Fluxmaven

Another great review. That's one serious unit. Dual 12VHPWR connectors... Sounds like you're ready to pick up a couple 4000 series cards and fire up Folding@home 

Got signed up. I can spare a card or two for the event. I'll swap back whenever our next foldathon happens 

11 hours ago, Avacado said:

You had me at the Pete The Cat sticker

It's actually a Marchal logo. Since it's a race sim I was going to cover it with vintage motorsports sponsorship logos. 

So it's been a while since I updated this. My roommate decided maybe we should stop being nerds and have a more "normal" main living room so He'll just pull his sim rig out when he wants to use it and mine migrated upstairs to the home theater. 

Doesn't look like I ever mentioned it but I added a Simagic TB-1 Handbrake a while ago.

I've had a 3080 Ti and a nice Aquacomputer block for it for a long time... Probably around a year now 

Finally put the block on and swapped it into the PC. I also swapped in a spicy kit of Trident Z Royal 4800cl17 in the beautifully tacky Nigerian prince gold. 

I managed to order the correct "extended" block but the standard length backplate 

But it works good and now the sim rig is complete until I get the itch to upgrade the whole cockpit/frame since drunk me tends to bend the bracket the handbrake is mounted on. If I actually start using it more I might pick up the direct drive wheel base but I'd rather dump money in my real cars before spending any more on this. 

The 4090 rig is upstairs so I assume he just doesn't leave it running all the time to not bother his wife with the fans and LEDs. 

I on the other hand can create a beautiful hellscape with way too many cards running in way to small of room. A little over 80f in the office currently 

I put the block on the 3080ti and got some distilled to leak test, but then ran out of motivation. 

2 hours ago, Broseph said:

If he typed that on a smart fridge, at least it has built-in cooling

Don't give me any ideas

1 hour ago, damric said:

Whatever you are typing that message on,

 

FOLD IT

Fine I will lol

I have the 4070 Ti, 2080 and one 3090 up now. I've got a new waterblock that's been mocking me for months for the 3080ti so I'll try and get that installed, leak checked, and folding tomorrow.

The other 3090s have been busy rendering lately but I might be able to spin those up for a few hours as well

I'm a total slut for watercooling. It's appealing for a combination of added performance, silence, and aesthetics. I do however understand that it's a terrible investment for most people. I also focus on actual performance and use big external rads and soft tubing. Not the bare minimum rad space in an airflow choked glass fishbowl of a case. 

I miss how much more unique builds used to be when people just had to engineer their own solutions. I also totally hear you on the motherboard cost creep. It seems like you're either stuck with bottom of the barrel junk or ultra premium. Not a lot of good stuff falls in the affordable middle of the road range. I like having high end boards (even though I'm a noob overclocker) but I don't really like paying for stuff I'll never use like Thunderbolt, USB DAC's, daughterboards for a gazillion M.2 drives etc. 

I guess I should start folding 

Not really feeling like putting all the rigs back together right meow but I'll try and get a couple things running by tomorrow.

Great job on the review! That's a nice looking kit, especially with the copper heatsinks.

I love ghetto rigging shenanigans. I'm not as OCD as  but I would love to see the datavac blow the dust out of that rig.

On 13/10/2023 at 16:08, damric said:

The nice stickers that @Fluxmaven printed up a while back. Very good quality.

I think it's about time I do another batch of stickers. This time I'm going to design one specific to our folding team. Not sure if I'll aim for end of the year or the big event in a couple months. I'll keep you posted on what I come up with. 

I'm ready to not sweat my balls off for a foldathon  

Looks like I need to add to the OnlyFans collection 

A lot of things happened to OCN... Not going into all that lol 

Part of it is just that internet forums in general are less popular than they were a decade ago. A lot of people switched to things like Reddit and discord. 

Which we do have a discord server as well. 

As Pio pointed out a lot of us got tired of low effort content so we came here. 

2 minutes ago, Avacado said:

I'll let you and our resident gamer girl @Fluxmavenfight to the death for the title

Catch me outside how bout dat

Welcome

A lot of us are OCN runaways so you're bound to see a few familiar faces. 

10 minutes ago, Avacado said:

Linky poo is broken homeslice

I just did the ole copy image instead of actually uploading it to the site which normally works fine but I guess it wanted to be uppity tonight. 

Should be fixed now so you can go back to bed 

Back in the day I was interested in the Fury X and to see how HBM memory would work out but I did what most people did and bought the 980ti instead 

Got this for a good deal because it just has the block, no stock cooler (fine by me since I watercool everything anyway). Also pictured is a G3258 that I picked up in a lot of CPUs. I actually owned a pair of G3258s back in the day and had a bit of fun with them. Now that I'm more into HWBOT I wanted to play with one again for some points. 

1 hour ago, damric said:

But out of curiosity, in the interest of really fundraising for the site, what if we set the entry fee to $20? That would actually be a very effective annual fundraiser. Just a thought, and I wouldn't even think of raising it higher than that.

I personally don't have a problem with that although I think $20 might be discouraging to a lot of people. We had a fair amount of participation from members outside the site that in turn stuck around. Asking too much might turn away people that might otherwise be interested.

I have no idea what it cost to distribute and pay import duties on last years haul but for the sake of easy math let's say we need $500 to cover it.

At $20 you would need 25 people to pay to play

At $10 it's 50 people

At $5 it jumps up to 100. 

So saying we had around 75 people last year, that makes me think $10 is the sweet spot. Not everyone that participates is interested in prizes. And of those interested, many would be on the fence about an entry fee at all. $10 or less is pocket change. Above that I think you'll start scaring people off.

I wasn't aware that we incurred so much expense getting the prizes out last time. Regardless of what we end up setting it to, I'm willing to chip in a little extra if we come up short so it's not all falling on your shoulders. 

I'm cool with the preposed changes. 

I wouldn't want to go longer than 5 days though. Not many people have dedicated folding farms. I definitely couldn't tie up all my hardware for something like 10 days. 

Obviously nobody is forcing anyone to run all their hardware the whole event, but it's fun to be able to throw it all on the line. I just think it would be a bigger ask to extend that too much further. 5 days seems like a good middle ground of tolerable abuse 

Still haven't had any issues with my CX. I'm at 2190 power on hours currently. I always turn it off when I'm not using it. For stuff like Folding@Home I keep the LG off and just access the computer from one of my other PCs via RDP. 

Thanks guys, I was actually just joking around with  about using goofy personas for the interviews to mix thinks up. He said go for it, so I did 

I'd like the PSU a lot more if it just went up to SFX-L with a bigger fan like all the competition. 

The case is actually on the larger side by most people's small form factor standards. It's definitely a good way to test the waters of SFF without committing to some ultra tiny case that makes you want to pull your hair out. 

My little sister will love it. I can tell she's never really cared for the black non-windowed Fractal Define Nano S her current system is in. Since Cooler Master didn't have the pink version, I'm just going to vinyl wrap parts of this case for a bit of a custom touch then fill it with RGB 

As fun as it is to give you an early lead then run you down at end, it was only a matter of time before it didn't work out. 

Now that it's starting to cool down, I won't have to power limit the cards so expect to see a bit different outcome next time 

Either way, I had fun as always. I know I wasn't the only person with technical difficulties this month. Hopefully everyone can get their rigs firing on all cylinders by next time. 

@neurotix coming for you bud