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Thanks for asking bro Fox. And huge thanks. I'm taking it one day at a time. Now I'm trying to reduce my cigar/cigarillo consumption. I may have halved my consumption from around 36. But it's still way too high even with vaping. I have started vaping with low nicotine levels. I'm also trying to reduce or better said change my (food)lifestyle. Eat more healthy food to try lower the blood pressure/cholesterol. It's way above recommended. This on top of medicines I take for it. There is some big changes so I don't know if everything is feasible/doable. It's now 14 days since I had a stroke, so it will take time. The question is whether I can achieve my goals. It's too early to say. But I'll try.... So small steps each day. But it's hard. Very hard to change how you have lived the last +30 years. Big changes at +60 is hard 🙂

Man, the clocks we can run on a 5080 is awesome! GPU Tweak III lets me run 34,500 on the GDDR7. This gives a +15% memory bandwidth increase of a stock RTX5080. It gets really warm with auto fans playing Death Stranding II at 4K. The thing is not bad for $1,000 bucks!

IT WAS THE CABLE!! I think my 5090 did it in lol. Swapped the 12vhpwr. No crashing!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Hi, everyone. Back from the hospital but I'm still not in good shape as before. It will take some time. Slower talking and the right hand (mouse hand) not exactly where it should be. But hopefully it will be better. Stroke is and have been a terrifying experience. And it scares me. Yep, I am really scared this illness. It takes life and can push you into a wheelchair without you notice it where you can't speak or hear. Not even move yourself. Still a small chance to get second one within the next 3 months. After that a bigger chance to get on live again. I was very lucky as the doctors said, not Being Hit harder. Medication for this shit will help me move forward. And I'll probably have to take it for the rest of my life. And thank you all you good friends for the kind and warming words🙂 Intel Nova Lake Samples Reportedly Begin Shipping With Huge Multi-Core Gains

Something like that! 😀 This 5090 Astral clocks the same as the 5080 Astral does. That should not happen. Wow!

Sickness? GPS? GPU Derangement Syndrome?

Time to see a Dr for my sickness. 😂 Yep..One of these is a 5090 the other is a 5080. Dual Astral’s. @electrosoft This 5090 Astral maxes out at 1075MV which I’m perfectly happy with that. My 5080 Astral only maxed out at 1065MV which I’m fine with as well, but it just didn’t clock all that well. Anyways, this 5090 Astral is already showing some good results. The 5080 Astral just wasn’t a strong OCer over my Zotac 5080’s even running 20c + cooler than the Zotac’s.. I was seriously expecting the 5080 Astral OC to hit like SUB 3.3Ghz in games on the factory 450w bios.

These 5060Ti’s are INSANITY. This one can run +525 on the core and does not give trouble until +550.

The Quiet bios is far superior to the Performance bios in my opinion on the 5080 Astral. And I can appreciate how ASUS set these two bios up. The quiet bios does not cap max TGP like most GPU’s with a dual bios option would. The quiet bios is 360-450w, and the performance bios is 400-450w. The Performance bios only runs a much more aggressive fan curve, so much so that you can hear the GPU just a bit. That rear fan noise everyone talks about on the Astral’s. Well, the quiet bios still has a 450w limit, but runs a much quieter fan curve. And the card has such an overkill cooler, you can’t even notice it temp wise. So the quiet bios is just better. No need to mess with the fan curves, this bios has them set up well. Im starting to like this card. 😭 May sell the Zotac instead. generate image code for forums

I am confident we could probably snatch up (3) RTX 5080’s for $3,000 USD. But yes you’re right the 5090 really is the worst value in history right now. That’s really crazy! Since we can’t even find one for an even 3K USD. I think (3) used 5080’s and (1) used 5070 would 🟰 (1) retail 5090. 😃

It’s hard to justify keeping the 2nd one lol. That one came from Newegg, and it costed me $1,500 overnight delivery. The one I’m keeping was a different story, it was $1,000 bucks off of Facebook. I’d love to keep both. But I will definitely buy lossless scaling and give it a try this weekend though. I’m going to hang on to the other 5080 for a bit at least. I’m blown away by performance right now. Coming from a 5090 though. I did not have high expectations for the 5080, but this thing is freaking sweet!

