LTT Official Folding Month V (2022)

[cbigfoot]

11 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Welllllll..... The newer ones have embedded Ryzen chips instead of Intel atom....

yep and mine will be the 2023 Midnight Silver Metallic with the Ryzen apu

[justpoet]

Somebody accidentally flipped the wrong breaker and shut down the office....oops!

[dogwitch]

1 hour ago, Schnoz said:

Coat it in sugar and you've got yourself some SkullCandies!

hehe it is!!!

[Alex Atkin UK]

Interesting, adding 200Mhz to the max clock on the 4090 seems stable and its gained more PPD than the GTX 1650.

 

 

I tried +300 but FAH crashed.   I do wonder what OC optimiser will come up with when I have time to run it.

[RollinLower]

guide on how to make an Inno 3D RTX 3090 fit in an EK Vector waterblok:

 

first you find out that the Inno 3D reference card is not actually reference:

 

Spoiler

Then you start cutting:

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Then you shorten the useless piece of PCB Inno 3D added to the card for stock cooler support and make it fit nicely:

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success! the card works just fine because all there is underneath the PCB you remove is a bit of ground plane. 

 

 

Now resume folding as if nothing ever happened.

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

8 minutes ago, RollinLower said:

guide on how to make a Inno 3D RTX3090 fit in an EK Vector waterblok:

 

first you find out that the Inno 3D reference card is not actually reference:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

Then you start cutting:

  Reveal hidden contents

Then you shorten the useless piece of PCB Inno 3D added to the card for stock cooler support and make it fit nicely:

  Reveal hidden contents

success! the card works just fine because all there is underneath the PCB you remove is a bit of groud plane. 

 

 

Now resume folding as if nothing ever happened.

 

That was brave to assume there wasn't something random hidden on an inner layer, just to give you a bad day.  Even though there wasn't, one slip...

[RollinLower]

anyone else having insanely slow WU download speeds?

my main PC has been downloading for 10 minutes and its only on 48%

 

nevermind it's a steam download that's eating up all my bandwith.

[cbigfoot]

5 hours ago, RollinLower said:

guide on how to make a Inno 3D RTX3090 fit in an EK Vector waterblok:

 

first you find out that the Inno 3D reference card is not actually reference:

 

  Hide contents

Then you start cutting:

  Hide contents

Then you shorten the useless piece of PCB Inno 3D added to the card for stock cooler support and make it fit nicely:

  Hide contents

success! the card works just fine because all there is underneath the PCB you remove is a bit of groud plane. 

 

 

Now resume folding as if nothing ever happened.

 

you are NUTS lol i would NEVER do that...but i guess its the price to pay to make it thin lol...

[BondiBlue]

5 hours ago, RollinLower said:

guide on how to make a Inno 3D RTX3090 fit in an EK Vector waterblok:

You know, with my budget I don't think I'll have to worry about that anytime soon...

 

5 hours ago, RollinLower said:

Then you start cutting:

I'm sorry, you what?! Damn, you're insane. Even if I knew that such an idea should work I still don't know if I'd be willing to actually try it on such an expensive card. Good job, and I'm glad it worked out!

[IkeaGnome]

i think the estimate is a bit off.

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, BondiBlue said:

You know, with my budget I don't think I'll have to worry about that anytime soon...

 

I'm sorry, you what?! Damn, you're insane. Even if I knew that such an idea should work I still don't know if I'd be willing to actually try it on such an expensive card. Good job, and I'm glad it worked out!

That warranty claim should it fail would be interesting.

[RollinLower]

3 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

That warranty claim should it fail would be interesting.

this card comes with a "warranty void" sticker when you remove the backplate so i think i lost that claim right at the beginning

[Slave2school]

7 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Interesting, adding 200Mhz to the max clock on the 4090 seems stable and its gained more PPD than the GTX 1650.

 

 

I tried +300 but FAH crashed.   I do wonder what OC optimiser will come up with when I have time to run it.

What's that work out to for clock speed? I'm holding 2995 with plus 150 , voltage @1100mv and power limit turned up 10 percent. I haven't tried pushing it higher most of the YouTube videos I've seen seem to lose stability above 3ghz too so it's have to wait till after the folding is done. Roughly 57c fans on stock

[Alex Atkin UK]

27 minutes ago, Slave2school said:

What's that work out to for clock speed? I'm holding 2995 with plus 150 , voltage @1100mv and power limit turned up 10 percent. I haven't tried pushing it higher most of the YouTube videos I've seen seem to lose stability above 3ghz too so it's have to wait till after the folding is done. Roughly 57c fans on stock

At the moment its showing 2880-2895 at 77-79C, but I couldn't find anywhere to put the thermal probe that the bottom fan follows so its probably not getting ideal intake.  Plus the FE is known to run a bit toasty as it avoids pushing the card fans into "omg that noise" levels.

