PC Tech Thread

OBS sounds like basically exactly what you want. It's extremely powerful.

It doesn't interfere with your audio routing in the way that Voicemeeter or some other virtual audio device solution does, it's parallel to whatever your typical setup is. There's no need to change anything on your end.

It will also give you a lot more configuration options than anything in hardware.

Maybe it's just that the processing requirement for workstation cards is balanced differently to the requirements for gaming cards, in such a way that they aren't as efficient to mine with. I was looking at buying the new RTX A4000 (£900ish) but haven't been able to justify it to myself, when my current GPU, an RTX 2060, cost me under £300.

The Quadro and consumer silicon is the same; wonder if Quadro drivers b0rk mining but can’t be arsed to look it up.

Managed to pick up a 3060ti just now from Scan, 3060ti, 3070, 3080 dropped for a couple of minutes before selling out.

3060ti

How much was it?

£369.
Very happy with that!

Is half the internet broken again?

wetransfer was being dodgy for me earlier, aye. But replacing"frontend.wetransfer.net" with "wetransfer.com" fixed downloads for me.

Wow, nice one! 3060 Ti is a bit of an annoying card for me because 8 GB VRAM is just not enough but it seems good otherwise.

think it might have been a glitch in my corporate firewall, seems to be resolved now

Supposedly a decent amount faster than the 3060, despite having 4gb less.

I have a goxlr mini if you have any questions about it.

Mine arrived today :)

Impulse champ.

Obvs too much of an impulse buy to see whether it was compatible with my headset (Logitech g pro X wireless) - it's not. Will have to root around for cables to bodge a fix tomorrow.

Test system built with RTX A5000.

2x GPUs and a 32-core EPYC run happily off a 700W redundant PSU, whereas an older 10-core Skylake-X system with 2x Radeon Pro WX9100s needed 1.2KW for half the performance.

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i had to use a triton fet head to get my rode procaster mic into a decent place without a shit ton of gain on the xlr input and there's a weird ground loop buzz if i try to unplug the usb and i think they're still working on figuring out how to turn the lights off on the device when you shut the computer down/put it to sleep so you'll want a "lights off" profile with them all set to off if it's in a room where light pollution matters.

but the software sound cards work well as does the routing table in the app. physical sliders becomes a welcome luxury quickly as well.

I ran into an issue (my stupidity after an update added a feature i didnt realise existed blocked my ability to change the fader assignments) and their support discord is actually very good too.

nice chrome finishing kit, goes well with the noctua bartape

noctua bartape

the fan equivalent of gumwalls

Yep, heard about the ground loop so have ordered an isolation thing. Bit of a faff but ho hum. Yep, I'm looking forward to physical sliders though a shame the ones on the mini aren't motorised. First world probs.

if it works i'd appreciate a link to the one you got as i've not got around to it and the buzz does my head in if i need to move my laptop and unplug it.

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These will sit quite close to humans, hence the 4U chassis and big, slow-spinning hearing-aid-beige cum dysentery-brown Noctuas.

Nothing else comes close for static pressure per rpm /sfss

wait, why is your heatsink oriented like that? wouldn't it better to point the fans front/back?

I'm only aware of their existence as I just spent the last week or so trying to shoehorn a couple into the 3d printer I got this month for my 40th to make the noise go away.

It would, but it’s designed for Threadripper motherboards that share the same socket as EPYC but are usually oriented at 90deg.

All other correctly-oriented EPYC heatsinks are tiny, made for 1U/2U chassis and are much shitter at cooling a ~200W CPU than the Noctua at a jaunty angle.

If it becomes a problem, I've found two other options mentioned in a thread here https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/anyone-confirm-getting-rev-2-epyc-7002-boards.26069/page-2#post-240903

Thanks, had clocked the Supermicro heatsink but it’s hard to get hold of in the UK and apparently performs slightly worse than the Noctua.