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Well, now this is a nice new feature added to the latest update of Winaero Tweaker. Does the same thing as the script I have been adding to the right-click menu. Just check the box and it's ready to use. Very awesome.

That why its a mod and its not easy to pull off, a lot of time and money but its cool to see other people doing this to fight back against NVIDIA. Sadly AMD refuses to take advantage of NVIDIA's mistakes to make themselves a good option. Speaking of the RTX3000 series there are rumors that NVIDIA is bringing back RTX 3060 GPUs https://www.notebookcheck.net/GeForce-RTX-3060-re-launch-Nvidia-preparing-to-bring-back-5-year-old-gaming-GPU-later-this-month-claims-report.1245823.0.html This is stupid, why politicians from both parties always create terrible solutions that wont change anything especially when kids are very tech savvy. Plus this bill is useless especially when Parents buy PCs for their kids they register the account (MS Account) or whatever under the parent's name and age, It would be more scary if they have to verify the age of the user through a webcam every time you wanna login. Just another excuse for the government to take more money out of regular people pockets. Also the media is nothing but propaganda and ragebait same with social media.

Couple of new additions to the roster. Traded one of my 5700 XT's to a coworker for his 6500 XT. It'll act as my frame Gen mule on the TV and main gaming monitor. The second was my first real GPU. Anyone care to guess what it is?

I think the vBIOS has to support it. If it does not that might be why there are no examples of it having been done on numerous other video cards rather than just a select few.

I bet some of you here are going to try this mod too some day😁. I know its not a new mod but its cool to see NVIDIA getting screwed by the consumer for once

I don't know what's more insulting.... Not sending a replacement set which they do have in stock but it now costs almost 3x as much or having the balls to deduct 15% from the refund for the original cost because of use depreciation when in actuality the items valuation depreciation actually increased over two fold..... In this situation, you either offer a product replacement equal or better than sent in for repair. You don't offer a refund because the replacement set is now worth so much more and you DEFINITELY don't then have the cojones to lop off 15% use depreciation. That is absurdly greedy on a gobsmackingly large scale. Not that Silicon Power was ever really on my list except besides a few freebies tossed my way for evaluation, but they will never be on my list to buy pretty much anything. 😠 Heh heh, what I liked most was him flat out saying he won't be soldering on another connector for him. Makes me think Dufus asked if he could also add another connector with the repair and was told, "nah bruh." 🤣 Ended on a sad note, though. His sister was murdered in Washington State. 😞 It was good to see the large outpouring of support though via his sister's gofundme and messaging. ♥️

Have the best, easily unlock enabled laptop bios this side of Prema, but purposely lock down the bios on the MSI B850M POWER?? Look how long it took Asus to let the XOC run free (ish) and then we have the Lightning situation. I get the position of both that in the wrong hands both can drastically increase the chances of wrecking cards but still.... I still prefer Asus BIOS over MSI. EVGA > ASUS > MSI. Still prefer MSI over Asus as a company.... Big ups to @svet!

geeez so basically just unlocking bios functions that should be there in the first place 😄 almost sounds like were back in the Clevo / Alienware days, just on desktop....now THAT shouldnt be a thing ugh

MSI, in typical MSI fashion, has dropped the ball on their BIOS development. They mysteriously omitted the AMD CBS menus and sub-menus, so there are lots of tweaks that were not accessible with the stock BIOS. It has taken a couple of days worth of mods and testing to get them added back. So, basically restoring expected function and features. It's really ridiculous that it was not present because it is an AMD firmware default menu option AFAIK. Couple this with how they behaved with the 5090 Lightning BIOS and insisting that Techpowerup take it down from their GPU BIOS database makes it hard to respect their brand in my mind. The MSI brand is all about show, not go. There was a recent article on this that got little attention. I tried to contact @flashhez and @chew and got no response, but Svet (the MSI Forum guy) came to the rescue. The world needs more people like Svet and Prema. Enthusiasts have unlocked hidden overclocking menus on the MSI B850MPOWER motherboard

Have been working with Svet for a B850MPOWER BIOS mod. It's shaping up quite nicely. Will have to see how 8400 works.

damn i saw that vid, felt really sorry for Roman, he definitely didnt deserve this....especially after doing all that due diligence! these market conditions really suck atm. been using winaero tweaker for quite a while now, love that they keep adding this kinda stuff!

