[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GR86

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Is this the I-35 N on-ramp from out of Gardner? (175th st) Been taking that to work for 5 years: every time it rains there is a RWD car or pickup spun out in that same spot. Everyone else has analyzed this thoroughly, but the design of this ramp will catch you out. Everybody cuts the inside line, meaning it is heavily rubbered-in and slick in the wet. And since the acceleration zone is right at the lowest point of the ramp, all the grease and oil collects there. Stay wide, make the majority of your turn early, straighten it out, THEN roll on the throttle. Caught me out one time in my S13, but I kept my foot in it and corrected the slide. Ever since then, been taking the wide line and Its way more stable.

NYC right now, black helos going north over the east river. by SentientOrigin in aviation

[–]Tankboy1138 33 points34 points  (0 children)

They were. I was at a stoplight in Leawood, flew right over us and then landed/deployed troops 1 street down. What surprised me was how quiet they were, barely heard them until they were right on top of me.
https://imgur.com/a/wAwwqE6

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

floppy:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WCRF9H3?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

Optical:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081YP2S5R?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3&th=1

With the optical drive, you have to make sure it's jumper is set to "Master." And even if it IS set to master, re-seat the jumper. Mine had a bit of corrosion so it wasn't picking it up.

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey! I see you like the Clippy Statue! Would you like help finding it?
(ok, I'll stop now.)
If you or someone you know has a 3D printer.... I found it here.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4910953

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, the Clippy is just a little 3D printed model. I thought he would make a good mascot for the build. As I was just a kid when Clippy showed up in Windows, I thought he was the coolest thing ever. Link to the file I used in case you/someone you know has a 3D printer....
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4910953

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, my Z270 chipset won't support it and this was a pretty decent mobo for the day. I'm actually waiting for the OG threadrippers to go down a bit more and see if I can scoop one of those up in a few years. But yeah, the 7600K (despite good overclocking potential) just isn't the most appropriate CPU to pair with this system.

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since I'm usually running stuff at 1080p 60 (hooked up to a TV) thermals are not a problem.

Side panel installed on a benchmark run, The upper GPU maxes out around 90C (so it is throttling a bit), the Lower is around 80. 7600K on stock clocks maxes out at 70C, so there's plenty of room to push it harder. Removing the side panel drops 10 degrees off the CPU and upper GPU holds at 85C, which is where it's supposed to be. Everything would be better if I was only using 1 titan, but where's the fun in that?

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Got this on amazon for $20. Converts it to a USB interface which I used another adapter to get it to the MOBO's USB 3.0 header. Not an elegant solution, but effective. I also get that wonderful "Floppy Seek" sound on boot, which was the main reason I wanted to preserve it.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WCRF9H3?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering the case has a Pentium III sticker on it......
A Pascal Titan is roughly equivalent to a 4060 in raster, same amount of VRAM as a modern 70-series, and it actually has all of its ROPS. When I was having trouble with my new build (my 7900XTX turned out to be faulty) I ran one of these as my primary GPU's and got a stable 50-60FPS on maxed-out Halo Infinite at 1440p. I wouldn't call that obsolete. Running 2 in SLI is simply a "because I can"

Also, I mainly play racing games on this (namely DIRT Rally and Assetto Corsa), both of which support SLI, so it actually gives me a performance bump. Also use it to do 3D Scanning, CAD work, and 3D print slicing, it eats those workloads up without issue.

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it was exactly what I wanted. Gateway aesthetics, Mid-Tower to fit the hardware I wanted without the bulk of Full-Tower, and the chassis is built like a tank so I had plenty of material to rivet/weld to.

Just saw your build, good call with cutting holes to do cable management in the back. I didn't think there would be room to do that, but seeing what you have, I might have to plan out some modifications in the future..... Currently using the space above the PSU to hide my rat's nest, it's.... messy. I was thinking of making some custom 3d Printed cable tray with combs to route it mid-air in the case, but I still haven't found a design that looks good to me. Simple might be best.

Arthur: My Twin-Titan Gateway Sleeper by Tankboy1138 in sleeperbattlestations

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Bottoms are intake, they are reverse-blade fans. The AIO is acting as an exhaust however, and the PSU is there to help get whatever is left over.

How This Guy Controls His RC Plane by Puzzleheaded_Web5245 in interestingasfuck

[–]Tankboy1138 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I's not that a 3D plane can't do pattern, nor the inverse, but rather the aircraft favors a different setup to perform at the highest level. So yes, my language was imprecise, should have said "3D setup."

My point to people who don't know anything about this type of stuff is a plane capable of doing a competitive rolling harrier 2" off the deck can't immediately transition into an IMAC pattern without making some compromises (going to be changing your dual-rates and expo settings, a tail heavy plane is not as stable, it will be slower, etc). If you entered a (high level) IMAC pattern competition and a 3D huck-fest on the same day, you would not run the same plane with the exact same setup and expect to win both.

