L'Ancien Regime

https://wccftech.com/sandisk-480gb-internal-ssd-drops-to-just-49-99-usually-200/ This is crazy. https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-PLUS-480GB-Internal-SDSSDA-480G-G26/dp/B01F9G46Q8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?&ascsub&linkCode=sl1&tag=wccftech0a9-20&linkId=1b76a53dbf79e4f4f9c0635201b744bf&language=en_US

You know that XP Pen series are really great value for the dollar. I've seen other Wacom competitors and didn't think much fo them but these are really good, even the tablets...they're just dirt cheap. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Those are crazy low prices. Just to compare; the wacom Intuos pads are like $600 now... That Artist Display 22E Pro comes with a good stand, better than teh stock Cintique, it's 1920 x 1080 pixels, comes with a glove, a 8000 pressure level pen for $569 USD. And it looks like it's better quality than the Huion.

https://wccftech.com/amd-navi-20-radeon-rx-graphics-card-ray-tracing-gcn-architecture-rumor/ AMD Navi 20 GPU Allegedly Supports Ray Tracing and Enhanced GCN Graphics Architecture – May End Up Being Much Faster Than RTX 2080 Ti

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856158064

I did reseat it, after cleaning off the stock paste, with an entire syringe of Thermal Grizzly paste carefully spread to the edge of the cold plate, evenly. Same deal. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/2950x-with-asrock-fatal1ty-x399-pro-gaming-build-problems/140287/79 All the radiator fans ran well, all the glowing LEDs lit up. Yeah, maybe if they spent less time on LEDs and more on making awesome cooling devices that might be a selling point..I've been getting more and more angry this month trying to shop for a cooler and having to wade through a slough of LED nonsense to get to the important essentials. And I've carefully measured the distance from the face of the CPU heatsink to the top edge of the case. Both Noctua and Dark Rock are 1/4" too tall. Not a problem. There is a Noctua with a TR4 cold plate that fits but it doesn't cool as well as the biggest Noctua or Dark Rock because the radiator is smaller. The biggest Noctua blocks the closes DDR4 slot on the motherboard. So Dark Rock is the one to go to.

OK, you win Abn Ranger..getting that Dark Rock TR4 cooler... 96C in idle is ridiculous. That pump didn't work at all out of the box or if it did it was rattling like crazy and then died within seconds.

http://www.cgchannel.com/2019/03/adobe-and-moleskine-launch-new-moleskine-paper-tablet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cgchannel%2FnHpU+(CG+Channel+-+Entertainment+Production+Art) Pricing and system requirements A Creative Cloud Connected Paper Tablet costs $34.95. Moleskine’s Pen+ Ellipse costs $179. The Moleskine+ Extension for Illustrator is free, and is compatible with Illustrator 2017+, but is currently available only for macOS: a Windows version is due “soon”. Adobe has teamed up with physical notebook firm Moleskine to launch the Moleskine Paper Tablet – Creative Cloud Connected edition, a new ‘smart notebook’ designed to work with Adobe Illustrator. Artists can create pen-and-paper sketches in the notebook using Moleskine’s Pen+ Ellipse digital pen, then tap the symbols at the top of each page to send the design to Adobe’s software. The new product – part of an ongoing collaboration between the two firms – was actually announced last week, but with all the news coming out of GDC 2019, we’ve only just got around to covering it. A new Moleskine Paper Tablet targeted at designers, not note-takers Moleskine’s Paper Tablet range is a series of physical notebooks the shape and size of digital tablets. An infra-red camera in the accompanying Pen+ Ellipse smart pen tracks subtle patterns printed on the paper, enabling the pen to store a digital copy of anything drawn physically in the notebook. Moving the pen over a printed symbol at the top corner of the page transfers the digital copy to a desktop PC or laptop via Bluetooth. Moleskine has been selling the notebooks for a few years now, although in a form primarily targeted at general note-taking and doodling. In contrast, the new Creative Cloud Connected edition is targeted at graphics professionals, with the design being exported to Illustrator as editable vectors, complete with a history stack.

posted first time out. scv_1553531092611.mp4 That nasty racket was the CPU cable pushing against the pump hoses. I moved it and everything became very peaceful scv_1553531580746.mp4

WOW

I apologize for having been a bit sarcastic but this is a bit stressful for me...please try to understand... That Dark Rock air cooler is too big for my case but this version of the Nocua is just the right size; This Noctua is dirt cheap. I'll be getting it as well and testing out both form factors. The H100i Platinum cold plate overhangs the Threadripper in width dimension but leaves almost 3/16" of an inch uncovered at each end longtitudinally. I've planned this build for a long time and it was always going to be sort of experimental for me. Same with the OS and virtualization (eventually). That ASROCK Fatal1ty is built for virtualization pass through (to various hardware) technology I'll start with 2x 16GB for now and see if the system posts when i power up before installing the rest. Off to the store to get some isopropyl alcohol to wipe down the CPU heat sink before applying the pre heat paste applied cold plate. M2; 1TB the size of a stick of Wrigley's chewing gum

Hope it's seated right; I want it to post first time I power up.

