u/WolfferGaming

My GPU (the one in the title) seemingly has the wrong VBIOS and I cannot control the RGB lighting on the card. I've tried contactiong ASRock directly first, but they weren't really of help. Looking for advice. See the messages below for more info.

My message to ASRock:

"I bought the the GPU I've described (ASRock RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming 24GO) off tori.fi (a second hand marketplace here in Finland) and after installing the GPU in my PC I noticed I could not control the RGB on the card no matter what I tried. Even your own software (ASR Polychrome LED) doesn't even recognise that the GPU is even in the PC. It just reports "No ASRock peripherals detected on this computer!" when trying to launch, and yes, it's properly installed. I even had to uninstall Faceit in order to properly install it. Later I decided to install GPU-Z to check what was reported, and GPU-Z actually says that the GPU is an XFX model instead of the Phantom Gaming that it very clearly is.

Now the options are, that either someone has installed an XFX VBIOS on this card for some reason, or that this is actually an XFX board and someone just switched the cooler off an ASRock PG card onto it. I just don't see why they'd switch the cooler of it since I even got the original box and everything. The previous owner (I'm the third owner of this card) did mention that the original owner actually took the card to get its thermal paste changed, but I don't see why they'd touch the cooler? It does perform exactly like an RX 7900 XTX should perform and seems to function completely fine in every way except for the RGB (it's stuck at red).

Here's the link for the VBIOS that's currently on the GPU (I think?):

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/262809/amd-rx7900xtx-24576-230323

I'm simply seeking guidance as to how I should proceed... Should I flash one of your VBIOS onto the card in hopes that it doesn't brick the whole system (in which case I would greatly appreciate if you'd provide the proper VBIOS), or what?"

ASRocks response to me:

"Thank you for contacting us.

Please be advised that ASRock does not provide VBIOS files to users , nor do we support or recommend manual VBIOS flashing due to the risk of bricking the card.

Since you mentioned that the graphics card currently performs exactly as it should and functions completely fine except RGB control function, our official recommendation is to keep it as the current firmware.

Thank you!

Warm Regards,

ASRock TSD"

Hey, I just installed Salad on my main PC (R7 7700 + RX7900XTX + 32GB DDR5-6000) and I'm simply wondering how doing other tasks, as well as pausing the chopping process actually affects the workloads. F.ex. if I pause the chopping often, will it become harder to get jobs? Kinda like getting shadowbanned. And another question is how much it'll affect the jobs that I do get if I do somethng else while Salad is running? F.ex. Watching YT or even mining Monero on the CPU while salad is running.

At least earlier I noticed that while the application still reported me having an active job, my GPU utilisation was like 0-10% and my CPU util was between 0-20%. The fans did ramp up randomly like something was being done occasionally, but other than that, idk. Pausin and restarting seemed to resolve it tho.

EDIT: While I'm here, might as well ask about the rewards; I'm from EU and I only see mainly USD related rewards (f.ex. the 5$ PayPal gift card) and I was wondering if I could still use that or if I have to find a reward that uses EUR (such as the steam gift cards that seem to constantly be out of stock)

I did a bit of Monero mining a few years ago on an R5 2600X, but stopped doing it after a few months. Now I've expanded my PC collection and have already been planning on setting one of my PCs up to run Salad ( r/SaladChefs ). Said PC will likely be running 24/7, so I was thinking if I should put up Monero mining as well on the same PC so the CPU also has something to do.

The parts in question:
Ryzen 5 7600
RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3060 Ti
64GB DDR5-5600
1TB Kingston NV3 (I'll probably add another terabyte of storage soon)

I do also have another PC with a E5-2680v4, but that one's pretty loud and I kinda need to keep my PCs in the same room as my bed, so...

But anyways, any feedback is appreciated.

EDIT: I live in Finland, so power costs can also be taken into account (even if I don't pay it myself)

Yo, I was wondering since the store is shutting down, if I get a physical disk for the PS3 after the fact and insert it on the console, will it still updates to the latest version of will it be stuck as version 1.0 or whatever?

On another note, while I do prefer getting the physical media especially on PS3, those do not include DLCs, so are there any DLC y'all'd recommend I get before the store shutdown?

Thanks.