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Hey y’all! How you all been doing? What’s new? 5090 prices looking kinda crazy right?

Its usually not targeted persay. Lots of bot farms out there just raining hell on any IP address range they decide for that day of the week. Internet is closer to the real world than people care to admit

Hello everyone ! linked is my very very very early version of a pascal to ada lovelace vbios editor. as of right now it can only read bioses !! UPDATE v1.1 enables you to modify clock values and power values. The program fixes the checksum as well, testing needed !! Here is the link, the details are explained in the repository https://github.com/JadeRover/Nvidia-vBIOS-Clock-Power-Tweaker Get the latest version from the releases : Releases · JadeRover/Nvidia-vBIOS-Clock-Power-Tweaker Pictures :

so, opened up my case last night and adjusted the cable connection for both the WVP II into the GPU, as well as the cable into the WVP II (a.k.a. rammed both inside like theres no tomorrow 😄) still saw some imbalance peaks but not enough anymore to trigger the alarm in Alan Wake 2. Started with Black Myth Wukong today, I must say I was surprised to be able and max everything out completely including max RT and DLSS DLAA, running smoothly in the range of 70-80 FPS, with short peaks & dips to 90 and 60 here and there. I guess thats what tuning, OC and a higher power budget gives you 😄 according to all the reviews ive seen they werent able to get more than like 40-50 FPS with everything maxed out, thus DLSS Quality was required, at the least. in any case, thus far i havent seen any imbalance spikes, although power spikes arent as pronounced here as with AW2 before, im almost always voltage limited, rather than power limited. in any case, its been fun thus far, looking forward to dive more into this game with tons of eye candy 🙂 PS: just to be on the safe side, ive got my three other GPU cables at the ready to check and see if any of them would fare better if those imbalance issues start returning....

If you want to build one for the 5080 Prime that would be sweet in my mATX build. Then the CPU, RAM and GPU would all be custom loop in a SFF chassis, which is extremely rare. The Phanteks XT M3/V3, O11 Mini and Gamdias M4M are only a few SFF cases that are designed with enough intelligence to allow such a build. It allows you to compromise a whole lot less than SFF typically demands. I don't feel like I am missing much or making concessions/sacrifices for the sake of size.

Yeah, he was willing to go cheaper, but I felt bad. Plus he gave it to me with no money down, to inspect it. In many ways, he is the ginger version of me, lmao. As for my channel, https://www.youtube.com/@sliceofmymind While it has been 3D printing focused thus far, with the new look, I am going to pivot to other tech, including PC's. I am just going to talk about the different tech that I love and of course, bring in some commentary on overclocking.

Found a brand new factory sealed Z790 Apex Encore for $400 the other day. Went by and picked it up immediately. Not sure why I wanted it, but I think maybe because I love this 273PQE so much I'll probably put it in that board instead? Maybe I'll just keep it and never open it lol. Figured for the price, for a peak Z790 board and being factory new and sealed I couldn't pass it up. And my never ending hardware addiction continues. 🤪

Install Crimson Desert, say goodbye to personal life and professional one..thank me later or not ,🤣🤣🤣. This game is crazy fun and unbelievable big ..you can get lost in it. If you like open world games this is the one..until GTA VI arrives.

A valid comparison would me 9700x vs 9800X3D to really see what X3D brings to the table. I do know in FO76 the 9800X3D toasted the 9600x I tested worse than the 14900KS so X3D is magic sauce for some games. Still haven't had time to work with the 270k I picked up from @Talon but I'll get to it soon. The testing I did on the 265k and 5090 was so smooth closer to 13th/14th gen. At 4k the lows are, as always, equal or better than X3D. That has always remained consistent in WoW but not Fallout 76. My wife took my Alienware 4k OLED as an upgrade from her 1440p Asus IPS and I started using a new 3rd gen Asus flat matte OLED which I prefer over glossy curved (she actually prefers curved). So having been running WoW at 4k on both, even with details dialed down the 9070xt is almost constantly pegged at 99-100% everywhere in WoW but what I do notice also is the 5090 spends a lot of time well above 80% utilization and many times close to 90% so WoW is definitely giving it a workout on the level that would make a 4090 or below GPU bound at 4k in many instances. The 9950X3D2 is useless for WoW and DOA for the vast majority of price/performance tasks. $900 for 2-3% better performance on average over a 9950X3D..... At this stage of the game, 270k is the price/performance king overall and depending on games/resolution and some tuning, it is even the better pick over X3D chips for gaming (situational gaming scenarios notwithstanding of course). It isn't pretty over here..... I keep exacting YoY budgets and the cost difference from 2024 to 2026 in what I'm paying across the board is pretty telling from groceries to eating out and more. Yeah, I used PL on my 7950X3D and MSI 7955HX3D. Never heard of CPUSetSetter since I haven't been on a dual CCD in quite some time. Let's see how AM6 pans out..... Looks like Galax might be safe.....was always part of Palit since 2007... https://videocardz.com/newz/palit-releases-statement-galax-kfa2-and-hof-brands-are-to-stay

