Fluxmaven

You buy it, I'll help out wherever I can. Love to keep the site alive.

I don't have a set favorite, but here's the PS2 games I probably played the most. Gran Turismo 4 Need for speed games from that timeframe Midnight Club series Smugglers Run SOCOM Navy Seals series GTA Vice City and San Andreas Seek and Destroy... You can make tanks fly

Was originally thinking of vertical mounting but the 7990 is a long boi so it'll have to slip behind the distro. Another space issue. Had to swap a slim fan in since the other hit the pump. I had two so I put one on the other side for push/pull. How it sits currently. Will put the GPU block on next so I can start mocking up tubing ideas.

Or would you? Congrats everyone on a great last showing.

Do you use the newer V8 Client? If so you can log in from wherever and change the team back. This could very well be our last foldathon so it would be great if we could get everybody to fold.

You can live through a room being stuffy for 2 days. Toss a lil undervolt on if that's what it takes to convince you to fold

So it's faster and cheaper than the cards it set out to be faster and cheaper than and this somehow makes it a pointless product? I know you're going to say "people should just buy a used XYZ on ebay if they're on a budget"... Some people (like relatives that buy them as gifts) don't want a used card for little Timmy's Christmas present. Or people that really feel more comfortable buying new for the warranty.

So I went digging and found all the remaining EHW stickers I have. I had these printed before the official merch store opened and have given them away as folding prizes on several occasions. By now just about everyone that folds regularly or I've shipped anything to has received one. If anyone doesn't have one and would like one, slide into my DM's.

I didn't realize they had "desktop" Epyc's until I stumbled upon the deal. I have considered a Threadripper or Epyc for the lanes to build a dedicated Folding@home machine before, but hadn't got around to really looking into it much. I mostly picked up random items for around the house on black Friday. I do want to get a decent X870E board before the end of the year. I'll also order a cheap 5700X3D from Aliexpress to play around with. Beyond that I'm pretty set on PC hardware. A couple new GPUs would be nice but I don't NEED to upgrade. Lately I've been out of town for work just about every week so no time to mess with computer stuff anyway.

The other day Newegg was selling these tray CPUs for about half price of the retail box units. It also came with a $100 Newegg gift card. So it was squarely in the too good of deal to pass up category.

So I got a good deal on a CPU I wasn't planning on buying Epyc 4564P which is basically a 7950X. I want to grab an X870E Nova whenever those are back in stock then I'll toss this in my main rig. I still want a 9800X3D at some point, but I'll wait until they go on sale. It's not on the supported CPU list for the Gene, but works fine

I need to redo my A770 benches now that drivers have matured. I was the first person to sub one to HWBot but obviously those scores were destroyed once drivers got better. Also in the hands of people that actually know what they are doing It's been a decent loaner card. I've had two different friends use it while saving up to buy better cards. Would have been really cool if Intel could have came out with something around 4080 performance for Battlemage.

I wish the Intel GPUs could fold since I'm sure I'll buy another for the novelty Nvidia just wrecks everything else at folding. The PPD on the 40 series is nuts. My 4070 Ti will do a few million PPD more than my 3090 while using half the power.

Finally cold enough to just leave a couple rigs running all the time.

Some older pics of stuff The FX setup during some HWBot comp. I don't have any photos of the XPG RAM working on any systems, so I'm assuming it's a DOA ebay find, but I'll give it another try since it looks nice. That mint 7990 block... GTX 690... If any of Y'all have a block for this, slide in my DMs

Most of the parts for this build are buried in the closet and it will likely be pretty slow progress, but I'll dump a few pics here for now. The V3000 was a recent purchase so It's still sitting out in the living room I was on a work trip in Atlanta and went into Microcenter to kill some time. This case wouldn't have fit in my Mustang or Miata lol O11D Distro plate doesn't look too bad in there. These 140mm Fans have 120mm mounting. So I mounted the fans to the plate with fan screws, then sat it on the radiator and attached the rad with short screws.

