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Yeah this would work in any system as it is just an expansion card, I would imagine you do not even need specific drivers as windows will see this as a standard expansion device or will just install the drives and not that it comes from the same PCIe address.

Good question regarding SLI running at different slot rates. While I have no evidence of this nor been in the situation, I would imagine either the system will match the PCIe slot speeds (So dropping one from 16x to 8x). Or it has no bearing at all on performance as the majority of SLI data transfer happens over the SLI link bus. All theory, never tested it.

Bedrock seems to be a good go between though from what I have seen

Oh right yeah I remember someone saying you cannot do it with Java. Will be interesting to see what @NavJack27 pulls off with Bedrock then.

Hey bud ! Welcome to the site, It has been a torrent of changes for you but looks like things looking up. Congratulations on the better paying job ! Makes a huge difference.

Ohhh nice ! Good luck with the conversion, does that mean if all goes well then the server will support RTX moving forward ?

It will prove to be a bit of a minefield for sure. I can see a few RMA's happening due to the non savvy user flashing what they assume is the latest and greatest BIOS. Hopefully vendors will make it painfully obvious for users or as you say, maybe AMD can make it more fool proof.

Well there is no doubt the inspiration was taken from Rainbox Six for sure, but I suppose where do you draw the line ? If it looks similar you can just trample over everyone else ? What if you are a dev and know of a mechanic that works well and you want to replicate that kind of mechanic, not copy just replicate the likes of it. Is that wrong ? I am not so sure there case will hold up.

Dual cores are still capable, just depends what it is clocked at. I have the Asus AC-RT5300 which is a quad core at 1.8Ghz, serves me well, just using that as a frame of reference.

Good man !

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-reverses-course-will-enable-zen-3-support-on-b450-and-x470-motherboards ​​

Velcro was another idea I did have as it does make maintenance easier for sure. Might just go that route then now its its been suggested again lol

Yeah that FBI no warrant thing is a move in the wrong direction, another good reason for a VPN and clearing all your searches haha. You should not see too much of a hit on you throughput, what can kill your throughput is when you setup the VPN to be processed on say your router, if the router does not have a powerful enough CPU to encrypt/decrypt the information fast enough then it will bottleneck you. I used to run it on my router, actually bought a new router to keep up but after the VPN client was being an ass on the router I know just run the client on the PC. Running the client on the PC will yield the best results so far as speeds. As I said above, I use Torguard, Really nice client, good configuration options and a plethora of servers to choose from. I have never had an issue with speeds via there services. Further more they do have decent support with live chat too and if you wanted to run your client on the routers they fully support that as well and can provide you with the configuration files etc. They even sell routers that are pre-flashed with DD-WRT and the likes with the VPN ready to go if you are the type of person who is unsure which router to get and how to go about custom firmware etc. You can see their packages here : https://torguard.net/anonymoustorrentvpn.php Happy to take some pictures of the PC client if it helps you get a feel for it.

I am sure everything survived, will await on a GPU to test each riser section to ensure all is well before I start using hot glue in places lol. I am surprised that I have not seen other builds like this, converting a mining rig type build into a Folding@Home rig, or similar project. There probably are some and I have just not looked hard enough.

Not sure just yet but they certainly behave like doggo's at times, especially Babbit (the grey one). Fyi there names are Babbit and Bobs lol

Hello all, So the guys have been hard at work talking about the latest events from GTC 2020 to the unveiling of the Unreal 5 Engine & more. Listen now ! Please also take note of the EHW Folding@Home competition on June 3rd - 5th, there are prizes to be had so check it out ! Thanks, E

Nice scores Yeah that expander card that came with the X399 was nice, I actually never needed to use it but a nice piece of kit nonetheless. Good thing those come with HEDT platforms as they are the only platforms with enough lanes to support all those M.2 drives as well as Dual GPU's etc.

Well I am pleased to announce that the items kindly donated by @InverseTundra made there way to my doorstep this morning, here is the stash including our interested Rabbits. I got straight to it and started to install the the PCIe risers into the case. I did end up re-doing a little cable management while I was working everything out in my head as to where to best put things for easy maintenance in the future if something goes faulty, a fan for instance. I proceeded to do some rough routing of the USB 3.0 cables and the riser card power cables dipping and ducking around certain case elements, all without too much issue. I did remove two of the fans from the mid section of the case in order to allow for easier cable routing through the holes that would have usually housed the fans. With airflow being more than good enough, there is no loss in cooling by removing these fans, I kept the center one which will blow directly at the CPU heat-sink and fan solution. Due to the EVGA Powersupply position, it will mostly cover the lower half of the motherboard, as such I have pre-installed the USB 3.0 risers into the mobo as well as the necessary power cables. This means I can simply install the PSU later without any worry of trying to work around it or disrupting any prior work. Once installed all I have to do is hook up the cables to the PSU and we are good to go. Here to the right you will see a small white header with a black and red cable, this is a handle little jumper that comes with the mobo that hooks up to the 24Pin ATX connector of the other PSU that will handle all the power to the GPU's. As you may guess, what this does is jump start the GPU PSU when the system powers on, much better than the other bulky adapters you can get. This motherboard being a mining board, you can use this method for up to 4 PSU's...not too shabby ! That is it for now. The next step is to install the SSD and use some hot glue to secure the USB risers into the PCIe 1x slots, just enough to prevent them being easily pulled out. I will do the same for the USB connections on the PCIe 16x riser cards. However I will not do this until I verify that each riser is working correctly and communicating with the system. I will wait for the GTX 1070 in order to do that. For ease of testing I will be using Windows 10, but when it comes to folding time the machine will run a variant of Linux. Here it is tucked up for the night until the next phase ! Until next time ! Thanks again to all our generous donors as well as TeamGroup & Overclockers UK for sponsoring this project !

