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This evenings efforts, iout Gain was stuck at 300 so effectively I was able to push the card again. Around 650-700w, I wasnt able to change the Iout gain from 300 so ran as is. Next time I'll try 250-275. Core 3475 Mem 2764 Voltage 1.158 Card is stuck at 683 again after one of the failed attempts so I guess thats all for tonight. Wasnt able to breach 3500 Core. :(

I always make things more complicated than they aught to be, like using 3x PSU's for each 8-pin on the bottom shelf, an ITX system since HEDT has been more or less dead to me since the X58 days (though Im sure there were options since, poor decisions didnt allow them to be obtainable) so anything beyond ITX or cheap laptops like the M4600 were simply not even considered. Then naturally a UT45 make perfect sense in my hodgepodge of parts. Since the 5800X3D sips power and is locked a cheap Thermalright PA120SE does fine for gaming though if I go the 9800X3D route I could definitely see a second UT45 in my future. During the era where I surfed OCN AIO's were still called CLC's mostly targeted at ITX users who later got to deal with the pumps dying or tubes coming undone and leaking over everything, I never considered CLC's since they were considered "Cheap Low Cost". Anyways it feels like I have been typing this post for a week now. I was making progress when perplexity recommended changing the power plan in Windows. Ever since then I have not been able to get the EVC2SE to change the register for the IOUT Gain so its stuck at 683 which is the default. I tried a couple of fixes but for the evening I am going to call it a night. Core: 3450 Mem: 2764 Now my clocks are back to stock and until I figure it out, I cant get them past 2850 in Steel Nomad, a far cry from 3450. Was working on getting 3450 sure stable before moving on to 3500 then seeing what I could do about the memory. With a 16c ambient, 21c idle, and 30c peak load temperature I feel like I still have some performance to get out of the 7900 XTX. Hot spot was "bad" from a differential standpoint, 30c at its peak so it peaked at 60c. Still well within margin for benching (105c throttle). Since it wasnt working before, I tore down the loop and took apart the GPU to reflow the solder. Worked great after that. I also checked on the LM application and all was well on that front as well.

Definitely interested but at this stage it would prove difficult to set up logistically to avoid dumping the heat back in my room. One of the family members may be moving out and getting their own place next year, if we keep this place I can put basically all the heat generation and removal in that room and run some longer hoses and pumps. If we get a different place then I'll just look to getting a bigger bedroom. It would also give me some time to go through what I have for GPU's and start a passive search for more waterblocks to replace the stock heatsinks I have as I already know Im going to stay on water. The 7900 Xtx is purring at 3.1Ghz for now, I think I'll need to use the evc2se for 3.2Ghz. It's crashing at 3150 but I'm hoping that's just due to sudden spiking outside the power limit. Hopefully I can push 3500 for synthetic benching.

So I asked perplexity what a decent controller / sensor input could be for my set up and it spat me the aquatuning quadro. Are they any good? Looks like it has the right hook ups. Did some BF6 tonight this time setting the core clock to 3.1Ghz. Temperature with A/C off rose to about 32c which isn't surprising in a small room. A/C on at 70F brought it down to 28-29c. Since gaming loads are lower than synthetic I may be able to use 3.2Ghz as a daily clock,just bonkers Sadly with liquid metal I still have a bad delta for the Hotspot. Around 15c or so thus far. If it stays within 20c for benching then this should be fine I suppose. I feel like the Red Devil 7900 Xtx just let's me get away with a lot. Benched it with stock, modified stock, evc2se, chilled air, now on 1080mm rad. It's been a fun companion. I have some ideas for resolving some of that variance as most of the cold air goes above the rad. I might be able to elevate it and angle it but it would limit my TV's available radius. For the time being ill just build a shroud out of cardboard. The A/C is great for the rad but too chilly for me lol Thanks to everyone who shared their knowledge with me, I wouldn't have been able to come up with this on my own. @Mr. Fox @Papusan @electrosoft @tps3443 Now it's almost time to start GPU benching, just gotta let the honeymoon effect wear off haha

I saw it before and was a little curious about it truth be told lol Would you be able to share it's dimensions? Is it loud? If it's around the same noise of the radiator I wouldn't be against it, especially since I have another promotion seemingly lined up. I would also probably remove my homelab and place it with the unraid server. What can I say I wanted to go for gold on the Red Devil, I was able to take custom air pretty far on it but physics will eventually take over and iirc water can remove 6x kinetic energy compared to air. If I do go the chiller route, at that point probably just get the cpu in the loop too. I forgot to hook up the thermal sensor for the water loop, it's connected on the GPU block just need to hook it in.

