u/tired514

Hey everyone,

I've had Rogers 5G home Internet since it was announced and included in my monthly price was device financing for the Fastmile they sent me. Total charge was ~$400 which seems pretty steep for such a simple unit, but I digress.

I just cancelled that plan (last device payment made in April) and switched to a standard 5G+ plan with my own radio.

After cancelling I received a Purolator QR code via email with zero instruction from Rogers about returning the old Fastmile modem.

Was this a mistake? I'm assuming I own the old Fastmile, but it's impossible to figure that out. If it was a rental then payments would have continued indefinitely, right? The verbiage on my bill is identical to that for my phone I purchased through a similar payment structure.

I want to make sure they're not going to try to charge me even more money for not returning what I assume is my property. Anyone know what's going on?

edit fwiw the financing terms specify "purchase" and the value was $461.04 over 24 months:

>Device Financing

>The monthly payments set out below will be billed to your Rogers account for the purchase of the device described below (“Device”), beginning on the Effective Date and every month on the same calendar day for the duration of your Device Financing Term.

>NOKIA FASTMILE 5G $408.00
Total (including taxes) $461.04

Hey everyone,

I bought an EVO-X2 (128gb) about a month ago and have been running it hard since then (primarily LLMs and large software builds). I was noticing since day one that the CPU was spiking very quickly to 95C even with the fans at 100%. It rarely broke 97C so I assume it was throttling.

I decided to replace the thermal compound (with polar therm x10 fwiw though I'm sure anything is better than what they used) and temperatures plummeted. I just ran a benchmark (s-tui) that would normally drive it immediately to 95C (as in under a second), and it never broke 80C, even at 4.5GHz, 100% on all cores, for one minute.

I was nervous as hell doing this to a $5k machine, and it was a pain carefully cleaning up the old goop with 99% isopropyl alcohol, but man was it ever worth it. Took me about an hour when it was all said and done, but this is the first time I've done something like this.

I think GMKtec really needs to work on their application technique, or at least QA.

If you're seeing similar CPU temps under moderate load, just know that it's not normal. Or, at least not necessary.

edit cut my compile time of llama.cpp from over 5 minutes down to 1:34, max temp 85C. Unreal.