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by Krogoth
Wed Dec 09, 2020 7:28 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: RIP Chuck Yeager
Replies: 2
Views: 3861

Re: RIP Chuck Yeager

Indeed, good luck finding test pilots of his caliber. Most of original astronauts are gone and the few that remain are close to crossing into the final frontier.

They all have "The Right Stuff"
by Krogoth
Wed Oct 28, 2020 6:23 pm
Forum: Processors
Topic: So, what do you guys think of the new Ryzen 5000 series?
Replies: 28
Views: 10293

Re: So, what do you guys think of the new Ryzen 5000 series?

Yep, the new RDNA2 cards have put a light under Nvidia's chair. AMD is finally back at the high-end portions of the gaming market and has been absent here since Hawaii a.k.a 290X. The biggest losers are scalpers hoarding up limited stocks who now have to move their stuff back at cost or at a loss (m...
by Krogoth
Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:35 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333923

Re: Something's different...

There might be nod for the 28th with AMD's official unveiling of RDNA2, but I wouldn't hold my breath
by Krogoth
Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:18 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: The Tech Report forums got a big upgrade
Replies: 137
Views: 58263

Re: The Tech Report forums got a big upgrade

Things went downhill because banner ad revenues dried up as pretty much everything moved to YouTube. <-- a bit of an oversimplification, but mostly sums it up While the viewership of young demographics prefer flashy videos over boring, old charts and text that outline the data/results. It is a irre...
by Krogoth
Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:27 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: RTX 3090 in my paws!
Replies: 7
Views: 4824

Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Nah, they are waiting for 3090 to generate "warm" for them sit on top of the chassis.
by Krogoth
Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:26 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?
Replies: 4
Views: 3975

Re: NVIDIA Moving Ampere to TSMC 7nm - Anyone else find this hard to believe?

Nvidia already made GA100 on TSMC's 7mn node. Other chips will come out as a retooled Ampere since chip design needs to be tweak for the different node. I suspect Nvidia is going to axe some of the GPGPU functions out of the re-tooled customer designs in order to make it more efficient and be more o...
by Krogoth
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:34 am
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TR Frankenbot 2020
Replies: 2
Views: 7305

Re: TR Frankenbot 2020

Any other contributors to Frankie? I'm curious to see if somebody managed to snag an Ampere chip to put it through its places with folding. :wink: Recently, it looks like the folks at Stanford were able fully implement CUDA support so the client should be able to harness more throughput from Nvidia ...
by Krogoth
Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:52 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: So, what do you guys think of the new Ryzen 5000 series?
Replies: 28
Views: 10293

Re: So, what do you guys think of the new Ryzen 5000 series?

It is basically a redux of Athlon 64 X2 stomping out Intel's offerings back in the day. AMD knows this which is why their pushing higher price points on their Zen3-based SKUs while older Zen-2 stock will take-up budget-minded space.
by Krogoth
Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:03 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TR Frankenbot 2020
Replies: 2
Views: 7305

TR Frankenbot 2020

(Lightning crackers/flashes in the background in the Damage Labs) Its alive!
by Krogoth
Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:11 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: How to use an outlet adapter
Replies: 21
Views: 6787

Re: How to use an outlet adapter

Instant Darwin Award material.....
by Krogoth
Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:08 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

Ampere cards will likely experience supply issues that will persist until Q2 2021. The demand is going to be insane and scalpers are going to try to cash in so expect prices to be inflated by 20-30% of MSRP. Right on all counts except the scale of the markup. I've seen some for +150% :o I didn't ex...
by Krogoth
Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:05 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

PNY is Nvidia's first-tier card partner (FYI, all of the Nvidia branded GPU SKUs are assembled by PNY). On the AMD RTG front, it is Sapphire (They assembled "Built by ATI" branded cards back in the day).
by Krogoth
Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:03 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: sensible third-party cooling for Ryzen 5 2600x
Replies: 17
Views: 5297

Re: sensible third-party cooling for Ryzen 5 2600x

Arctic Cooling units are very solid choices and don't break the wallet. Noctua are top-tier but a but overpriced. There are several other HSF solutions that have nearly the same performance/noise ratio for quite a bit less $$$$.
by Krogoth
Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:01 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: FYI got the desktop flashing stopped - AMD Vega
Replies: 8
Views: 4274

Re: FYI got the desktop flashing stopped - AMD Vega

I used OBS and never experience any flashing issues with my Vega 64 which is driving two mointors (2560x1440 and 3820x2160 respectfully)
by Krogoth
Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:24 pm
Forum: TR Distributed Computing Effort
Topic: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19
Replies: 115
Views: 23164

Re: TRFrankenbot for COVID-19

Customer-tier Ampere is an absolute leviathan at FP32 computing. It'll chomp through WUs that are heavily-depended on it like hot dounts. I expect the RTX 3080-3090 to pull in 2-3 million PPD under such workloads.
by Krogoth
Tue Sep 22, 2020 6:31 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: RTX 3080 sells out in seconds... thanks to scalpers with bots
Replies: 5
Views: 3960

Re: RTX 3080 sells out in seconds... thanks to scalpers with bots

The 3070 will probably meet the same fate as the other SKUs until the binned 3060 comes around to ease-up demand on GA104 chips.
by Krogoth
Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:41 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: RTX 3080 sells out in seconds... thanks to scalpers with bots
Replies: 5
Views: 3960

Re: RTX 3080 sells out in seconds... thanks to scalpers with bots

Wirko wrote:
Does this count as high frequency trading?