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/153759825 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5988575 Not too bad for the cute little guy.

Of course, its not something I would recommend to the laymen. Just something I have been fondly passively following for the past couple of years. Mods are always exciting when you are watching someone else suffer the ups and downs. When I was modding the Alienware 17 R1 my friends thought I was nuts taking a Dremel to my laptop and "making" my own heatsinks and there were definitely plenty of times I was questioning whether or not I was tempting fate! lol Like an idiot I did it anyways. The Red Devil 7900 XTX effectively is that new scratch to that "itch". Heck I have been semi debating picking up a DDR3 based system just to see how it performs under games of this era. I have enough hardware though so I really shouldnt. https://www.ebay.com/itm/406231132612?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D777008%26algo%3DPERSONAL.TOPIC%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20250417133222%26meid%3D3b5d9c1dce2a42bca896f1dd563e6c62%26pid%3D102727%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dnone%26itm%3D406231132612%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D4375194%26algv%3DWatchlistVariantWithPSItemDR_BP%26brand%3DASUS&_trksid=p4375194.c102727.m162921 If they accepted 300 might be a fun deal, looks like a lot of cleanup though. As for the politics, lets steer it back away from that. Feel free to discuss the issue itself but lets leave the politicians off the thread. Feel free to continue via PM :)

Tried Bifurcation again today and sadly no dice, system would hang half way through post. Oh well, I'll return the adapters at some point during the week and hang up this goal for a while. Likely going to need that adapter from C_Payne in the UK. Otherwise I want to get more hoseline and make some adjustments to my setup and the benching itch has been working me over for a while now. Maybe I'll start with the EAH4890 and potential Tri-Fire.

The black and red in front? Not sure it's the TOP sku you have from Asus. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-eah4890-top-super-ml/4.html Not everything you buy is gold standard... "All that glitters is not gold". Yup, the fancy screen on the Lightning ain't gold that glitters. Just some fancy unnecessary gimmick to increase the already sky-high prices. And I shouldn't start talk about the new web based trashy software to make it work (which not work at all). — William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Norwegian gov't consumer watchdog calls out ‘enshittification’ of video games, connected devices, and others

Nice! Make a nice chunk of change on the "almost as good as my main rig" setup and have a very competent secondary rig. New toys on deck or into the kitty for future consideration? Mine was destined for the kitty but got slammed with a larger than expected tax bill, so there goes that.... 🤑 5700xt is still one of my favorites. I had the AMD anniversary blower edition for over a year (~august 2019 to ~Oct 2020) before upgrading to a 3090FE fresh from BB. I remember Asus red fans and AMD cards era, so definitely an AMD card I think. I kinda remember those around when I got my EVGA Nvidia GTX 280 so circa 2009-2010?

My newest sets: MXM- and Powerboard

Say hello to the newest example of silly things we want but don't need. Phanteks XT M3 MSI B850MPower EPYC 4585PX CPU Lian Li GA II LITE RGB 360mm AIO 32GB V-Color Manta XSky 6000 CL26 ASUS Prime RTX 5080 OC Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W PSU 2TB NVMe x3 on mobo 2TB NVMe x4 on Sabrent Quad 4X card 1TB SATA SSD and 2TB SATA SSD Cougar single-frame 360mm reverse-blade fan trio in case floor I am updating the BIOS now and will reach out again to Svet about doing a BIOS mod for it.