For gaming very little benefit since there is no SLI hardware support and almost zero SLI support in terms of game development. You could use one for render and one for compute, and you could use Lossless Scaling for gaming. That would be a very expensive second GPU for that though. What GPU does your son have? If he has anything less than a 4090 it would be a nice upgrade for him. If you wanted to experiment with Lossless Scaling, you could use his GPU for that as a second GPU in your system. All of the above aside, having two matching 5080 Solid GPUs installed in your system would look pretty wicked. If you end up returning the new one you will have an "original owner" invoice with your name on it to register for warranty with Zotac. You could buy this one 5090 for roughly the cost of 4.5 5080s if you wanted to do something extra-stupid and frivolous with your money. https://www.overclock.net/threads/msi-rtx-5090-lightning-z-65-of-1300-custom-loop-compatible.1819519/?post_id=29587541#post-29587541

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!!!

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 .

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! 🤣❤️

You have our support buddy! We hope everything turns out well for you! I'm happy to see that you avoided a much worse situation.

This Astral 5090 was an open box from Bestbuy. Not a crazy good deal like your current and previous 5090's though. But much cheaper than new MSRP! I have the card COOKING in a closed case, all (16) case fans are fixed to 20% or 550rpm for complete silence. The card still scored 15,300 without any overclocking or voltage sliders moved up. It has all of the ROP's It likes high clocks It seems to idle at low power 10-13w The cards runs very COOL when pushing normal case fan speeds. No harsh or annoying coil whine. You have to open the case door, get down on your knees, and put your head in the case and listen against the GPU to hear anything and only while (Steel Nomad is running at that it's a very faint buzz) I do not mind that. I am going to be honest about the 5080 Astral, because I was trying to sell it. And I did not want to be just completely ragging on its overclocking abilities too hard ya know lol. Well, if you add even just +270 to its offset, it will lock up in games. Even low power games using only 250 watts or less. It just does not OC well at all. I read the Tech power up review, and they hit 3,312Mhz with their sample, I watched many more YT videos of them cranking out at least 3,240-3,300 in more demanding scenarios with 5080 Astrals. I mean, it's a 5080 Astral running SUB 60c pulling less than 300 watts, and only running 3,165-3,182Mhz. This seemed pretty weak to me. Whereas with this 5090, you can keep adding offset, until you see the core clock just not moving anymore because it's just too warm or out of power, but it's still not crashing on you or locking up by adding more offset even though the clocks are not moving up anymore. That turned me off with the Astral 5080 OC. If it would have clocked good, I would have been fine with it. But I felt like I was double disappointed. #1 I am settling with a 5080. And #2 it does not clock worth a dang. The next issue was it also did not undervolt very well either. So, it seemed weak on both ends of the spectrum.

@tps3443: "I'm going to stick with this 5080 because it makes sense price wise and stuff...I don't really need a 5090...I'm going to just rock this 5080 and seriously I'm good!!" Me: Welcome back bro! I knew you weren't gonna last. 🙂 We all like the halo goodness too much around these parts! Where did ya pick it up? Now you get to sell off the Astral 5080.....again. 🙂 Sounds like a good sample! Let the fun times begin!!

I don't understand why people care where the tech or the parts come from. I just want stuff to be affordable... Who cares who makes it or who designed it? Don't we all win as a human race when we work together instead of competing? I mean I love my country, but this is insanity. Some people are easily duped. Thanks for the good laugh this morning bro @Papusan

Yep! I sold the Zotac 5080 last night. I had a buyer for the 5080 Astral too, and I was going to buy GTZ’s 5090 Gaming OC for $3,000. But I decided, what the heck am I doing with my life right now lol… Let me just keep the 5080 Astral and be happy with it. It’s so tempting to jump on that 5090 though. But, I just don’t really need it. This hobby can be so unhealthy at times. All for the love of PC hardware. 😀 The 5080 Astral OC is awesome. So, it really started to grow on me. And trying to be responsible has taken over. Im over here twitching man, wanting that 5090 like a crack pipe. 😂 But I know after I get it, I’ll probably feel guilty and irresponsible.

