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Nice results! Welcome to the forums we always enjoy 3dmark around these parts :)

That was one of the main reasons I stopped surfing there. Idiots can run their mouths but if you engage you were treated the as committing the same crime. It was even worse with their vendor reps at the time. I hope it has improved over the years but with that site having sold it's IP several times over now the sense of identity it had is likely fizzled even moreso.

Sadly the nature ofy work requires I sit behind the windshield but at the very least for now I do second shift so my commute is close to 20 minutes. Would be nice if I could get 7pm departure though so I could socialize but for now income is good and it appears they want to steer me towards engineer route which I do like the sound of :)

I've been riding on AM4 for what feels like forever lol, my replacement board finally got in, they were nice enough to update the bios to something somewhat recent so the 2200g I bought just to update the bios was a waste of 20 USD lol oh well tried to do the pcie splitter but with it my system didnt want to post, even after testing the GPU's individually but no dice, perhaps i need more research on that end of things, for now, i'll just enjoy my games. I'll need to get another PSU if I go that route long term, got fed up tearing down the system this weekend and just went and used the EVGA 1300w. If I plan to use the 7900 XTX and 3090Ti side by side ill need more VGA hookups anyways. I'll look forward to when ever the next release cycle comes along, either I get something new or I get something new to me :) Be sure to keep me in mind all when ever you decide to pull triggers! Also @Mr. Fox congrats on acquiring new employment! I was never in doubt, but its a relief none the less!

Oh its just the waterblock (EK-WB) not the GPU proper, if someone listed a 3090Ti for 70 USD I was assume its a scam be it from the sellers end or my own lol

So just happened on a listing for an EKWB EVGA 3090Ti for 70 USD on ebay. Looks like its still NIB guy never used it I guess. Im trying to think of my replacement motherboard as "Showing up sometime this month", ETA is Feb 9th-22nd. Havent been able to much anything this week, been really busy with work.

I did get curious about formal Xfire/SLI + Lossless, if you set Dynamic framerate target then one might be able to mitigate some of the failings of that method of generating preferable framerates. It'll have to wait until I get my replacement motherboard but it would be an interesting experiment.

Hey Guys! On the z490-h for now until the replacement motherboard arrives. I have also acquired the GPU risers to split the x16 lane into x8 so I can do 2 GPU's off the single lane via bifurcation. 3090Ti will be coming out of retirement to some degree for Lossless Scaling but in the interim I did test it conceptually with the 3090Ti as raster and the 1080Ti as Frame Gen. Seems to work pretty well in the couple of titles that I have tested. Allegedly you dont want the Raster GPU to be fully saturated as it increases the time it takes to send the frames to the secondary GPU. Honestly I am pretty surprised how well it worked given the software's price point. Main game I have tested were Monster Hunter Wilds and Borderlands 4 both games have piss poor engines. I was able to hit 120 FPS in both, B4 did crash a couple of times but I was mucking with the settings as that game cant run without some Scaling or FG. I did also try Horizon: Forbidden West but I should have to the DLC area as its more GPU intensive. For people that dont want to pony up the cash for new GPU's I think this may be a viable option on the table much in the way SLI/Xfire used to be for me in the old days. Nvidia still pisses me off though. If I install 591 driver, 1080Ti doesnt work, If I install latest driver for 1080Ti (581) then the 3090Ti doesnt work. I have to let windows install 560 in order for both to work until I figure out another way to go about it.

I'm going to try a bit more tonight luckily I unplug a few cables and I can pull the whole thing out but it's still a pain to work in due to the water loop and how it's routed. Problem is work is rampant due to the winter storm so I just don't have the time to troubleshoot. There was a local listing for a x570 strix but it's 3 weeks old so I don't expect to hear back I think for the time being ill set up the z490 system just to prevent me from making an impulse buy, I can still play with lossless scaling with the 3090ti + 5700XT foe the interim. Also gives me a chance to play with my pixel 10 pro and how well it handles desktop mode on android since unraid handles most of the grunt work. But that's all just me trying to make lemonade

Sadly it appears that my aorus x570 itx is dead. Came home yesterday and I can't get it to even turn on anymore, tried multiple psu's and powered them on before and after but when plugged into the motherboard just won't turn on :( Anything I look at will take a week or more to arrive unless I find something local. I still have the z490-h but what ever I do it will take a lot of time to set up. Not happy about the situation. For now I'm just streaming media from unraid until I figure out next steps, likely replacing as I'm not keen on getting anything with the prices the way they are.

Hey guys, since having looked at a bit of the lossless scaling app, thinking my next daily driver system should align with that for my 7900 XTX and 3090Ti since Im not too keen on the newer connector + pricing of it all. Are there X3D variants of threadripper in the rumormill? If so I might start saving up... I got the 512GB of Persistent Memory (Intel Optane 2666Mhz 4x128GB) installed in my C622 server, Gigabyte was kind enough to not include a switch to dedicate it to system memory and I cant activate it via a Linux VM, so I wont be able to see the RAM pool until tomorrow (family is asleep).

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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.