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13 hours ago, Broseph said:

With some of these whopper 24 hour work units, if I get two of those, I may not be able to meet the 10 WU minimum in 48 hours.  I'll have 4 boxes CPU folding.  I might see if I can spin up an old server and maybe a laptop just to be safe.  Still looking forward to this contest!  I did the 96-hour one and it was fun.

If that's the case, running a 3060 for foldathons myself and seeing how long the WUs take compared to my 4090, I will lower the prize requirement to 5 WUs.

Wasn't really taking into account how long modern WUs take because the long ones you're probably getting are the ones that give me like 1.3m points. My 4090 chews through those in an hour and a half.

Hope this helps and remember, it's random draw still! GL guys!

Good job so far guys, really rooting for you all especially to beat team OCN.

I tried y-cruncher pi 2.5b on my rig, but because I have an X3D chip it is PBO only, no manual ratio. The score was like 40 sec and it gave me an error too, so Flux's subs are way better. Sorry I can't help

13 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Yes, just need the dungeon whiteboard to keep track of how many we've had. 

 

Although I could really go for some actual tea instead of alcohol... Can't drink every day of the weekend like I could a decade ago lol. 

White Peony | Rishi Tea & Botanicals

RISHI-TEA.COM

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White Peony, also known by the traditional name Bai Mu Dan, is a popular style of white tea made of young tea...

Get a tea ball, or you could do like me and use a French press if you have one. Highly recommended. It's good with or without honey.

And damn, drinking every day of the week? Even when I was younger I would just binge at house parties til I vomited. Lol.

18 hours ago, Fluxmaven said:

Man this tea I just bought tastes funny 

 

Pretty funny. Lol

If you guys want to start a separate drinking thread, go ahead. I don't drink anymore as I take benzos, but I used to drink.

About to try Three Sisters.

Ever do Sun Tea?

Got ENTERPRISE permission to do glitch art of our awesome admin. Sorry, the black and red one is more red than anything because of the way I do these, having black show up just doesn't work, it ends up grey.

You've been glitched, man.

Updated 2nd post with a few links. Please suggest more, especially for coffee.

Was interested in Kicking Horse coffee and so just ordered a bag of Smart Ass and a bag of Three Sisters off Amazon. Living in the northern Midwest they probably don't stock these at the local grocery stores. Got em off Amazon, one was $9 and the other was $13. Definitely giving them a shot.

Also, @ENTERPRISE@damric@Fluxmaven what powers you guys up in the morning or on long nights?

5 hours ago, T.Sharp said:

 

Ohh and black only when you’ve got dank beans. Sugar and creamer would be unethical. Lol

If you made it for me that way and told me to drink it that way, I would gladly accept and listen.

As I kind of stated in my second post in the thread, I really don't know squat about coffee and I drink what is essentially sugary junk, lol. Though much more rarely now. Tea is what I know a lot about and can give recommendations on. And actually have some class with.

It's great to see the depth of knowledge here and people's methods of making coffee, though, I think collectively the posters so far could definitely share recommendations on coffee to try or machines to make it with.

I'd also like to get some links to coffee companies online, good coffee makers or espresso and cappuccino makers, and so forth into the 2nd *reserved* post.

4 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

Yes... coffee and tea are both great

 

I grew up around coffee. I guess you could say, I was coffee-adjacent for the longest time. I loved the smell of coffee beans, freshly roasted. That toasty, creamy, rich, deep pleasant smell. Ah - so good.

 

It wasn't until I was an adult did I really start drinking it regularly. I've brewed with various methods - Moka pot, french press, filtered (drip), and espresso.

 

All have their perks but the defacto for me is espresso. It's the core of so many good drinks or can be enjoyed on its own just fine. French press or a moka pot is great when you're off grid. All you need is boiled water or a fire and you can brew coffee. Drip can be great but there is an art to it. I'm no fancy barista but if you go to a good corner / neighbourhood coffee shop where they can do either espresso or drip, chances are their drip will be good. 

 

I typically drink two a day. Min. 1. 8:00am with or without breakfast. Cappuccino. 12-2:00pm, I go wild and get my self an iced coffee, espresso, or a cold brew. Preference would be cortado. Needs to be less milky in the afternoon. No sugar. Unless it's an espresso, I may add a bit to curb some of the acidity. I find the milk sweet enough in all other drinks. 

 

Tea - A good tea can rip just as hard as coffee but I find myself skewed towards coffee because of that smell. It's just nostalgia. For tea, a loose leaf from your local shop is my preference. A prime example https://tealish.com/. Tealish has a store not that far from me and their variety is wild. 

 

I usually drink without milk but if I were watching some British programming... milk may find its way into my tea. Usually just tbl spoon of honey. If buy tea from a supermarket, it's usually chamomile, green or matcha, and mint. Matcha I think is my favourite. I find a tea before bed really help calms me for a sleep; the caffeine doesn't hit the same. 

 

Thanks for the posts guys. Yeah, I only do looseleaf tea and my favorite is Rishi White Peony (Bai Mu Dan - Chinese tea). It's a white tea, and has a very earthy taste. It is made from tea leaf buds and not processed or oxidized like a green tea. Good with or without honey.

My coffee is just drip but from a higher end Cuisinart machine with a single cup brewer. I used to make it in a french press as well, but generally find it too strong that way nowadays. I make my tea in a french press, mainly because it makes enough for two 10oz or so cups.

I will look into tealish. Thanks. Eventually I'd like the reserved post to have links to coffee/tea vendor websites. As well as recommendations.

I too love the smell of fresh ground coffee, though there's no nostalgia for me or anything. Did you grow up in a coffee shop or something?

