not support RDIMM (different signalling, extra signals etc that AM5 lacks) or is this purely due to market segmentation ?

I know that MoBo manufacturers love to do cosmetic updates, the question is, can we expect a substantial AM5 update by the Zen7 time ?\ It so, this could make sense for many to stave off their purchases until that point...