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...and the rabbit hole...inevitably leads to...the full DSotM album...

Noice ! I crawl down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole at least twice a month...

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...the 'Porposie' build with the rejuvenated and modded TT 240 is still humming away with the same temp deltas for idle and load...since the end of July 2020 now, so the rebuild was worth it one way or the other... ...Porpoise has moved though - below shows its temporary home (re. cable '''management''') - building a new dual loop for 3950X / 3090 Strix OC and that affects three other existing w-cooled builds in daily use...going to be a busy month !

...more parts came in for my dual-loop build ...still missing a couple of items but getting there. I got the new build-itch bad... So far today: - EK Strix 3090 OC GPU block - 2x XSPC D5s - 2x TT Pacific CL 480x64 - 2x Kryonaut thermal ...and also 2x old 160 mm 'thick' Black Ice Nemesis' rads to be rejuvenated...

...big metro areas have photogrammetry detail ? ...we live in such an area and not only can I see our kitchen window, but also my home-office window I look out from as I m looking in (if that makes any sense...) ...looking forward to that ! I know the area around Paris reasonably well as we have a EU HQ there, should be interesting how much photogrammetry they add for Pairs, Lyon, may be Marseilles...with Covid-19, got to do my French travels 'digitally'

...or you could just set it to 'unlimited fuel'... ...checking out the new UK scenery updates, starting with London...gorgeous and immersive on a 55 inch tv/monitor

...izz quad-SLI watercooling loop from many moons ago, stuffing a 'V12' into a moped frame, so to speak...was looking through some old build-pics as I'm getting parts in now for a new dual-loop setup.... ...More recent builds are a bit more rational (below, that has only 4 pumps) - I probably follow that pattern more as the 'snake charmer' above...

I love Watercool Heatkiller and like Bykski (have both, the latter as OEM). However, there's a fellow in another thread who has a Bykski block for his 3090 and after just a few months, the nickel plating is apparently flaking off in one area. This can happen (it did to EKWB years back), but it is obviously a sign of a quality control issue for that batch at least.

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...whaddya mean there's something wrong with my cable tube management ?

....a little bit of this, a little bit of that...all part of expected multi deliveries for custom dual loop build-up

...yeah, you better get a move on re. upgrades ?

...well, lookie here what @ENTERPRISE 's cat dragged in just now - the first of multiple deliveries for the next12 days or so for a big dual-loop build. That blue stuff on the left is also thermal material (but 1.5mm, slightly thicker) and pre-cut for VRAM... ...Enterprise is probably looking for his cat right now (which is actually on another continent...). Anyway, I fed it ?

...I had bookmarked your OP and now have several packs of 1mm on the way (AmazonPrime Canada) for a new dual-loop build ?

... Moody Blues, yeah !

...as long as it doesn't say 'beginner's luck' or 'don't give up your day job', I wouldn't worry ? automation always had some teething issues:

...like what names, if I make ask ? ?

...I know, but modding a Cessna for mach x does sound interesting, too ? ! The above post / vid just underscores that it can be done, and how to do it...?

...re. caches, even with a fast connection, there's always a latency lag to the 'nearest Microsoft Azure server providing you your stream out of its pool of > 2 petabytes. A my location, it is typically 20ms - 23ms. That is another area where the cache really helps. If you set rolling cache big enough, it will keep most of the earlier-parsed items (I set my rolling cache to 200 GB). ...as to custom modding, the sky's the limit (pardon the pun).... some really crazy stuff, like attempting to fly a 747 to outer space, or 'bulk up' your Cessna's engine for mach 2. An example would be the YT vid below whereby the author provides some specific directory & file paths (caution !) as to where to do it in this or related vids ...of course the other flight model AI bits for that particular plane you are modding don't always take kindly to a lunatic parameter value being exchanged for the real thing. In any case, if you do such mods, I would make sure to have a 'clean copy' somewhere else on the drive (may be rename it FS2020old) so you can recover. ...yeah, some of the giant patches download new features, but you have to 'activate' them in the marketplace. Others are separate 'fresh' downloads per the marketplace, depending on the version you purchased. When I installed the FS2020 on the second machine per above posts (ok as long as you don't have both copies active at the same time), I only had the default plane available, even with the 'premium deluxe' version...I needed to activate the rest of the planes at the marketplace again. ...same for some the world updates I had already on the first machine.

