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I bought another 16x to x8x8 adapter that is a bit more direct and doesnt use the SAS interconnects + daughterboards. If this doesnt work then I'll just have to eat the L and buy the adapter from C_Payne as he had tested his adapter with my motherboard years ago as working. Trouble is the guy is not based in the US so i'll have to risk the overseas + customs. Really want to test 7900 XTX and 3090Ti together though I could go with less I am enabling the idea of getting a second 1080mm UT45 for "symmetry" purposes under the AC unit. If so then I would likely go for a waterblock on the 5800X3D just to make it easier on my fingers. Also bought another PSU for the benching rig. Be Quiet 1000w. If I need more power I still have 3x 900w for GPU's. Going to be changing up my DD a bit as the current scenario is not really optimal for benching. God of War: Ragnarok took the GPU to 39c the other night so I think I am too close to the wall and recirculating air.

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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.

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