Oh dang I aint see that it blocks. Nice find!

Black can take Qxf3 with check

Got three tomato frogs. Funny little things, with a lot more personality than I expected.

A Dane with under a million followers, so a nobody really.

My brother, my dad and I watched it together some 10+ years ago. I think people get too angry about it. Most sitcoms aren’t really funny, BBT isn’t unique. “Oh it has too much of a laugh track” they all do. I also think this idea that the show makes fun of nerd culture gets taken a little too far as well, for the same reason. The characters are sitcom characters. Name any sitcom and there will be dozens of youtube videos about how the characters are horrible to each other and don’t make good decisions. If they were decent, rational people then there wouldn’t be as much drama, so no show.

I was running 6.14.

Fair enough then, I’ve just checked the recommended wattage. My PSU is 650W and that’s exactly what the GPU recommends.

The monitors have high enough resolution. The one I have connected now is 2560x1440.

Honestly I haven’t even heard of a nouveau driver. I sure haven’t blacklisted it.

To be clear I got this output with my old GPU. Not sure how I would get to the command terminal with the new one.

Nvidia-smi output:

Mon Aug 11 19:17:03 2025
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 … Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default | | | | N/A | ±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2950 G …exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 5684 G …/6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8333 G …tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB | ±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Yeah the display cable is definitely plugged in. It displays the TUF logo on startup and I can get into BIOS settings while the monitor is plugged into the GPU. I only get ‘no input detected’ once I try to boot.

Mon Aug 11 19:17:03 2025
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | NVIDIA-SMI 570.158.01 Driver Version: 570.158.01 CUDA Version: 12.8 | |-----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+ | GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC | | Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. | | | | MIG M. | |=========================================+========================+======================| | 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 … Off | 00000000:09:00.0 On | N/A | | 0% 37C P8 18W / 235W | 481MiB / 8192MiB | 2% Default | | | | N/A | ±----------------------------------------±-----------------------±---------------------+

±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Processes: | | GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory | | ID ID Usage | |=========================================================================================| | 0 N/A N/A 2099 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 143MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2358 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 105MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 2950 G …exec/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 10MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 5684 G …/6565/usr/lib/firefox/firefox 167MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8244 G /usr/bin/nautilus 13MiB | | 0 N/A N/A 8333 G …tcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher 20MiB | ±----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I don’t take any offense to that. If I can’t get the 5070 to work I’ll see if I can take it back and get something from AMD or Intel.

I was able to boot on the 2070. I’ll try on a newer version of Ubuntu.

I think I’m on 24.04.3 LTS. May I ask what is in 24.10 that would make a difference?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5deOXLDpZw

Installed it new only a few months ago, it should be 24.04.3

Yeah lol the GPU is observably receiving power. Lights and fan come on as everything starts up and they stay on. The green safety light is on. I don’t think it’s a power issue.

Yes, I have a 650W PSU which is the recommended wattage.

The estimated ELO, I think, is mostly based on accuracy. It may be that it’s much easier for you to play accurately against a bot than a more erratic human player.

Mr Walsh you are not welcome here