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Ok forget the fans go full compressed LN2 sprayed thru the heatsinks

Swap those fans get some boof goin

Yeah but arguably slower in a really lot of ways. Ass at video in comparison. You can make a G5 quad edit 4K video like b u t t e r

I'm looking for a dual socket replacement that won't take me for a deer in the headlights Anything I found was servers, like quad socket servers, or people wanted an incredulous amount of money I'm also just feeling hyped that I was getting shit talked at level1techs and now that I've done a bunch of real world shit I figured out I was actually right and I feel so god damn pumped about it

?????? No thats a mac pro 3,1

Anyone who thinks this is a slow computer is dumb mofo aight Retro my arse, but I know theres someone on here that'll spit sprite cranberry all over the wall

I want to note, the AMDGPU is important on this machine so I only have to run one driver suite and CPU cache doesn't get hit as hard. Nvidia to me is a laughable excuse for a graphics card company, so I have 0 interest in getting one, new used or for free out of the trash. I have a GT730 for fun, thats literally it. No wait I have an 8800GTs OC. That was when it was actually nvidia though, so I don't really count that.

Budget (including currency): idk 500 Country: USA (MI, Recycle Centers) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: I am running linux and doing a lot of high availability compute related things. Not that I am running GRAVLAB or anything, but I am moving a lot of data, working on a lot of other things, centering my workload on a computer instead of my brain. If I gotta drop everything and do something else, I don't want to come back and find that this dev kit crashed, took all these files with it, and I didn't have anything big running to save it. I am literally doing anything from streaming source games to literal repository surgery, and everything in between. I don't screw around. If I have something I want to do, I make sure I have the headroom. Other details (Dual Socket requirement minimum) High availability resources, init, react, now, not in 2 minutes, now I have a conundrum and it turns out its even harder to replace than I realized. Over time I have repeatedly blown up boards. The only machines I don't blow up are laptops, servers, and multisocket workstations. Example being I was using an X79 build with a 2690 (P9X79LE) and I started to kill 2 sata ports, the sound card, and the ethernet controller. In the past I have done the exact same thing on all sorts of pieces of hardware. You know what I haven't blown up? Multisocket systems. Like I know this shit hard core enough that I'm like.... @LinusTechhire me you're not going to find anyone that knows about this shit desktop wise other than people who are absolute freaks about this shit such as yourself. Gimme a job dammit lol. This is what I am currently working with. This was a shit load of work. Mac Pro 3,1 2X Xeon E5462 R9 290 4GB (display, amdgpu loaded) RX 580 (compute, ram, amdgpu loaded) 64GB FBD Ram DDR2 (the reason I can't replace this machine, legitimately, aside from pure platform needs) Antec Earthwatts Green 650W Silver Apple PSU (950W Silver) The drives are not inside because while I was wiring in the second PSU I broke the SAS connector on the board. The plastics are old as shit,so all I can do for now is either have NVMe, I'll explain why thats a bad idea in a minute, or use the ODD sata ports. The reason NVMe is a bad idea is these CPU's are FSB based. Meaning, you need stuff, you get it now. DMI DMA whatever takes time to make sure it doesn't need other shit later and modifies bandwidth limits. FSB just connects you there and is like "Yay I did it" its like.... way better. Someone make a 3GHZ fsb please I need it. But, because FSB is FSB, if I download, unpack, write to disk, I've now lost an entire CPU. This machine streams a 1080P image rescaled to 720, playing source games, doing audio, at 48FPS and locked a 5000kbps to twitch. I was using that X79 box but I started killing it. I also had a 3900X system during covid and while it could do the stream, if I did a bunch of other stuff, while the CPU can do it, the board still lagged behind. Something would somewhere and slow everything down. Believe it or not, reaction to init wise, this is faster. It shouldn't be, but when you use the intel machine as a backplane and use the GPU's as your heavy load processors, everything else is.... well, everything else that doesn't work when it should? You start feeling batshit. The other day I went out to try and find any dual socket workstation to at least look at. Not only could I not find a machine, I couldn't find anyone who had a good idea for a replacement. The thing about this mac pro is its an all in one version f the computers that I wanted to build originally. Rather than this mac pro setup, I wanted dual HAF Stackers, one AMD one intel, network sync'd, to do what I need. But I couldn't get those cases, still can't. No one knew how to use them (the idiots) so I've gotta do this instead, which is insanely power innefficient. So, ATP I'm like "Alright, I know EPYC will do what I want. Or I can go get whatever the hell Dell or HP dual chip box I see and pray" Or @LinusTechsome more for his skull trail stuff. Like legit if you don't need it can I buy it? HACK COUGH Ahem But uh, what should I do? Edit: I want to continue using high power platforms like this so I can actually expand what I am doing. Not get a newer peice of hardware that will barely function 10% faster. Pointless. I know my workload. The machine I had before this one was a Precision 670 that I built, quite a while ago. I scaled up to cover what I needed, but I've been on this level of hardware for a while. Its the type of computer that I know how to use and am comfortable using. If I was just opening minecraft and abi word, that'd be one thing. If I could get a talos 2 that'd literally cover everything. But I don't want to spend 2000 on a board and 3500 on CPU's when I can't use the CPU arch very effectively. It'd do a lot, but I'd miss out on source engine stuff that I am working on.

I can't get a close enough image of the pads to see tbh but its not in the machine

cable length, lane issues, GPU size If I put my 290 in the last slot it blocks the HDD bays and is on 4X only. Unless you have an idea where I can get an 8087 controller with an nvme slot

I'm not meaning like thermosyphon the LN2 or anything, I just mean a cup and hollow empty heatpipes. Of course I can just touch off the bottom of the cup any time.