I might also have a stroke and be paralyzed. I'll be alone and tossed into a hospital with evil nurses. Instead of changing my diapers, once they figure out that no one will ever visit me, they'll treat me with abuse. They'll leave me in a bed full of my own feces. I'll be fully conscious but unable to talk or move. I know this because I worked as a janitor in a cancer hospital for 2.5 years and saw it with my own eyes. Terminal care nurses are a bitter bunch and old smelly working class men are not on their popular list. It will be hell on earth. I should just commit suicide now and have done with it before this inevitable disaster befalls me.

If it's giving me problem I take it out and replace it with something else. $160 is not a big deal. Dinner for 2 in a decent restaurant I read all the reviews on New Egg and Amazon and not a single complaint about leaking Corsairs. And Amazon and New Egg are replete with negative bot reviews slandering products in a very forumulaic manner.

This is sort of related to what Abn Ranger is talking about, indirectly.. Coreteks makes the best videos on the computer market.

Arseniy Korablev's musical tastes have always been...er....controversial.. And the smooth surfaces at the back of the vehicle are undoubtedly subD polygonal modelling.

Cryengine enables real time ray tracing for AMD GPUs. https://wccftech.com/cryengine-noir-demo-runs-raytracing-amd-nvidia-gpus-non-rtx-graphics-cards/

Any hope for autoretopo?

Speaking of retopo and 3d Coat, I just stumbled on this; There's hope!

https://gumroad.com/bartoszstyperek https://bartoszstyperek.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/hair-tool-blender-addon/

Good work digman...thanks for sharing..

Actually there's lots of custom water blocks for Threadripper that sell for $75 or so. The only problem is that's just the waterblock. The entire system will hit you for $800 at least. And it's high maintenance and so risky and also outside my competency. If nothing else works I might be driven to such a solution but for now the Corsair is zero maintenance; comes pre filled and sealed and ready to go. https://www.singularitycomputers.com/shop/watercooling/protium-d5-reservoir-combo-150mm-polished-acrylic/ $217 USD just for a resevoir with built in pump.. In one sense it's a lot of money but in another perspective, how much will annual maintenance on a Porsche Targa cost you? I've heard $6500 but I don't know. I know a guy who had a black one with glove leather interior and you wouldn't believe the girlfriends he effortlessly got with that thing; little rich girls that were 10's. So maybe it's worth it. Also since this is ostensibly a thread on the Radeon VII and we've veered off onto cooling components, I was looking at the rear plate of the Radeon VII and it appears that this is a setup for cooling its GPU. I suspect but I don't know. Sure looks like that's for mounting brackets but there's no smooth GPU heat sink to press the cold plate to with layered heat paste. I'm a bit puzzled...

Enermax 1 was a disaster and looks like Enermax II is shaping up as a disaster too judging from the videos and NewEgg and Amazon reviews. One Enermax 2 review showed a tech opening up the pump and the water block and there was already goop in the heat dissipation vanes in the copper water block plugging things up with signs of rubber washers ready to fail in spots. You'd be lucky to just have it die on you and not flood your motherboard. here's that review; This corsair platinum block will work fine for 3 years and by then Corsair will have something better. Corsair is zero maintenance and the least likely to fail or leak Trust me I've really researched this and it wasn't pleasant. The problem with big air coolers is that they can block off your vital PCIE slots and make doing anything with your RAM a pain. And I'm going to want all those PCIE slots; I'll be getting a used Teradici 2 card for remote graphics over the internet at 60fps and maybe a second Radeon VII down the line. And like I said this is more than a one computer project. I want everything stowed away on a 42u server rack, including the UPS and later a hot swappable hard drive data server with a cheap CPU and mobo running it. And there'll be Cisco switches and routers in the mix for networking studies. A desktop rig just isn't going to do it for me. Not my fantasy. If I've made a mistake, there goes $160. Whooee. I was looking at tickets for the Roxy Music concert in Toronto next summer and they're $360 a seat. That's $360 for sitting in a concert for 2 hours. Got to keep things in proportion here. Damn I'd like to go though...I bet there'll be some good looking women there... So far I'm actually under budget. I calculated $6000 and I'm only at $5400 Cdn .

Which corsair H115i was it though? There's H115i v1, H115i v2, H115i Professional and H115i PLATINUM Platinums have a totally different cold plate than those first three and yes it does completely cover the Threadripper My H100i Platinum has the same cold plate but has a 240mm radiator instead of a 280mm radiator. The Corsair H115i and H100i PLATINUM were released in November 2018. H115i Pro H115i Platinum

Just about ready to start building this...just waiting for the heat paste though it's already pre applied on that Corsair H100i Platinum.

Personally I will never bother Andrew on this account; Zbrush has very deep pockets and I was at their Siggraph booth listening in on private conversations there with a top Zbrush manager in the year when Zremesher was first unveiled and the word was that they had hired 21 mathematicians with masters or PhD degrees to create it. I'm sure Zremesher v3 has had some very powerful thinkers toiling on all the topology problems inherent in this tool's development to this new level. It's unfair to expect Andrew to somehow equal this feat given his very lean operation. To me it's still a marvel that he could take a white paper and 5 weeks later create the first functional auto retopology tool in 3d graphics all by himself when so many other bigger operations didn't have the scope of imagination to do it themselves. What a guy.