Hey stranger. Where you been? Welcome back. You were missed. No idea on the RTX 6000. It's not a product that fits into a sane person's discretionary hobby budget so I've not given it even a glance. Curiosity killed the cat fox, so I just don't want to subject myself to temptation for nonsense like that.

I will give it a go after work.

Well look at @Talon making the TPU and YT news! TPU: Intel "Bartlett Lake-S" Flagship Appears, Won't Boot on Consumer Motherboards | TechPowerUp Hopefully more subscribe to your YT channel and get to hear Bill Hader discuss tech! 🤣 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That would definitely help! If, with the 800w and 1000w vBIOS we can just adjust them up manually like with the other Asus 2000w XOC vBIOS (down in this case from 1.15), that rocks. My main issue now are the new drivers from Nvidia purposefully capping voltages when you overclock. The problem looks like the newest drivers might override even native vBIOS relaxing. In the OCN forums, someone running the XOC found they suddenly were limited to 1.025 vs ~1.1450 If this and future drivers put a hard lock on voltages based on certain criteria when overclocking regardless of BIOS limits, that is going to suck. @Mr. Fox any chance you can try the new drivers with your EVC2 and a >+190 core offset to see if it keeps your voltages and clocks suppressed even in the face of a hardware control mod? Those running stock vBIOS and try to OC are getting capped when overclocking and even those running the XOC are suddenly neutered down to 1.025 when overclocking. The good news (?), is if you're not overclocking or doing a mild OC (sub +190), the drivers are decent. Yeah, I slurped the 2500w for my collection as soon as it appeared. 🤣 Seems to be her son murdered her and a few others in the same location before officers put him down. Mental health issues. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article314852958.html He didn't start it. Someone else did to help out with funeral and other costs with a cap. I'm ok with GoFundMe requests but I've seen some truly wacky ones. Heck, you could throw one up for a "need" for a Lightning MSI 5090 or RTX 6000 and Threadripper and attach a need/sob story to it or a Kickstarter about how you want to, "Research AI via daily immersion in simulated battlefields" aka play BF6/COD! 🤣 I always have a soft spot for medical GoFundMe because we shouldn't be in a place in this country where people are routinely driven to bankruptcy or financial straights over medical issues. Seeing a few "big name" hollywood stars who had to start one and digging into the hundreds of thousands of dollars they had to spend if not millions for medical treatments is a pretty disgusting statement on the state of our healthcare system in this country while big pharma and insurance companies continue to rake in the profits. On a personal note, I have a very close family member that is having to rip through whatever they have for medical treatments for a variety of ailments that in any other country would be covered and that's with insurance here in the US. It's pretty disgusting. The fact we are one of the few, if only, first world countries without universal health care is pathetic.

there was a follow-up from Jay in the comments that AB newest version added support for Lightning voltage control, so should be possible to push that limit up further. no idea if hes gonna do a follow-up video on this though... and no, im not defending that 5k+ USD card LOL LOL i saw that video yesterday via Louis Rossmann and thought of bro @Papusan right away 😄 well THAT should be interesting... if theyre ever gonna do a public statement on this, that is. good that the community has surely made a gazillion local copies of that vBios (myself included), so we dont really care about any takedowns 😛 say wut....what was that about? armed robbery or smth? any details available? thats crazy! altho i must say i dont know how i feel about starting a frigging gofundme after a family member was murdered....dunno if its just me but that leaves a bad aftertaste in my mouth....

The vBIOS was modified and did report 16GB but failed any test plus didnt output any direct images from the GPU (guessing iGPU was used for trial and error) I think, sadly, this is more of a Nvidia was entertaining the idea of 8GB and 16GB variants back then, deciding only to release 8GB variants versus AMD who never entertained 16GB consumer cards. In theory it the GPU is compatible since the workstation variant exists with 16GB but there may be significant differences in the PCB. Since RTX 30xx continued its dominance, we lost innovation since AMD couldnt hold Nvidia to the fire. I really enjoy my 7900 XTX and how much I was able to extract out of it. Stock OC vbios: 2565 Aquas OC vbios: 3Ghz 24/7 Highest OC: 3300c That being said it'll never beat a 4090 with the same amount of time put in.

