i know there's also something goofy with the wallet lock status but the V11 transition notes dont seem to address it. is that only in order to advertise the beacon? or does it have to remain fully unlocked while waiting for the beacon to get picked up?

right now it's in an encrypted state and unlocked for staking only. it prompted me for my pw when advertising the beacon, but appears to have went back to the default semi-locked state after that.

No, that is one of the changes in V11. Previously you had to unlock the wallet fully to advertise your beacon. You didn't have to keep it unlocked though. Once you published your beacon you could lock it for staking again. But in V11, that is automatically handled by the Wizard. You don't have to fully unlock, you can publish your beacon while locked for staking and the Wizard just asks for your wallet password and the beacon icon changes to the published, not verified state and then to fully published.

So normal behavior.

The beacon wizard code is going to be modified to not auto update I think. Just will message you in the wallet that it needs to be done by running through the wizard.

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Nope. The beacon auto-renew is still going to happen. Jim just clarified. Jim Owens is the major developer along with cycy.

Jim OwensToday at 4:03 PM
The beacon will auto-renew at 150 days.
As long as you do not let the beacon expire, you will not have to go through the verification process again.

It's just the first time you have to verify that tripped people up who hadn't read the changelog or the posts on the procedure.

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If you're using a GPU to do Blender work, then you really want to upgrade to an RTX 3000 series GPU.




Especially so if you make use of OptiX

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Grant
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looks like my beacon finally activated :) I'm good.

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For those lucky individuals that have snagged a EVGA FTW3 3080/3090 and are into extreme performance.

Optimus Watercooling has released their gpu block for those cards. Extreme engineering, performance and pricing. But you get the absolute best product produced.
https://optimuspc.com/products/absolute-gpu-block-ftw3-3080-3090

To get an idea of what this cooling solution allows for performance, look at the Gamers Nexus RIP Jay-RIP Paul series going on currently. Steve used the prototypes of the gpu block and beat his opponents scores on ambient air compared to his opponents use of chilled water and forced chilled air conditioning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1EiRjZH8Xk

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To get an idea of what this cooling solution allows for performance, look at the Gamers Nexus RIP Jay-RIP Paul series going on currently. Steve used the prototypes of the gpu block and beat his opponents scores on ambient air compared to his opponents use of chilled water and forced chilled air conditioning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1EiRjZH8Xk

Thanks for the link. Amazing stuff. I did not realise that overclocking is so intense.
Decided to watch several more, all interesting & fun to watch.
That is until I saw these: Watching Steve's video in a moment.
JayzTwoCents & MSI

Steve's Killshot

Yes, the serious competitive overclockers go to extreme lengths to stay atop the leader boards.

In my opinion, very entertaining. I get a little bit of knowledge about the construction of the hardware and how they work also. I might never go the extremes the OC'ers use, but I have always tried to gain a little bit more "free" performance over the stock specs of a product since I began building PC's many years ago.

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LOL. Thanks again as I've bookmarked both Jay & Steve.
This one cropped up on the recommended list so watched.
JayTwoCents v Gamers Nexus on PC Tech Challenge
Very enjoyable...
...and informative.

I think that TechJesus (Steve) at Gamers Nexus does the best impartial technical reviews of hardware on YouTube.
He isn't afraid to call out issues on products as he does not take any gifts or funding from manufacturers. All self-funded by his store sales and YT revenue.
BTW, his shirts are great, the classic GN shirt is my favorite I think. Fits well, long enough to either tuck in or wear over the beltline and is resistant to punctures by cat claws. I think because it bears more affinity to mountain biking attire (one of his hobbies other than tech) than a normal cotton T-shirt.
I also have one of his ModMats for tearing down components. Quality stuff.

And if you want to be amazed and get the thrill of a roller coaster ride, watch this "talking head" video of his thoughts on the RTX 3000 cards crashing at launch supposedly because of poor capacitor designs while he rips down the trails at his favorite bike park.

The Real Problem with RTX 3080 Crashes is NVIDIA's Paranoia of Leaks

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Although it would have been interesting to see how the 3000 series graphics cards processed Seti data. I believe it would have put a major strain on the servers and possibly brought the whole operation to its knees

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Geekbench 4 compute benchmarks up for the RTX 3070. Beats the RTX 2080 Ti.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx-3070-geekbench-results

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/compute/4921984

A typical RTX 2080 Ti Geekbench 4 OpenCL compute score.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/compute/4920351

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One thing to keep in mind, the 3070 will not have the GDDR6x memory. It has the same GDDR6 as the Turing cards.

Those looking for the gains seen from faster memory, won’t be as pronounced on the 3070. And at the same time, those who don’t care about the memory, won’t have to deal with the increased power consumption of GDDR6x, so not a bad thing, probably beneficial for us on most BOINC projects that don’t see many gains from the faster memory. Maybe slightly more power efficient than the 3080/3090.

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For those that that have workloads that can make use of them, 4 RTX 3090s is the way to go.

Puget systems looks at Workstation loads on 1, 2, 3 and 4 RTX 3090s.

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Grant
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I read the article a couple days ago at Puget Systems. Not that strange for those of us that were accustomed to multi-gpu setups for the SETI special sauce application.

Could be pretty impressive for GPUGrid work. Have to have enough 20A circuits or 240V circuits with two power supplies I think.

Unless you are running only gpu work and no cpu, I think it might be a bit too close to the edge for just a single EVGA 1600 T2 Platinum supply.

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Unless you are running only gpu work and no cpu, I think it might be a bit too close to the edge for just a single EVGA 1600 T2 Platinum supply.

I personally wouldn't want anything less than a 2.4kW supply for that sort of load (my rule of thumb for PSUs- max continuous load of 75% of rated output. Running something well within it's limits as opposed to running it on the ragged edge makes for no issues & a long life expectancy).


It also reinforced why i haven't bothered with overclocking for years with it's look at limiting the maximum power of the cards to see the impact on their performance.
16% more power for a 1% increase in performance just isn't worth it IMHO.

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Grant
Darwin NT

There have been scattered posts about of undervolting, downclocking and lowering the power usage on the new cards to put them in the same class of power usage as the 2080 Ti's and seen almost no drop in performance.

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Testing, testing. Just seeing if I've still got a green star - about 36 hours after the anniversary.

What is everyone else doing - contributing to a fighting fund for next time, or accepting that the game is over?

Good question. Do we keep our stars and donor widgets after a year without donating to the project again?

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

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Let's see, I haven't donated for over a year, so are my stickers & star showing?

Yes, so it looks as if one's donation status has been frozen.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

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Grant
Darwin NT