Somewhat, but high frequency trading is handling much larger volumes at quicker frequencies.
by Krogoth
Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:35 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: DYMT: Imi's Legacy
Replies: 4962
Views: 476399

Re: DYMT: Imi's Legacy

Still here and continued to be unimpressed
by Krogoth
Mon Sep 07, 2020 3:18 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

Ampere cards will likely experience supply issues that will persist until Q2 2021. The demand is going to be insane and scalpers are going to try to cash in so expect prices to be inflated by 20-30% of MSRP.
by Krogoth
Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:58 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

I am just finding it insane that the top end GPU is 1500 It is because 3090 is really just rejected Quadros that ate too much power and it is possible that Nvidia is retiring the "Titan" brand. You speak with confidence not backed by information. It is just sheer speculation. There's no n...
by Krogoth
Wed Sep 02, 2020 12:24 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

Deathright wrote:
I am just finding it insane that the top end GPU is 1500


It is because 3090 is really just rejected Quadros that ate too much power and it is possible that Nvidia is retiring the "Titan" brand.
by Krogoth
Tue Sep 01, 2020 6:06 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

JustAnEngineer wrote:
3080 has about the same non-RT resources as 2080Ti and a slight clock speed advantage. NVidia pricing it at $800 really does bode well for RDNA2.


I'm hoping that AMD RTG manages to make RDNA2 rival 3080 and 3070 at lower price points leading to a much-needed price war.
by Krogoth
Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:54 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

Wait until reviews and more eyes though. I wouldn't trust that "preview" with a simple pictro-graphs that is designed to be click-bait.
by Krogoth
Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:08 pm
Forum: Graphics
Topic: NVidia Ampere
Replies: 42
Views: 9641

Re: NVidia Ampere

Leather Jacket Man has AMP up the hype! Ampere is an evolution of Turing backed by refining RT cores and throwing more in the mix. It easily leapfrogs Turing at RTX stuff, but I suspect the gains are not as impressive under pure rasterization workloads. Nvidia is afraid of RDNA2 that are willing to ...
by Krogoth
Tue Sep 01, 2020 6:47 am
Forum: Processors
Topic: Is it safe to use acetone to clean microchips?
Replies: 28
Views: 54893

Re: Is it safe to use acetone to clean microchips?

just brew it! wrote:
whm1974 wrote:
Are folks hoarding Rubbing Alcohol now?

Hoarding and/or using gallons of the stuff sanitizing everything in sight. I haven't found any locally since the whole Covid mess started.


Ethanol works almost as well for sanitizing. :wink: Kinda surprised people haven't raided high proof spirits for it.
by Krogoth
Thu Aug 27, 2020 7:27 am
Forum: Graphics
Topic: How much video memory is needed?
Replies: 4
Views: 3812

Re: How much video memory is needed?

It's 100% dependent upon the game being discussed. A game from a decade ago may use 512 MB at 1080p. One from this year may use 9 GB at 1080p. More is better, but it all comes down to what games you're talking about. It depends more on the assets of game in question. Textures and model complexity i...
by Krogoth
Mon Aug 24, 2020 5:03 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: System guide soon to be two years old.
Replies: 37
Views: 11640

Re: System guide soon to be two years old.

Custom designs will have THREE 150-watt 8-pin PCIe connectors. The PCIe x16 slot can provide up to 75 watts from the motherboard, so that puts the new Ampere’s power consumption in the range of 376 to 525 watts. The new micro 12-pin connector is rated for up to 600 watts. It’s significantly more co...
by Krogoth
Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:14 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: System guide soon to be two years old.
Replies: 37
Views: 11640

Re: System guide soon to be two years old.

Ampere is looking like to be Turing on steroids and pushing Samsung's 8mn node to its practical limits. The leaked "3090" reference design show that HSF is a triple-sloter using 120mm fans and it appears that it'll use a single 12-pin PCIe power connector (Nvidia is supplying 8+8 to 12-pin...
by Krogoth
Sat May 30, 2020 2:24 am
Forum: Storage
Topic: NAS builds - anyone want a topic on em?
Replies: 25
Views: 8381

Re: NAS builds - anyone want a topic on em?

FreeNAS is not "enterprise software" by any means. TrueNAS can be with the right setup, but FreeNAS is absolutely not. Don't let the "Free'" in the name fool you. It is definitely what used to be enterprise-tier and it is not for the novice by any means. The suite has enterprise...
by Krogoth
Fri May 29, 2020 10:58 pm
Forum: Storage
Topic: NAS builds - anyone want a topic on em?
Replies: 25
Views: 8381

Re: NAS builds - anyone want a topic on em?

How do you like freenas? I haven't tried it for years. It is a standard enterprise NAS software package. It is overkill for home usage, but it is free though. Pretty stable as long as you aren't trying to do something crazy experimentation. I'm not sure 'overkill' and 'nas' are two words I'd ever u...

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