I actually REALLY want to do this...for my RX 5700 XT's. I still have 3 of them and last time I used one it immediately hit 8GB VRAM buffer in Sons of the Forest :( Sadly there are no success stories of anyone doing this for that card. I continue to hold out hope, maybe I need to setup a bounty for it to generate interest? Not sure how I would even go about it. Especially considering Lossless Scaling Dual GPU FG, just need one card that has the 16GB VRAM and the other could be left as is. I keep revisiting the old reddit thread where one university student tried it, looks like it failed and/or lost interest due to lack of time. Would be a lot of fun going from 8GB 14Gbps to 16GB 18Gbps + OC. I hold out hope but gotta admit its disheartening not seeing any progress made towards that end.

Haven't checked in for awhile. Any news on RTX 6000 series?

See how Frame Chasers shouldn't have even attempted any mods...HE killed the card when he added the second 12vhpwr connector and that melted holes in the PCB. LMAO. Yet, people pay this guy for his expert overclocking/binning 'abilities'?

Windoze is a broken surveillance tool and a raging dumpster fire of an OS. Literally a digital dung heap. I do not have a problem with drivers. If functionality requires any Windoze Service(s) to be running that consumes memory and CPU cycles for the feature to work, then it is a software gimmick and not a hardware feature. Now, It may be a necessary evil and unavoidable fix for the raging Micro$lop dumpster fire, but it is still not a hardware feature if it depends on Windoze services to be running. If it is a hardware feature it will work in a UEFI shell or in a Linux environment because it is baked into the CPU or GPU and functions at the firmware level and there is no way for it "not to work" if it is in the wrong OS environment. If it is a hardware feature, there is either no way to turn it on or off, or you do it in the BIOS, not Windoze, and it will not care if you are running an old version of Windows 10 or 11 that doesn't have certain updates installed.

Forgive me I typed it all out on my phone at break but this second GPU would strictly be just for Frame Gen mule under lossless scaling, my 7900 XTX would still be my raster, at 3Ghz its pretty good for me 24/7. I dont care about power savings, but I do concern myself with the 12VHPWR which is why Im dancing around upgrading to something "modern". This is all just so I have 4K120 comfortably in recent single player titles. I prefer the idea of offloading frame gen to a second GPU over having it done on the same one. Also looking at the IOCrest M.2 to 10Gbps adapter also and lastly the GC-Titanridge TB3 card for the last slot. I think this would make for the best "everything I can think of" daily driver for a while. Welp, scratch the ACE. Looks like Asus never fixed Curve Optimizer in the BIOS so it doesnt actually work lol, Back to the drawing board. The Crosshair VIII Dark Hero looks like a good replacement choice.

I think its supposed to be 30x NGU and D2D, 40x Ring. My 275HX in the Hydroc G2 can do that easily with Premamod, but the real advantage comes from memory tuning. I have seen a few post sub-80ns AIDA64 scores, but I find heat is a big limitation on combined load stability so realistically for me 85ns is the best it can do on air with reasonable ambient temperatures. I think the A51 18 could do better temperature wise with the memory as the modules sit on the side opposite of the vapor chamber. You would have to use Smokeless UMAF to modify timings and test. Sadly max MT would be somewhat limited compared to even a mediocre desktop board as you cannot adjust VDD2 up beyond 1.1v (except on the Hydroc G2 with Premamod).

