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...what to do at a 'slightly foggy' morning on New Year's day ? I have an idea

Wishing you all a Happy 2023 !

...delayed-fuse FYI ...just ran across > this --- you might want to try Process Lasso

...some serious mountains and twisties around here as well -fun for winter-driving . I first learned winter-driving in Europe, then in Ontario's snowbelt, with a torquey V8 rear-wheel drive...but the temps were well below -5 C (actually better for traction) and the car had full positraction rear-diff. I am not a great friend of fwd as I loath understeer (while oversteer can be fun...). ...some pics I posted before, the first two involved a more recent, twisty uphill jaunt in the winter, and the older pic (bottom-right) is when I returned from a cross-Canada drive in the winter and stopped at the Crowsnest Pass in the Rockies. FYI, I always carry chains for the tires...

...I always loved MDK, then MDK2. In fact, MDK2 is active on one of my older machines even now....just played a round w/2x GTX 980 Classies

...yeah, awd w/hybrid would be my choice also. As you may know, before winter really set in back East, we had about ten days of super-cold (for us here at sea level out West, -11 C might as well be - 50 C in the arctic). Roads were a mess with deep snow, then lots of black ice - awd came in handy with my SUV.

Very nice indeed, but I like to see you take that camper in the first pic up to Northern Quebec in the winter Nice to see that it has independent suspension and decent wheels (well, not the cop car). Hopefully, they'll add a hybrid option down the line.

...I got 8x GPUs over different gens that have EVBot capability, sooooo............; besides, you have other and cheaper options, per below

...rumour has it that the 7900X3D and 7950X3D are clocked very similar to the non-X3D parts, but whether they can be overclocked is another matter. I usually only build HEDT-type systems because after some gaming and oc benching fun, they will get put to use for business purposes. That said, my last two builds (3950X and 5950X) were desktop builds but still useful for business given the 4x RAM and the built-in dual network chips. AMD HEDT got expensive after the 2k series (and also shorter-lived chipsets) and Intel HEDT was MIA. However, there are some new interesting Threadrippers coming based on the Zen4 core, and Intel for its part is readying some new workstation-HEDTs (below)...so for a full-on folding machine, you might want to wait a few months to see what is available at what price...

...re. older GPUs, they're like many of my horse friends (Percherons) here; they are enjoying pasture... ...some of them, like 2x 780 Ti Classifieds, come in every once in a while for some retro-gaming --- @Bastiaan_NL As to the GPU-Z screenie, yes that was my Threadripper system w/ the two 2080 Ti Aorus Xtreme WF WB (factory water-block) - the one which is about to house the 3090 Strix as well. The 2080 Tis can clock a bit higher, but I tried a different setting in the new mobo-bios I flashed, and voila ~340 W just for the TR CPU...add in the ~750 W (before transient spikies) for the GPUs and another ~150 W or so for peripherals (3x D5s, lots of fans etc) and before you know it, the 1300W Platinum PSU starts to wheeze a bit. Speaking of which, yes, it likes to juice 12 V up first so that I can droop down a lot - like a kid on a slide. With the 3090 in there, I'll add a second PSU for that triumvirate. FYI, I added FSUltra best 3DM score yesterday; was going for some of the other 3DM benchies but then noticed I had those anyway from a few years back...

...you don't really need that extra kidney, do you ?

I see, and yeah, those P + E cores seem, well, not symmetrical and potentially troublesome ...what you need is an AMD Epyc 96C/192T w/4x RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB VRAM GPUs. And remember, this advice is worth as much as you paid for it.

...Banzai ! @Bastiaan_NL check out those edgy PerCap reasons after a 3DM run...

What's wrong with the 13900K (general, or specific to yours) ? Since I skipped that gen, I'm no expert, but I hope you're using Win 11 Pro with that...

Excusez-moi ? Moved to rumour mill ? But I read it on the internet, so it must be true Also, I avoided buying a 13900K or 7950X so far as I wanted to first see if the rumours of a 7950X3D would come true. I guess time will tell and we'll find out next week.

...better get ready for that 7950X3D...