Stock before tweaking: After Tweaks, small undervolt and Windows 11 debloating: Gen 5 SSD: Still getting used to this beast of a laptop, Wish Windows 11 didnt suck so much...

Relying upon Windoze scheduler, GameBar/XBOX bloatware or AMD drivers isn't going to produce consistent results. I don't even try. I decide for myself and choose the behavior manually using CPUSetSetter. It works fantastic if you haven't already tried it. I create hotkeys and can test on the fly to see in realtime what CPU core mask works best.

Finished testing the Matrix 800W vBios yesterday, basically grabbed top spot in all included benches except for like 2 or so, very consistently beating the Gigachad vBios! All in all, Im currently looking at +71-72% above 4090 stock and roughly +16-17% above 5090 stock, not bad! Gotta love the upgradeability and tuning ability of desktop systems 😄 Now moving on to the Lightning vBios versions, not sure yet if ill also test the XOC versions from Asus and MSI... Monitoring and logging via the WVPII makes things way more relaxed tbh 😄 so far looking good, connector stays very cool, max ive seen thus far was like in the mid 50s, with the inbuilt fan barely starting to spin at that point. still have to do a deepdive on the data collected for the Matrix vBios, gonna do that for every vBios tested so I have a good overview of what kinda wattage my cooling could manage long term 🙂

Sorry I hadn't notice the forums lack of responsiveness, been busy on my end. I have sent for the issue to be looked over, hopefully tomorrow morning. Sorry everyone!

I was about to ask the same. I had to return a WireView Pro that would not work with my 5090. I had similar issues. But, zero problems with the WireView Pro 2. It has been awesome. I am going to buy another one for my 5080, but have been waiting to see if they will become available on Amazon. I think maybe the original WireView and WireView Pro may not be up to the task of handling the extreme power draw of a shunted, overclocked and EVC2-modded 5090 or one with a high power limit like the Matrix vBIOS.

Trondheim! Was actually there a while back to visit a friend, why didnt u say something? couldve gotten some beers 😄 LOL boy am i glad i upgraded my storage setup when i did, i paid less than 500 bucks per 8TB SSD (WD SN850X/P pcie 4.0). I have been summoned! thanks for the headsup, havent checked the forums in a while. was on my own this week with our little princess, mommy on a business trip to italy. and OF COURSE its the exact week that the little one was going through youngling daycare (9 months to < 3 yrs) to kindergarden transition (3-6 years). so needed to juggle work, household and taking care of the little one cuz during the transition shes only staying in kindergarden for 2-4 hours at a time..... SO ready for some sleep this weekend! 😄 btw, absolutely LOVE this 😄 ive been thinking for quite a while now, whether i should get my lady a 14900K(S) or maybe wait and go for bartlett lake. either way, id need to do extensive testing iterations with a bios mod with bro @Prema (if hes got time), so very curious to see how this compares to the standard 14th gen. keep us updated bro!

LMAO - The Bambu Lab fanboys are hilariously bad, like the old Intel fanboys or current AMD fanboys. I deal with it anytime I make a video saying anything negative about Bambu Lab and I own several of their printers, hahaha. Now that Louis is going to war with Bambu Lab (and for good reason), the Bambu Lab fanboys are going out of their mind. 😂

Thanks brother! My community is mostly 3D printing enthusiasts, but I want to show them how you can mix 3D printing with computing. The guy that is selling me his PC, printed custom Lian Li panel/cable covers for his SFF build. Sure thing. I am going to start off with a desktop CNC machine first, so my waterblock output will be extremely limited, but I will be able to offer custom one-off designs.