Hopefully @1usmus will be able to look into this and chime in as well.

The current gen was rushed out due to the mining crisis, that and I think they wanted the foothold on hardware driven realtime ray tracing as soon as they could. I think they know AMD is making some larger strides in the GPU game and wanted to get Turing out to claim the ray tracing crown while they worked on their non beta test generation...Ampere. I honestly think if AMD were not competing in the ray tracing until later that we would only have been introduced to ray tracing with Ampere. To be honest we have the next gen consoles partly to thank for pushing AMD which I think in turn forced Nvidia to rush out Turing. These are all just theories. Nvidia not doing charity work ? I never knew !

At this point it really is a guessing game on the 3080Ti. I think we will still see 12GB V-RAM, especially now it looks like they will be using tensor cores to do some funky memory compression. The full fat GA100 IMHO will be the new Titan card. I thing this gen there will be a larger disparity between the new Titans and RTX cards. This gen...there was really little reason to go for a Titan unless you needed the extra VRAM. This must have eaten into the profits Nvidia could have seen from the Titan cards this gen. I think we will see Cuda count at the upper end of the 5000's. I think when you start nearing the 6000+ mark you are entering the Titan range. The earlier rumors of a card at the 8000 range of Cuda cores I think is a little out there. In any case it is all best guess right now. The new rumored tech coming out for the new RTX range though is exciting to say the least, it really does show that Turing really was a Beta. Which I knew going into it that it was obvious that the second gen ray tracing would be far superior, especially considering we know NV were moving to a smaller node. Haha yeah, they are really good PSU's from what I hear, just not cheap, but you get what you pay for, well most of the time lol.

Nuclear is a "Clean" method, the only unfortunate thing is the disposal of the waste and the decommissioning of nuclear plants. I am half in, half out when it comes to nuclear energy just due to the waste disposal being what it is.

No, with a system like yours there is no real compelling need to upgrade. The only thing I am upgrading in my system will be to the 3080Ti when that surfaces, selling my SLI setup (actually already sold one) and will go with a single GPU solution moving forward but wanted to include it in my WC loop instead of the more bulky GPU's or GPU with an AIO WC solution. The EVGA 1600 Supernova P2 has never caused me any issues at all (Touch wood), it is actually a little overkill. When I had the 2990WX and the dual 2080Ti's + Overclocks I thought it prudent to go a little over the top, I prefer more headroom than less. I also chose it after doing some research, the oem producer of the psu is SuperFlower and they have a grand reputation (among others) for creating quality units.

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/a...g-guide/2.html I have always adjusted the CLDO VDDP as per what the calculator recommends, never had an issue thus far. It is an important element in the memory OC as per the definition above. Not adjusting it could result in instability. However that being said, feel free to do your own testing. If you are 100% stable without altering it then that is fine, if not then consider altering it as per the calculator or do some research to backup what the calculator is suggesting. What I know is that I have skipped that step before and my OC was stable, so had to go back and change it to the calcs recommendation, but that is just my experience.

Yeah will be sure to post pics. It will not look like a showcase build as mine are more for purpose than looks and I use trusty EPDM tubing for low maintenance but it will be interesting nonetheless. Yeah the D5 Next was a fair bit more expensive than I thought but I treat it as an investment as it will hopefully not only serve me for a long time but is also an AIO solution as it comes with the flow meter etc and will give me some nice statistics to look at on Aquasuite haha. Yeah the X570 luckily is supporting the next gen, though I may not go next gen. My 3950X is working great for me and is fantastic middle ground for workstation and gaming. It gives me PCIe 4.0 for my M.2 drives and future GPU. There is no need to really upgrade to the next gen, I would rather wait it out and do another build when DDR5 is commonplace, or even PCIe 5.0 as I know that standard is not a million miles away either. Upgrading now I think would be more spending money for the sake of spending money with very little gain.