Howdy. So I thought it would be cool to do a couple of "throwback" builds with Intel + Nvidia vs. All AMD. I'm using the term throwback loosely since the hardware I am currently considering isn't all from the same year but most of it's at least a decade old. Parts Lists: Red CPU: AMD FX-9590 Motherboard: Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z GPU: Radeon HD 7990 RAM: Either some black and red Adata XPG 2133 Cl10 or some EVGA 1866 CL9 that I know works Storage: A pair of m.sata Samsung drives on a Vantec RAID card and an Intel 750 series PCIe drive Case: Maingear Vybe Nero red PSU: EVGA 850 P2 Cooling Maingear Apex distro EKWB Supremacy Edge Red/plexi (1/100 so fairly rare) EKWB FC7990 SE I'm actually not an EK fanboy, just hard to find 7990 blocks these days Bitspower Leviathan XF 240 Barrowch Chameleon fish 240 Red/Acrylic Scythe Gentle Typhoons Noctua A12x15 14mm XSPC hardline fittings with clear PETG, 12/16 EK Quantum Torque with EPDM soft tubing. Blue CPU: Intel i7 2700K Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD5 GPU: a pair of GTX Titan Blacks RAM: Blue G.Skill Ares 2133CL10 Storage: A pair of Samsung 850 Pro, pair of 860 Pro, and an Intel DC P4510 U.2 on PCIe adapter Case: Lian Li V3000 Plus... Was going to use a Blue/White Maingear Shift I've had for a long time, but Microcenter just dropped the price on V3000's and I had to have one lol PSU: EVGA 1000 G2 Cooling EK distro that was designed for an O11D that I got cheap open box Thermochill PA 120.4 that's coming out of retirement I've got a dirty old 420mm in the front for mock up but might just get another 480 to put up top and leave the front as intake. Got a new Alphacool ST30 480mm up top Currently have a Swiftech Apogee II mounted on the board because I thought I was trying to stuff a loop in the Maingear Shift... May switch to a Heatkiller IV. Heatkiller blocks on both Titans Lian Li uni fans... Acquired a ton of these for cheap and have been looking for a way to use them up Phanteks PH-F140HP II - Again, been wanting to use these up for a while. 14mm XSPC hardline with frosted PMMA, 13/16 clear soft tube with Koolance QD3's As for fittings and tubing... I haven't decided which system is getting what. They may both end up with a mixture of hard and soft tubing. I have a decent amount of frosted 14mm hard tube and some nice brass 16mm. I also have soft tubing in most common sizes. Mostly EPDM or clear. I'll likely use up some QD3's in the Intel system since there's so much room in that case.

Didn't the higher end models get cancelled? I could see myself ending up with a B580 LE the exact same way I ended up with my A770 LE... Walking into Microcenter for something else and noticing that they have them in stock even though the website says they don't.

Thanks to everyone that participated! Regardless of what happens to the site, I'll always fold in some capacity. In the process of migrating more machines to rack cases so I can toss them in the basement where they aren't cooking me like they do now in the office

Sir B and I have had pretty similar setups for a while. He has a 5900X with a 3080ti. We both use LG OLED TVs as monitors. He recently swapped from a 48" C1 to a 42" C4 which does bump the refresh rate up to 144Hz from 120Hz on the C1. The 3080Ti is showing it's age a bit more than the 3090, but a platform refresh to an AM5 setup would breath a bit of life into either of our setups and be a lot cheaper than a 5090. IIRC we both have a noticeably stronger and weaker CCD on our 5900X's and I think we'd both prefer to just move to single CCD chips at this point. Either way, neither of us are waiting in line to pay full price for a 9800X3D. We both have Microcenters nearby and will wait until they offer up some sort of deal that's too good to pass up.

The PC I'll be upgrading has a 5900X with a RTX 3090 pushing 4K. Just boosting the 1% lows and getting more consistent frame times will probably be enough to convince me to hold onto the 3090 a bit longer. These days, even if you have a 4K display, you don't have to actually be rendering native 4K resolution. Enabling DLSS allows the 9800X3D to shine even more. I also don't play everything in full screen 4K since that can be a bit much on a 48" display. I switch to 3440x1440 or 3840x1080 for some games.

Y'all already know I'm in

Whenever I can walk into Microcenter and grab one for under $400, I'll do so. I'm not really in a rush since I already have a 7800X3D rig. I also have a 7700X on the test bench I could run as a placeholder and go ahead and rebuild the 5900X rig soon-ish. Then I could toss the 9800X3D in the Gene and bench it before it gets swapped into the main rig. I guess it'll depend on how unlocked it is, if I want to set aside time to bench it first. Just haven't been as interested in PC stuff the past year or so.

The plum crazy reminded me of a keyboard I modded many years ago. It may have been the first 60% layout I owned. It was a KBC Poker II. I used it stock for a while until I built my first complete custom boards. I decided to pimp it out and give it to a friend. Desoldered the entire board and painted the plate Honda electron blue pearl. It had Cherry MX black switches and I used them to make "ghetto greens" Which is when you pair a MX blue stem with the heavier spring from the black. This was before the days of RGB so IIRC, I soldered in a mix of pink and blue LEDs in. I'll have to look through my old pictures when I'm back home to see if I have any of that board. Edit... After thinking for a second I had another prebuilt that I modded... KBParadise V60 mini was the one with the pink and blue LEDs because it was a Miami Vice themed board with Tai-Hao Miami keycaps and a clear case. The Poker probably just had all blue LEDs.