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/6030518 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/158573928 RTX 3070 (October 2020) vs RTX 5060 (May 2025) - progress +1.0% https://www.3dmark.com/compare/sn/9354597/sn/14349068

Hey guys. There is a nifty new DDR5 tool available for free during beta. You can export a HWiNFO64 report as XML and import it, then analyze your settings. It will tell you what the recommended changes are per DDR5 standards. I loosened my tRC and tRAS based on what the program told me to change. Speeds and latency are still very good. [BETA] Memory Foundry Pro – RAM Stability Tester & Benchmark | Free Beta Access It also has a built-in benchmark tool.

Exactly why I kept my slightly less performant 5090 core with the Dual 12V2x6 connectors. I think it's almost guaranteed next gen high end will feature 2x of these connectors which is why most newer high end PSUs now feature 2x of them.

It is certainly a matter of personal taste, maybe to some degree generational. I do not care for how it looks for the exact reason people that like it do like it. The copper, blue and white colors are why I do not care for it. I would prefer that everything would be black and not have any of the hokey LCD stuff on it. Some people may like it just for the element of novelty in a partially retro aesthetic, but I think modern motherboards are more aesthetically pleasing in general, unless you go with a naked PCB eyesore that has all of the components exposed. Those are universally ugly regardless of when they were made. When you go back to pre-X299 and Z390 days they were not particularly attractive components IMHO and they get progressively uglier as you go further back in years. Why are you selling it as like-new used instead of just returning it for a refund? Did you buy it from a place that has a customer-hostile return policy? I'm sorry you had to find out for yourself why @electrosoft and I have recommended against it buying the more expensive models. There is little or no reason for anyone to buy a more expensive 5080 or 5090 in terms of performance. There are some differences in quality, but they are minor compared to the inflated price of the models with modest differences that yield nothing in terms of performance. If you are going to put a waterblock on one, there is even less of a logical reason to pay for a more expensive model. Ignoring the substantial leap in performance for 5090 over 4090, NVIDIA 50-series GPUs in holistic terms are a pretty horribly overpriced alternative to 40-series in some ways. This is especially true of the SKUs below flagship XX90 models. A 3070 actually performs better than a 5060. The 5060 offers nothing outside of newer software features that NVIDIA made artificially incompatible with past generation hardware. That's inexcusable. But, post-COVID NVIDIA has become a very dishonest, despicable anti-customer company. Feature RTX 3070 (2020) RTX 5060 (2025) Architecture Ampere (8nm) Blackwell (5nm/4nm) CUDA Cores 5,888 3,840 Memory 8GB GDDR6 (256-bit) 8GB GDDR7 (128-bit) TDP 220W 145W DLSS Support DLSS 3.5 DLSS 4 (Multi-Frame Gen)

Agreed 100% Basic safety rules are always in effect (aka common sense). FYI, your sig configs are woefully out of date. Time to update!

I would 100% have called the police and filed a report. After I got into my car and grabbed his license plate. Can’t trust anyone these days. Too many local deals have turned deadly.

