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I'm not familiar enough with Windows/NTFS to get what this changes compared to what is currently done. Is it just the directory separation + some sort of special permissions for the "OEMDRIVER" directory? *Edit* Just read a bit more about it, and here's an article with a bit more info: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-is-getting-oemdrivers-a-folder-for-third-party-drivers/ Looks like it is more of a security and house cleaning change. The System32 folder was really only meant to hold critical trusted files for the OS, but over time 3rd-party developers used it store non-system drivers and executables.

Link to the white paper: https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-analysis-predictive-store-forwarding.pdf This is similar to Spectre v4. Unfortunate that this vulnerability exists, but not too surprising since CPU design is done so far out in front of release. On the plus side it is somewhat refreshing that it was AMD that disclosed the vulnerability.

Make all the things 10. New fans for switches and UPS, since I'm moving everything out of the rack in the closet to a small 12U in my office.

In!!! Q_Cruncher

I am hoping to get this build kick started this weekend. I have basically just given up on GPUs for now, so this will probably just be running a pair of Vega 64s until hardware availability frees up. My 42U rack has been stripped of everything but network gear, and I have sold most of the gear that was in the rack. I am downsizing to a small 12U rack for my network gear (router, 10G switch, 1G PoE switch) and power distribution (PDU and UPS's). I'll include some pics of that once I get things set up.

If you're looking for an AM3 board, I have an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 that used to run my 1090t. I also have an old ITX board with an APU and some DDR3 from my old HTPC, but I don't remember what the board and chip are. I can dig them out if you are interested.

Here's the last banner I did: I might have time to cook something up over the next couple of days.

Those WUs are brutal. I had been fairly regularly reporting on beta tasks as a beta tester, but I didn't have any AMD gear folding when those were going through beta. Hopefully it is a short-lived project. HFM is great for confirming slots and hardware. I'm cool with whatever is decided. Handicapping hardware makes for some interesting possibilities. I have an R9 290 that is definitely in the top 1% of cards for 24/7 stable GPU clocks. When it last saw duty folding in the TC it was straight up beating higher end AMD GPUs like the 290X and 390.

Mandatory HFM is nice, but I don't know if it's 100% necessary. ?

It reads pretty good. We should probably put something in there about dumping low ppd WUs. Right now there are some nasty WUs (p177xx) for AMD gear that really tank ppd. Radeon VII averages around 1.8M-2M ppd on most WUs, but the p177xx WUs drop that down to around 700k ppd.

Yes sir. I was just reading the manual.

New team or revive Infinity? ? Not sure yet, maybe I'll wait on a name until the roster is filled and then the team can come up with a name.

That's lovely. I'm on a rural route so USPS delivery drivers are contractors, and the new person for the last few years refuses to deliver any of my packages. I always have to go to the PO to pick them up. Supposedly my driveway is too steep (dude drives a new 4-door Wrangler), but UPS has no problems driving their giant 2-wheel drive delivery van up to my house.

I was out hiking in the desert for the last week, but I am still interested in helming the ship of what is sure to be the dominant TC team. ? I see that the ninja bunnies already have a thread. Should I start recruiting my powerhouse team, or are we still in the planning stages??

I'll shoot you some pics when I get home later today.

Let me know if you want me to throw a CPU or two at the TC, to get some sort of baseline points. I have some cores free for the next couple of weeks while I continue to migrate hardware around. Anything and everything that I'm folding on will always be in Linux. Not sure how I feel about handicapping based on the OS, but I could probably put together some comparative numbers, if we are going to go that route. For GPU categories, I'm not sure what the performance looks like between Windows and Linux now that the majority of WUs are using CUDA, rather than OpenCl, on NVIDIA cards. Right now I have a Ryzen 7 1700 pushing an RTX 2080S and a 5700XT, that could serve as a bit of a test bed for performance. It is the machine that is currently folding in two TC categories, and I could add some CPU tasks into the mix. The machine is running headless, so I am probably getting about the absolute maximum performance on the GPUs, with the least amount of OS/driver overhead, that is possible.

I've been the office print server for the last week, so that's been interesting. I'm about 50/50 in the office or WFH, so it's been amusing getting emails to remote print through the VPN when I'm not around.

Res is mounted with a fitting to the EK Dual-D5 top.

Good to see some additional consumer focused options in the 10G space. While the fanless design is nice on the 5-port switch, it will be interesting to see what the actual hardware inside it is. Most 10G-baseT (RJ45) runs pretty hot, and without a fan it seems to me that there will be throttling if your hitting more than one of the ports at anything approaching full speed. I swapped out the fan in my Netgear 8-port 10G switch for a Noctua 40mm fan, and for all intents and purposes it is silent now. Even when I am hammering on 2+ 10G connections simultaneously I don't see any throttling. For a bit of reference, the hottest thing in my workstation is the 10G nic, and that is with an additional 120mm fan blowing directly on the nic.

Here's my workstation. Looks a bit dusty.

I would be willing to part with the Taichi. Here's a pic of it with a Heatkiller universal block on the VRMs.

Power and internet have been out for the last few days, so I am just catching up. Did you already grab this board? I like the board and haven't had any issues with it. You might have to disable some onboard peripherals to get the board to recognize GPUs in all the slots. I have an X399 Taichi, but it is missing the VRM heatsink. I pulled the VRM heatsink to run a waterblock on it, and somehow managed to knock it off my workbench, and then step on it, which pinched the heatpipe. I tried to get a replacement from ASRock, but no luck with that.

Folding on the CPU, even with a slight overclock, on air, is going to be a tall order unless you have a pretty good cooler. Pretty much all of the new CPU tasks are primarily using AVX instructions, and you are likely to see temps and wattage roughly in the neighborhood of Prime95 "blend" or even a bit higher.

The limit on PMs is a real joy. It's been a bit since I sent out a bunch of PMs on OCN, but I I think I can PM 25 users at once. What I did was split up my list into chunks in a text file, and then just copy/paste the broken up list into however many PMs I need to send. I don't remember hitting a hard limit, but it has been 8 months since I did that so not sure on any changes that might have happened since then.

New UPS for the new home server.