Eigencentrality

COBOL. It has huge market value. That said, learn Assembly for a couple different architectures, Haskell, brainf*ck, and Forth. You will be a god by the time you become comfortable with those languages. Then you can work anywhere.

Make sure to watercool the 3080/90 that you must buy. Sell the 1080ti and 8700k on ebay. Think about a new motherboard and CPU.

You have a 650? Yes, for god's sake, yes get basically any newish GPU. If you don't want to spend much money get a 1030. You should buy a new basic rig with a reasonable GPU the money that an RTX 2060 would cost. Putting a 2060 in your current rig is like putting a 1000HP engine in a Chevette.

Try it out with the parts you have before spending dough on a separate PSU for a 12v SBC.

Air flow and adequate heat sinks will keep your computer from a quick death. Get fans. Get all the fans. Spend some money and get quiet fans. It's worth it. Cheap fans will cause your computer to sound like an airliner.

Sweet rig. That said, if you're going the AIO route, go all the way. Watercool your GPU. The radiator blocks the air that had cooled it off. Make sure to get a good waterblock that keeps the VRAM chilled. I'm not an AIO guy, so I can't tell you if you need another radiator for adequate cooling. Experiment. You could use liquid hydrogen on your CPU, but you can't get good gaming performance if your GPU is hot.

You can dramatically improve performance by undervolting and tweaking the clocks. Use Wattman. You need to get the voltages and clocks right for your card. It will take a while. As a guide, here are the settings I use for a Sapphire RX580 Nitro+ SE: GPU Clock | Voltage 300 | 750 751 | 793 848 | 806 940 | 820 1059 | 830 1194 | 860 1250 | 870 VRAM Clock | Voltage 300 | 750 1000 | 800 2200 | 885

Conclusion: I decided to clean the hell out of the card. I got out the WD-40, rubbing alcohol, and a box of generic cotton swabs; put the NT-H1 on; shaved some thermal pads to just slim enough. Putting it back together brought it back to the same, noisy but good performance. The thermal issues I wanted to solve in the first place came from the VRAM. I undervolted and overclocked the VRAM. FPS shot up. Still, the card is noisy when hot.

DIY: You'll need a mini-PCIe to PCIe adapter, a PCIe riser, a PSU, and a graphics card.

The accelero isn't too difficult to install. Make sure to get some good thermal paste. Get some thinner, better heatpads than the ones that come with the accelero. Use the backplate and get some little heatsinks for the VRAM. You'll need some regular VRAM heatsinks and a few tiny ones. The accelero will probably get in the way of using full heatsinks on all the VRAM. The backplate is worth it. It pulls out a lot of heat. You can get a PCIe extender and riser to mount it vertically. It'll be huge and ugly, but worth it if you want good performance.

It used to idle at ~25C. The moment I start playing a game it ramps up to ~80C then keeps getting hotter. After 10 seconds or so it throttles to nearly a halt. This happens both with the stock cooler and with the Arctic Accellero. The heatsink makes proper contact. It happens both with thermal pads on the VRAM and with copper heatsinks on the VRAM (plus the Accellero's massive backplate). I lost the original thermal pads a while ago. I've had the card for a few years. This isn't the first time I repasted. The only thing I can think of is that the temp sensors got messed up. But, I can't figure out how that might work or where those sensors are. I can't find any detailed PCB schematics.

I wanted to lower temps on a Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ SE. I installed an Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV, and put some heatsinks on the VRAM. I used Arctic MX-4 thermal paste. The temps jumped from 40 to 80 immediately when the GPU gets going. It keeps going up and throttles. Putting the original heatsink and backplate back on didn't solve the problem. I tried again with Noctua NT-H1. It didn't solve the problem. I tried thick and thin heatpads on the VRAM with the original heatsink and backplate. This didn't change things. This isn't the first time I've repasted the card. I've successfully installed the Accelero Xtreme IV on an R9 390. The only variable left that I can think of is to try yet another thickness of heatpads. Does anyone know what's going on, or how to fix this?

https://www.amazon.com/3-Piece-Ceramic-Heatsinks-Dissipation-Raspberry/dp/B07T1VSPG1/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=ceramic+vram+heatsink&qid=1570561307&s=electronics&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Youngy-Ceramic-Cooling-dissipador-Raspberry/dp/B07R4ZJ918/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=ceramic+heatsink&qid=1570561077&s=electronics&sr=1-8 https://www.amazon.com/MANGKE-Dissipador-Anti-Static-Heatsinks-15x15x5MM/dp/B07WFJKY78/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=ceramic+vram+heatsink&qid=1570561307&s=electronics&sr=1-3 There are others, too.

I started seeing ceramic heatsinks for Raspberry Pi. The little I could find about ceramic heatsinks indicate they might work well. They're also less expensive than nice copper heatsinks. I've got some vram that needs taming. (The R9 390 gets blisteringly hot.) Has anyone tried ceramic heatsinks, or knows something about them?

I'll try the open source. If it works well, I might switch to Archlinux (or Manjaro). Much better dev platforms.