Good observation on the status of Ray Tracing: Not a sham, but the actual hardware chops required in raw power just haven't been delivered by Nvidia and many games don't even bother with it or give it token lip service. Feels like the long con from Nvidia to switch reliance to DLSS and FG.... Nevermind the VRAM regression or at the very least lack of progression considering its need for RT and PT.... -------------------------------------- Dude...... Good thing you know what you're looking for in these situations. Next time, tell them you will be testing it on the spot before purchase to weed out a lot of chuff even if that means lugging your son's desktop with you to a Starbucks, library, police safe trading zone, BNN or more to test it out. PCpartpicker shows the cheapest 5090 available right now in stock is $4200. With the market the way it is, any sub $3k deal has to be sus. Anyone who has a 5090 KNOWS it is valuable so selling it for cheap doesn't make sense. Not that it can't happen, but you have to protect yourself first. (HUGS $1971 MSI Vanguard 5090 1.125 Open Box MC special even harder while checking WV2 connections 🤣)

New BIOS from ASUS added new memory overclock settings (tCCD_L, tCCD_WR and tCCD_WR2) that basically seems do nothing whatsoever. BIOS 2304 seems OK for me. Changed "Auto" to the recommended 21-84-42 but found no change in performance noted using my daily driver settings. Haven't tested my max OC with the chiller, but I don't expect any change. I guess it must be better just because you can adjust new settings that do nothing. Kind of like a fidget toy for computer geeks.

They found it easier to make money screwing a quarter as many people four times worse per sale. As long as it looks fancy, or just plain goofy, and has RGB an idiot is going to buy it (likely using high interest credit) no matter how hard they are getting screwed. Form over function. Ice cream for all the kiddies.

All the more reason Intel is better off shifting towards a foundry only company.

I do think I’m probably going to shunt mod and waterblock this Zotac 5080. I been holding out hoping some magical 5090 deal comes along. But, I don’t think it’s going to happen.

I'd say all games benefit from frame gen, but the base framerate needs to be high enough that the latency between you moving your mouse and the action being reflected on the screen is low enough for the game to still feel responsive enough. This varies from person to person, and I'm on the high end, so I still need a base framerate in the hundreds for the game to feel responsive. The base framerate also needs to be high enough to minimize frame gen artifacts. Things start looking really wacky when you try interpolating to 300 fps while having a base framerate of only 15 fps.

I like the QHD option. I saw a FullHD option too on the 18" model but it was only for the 285hx as far as I could see. 9955HX3D would absolutely rip at 1080p but that resolution might be a bit too low. I'll have to put the Raider back on my list as it seems to check all the boxes. The one big hangup I had with it was potentially only having the 4k display option as I prefer QHD or FHD. Nice that MSI is selling directly through BB marketplace so you can get that 5% in rewards too. I figured you weren't going to go cold turkey across the board @Papusan! 🤣 I think that might be my first 5090FE burning up with the original tentacle. He seems to have been doing his due diligence too from leaving it plugged in even during GPU swaps to always giving it a check to make sure it was seated. Hmmm..... No one is safe from this catastrophe of a connector. If only he had invested in a Wireview Pro 2..... 🤣 Nice insight, thanks! (Looks over at shelf with extra Red Devil 9070xt sitting there bored).... I just need to find games I would play that really benefit from FG

So I may try another 5080 model for fun. I sent the Newegg Zotac 5080 Solid Core OC back today. If I could find a white Astral 5080, or maybe the Aorus Extreme WB model for not crazy prices. I had so much fun testing these two 5080’s. Maybe a Giga Master OC 5080. 🥹 @electrosoft the higher voltage card, my original Zotac was the better overclocker in the end. It was weird, on paper the low voltage card looked great at first showing crazy high clocks idle, low power consumption. But under an actual load, the other one would clock higher in actual games, score higher in benches, and it was more stable. Weirdly enough, it also ran cooler by 2c at least. They even had totally different color thermal pads and all. Maybe that had something to do with it. You could see the pads from the side of the cards. One had solid black pads, the other had light gray pads.

Yeah I feel silly now. The $2,700 dollar Astral seems like a great deal right about now. You got any of those? 😁😁😁!! @Mr. Fox Rocking triple 54mm thick HW lab GTX 480’s with Quadra pumps! Two in main case compartment, and one in the basement. These rads are insane. Have you ever tried them? I got hooked when someone sent me one years ago in a 280mm variant, it outperformed (2) 30mm thick EKWB classic 360’s. Hot air does not stand a chance in this case. It is pushing hot air directly up and out of the case, as well as intaking cool air from the front of the case. And from the basement side panel of the case.

