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What do I do here? Play doesn't do anything.

I have no experience using this software - installed on my Windows VM w the 6900XT, but I could not even load the clip. I tried relinking - nothing.

LuxMark doesn't seem to work so well - I also get lots of failed pixels and the rendering of the image is kind of garbage.

@fabiosun, I'll mount it tonight. I need to remount my front radiator 1st as the hoses would get in the way as the card is longer than the 5700XT I currently have. Didn't mean to resell it but I haven't even gotten a chance to play on the 6800 in my mini ITX yet. I will try some VR games like Half Life over the weekend.

Oh lol, it got me!

So this is why you can't find 3080s anywhere 😂

https://www.techpowerup.com/276498/a-christmas-miracle-500-000-nvidia-rtx-3080-cards-found-in-lost-shipping-container

57 minutes ago, Jaidy said:

where did you get it from? Amazon?

BestBuy. There were multiple alerts on Ryzen 5000s, 6800 and 6900's and allegedly geforce 3000's on that day. I failed to get the XFX Merc 6800XT in a few attempts, but got this one which is XFX again. I think they had a drop of XFX batch. Even with the Telegram alert, the website was bombarded the second the alert came in and I had to wait in a virtual queue to get a chance to add in cart.

5 hours ago, Ploddles said:

Sorry Amazon UK, but I am not paying that price for a plain RX 6800. Not even the XT version. Ridiculous.

 

 

Yeah this is excessive. I got the last card (Gigabyte OC) from Newegg for $670 + tax = $750 and still feel like I overpaid. But AMD is lying about their MSRP - they do not leave any margin for the AIBs and the only one you can get at MSRP are the reference cards of which there are very few samples and on which the AIB's make little to no  margin if at MSRP. This is AMD's fault all the way.

@Ploddles, I live in an apartment building in NYC, where there is a "doorman" on duty 24h (it's a NY thing on many buildings, not just the fancy concierge ones) and they always handle deliveries. In 10 years haven't had a lost package as they handle them professionally , but lately I've heard a lot of stories about "porch piracy" and stolen Amazon packages in suburban areas. Hope, this works out for you and they locate the package or refund you! As I paid with paypal to speed up the transaction I don't have the credit card protection here so I hope I don't find myself in a similar situation.

Where did that happen? UK?

My 6900XT shipped! I wish it was an Asus, they have much superior cooling - it's an XFX reference design, for which the cooler is not very adequate by most reviews. So I probably would have to spend the extra $300 that I saved on the MSRP on waterblock and radiator or undervolt it. It's a bit of a waste of $ for me - I don't do rendering, so I have to do more gaming I guess - MS Flight sim at 4K maybe - but I couldn't help it.

I noticed that the real time alerts on Telegram are much better than url's - when they show up, most stock disappears within seconds. I was beaten 9 out 10 times for a 6800XT or 6900XT while being notified in real time, while on my PC and adding to cart immediately and attempting to checkout. I also realized that trying to enter my credit card info was too slow (and except for Amazon which has 1 click buy now option) I reverted to PayPal, which allowed me to checkout much faster. Which proves that others use these scripts / bots as well, so the only chance is to join them at least as far as alerts go. 

For those hunting GPUs / CPUs, the following may help:

1. 

I have managed to get so far a 6800 from Newegg (delivered and installed for personal use in my non-Hackintosh), a 5950x from Amazon (will resell for no profit to a friend who really needs it, as I don't need it myself) and I just snagged an XFX 6900XT from BestBuy (order hopefully won't get cancelled as done by Newegg once) due Jan 7 - all using just this alert service and some luck. I have no idea what to do with that 6900XT I really wanted a 3090 to try some ML projects, but I won't complain and may replace the 5700XT once the MacOS drivers pop up.

2. - Don't watch the youtube video, watch the chat instead - I notice people shout out when drops happen. But since you can't really watch it all the time, it's best to get alerted via the Telegram 1st.

@Ploddles I was able to get a 6800 from newegg. A Gigabyte OC model for $680 + tax (too much but the quality of the PCB and heatsink are great). No luck with any of the XT models.

With the lack of MacOS support and the good power rating (around 200W) decided to put it in my Node 202 mini itx console replacing the Nvidia rtx 2070 there - my TV/living room gaming console. The Node202 got a 5800X too which I managed to snag at a local Microcenter so it's quite the beast now.

Immediate deshroud + 2 exhaust fans = temperatures in the 60s under heavy load. Amazing gaming GPU for power budget systems. Will now have to test with a fancy visual game like Cyberpunk2077.

@fabiosun - any word on Radeon 6800 support? My 6800 arrives today.

I think the issue may be with AMD's PCIE management or board IOMMU groups. I recall that to run many VM's with many GPUs, one ideally goes with an Intel platform. Will try and let you know, my 6800 shipped today so I should get it by early next week.

Does anyone know what new features/fixes 11.1 contains? No 6000 series radeon drivers yet is a bit of a bummer, but I believe it's temporary as Apple is slow to roll out drivers for stuff not part of their own hardware. For sure the Intel based Macs will get a 6000 upgrade early next year.

