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Source Definitely some nice increases here over previous Navi cards, my 5700 might get replaced with a new AMD card as long as they have done something for h264 hardware encoding quality and hopefully added hardware AV1 decode. Folding@Home and other Distributed GPU Computing tasks should get some nice increases well well. Hopefully we don't see a bunch of bots and miners snatch these up. AMD has been quoted by some unconfirmed sources that they won't face the same supply issues as Nvidia did with the 3080 and 3090 launch, but time will tell what happens. We still have yet to really see ray-tracing performance and how they will compete with some of Nvidia's other features.

User APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) on Twitter has found some benchmark results from the unreleased and unnannounced Ryzen 7 5800x in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark. Now the difference in memory (16 GB vs. 32 GB) is claimed to not affect the benchmark results much if at all. Users CapFrameX (@CapFrameX) and Planet 3DNow! (@planet3dnow) has put together some quick comparison tables to show the performance difference as well as against the current Ryzen 7 3800x Additional Tech Power-up Article: First Signs of AMD Zen 3 "Vermeer" CPUs Surface, Ryzen 7 5800X Tested We are getting a healthy generational bump of 21-32% in a gaming workload and 14-22% increase over the current "fastest gaming CPU" on the market. This is of course only a single benchmark that can take advantage of all cores and threads and Intel has been known to boost much higher in games using less than 8 threads so this isn't a solid win for AMD even if the numbers are true. This does bode very well though for content creators or anyone who is using their CPU codes for Streaming Encoding while gaming on the other half of the CPU. Now we just need to wait for the official launch and see if @1usmus will add support to his upcoming Clock Tuner for Ryzen to unlock some more efficient power consumption and boosting here on Extreme Hardware or on Twitter as Yuri Bubliy (@1usmus).

Thanks haha, I just wanted to document the process somewhere in case anyone else has an urge to build a decent little home rack, also EHW needs more content ?

My initial look at CollectD looks like something similar to Telegraf that I am already using on my Linux servers. I'll have to look more in to it if CollectD would work better for system stats of my Windows boxes as well. Ideally I would want to have the same thing for all then just all my systems so that I can have a single Grafana Dashboard with all the systems on it with the drop-down which is what I have now with a Telegraf Dashboard.

Once I got InfluxDB and Grafana setup, I kind of just went overboard with the stats I was throwing in and making dashboards, most just end up looking pretty and not having any real troubleshooting stats on them, but sometimes it can help identify trends.

When I do boot up my Linux side, I normally just use Google Chrome if I need to do anything that uses Google Services, otherwise I use a regular Chromium build for general browsing and as default browser.

Yeah, I couldn't find many people that had done the swap on this particular model as the Sunon Fans that Eaton selected actaully use something called "Locked Rotor Detection" on the sense line and I guess some fans have too low or high resistance on their sense line that causes fan alarms, but these Arctic's seemed to have worked for other people. I didn't spend much time looking in to the technical details of it too much as these were cheap alternatives and my rack is in a climatized environment anyway so the high-speed fans probably aren't needed. I'm assuming that Eaton put in the fans they did to account for being installed in a non-airconditioned industrial telecom rack somewhere so the added airflow would be important. The default UPS plugin wouldn't recognize my Eaton UPS, so I had to use NUT-Settings Plugin that allows me to access all the values from the UPS including all 3 outlet groups, input voltage, input frequency etc. I'm using a User Script to feed those to InfluxDB then to a Grafana Dashboard per the below screenshots. As for shutdown of my gaming PC, I currently just have a Powershell script that runs on my gaming PC that polls the InfluxDB every 5 minutes. If it detects that the UPS is on Battery mode for 15 minutes, then it issues a safe shutdown command. The UPS itself is configured to hard power off Outlet Group 2 if the battery gets down to 50% as an added backup to give my network gear and UnRaid server more time. The UnRaid server will shut itself off at 20% battery then ideally I would still have another couple hours of internet as long as the ISP doesn't cut the signal. Thanks mate, really need to do all those little final clean up steps along with build a front filter panel the the Chenbo Case.

I never left, just paused Folding ? And my Navi 5700 is getting about 1mil per day if I am to believe the v7 client's estimate.

Okay, should be fixed now. It looks like when I was doing "Right-Click > Copy Image" in Chrome from my Google Photos, it was actually hard-linking to the image URL on Google's servers, so unless you had a Google Account logged in, you couldn't see those images. Fixed them all by actually uploading images to EHW directly instead.

So as a little bit of historical tracking, the following thread helped me with the fan replacement in my Eaton UPS as the stock Sunon 3600 RPM fans (ME80251VX-0000-G99) were a little loud and definitely designed for a worst case of the UPS being installed in a non-cooled rack. Original HardForum Thread: Arctic Replacement fans I used: Arctic F8 TC - Temperature-Controlled 80 mm Case Fan New fans are significantly quieter and I opted to place the temperature sensors of the fans on the actual fin stacks of the inverter section of the UPS. The main thing to note is that in this UPS case, the Black and Red are the Ground and 12V lines for the fan and the Yellow wire is the Locked Rotor feedback that instead is connected to the RPM feedback line. I also managed to get the Extended Battery Module installed, it was at about 72% charge when I installed it and it quickly charged up to 90% then takes about 12 hours to fill the last 10% to help keep the batteries lifespan. Even at only 96% charge right now, I went from around 40 minutes of runtime at 300W of load to over 3 hours of runtime. I feel much more comfortable running my gaming PC for Folding@Home off the UPS now as I also have email notifications when the UPS goes in to battery mode (notification from my UnRaid server with USB connection to server) and I also have Pulseway setup on the UnRaid server itself so that I can get an email notification from Pulseway's server if I lose internet access. I also installed two Gentle Typhoon fans in to the top two 120mm slots on the server rack and connected those down to my UnRaid server on a spare fan header so that I can control the fan speeds instead of just having the fans run 100%. I figure that since the server is the one thing that should always be running, it's a safe bet to control the rack fans from. Next on the list for this server will be: Unifi UDM-Pro to replace the Unifi USG-3P just sitting on the shelf 1U Cable organizers and/or 1U cable brushes and/or 1U keystone panel 1U Blank plates in the rest