Alright! Now that I have been able to bench and test both cards head to head without a locking up PC. Let’s get in to the details. These two cards are identical models! One built in Indonesia, the other one built in China. Origin: Made in China. Card A: Zotac Solid Idle clock: 210Mhz Max voltage @30c: 1060mv Max core OC idle @30c: 3382Mhz 1075mv frequency idle @30c: 2,977Mhz Origin: Made in Indonesia. Card B: Zotac Solid Idle clock 210Mhz Max voltage @30c: 1040mv Max core OC idle @30c: 3,420Mhz 1075mv frequency idle @30c: 3,007Mhz Card “B” seems better to me for daily gaming, it responds better to higher offsets, it responds better to undervolting. It sips power, I can run 900mv@2,977Mhz which is faster than stock clocks, which sends +120-+135 extra mv to the core and runs about 2,867Mhz in games. It loses nothing at 900mv. And it runs about 220 watt in extremely demanding 4K games I will flash the 450W Astral bios to both and see who shines under the flame of heat though, we know these cards can perform differently under actual loads. I flashed the Astral Extreme 450W bios to card “A” so far I still can’t get the idle 30c clock speed to exceed 3,367-3,382Mhz range without locking up. But, it’s performing great in Steel Nomad so far! I broke 10K, that’s not bad for a 5080. I’m really just curious who can handle the 450w bios the best! The RTX 5080 doesn’t show its self very well in Steel Nomad lol. It’s better in games.

That's a good idea using that invoice for warranty work unless the original buyer registered it already..... Newegg has bundle deals for the "limited edition" Asus Matrix 5090 if you want to continue spending that stupid money ranging from ~4900 to ~6100 before tax.... https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=601469153 100007709 8000 50001315&d=5090+matrix&Order=2 Scary thing is this is MSRP..... Rev three needs a locking fold over clamp that can't move over time or a complete redesign would be even better.... X3D is the magic sauce especially at lower resolutions and on laptops where memory is so gimped. It is even worse in Fallout 76. I tested an open box Asus 16" with a 9955X3D and 5070ti against my Alienware at QHD and even with a 5070ti it just stomped that 275hx into the ground on laptops vs the 275hx. It isn't even fair. You are absolutely right. On Desktop with tuned clocks and especially memory, WoW on Arrowlake, especially at 4k, is a smooth ride. I'm expecting Nova Lake to couple Intel's overall superiority with finally admitting a big cache makes a huge difference. I haven't been this excited for a new architecture since Alderlake. If Intel REALLY wants to make us happy, offer a special edition 8, 10 or 12 P core only monolithic variant of Nova with that monster cache and watch gamers flock back to Intel in droves. I've been using 4.11. Definitely re creating with 4.14.... It shouldn't be this hard and seems a tad morally sus to keep pounding useless features (aka data collection and more) down our throats when we simply want the option to NOT want it and categorize it properly as "optional" and not have to use it. Forced account creation Tying One Drive more and more to the ecosystem Store features rammed down our throats data collection everywhere "Cloud everywhere!" AI propagation everywhere.... I want Windows to be Windows 7 levels of tied to M$ and that's it. I'd prefer XP levels, but I'll compromise at 7. You are an OS first and foremost, be one. My M$ account was recently reset due to suspicious behavior. 2FA was the wall they slammed up against in the end. Easy enough to recover, but this is why I have nothing and I do mean NOTHING tied to my M$ account and nothing of importance ever gets done through Edge, ever. If someone was actually able to login and gain access to it even briefly, I know their initial elation was immediately followed by groans of disappointment in the barren ghost town that are my online repositories. Most of my family and friends are fully doubled down in the M$ cloud and One Drive, but I jettisoned that eons ago when Windows Phone died a painful death and I went back to iPhone. You'll be back soon enough..... 🙂

