Bastiaan_NL

I totally understand that, you can always get them in the original state if you want to sell them. And besides that, those backplates from Germany look pretty! We'll see what happens, I hope the new workstation will be fully functional. It has been folding with 2 cards on risers and one card in a slot for 24 hours without an issue.

It's always the same, there is no going back now.. What was wrong with them that they didn't fit? Cause a drill and a Dremel fix a lot of those problems

I can't even say that it looks bad, considering what's in that system! The only thing are those red PCI-e cables But those waterblocks look so cool that they make up for every imperfection.

Thanks E, have fun with the testing! Those profiles are so easy to work with! And the quality is outstanding, all the cuts are clean and perfectly flat. I did some drawings but it didn't take long before I decided I needed to have the frame in front of me to visualize and design everything. There are just so many options for the layout, it's not easy to settle for one and go from there. So I took some measurements and just ordered a whole lot of extra profiles, turns out I need more of those 90° mounting brackets but I have enough profiles. I've spent more than 5 hours just looking at the rack, changing a few parts, trying to decide what'll work and what not. I even fell asleep in a chair looking at it

Ah I see, checked out Techpowerup and there are a few nice cards with those specs! So I hope you'll get lucky and get a nice one ? Lol, I guess it's good to have a few spares. But 31 is a lot I had the same thing with NoiseBlocker and Scythe S-flex fans.. And now I have 16 Corsair ML140 fans, my new favorite! I'm sad they don't make a ML200 fans, I would have picked up 6 of them for the new project

The 3090 is so large, I almost had to move my res for it to fit. And I thought the Strix 2080ti was a big boy That mirror finished backplate has a nice effect in there, looking good!

Thanks! Yeah, that sage is so pretty! It's twice as heavy as all the other the boards I've ever had, feels like a quality part.

Wine rack, maybe a fridge or a beer chiller, so much room! The market is so messed up right now, that's a lot of money for a 1660. But glad you could get something to work with! How many of those do you have?? You buy a few packs a week

That should be no problem ? I've got a z170/7700k combo running without an issue, has been folding with 2 GPU's too. As for the 3090 bandwidth experiment, I've done some basic testing and have not seen more than 14% (4.48GB/s) usage of a 4.0 x16 slot with an average of 9% (2.88GB/s). So a 3090 will hit the max of a 3.0 x4 (4GB/s) slot every now and then, but I've not tested what that means in TPF/PPD. I could not get FAHBench working with a copied beta workunit, will try that again later.

Update 1: Building the frame and the motherboard tray. This is the hardware I received, 20x20mm aluminium profiles in two sizes: 100cm and 40cm (39.4" and 15.75") and a few bags of hardware to connect everything. This is the basic layout, every profile can be moved besides the 4 top corners. I took apart my old CM690 for templates, the first one being the motherboard tray. I used a piece of 2mm sheet metal cut to 25x30cm and drilled/tapped holes for the standoffs. The finished motherboard tray and the graphics card mounting profile with threaded holes to secure the cards. Passed the QC The motherboard fits perfectly on the tray, and the tray is attached to the profiles with the same locks and hex bolts as the other profiles. Looks empty, but when I'm done there should be five graphics cards, 2 PSU's, a monitor, keyboard and mouse on this frame. The monitor mount will be on the left, and once the final state has been reached the other standing profile will be cut down to the GPU mounting profile height. The tall frame makes it easy to work on, and I'll have some storage room under the frame.

Reserved.

For some time I've been playing with the idea of building a custom rack to house most of my Folding hardware. After a few of us started working on their Folding workstation projects I figured it was time to pull the trigger and get to work. So here it is: the build log for "The Office", an all in one Folding@Home workstation. List of hardware: Motherboard: Asus WS X299 Sage/10G Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-10900X Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB Processor cooling: Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 360 Power Supply: Dual PSU, TBD. Fans: TBD, 200mm fans. PCI-e extensions: CoolerMaster 300mm Graphics cards: Changes from time to time, currently: 3060, 3070Ti, 2080Super, 3080Ti. List of parts: Aluminium profiles Custom motherboard tray Monitor mount Updates: Building the frame and the motherboard tray Up and running Small updates and idea's Some drawings Random update with the current state of the system PSU box mockup

I'm sorry if I misinformed anyone, for some reason I was sure that someone tested it but I can't find that. Is the bus interface load from GPU-z a good measuring tool for PCI-e bandwidth? If so I'll have some numbers which would indicate that you are right besides the 3090 spiking a few times above 4GB/s.

A pair of 5700xt's for around 6 months, and for the other 5 months a 2080ti and a 2080 super. I've been switching cards in and out of that system a few times, for testing etc. That system is at 9 million PPD at this moment with the current Beta units! [edit] In the previous post I mentioned that with 3080's you'll need at least 8x lanes per GPU, but that's the case for all the fast GPU's out there. I'm not sure where the tipping point is, maybe someone else over here knows that.

One of my dedicated systems is using an i3 9100f with a cheap motherboard and 8gb ram. It has been online 24/7 for almost a year now, without any problems and always with 2 GPU's. Folding on that CPU is not a good idea with 2 GPU's though, even with only 2 cores for the CPU client it'll use 100% CPU with every checkpoint and that will have a big impact on the GPU PPD. The problem is having enough PCI-e lanes on the CPU/Motherboard. With 3080's you'll need 8x lanes per GPU if you don't want to bottleneck them.

In. Bastiaan_NL Add me for 24 hours of RTX 3090 folding, for someone who earns <5 million PPD.

It's a German webshop: https://www.techxxl.de/

I really enjoyed this one too! Usually I don't take the time to listen to them but I should do that more often.

A little package showed up today Aluminium profiles and a few bags of hardware! And this is what it looks like for now, will have to do some testfitting soon to start working on custom brackets etc. I have a few spare profiles, not sure about the layout yet..

I'm a big Fractal Design fan, but I doubt I would try to fit 2 360 rads in my S2. In my Define 7XL I've got a 420x45 and a 280x45 rad with push/pull fans, and even in a big case like that it's a tight fit. Dual 360 rads would work good in there, with enough clearance for memory. One thing I like too, the dust filters keep the system pretty clean! I try to clean them once every 2 weeks on a system that runs 24/7, easy to do and no dust on my rads.

Same, I've been running my card for the Foldathon over there and no hiccups in the stats ? I like the idea of the handicap system, test it out and we'll see what happens.

Happy to hear that, not a nice job to clean blood from the radiator fins

Welcome to EHW! Every unit counts ?

Nothing a few zipties won't fix Will there be some protection around those rads/fans? That sounds good! My 3090 in the 7XL is creeping towards the 70°C on air with the case closed vs 65°C in the Meshify S2 case, my current 7XL setup is not good for an aircooled GPU. Everything is ready for a waterblock on the 3090, but I'm still waiting on the release of a Heatkiller ftw3 block