So now I'm looking at one of the following 7800 xt, 7900 xt, gre, 9070, xt, possible 7900 xtx Also looking to pick up an x570-ace for dual GPU scenario in tandem with losses scaling. Only reason for entertaining a second 7900 xtx is in the faint hope I can get one with better memory overclocking. Seems to be where people are able to hit gold. At that point I'll pick up a waterblock for the 5800 X3D also, I'll make it easier on my fingers digging into the system time and again. Also tried booting some of the Gpu's I have but don't seem to be porting lol just my luck

Intel Ultra 5 250k review. Out of box is clearly a step up over the 245k in a meaningful way not just productivity but gaming even beating the 265k in many games and some productivity. We'll need a deep dive and I'm sure some will pick up the 250k to bin. I'm really curious about the 270k now more than ever.... Some rudimentary memory scaling results (XMP modes across the board): ------------------------------------------------------- Micro$slop MAY be listening finally about draconian account requirements for installs and setups. As a reminder, Apple, to this day, does NOT require an account to set up MacOS. ------------------------------------------------------- Deba8auer and the 270k price performance. Cheaper and faster than a 285k..... $299.99 is a killer price... Definitely picking up a few to bin.

Hey fellas, commenced on more testing for getting Dual GPU's running on my ITX system. Long story short; on X570, it failed all attempts. Short story long - I was able to get both GPU's to post once I got longer PCIE extension cables but was unable to get a game running and every crash I was essentially starting over with getting the system to POST. So PCIE x16 to x8x8 remains illusive despite the BIOS supporting it. This method has been formerly put to rest for my platform. I did fall back to an NVME to PCIE x4 and tested with the RX 6500 XT which did prove successful. This type of solution would work fine for 1080p and maybe 1440p however 4K120hz HDR requires PCIe 4 x8 to be functional, not to mention a beefier GPU. Sadly this means that Dual-GPU Frame Generation for my AM4 system will once more go on ice. What I am thinking of doing is getting another 1080mm radiator and refocusing my efforts towards benching. The current scenario with the A/C, particularly where the A/C vents cold air relative to the where the rad sits is inefficient. A lot of cold air is currently being wasted. The idea I had is to create a "box" right outside where the A/C vents, then the 2x 1080mm rads would "exhaust" that air into the room and any leakage would either fall down to the systems below or not be significant enough to matter. Anything interesting I should consider adding to this loop?

25 bucks is honestly not much at all, especially these days. Perhaps I would be more inclined to pay that given I know some of your history and how high of standard you set for whats acceptable, let alone whats considered useful for benching. If you decide to give it away for free or charge w/e price you want that choice is ultimately yours. Anyone who skoffs at that can honestly kick rocks. In fact it pisses me off at how lax the moderation is over there as discussing pricing openly was always against their TOS unless they changed it. The whole thing reminds me of the type of person who would spend 5 grand on a pc only to re-use some long retired ratted out power strip and complain about it catching fire. Honestly dont regret no longer surfing those forums.

Perhaps when Reddit and Discord are going to force everyone to verify their ages that users who do not want to do that are going back to traditional forums. Until that time we have to accept that we're not as large here as the old NotebookReview forums once were.

Several already, LOL... I added a post to explain the process. https://www.overclock.net/posts/29569667/

Silicon lottery vs paying a buttload for basically the same card..... That lightning is gimped with that poor stock voltage and it's a poor sample. Even applying the extra voltage in AB can't save it. All that extra wattage can't save it. Clearly MSI isn't binning too much. Lightning for sale over on the OC forums with a nice, healthy 1.105v voltage cap and a good clocker and even then.......~$6600 USD (toss on a 15-20% tariff on top of that). The Lightning display causing erratic and lower 1% lows is the icing on the cake..... Insane. Two distributors screwing him over two different ways...... trump admin approach to Anthropic is disgusting. Basically using strong arm mafia tactics because they won't let their AI tools run automated and unchecked in battlefield situations or for enhanced surveillance. Hey you won't let us do what we want so we're going to label you a "supply chain risk," potentially catastrophically hurting your business because agreed upon restrictions you won't lift for us.....wow....just wow.... As for Nvidia, the golden rule is in full effect atm. Nvidia is the performance top dog with all the gold....or at least 94% of it. Dominating in every aspect from Steam to AI and more. Someone needs to make a better product to even have a chance of unseating them anytime soon and it isn't the current generation. AMD needs to have their next gen cards (10900xt? 10090xt?) match the consistent rumors and really bring the heat or Nvidia will just continue to dominate. 9070xt is a damn good card for what it is, but it runs hot and heavy for what it brings compared to the 5070ti. Node shrink is definitely needed along with architecture advancements but AMD has really caught up in many areas at serious speeds.

