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  2. tps3443
    Would be awesome if running two RTX 5080’s was useful for something. 😂 They really match so perfectly together!! Maybe there is a benefit? Or a waste.
  3. Today
  4. electrosoft
    Best possible outcome. Feels like when my EVGA 1600w P2 started to falter a few months ago and I couldn't lock down where the failures or sporadic errors were coming from and had to start from the ground up to isolate the PSU. The cables really are the weakest link this time around. I know with my 4090 and 5090 I kept the pigtail plugged in at all times even when swapping out. Many times for motherboard upgrades I would remove the GPU from the slot and lay it still connected on the lower part of the case. Could have been just the absolute pounding you gave that cable and the limited times you have to plug and unplug it before it starts to degrade.....which is insane to think on a cable meant to handle 600w+..... Gigabyte Gaming OC cards in general are not built that great. Master and Elite cards get the love. Glad you're back up and running! Let us know which one is the superior GPU. I'm curious to see vmax, best OC, best UV and overall temps head to head. The only real way to do it now is to use the dreaded tentacle for a few reasons to bench multiple cards: #1. You can keep the 12vfail connector connected at all times #2. It makes it easy to bench and test traditional 8-pin PCIE GPUs since you have 4x 8-pin leads at your disposal.
  5. Yesterday
  6. FrancoTecno
    the same for me, i need external video output at least one from the GPU
  7. Selim1905
    Considering the 128 GB of RAM, it is worth buying.
  8. Papusan
    This become a problem because you had good contact in first place. Once removed and the connection will break and you get a problem. Cables have now become a consumable items. I mean the tiny trash called 12V-2x6. Those cannot be reused as the good old 8-pin cables. Benching the old gpu's ain't very fun anymore because you need to take out and in your new and shiny GPU if you want the newest in you rig after bench sessions. The modern cables ain't up to task. This tiny trash ruined my hobby.
  9. Mr. Fox
    Yeah, the Zotac hate is really ignorant. They make great GPUs. Their warranty sucks, but the same can be said of other brands. A$$zeus and Gigabutt look for excuses to deny warranty for totally illegitimate reasons. A warranty that isn't honored because a company is dishonest is the same as having no warranty. Tony from Northwest Repair has mentioned in several videos that the Zotac GPUs are very well made. I think he has even said they are the best built. They have fuses to protect them and some of the more popular and more expensive brands do not.
  10. tps3443
    Yes! Very very hard to buy a 5090. That guilt is STRONG after buying one too. Today’s prices are nuts. 5080 is a value and gets the job done!! Gone are the days of high end affordable GPU’s. It’s a rich man’s club now. EDIT: So happy I found the issue! When that 2nd brand new Zotac RTX 5080 locked my PC up, I was concerned and relieved at the same time. Relieved that the RTX 5080 was not defective. But also worried what the issue could be. The bad cable was ran daily on a shunt modded 5090FE, so it must have took the cable out I guess. What’s weird though, is I had no issues running the 5090FE up until the day I pulled it from the system. So I think maybe it sitting it just degraded? It’s so weird. I’m going to do some testing now and see which is the best GPU! I would prefer a low voltage low power queen if I had to pick. I don’t know what all the fuss or hate about Zotac is either. Both of these cards are built incredibly well. I had a Gigabyte 4090 Gaming OC, and that thing felt like a Dollar General toy lol. 😂 these cards feel nice and look very high quality.
  11. Mr. Fox
    Yay! That's great news. As much as I love my 5090 and I am glad that I have it, at current prices I would not even consider buying one again. The 5080 is a little weaker than a 4090 but out of the three options it is the only GPU that makes any sense financially. If you can even find a good used 4090 they are selling for prices that are just about as stupid as 5090 prices. I really like my 5080. I didn't feel dirty or like an idiot after buying it based on the price.
  12. tps3443
    IT WAS THE CABLE!! I think my 5090 did it in lol. Swapped the 12vhpwr. No crashing!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
  13. Mr. Fox
    Sounds like switching the cable might do the trick if you are passing a SN stress test. Much further than you had gotten before from the way it sounds. Were you able to look at the PSU end of the 12VHPWR cable? If that adapter is working it could be the cable or the PSU, or maybe a bad connection on the PSU end of the cable (or melted at the PSU end).
  14. tps3443
    I am trying a different PSU cable to see if that helps, so far it’s a 6/20 loops in Steel Nomad 🙏. Previous cable was a Lian Li 12vhpwr to 12vhpwr. Now I’m trying a 2x8pin to 12vhpwr. If this fails I will try another PSU. I cleaned the PCIe slots with MAF automotive cleaner. It’s great! It leaves behind zero residues unlike how alcohol can. I pulled all (12) ram sticks and cleaned those as well. I’m thinking CPU socket pins could be suspect as well if a new PSU+cable doesn’t resolve the issue. Maybe the shunt modded 5090 was just too hard on the little 1200 unit or its cable…😂 Would be curious to just test both cards and see which is the best!!!
  15. Mr. Fox
    This is exactly why I urged testing it in your son's computer. It is certainly possible that there might be something wrong with the 12VHPWR cable or the PSU. I would also look closely at the PCIe slot to make sure there is not some fuzz or other debris inside of the slot that is blocking contact with the contacts on the GPU. If your motherboard is PCIe 4.0 I would also try manually setting the PCIe speed for the GPU slot to whatever its maximum spec is rather than leaving it set to Auto. Are you going to try to return the new one, or give your son a nice upgrade?
