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Haha...truth be told though, each and every GPU above ends up in a mundane working system after their moment in the performance sun, or at least as backup. Ever seen a new office intern trying to figure out what an EVBot is for :p ​ ​

...let's see: NV 600 series - bought 5x (!) custom PCBs, yeah baby AMD 79xx - bought 4x custom PCBs (oh yeah, custom Bios @ 1.38v) NVidia 78x Ti series -( bought 4x PCBs, EV Bot, yeah baby) NVidia 98x Ti series - (bought 4x PCBs, EV Bot, yeah baby) NVidia 10x series...(pass, no thank you) Nvidia 2080 TI custom w-cooled series, bought 2x, wow - love it ! NVidia 3080 TI series, what the f**k ...a fool and his money...to be continued...

Yeah...& tx - that will cut down my time significantly looking for different ISOs or thumb drives on my systems, only to wait for more update screens after I load those

...certainly hope you recognize your dawggo - since it has been eating your chickinz for years, and always begging for more ban chickinz substitutez

I got my 5G 'electric fog protector' much cheaper !

Sure the artwork will sell...also, we can put Leo & Gus on the payroll for a new art project - lay down a white canvas on the floor, put chickinz on a hook and line connected to a computer fan above their heads, have Leo & Gus walk through thick paint and then let the chase begin. We can sell a limited print run and call it "Life's Struggles of Want" ban

50 mill EURO is a nice budget for a 'decent' yacht At time of writing...: 1 EUR =1.10161 USD 1 USD = 0.907759 EUR ban

banned coz...your chance to own great art

Thanks gents ! I use some Bitspower fittings (including QDs) which shouldn't represent a problem then w/ ZMT and similar. But I am not sure though about a pile of older Swiftech compression fittings that can get tight even with advanced Primochill PrimoFlex LRT. I should order some EPDM / ZMT and just try it out with all the fitting I have.

Those valve fittings are a smart idea with a mobo monoblock ! I remember trying to drain a loop with "just" two GPU card blocks and mobo_vrm w-cooled setup for an upgrade, and that was some theater (in the Greek tragic sense). Since then, I do discreet loops for GPU(s) and CPU/VRM anyway, but valve fittings would do the trick even better. Another quick question: Are those hoses / tubes in your pic EK ZMT, or other ? I would like to use EK ZMT for an upcoming workstation build, but also read that EK ZMT only plays nice with EK fittings (not sure if that is true).

Nice. I also like placement for the D5 Next with quick readout...and I gather you did not have to use the new O-rings (good to have some spares, though) ? Another quick question: Is that some sort of valve (green circle) ?

yeah, but I'm not cutting my ear off !

...yeah, definitely still very much a niche market for SLI/NVLink, as is 4k (according to Steam user data). Perhaps with Hopper onward, it *might* change for the aforementioned reasons. As to running remastered Crysis, possibly, if it uses the Cryengine updates in Neon Noir

...for now they'll probably keep it more in the shadows, with support still spotty depending on app...but per above posts, this is probably more for SW developers for 'some future-gen GPU architecture (such as Hopper)' when mGPUs / multi-chiplet designs come out. Still, some apps work great already - and yes, "it can play Crysis" EDIT: Not so much about CFR vs AFR/2, but about SLI/NVLink in general vs a single card...: Here's an interesting YouTube vid (by BFG / Benchmarks For Gamers) about 2x 2080 Ti in some modern game titles. Looking at 1% low FPS, when gaming with 4K especially (rather than 1080p), the results are pretty impressive

Well, some select 4K results now for Crytek's Neon Noir... First, in case you're wondering why NVlink_SLI 'CFR' is also called checkerboard ...not everything works as it should if you 'force' CFR...here is some Firefox browser fun ...but Crytek's Neon Noir bench works very well with CFR ! Not only better scores but apparently also lower and more consistent frame times. 4K results. Please note that there was no overclock (GPU or VRAM) on the GPUs in order to keep it all compatible between runs and also between resolutions. Typically, full-tilt OC with this bench and setup adds about 10% -15% to the scores. Also, this might still be the older Crytek Neon Noir engine (I thought I updated it, but every time I log in, it wants to update again - still, the same engine was used for all the runs below). Settings: 4K, Ultra, Fullscreen, stock clocks 7073 - Forcing CFR - 6326 - Forcing AFR2 - 4282 - Forcing AFR - (AFR is default dual card setting) 4733 - Single/Auto-select GPU -

...I saw that earlier...but 1.194v @ 7.7 GHz ? I know liquid helium is great for oc'ing, but... ...most likely, it had some power-saving feature kick in. In any case, great achievement by Elmor ! Looks like the ol' 14nm +++++++ still has some life in it