World's first MXM SLI on PCI-E 16x connection. The P870 can only support 8x per MXM slot because the necessary connections are missing! And a small hardware change is also required to enable 16x, as it's currently disabled at the hardware level! I even tried rerouting the connections from the slave MXM port to the master MX port on a P870TM motherboard. It actually worked, and you can run all RTX MXM cards at 16x! Tested with AMD ,RTX2060, 380 and 4070 Th mini HDMi is one for internal Display and one for external Display port Conector on mainboard. Also Works with internal Display. The Connection is from DP Port on card to Mini HDMI Connector (The Mnini HDMI is A Display port connector !) The mini HDMI was only practical because it is very thin and a mini DisplayPort would be too thick.

Just realized you cant see the connector, its definitely PCIe 2.0 sorry about that lol The 5700 XT gave him a 100% boost in performance and double the VRAM. I just needed something else that was "newer" mainly for the HDMI 2.1 connector. The card may not be able to handle 4K Frame Gen but didnt want to buy anything until I could figure out what works for me. Gives me something else to submit into hwbot also I gave up the 3090ti for FG, installing the drivers for both vendors is such a huge headache and Microsoft likes to muddle with settings without user input. Keeping to one vendor should eliminate that hurdle but i'll know more tomorrow when the 100mm ribbon arrives I traded one of my Gigabyte 3 fan 5700 XT's for a 3 fan Gigabyte 6500 XT. Cant recall the last time I used a GPU that only had 2 I/O ports outside of maybe laptops.

It's mine. I am going to sell the Strix build with the 4090 locally.

Loving the updated HWInfo for WVP2 along with the MSI MEG 1600T data..... Still boggles my mind MSI stepping me up to the AI1600T as a replacement. I wonder if they took a gander at my "registed product" history and went "whoa!" including the Vanguard 5090 🤣 But with all things taken into consideration, and the effective death of EVGA, MSI is my favorite and has been for quite awhile. Again, new cable and Pin 2 runs a smidge lower and Pin 6 a smidge higher. This is across three cables (Corsair 600w native, MSI Tentacle, MSI single run AI1600T) and two PSUs (Corsair SL1000 SFX, MEG AI1600T) Only causes a bit of separation closer to 600w. I'm going to go ahead and wire the auto shut off interrupt cable and heat sensors because....well....why not? 90 min of FO76: vs 90 min of WoW Midnight (Harandar Region): -------------------------------------------------------------------- Man, your chip is brimming on golden status running 2200/6400 line my 9800X3D. I tried everything I could to get it stable at 2200/6600 but that was a no go. I was asking for a unicorn though..... I never thought to run tRCDWR so low.... I'll have to give it a whirl.

So, I think I had mentioned that I had an old G.SKILL 8000 CL40 XMP 48GB kit that I could never get to run stable on any Ryzen platform I have tried to use it on. It ran fine at 8400 C38 on Z790 and I just saved it in case I might need it. Well, I got it stable on the Strix. Not at 8000, but 6400 with 1:1 (Gear 1) mode and it runs pretty nice. I might be able to tighten things up a bit more, but the way RAM prices are so stupid right now we have to make do with what we have because we not only cannot afford to waste money on better RAM, finding it to buy it is difficult. The only thing you can buy is overpriced crappy bin quality right now.

