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IDK if we'll ever see actual feature parity between AMD and Nvidia. We're at the point where AMD does all the same stuff albeit a gen behind. And that's fine for most people. Sure it's fun to crank the settings in Cyberpunk and go stare at some neon sign reflections in a puddle of water, but at some point you just want to play through your backlog of games. I DO have mostly nvidia cards and I still don't bother with ray tracing. If it weren't for the lackluster Folding@home performance and higher power draw, I'd buy more AMD cards. The GRE will drop to $500 before Ngreedia ever drops the price of the 4070 Super. As it sits, I think it's an OK option for a lot of people.

Anyone that can't adapt to non-standard layouts has soft hands.

I just bought a set of this RAM. I guess only the first edition comes with the optional heatsinks and screwdriver. They sell the heatsinks separately for $30 but only have grey and white. I bought a back memory kit so I'm undecided on if I'll get the grey heatsinks for them. Kind of disappointing that they don't just throw them in on such expensive RAM kits. On the bright side, the 7200 kit worked right out the box on AM5 with a newer BIOS. At some point I'll set aside a weekend to go insane doing RAM tuning and see if this kit can do 8000+ and compare it to my 32GB A-die kit.

Custom loops have a terrible return on investment if you just consider the performance you gain vs the money you spend. You would 100% be better off with that 420 AIO and call it a day. You'll get 90% of the performance of going custom with none of the work of piecing things together and it will be much cheaper. As a point of reference... My old bedroom rig had a delidded 10850K + 2080 on a MORA and it maintained single digit water to air deltas while being virtually silent. Now that 10850K is in a CPU only loop with a direct die block on an external 240mm rad and still performs pretty good. Custom watercooling is a pretty niche hobby, but I personally really enjoy it (hence the 7 custom loops in the house lol). Buying quality components is expensive, but outside consumables like tubing and fluids, most of the parts can be reused for years. I have plenty of fittings and pumps that are a decade old and still in use. I'm usually the guy telling everyone to run a custom loop, but for your goals, I wouldn't say it's probably worth it unless you are interested in doing it for the fun of it. The gains from air/AIO to custom water are much less than the gains from ambient to extreme cooling. Unless you want to delid and run a direct die block.

Since the magical internet money has been up lately and Newegg takes bitpay, I have been buying some random stuff. I'd have rather just had the $7 off my $250 RAM kit, but sure throw in a microSD card I don't need instead 3x 10TB drives for $70 a pop seemed like a good deal to add a storage pool in my backup NAS. Been wanting to upgrade the old 1000w G2 on the test bench. The white cables should make it more obvious when I've got things on the verge of bursting into flames.

It probably seems like I'm sandbagging every time, but I do typically have something going on that prevents me from having everything online at the start. Then the weekend rolls around and I get more stuff fired up. If I could afford to add another circuit or two and a split unit in the office, I could fold a lot more. I have several other modern cards that didn't get fired up due to heat.

@Avacado Surprised I slipped past you there at the end. Although, I know you like to pause folding on the ole 4090 off to watch your "adult films".

We are at the "close enough" to the finish that I'm just gonna hit finish on most of the rigs. It's a bit warmer today and I'd like to have it not be 82f in the office

Half the stuff is still folding from last month. UPS battery in main rig just died so it may not be online if I don't have a spare in stock but I'll have something folding regardless.

Sorry to quote your post from a few months ago but you have a lot of cool stuff in this photo so I had to dig into it a bit. Looks like you have several of the Inked and Screened patent prints framed on the wall. Love those. Audio gear is an interesting lineup. Is that a Schiit Jotunheim? Surprised to see something like that paired with ATH-M50s. Can't tell if that Focusrite is a 2i2 or 2i4 from what can be seen but those are a solid interface either way.

Apparently after a re-draw I won a shirt in the last foldathon. I already have a shirt and mug that I purchased a while ago so I asked if I could get a coaster instead. Thanks @damric. Now my EHW swag collection is complete!

Warranty is up, so it's time to tune the car

I need to revisit this game. I played it for a bit when it released. After I moved, I got busy with other things and just never got around to playing it again. I didn't have issues running it, but should be really nice now with all the updates and optimizations.

Nice subtle upgrade for sure. I tend to go the more obnoxious route The titanium single exit on the moostang dropped 20.5kg/45.2lbs over the stock system... It's a fair bit louder though

Did you at least get a hot swappable version so you can correct your mistake in switch selection?

I already have 4 Optane drives sitting on the shelf waiting for me to get caught up on projects, but I still feel the desire to buy more. It's good the 118GB is sold out

I do listen to mostly older music as well lol For some reason I've been on a crap (country rap) kick lately

I bought one back before there was an option to change the weight and mine is 100% Cotton. It is a thin shirt and I'd prefer a heavier weight full Cotton shirt but I'm still out here reppin it either way.

Noticed eBay motors had a 10% off coupon. Picked up a new set of IRS braces and a lightly used track handling suspension kit for half of what just the track kit goes for new.

Did you get the Solenoid with it? I remember when this project first came around. I wouldn't mind having one but I really don't need another keyboard lol

It's an enthusiast forum so I don't think it's too weird to see people with a lot of hardware they can spin up for a few days. I have several PCs for different purposes and I just fire them all up for the foldathons.

Yea we appreciate everyone stopping by to participate regardless of how many or few cards people choose to run. Recently I've been open to branching out. I participated in the LTT month of folding and the Hardforum BigAdv EOL challenge. I admittedly had a more enjoyable experience at [H] than LTT. I love to see people from other forums stop by to fold with us. Many of us would be happy to join others events as well.