I am debating if I should use the 6800 and play some new titles at 4K, or offer it to someone who may enjoy it more as I really want the XT once supported by BigSur (the 6800XT vs 6900XT margin is smaller than the 6800 vs 6800XT so 6800XT is best value of the 3 if at MSRP). The order will ship today 12/10 according to Newegg. I paid $679 + tax = $751. This seems like a steep premium for OC/Dual BIOS over the $600 AMD MSRP. Rumor is AMD is leaving no margin for ABI's and they are forced to jack up the price, so even w/out the black market the 600 MSRP is misleading since AMD made limited reference cards and the ABIs have no incentive to make more reference ones.

My 3090 ended up on backorder btw (so I withdraw my TigerDirect recommendation, it doesn't seem honest), but I got a non-XT 6800 from Newegg that was charged and will ship tomorrow. So I may try to dual GPU VMs (6800 for Win 10 as BigSur doesn't seem to have the driver enabled yet and the 5700XT for MacOS).

For the GPU that will be used by Proxmox as primary display, you need to unbind the efi framebuffer but the other should be w/out the part referring to the framebuffer. So no, the hookscript won't be shared as identical copy. In your BIOS you should be able to select which PCIE slot is primary display. The other GPU should pass without any tweaking of the framebuffer.

If you want to run both VMs at the same time, it may get tricky. Make sure you are stable with 1 VM at a time.

You mean the VM config?

@23d1, any luck?

Back to the Navi topic - after many unsuccessful attempts I managed to get a confirmed order of a GIGABYTE Radeon RX 6800 GAMING OC from Newegg (took me a Telegram notification system and many failed attempts with voided orders). I really wanted the XT and/or a 3080/3090, but my 3090 from TigerDirect ended up backordered with no ETA (despite initially being 'confirmed') and the XT's are nowhere to be found. So ordering if you're fast DOES work, but you need a bot notifier. Very frustrating, and I already have buyer regret.

I used this link to join the 6800/6900 notification room. 99% of the time, you're too slow to get it as I think there are scripts that preempt you. But once you see drops flowing, you may succeed in pre-empting the bots, by refreshing the same link and hitting add to cart many times and being super fast to checkout (I used 1 click auth Paypal).

I am sure one can write a Telegram based bot to auto refresh and add to cart using this notifier, but not sure I want to invest the time ...

Here's the Catalina EFI (this one is OC 0.6.3 I believe). Again, missing just the "Resources" subfolder due to size. Needs serials and I have commented PCI DeviceProperties specific to me.

My VM config in /etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf:

args: -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" -smbios type=2 -device usb-kbd,bus=ehci.0,port=2 -cpu host,+invtsc,vendor=GenuineIntel
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: cdn
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 64
cpu: Penryn
efidisk0: aorus:vm-100-disk-1,size=1M
hookscript: local:snippets/vmhook.sh
hostpci0: 85:00,pcie=1
hostpci1: 84:00,pcie=1
hostpci2: 88:00,pcie=1
hostpci3: 43:00,pcie=1,romfile=vbios.bin,x-vga=1
hostpci4: 02:00,pcie=1
hugepages: 1024
ide2: local:iso/OpenCore.iso,size=150M
machine: q35
memory: 196608
name: catalina
numa: 1
ostype: other
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=2dc4e309-f3cc-4b49-b09f-ca3e89f7a697
sockets: 1
vga: none
virtio0: aorus:vm-100-disk-0,cache=unsafe,discard=on,size=250G
vmgenid: 0c7cc702-74ba-4d8e-ba4b-d52d5fe53847

EFI.zip

2 hours ago, 23d1 said:

 

I updated some packages, is all. And the latest dist upgrade as well. I have since tried a fresh install and so on. I got everything working again, but can't get past the reset to OpenCore bug for some reason. I wonder if I need to load some kind of NVMe kext or anything else that might be causing this issue. Any chance you could share your EFI for macOS (I run High Sierra until I can get my hands on an AMD card, preferably the 6800xt so I can bump up to whichever version of Big Sur supports that)?

Here is my Big Sur OC 0.6.4 VM EFI

I have removed the  "Resources" sub-folder which takes a lot of space and you can just grab from the OC release sample folder. For the rest you need serials and your Mac address if you plan to use iMessage.

p.s.

I commented out 1st 3 PCI devices in DeviceProperties as they may differ from yours.

The VM config file corresponding to this is:

args: -device isa-applesmc,osk="ourhardworkbythesewordsguardedpleasedontsteal(c)AppleComputerInc" -smbios type=2 -device usb-kbd,bus=ehci.0,port=2 -cpu host,+invtsc,vendor=GenuineIntel
balloon: 0
bios: ovmf
boot: cdn
bootdisk: virtio0
cores: 64
cpu: Penryn
efidisk0: aorus:vm-101-disk-1,size=1M
hookscript: local:snippets/vmhook.sh
hostpci0: 43:00,pcie=1,x-vga=1,romfile=vbios.bin
hostpci1: 86:00,pcie=1
hostpci2: 85:00,pcie=1
hostpci3: 88:00,pcie=1
hostpci4: 02:00,pcie=1
hugepages: 1024
ide2: local:iso/OpenCoreBeta.iso,size=150M
machine: q35
memory: 196608
name: bigsur
numa: 1
ostype: other
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=4b5493a6-6a73-48b7-8ce5-2be70a66a383
sockets: 1
vga: none
virtio0: aorus:vm-101-disk-0,cache=unsafe,discard=on,size=250G
vmgenid: 18d68c27-3a62-4059-9280-7f86a572af59

EFI.zip