Manually pushing the fans up only drops to 70-76C so I think it definitely needs the intake fan tweaking.

[Slave2school]

23 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

At the moment its showing 2880-2895 at 77-79C, but I couldn't find anywhere to put the thermal probe that the bottom fan follows so its probably not getting ideal intake.  Plus the FE is known to run a bit toasty as it avoids pushing the card fans into "omg that noise" levels.

Manually pushing the fans up only drops to 70-76C so I think it definitely needs the intake fan tweaking.

Mine is in a pretty cool environment in a giant case with lots of fans blowing through but it's also the Zotac Trinity oc. Seems pretty quiet to me my ups is louder. It's not silent though for sure. 

 

[Alex Atkin UK]

2 minutes ago, Slave2school said:

Mine is in a pretty cool environment in a giant case with lots of fans blowing through but it's also the Zotac Trinity oc. Seems pretty quiet to me my ups is louder.

The NVIDIA fans are beastly above about 50%, not likely an issue under a normal load though.

[Alex Atkin UK]

8 minutes ago, Slave2school said:

Mine is in a pretty cool environment in a giant case with lots of fans blowing through but it's also the Zotac Trinity oc. Seems pretty quiet to me my ups is louder. It's not silent though for sure. 

 

That's interesting as I didn't think the Trinity OC would allow that much clearance on the power connector, its one of the reasons I didn't cave and get one and waited on the FE instead.

 

The FE being MSRP was a good thing though, plus I like how it partially vents out of the case directly.  Its still increased the idle CPU temp by about 10C though, the trouble with air cooling.

[Slave2school]

1 minute ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

That's interesting as I didn't think the Trinity OC would allow that much clearance on the power connector, its one of the reasons I didn't cave and get one and waited on the FE instead.

This wasn't really good planning it was the only one available for the MSRP I suspect because Zotac. My case is huge too it's really wide.

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 minute ago, Slave2school said:

This wasn't really good planning it was the only one available for the MSRP I suspect because Zotac. My case is huge too it's really wide.

Looks about the same width as my BeQuiet DX500.

I really need to lower my front fan, its a bit too high up now with the increased height of the 4090.

I also wonder if I had been better off with 3x120mm fans rather than 2x140mm.

[Slave2school]

6 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Looks about the same width as my BeQuiet DX500.

I really need to lower my front fan, its a bit too high up now with the increased height of the 4090.

I also wonder if I had been better off with 3x120mm fans rather than 2x140mm.

That's just the way this thing came I didn't really move a thing.

 

I suppose when I say really wide I mean in comparison to the old thermaltake case with the 4080. It's an abomination and impossible to really close now.

[cbigfoot]

1 hour ago, RollinLower said:

this card comes with a "warranty void" sticker when you remove the backplate so i think i lost that claim right at the beginning

nope at least in the USA warranty void sitickers are Invalid all they can use it for is to detect if you opened it.  unless you caused damage to the card like knocking a SMD or chip off when removing the heat sink you are legally allowed to remove the heatsink and reapply it...but since you cut it yeah, no warranty for you i dont think...  I remember years ago I had a XFX Vcard that the fan failed on me, I told them I am a computer tech, and all i need is the fan, i can remove it from the HS and install the new one...they sent the whole heat sink assy along with a new warranty void sticker to replace the one i would destroy removing the current heatsink assy. needless to say i just swapped the fan any way...kept the stiker for a rainy day...ended up using it after i had to repaste my RX580 as it was overheating...now was a diffrent style xfx sticker but the warranty is still valid right???? lol 

[Alex Atkin UK]

Just now, cbigfoot said:

unless you caused damage to the card

You mean like sawing off the end?

[cbigfoot]

4 minutes ago, Slave2school said:

That's just the way this thing came I didn't really move a thing.

 

I suppose when I say really wide I mean in comparison to the old thermaltake case with the 4080. It's an abomination and impossible to really close now.

Just Cram the side case on whats the worst that can happen amirigthoramiright???

[cbigfoot]

Just now, Alex Atkin UK said:

You mean like sawing off the end?

well if he can prove 100% that doing that didnt cause the failure they MAY allow it...but they MAY Laugh manically and say sure we will replace it for 1600

[Slave2school]

3 minutes ago, cbigfoot said:

Just Cram the side case on whats the worst that can happen amirigthoramiright???

Only a small house fire I suppose.