"AMD plans to announce its Zen 4 3D V-Cache processors at CES 2023. According to @quasarzone, there will be three variants of the next-gen X3D design: the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and the 7950X3D. They will feature eight, twelve, and sixteen cores like their planar variants. The second-generation V-Cache technology will offer significantly more on-die bandwidth, but the buffer size should remain unchanged." The Ryzen 7 7800X3D will likely pack a 3D stacked cache die with 64MB of SRAM for a total of 100MB cache memory. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D could either feature two 64MB cache dies or a single denser cache die with 128MB of SRAM. Furthermore, the clock speeds of the Zen 4 X3D chips will be the same or close to their vanilla variants." source Juicy update on an earlier thread here' CES '23 starts next Thursday. Also, picture a dog with its tongue hanging out and dripping while looking at 200MB of bacon...

...from way, way back - ran across this when looking through the storage room. Probably belonged to one of my siblings and I 'borrowed it' long-term ...my current definition of retro-gaming --my setup from back in ~ February 2014. Those 780 Ti Classified cards could get close to 1700 MHz w/EVBot boost and chilled water. I still have them...these days, they're out on pasture, doing the odd retro-gaming session.

...well, I hate to see a fast w-cooled RTX 3090 just hang around the home-office on a shelf doing nothing... Also, I got that build-itch-fever again, but I am also still waiting for CES 2023 to figure out future build-paths (AMD X3D ? 13900 KS?). The Threadripper has very good memory performance and a ton of PCIe x 16 (3.0) lanes. Soooo.... ...a combined 19,200 CUDAs, 872 TMUs, 200 ROPs, 872 tensor cores, 150 ray tracing units and 46 GB VRAM sounds reasonable to me at this stage, especially for rendering tasks

...the time has come ! Once I get past the overload of Christmas turkey, ham and various forms of cranberry sweets, Raven_B will be made ready to accept it's Christmas present - another GPU (for a total of x3). The 2x w-cooled 2080 Ti in NVLink will be joint by the w-cooled 3090 Strix on the X399 Creation TR motherboard (which does support 3x GPU according to the manual; in addition to offering resizable_BAR). This behemoth build - which also has a second mobo with w-cooled CPU on the back - already weighs more than a 100 pounds in its current state , so what's a few more pounds ? ...the 3090 Strix is a great clocker and has a 2ndary vbios up to 520W; I've had it since late January '21 and it has a Phanteks block, thermal putty throughout and an additional heatsink on the back for extra VRAM cooling (24 GB of GDDR6X). Let the games begin ! That and additional work tasks that like lots of CUDA cores and VRAM...

oops, wrong thread - must be the Christmas turkey stuffing and cranberry wine

...the usual (three) suspects...originals are 4K HDR / .png but that doesn't really work well with most forums, so > mini versions:

As per above, there is supposed to be a restocking of 4090s going on, but the demand is strong, so I would reserve one you pre-selected by phone / credit card with a trusted retaiIer. As to 12VHPWR, the cables have sense pins and wires which determine whether the limit is 450W or 600W...there are 2x PCIe 8 pin to 12VHPWR cables available (including from Seasonic) which can hit 600W, but the PCIe plug right into the PSU...those cables will have '600W' stamped on them and use the beefy wire-gauge (!). Using a custom vbios, I can get close to 700W but the heavy-gauge CableMod custom cable is made for the Seasonic Platinum PX1300W and plugs into 4x PCIe 8 pin at the PSU end. The CableMod is the one at the right in the pic below.

The best of the Christmas Holiday Season to everyone, and a Happy New Year !

...nope, just a special Galax vbios (see above). Top-10 Superposition 8K has a lot of LN2ers, so 3210 on water makes me happy. EDIT - ...and since it is bitterly cold outside, I also did a few runs with the Raven_B's X399 MSI Creation Threadripper (oc at 340 W) and its 2x 2090 Ti Aorus Extreme Waterforce WB I got four years ago (oc 380 W each). That warms up any room in a jiffy, even with - 11 C outside EDIT# 2, back to the 4090...I think I found the absolute max core speed on water...