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Happy New Year!

Excuse my horrible note taking..... Managed to get the Socket 754 rig preliminarily built this evening. I'll try firing it up tomorrow. I am getting a POST beep, so it seems to be working. I'm about 90% with it. It's missing its X1950 PRO so I have some S3 PCI card in it right now. Missing its ZIP drive, but I have a beige one in it for now. Also missing its optical drive, so I have a dead one in it right now. Will see about getting display working and installing some form of OS on it tomorrow to make sure everything works so far (it should). Parts list I'm missing:

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone.

I don't wanna and you can't make me.

All servers are updated and ONLINE!

I read a few reports of people unlocking the shaders, but I wouldn't count on it. You're spot on, its for unlocked memory performance and higher clocks moreso than anything. With the right BIOS installed on a Vega56 it'll operate dang near identically to a Vega64, regardless of the missing shaders. It's been forever since I tried BIOS flashing, but from what I'm reading you want to make sure you have Samsung memory, and that you flash the correct BIOS to it. TechPowerUp will be your best source of information for this honestly. But yes, its absolutely possible to do, and worth doing.

Yeah. Those are very interesting results. So 3060Ti or RX6600/6700 (depending on budget). And then 3070 at the higher end. That's not what I would have expected at all, but that's kinda neat!

If I'm reading that graph correctly, looks like the RX6000 series cost per frame is the lowest? Neat way to look at things!

UPDATE: So of course, right after we get all 4 servers online, the developers decided to throw us a curve ball and update the game again. Seriously guys, you need to check this game out. New cars, new stock maps, new fluid dynamics simulation in the shock absorbers, I mean they really outdid themselves (again) with the free updates! As such, had to make sure our mod pack was updated as well. Our WA State servers 1 and 2 are both online. The Canadian servers (3 and 4) are currently offline and being updated with the latest pack, and being map swapped. Promise, done doing updates (unless the game does or mods break) for a little while now. Will give another update once those 2 are back online as well. Added: Lego Car DEMO Stambecco Pack 1.0 New Maps Added: Wild West Motorsports Offroad Track (Lidar) 1.5.1 LucasOil Trophy Truck Track (LiDAR Edition) 1.2.4 Mods that were updated: Gavril Grand Marshal Small Pack 2.033 Backyard Kart 0.8.6 2022 Procyon Centauri 1.0.4 Phoulkon CIWS V1.1 D-Series Configurations, Engines, Intakes, and Transmissions Pack Annual Update Motorsports Playground .27 Mod Pack Download Links (updated in OP): BeamMP Mod Pack v1.00 WA State servers - ONLINE Canadian Servers - OFFLINE (till updated)

Fantastic and thorough review! Loved the little personal touches you put into it too. Kinda making me want to go out and buy another NVME drive now. I need one anyway, maybe after Christmas.

They're all showing OOS on my end on newegg?

Just for shiggles, I decided to look up these cards to see if they were released yet on newegg, Amazon, etc....... Looks like scalpers are still at it. 7900 XTX's are listed as more expensive than 4090's are at current time of posting on most sites. Ebay does seem to have some "cheaper", but they're still $1500 there too.

Per the Lenovo Forums, and I quote: "I can confirm unoffically (I do not work for lenovo) that this laptop is compatible with 16GB of DDR3L ram." https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-IdeaPad-1xx-3xx-5xx-7xx/ideapad-110-15ACL-Maximum-RAM/td-p/3743476 EDIT: This is the stick the guy used in his: Crucial 16GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3L 1600 (PC3L 12800) Laptop Memory Model CT204864BF160B - Newegg.com WWW.NEWEGG.COM Buy Crucial 16GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3L 1600 (PC3L 12800) Laptop Memory Model CT204864BF160B with fast shipping and...

I see that now, oops. The ones I was seeing on newegg for stupid cheap were ECC sticks. Might want to double check maybe CPU world to see if the CPU itself will allow 16GB DIMMs?

$10,300 at the time of this post.

I'm not 100% sure if the US servers are up or not too on that note. With the latest update to the game released yesterday, I haven't had the chance to check. I just reinstalled my main rig, so I haven't had the time to put BeamMP back on there to check it. So, assume mine are offline too. We will ALSO more than likely have to double check the mod packs. So expect a new mod pack being released in the next few days as well because the 0.27 update is a pretty big one. Updating OP. - ALL SERVERS OFFLINE.

Downloading now!

Manual says 8GB max, that's what I'd go with. I think the reason why they went with 8GB is because that was the largest capacity for DDR3 sticks at the time. I see now with a search on newegg, apparently there is NOW 16GB sticks available. It's really hard to say, grab a cheap stick and give it a try? Worse case scenario, send it back. I've seen weirder happen. My Socket 939 boards all say 4GB max in them because 1GB sticks were the biggest sticks available PERIOD. But that didn't stop me from trying 4GB ECC sticks in them for 16GB.......

This means I'm out of storage jail!!! This is great news! Awesome update E!

My apologies mate. I watched more than the first 10 seconds of the video, I got a little distracted by all of the rest of the goodies in there to zone in on just the one card. There was a LOT to oogle over in there.

Yeah, hopefully Kingpin finds something else that he really loves doing. Working for EVGA overclocking everyday for the last 15 years has had to have been a dream job. Some of that stuff he brought out....man oh man. The LN2 closed loop build, his 4 way SLI riser, all that history on the shelves that he created, just wow. And some of those pots he had, just some seriously awesome stuff he has there in his little dungeon. I don't remember him pulling out the "not a 4090" card though? I might've missed it with all the rest of the video though. There was tons of stuff going on in that video afterall.

You know..........I'm no "expert" by any means, but there's tons of people that DIY exactly those kinds of adapters at home. I was actually JUST looking into some adapting risers, that I'm going to keep secret until the next good hwbot competition, but its something I'd have to fabricate to an extent. Not a 4 way like that, but its similar concept.