Hello. I have been putting an unreasonable amount of time into optimizing a mac pro to stream at full res using GPU's to cover what the CPU's can't do and just as I got everything tightened up I broke the damn SAS/Sata breakout on the board. Due to the nature of the project I am doing, I want to use this machine no matter what. I think I realistically I have 2 options that I like, and a 3rd option that I will be forced to do if I want to continue using this machine, but I want to see if anyone has an idea. 1. New machine. Either a new 3,1, a 4/5 chassis, or just a new workstation altogether, which compared to what I have will be expensive (Twin proc, 64GB ram) 2. A sata/esata controller, or a nvme / sata combo board. If I want to use my HDD's I have, I think probably esata is best because IDK how to use the internal cable and I can't find an NVME + Sata breakout board. Or even an m.2 sata breakout at a right angle (so that I can use the SAS cable in the mac pro). But I can run a cable to the sketch AF internal sata ports and get a 2TB Sata and my NVME and use something like refit on a USB 3. Go all NVME, which if I do anything major with files I will end up freezing the machine until the file actions are done (nature of fsb), which will really be a bitch during a stream if I have to download anything. 4. Get a new machine anyways and hang this one up till the port can be physically repaired, then go back when it is actually repaired 2 sounds kinda ok but the internal plastics are stupidly brittle. I'm going to a recycle center in the morning to see what I can find, but IDK if anything will be high availability enough resource wise to actually keep up with what I am doing. Believe it or not I can stream full resolution 30 or 60 FPS at a full connection speed to twitch playing stuff and doing cameras with effects. I was shocked. I still had headroom too, so rather than get something new I'd rather keep this and bankroll it. Wat do

IDK something I can run 1vyrain on. Probably a 2620m or 2720m. Alternatively, a macbook with a 3820QM

Could I make an LN2 pot for a laptop chip that just sticks out the vent and has pipes that go to the socket? I don't know why but for some reason I want to LN2 an overclockable thinkpad and see what happens

Cool thx I'm using 8.1 because I don't like that settings get altered every update or things screw up my start menu every time I reboot. I'm not dealing with that crap.

Hi, I currently have a beefy system for my personal needs, though I have many things I do with it outside of gaming. Specs RQ: Ryzen 3900X 32GB @3000mhz Corsair LPX (will be upgrading to 64 if needed, though mobo upgrade will happen later so maybe 128GB) Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra Gaming (bought for IOMMU, I know my chokes are barely enough to hit 4.2GHz stable shush) Corsair H100i V2 (AM4 edition) Sapphire RX480 Nitro+ (main GPU) and either a EVGA GTX 970 SSC+ or an NVidia GRID K2 that I will be turning into a tesla or a headless 680/690. powered by an EVGA G3+ 750W PSU in a HAF EVO XB Its not a great build but it works and does MOST of what I need to. I am going to admit though, I'm a linux user. I'm honestly used to doing almost whatever I want with my computer, with very fem limitations to my ideas. Recently I decided to start using windows 8 again because I wanted to play tarkov. Because of reasons, I redid my desktop completely. I want to have my 480 in my machine as my display card and my 970 in there doing nvenc. Though, to my knowledge, 8/8.1 had bad handling of cross format cards? So using both drivers at once either bluescreens immediately or kills one card? Was that ever fixed? Last I tried was legit 2016, way before this build obv.... Either way, lmk. I've been on a break from linux and I'll be reinstalling it here soon to reattempt with VM passthrough, and if I get it working I'll let ya'll know... But for the moment, is it possible to do this and not have everything die?

Why does it not like having pull fans for atmos vent? Could you set up bottom to top airflow in a case with 3000RPM fans (thinking noctua PPC) and not have the delta fans? Would ducting make that bottom to top plan work better? Is the design scaleable? IE, could it be made smaller? Thinking single 120? 140? What does it actually compete with? Is it logical to use outside of a LAN center / Render farm sorta environment? Personally I'm looking at one of these sorta things but custom built for a G5 quad. Would there be any companies out there that happen to do fab work for that sorta deal or am I on my own?

Hello I have a project in mind that I want to play around with, but first I want to be sure my GPU won't be dead in a month from corrosion. I have 2 Nvidia 9800GT's laying here doing nothing waiting to be put back into a mac or something similar. I can buy a box of 20 of these cards for about 50 bucks from a recycle center, so I don't care if they die. What I'd like to do is rig one up with a better cooling block and better clocks / vbios and see what I can push a 9800 GT to do. Yes, I'm aware they are basically 8800GTS's, however these are the updated 65nm cards, not the 90nm or whatever the first release was that was based on the 8800 directly. So there is some space to overclock and push them. Goal? 60+FPS at 900P in skyrim. Now, whether or not I have to add a better block is a little skeptical at the moment, but its on the table. Mostly I just want to know what liquid metal does to the die over time. I'm aware that gallium corrodes and aluminum and copper, but how long does that actually take? Would repasting the GPU monthly keep the corrosion down? Future goals here are to keep both GPU's pushed to the max with the both cooling I could do under air and to see how fast they can render video, or compute things. I'm bored ATP. Just dunno the chemical characteristics of gallium over all. Is there a site that talks about the effects between substances? Something on TechPowerUP? Thanks!

No what I meant is furmark can put it to 94C

I meant slam as in the thermals were hitting it hard lol.

I've had the machine apart and stripped twice. Since the second time, no issues.

Hmmm, no I got it used. Might ask about it.

I have 0 clue if its still under warranty or not. Mostly I'm betting on the thermal mass increase giving me 3-5 degrees of a difference. I'm just hoping my temps don't have a reason to hover over 70.

After letting it sit, gets up to 94 like it should. Immediate slam it settles at about 68 ish. I don't think thats terribly unrealistic.