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Seems like I can't get any good answers on this forum. One user is just posting crap giving conflicting information, and the other is claiming numbers that make no sense. 103% worse performance? Can you even do math? That means you're running at 3% performance at x4 vs 100% at x16? Perhaps you meant to say 3% worse performance, which is within acceptable numbers, and within the numbers other test sites have measured. But what is it's x1 performance?

I just kind of found my answer... Tests done on x16 saw no difference between pcie 4.0, 3.0, 2.0 x16 slots (less than 1%), meaning that the cutoff is below x4 on pcie 4.0 for games. This GPU is too weak to be constricted by any slot speed above x4. Still, no one has tested this GPUs performance at x1, to see how it fares against x4 (or x16, basically identical performance).

No one has yet tested the AMD 5700XT on where the performance cutoff is with mining, folding, or gaming on pcie 4.0 slot sizes. Like, is x1 enough for gaming? Or is x4 preferred? Which slot size matches nearly the same speed as the 4.0 x16 slot? Hope someone will benchmark this soon!

Please re-do a closed loop water cooling system for CPU; choosing the cheapest on Amazon, and see if a single fan can support a Ryzen 9 CPU? How far can a single fan, dual fan, or triple fan cool a CPU? Or, what water cooling system would you recommend with what CPU? (eg: threadripper, Ryzen, I7/9, or what's realistically speaking the lowest CPU benefiting from watercooling (that won't benefit from aircooling; eg: a Celeron G processor doesn't need watercooling, as it can even do with a low profile aircooler).

No video review, but make a Chinese media player supercluster, just because. Just buy a bunch of cheap media players (AMLogic S905X3 CPUs are good, and are going from $25/unit on eBay and Alibaba; or the more expensive octacore versions), take out the guts, install a heat sink on all of them, mount them together with hexagonal rods and do Boinc on them. Here's a concept with 4 boards: My cluster (now 8 units) uses an Ethernet switch, USB hub for power, and HDMI+USB for controlling each unit with 1 keyboard and mouse, and display it on one display. Would love to see if you could steer each unit remotely with either one Android media player, or a raspberry pi by communicating over the network with them. It would save on HDMI and USB cables. I'm in the process of making a 24 and 48 cluster device. I want to see a massive supercluster of these. Like 100 of them!

PS, if you're interested in the 2060 vs 2080: 2060 = 1M PPD for $350, x3 = 3M PPD for $1050 2080 = 1.5M PPD for $700 x2 = 3M PPD for $1400 2080 costs $350 more initially. Electric savings: 3x 2060 @ 129W = 387W 2x 2080 @ 136W = 272W =============== 115W 115W savings when folding 24/7 = $115/Yr on savings. $350 initial cost difference divided by the $115 annual electricity savings = 3 years. 2080 GPUs will start to benefit when folding 24/7 for more than 3 years. That number is 75 years if you compare the RTX 2060 with the RTX 2080 ti.

What are the settings in Linux for minimum power draw on the 1660 ti? For RTX cards, the minimum is 125W, but for optimal settings, The 2060 needs to run at about 128-129W, as long as the card can stay around 60C. The 2070 needs to run at 130-133W, The 2080 needs to run at 136-139W, The 2080 ti needs to run at ~170-178W. Lowering the power curve, allows for slightly higher overclocks. The procedure for overclocking RTX cards (and GTX cards) is simple: 1- Start the card cold (sub 50C). 2- Increase power limit to maximum (usually a few watts above the factory settings) 3- Check how high initial boost frequency goes to. Write that number down. It's your OC aim. 4- Lower power limit to the lowest setting. 5- Try to overclock until you're close to stock boost clock rates. 6- If WU fails, lower; if WU seems stable, dial back by 5Mhz and save. 7- Over time, GPUs will wear out, and overclocking margins will lower. The 1660ti at this moment isn't the best buy yet, unless if they lower the price by a lot. If the 1660 ti gets 750k PPD, and the 2060 gets 1M PPD, you'll need 4x 1660 tis to match the performance of 3x RTX 2060s. The cost price of 4x 1660 tis, is about $30 higher than 3x 2060s. Aside from cost price, the 2060s run best at 129 Watts. x3 = 387 W. Just for reference, I'll presume that the 1660 ti's run best at 117 Watts. x4 = 468W. For roughly the same performance. 2060s are still the sweet spot. Especially if you can get second hand ones.

I'll correct you, and no. My 2060 averages around 1040kPPD, and in some cases reaches as high as 1.3 to 1.4MPPD. But I'll tell you where the 2060 makes 870k PPD. When you limit it to run at 125Watts in Linux. Most of the time the NVidia drivers will overclock the card higher, so you'll average more like at 970kPPDs. But if you set the 2070 to 125Watt, it reaches to 1.1MPPD. and the 2080 1.4 MPPD (at the same 125Watt). Now that's efficient! Especially when you pay your own power bills...