I will say this much. After all that I learned about 3D printing, a lot of it will apply to CNC machines. Hopefully, I'll get my first one within the next 6 months and when I do start producing waterblocks, I want certain members in this thread to be the first beta testers.

Interesting couple of weeks. First, I am really focusing on my YT channel for the first time in years. Met some interesting people, notably one guy that we quickly became friends. Started with one message about a 3D printer he was selling on Facebook and now he's like my most supportive subscriber. I have his PC on consignment to see if I can sell it or keep it myself (7800X3D, 4080, 32GB of 6000MTs DDR5, x2 2TB SSDs - one is a Samsung 990 Pro), all contained in a SFF build for $1700. In normal times, this used PC would cost around 1000 to 1200, but I thought $1700 was a fair price. Would do you guys think? I forgot to add, he threw in a 32 Ultrawide Samsung monitor (VA panel, smart TV like), set of good speakers and a razor headset.

Glad to know the GPU side is very well designed, but.... Ugh, skimping on the PSU side on a $50 cable.... As we move on, unless something changes I can see OCP PSUs being the future across the board as a standard feature on all high tier PSUs. Now we have this to bounce off of @de8auer's incoming break down and analysis of the cable too.... ----------------- Sugi finally went full chiller hybrid setup. I like how the rad / chiller are in their own separate place aka balcony.....

Hello eveyrone, Ok so this problem applies only to MXM gpus that have a "pwr" limit (as well as "thrm" limit sometimes) in GPU-Z when doing a benchmark. This is also known as the "40w power bug" Such example : Notice this is not due to hitting the power limit of the card (33% of TDP). Symptoms of the low power bug is a TDP usage around 50% = 40w if you have a TDP of 80w. I think I found the issue. It has to due with a digital signal that is sent to the GPU, the PWR_LEVEL signal : A previous fix was to block the SMB_DAT or SMB_CLK signal so that the EC chip of the laptop wouldn't be able to communicate with the MXM dGPU. This has the disadvantage of stopping all data communication between EC and MXM dGPU = no more thermal data coming in = EC usually ramps up the GPU fan to maximum. According to MXM 3.1 documentation : This signal is not mendatory and it does apply some kind of power reduction when enabled. Therefore I took a gamble and decided to cover it up and see what happens. My fix is to block off the PWR_LEVEL pin with a bit of tape. - I first put some normal paper scotch tape on my plastic desk (to get it nice and flat during cutting process) - I cut it into a thin strip with a very sharp cutter(width of MXM pin) - I removed it from my plastic desk, then applied it with tweezers. The pin is the 9th counting from the first "thin" pin, on the TOP of the MXM module aka side of the MXM gpu where there is the actual GPU die : It's okay if you cover up the 8-5th pin as well as these are reserved pins (no connection inside a laptop) I did this on my dell precision 7720 with GTX 1060M and this has so far resolved the issue, my card can now boost to 100w thanks to the modded bios. Hope this helps someone !

165fps does seem pretty high unless he is light on addons or not active during the really busy times. I also cannot really buy the 142fps (9800X3D) vs 98fps (9950X) either. I wonder if WoW had its threads across both CCDs. Back when I tested the 7945HX3D it seemed like the drivers + Game Bar mode did not always pin the game to CCD0 so I resolved to just using Process Lasso. 285K in simple 200S boost mode continues to outperform any laptop or desktop chip I tested in the past. No lag or stutter even in the busy areas or raids. His article also has no mention of Arrow Lake which was a pretty mature platform by late 2025 so at least worth a paragraph of discussion in my opinion.. I guess a 9950X3D2 is probably not going to give a meaningful performance boost in WoW either.

