Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by otherjason on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:40PM
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I observed this behavior in a Dell system about a decade ago, but based on experience over the last 5 years or so with PowerEdge servers, installing a third-party GPU no longer triggers the (extremely loud) maximum fan-speed response.
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Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by BizarroLand on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:10PM
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Even if that's the case the damage is done.
I still tell people about capacitor plaque and how we should have class actioned Dell out of existence over it
Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by ornornor on Thursday May 11, 2023 @08:36AM
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Why Dell specifically? Wasn’t all hardware that bought the cheaper capacitors affected?
Re:Reverse engineering Dell iDRAC to get rid of GPU throttling
by BizarroLand on Thursday May 11, 2023 @01:27PM
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Because they were the most well known of the affected companies and they didn't really do much to repair the goodwill the issue cost them.
Sure, they "put up $300 million for repairs" according to https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/jun/29/dell..., but I bet the lions share of that went to their largest purchasers, so the people who blew their school's IT budget on Dell computers were just SOL.