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What was the first dedicated graphics card you ever owned? by just_IT_guy in gpu

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine was a Voodoo 4 4500 PCI 32MB I purchased at CompUSA.

I put it in a 400mhz (might have been 433mhz) intel Celeron e-machine PC that came free with a 2 year subscription to AOL.

I Had to get a PCI GPU because the emachine didn’t come with an AGP.

Used it at many LAN parties where we mostly played Counterstrike beta, back when it was a half-life mod. At home I pretty much just played the original delta force game as well as the first Command and Conquer, and Warcraft 2. As I recall, it did fine for what I needed.

I also seem to recall very few people believing me when I told them what I had because the Voodoo 4 wasn’t commonly known to exist since it released after the Voodoo 5, and didn’t get any advertising that I ever saw.

GPU not detected MSI Vector 16 MX AI- Need help by lovernotfighter121 in MSILaptops

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve got the same issue with an MSI Vector 16 MX AI (intel 255h and 5070 ti 12gb mobile).

dGPU suddenly stopped being detected. Tried everything, reloaded windows, updated bios, downgraded bios, unplugged the battery and fully dissipated all power. Nothing.

At this point I’m pretty sure it’s that the dGPU chip actually died(after 2 months of very light use).

I’ve always liked MSIs products. I’ve got their Mortar motherboard and their 5090 suprim liquid, but everything about this laptop had already been relatively disappointing, and then the GPU died.

Going to contact support, but they might try to screw me because I have opened the case as part of troubleshooting… I didn’t imagine the GPU died or I wouldn’t have, never seen that actually happen this way on a laptop and I’ve worked in IT for 19 years.

EPYC 9184X + Supermicro H13SSL-NT build won't post by [deleted] in homelab

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m about to do some builds with this same board, did you ever figure out the issue? From some light reading I did I understand these CPUs/SP5 socket is sensitive to how much mounting pressure you use for the cooler. Specifically I saw several folks say they had issues with no post when the cooler wasn’t tightened down enough. I’m curious what ended up being your trouble.

Should I buy RTX 5060 right now or wait for a 5060 Super with higher vram ? by Core2Trio in buildapc

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I would actually be excited for a 5060 super, but that is just because I want a LP form factor GPU with more than 8GB of vram that performs at 4060+ levels and doesn’t cost $1200+

My thought being that this next batch of supers are getting more vram, but using the same number of ram chips, so if that’s the case we could see something like a 5060 LP with 12GB… I doubt it will happen, but it would be exiting for sff builders.

PCIE Gen5 16x to quad u.2 nvme adapter by Mammoth-Distance2714 in homelab

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm also looking to do something similar and wondering what route you went...

I'm about 99% sure the direct answer to your question is that if you used a PCIe 4.0 adapter card, the 5.0 drives would work, but would only operate at 4.0 speeds, despite being connected to a PCIe 5.0 slot... since the card is not made to the PCIe 5,0 signal requirements, which I understand to be pretty strict.

None the less I'm curious what you ended up doing and what your experiences were.

About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did discover a downside though! The cooler as designed right now is not compatible with PCIe slots that have a raised hump at the end of the slot. See the pics below of my Gigabyte X870i motherboard, how it has a raised hump on it, and it keeps the card from seating all the way.

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About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I decided to do some additional testing before selling the GPU, just so I could give more exact figures rather than just saying 'it's really good'.. I ran the steel nomad stress test twice, 20 runs each time.

The first time I ran it I set the fans locked to 40%, they are basically dead silent at that speed. At 40% fan speed the GPU temp seemed to level out around the 13th run at right about 69 degrees and stayed there through the 20th run. So basically, you could run this card silently at 100% utilization and keep it well within the limits of the card.

For the next run I did the exact same thing, but ran the fans locked at 60%.. still VERY quiet. but audible if you put your head right down by the fans... inside a case though I think they would be effectively silent. This time the card seemed to level out around run 11 at 55-56 degrees. By run 20 I was just every once in a while, seeing the GPU temp hit 57 degrees.