Im not sure if I’ll keep them both yet. I may return one. I do like them though. Build quality of Zotac is pretty good. It feels dense and high quality. I have never owned a Zotac GPU before now. I’m going to research dual GPU’s a bit and see if there are any benefits. Edit: One more thing, neither of these Zotac’s have any coil whine. I think that’s one of @electrosoft big pet peeves. Speaking of which. Man I wish I could send you a power supply so you could have a listen your self. It’s an EVGA 1300 P+, It’s only a back up unit. But it is the loudest power supply you’ll ever hear in your life. Full on screaming coil whine that changes with mouse movement. YOU WOULD LOVE IT! I mean, you can hear it across the house.

@tps3443 since you just did a clean install, you might as well do it again. The latest release of Rufus nukes a ton of Micro$lop's bundled feces prior to installation. https://rufus.ie/en/ Changelog Version 4.14 (2026.04.30) Windows User Experience improvements: Add a Quality of Life option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) Add tooltips for all the dialog options Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs) Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces

35 minutes and counting still running Furmark!

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?

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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.

Got the WireView Pro II for the 5080 today. Order was placed on Thursday.

Thank you for the update, brother. You will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers. We are reaching an age where things like this can really be stressful (emotionally and financially) for us and our loved ones. Our mortality becomes more evident to us and we become thankful for small things we once took for granted. Circumstances like this have the potential to strengthen our faith or produce uncertainty, fear and doubt. Keep the faith, brother. We are standing with you in spirit as you walk through this thorny pathway.

@Mr. Fox and @electrosoft I almost sent the money for that scammer 5090 Astral. I had talked to the guy on the phone and he made me feel super comfortable. It’s crazy to even say that lol. But I held back waiting for proof of ownership. And once I saw the pic, I knew something was seriously wrong. Also, I asked chatGPT if the photo was found anywhere online or if the photo was even real. (The floating paper pic lol) ChatGPT said “This is a real photo” 😂😂😂 this didn’t help. Anyways, I ended up getting a Zotac Solid OC 5080 for 1K cash locally just a few hours ago. 5090’s are just wayyy too extreme price wise for me. My system was setup for a water cooled GPU, so I just threw a D5 pump and top in there to allow water to pass through. Flow rate is EXTREME with (5) D5’s and no GPU 😂 online image resizer with hosting I also sold my laptop! I came up with this idea on Saturday to sell it and help fund a 5090 and alleviate the extreme blow for such an extraordinary expensive item. So I listed it for $1,500 bucks. Selling my laptop put me in a really really good position to buy a 5090 now, but even then, I couldn’t grasp the idea of doing it. Then my wife caught wind of me messaging people on FB Market place and making offers. And that idea of dropping 3K was all over with at that point. 😭 Anyways. Gaming on a laptop just isn’t for me. I don’t like the power limits, and the thermal limits. I really love the idea of a laptop. But when it actually comes down to it. It’s just really kinda lame. It worked fine for working from for about 3 months. Update: This Zotac 5080 is insane how well it undervolts. I tried the Gigabyte 5080 Master bios(Does not work drivers won’t load) then flashed the Zotac Extreme bios (This worked great) card maxed out of 1060-1065mv voltage. I am running 2,955@0.895mv. SUB 200 watts in games. It is pretty astounding how well it’s undervolting. Lots of fun 🤩 abnormally efficient GPU that’s for sure. This is roughly a +400 offset, it has some more room I think. Hope you are feeling okay @Papusan have a great night everyone!

@Papusan I hope they are getting everything sorted for you. Staying in the hospital while they run tests and "monitor" things is very boring. Let us know when they let you go home, brother.

So Sorry to hear @Papusan 😞 Speedy recovery brother. Forums wouldn't be the same without you. ❤️

They keep trying.....sheesh. Glad @tps3443 didn't get zinged but $2500 for an Astral should be the first warning sign.....