...ahh, so the o-ring is the culprit !? Depending on cost, may be get both sets (55z4, 55x5), also for future reference ? BTW, here's another 'gunk' item that can be helpful, for example to (thinly) coat older gaskets and o-rings with. It's non curing (unlike the Seal-all above) which is good for subsequent disassembly. This is the polyurethane version; there's also a silicone-based version. I have this before in 'universal VGA blocks' after taking them apart after noticing a small leak due to a worn o-ring seal (...again, if used, should be thinly applied, and double check list of materials for compatibility)

Bummer ! But at least you noticed it early enough. Loop pressure should not be able to do that within normal parameters. Can you actually tell exactly where the 'leak' is coming from on the reservoir (i.e. is the area where you see it also the source or just the collection point due to gravity etc) ? Or could it possibly even be condensation, or does it match your loop liquid ? I ask because I have used the stuff below on leaking cooling blocks for a PC to great effect, as well as fixing a huge fuel line for the carb in a car I had at the time (the fix lasted for at least another 200k km before I sold that beast).

...WC GPU w/ D5 Next - nice... One thing on my mind is the 400W power rating of the A100 'big' Ampere at ~ 1.4GHz. Granted, 54 billion transistors, 40 GB of HBM2 and all that stuff which likely won't make it into the consumer 3080 Ti or Titan versions. Still, with 7nm designs concentrating hot-spots, it will be crucial to find a really well-designed GPU water-block.

...so that's the monster under the bed kids are scared off ?! Found some more detailed info on the (current) top 'industrial' Ampere, the A100...For 3080 Ti (and Titan Ampere), take out HBM2 40GB for 24GB / 12GB (?) GDDR6, take out a few tensor cores and add rt cores - and voila. Real question is what final configs they'll launch, also with an eye on big-Navi (also due in Q3). All that said, by the time custom PCB cards are out and enough supply is available, we might be into Christmas holidays / early 2021 ? Hopefully, it will be a better release than RTX Turing was, and no 'test escapes' this time...

...well, a project for a rainy weekend ;-) In any case, the MSI X399 Creation, with which the Aoero 4-slot M.2 Xpander card came, obviously supports it, at least if I'm willing to give up some lanes of the secondary GPU. On the other hand, the Asus X99-E WS (pic / brief description below) comes not only with 4x PCIe 3.0 x16, but also with native M.2 NVME onboard...besides, unlike the MSI X399 Creation build (and the X79-E WS also in use), it currently doesn't have SLI GPUs installed anyway. On a related note, before I take the plunge, I should confirm that new 2TB M.2 NVME PCIe 4.0 drives will work in the (PCIe 3.0) MSI Aero Xpander, albeit with the drives in PCIe 3.0 mode only

Thanks guys...I have one MSI X399 Pro Carbon as my sole X399 "reserve", plus my soho office has both an Asus X99-E-WS and Asus X79-E WS humming away at daily tasks. PLX is onboard w/ at least the Asus E WS mobos

Yeah, I would prefer to keep my two 2080 Tis at 16x each, though theoretically, with the TR X399, there should be enough lanes. In any case, if that doesn't work right (ie performance loss on GPU NVLink), I just plug the Aero Xpander 4x M.2 into another MSI X399 mobo I have that carries a single GPU - or perhaps even in an older Asus X99-E-WS (Intel), if I can get the drivers going. That should also actually work (w/ the right drivers), given that this is 'just another' PCIe spec card...!?

Thanks much ! I should also check the mobo manual for the X399 Creation re. 'the 3x regular' M.2 slots on the mobo and which ones connect to the CPU vs chipset

A bit more on mGPU CFR, AFR/2... - Rumour has it (rumour = add salt shaker!) that NVidia, very quietly, added CFR for developers working on 'Hopper' (architecture after Ampere). With GPU dies still being huge even after node shrink to 7nm, mGPU is expected to gain some wind in its sails as vendors *might* have to focus on multi-die single socket GPUs (a la AMD Ryzen CPU pattern) - Below are 2 x 2 benches (Valley, Neon Noir) comparing CFR and AFR NVLink modes. For now, just at 1080p, no GPU OC etc which is also held back a bit by the TR 2950X at that resolution (unlike 4K, but that monitor is in use on another test-bench). Then again, the same handicap applied to all tests, and other factors such as ambient temps were the same. Still, I look forward to add full-OC, 4K results. - CFR seems to work in Valley, Heaven, Superposition and Cryengine Neon Noir..and work very well. I noticed not only slightly higher scores but also a bit lower frame times Valley 1080 AFR Valley 1080 CFR Neon Noire 1080 (ultra) AFR2 (better than AFR for this bench) Neon Noire 1080 (ultra) CFR ...and for 1080p AFR 'all stock' vs 4k full-OC AFR (incl. GPUs + CPU) with the same quality settings (but slightly older driver)...