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Ended up on a much longer than planned for break from F@H, and the forum in general. Not sure when/if I'll be back up folding anything. I'll update the thread when I figure out what I am going to do. @axipher it looks like your 750ti is still folding away.

In Q_Cruncher. Out on prizes @BWG might want to change the thread title.

Latest addition to the arsenal.

No games played yet, but I have tinkered around with the OS, which is the main reason why I bought it.

Here is the almost final build. Missing in these pics is all of the the final HDDs and SATA SSDs, and I am also going to drain the loop to add some QDCs at the GPUs. I meant to add the QDCs in originally, and then I got in a bit of a rush to get everything up and running for the Pent and spaced it out. One of the NVMe boot drives is under the GPUs, which cannot be removed without disconnecting the blocks due to the limited clearance between the GPUS and the radiators.

There will be some final updates incoming. This is now all built and mostly tested, and will be put into operation over the next week or two.

If you need long cables I have both a 50' and a 60' of these: https://www.amazon.com/RUIPRO-Dynamic-Flexible-Projector-Theatre/dp/B09GFXF6QZ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=UPOBK5UCP1P1&keywords=ruipro%2B8k%2Bhdmi%2Bfiber%2Boptic%2Bcable&qid=1660083793&sprefix=ruipro%2B%2Caps%2C262&sr=8-3&th=1 Flawless opertion at 4k 120Hz. Not my latest, but definitely the most anticipated. Delivered today, sitting on my front deck waiting for me to get home.

One more NVMe drive. It took me a minute to get the second drive to show up. The PCIe bifurcation options are indeed all working, but the labeling in the UEFI is a little misleading. Build will be complete this weekend. Swapping out the Vega 64's for a pair of Radeon VII's. Once that is complete I'll post up some final pics.

Dual U.2 carrier for my home server.

I haven't had a chance to do much testing, but this board should have the newer firmware so hopefully it is free of the bugs that existed in the earlier run of the Mini M. As far as the typing experience goes, all of the clickity-clackity goodness of a buckling spring is present, and it is a joy to type on.

I've been running AMD GPUs on Linux since back in the bad old fglrx days, and outside of compute the current state of the drivers is better than it has ever been. @Bones your issue with the Radeon VII was probably due to the rather outdated kernel that ships with Mint. I don't know how much Mint backports to their kernel, but FYI for anyone that is running an AMD GPU, the AMD kernel driver receives constant updates and improvements and you will almost always be better served running a more up-to-date kernel than what many distros ship. For compute on AMD, AMD is re-working a bunch of their docs around ROCm (as evidenced by the link being "ROCm_5.1.1" even though it points to ROCM 5.1.3 ). Here is a link to the current docs: https://docs.amd.com/category/ROCm_v5.1.1 @bonami2 Technically the 6800XT is not listed in AMD's docs as "officially" supported on the ROCm stack, but most everything I've tested with my 6900XT works including F@H. Once you get ROCm installed you should be good to go on your 6800XT. I can't confirm if the posted install method from Diff works. I run an "unsupported" distro, but what Diff posted, and the link to the GitHub issue, looks good to me so it's worth a shot.

It's an EJ257, and the turbo cars (with the MLS gaskets) do not have the same head gasket issues that the NA cars have EJ251/53. Generally speaking head gasket failure is not that common on the turbo motors. Ironically, I did blow a head gasket at about 130k miles, but that has been the only issue I've had with the car. It is probably a bit of a unicorn, since it's been pushing well over stock power for 230k miles.

1/4 of a million miles and still rippin'. Last big snow of the year was last weekend, and night time temps have been pretty consistently above 34°F, so off with the snow shoes.

Looks like I'm not in this yet. Latest addition: Unicomp Mini M Daily driver | Filco Majestouch 2 TKL Camo | MX Brown | Keycaps: Blank Black PBT and Double Shot PBT Dark Gray w/ Black Legends Work board | Cooler Master Quick Fire TK | MX Brown w/ dampers On the KVM | Max Blackbird TKL | MX Brown Spare board | Corsair K65 RGB Mini Black | MX Speed

Not my last purchase, but one I purchased quite a while ago, that showed up on my front porch today. First order of business will be taking care of those nasty Windows keys Unicomp Mini M

I've been out since the beginning of the month (BOINC Pentathlon), but I'll have some gear back up an folding later this week.

Everything is up and running, and it will be getting a two week long stress test with the CPU and GPUs running 24/7, all out, for the BOINC Pentathlon. Setting up the whole software stack for the server will have to wait, so for now it's just running a minimal headless Arch setup for crunching.

I think one of the bigger problems is that a large percentage of "media" companies are owned or run by the companies that are actually delivering the media. This is especially a problem when there are large swathes of the US outside of major cities that only have one or maybe two options for internet/TV service. Companies like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter are able to leverage their infrastructure to prop up their own media companies. This requires an obscene amount of oversight, since it would be easy for the companies that deliver the media to push the scales to favor their own in house media companies.

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If you're curious, you can grab a copy and give it a go. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"PeoplePC"

Nice work last month @axipher I will not have my GPUs running 24/7 between now and the 19th. The BOINC Pentathlon has begun, and even though my team has gotten much smaller, I will be giving it all I've got. There will still be some folding time when my GPUs are not active. I'll be back to full time shortly after the 19th.