J7SC_Orion

...long Easter weekend allows for extended flying...from Russia with a slow amphibious plane to exceeding speed safety limits flying low in a valley in the Himalayas ?

...I'm sitting back for a bit ? and see if there will be updates on the updates on the mobo bios and v-bios for the r_BAR. I don't really like updating bios unless I have to, especially as I just spent a month chasing down rabbit holes for fine tuning hyperfast RAM settings ?

Very noice ! ...and with all this firepower, you might want to rename your build "Projectile T3sla"

...with my latest purchase, I never get to sit for long periods ?

...I was talking about cleaning the whole place around here, for economies of scale ? ...anyway, international travel is probably not such a good idea right now, what with quarantine requirements, travel bans etc. ...for the record, I have a Datavac but for the tight nooks and crannies (ie. the bit on a w-cooled GPU between the PCB/VRM and the acrylic part of the block) I prefer the 'air in a bottle', compared to Q-tips etc.

...I'm going to have to invite you guys to do all the cleaning around here ...I'll supervise ?

Datavac can't get into some of the nooks and crannies, at least not w/o complete disassembly (I rather not; dust is not that bad). Anyhow, general Datavac round as 'final' after all the major nooks and crannies stuff is done ?

The Asus Pro Series TRX80 for Threadripper Pro is out now and in stock in a place in Canada...surprisingly 'affordable' (for what it is) prices below are in CAN $....within the general range of the TR Zenith Alpha II, plus minus...TR Pro CPUs are now ins stock in some places as well... We have been looking at TR Pro at work, but the premium over the regular TRs only makes sense in certain narrowly defined workstation apps. Dr. Ian Cutress / Anandtech did a thorough test review of the TR Pro <> TR last month (below). One of the major problems I see right now is that Zen-3 based TRs are not to far off, with Epyc 8-channel based on Zen-3 already launched now...can an updated TR Pro be far behind ? source

...integrating new systems into the existing home-office setup & updating several existing machines with new Artic P12 pwms - for that, purchased 'essential equipment', such as dust remover for electronics and another set of Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut...

banned coz...the last time I tried to assist with s.th. like that didn't go so well...

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...had a few moments to get back to Cyberpunk 2077...I like jumping off that bridge (center of pic, 4K RTX Psycho)...one of these days, I'll even figure out a way back from the river's edge w/o reloading the saved game scene ?

banned coz...I certainly would not call that docking or anchoring, either...also banned for bringing a toy digger to a man's job

banned for parking your boat diagonally in the Suez

...and at least if your reside in Europe, that Suez canal blockage by that giant Evergreen container ship may soon add to 'shortage' prices...hope not though as things are bad enough already re. pricing and availability ?

banned for bringing the Bannerlord into this...?

banned...for banthread not banning

...I used to have a pair of Asus DCu GTX 670s, and they were a blast...in those days (2012/3) you could still edit the VBios in Notepad after renaming the .rom...Power Limit too low ? No problem...clocks not to your liking ? Fix that asap. Those were the days...sigh Nowadays with those UEFI VBios, they want to have you arrested if you just look at them the wrong way ?

Nice ! I've now freed up my ancient but functional supply of GentTyp 3K and Sunon 5K fans for other projects as a result of my Arctic P12 value pack purchases... safe(r) for fingers and USB sticks ?

...so far 'no', though I don't expect the same quality as Noctua at that price point...so far, I've used up 18 P12s of the 'ample supply I secured' but I do run them at around 50% for now. Also, everything, including the rads, is mounted in a vibration-dampening foam / rubber layer around them. ..I did notice that one of the P12s was turning slower (by about 200 rpm) than all the rest on the same fan hub / fan setting so I put that one aside for other duties...

'grats on that 6900XT coup, whether you keep it longer-term or not. Looking forward to the FS2020 screenshots !

...that's a tough one...FS 2020 doesn't really support SLI other than 'CFR' (Checkerboard / tile), not the usual AFR...CFR was undocumented by NVidia though it got leaked by 3Dcenter.org...but it only worked for RTX 2K, afaik w/ drivers from November '19 to early summer '20...a few pages back in this thread, I give more detail, including driver# range and NV Inspector setting for CFR Still, worth at least a try with 2x 1080 Ti / 11 GB. If you can get it working, 2x 1080 Ti should do well at 4K