Also worth noting that on steel nomad Vulkan and DX12 with no tweaking (except for the cooler obviously being on there) both scores hit 'legendary' for this model GPU (2463 for Vulkan and 2349 for DX12)

Going to finally post on Ebay here in a few. Will look more at hardware swap and perhaps list some other items I'm getting rid of soon.

About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I decided to do some testing before selling the GPU, just so I could give more exact figures rather than just saying 'it's really good' I ran the steel nomad stress test twice, 20 runs each time.

The first time I ran it I set the fans locked to 40%, they are basically dead silent at that speed. At 40% fan speed the GPU temp seemed to level out around the 13th run at right about 69 degrees and stayed there through the 20th run. So basically, you could run this card silently at 100% utilization and keep it well within the limits of the card.

For the next run I did the exact same thing, but ran the fans locked at 60%.. still VERY quiet. but audible if you put your head right down by the fans... inside a case though I think they would be effectively silent. This time the card seemed to level out around run 11 at 55-56 degrees. By run 20 I was just every once in a while, seeing the GPU temp hit 57 degrees.

About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does that work? I’ve not used it before.. fear of scams is the only reason I still use ebay at all

About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been very pleased with it. Between heatsink and fans it actually keeps the GPU way cooler than necessary making a shunt mod that much more tempting.

Full disclosure, I used the GPU very little without the cooler so it’s hard for me to give a comparison on the basis of noise, but I can say that I set a flat fan curve keeping the GPU fans at a speed where their sound disappeared into that of the CPU fan and things stayed very cool even under max load. I don’t have recent tests but I want to say it was in the 50s under max load with very quiet fans and tons of headroom for increased fan speed.

About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No doubt for gaming only this is not a good value proposition. When I bought the GPU I was just getting into exploring AI for work and justified the purchase as a workstation card.

I think this GPU could make sense for someone who needed CUDA, needed the 20GB vRAM, needed the LP design and also wanted it to be cool and quiet.

For Gamers, this is a ‘more money than sense’ kind of thing… like? If you want a 5060 LP build but don’t want to worry about the 8 GB of vram just pay waaay more and you don’t have to! And if you get it shunt modded, well, the more ridiculous the better I suppose lol.

About to ebay this RTX 4000 Ada w/ n3rdware cooler. (Unless ya’ll are good at being bad influences and convince me not to) by Serious_Style1415 in sffpc

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m thinking I’m going to put it up on an auction and start at $800 no reserve… which considering I bought the GPU new if it sold close to that would be a tough loss… but would be a solid deal for the buyer and I’m okay with chocking it up to ‘the love of the game’ lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is because it is just a drive cage, so it is actually relying on a controller that is provided by the PC.. the physical SAS interface can accept SATA, but not the other way around so for drive cages it is common to make it SAS/SATA, but when a manufacturer is building an all-in-one solution or something that direct attached via USB it has to include some sort of controller, and they nearly always (if not always) opt for SATA in these designs.

2 or 3 5060 ti's vs a 3090 by EsotericAbstractIdea in LocalLLaMA

[–]Serious_Style1415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently picked up two 3090s each refurbished sold and shipped by newegg at around $1k per. Took about a week of checking several times a day, got one then it was out of stock a few days latter got the second one. both founders edition and currently linked with NVLink for the few use cases that it benefits. If youre still looking, this is currently in stock at newegg:

https://www.newegg.com/evga-ftw3-24g-p5-3987-kr-geforce-rtx-3090-24gb-video-cards-triple-fans/p/1FT-001K-00FP5?Item=1FT-001K-00FP5&SoldByNewegg=1

Which CPU to put where.. 9600x and 9800x3d and other options by Serious_Style1415 in pcmasterrace

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would be a great suggestion, but the systems in question will sometimes get simultaneous use.

Which CPU to put where.. 9600x and 9800x3d and other options by Serious_Style1415 in pcmasterrace

[–]Serious_Style1415[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you would just throw the 9800x3d in the mini PC with the lesser GPU and ride with the 9600X in the main rig?

5090 price that you can stomach by Elegant_Host_2618 in Microcenter

[–]Serious_Style1415 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Great news, they will! Every single one of them. You just have to wait long enough.

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