So, I've had this build since September 2020. It succeeded the prior build that included 4 Titan V's, including the Titan V 32GB CEO Ed.
The updated build uses 2 nVidia 3090 RTX in SLI/nvLink.
Current build:
2x 3090 rtx Founders Edition & SLI bridge
2x 8180M (56/112 cores)
1.5 TB ram
Asus c621 Sage Dual socket motherboard Bios build 9900 series (beta)
4x Raid Samsung 860 pro (4TB each, 16TB total) data and backups
1x Samsung 860 pro (4TB) data and backups
1x Sabrent 8TB nvme for Apps and Games
1x Sabrent 4TB nvme (OS)
1600W digital power supply
Asus PA32UCX-P monitor, updating to Asus PA32UCG
SFF Thermaltake P1 micro ATX case (modified.. heavily)
MS Windows Data Center 2019/2020 for OS (release candidate)
1x pound of flesh and blood
I have been working on several iterations of beta bios and exploring Resizable Bar
In order to test I have also had top use a beta bios for my 3090 RTXs, and a developer driver for the 3090 RTXs.
Thursday there will be a release driver from nvidia that may or may not include the resizable bar and may or may not also included the FE 3090 bios update as well.
On my early testing, I have seen little to no marginal improvements for 80% of the specified apps/games I tried. But did see improvement in two beta patch games and my medical imaging software that can use the feature.
While it is early, I hope that the feature matures, but I don't see it as a magical elixir that improves everything.
While I use my personal rig for researching algorithms in CDSS and medical imaging, it does also blow off steam as a gaming build. With a heavily optimized OS, apps, and build, it has been able to compete well with he highest scores on the proverbial benchmark sites, but I remain as anonymous as I can. Again, it was never built to play games, its purpose is to get me through my dissertation.
On that note, I was able to resurrect SLI/nvlink functionality in Dx11 backwards, and OpenGL. DX12 and Vulkan games have their own baked in multi-GPU support. I use Vivaldi as my browser and in there I have been able to have use the GPUs for most things and it does make use of BOTH gpus. For those wondering where to set that in the browser is: vivaldi://flags A side note, nvidia disabled the 3090 from doing SLI for pre DX12, but I was able to reverse engineer it again.
I will add to this thread as I monkey with my different research efforts , but may also report on the antics of games and benchmarks. This site is not for frivolous things so I will not make it a point to no more than lightly touch on gaming as an assessment function and nothing else.
The build does run super quiet, (inaudible at idle), cool, with temps well below any measure of concern. CPU temp sat idle, hang around 22C -in a house that is 20.5C, under load they may creep up to 48C. the 3090 FE RTXs at idle (even the fans turn themselves off) stay at around 31C and under load get as high as 69C.
here are some pictures of interest.:
The updated build uses 2 nVidia 3090 RTX in SLI/nvLink.
Current build:
2x 3090 rtx Founders Edition & SLI bridge
2x 8180M (56/112 cores)
1.5 TB ram
Asus c621 Sage Dual socket motherboard Bios build 9900 series (beta)
4x Raid Samsung 860 pro (4TB each, 16TB total) data and backups
1x Samsung 860 pro (4TB) data and backups
1x Sabrent 8TB nvme for Apps and Games
1x Sabrent 4TB nvme (OS)
1600W digital power supply
Asus PA32UCX-P monitor, updating to Asus PA32UCG
SFF Thermaltake P1 micro ATX case (modified.. heavily)
MS Windows Data Center 2019/2020 for OS (release candidate)
1x pound of flesh and blood
I have been working on several iterations of beta bios and exploring Resizable Bar
In order to test I have also had top use a beta bios for my 3090 RTXs, and a developer driver for the 3090 RTXs.
Thursday there will be a release driver from nvidia that may or may not include the resizable bar and may or may not also included the FE 3090 bios update as well.
On my early testing, I have seen little to no marginal improvements for 80% of the specified apps/games I tried. But did see improvement in two beta patch games and my medical imaging software that can use the feature.
While it is early, I hope that the feature matures, but I don't see it as a magical elixir that improves everything.
While I use my personal rig for researching algorithms in CDSS and medical imaging, it does also blow off steam as a gaming build. With a heavily optimized OS, apps, and build, it has been able to compete well with he highest scores on the proverbial benchmark sites, but I remain as anonymous as I can. Again, it was never built to play games, its purpose is to get me through my dissertation.
On that note, I was able to resurrect SLI/nvlink functionality in Dx11 backwards, and OpenGL. DX12 and Vulkan games have their own baked in multi-GPU support. I use Vivaldi as my browser and in there I have been able to have use the GPUs for most things and it does make use of BOTH gpus. For those wondering where to set that in the browser is: vivaldi://flags A side note, nvidia disabled the 3090 from doing SLI for pre DX12, but I was able to reverse engineer it again.
I will add to this thread as I monkey with my different research efforts , but may also report on the antics of games and benchmarks. This site is not for frivolous things so I will not make it a point to no more than lightly touch on gaming as an assessment function and nothing else.
The build does run super quiet, (inaudible at idle), cool, with temps well below any measure of concern. CPU temp sat idle, hang around 22C -in a house that is 20.5C, under load they may creep up to 48C. the 3090 FE RTXs at idle (even the fans turn themselves off) stay at around 31C and under load get as high as 69C.
here are some pictures of interest.: