Awesome build, what about case fans? I am asking cause I am sure some people will be willing to just copy paste it! Also would you mind sharing cpu /gpu top/side temps under full load?
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This particular case came with 3 large case fans preinstalled. I only had to move one to make space for the AIO for the GPU’s. Since the 2 AIO’s have 2 fans on them as well airflow seems to be decent enough.
If I stress test the CPU it reaches it’s +95°C limit, and at idle it’s at +50°. Maybe I shouldn’t have kept the pre-applied thermal paste on the cooler :). On the other hand any realistic load might not reach thermal-throttling range.
GPU’s stay below +55°C at full load, so those hold up fine.
I do have two temperature sensors in the case, but I haven’t been able to read them out yet (something with this new chipset still requiring some Linux driver support or something). Other devices stay at +50°C when the CPU is blasting though.
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Stronk Brag 
While we are dilligently working towards the next set of PR’s to the Livepeer AI project, the Stronk Orchestrator reached a new milestone last month, namely being the #1 fee earner in April 2024
At the request of other node operators, in April 2022 we started tracking & posting a monthly leaderboard in the Livepeer Discord payout channel, summarizing activity happening on Livepeers’ smart contracts and how fee earnings were distributed across Orchestrators.
Now two years later, the Stronk Orchestrator took home over 7% of all fees that month. No doubt caused by our excellent pricing strategy and participation in the AI alpha, this is the first time that our Orchestrator has managed to claim the #1 spot in fee earnings!
Due to our 0% fee cut, any ETH we earn immediately gets distributed to our Delegators.
Stay tuned for more updates. While the AI SPE team is working hard laying the foundations for robust AI inference at scale, we’re excited to unlock new use cases for the AI subnet.
The next post will feature an extensive list of changes made to the AI pipeline and what this means for developers who want to leverage these features.
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Stronk update
It has been a while since the last update. These are the things we’ve been working on:
First of all we’ve added a node in São Paulo, allowing us to service South America! 
As one of the maintainers of MistServer (a free, public domain media server), we’ve been working on the following features:
- MistServer now has hardware-accelerated transcoding support.
- MistServer now has SDI support (raw video input/output), an important feature to make a bridge between traditional livestreaming and the broadcasting industry.
- Fixes and enhancements to HLS support.
Since MistServer is the media server of choice for Livepeer Catalyst, any feature added or bug squashed by extension also makes Livepeer’s decentralized media server more competent and opens up the way for new use cases.
Other stuff in the pipeline:
- StreamCrafter got some interface tweaks and fixes and will see some more love in the following weeks.
- AI R&D and bounties, like LoRa support or node operator Grafana dashboards.
- Still working on adding (proper hardware accelerated) Intel support to Livepeer.
Costs of operating Stronk Tech
It might be interesting for Delegators to see what costs are associated with being a Livepeer node operator.
2024 has seen significant expenses so far. Of the ~€19K in costs, about ~€3K were running costs associated with running the node. Think of: websites, domains, GPU servers (outside EU) and other small business expenses.
The rest of the costs went into upgrading network equipment, adding an AI server and upgrading (transcoding) GPU’s.
We have projected between €25K to €35K costs end of year, as we still have additional GPU’s we want to add to the AI subnet, especially to service some of the more exclusive models like Flux or certain LLM’s.
Stay tuned for more updates. Stake to Stronk Tech to support our efforts and increase your ownership of the network. With the crypto market slowly inching towards an altcoin bullrun, you don’t want to wait too long with accumulating your LPT!