Even NWR was impressed with the level of dedication to pass off a clearly stripped 4090 as legit.....visually. You've got to test hardware, period. Unless you know the person, test test test and implement a few other safety measures too like location, access to power to test and securing the item once tested good to avoid a bait and switch. If you can meet at a public swap area at a police station, always use that location. Back during the Cryptodemic, buddy was all excited about a killer 3090 Asus deal on local FB. I told him to insist on meeting at his local police station swap area and he agreed. Seller tried everything possible to NOT meet at the police station even though he was local too so he smartly passed on that one. I've also used Starbucks before to meet up and test hardware because they have plenty of outlets inside. It helps if it is a local Starbucks and they already know you. I used Barnes and Nobles a few times too to quickly test hardware. Let the seller know you WILL be testing the hardware on premises in your own hardware and it will be staying in there after testing and payment (Zelle, PP or Venmo FF) is then tendered. Unless it is a safe area don't use cash or you end up like my college roommate's friend who lived on campus too who met off campus to buy a Macbook Duo and ended up getting robbed. I tried to warn him to do it on campus in the common areas but nope.....off he went and received a pistol whipping and $2k lighter pockets. I remember being in Hong Kong years ago and watching an American lady who was traveling in our group get baited and switched on a high end camera at a downtown store. Funniest thing was watching the sales person who was speaking very passable english suddenly couldn't speak english when she called the police. Police told her there wasn't much they could do as it was her word against his. Lucky for her she used an Amex and was a long standing member. I helped her call her credit card right then and there from a payphone, explain the situation and they immediately put a hold on the transaction. Found out later when she got home they sided with her and told her to mail back the camera with proof of delivery so she did. The store actually called her from Hong Kong and tried to curse her out and insist she had to repay the transaction.....lovely yelling at a 65yr old lady.....classy. Welp...... 🤣

Cost per performance is grossly in the 270k's favor vs both the 9950X3D and 9950X3D2..... Hey, at least MSI didn't angle it to the side like Sapphire did with the Nitro+ 9070xt introducing a needed bend to work in an already fragile connector...... -------------- I am on Intel's side with this one. Just like GPU optimizations where we sometimes have a clearly slower GPU like the 9070xt sometimes hanging with even the 5090 in some instances due to a lack of optimizations along with being optimized for AMD. Even if they went back to monolithic, that doesn't mean games couldn't be optimized to target the subtle (and not so subtle) nuances of each chip and quite frankly just in general. Too many sloppy ports not putting in the work till after release if at all.... Matrix is the sweet spot and I agree. WIth the WVP2, it gives you a sense of safety and monitoring both visually, audibly and within HWInfo. The wired shutdown function if desired is also nice. I do like seeing the little fan icon start to spin.... 5090 is clearly a beast as is vs 4090 and with the Matrix vBIOS it just extends that quite nicely. I do tend to run at stock during the warm times because the 5090 can quickly turn my computer room into a sauna just like the OC'd 4090 and 3090ti did. Plus WoW and FO76 rarely cap out the 5090 especially FO76. Who would want to DDOS notebooktalk? That's odd........

oh cmon, why even bother to attack our cozy little forum here....

Was another ddos attack but things should be back to normal

Hilarious.... He is really trying to milk the "pain and suffering" (in his mind) component of this transaction. NZXT offers him a brand new Astral sourced or original MSRP. Methinks he wants the cash value of current retail pricing along with the MB cost (vs RMA) AND wants to retain his old Astral to have his cake and eat it too. Greedy.

Some people... sheesh. And, idiots like that not only make themselves look foolish, they make the process more difficult for others when the companies trying to do the right thing get soured on the process and become more resistant. The dummy should just be glad he wasn't dealing with A$$zeus or Gigabutt, because they would not have treated him as fairly as NZXT.

The cry baby is greedy....... NZXT issues statement on RTX 5090 AIO leak case, says it actually offered more than $4,300 The company added that it made “five separate compensation offers,” including “a brand-new ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 sourced at retail” and “a cash settlement at current market value.” NZXT made five separate compensation offers, including a brand-new ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 sourced at retail and a cash settlement at current market value. On February 27, NZXT accepted the customer’s own counter-offer of $4,378. He then added new conditions and did not sign. — NZXT This statement changes the picture around the case and suggests NZXT made a stronger effort to resolve it than the original Reddit post indicated. Based on the company’s account, it is not immediately clear why the customer rejected an offer at that level.