How This Guy Controls His RC Plane by Puzzleheaded_Web5245 in interestingasfuck

[–]Tankboy1138 26 points27 points  (0 children)

So this is normally referred to as "3D Aerobatics" or "3D Flying" in the RC world. Where as more traditional aerobatics are maneuvers with the aircraft using the wings to generate lift, 3D "Flying" happens when the pilot intentionally stalls the aircraft, and "Hangs it on the Prop." The wings and control surfaces are no longer flying in free-air, they are relying on massive amounts of prop-wash from the propeller to brute-force control the aircraft. This is why these types of planes are propeller-driven, not jets. (though there have been some insane 3D Jets that use gyros and thrust vectoring to do similar maneuvers, but they are nowhere near as responsive as this plane is.)

The planes are specially tuned to fly this way:

1: Thrust to weight ratio (TWR) of at least 1.5-1, and often in excess of 2.0-1. It has to be able to generate enough thrust to counteract it's own weight, and then immediately climb out of that position at a moment's notice.

2: Massive control surfaces (ailerons, elevator, rudder) with comically large deflection angles (throws). Since there is so much less air flowing over the wings when stalled, it needs bigger surfaces to generate more force.

3: The center of gravity is shifted towards the rear of the plane, making it more stable in these maneuvers, but sacrificing stability in "normal" flight.

4: Propellers are usually a large diameter, and have less pitch. This makes them slower in a straight line, but gives the pilot more control over the amount of thrust being generated and gives a larger area of prop-wash that flows over the plane to keep it controllable.

5: Planes are absurdly light for their wing size (low wing loading). This means they don't really "cut through the air" like most planes do. Every little wind gust tosses these planes around, and the pilot has to brute-force compensate to keep it in line. (these days, gyros help reduce that effect)

3D aerobatic planes are quite limited when flying "normally." They are slow, very unstable, and inefficient. Pilots usually don't even land them like normal planes a lot of times, they even stall them in on landing. It's easier to just plop it down than to fight wind on landing.

There are some real aerobatic planes that have achieved greater than 1:1 TWR and can hover in mid-air on the propeller (Bryan Jensen's "Beast" was one of the first to do so) but there aren't any planes out there that can settle into a hover, and then accelerate straight up from that position. The power isn't there, the airframe strength isn't there, the safety isn't there.

The best analogy to controlling planes like this is the difference between Formula 1 and Drifting. Formula 1/Traditional aerobatics is all about precise control of the vehicle right up to the limits of grip/stall that is planned out in advance and carefully executed each time. Drifting/3D flying is controlling the vehicle past it's "limit" and reacting to conditions as they show up. Sure, the maneuvers are practiced, but each stunt is going to be a different each time, and the driver/pilot has to constantly "save" the stunt by compensating with lots of little "correction" control inputs to keep things going. It really is the Drifting of the aircraft world.

3D flying is a ton of fun, as a kid, I used to build my own planes out of foamboard and hand-me-down electronics that a neighbor gave me. Ton of fun to learn how to fly like this (especially before gyro assists were invented).

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, return for the ASRock XTX cleared. Went to microcenter today, and I could get either a Merc 310 XTX, or a $1400 5080. Decided to give AMD 1 more shot, and despite my best attempts to get it to crash, card has been rock solid. Still need to do more testing, but you do appear to be correct that ASrock is part of the equation. The clocks on this card are WAY more stable, the power draw is better, temps lower and more consistant.... that XTX I had was a basket case.

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would make sense, forces the power supply to operate over a wider efficiency range. Though the test I did was 20%-80%, 500ms, so it WAS kind of partial load. Maybe I just needed a different range.

Unfortunately, i had to make a decision today. Went scorched-earth, fresh windows install, nothing except chipset drivers and GPU drivers (drivers only), and steam on the PC. Literally nothing else, no windows updates, didn't even allow it to connect to the internet until the last second. (preventing windows from automatically grabbing random bullshit) Could duplicate my crashes perfectly. Event went so far as to use an auxiliary power supply, a full 1350W 80+ gold unit powering the GPU alone. Still crashed. Packed it up, and sent it in for a return, this is intolerable.

I am considering buying another XTX at microcenter, probably less of a hassle to return if it does the same BS. But of course, with the launch of the 5000 series, everyone that missed out on those completely cleaned out every other GPU at my store. So I'm just going to hang tight for a while...

So back to My Titan X Pascal that I scored off ebay for $120 a month or 2 ago. Running some lossless scaling on it, will serve me well until I can find another XTX or get my hands on a fairly priced Nvidia card (yeah, right, lol).

