Mr. Fox

The Thermaltake Core W200 was an awesome case. I have always wanted one. In the rare circumstance I could even find one they were so ridiculously priced that I could not justify the cost. There have only been a couple that I am aware of. Even monster cases like the Corsair 1000D Obsidian only support mini-ITX for the second mobo and SFX for the secondary PSU. The Phanteks Enthoo 719 also only supports mini-ITX for the second mobo, but does support two ATX PSUs. I had a Thermaltake Level 20 XT E-ATX Extreme LCS Capable Split Level Modular Gaming Cube Case CA-1L1-00F1WN-00 that I purchased in 2019. It supported dual ATX PSUs and you could add a second ATX mobo tray. Those are also nowhere to be found. It was not crazy tall, but it was so huge from front to back that the feet would not fit on either of my desks. I had to put it sideways on the desk. It was my favorite case of all time except for the fact that it needed a dedicated desk just for the case. It was so gigantic that I just could not accommodate it in my tiny home office. If I had a bigger office I would never have gotten rid of it. It was amazing. You might just want to go with a server rack setup with two 4U chassis units that each support ATX/E-ATX boards, ATX PSUs and full sized GPUs. Leave the lid off (for GPU power cable clearance if necessary) and leave an empty space between them in the rack. Maybe a couple of units like this: https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rsv-l4500u-black/p/N82E16811147328?Item=N82E16811147328 and mount them in a rack. https://www.newegg.com/p/2BA-01UW-00010 A more expensive option (maybe not worth it compared to the Rosewill) would be two of these: https://www.newegg.com/p/2AM-006F-001D2 mounted in a rack. Silverstone also makes an RM51 5U chassis, but you would be looking at $1,000-$1,200 (at the least) for a pair of them and a rack. https://www.provantage.com/silverstone-rm51~7SLST033.htm?source=googleps

The question is, "Are there really going to be massive profits?" or are they spending a lot of money on a gamble that may or may not eventually pay off? I am not convinced they are going to make money and may end up drawing back a bloody stump before it's over. I certainly hope so. It would be a real shame if their cash-grabbing nonsense turns out well for them and for their shareholders. I'd much prefer to see financial tragedy visited upon them. Tit for tat.

The least they could do is pretend they love us and say nice things while they are choking us and pulling our hair.

Even the Quadro P5000 MXM in my Dell Precision turdbook has 16GB of vRAM. It is inexcusable that 8GB GPU options exist today. That should only be on the cheapest and lowest tier garbage-class products that are just one step up from integrated graphics. Nothing new is built to last the test of time or deliver maximum performance. Everything is designed to fail, and deliver structured performance limitations, to ensure a never-ending flow of cash. It is remarkably similar to the pharmaceutical industry and practice of medicine. They do not make money on healthy people or cures. Keeping people on meds forever, and follow up doctor visits to renew prescriptions, and creating new medical problems from prolonged consumption of chemicals that require more meds and more medical care is the gift that keeps on giving. They don't want anyone to be healthy because it is bad for business. PC and electronics hardware companies do not want to manufacture and sell durable consumer products that perform well. They want to sell garbage with a limited lifespan so they can collect more money on upgrades and product refreshes to replace the last generation of trash they sold consumers. Live to pay, pay to live. Just like the old bumper sticker... Ass, gas or grass... nobody rides for free.

I was going to post this video. I'm glad I saved money going with the Zotac 5090.

They are all part of the same circle jerk and worshipping at the same Satanic throne of AI filth.

Yeah, that should be fine. They also constantly change under load to a small degree. That is also normal. If you start seeing 2.0 to 3.0 amps variance under load where one pin is always that much lower than the rest of the pins then you should start investigating what the deal is because something is wrong. You got a lot of stuff done. I look forward to hearing how all the other things worked out once you have more time for testing. If you had a poor mount that would certainly diminish your memory overclock. You do not need to have the high performance IHS super tight. Only tight enough that it fully presses the CPU into the socket pins and the screws are not loose.

