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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.

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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.

I am actually making progree on the new server now. I have migrated all the storage off my old 2P server, and hooked everything up to a 3200G/x570 board on one of my benches. I am currently archiving a bunch of data, since part of the plan on the down sizing was to trim down on some of my data hoarding. I may end up needing a few more drives, because I'm not sure I want to offline enough stuff to fit in the 24TB media (usable) pool + 4TB (online critical backups) that I was planning on. I'm probably going to grab a few more HDDs, which will bring the total up to 10 HDDs in the chasis + 1 in the hot-swap. New Heatkiller radiators arrived last week, and the case is stripped down and cleaned. Next step will be to plastidip or paint the scratched up acrylic side panel. I'll post some pics once that is done, and then it will be time to actually start putting everything together in the case and get it off my bench.

6-pin PCIe can safely provide a mimimum additional 150W, so unless you get really crazy and run 14 GPUs on that board, you should be good.

You should be fine with that board. The Sage is designed as a compute/rendering/ML workstation, so it is designed to run several power hungry GPUs. It has auxillary PCIe power, and it sounds like you also have powered risers. I regulary run 4 Radeon VIIs, each pulling >380W, on my Threadripper workstation without a hitch.

You guys are doing it wrong. @zodac @axipher @iamjanco @u3b3rg33k @damric @firedfly @schuck6566 and @cscoder4ever are obviously part of the enlightened crew.

Anyone else have issues with p18202? My 980 with a "conservative" OC can finish the unit, but it invariably has some errors along the way. Stable on every other WU it's run at current clocks.