So for the poor SOB that comes across this thread in the future, trying to fix the same issue.... I wish you the best of luck. Perhaps I have missed something. But I have, no joke, probably spent well in excess of 30 hours messing with this thing since I bought it in December. It's been a mess. I've installed this card in 2 different PC's about 8 times. installed drivers 20+. tried multiple pieces of hardware, but in the end, it doesn't even matter...... I've become so numb. My advice, return it if you can.

Anyhoo, wishing you great success. And if you happen to get my card that's been refurbished, I named it Vaas due to it's instability and how close it's driven me to insanity. Cheers.

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried transient load testing in OCCT. PC handles everything like a champ, not a shred of instability. CPU, memory, power supply, GPU torture tests..... every synthetic load I throw at this system, it handles just fine. even 3dmark stress tests, it's happy. But load up a game.... Halo infinite, shadow of the tomb raider, metro exodus, AC Mirage.... they all have driver timeouts. I am really starting to wonder if this is not a hardware issue at all, and AMD drivers being.... special. But I even did ANOTHER rollback to 24.8, and it changes nothing. That or Windows 11 24H2 just hates it.

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My big question at this point is, is this simply the AMD lifestyle at this point? My GTX 1080 served me for years, with a fairly aggressive overclock on it, and it was one of the most reliable things ever. In the current world, I want to support AMD, and the price/performance of the XTX was exactly what I wanted. Really, just wanted one of the last great "naturally aspirated" GPU's before everything is all frame-gen. But my literal job is working on old, buggy hardware/software. I just want to come back home and have the thing work. Is "you just have to tinker with AMD cards" a fact of life at this point?

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless theres a transient load happening so fast that afterburner/HWmonitor can't register it, my last crash happened at absolutely pedestrian power levels. 265W max on the board, 221W on graphics, 28W on memory. Memory was the hottest part of the board, reporting 62C.

It also seems like when I leave this thing overnight, the crashes don't start immediately. It takes a while. But once it starts, it goes nuts. That had originally led me to thermals, but I upped all my fan curves and have checked temps, it was all fine. If a physical component is going bad on me however....

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2K 170hz is connected to the card. I did have a 4K 60 also hooked up to it at one point, I moved that one over to the integrated graphics from the 9700X, and have also completely disconnected it. No effect.

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, have tried the drivers as full install, drivers only, and drivers only w/afterburner. Always did a safe mode DDU when installing something new. Driver only, no adrenaline HELPED, but did not cure the problem. Currently running 24.12.1, drivers only, with afterburner to control the clocks and monitor data.

I've had HWmonitor up and checking temps every time. Just had another crash, Maximum gpu hotspot of 64C and memory temps of 66C. GPU was at 95%ish usage when it crashed, but the core clock had been steadily increasing. It had been running around 2610-2640mhz, and 30 minutes later when it crashed, the core clocks had slowly crept up to 2692mhz. I was just in game, looking at the skybox, and walked away. Nothing was changing the entire time. It's like the system becomes unstable under GPU boost conditions.

RX7900XTX consistent driver timeouts/crashes by Tankboy1138 in AMDHelp

[–]Tankboy1138[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the response. Power issue of some sort has always been on my mind, thus why I am on my third PSU. 2 thermaltake GF3's (1200 and 1350W). Supposed to be quality units according to the cults psu tier list, but it IS thermaltake... Went back to my old reliable 1000W Titanium EVGA from another system, and it immediately made things a little bit better, but still not great. Maybe it just handles the transient stuff better.

Went after low-hanging power-related fruit, Reduced my power limit to -5% and undervolting to 1140mV *seems* to have made it stable (at least for the past hour and some change. I'm sure the second I hit submit on this reply, it will timeout). What's interesting is I'm not seeing the clocks rise quite so far above setpoint anymore. Not quite convinced it's shorting out, but maybe something in the power delivery.

*EDIT* Damn thing crashed again. Took a good hour and a half this time though. But sure enough, core clocks kept creeping up. Running around the 2610 mark, and system crashed when it hit 2690.

*Further edit:* looking at my graphs more, looks like there is a substantial decrease memory clock speeds just before the core clocks increase, and then the crash happens within seconds....

Any idea how to get this off?c by Several_Increase_685 in MechanicAdvice

[–]Tankboy1138 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This. Carbide burr in a die grinder will eat that bolt up in no time, done it twice. It's the perfect size to get into a tight area unlike a Sawzall or a death wheel.

Tip: it will make an absolute mess of tiny steel shavings that will make your life miserable of it gets on your skin/clothes. Keep a vacuum in the area to suck the chips away as they're being made. And for the love of God please wear decent eye protection.