I can smell it, too. This gal lets a Jensen in the car. Or, is it a Nadella? They smell the same. And, I can feel it.

I love Skillet. I remember going to their concerts as a young adult and they were very young (18 to 21) when they first started the band.

Your ambient temperature in this photo is 10°F cooler than mine. Congrats on the PSU upgrade.

With the circus of failures at Micro$lop and OpenAI circling the drain, and now (hopefully) NVIDIA standing to lose billions, the bubble might break sooner than later. Fingers crossed. I hope they all burn brightly. It would be great to see the Green Goblin, Samsung, TSMC and others suddenly sitting on a surplus of product that their AI mafia cronies no longer want. The timing of the bubble breaking would also be perfect timing for Micron's recent nasty-finger salute to consumers.

If this POS bill becomes law, 3D printers will be just the start. The brain cancer will metastasize and spread to everything that runs on firmware and software. I used to think blue was a pretty color, but now I find it projectile vomit repulsive.

AI is useful and I have used it for a number of beneficial purposes at work, even deployed some programs around it. Technology is like anything else. It can be used for good or evil purposes, and it can be abused or used in self-serving ways that do not benefit society. I am not against AI. I like it and support the proper use of it. What we are seeing with the frenetic moves by huge companies to turn it into a self-serving cash cow is wrong and needs to be ended through regulatory intervention. Profits earned by it should be capped or taxed at astronomical rates that effectively cap it to remove the secondary gain monetization incentive driving the unacceptable level of insanity we are experiencing right now.

It will take a big upset and collapse of the irrational AI grab-ass nonsense for this to correct itself. Hopefully the crash will be extremely hard, cost all of the bigshots hundreds of billions in losses and come sooner than later. I'd love to see them totally wipe out and burst into flames in time for Christmas sales in 2026. Would be awesome to see a massive dump of hardware surplus that bankrupt AI companies no longer want or need. I'm sure they already have stockpiles of GPUs, storage and RAM that are not even being used that they will need to dump.

Sorry to hear about the adverse weather. Your temperatures look to be about the same as Brother @Rage Set and a significant portion of the Eastern US (even the Deep South) is experiencing brutal and abnormal ICE and snow, downed power lines, etc. I suspect that Brothers @tps3443 and @electrosoft are also getting hammered pretty severely right now. The Arizona summer heat can be deadly, but Arizona (and most other states in the West) very seldom have severe or catastrophic weather events. Most of the horrible and catastrophic weather events occur in the Central and Eastern states. Brother @Raiderman and I do not see very many temper tantrums from Mother Nature.

That sucks. Sorry to hear that. Did you try removing the RAM and inserting one known good stick to see if it will power up?

Brother @Papusan it looks like there is a solution to use the Matrix BIOS on your Astral. I am using it on my Solid OC and it is the best one. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29553948/

The cliché expression that failing to plan is a plan to fail directly applies here. Accumulating stuff is more important than having a plan for many. Unfortunately, most try to pin the blame on other things when, more often than not, it is a problem with personal perspective and priorities for most.

Murphy's Law. More dead RAM kits when RAM prices are at their worst. This seems to be happening freakishly often.

Having rich people pay the way of the poor is always a stupid idea and a plan destined for failure. AI is a stupid "investment" because consumers do not need it or want it bad enough to pay for it. The crazy people sinking billions into it are going to lose their butts and it will bring a smile to my face when they begin to collapse like the Hindenburg and fall from the sky in flames. I use AI, but I won't pay for it. If it is not free then I will not use it. That is the majority sentiment and there is not enough need for it in business for them to be able to charge enough to make a profit. It is causing first-world problems for consumers, system builders and consumer-focused hardware manufacturers with limited supply and stupid GPU, RAM and NVMe prices, but this will pass and all of the money spent to ramp up production to feed the AI pig that collapses will leave those companies in the same dire straits. We will just have to wait for stupidity to runs its course. How long it will take remains to be seen. It will happen when they run out of other people's money.