Hi bro. I wish I did. I have not seen any memory for sale at a reasonable price since the AI clown posse screwed up the rest of the world with their insane agenda. Even used RAM is being sold at ludicrous scalper prices on eBay. This was the "cheapest" good bin 32GB kit I could find, which I ordered today for a new build and it was priced about 250-300% more than what it should be. I hope it works as well as my G.SKILL 6000 CL26 kit does. Crossing my fingers. V-COLOR Manta XSky DDR5 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL26 1.45V SK Hynix IC Gaming Desktop Memory Module Black, for AMD EXPO (TMXSO1660826KKK) Edit: I just texted you some info on an inexpensive DDR5 kit for sale on overclock.net.

Just get a 100% working CMOS battery, set the bios to UEFI and no LEGACY OPROM and there you go. RTX Ada working on eDP 1080p 120Hz. No Optimus, no MUX Switch. If we set to UEFI and LEGACY OPROM enabled, the GPU displays 4-5 blinking on the top left corner of the screen and then... Nothing. No boot, laptop stays on. Now I need to figure out how to disable the LEGACY OPROM. I'll probably disassemble the whole laptop, unplug the eDP LCD and force the boot to HDMI out. Legacy works with HDMI because I tried once and I can disable LEGACY OPROM so I'll obtain the eDP display back. I enabled the legacy oprom to use the shell grub...

I finally got the Apex and Strix stable with AGESA 1.3.0.0 and 1.3.0.0a but overall it wasn't worth the effort. I am not identifying any benefit whatsoever to having the newer firmware. Performance is slightly lower with the "latest and greatest" cancer... as usual. Cinebench scores are lower and old memory tuning profiles that were stable before were no longer stable. M_ORDERING changes according to @safedisk. ODT values also had to be tweaked for my systems to avoid Karhu and TM5 errors.

The petite arson connector will always be the weakest link. Two is better than one, but not as good as none. Two places for disaster to strike. The only way to fix the problem is to get rid of the engineering defect and stop tempting fate. The higher the performance limit goes, the more likely it becomes that disaster will strike. MSI will always be MSI, which is less than ideal. But, I can see the logic in their concern about a $5000+ GPU becoming a financial liability under warranty. If they were intelligent they would have never released the 5090 Lightning because of the defective 12V-2x6 specification standard. They're not intelligent, just dishonest.

That's totally dishonest. They should take the 15% depreciation off of the current market price or refund 100%. If that user were smart he would provide evidence of the current price and insist that Silicon Power send a replacement kit from that retailer or any other retailer that has it in stock. If they refuse, then take them to small claims court. If the product has a lifetime warranty (which most DRAM does) it would be inappropriate to charge depreciation. If something is guaranteed for life there is no legal basis for depreciation.

New Xpac, new central city, same ole performance hit via CPU bottlenecking my 5090 in WoW due to player physics on what is basically still a single threaded engine..... 4k Ultra + RT everything on max. This is before the actual launch. This is early access. When the floodgates open up tomorrow, expect performance to tank even more.... I'm not sure what Blizzard did with the pre-xpac launch patch, but performance suddenly tanked in the previous Xpac in the main city Dornogal and it looks like it will most likely carry over into the new Xpac. RAM memory usage is off the charts now..... ~28GB allocated.... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MSI Lightning officially listed at my local MC for $5090 https://www.microcenter.com/product/707151/msi-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-lightning-z-overclocked-liquid-cooled-32gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card Or grab yourself an RTX 6000 for $9500..... https://www.microcenter.com/product/694549/pny-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-workstation-edition-dual-fan-96gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card On a budget? Snag a Gigabyte Gaming OC 5090 for the low low price of $3500.... https://www.microcenter.com/product/690449/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-gaming-overclocked-triple-fan-32gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card

About 12-13A per pin.

Another reason why I want to live part time in Norway @Papusan besides the Snow and Cold. When a government agency can produce an entertaining video that also points out a serious consumer issue, you got to give it to them. "The memories may be yours, but the photos are mine" WOW. The Norwegian gov took shots at all companies.