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Jason from X-Vsion told me something interesting. Their early version of the 4080 and 4090 (black PCB with some capacitors on the X-bracket way) have full eDP support on D. It used some Clevo VBIOS that I can't find. @janepahas the Black PCB version.

That’s why the 5080 astral is really worth the money in my opinion. Especially if you can get one for like $1,500 bucks. The cooling and build quality is top notch. Mine is a lottery loser. But getting the 5090 Astral made me only appreciate it even more, because they are literally indistinguishable from one another in weight/size/feel. I discovered that the 5080 with 2x FG on performed identically to the 5090 with FG off in many titles. BTW I’m keeping the 5090 Astral. 😂 Amazing GPU. Gaming on this thing is where it’s at. Brute force FPS! Epic power!

Yeah, I always kept an eye on it. Early on, it was such a great feature to have and still is. With the advent of the WireView Pro 2 and integration with HWinfo along with warning and shut down mechanisms and warranty, it does add a nice bit of piece of mind. I love hitting certain parts of WoW and watching those bars spike and comparing the on display readouts of wattage with reported wattage, seeing if the internal fan kicks on and more. Astral 5090 is a fantastic card. I think I said when I returned mine I had ZERO complaints and I do mean zero.....except the price. 🤣 Now look at the market...silly me. Like I said, I also think the Astral is one of the best looking 5090's on the market easily. I love everything about its thick slabular design. Even how the lighting strip lights up on power up. Feels very Blade Runner like. One thing I miss dearly from the Astral 5090 is the zero fan mode was truly zero fans. The Ventus I had and the Vanguard will spin up for shiggles based on reported voltage even light browsing. In a quiet room, it is all I will hear is the low dull rumble of the fans on the GPU and that's it.

Prema BIOS does not work on all systems, even if they are the same model. The protection is tied to each device’s Service Tag. Therefore, you need to contact Prema and send to him a dump file of your current BIOS so they can unlock the motherboard, reveal the hidden BIOS settings, and also apply their own internal BIOS optimizations and modifications.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t online while the benchmark was running, so I took a photo of it with my phone at the time

I guess no one can help.

News: I decided to buy the exact heatsink at the same time upgrade my GPU from RTX 2060 to an RTX 2070 Super. All is ok now.

I'm thinking about turning off bitlocker on my Win 11 PC. Has anyone here done that after years of use? Is there a chance of loosing any data? I do have external backups but I don't always backup every file.

Fair play mate, could you explain how you managed this? Have been reading into this but am struggling so would appreciate the help!

@MELOCODI @SOYOON Hello. If you're still interested. It works, you can get them now. I made separate thread for the v2. Pictures and a video are available. M4800 and M6800 were the first subjects and the backlight + pwm control works.

could you run 3dmark timespy and fire strike?

So i put my new GPU in and so far so good! The card itself was very nice looking. Way better than most "Frankenstein" cards ive seen. Didnt even have to put Vbios on it. Only tested slightly but I'll test it more though when i get more ptm 7950 since I didn't have enough of it to put on the card. At this point its just generic thermal paste that i dont want to use. that and I didnt want to wait for the x-bracket to get here, so i put in one from another card. Seems to fit okay. After gaming for a bit, it seems to run very good with it not going any higher than 42c, but i was playing dead Island from 2011. Even on its highest settings its not the best game to truly test it out, but like Durabat, im not that much of a gamer either. It will be tested more with Blender though since i do more of that than anything else and that should be a good test.

1.7.3 nice 👌

Congratulations to you on getting healthier @Papusan! That's always a good feeling. I remember picking on people about the per pin monitoring. I knew if I had that, it would become a new thing to focus on (And it has). What we do not know, does not hurt us. This 5090 Astral is giving me a special kind of feeling though lol. The feeling that the 5080 Astral is not giving me.

For them it's the heredity. Some have never been in work. But the common denominator is same lung illness. And none of those smoked much. 3 sisters have suffered the same fate of the disease. The same goes for my father (the brother). Also my sister (no smoker). The resemblance between them is quite clear. This illness is hereditary. But for me it can be from 3 reason as already mentioned. With triple reasons it is doomed to happen🤨 NVIDIA's connector story: EPS vs. 12VHPWR Connector – Good doesn't always win, but evil does more and more often (background information) | Retro The 12-pin connector as a space-saving art object Because Ampere also brought the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and the RTX 3090 Founders Edition with their avant-garde shaped design to the market. All well and good, but where to put those space-hogging headers? When the PCB designer runs out of space, in the worst case scenario, this is compensated for by a great deal of audacity; others call it creative waste. The problem was that there simply weren't any suitable, upright headers available, not even from Molex in South Korea, who have been diligently producing connectors since 1984 and should know exactly what they're doing (or rather, what they're not doing). However, one thing is crucial here: this 12VHPWR connector was NOT developed by Molex, but rather under the leadership of Astron as a kind of derivative. Corsair GPU Power Bridge rated for up to 105°C melts on RTX 4090 Founders Edition My Corsair GPU Power Bridge (the angled adapter for the power cable) completely melted along the top row of pins. Because it got so hot, it actually melted and deformed the plastic power plug on my RTX 4090 Founders Edition as well.

