I tried to do something nice, but instead this community thought I was nuts... Bought an Asus ROG Strix OC 1080Ti (my second 1080Ti).

[bsodmike]

...and I'm also gifting a Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 7 X399 board to a member on the Leve1 Techs forum.

Shout out to @-TesseracT- for being the only soul here that "Got" my intentions.

 

I also did a 2-hr live-stream fixing quite a few things on my stack,

 

Things I covered

• Removed GTX1070 from the 7920X rig (far left)
• Moving the StarTech (Intel) NIC from the “old” pfSense Router to the 7920X rig (going to virtualise pfSense in XenServer).
• Installed a new “el chepo” GTX1050 into the XenServer (just for UEFI usage).
• Pulled out the GTX1080 from the 6850K gaming box
• Installed a brand spanking new Asus ROG Strix GTX1080Ti 11GB OC Edition

I also walk you through on,

• Basics on overclocking, HOWTO. How to find the sweet spot, and fine tune.
• Running benchmarks in Assassins Creed Origins
• Playing PUBG; handling crashing due to artifacts
• How to deal with Overclock instability
• How I manage my XenServer in a virtualised Win10 in Fedora, via qemu/kvm - Shout out to Lawrence Systems Tech Talk’s Tom for his excellent guides on XenServer stuff. Highly recommended!!
• I boot up Gitlab and Ansible Tower (awx), connect and show they are running.
• I talk about mining (I think…); I’m not a miner though; but I do mine. (Watch video for clarification) - when a miner who mines isn’t a miner!! hahahah.
• I show you what Fedora (26) looks like a Desktop
• I demo running Benchmarks in Linux on the Threadripper 1950X.
• Also demo the epic Displayport @ 60Hz KVM by Wendell Level 1 Techs, which does GSync 100Hz.

 

The full thread is linked here:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/my-first-live-stream-for-over-2-hrs-where-i-demo-my-new-asus-rog-strix-1080ti-oc-how-to-overclock-manage-xenserver-play-pubg-wendells-kvm-lots-more/124176

 

 

[bsodmike]

Oh best part is I drop my 7920X server.  IT'S ALL GOOD 

[NrKj105]

so... you have multiple systems?
whats the point?

[manikyath]

i am unsure what the point of this thread is...

 

are you trying to say L1T community is better? (which i would probably not argue against..)

are you being overly proud of running games on a vritualized windows 10?

are you just here to mention your 2 hour livestream?

...

 

i am at a loss here..

[Revamp]

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All waiting to figure out the point of this thread...

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Revamp said:

Recently Browsing   10 members

Revamp, Dissitesuxba11s, UniBomber, Urs Forrer, Hezemans, ATFink, gtrfdews, Thatdudeoverthere, ModuleLFS, samcool55

 

All waiting to figure out the point of this thread...

i had this open in a tab, and somehow didnt appear in that  list..

 

still waiting to figure out the point of this thread however

[Revamp]

Sending out an immediate search & rescue team to find and recover @bsodmike safely.

 

Will they find Mike safely? Stay tuned and find out on the next episode...

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Revamp said:

Sending out an immediate search & rescue team to find and recover @bsodmike safely.

you'll find him near the event 41.

[bsodmike]

Well the stream was geared towards newbies who weren't all too familiar with Overclocking etc.

 

On 02/02/2018 at 2:43 AM, NrKj105 said:

so... you have multiple systems?
whats the point?

 

Having fun I guess.  Pretty decent card and has been a worthy upgrade from the Zotac GTX1080.  Been benchmarking and fine tuning the OC some.

 

On 02/02/2018 at 2:49 AM, manikyath said:

i am unsure what the point of this thread is...

 

are you trying to say L1T community is better? (which i would probably not argue against..)

are you being overly proud of running games on a vritualized windows 10?

are you just here to mention your 2 hour livestream?

...

 

i am at a loss here..

 

Well some folks in the linux community sure are.  Have you heard of Looking Glass? GPU pass through (via VFIO), IOMMU is now pretty stable on Threadripper, at least as of Kernel 4.15.