  16. Yarema
    I have one with 3d display and 5090. Feel free to ask anything about it. Bought it for 4000$
  17. Yarema
    Hi! I have opportunity to buy clevo x170 SM-G (Dream machines,) 128 ram 10900K 2080 super 4TB SSD 1000$ Is this good price?
  18. tps3443
    Just an update. I have another issue going on with my computer.. Both 5080’s crash and lock up my PC. Yes I bought a brand new one from Newegg lol. (Now I have two) I am not sure what it could be. My system was perfectly fine when I unplugged my 5090 at the very end of 02/2026. Now here I am in 05/2026 and it’s locking up after 5 minutes of rendering anything 3D. I have two functional 5080’s it seems. Maybe bad PSU? I have ran R24 and Ycruncher and those run fine .
  19. Mr. Fox
    @Papusan 2.0
  20. cgtec
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  21. electrosoft
    The fact you suffered several small strokes and escaped relatively unscathed is such a blessing. Your body is telling you to get that stress and blood pressure under control ASAP. Even if your BP runs high the medicines will greatly slow stiffening of the arteries and sudden spikes. That is the real magic of them for potential strokes and heart attacks. My mom had a small stroke at 59 because her sugars were high (A1c = 13+), cholesterol through the roof (300+) and blood pressure through the roof (190/100+) daily due to no exercise and a horrific diet along with bad medicine management and genetics. She figured she could eat whatever she wanted and just had to slam a needle full of insulin into her leg and that would do the trick. She actually went into a coma for two weeks. Testing showed she had suffered many small strokes undetected at the time. Came out scared, followed the program religiously dropped weight, got much healthier then 4 months later fell off and went back to her old habits even though was on her like cold on ice but to no avail. Gained back all the weight plus some extra. A year later she suffered a major stroke, lost all function of her left side, impaired speech and passed away a few months later. She was 60. This is the time you take control brother. Genetics are what they are, but you control how you move and what you eat. If you're a smoker, time to quit. Heavy drinker? Time to cut back. Time to get that diet under control, get your medicines sorted out and come back as @Papusan 2.0 meaner and grumpier! 🤣❤️
  22. Nizmeïster
    Specifically for the GT60s, aside from the extremely rare models with 3K or 4K IPS screens, you have no choice but to use Optimus because all the other versions are LVDS. That said, the Quadro RTX 3000 works very well with Optimus, for example. I think a Quadro RTX 5000 could do the same with a mod to the heatsink. The RTX 4060 was properly routed with Optimus, and gaming performance was very good — the gain compared to the Quadro RTX 3000 was huge despite the CPU bottleneck. Honestly, if we could just fix this video output issue, and apparently the EC could be manually modified for the fans, then we might not be far from also getting these cards to work properly on older MSI GT60/70 models. I think on the GT72 and later models, it should work with the eDP mod though.
  23. SuperMG
    I'm curious. So his GPU has HDMI in DP_D then? If it has simple DP in DP_D, it should have worked. As "eDP" HDP are just DP signals. I think the RTX Turing will work (if all ports are DP/DP++) on the Zbook G3 17. Sadly not with the X-Vsion nor with ZRT cards 😕
  24. SuperMG
    Don't use Optimus and LVDS. No one has tried pure dGPU in eDP with a MSI and a new RTX MXM. Maybe this could fix some the issues you mentioned
  25. Nizmeïster
    In that case, I don’t really understand what’s preventing at least the video outputs from working. Maybe it has something to do with the routing through Optimus. The only GT60 with eDP is the one with the 3K or 4K IPS display, the 16F4 version 3.0 motherboard model. Maybe on that one, with the eDP backlight mod, everything would work properly.
  26. Mr. Fox
    Thank you for the update, brother. I am glad they are helping get things under control. The reason hypertension is often called "the silent kiler" is because it sneaks up on you quietly and usually has no symptoms. No, it is never any fun waiting to see if treatment worked. I know exactly how unpleasant that feels and can empathize. The cycle of test > treat > wait > retest sucks. The anticipation of the unknown is psychologically difficult and time changes from seeming to fly to a slow creep. The important thing is that they discovered the need and action is being taken. That is a blessing to you and all that know and love you.
  27. Papusan
    Some update. Have been to my personal doctor today. Also got my epikrise from the hospital to keep home. I had stroke two places in my brain on left side. But got further info from the epikrise... I have had several small strokes in the frontallap before. I never knew that before. Very rare I have been in an mr machine the last years. So my doctor said I have been pretty damn lucky. My main problem is high bloodpressure (also one of the reasons for stoke outside my higher colestrole). They need to reduce it further. Both the bloodpressure and colestole. But each new dose medicines need to work 3-4weeks to see an effect. Not fun sit here with high bloodpressure and know the risk is still high for a possibel second stroke. But the medicines need to start work properly before they can or should increase doses. The bad coletrole need to be pushed down to 1.4-1.8 if you have had stroke. So here I sit waiting yet another 3-4 weeks to see if things may be better😟 As well, forbidden to drive a car the next +3 months. Yup, fun times. I just love it!
  28. SuperMG
    DP/DP/HDMI/eDP. Same as the RTX 4070 MXM. Works perfectly fine on my M6700 and 7720. I had all the display ports, even the USB-C on the 7720.
  29. Nizmeïster
    When I mentioned the fans, it’s actually an EC firmware issue that likely doesn’t properly detect the 4060, probably due to an incorrect temperature sensor report over SMBus. But to me, the biggest issue still remains external display support...
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