Good job on that brother. Yeah sorry to hear about the lung problems. For your dad and sisterwas it entirely heredity or did they also do the same type of work that contributed to the problem?

Thanks, both. I have even go down in weight. Close to 5KG down in 3.5 weeks🙂 Target is 75 KG (184-185 height). So still need go down 18Kg. Then I have my cholesterol. I need to get it down from almost 5 to 1.4-1.8. Need to be that low due the increased stroke risk. Regarding broken lungs. The work I did, heredity and of course the smoke. so triple reasons for the problem. Papa,his sisters had same lung disease. Also my sister have it now. They have never smoked but still got same lung problems.

Titans are on another level. Many think the Titan is a slightly better Raider, but it is MSI's flagship and it shows. Nice pickup! 4090 and 5090 mobile are much closer than their desktop parts anyhow. I was bidding on a 9955HX3D + 5090 Raider on eBay, but the price got outlandish pretty quick and I was out. It ended up selling for something like $4k so yeah..... Yeah, I am getting ready to open mine back up and sell off several items that missed the first wave along with a few extras too. I'll have to give that driver a dry. I have to admit I haven't had many problems in WoW lately with the 9800X3D + 5090, but if there are DX12 direct issues addressed specifically with WoW, I'm going to want to update anyhow. I've been advocating and have posted this advice several times in this very forum now for this for years now since the 4090. One of the reasons I kept my front panel off was so the 12vhpwr cable could have a clean, straight run for a bit from the GPU/PSU before introducing any type of bends...... With the WV2Pro now, I could put the glass back on, but I like an open case now and zero extra fans needing to run except what's on the GPU and the 420mm AIO fans. Keeps things pretty quiet. That blood pressure is excellent @Papusan!! The fact is is much lower also means the heightened stress on your system will allow it to relax and may even allow your breathing to become a bit more relaxed too. How did you damage your lungs? Was it the smoking or something else? Either way, good job on the BP! Now hopefully we can get that heart rate down. Has your doc asked you to try nebivolol? It is for BP but also helps slow your heart rate a bit too and prevents spikes.

Glad it was just a poor connection. Sort of. Unfortunately, having a poor connection with these garbage cables is common. They are fragile, inferior and the people responsible for making them a standard need to lose their jobs and be forced to find a new occupation. One they are good at, 'cause they suck at their current job.

Glad to see you are making good progress, brother.

Some progress. Today is 4 weeks since the stroke. The bloodpressure is on the way down. Down from 170-190/95 So the risk for a new stroke is reduced. But my heart rate is awful. Hower around 95-100 due broken lungs😗 The lifestyle change and medication seems to help. But this can't fix my broken lungs. It's what it is. Imagine how many users use cables with load balancing problems.

So when I installed a brand new cable, and my balancing sill just wasn’t good at all. And I’m thinking what the heck, the Astral was throwing alarms to let me know balancing was pretty bad. Nothing I could do to fix it. So I followed the 12vhpwr from GPU plug back to PSU plug, and I had it tucked in tightly to hide it with wire management and even pinched or pressed bent in a few places in my case to make things look neater. I pulled the cable out in one spot near the PSU side, and tried to make it as straight as a run as possible everywhere else. And balancing is completely fixed. These cables are crazy sensitive. I’ve never been able to monitor per pin amperage before. And a bend anywhere on the cable even towards the PSU side can completely throw things off. I’m wondering how unbalanced my 5090 FE might have been. This is what I learned, on the PSU side and GPU side you want the cable to be coming straight out to about 50mm length of wire. Then it can start to bend.

Hi Maro, can you share me the link to your Firestrike Score online to check them more deeply. I like your temps by the way! I'm limited by my ram, only 2800 cl16...

Out of all the BIOS versions I tested, BIOS 1.7.3 delivered the best memory frequency and timing results. Using very ordinary Samsung DDR4-2666 memory modules, I was able to overclock them to 2933 MHz with timings of CL17

The main difference between X-VSION and ZRT 4080/4090 is the VBIOS location. X-Vsion is on the back side meanwhile the ZRT one is on the front. Not practical for XVSION as you need to remove the entire MXM from the slot to backup your VBIOS. There are some other differences but it's like different locations of each components near the MXM pins. GPU die, VRAM chips and coils are the same.