As for me, when it comes to coffee I have one cup of either 8 o'clock french vanilla or Dunkin french vanilla every morning. I used to do two but recently figured out it was giving me bad anxiety every morning with two. And of course, I have a ton of coffee in the fridge. Tanzanian Peaberry by EVP coffee (recommended). And a bunch of junkie ones like 8 O'clock brand Mocha Macchiato, Caramel Macchiato and Berres Brothers Mocha mint. We have at least 15 of these junkie things but its way cheaper than getting Starbucks every morning.

I take my coffee with sugar and milk.

When it comes to tea, I am way more of an afficiando and have several teas I rotate through, usually making it in the afternoon. I drink it for the health benefits, but also because I like it. I am a very big fan of Rishi tea which is based near me in Milwaukee and imports tea from all over the world. I've had every grade of tea- white, green, oolong, pu erh and black. I don't have any oolong currently but have everything else, as well as masala chai. I also like the company Harney and Sons as they are quite a bit cheaper than Rishi, yet have good quality teas in larger amounts.

So if anyone is a tea fan feel free to recommend stuff to me and I'll do the same for you.

Coffee websites

Kicking Horse coffee

Tea websites

Rishi Tea

Harney & Sons tea blenders

Tealish

I'm a little surprised we don't have anything like this already on the forums, especially considering how many mugs have been sold!

Since we are all high IQ, smart, classy people I am certain that a lot of people here need a jump start every morning with something caffeinated. So this thread is the thread to discuss coffee and don't forget, tea though it is less popular in the States. Feel free to share recommendations, or just post how you take your morning cuppa Joe.

Hoping this is/can be productive and we can relax and share recommendations for others to try.

Most of all, enjoy whatever you're drinking to perk you up!

Hope people enjoy the prizes this round.

Thanks. So you just latch the socket and push the plastic cover in from the top? I am talking about getting the cover back on the board if I decide to RMA it or sell it.

Also, I just tried remounting the CPU and it did not fix the 2nd CCD boosting problem as you and others stated.

Guess I'm stuck waiting for a bios update to permanently fix it, as one time when it wasn't boosting a new bios fixed it. (I have already tried reverting to that particular bios with USB bios flashback and it didn't fix my boosting issue. But if I want help with that I will make a new thread.)

I guess you hold the bracket upright with your fingers and push the thing in with your thumbs from underneath or something then?

22 minutes ago, rares495 said:

7800 is the way. Or 7950 if you need lots of cores.

Nope. I had a 3900x in 2019, then a 5900x last year, so it would have to be a 7900x because I'm not losing threads. The wife also is sick of buying stuff for me and so cannot afford a 7950x (we can afford it but she won't agree to it).

This thread had gone way off topic. Does anyone know how to reattach a plastic socket cover to the mounting bracket? This is not just for possibly remounting the CPU but also in case I get a new board and sell this one, or sell it in the future when I upgrade. Thanks.

@damric@The Pook@Fluxmaven

13 hours ago, pioneerisloud said:

You're not using that Cooler Master PSU again are you?  A bad PSU could potentially effect your boost algorithms.  

Lmao. No I'm not using it. I'm not that stupid, ty. I am using a Seasonic Vertex GX 1200w gold with a proper 12VHPWR cable.

Besides, this issue was happening with that old psu, and persists with the new one. We've even tried reinstalling Windows and that doesn't fix it when this issue is happening.

I may just end up getting a 7900x instead, other than that I might just have to wait for a bios fix.

I'm remounting it as a last ditch effort to get the damn thing to boost to 5.6GHz on the 2nd CCD like it used to.

The socket cover acts as a guide to align the chip and pops out when the retention bracket and arm are lowered with the cpu installed. It says so in my motherboard manual.

And I've tried everything to try and get the damn thing boosting for benchmarking. Its happened twice, when I first got it the 2nd CCD would hit 5650 running benchmarks, then after a month it just stopped one day. Eventually, a bios flash made it work again, but only for a month or two, then it stopped again and no bios flashes or troubleshooting I did with both Asus and AMD has fixed it. I really suspect that the boost clock limit for the first CCD with V-Cache is being applied to the whole chip by this "AMD 3D V Cache Optimizer service", two of which are running on my system and get installed with the chipset driver. So my second chiplet will not go above 5150MHz, which is the max for the first chiplet.

https://www.newegg.com/p/2BJ-00HK-00001

Check that out, the fans have proprietary connectors unfortunately but come with 3 fans, the controller box, a remote, and a cable to connect to the motherboard rgb header. Essentially what I have in mine. Throw in two of the Phanteks light strips I previously linked, and for a $50 investment maybe you could charge $100 more or possibly even more than that. You could include pics of the rgb remote. You can also connect a PWM fan cable to that box and connect it to the motherboard for PWM fan control, or if you leave it unconnected there are fan speed control settings on the remote as well.

Back when I rebuilt my rig into the anidees case, I knew it had rgb fans with it but had no idea of the remote, the PWM cable, the box or any of it. So even if you don't connect an rgb cable to the motherboard, there are like 100 different patterns the box itself can do, in practically any color (or two colors) you want. Something for everyone.

Also, are you overclocking the systems or not? Even if just using PBO and a small overclock on the GPU. If you overclock the CPU + install Afterburner and set up a fan profile and moderately overclock the GPU, you should be able to charge a little extra for that, as well.

What is referred to in the 2nd image as the "external cap". A piece of plastic that attaches to the retention bracket, that helps align the cpu when you install it, and pops off when you put a chip in and lower the arm all the way.

Not what I was asking for help for. Please, no off topic replies. I just need to know how to properly reattach the socket cover to the retention bracket.

No, I know how to install the CPU, problem is if I leave it in the socket and lower the arm with the socket cover in place and the cpu in, the socket cover will pop out. By design.

I need to know how to reattach the socket cover to the metal retention bracket, like it was when the mobo was new.