Now that my server rack is complete, I have my Navi 5700 folding as long as I'm not gaming on it, so should start putting up some numbers again for the team.

Thanks for the glowing recommendation. Aside form my cable mess from my temporary ThermalTake non-modular PSU, I have plenty of space on the front of my 4U case for a thicker rad and even push-pull if I needed to.

I might have to look at trying to source a Hardware Labs Black Ice SR2, I definitely have the free space in my PC case, the Fractal Design Celsius' CPU Pump Block had previously ran the included 360mm RAD + CPU Block + RX480 GPU block, I don't think the fatboy SR2 would provide significant more flow resistance so I think it might be fine.

I've been kind of happy with my Sapphire Pulse 5700 as the fans on it stay off most of the time, even while watching Twitch or YouTube and the Decode Engine is being used, fans normally stay off so my computer is near silent with just a few Gentle Typhoons on a 360mm AIO. Going to enjoy going back to a full look though, but not sure if a 360mm will be enough for let's say a Ryzen 7 5800XT (future part speculation) and a 3080 under water. Might need to either get a 360mm thick boi rad, or a dual 90mm radiator to put on the rear of the case (4U rackmount case only has 3x 120mm on the front and 2x 90mm on the back).

Fingers crossed for sure mate

I'm hoping that smaller countries governments will be able to cover the costs for its citizens (like new Zealand) Larger countries with provincial/state governments within the country should hopefully be able to split the costs among the levels of government. Third-world countries that sign up and other less economic countries can hopefully still benefit from this global effort and be helped out by the economic giants that can afford to help out. It's in every country's interest to make sure every other country gets the vaccine to its people or we won't be able to fully battle COVID.

From a few of the AIB solutions I've seen though, some are choosing a less filled out VRM solution compared to the FE. Hopefully they have chosen RM components that will each be able to handle the increased load at full power and we don't have cards with failing power stages early in the life. We have all this wonderful tech on the card, but with NVENC making progress, and CUDA + RT cores running while in games, there's a good chance that gaming loads might actually be the really high power stuff that maxes out a cards power stage this generation as more AAA games are coming out with good RT support and all the new gamers that want to stream from the same PC they are gaming with. Going to be really interesting to see card temps for 3000 series in a few months.

Yep, luckily Eaton's site was wrong and the extended battery module is only 109 lbs, not 109 kg. So it's completely manageable on my own with proper gloves and steel toe boots as you mentioned. I still need to swap out the noisy Sunon 3600 RPM fans our for some quieter 80mm Arctic's that play nicely with the RPM sense line of the UPS, but that means shutting down my entire rack including network. I really should have invested in a UPS Bypass switch, but since the UPS as three distinct outlet groups, I would need at least 2 of the bypass switches to make it worthwhile. I think I can afford a couple hours of downtime later today to swap out those fans, if not tomorrow night for sure. I also need to power cycle the UPS to plug in the extended battery module anyway so that it recognizes the additional batteries on start-up and does a full battery test. So I can do the fan swap at the same time.

I got the UPS from my work as they were upgrading all the server racks to be fed from a central UPS so I got it through a work auction for around $500 with old batteries. I just bought the Extended Battery Module new though and got a deal on it through my work's commercial account. Prices new are as follows: Eaton 5PX3000RT2U: $1500 CAD Eaton 5PXEBM72RT2U: $900 CAD

My Eaton EBM arrived, another 72V/18Ah of capacity:

If AMD doesn't do something for H264 Encoding on Navi2, I will likely be looking at a 3080 for the better NVENC encoder for H264, definitely not a FE card though.

Source More support for Linux from Microsoft. It makes sense as the new Edge is Chromium which is already popular on Linux and for those Windows users who do enjoy the added customizations that Microsoft added can hopefully have a seamless experience across Windows and Linux like most Chrome and Chromium users already do.

Source It's unfortunate for the American citizens that will need access to this vaccine that may get stuck having to pay for it which will in turn reduce the efficacy of the vaccine if it isn't rolled out to the majority of the population. This is a global battle and I can't understand how these pockets of non-COVID believers popped up on top of non-believers of science backed vaccines.

BBC Source The Next Web Source Without knowing the details of the TV in questions, it might have been built to proper standards at the time, but the TV set could have just been used for so long that it's now out of spec and causing issues. It's baffling that it took this long to find the problem and that other electrical issues weren't also popping up, or maybe they were just not enough of a problem for the village.

Source More Optical switches making their way in to keyboards, prices are a little high in my opinion, but I feel some people may be willing to pay that for the volume knob alone on these.