Sometimes I can be a true idiot. I purchased an XFX MERC 319 RX 6800 XT GPU without checking the physical dimensions of the card. Unfortunately, the card is too big to fit in any of my Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures. This means that I cannot connect the card to any of my (Intel) Macs. I am too lazy to sell the card and I am way too frugal to just put it on a shelf.
TIA for any help that you can provide!
Could you use Tin snips to open up the end of one of those enclosures for the longer card? I am assuming it not too tall. Just too long.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Mikey, thanks for sharing and good luck coming up with a solution!
Dave
mikey wrote:
Tigers_Dave wrote:
Sometimes I can be a true idiot.
You are not alone!! I have an older Intel cpu I bought a motherboard off of Ebay for, the old one was a Dell and it was becoming flaky so I bought the new board. $59US, and went to install it in the case and realized it didn't come with a cpu cooler and the one I had won't fit!! I'm currently working on trying to see if the self contained water cooling setup my son gave me will work or not, if not I'm not sure what I will do yet.
mikey
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Tom, thanks for sharing an out-of-the-box solution. I could modify one of my older Akitio Node eGPU enclosures. I need to make sure that the power supply has enough capacity to support the RX 6800 XT ...
Tom M wrote:
Tigers_Dave wrote:
Sometimes I can be a true idiot. I purchased an XFX MERC 319 RX 6800 XT GPU without checking the physical dimensions of the card. Unfortunately, the card is too big to fit in any of my Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures. This means that I cannot connect the card to any of my (Intel) Macs. I am too lazy to sell the card and I am way too frugal to just put it on a shelf.
TIA for any help that you can provide!
Could you use Tin snips to open up the end of one of those enclosures for the longer card? I am assuming it not too tall. Just too long.
Tom M
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Tom, thanks for sharing an out-of-the-box solution. I could modify one of my older Akitio Node eGPU enclosures. I need to make sure that the power supply has enough capacity to support the RX 6800 XT ...
Tom M wrote:
Tigers_Dave wrote:
Sometimes I can be a true idiot. I purchased an XFX MERC 319 RX 6800 XT GPU without checking the physical dimensions of the card. Unfortunately, the card is too big to fit in any of my Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures. This means that I cannot connect the card to any of my (Intel) Macs. I am too lazy to sell the card and I am way too frugal to just put it on a shelf.
TIA for any help that you can provide!
Could you use Tin snips to open up the end of one of those enclosures for the longer card? I am assuming it not too tall. Just too long.
Tom M
You could always put a power supply alongside as an external and use a paperclip or jumper to switch it on and just run the needed wires to the gpu. This won't be pretty so maybe not a the middle of the living room solution.
Good suggestion, Mikey. I have an NIB EVGA Supernova 750 GS that I could use for this purpose. (Long story that I don't want to get into here.) EVGA includes the jumper in the box.
Dave
mikey wrote:
Tigers_Dave wrote:
Tom, thanks for sharing an out-of-the-box solution. I could modify one of my older Akitio Node eGPU enclosures. I need to make sure that the power supply has enough capacity to support the RX 6800 XT ...
Tom M wrote:
Tigers_Dave wrote:
Sometimes I can be a true idiot. I purchased an XFX MERC 319 RX 6800 XT GPU without checking the physical dimensions of the card. Unfortunately, the card is too big to fit in any of my Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures. This means that I cannot connect the card to any of my (Intel) Macs. I am too lazy to sell the card and I am way too frugal to just put it on a shelf.
TIA for any help that you can provide!
Could you use Tin snips to open up the end of one of those enclosures for the longer card? I am assuming it not too tall. Just too long.
Tom M
You could always put a power supply alongside as an external and use a paperclip or jumper to switch it on and just run the needed wires to the gpu. This won't be pretty so maybe not a the middle of the living room solution.
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
I am getting a snap-id message about something or other on the login page and a popup message about 13 days until something will be locked up if I don't shut off the snap-d.
My OS claims to be "up to date". What am I missing?
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
I am getting a snap-id message about something or other on the login page and a popup message about 13 days until something will be locked up if I don't shut off the snap-d.
My OS claims to be "up to date". What am I missing?
Tom M
It is just a advisory message that the snap store can't update its components or catalog.
Open up the System Monitor to the Processes tab. Scroll down to the snap-store entry and use the End Process button on the bottom left to kill the process.
After the process disappears from the list, open a Terminal and type snap refresh. Enter your system password and let snap update its catalog. Close the terminal when it is done.
Congratulations, you've updated all the snap applications like Chromium and Firefox and rid yourself of any further advisory messages.
Open up the System Monitor to the Processes tab. Scroll down to the snap-store entry and use the End Process button on the bottom left to kill the process.
After the process disappears from the list, open a Terminal and type snap refresh. Enter your system password and let snap update its catalog. Close the terminal when it is done.
Thanks Keith..... I was wondering how to get the Snap redone, and now I know!
Open up the System Monitor to the Processes tab. Scroll down to the snap-store entry and use the End Process button on the bottom left to kill the process.
After the process disappears from the list, open a Terminal and type snap refresh. Enter your system password and let snap update its catalog. Close the terminal when it is done.
Yes, thanks for that Keith. This happens periodically on my system also. I've always used htop to kill processes, but now that I've learned about the System Monitor Processes tab, that's the way to go from now on.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Is there a way to map this to the actual chips? I am wondering if one or more "corners" of my Epyc CPU are hotter than the rest? Maybe I can dope the heat paste better?
Tigers_Dave wrote:Sometimes
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Could you use Tin snips to open up the end of one of those enclosures for the longer card? I am assuming it not too tall. Just too long.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Mikey, thanks for sharing and
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Mikey, thanks for sharing and good luck coming up with a solution!
Dave
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Tom, thanks for sharing an
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Tom, thanks for sharing an out-of-the-box solution. I could modify one of my older Akitio Node eGPU enclosures. I need to make sure that the power supply has enough capacity to support the RX 6800 XT ...
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
Tigers_Dave wrote: Tom,
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You could always put a power supply alongside as an external and use a paperclip or jumper to switch it on and just run the needed wires to the gpu. This won't be pretty so maybe not a the middle of the living room solution.
Good suggestion, Mikey. I
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Good suggestion, Mikey. I have an NIB EVGA Supernova 750 GS that I could use for this purpose. (Long story that I don't want to get into here.) EVGA includes the jumper in the box.
Dave
"I was born in a small town, and I live in a small town." - John Mellencamp
I am getting a snap-id
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I am getting a snap-id message about something or other on the login page and a popup message about 13 days until something will be locked up if I don't shut off the snap-d.
My OS claims to be "up to date". What am I missing?
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)
Tom M wrote:I am getting a
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It is just a advisory message that the snap store can't update its components or catalog.
Open up the System Monitor to the Processes tab. Scroll down to the snap-store entry and use the End Process button on the bottom left to kill the process.
After the process disappears from the list, open a Terminal and type snap refresh. Enter your system password and let snap update its catalog. Close the terminal when it is done.
Congratulations, you've updated all the snap applications like Chromium and Firefox and rid yourself of any further advisory messages.
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Thanks Keith..... I was wondering how to get the Snap redone, and now I know!
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Proud member of the Old Farts Association
Keith Myers wrote: Open up
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Yes, thanks for that Keith. This happens periodically on my system also. I've always used htop to kill processes, but now that I've learned about the System Monitor Processes tab, that's the way to go from now on.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Is there a way to map this to
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Is there a way to map this to the actual chips? I am wondering if one or more "corners" of my Epyc CPU are hotter than the rest? Maybe I can dope the heat paste better?
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor)