Good Morning, Floppo.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
05/25/2020 at 11:14 • Filed to: None

We should hit our first billion points by lunchtime Tuesday.

DISCUSSION (20)

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 11:38

My 1070 is stuck again, but when I get don with gaming, I’ll see if I can unstick it.

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 11:51

I’m away for training until Thursday, so I shut my PC with the 2070S down last night. My kid and the folder are still going but my production will go way down the next few days.

ttyymmnn > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 12:22

Team Ttyymmnn broke 10M last night.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw
05/25/2020 at 13:00

Stuck without work units?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/25/2020 at 13:01

What do you fly? I've noticed a significant increase in general aviation traffic in recent days.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
05/25/2020 at 13:03

I had a call from Visa the other day regarding my charge dispute with the guy that sent us that corroded GPU. He tried to paint a one-sided narrative that had me as a whiny buyer who had buyers remorse. It struck me that the adjuster from Visa was sympathetic with me. I tend to think that Visa will take my side in the matter and I am waiting to see whether the seller then demands that I mail him back his part. If he does, I will insist that he email me a shipping label postage paid. And if he does, I will probably invest in a faster GPU. My machine actually has two slots so I could run two GPUs, but the GPUs are double-wide and they would be right next to each other and one would starve airflow to the other.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn
05/25/2020 at 13:04

6 weeks ago, I would have been willing to mail that card back to him at my expense, but now, he can bite me.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 13:10

Yep, my 5500XT has work, but the 1070 keeps getting starved. I’m sure just restarting the FAHClient will cause it to pick up more, but since I’m using the GPU anyway right now, there’s no rush.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw
05/25/2020 at 13:21

My mobo has two PCIe slots, but if I had two GPUs installed, one would block airflow to the other.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 13:32

These are in different computers (though about 2/3 of the 5500xt fans are blocked by a sound card, still enough room to pull in air though).

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw
05/25/2020 at 14:02

There’s a “hybrid” 1070 out there that appears only to have one fan and out at the end of the card. I think that if one of the shorter-format 1060s were mounted beneath it, airflow might be adequate.

I wasn’t making any assumptions about how you were configured, only being seduced by the draw to fold more.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 14:06

Yeah, though the “blower” type cards tend to be super loud, I avoid those if at all possible.

There is a market for short, single fan card s for mITX systems, though generally the higher end cards need more cooling than those can deal with. I got the 5500XT for my HTPC because it was the most powerful dual fan card I could find that would fit in the system, and really it barely spins the fans even when folding (the 5500 is not a very power hungry card).

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw
05/25/2020 at 14:52

To your knowledge, does that 1070 hybrid card need anything else for its cooling or does it have everything it needs already? specifically, it looks to me like there’s some water cooling going on there and I’m wondering if the design is such that you would plug it in to an existing cooling plant in the case.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 14:58

Not sure which one you are talking about specifically. Ones like these will be fine out of the box:

Kinja'd!!!

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 22:14

The E190. 100 seat airliner.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!!
05/25/2020 at 22:24

When you said “mine,” I assumed you meant your own aeroplane. So you are a professional pilot?

A funny thing happened last school year. We were having our start-of-year K umbayah meeting and the prompt was, where would you be right now if you could be anywhere you wanted? For the first time ever, I realized that flying wasn’t in the dream any more. I guess I’ve moved on to other dreams. I’m not the historian that my brother Ttyymmnn is, but I know and understand them very well and consider myself to be one of the better pilots who’ve never flown. If I came into some money I might hire some interesting aircraft wet, hourly, with an IP and go driving around, but I’ll never solo.

Good on you, Sir.

Eury - AFRICA TWIN!!!!!!! > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/25/2020 at 22:32

I’ve owned a number of smaller planes, the last one I had a business flying charters with. That broke me when I had to shut down. Now it’s a job and I let others worry about the business. Still have my flight instructor license and will teach my son some day. It’s like anything else, it’s something you love until it becomes a job.

Now the thing I love is flying RC models. All the fun of the big stuff, none of the heartbreak and stress.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw
05/26/2020 at 00:39

https://ebay.us/XR1OC2

This one. I see that it comes with its own cute little baby radiator. I think I could mount this one, then one of the 2/3 length, single-fan 1060s underneath it in the other PCIe slot.

facw > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
05/26/2020 at 09:13

So I see. Yeah, that’s probably quieter than the blower only cards above. Though any of them would likely still be fine. Of course even a card that’s fully blocked should have enough room to suck in air, they just might have to spin their fans harder to get enough cooling.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > facw
05/26/2020 at 10:40

I’m just not sure I can see my way clear to spending $300 for on a folding machine...