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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by bubblethink on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:40PM (#20688919)
The 100% fan on non-whitelisted card is such a dick move. Is there a single legit reason for this ? Did someone's building burn down because they didn't buy the quadro gpu that Dell sells ?
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by snuxoll on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:35PM (#20689426)
It’s not even limited to GPU’s, a quad-port Intel NIC in my TD340 causes it to max fan speeds if I’m not running the A01 BIOS.

The argument is they don’t know the thermal requirements of the card because it’s not OEM-branded so they max the fans “to be safe”, but not letting you override it is just bullshit.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by sitkack on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @11:26PM (#20692495)
They do something similar on Chromebooks and 3rd party mini pcie WiFi cards. If you insert a non Lenovo branded card, it will fail to even enter the bios screen with a Dick Move error.

Also, same stupid justification,”this configuration hasn’t passed FCC EMI tests” when the cards a qualified directly, they are the FCC certification boundary.

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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by bubblethink on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @03:49AM (#20693479)
I think lenovo has stopped doing that recently. However, we now have soldered wifi cards.
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