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Getting used to working from home is a challenge for people that have never done it before. I'll second the getting in a routine suggestion. Doing everything that you would normally do, waking up to an alarm at your usual time, showering, eating breakfast, and getting dressed for work, or whatever your normal schedule entails, will really help to structure the day, and get started on the right track. During the lock-down, work is still work for me, with the added bonus of a short staff and long hours, since we are considered critical infrastructure. School is a bit of a mess. Restricted lab access and most of the compute resources are prioritizing Covid19 related work. I am currently running a number of different projects for other graduate and post-doc students on my personal gear. That has been an interesting challenge and change of pace. Free time is spent mostly outdoors, but I am lucky since my back yard is many square miles of public land. Tomorrow is a full day off, so I'll probably go snowshoeing, shoot the bow, and maybe fire off a few rounds. Snapshot from my phone for everyone that is stuck inside in the city.

It didn't throttle at 75% fan speed, but at that speed it is probably louder than most people would want deal with. It was getting nice cool ambient air (16°C), because the blower sits right on top of the bottom vents on my case. The posted temps was where it leveled out after 10-11 minutes of sustained load. Gaming you could probably get away with lower fan speed, and not lock the boost clocks at max OC.

GPU is a reference model with the blower fan. Running some stress tests now using OpenMM (molecular modeling tool-set) I'll report back in a bit once the tests are done. 5700XT @ 2050core/875mem 75% Fan Edge Temp (avg) | 78°C Junction Temp (avg) | 102°C Memory Temp (avg) | 80°C Power (avg) | 216W Load (avg) | 98%

I thought I might be looking at dropping a new short block in my STI, but that was not the case, and I am continuing on my march to 200k miles on the original block. I had a consistent misfire on cylinder #4 under heavy load (+50% throttle and +9 lbs of boost) and a bit of an unstable idle. If I stayed off the skinny pedal the car ran fine. Those symptoms can point to a ringland failure, and with full bolt-ons, many track and autocross days, along with generally aggressive driving I've been prepared for the motor to go boom for quite some time. Compression test was good, so I started looking at plugs, coils, and injectors. Turned out it was just a bad coil on the #4 cylinder. 20 minutes and 77 dollars later, I'm back to hooning around like a proper STI driver.

Just got my 5700XT up and running. I bought it a few months ago, but the drivers were a mess, so I pulled it and set it aside while I waited for a more stable kernel driver. If anyone is contemplating running this card in Linux, you are definitely going to want to run the latest 5.5 rc kernel along with the most recent Linux firmware. Before the latest kernel the card couldn't be OC'd in Linux, and it had all sorts of bugs that caused random and somewhat frequent crashes. I've now had it up and running without crashing for the last three days. It is stable at 2085/900 under heavy OpenCL stress testing. There is still no ROCm support (that stack is generally a bit of a mess to run with upstream kernels anyway), and generally speaking, OpenCL code paths and/or AMD's OpenCL driver will probably have to be updated to be completely for compatible with Navi. I haven't done any 3D or game testing, but I might fire it up if anyone is interested in Linux performance.

Just pulled the trigger on an ASRock TRX40 Creator. I guess we'll see how the 8-phase VRM does with a 3960X. I've been running an OC'd 2970WX on an X399 Taichi 24/7 for the last year without any issues, so I don't anticipate any throttling issues with the Creator plus an OC'd 3960X. The Creator had everything I wanted (10gbe onboard, 4 full length pci-e slots, ATX) with no RGB or other things that would be useless for me.

My daily driver is a Filco Majestouch 2 TKL w/ Browns and Double Shot PBT caps. I also have a Max Keyboard Blackbird with Browns and a Cooler Master Quick Fire TK with Browns and white backlight that I use at work. Of the three the Filco is the nicest to type on, but I do like the hybrid layout of the Quick Fire TK. Previously I had a full size Filco, and it was a great board for many years. I only retired it to save a little space, and I have a separate numpad that I use when necessary. The Blackbird is a fine board, but the blue back light drove me nuts.

I usually run the 2970 at 3.9, since it really eats power/volts when I bump it up over 3.9. I keep three GPUs under water and leave the 4th slot free for testing GPUs, nics, or HBAs.

It's a chromium fork so it runs on Blink. :wink:

With 4 OC'd GPUs and the Threadripper OC'd to 4075 it can pull over 2000W. Even running everything with lower power limits, it can still hover around 1600W. I've never been comfortable running a PSU 24/7 right at the rated max output, especially on consumer boards where you don't have the ability to easily run multiple redundant PSUs. Running a pair of PSUs is even easier now since my current case (PC-O11 Dynamic) is built to house two PSUs. I haven't dome much gaming in CF since I was running a pair of 7970s, but all the games I play now run just fine for me on either a single vega64 or the VII. Back on topic. A bit of a Frankenstein bench rig, with a 980 KPE and a 7990, running on a Prime X370-Pro with an R7-1700.

It would be a pretty nice upgrade, but I'm probably going to stick with it for now. Next upgrade will probably be swapping out the Vegas for two more Radeon VIIs. If I go that route I might need to swap out one of my PSUs. Currently running a 1300W and a 1000W, and if I OC everything it gets pretty close to maxed out.

2970WX in that system, and thanks for the welcome.

A pair of Vega 64s and a Radeon VII.

I'm in.