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These p177x units are a real ppd killer on AMD gear. 2M'ish average ppd down to 440k. ?

It would be nice to see the raw points. Tooltips would make it easy to see the comparison side by side, w/o having to add a column to one of the tables.

For all you cable management lovers, here's a little preview of my new 12U network/power rack:

Niche board with a niche use case, but every other Threadripper board I've ran worked without a hitch. I'm not sure why this doesn't work on this board. I don't care about using NVMe RAID mode or booting the OS off the drives (RAID will be handled by the OS), just looking for what has become a pretty standard option on most server motherboards. Right now I don't really need this to work, but I figured I might as well try to iron out all the possible kinks before I load the hardware in the box.

Piled on a few more MHz for May.

After you watch that video you are then forced to go down the "Vocal Coach Reacts to Nightwish" rabbit hole. *Edit* They are an epic band to see live, even if you're not into that style of metal.

I have been back-and-forth with ASRock, testing a number of beta BIOS. The same issue still exists with x8x8 working, but x4x4x4x4 just acts like x16. It is going up the chain to a BIOS engineer, so it seems as if there might be some progress in the near future on the bifurcation issues.

You could go browns with dampers. That is pretty quiet and what I use at work. If you're not bottoming out the keys, it is not too loud.

The handicapping is what makes it interesting. I have been crushed at work, so no time to start fiddling around with different GPUs. Hopefully things slow down and I can start testing some other GPUs next week.

RDNA2 GPUs have Vulkan Ray Tracing via the latest AMDGPU-Pro driver. 6900XT Metro Exodus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4r183JwhL0 NVIDIA has been releasing Vulkan Ray tracing enabled drivers since December.

NVIDIA has gotten much better over the last few years of disclosing vulnerabilities. Prior to that, I'm sure there were just as many issues, but they were probably just quietly fixed with new drivers. Link to NVIDIA's Security Bulletin Page: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/security/ Link to the old archives: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/security/archive/

If I had an ASRock x370 instead of an ASUS x370, I's go this route for sure. I have one of the bugged 1700s, that I never RMA'd. It works fine for most tasks, but it will crash with heavy compiling.

Even in a test/demo I do not like losing. ? I might have to actually OC the Radeon VII that I'm running for TC.

The board does have some limits on the number of addressable peripherals. On the previous BIOS I tested with all the PCIe slots populated and PCIE 2 split into two slots with a passive splitter. In order for all the devices to be recognized I had to disable onboard audio and the USB 3 header. I've ran into this issue on other platforms, and depending on what all you need there can be some work-arounds with some things disabled. Your testing seems pretty thorough, but I'll give it a go with an ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 card. Choice of colors is pretty standard for a server motherboard. I don't think I've ever seen an ASRock Rack board that is anything other than green with white, blue, or black RAM and PCIe slots.

The -2M should probably be given, but for now I'm prepared to let him be happy at the top of the leaderboard as a reward for getting things fired up. All jokes aside, I don't see any issues, and thanks for taking the time to help.

Flashed to a beta bios with additional PCIe bifurcation options. I've yet to test the additional options other than double checking the link speed. No odd splits like x4x4x8 or lower like I have on some intel platforms, but 4x or 8x NVMe for a smoking fast db server is now possible.

Other than the very obvious 1.2M mixup in FPN and TFA's point totals everything looks good to me.

Speaking of other accounts. Did anyone ever cash in their FLDC?

Currently the GPU portion of this is just 3D acceleration of OpenGl. Someone did file a request on the WSLg repo for OpenCl support. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/39 It was possible to do this before, but it was not a seamless experience like what Microsoft is doing here. It is still a bit hacky with what amounts to a nested VM inside of WSL accessed over RDP. Other than that, I'll just keep my thoughts to myself on the whole MicrosoftLinux narrative.

You're killing me. Might have to see if I can catch up when I get home tonight.

Liking all of the above. There will always be some outliers with any handicapping system, but I dig the overall plan. For what it's worth the db baseline numbers are almost certainly mostly cards running at stock with whatever version of GPU boost the card has. Everything that I've ran recently and in the past always exceeded whatever averages were out there, whether it was LARS or the old wu database on OCN. @Avacado I've got some tricks for your Teslas that we can test out over the next month, and it should be smoking by the time the comp starts on June 1st.

I think the multiplier should be based on the highest ppd GPU. Also, you can get some pretty whacky results when you handicap by OS. For example, the R9 200/300(aka 290, 390, etc) would get nearly a 2x multiplier if you ran it in Linux. I can say with 100% confidence that Windows is not twice as fast as Linux. In reality it is pretty much a wash between the two OS's. There are similar results with newer GPUs as well. A 2080S is for sure not 27% better when run in Linux. With the CUDA tasks it is maybe a few percent better. You can see this on the newer GPUs like the 3090 which is actually better on Windows according to the LARS db. I'm not sure how we account for those types of inconsistencies without just totally eliminating the OS as a variable in the handicapping.

Nothing to set. The EHW FAT is just the monthly folding competition. To enter for prizes and/or individual stats tracking during the competition, you just have to post in the thread with "IN" followed by your folding username.

https://forums.extremehw.net/topic/1095-extremehw-foldinghome-competition-april-21st-23rd/

I guess that's a wrap for April. Good luck next month.