*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Papusan]

41 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

Looking good! I prefer liquid metal tape over kapton for the absolute 100% seal and it is easy to remove anyho

 

Hmmm🙃 I fix it for you.

[electrosoft]

53 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

Hmmm🙃 I fix it for you.

 

Nah, Liquid Metal all the way. Keeps those contact points nice and sparky! 🤣

 

But seriously....

 

Definitely nail polish or equivalent over kapton. I usually use conformal coating.

 

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Best Buy is completely sold out of 5090s. Only models they have are third party market place models.

Microcenter has ~3 models in stock cheapest is $2800 Zotac AIO

Newegg cheapest model is the $2800 Zotac AIO and 5 models total in stock.

 

 PNY is back at $3460 / $3499+ shipped and sold by Amazon/Newegg....yay

 

Stock in the EU/UK still plentiful for 5090's @Papusan @jaybee83?

 

Cheapest 5080 available now is $1129.00 Shadow here in the US.

 

 

[Papusan]

18 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

 

Nah, Liquid Metal all the way. Keeps those contact points nice and sparky! 🤣

 

But seriously....

 

Definitely nail polish or equivalent over kapton. I usually use conformal coating.

 

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Best Buy is completely sold out of 5090s. Only models they have are third party market place models.

Microcenter has ~3 models in stock cheapest is $2800 Zotac AIO

Newegg cheapest model is the $2800 Zotac AIO and 5 models total in stock.

 

 PNY is back at $3460 / $3499+ shipped and sold by Amazon/Newegg....yay

 

Stock in the EU/UK still plentiful for 5090's @Papusan @jaybee83?

 

Cheapest 5080 available now is $1129.00 Shadow here in the US.

 

 

 

It starts to dry up. But still no problem get the 5080 or the 5090. And the prices haven't moved much. Cheapest 5090 is GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5090 WindForce 3 OC at around $2018 MSRP (without taxes). Otherwise around $2850. Not bad but  the good deals on flagship tiers is gone. 

 

Edit. Cheapest 5080 is $1151,61 MSRP so no thanks. Even nope at $1000. See also HU latest for 5080. A bad buy. Or a bad product for the prices. xx80 class cards today should have minimum 20GB vram for the prices. 

 

[Mr. Fox]

Just fill the space around the die with low melt solder to protect the SMDs from liquid metal. 🤣

[Rage Set]

On 12/26/2025 at 2:43 AM, Reciever said:

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 😞

 

All of my 32GB ECC DDR4 are in use, unfortunately. I do have one W-1290 server that I only turn on once per month with 128GB of 2933MT/s RAM (32GB x4) that doesn't particularly need that much RAM. I only purchased that much RAM to max out the server. They are UDIMMs though.

 

The crazy part is the price for them didn't change. I paid around $850 for the two kits around three to four years ago. They cost the same now. I am starting to realize I only buy RAM during shortages...LOL.