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I know that I had some shenanigans when I tried to run headless with that board. Are you able to boot into the OS? If not you might try putting a GPU with display out in the primary GPU slot. Also, make sure your boot drive is GPT formatted and not MBR, since you have to disable CSM in order to enable Above 4G decoding.

I know that option is in there somewhere, but I don't remember for sure where it is. I think it's in the "Boot" section of the UEFI. The last time I ran it I had multiple GPUs running plus at least one GPU on a m.2->PCIe card.

The trend in HPC, especially with high density muti-GPU nodes, is water-cooling all the things. 6U systems like this dual Epyc w/ 8x NVIDIA GPUs are becoming much more common. https://bizon-tech.com/bizon-zx9000.html

Most of my gear that runs 24/7 is water-cooled. As long as you follow some best practices like EPDM tubing, distilled+Mayhems biocide and inhibitor, dual pumps in serial, there is not really anything to worry about or any additional maintenance. I haven't touched my workstation in 16 months other than to top off the fluid one time, and it runs 24/7 @ about 1900-2000W.

That is looking great, and so is your F@H production. Awesome to see all that hardware running a volunteer compute project.

No Caselabs, just a cheap clone. Thermaltake Core x5.

A few pics of the stripped down case before hardware starts going in.

I ran through all the 4.x ROCm releases, and ROCm 4.0 is definitely the one to stick with for F@H.

https://www.formulamod.net/products/barrowch-fbehd-01-external-expansion-display-8-8-inch-high-resolution-lcd-screen-for-pc-cpu-hardware-temperature-monitor

Good luck. I'm rooting for this build to become a reality. If Windows keeps giving you headaches with driver and GPU detection, you might think about running Linux. I haven't messed with the the Maxwell Teslas, but Keplar Teslas were pretty painless. If you decide to give that a go, I can definitely give you a hand.

Sorry for the double. I posted about this in the Foldaholics thread last month, but then forgot all about it when I fired up some additional GPUs for this months race. This probably won't apply to too many people, but if you are running AMD GPUs in Linux with ROCm, do not update to ROCm 4.2 if you are folding. There is a pretty massive regression (-50% or more) on most WUs. Right now I'm running an older closed source driver, but I am going to so some testing with ROCm 4.0 which had really good performance on F@H when it was released. **Edit** I'm now back on ROCm 4.0, and the performance is great. OpenCl via ROCm 4.0 does not have the performance regression that I saw with ROCm 4.2. ROCm OpenCl 4.0 is about 8% better than the old closed source driver on the WUs that I am currently running (p18108).

Nice work. Having a proper board (I'm guessing an X299 Sage or similar) will make your life much easier in the long run.

@BWG Do you need me to fill out your form? No changes on my end, and I'll let you know what hardware I'll be folding on a few days before we start.

Yeah, your going to get me on the next update.

Got it, blame Canada. Although, UTC is "the real time", so I'm with @axipher

Thanks. I didn't see the count down. I won't be putting up a ton of points, but I'll get some things folding.

When does this actually start??? The OP has some whacky days and times. Is it 2021-07-22 @ 1 AM UTC?

^This 100% There is pretty much no way that Valve can bargain bin it. It is commodity hardware running on an open source OS. Unless they drop in some proprietary driver for the controls, anyone who buys one has more or less a guarantee that it will work unless Valve abandons Linux altogether, and even if that were to happen, there's nothing that's been revealed that would preclude someone from running games via other means (native Linux games, emulators, Wine, installing Windows, etc) Everything that Valve has done to improve gaming on Linux is open source: Proton, DXVK, ACO, RADV. On top of that it is running on an AMD GPU, which has a very good kernel driver + mesa. I don't personally have a use for this, but outside of some KickStarter/Indiegogo products, it is a pretty unique device.

That is a lot of ppds. IN Q_Cruncher (out on prizes)

That's not a bad idea. Same method I use to polish my headlights.

It's worked well enough for Microsoft Office, that there was speculation that Office 2019 would be the last stand alone version of Office, but almost certainly Office 2021 will be the last version of Office with a standalone license and not a subscription.

If you don't mind pulling the pins out of the connectors, you can get large sizes of braided cable sleeving and combine multiple PCIe cables into a single run. You might be able to expand the sleeving enough to get it to fit over the connector without removing it. Then it would just be one nice and neat budle running up to the GPUs, with each connector exiting the sleeving right at the GPU. I built most of the wiring harness for my old Jeep like that, and it looks really clean. https://www.cabletiesandmore.com/general-purpose-braided-sleeving

https://www.pcgamer.com/evgas-first-ever-motherboard-for-amd-ryzen-cpus-comes-into-view/ Google free sanitized link. The links are probably from Google search results on a phone.

That will leave me in the wildcard slot. I've been testing some random GPUs, so I'll have the hardware sorted before we go live.