...starting to get into a more thorough comparison between two work-play 4K machines which both have FS2020 onboard. We finally have been switching all our productivity and work-from-home machines to 4K, so I am in the process of building up the 2nd, newer system...fully functional and very quick now already, but it's going to get the same extensive dual custom w-loops treatment as the first setup...both have their work functions and will coexist (peacefully, I hope ? ) The 1st system (used for much for this thread so far) has an AMD TR 2950X w/ two w-cooled 2080 Tis set to SLI-CFR, along with 32GB of Samsung-B set to 14-14-14 // 3466 MHz and an all-core 'oc' of 4300 MHz The 2nd system has an AMD 3950X w/ a 3090 Strix OC (GPU air-cooled for now) with an identical kit of 32GB Samsung-B...it's currently completely 'stock' re. clocks and auto PBO as I am waiting for custom w-cooling parts for both the CPU and GPU. By first boot, the machine showed it was capable - at stock voltages - of an Infin clock of 1900 MHz and (1:1) RAM set to 3800 MHz, with 16-15-15 timings. So far, both machines have been fairly competitive...the 3950X is clearly faster than the 2950X, but they 'compete in the same class' rather than it being lopsided. The TR 2950X memory subsystem does enjoy big bandwidth, what with quad-channel memory, vs dual channel (though with quad sticks) for he 3950X. NUMA mode is used below for the 2950X as that is the setting I use for FS2020, otherwise the latency would be higher...the 3950X is in default (UMA) mode, and no slouch either in the memory department: No hard comparative numbers yet for FS2020as I am doing a through comparison between the two using the equivalent oc settings for the GPUs...the 3090 w/ its 24 GB of DDR6X VRAM clearly has an advantage though in that department, and when unleashed (like below of a Superposition 8K) it can really pile it on... ....that said, the 2x 2080 Ti w-cooled are very quick in their own right - they can't match the 3090 Strix OC in sheer speed, but then again, there are two of them ? ...in Superposition 8K Optimized, the single 3090 just did a score of 8638, but my best result for 2x 2080 Ti for 8K Optimized is 11998...so it's not a wholly one-sided affair in FS2020 either... Ironically, the 3090, with peak Watts at over 503 W, is actually more efficient than the 760 W combined total observed peak of 759 W... But because the 3090 is still air-cooled unlike the 2x w-cooled 2080 Tis, I run both of them at a more conservative oc for now, until the 3090 gets its 'water jacket' custom loop as well. And because of their 'hybrid' productivity functions, all GPUs retain their stock bios and are not hard-modded. Finally - and very importantly NO MATTER WHAT GPU AND/OR RESOLUTION you run, both systems have access to a synchronized 200 GB rolling cache...the best thing one can do for FS2020 performance is to build up a big rolling cache, as discussed in earlier posts... Stay tuned for updates on the relative performance differences at 4K / Ultra, but for now, two screenshot teasers of the same general area....enjoy 2080 Ti SLI-CFR: 3090:

...drool ?, but ?

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...you might be able to do it via the voltage curve option in MSI AB after all, using the curve in the coordinate table to locate the voltage corresponding to the clocks you want, then limiting the max voltage to that. > Here is more on that process, though keep in mind that that write-up is for maxing GPU clocks...steps to limit clock via voltage curve adjustments operate on the same principle of modding the curve though. One thing to keep in mind is that NVidia boost algorithms (especially the recent ones) are also highly affected by GPU temps (and thus indirectly by ambient with your setup). The other factor would be power limits and max-voltage but those wouldn't come into play if you restrict the voltage and thus also MHZ rather than push it. Finally, with the MS AB curve mod, you still have to have worked out beforehand which 'clock' in the table corresponds to actual clock with boost on top. So voltage is the only locking tool I can think of...

not sure as I wouldn't use it on my RTXs...but - thermal tape if it doesn't have any hold down brackets ?