Did just a quick game of ARC Raiders and if Ambient was 16c, GPU load at 400ish watts game load was around 22c, Each 8-pin has its own 800w PSU to keep the noise low, hold overs from Crypto days. Now I need to figure out something for controlling the pumps as for now they run full speed Also set up the bench system with easier access for GPU benchmarking here soon. EVGA GT 1300w beneath it. The tower on the bottom is for HomeLab stuff, 2x 2697A V4's 32 cores and 128GB DDR4 (pre-inflation decom pull) Just need a better cooling solution for the network switch, the silent fans I swapped in arent very good, they tend to go full speed to cool it back down. I'll likely wire something in at some point. And there the 7900 XTX sits with an EK block, liquid metal applied and minus 8 thermal pads for memory. So now that corner of my room has my daily system that I will be pushing for gold on, homelab for configuration stuff, and benching GPU's on the 10850k from @Mr. Fox Since the 5800X3D sips power with a - 25 pbo offset I was actually able to power the system with the 400w psu originally intended just for the water cooling loop. I guess the next question is going to be how to tear it down for maintenance but for now I'll just be happy with getting it working. Gotta say compression fittings and soft tubing is a great combination.

Display Stream Compression? Could be, I generally avoid those types of technology if I can so I wouldnt be able to say too much on that topic

Biggest bummer if what I read is correct, you have to plug your monitors into the GPU handling the frame generation. Not sure if my 3090ti can do 4k120hz without DSC. So not sure if it's worth the hassle of testing. Definitely an interesting software though probably pick it up.

It would be interesting to see this in conjunction with lossless scaling.

Just got my 7900 XTX blocked, liquid metal and minus 8 pads for memory and vrm, used the ek thermal pads for everything else. Depending how I feel I may get it installed into the loop tonight. Also set up 3x 800w psu's from the crypto days, one for each 8pin. This is mostly just to keep their fans at a lower rpm. Last time I used just one psu and it started to sound like a jet engine. Also rebuilt the other open air bench finally, what a pain to rebuild. 10850k will run with the 1300w. Everything is beginning to take shape and thank goodness because my room is a disaster lol

Well after a dozen mock ups, test fits, cuts, more mock ups and test fits this is the current state of the watercooling project. Was able to mount both pumps and res on to the UT45 like I wanted. Essentially used all the fittings save for maybe 2. I assumed the 90 degree rotary fittings were stand alone, didn't occur to me until a bit ago that they need to be coupled to a standard compression fitting. Luckily I purchased enough for the loop (including the 2 filters) Radiator outlet may be better served by a 45 degree fitting long term but tube isn't kinking so it may be OK. Still haven't been able to get the shelves yet, my aunts been using my car for her side hustle quite often while I've been on vacation so I haven't been able to go anywhere. Ideally when I go the shelf approach the rad/res/pump will all be above the pc and tubing will be fed through the shelf directly to the pc below. Probably going to put in my 3090ti to hold me over while I install the ek block. To protect the diodes from liquid metal, is clear nail polish still the preferred method? I did buy some kapton tape and still have some 33/88 electrical tape.

Well turns out there is a wrinkle on part of the server :/ Gigabyte did not enable bifurcation on the motherboard, it can be enabled with a BIOS mod just really didnt want to do that sort of thing. The Sage has it enabled by default and works on my Precision Towers so I fully expected it to be commonplace on this one. I'll look at the guide in a bit and toss a coin for looking for the hardware programmer I have somewhere. tl;dr the 4xNVME PCIE adapter is only showing 1 drive from the 4. Otherwise Unraid just booted right up, reallocated the array of drives and the cache on its own, didnt even have to point anything anywhere. See's the 80 threads available to it now with no issues. Just been cleaning up what ever I was doing at the time, server is nice and cool, and more importantly more than quiet enough to be placed in the second floor living room (hybrid office kind of setup). Overtime I do plan to replace the older 4/6TB drives there are still present in the array, they are getting looooong in the tooth so if I do anything with this system that will likely be the first step. drives on the right are 12TB each but 2 of them are being used for parity, so it doesnt add much to the "useable" pool of storage. Onto the next project for now :) Decided to go with the server build first to get my confidence back, its been some time since I built something outside of my wheel house. Damn near thought I had some crap karma for a minute there because the server wouldnt post when I tested the motherboard. Turns out, its not guaranteed that it will default to a GPU for video out since they have a chipset video output via the VGA port on the I/O. Once that was squared, then realized, sadly, one of the sticks of RAM was bad :( Anyone got 2933Mhz/3200Mhz 32GB DDR4 ECC laying around? Damned things are stupid expensive now :(

Project #1 almost done, just needs to be setup in unraid again then hopefully don't touch for 6 months lol.

Every time I see more reports of cables giving up the ghost, happy to see my 7900 XTX still chugging along even after I pushed 850w into it. Though while I may think of my card as something akin to a muscle car, 4090/5090 are still going to dust it like some exotic supercar. Rest of the watercooling stuff showed up today, tomorrow I run to Home Depot for some wireframe shelves and distilled water. Once that is done I have to move a bunch of stuff around which will probably take the better part of a day alone, then get to flushing the loop if I have enough time. Trying to not get too excited, dont want a repeat of the Sage motherboard.

Got about half of the watercooling gear today, for all the hate that EK gets the WB certainly feels premium, fairly heavy too lol, also got the 1080mm rad as well so I can take my time routing cables and such