Man, so far GrapheneOS seems amazing. We grow numb to the hooks companies like Google, crApple and Micro$lop get set into us and we stop even noticing until it's completely gone. I have to use some of this cancerous crap for work, but having it quarantined in a sandbox and in a completely separate secondary user profile that I log out of and Google Services having control of nothing at the OS level is sweet. GrapheneOS even has its own geolocation service that Google can't touch. You have to deliberately opt-in for the Google Nazi surveillance stuff and you can change your mind later. https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play Looks like Motorola phones will soon have out of the box support for replacing consumer Android with GrapheneOS. That will be nice since right now the only phone supporting it is Google Pixel (which still seems incredibly ironic and may not last forever if enough people start saying yes to a Google-free phone). Edit: here is where I screwed up on the Micro$lop account that I am locked out of... I use MFA and passwordless accounts. On my other three Micro$lop accounts I had three recovery emails and my phone for proof of identity. On the account I am locked out of I had only one recovery email listed. To reset the authenticator you must prove your identity two ways, create a password to access the acount and then change it back to passwordless access after the authenticator is working again. You also get a recovery code with the passwordless setup. For whatever reason the Micro$lop service that handles phone codes and the static recovery code are "not available right now, please try again tomorrow" and today is the third day. The other accounts I was able to get codes at multiple email addresses to reset the authenticator. When I regain access to the account I am locked out of I am going to add at least two more recovery emails to that account like I have with the others so that I do not have to rely on a recovery code or phone text code.

WVP. I ordered the WVP2, but not sure when that will show up. Maybe.... I also noticed my ram was supper sketchy with it plugged in as well.

Original WVP or WVP2? Glad it wasn't the card but still 😞

Thanks. I like it a lot and my wife loves her Pixel 10 XL Pro, too. Yeah, I don't have time for tinkering either, especially not for smartphone crap. This was super fast and easy. The only tinkering I had to do was the Micro$lop and Google Authenticator migration, but that would have ended the same even with a stock ROM. Getting them going on the new phone with a stock ROM was equally inconvenient. Installing Graphene OS was just as easy as a factory reset, minus all of the garbage I don't want (much of which cannot be removed). No need for hacks or rooting. It felt good to boot to an OS with only about 15 open source Android apps installed and nothing from Google. I am only having an issue with the one Micro$lop account and it's a glitch with the Micro$lop account, not the phone, OS or Authenticator. That problem is still not resolved, but thankfully it is only of my disposable accounts and if I cannot regain access to it I will just abandon it.

congratz on the new phone, shes a beaut! 🙂 and lulz thats funny timing, i actually just switched the other way around and went back from custom to full stock 😄 just dont have the time to tinker with custom roms anymore... yeaaaaaaah.....nope

While it is by no means a definitive or comprehensive review, (and may not need to be,) this is shaping up as I expected it might. Not a bad product, but definitely a bad value. The juice ain't gonna be worth the squeeze. https://www.techspot.com/review/3114-amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d2/ Roman seems to have a similar opinion. $900 is a lot of money to spend on something that doesn't matter, or shouldn't matter, to most people. ...and Wendell...

Yup, I changed it, from 8560w to zbook one. Fixed problems I had, but needed a little diy - screw holes were too small, so whole board didnt fit in dedicated place. And btw, those dc screen board electrically are all interchangeable. Same story with cables from that board to display panel. Good job with fan! Better than I did, haha. As for cooling, greatest weakness is not enough pipes and exhaust fins (I mean in original design) No problemo! Feeling better, so if I get little more free time will make schematic for edp cable

Yeah it's crazy. I went through my orders and I officially started AM5 in April 2023 with my original MSI Carbon x670e Wifi and ran that 7800X3D then 7950X3D, switched to that SP113 13900KS for a spell then back to my AM5 rig before Intel finally won me back over in Summer 2024 for a spell with the SP109 14900KS then AMD dropped the 9800X3D that pulled me back in and that's where I've been since. Exactly. Throwing another X3D CCD in there without improvements elsewhere to help with performance seems like a useless chip. I'm, personally, hoping for an Intel 11th gen scenario where the 11900k was clearly a Frankenchip with a lot of the transitional tech that made its way into 12th gen in the best way. AM5 + 2x X3D CCDs + some preliminary AM6 love in regards to the fabric would be a fun chip to play around with. It may give us a portend of things to come with AM6 in that regard but we will see... If somehow it turns out to be a gaming behemoth, I would probably give one a whirl if only to feed my 5090 better than the 9800X3D can in WoW or Fallout 76. Top of its class, but so many times even at 4k the 5090 is twiddling its thumbs and yawning 🙂 The trick, as always for laptop DTRs running desktop CPUs, is going to have a cooler running, non leaky power efficient bin which is almost always a higher SP chip especially with the limited cooling on the NH55. I had always planned to put the SP109 in the NH55 because it runs stupidly cool even at 59/45/50 an AIO keeps it cool. I have it capped at 253w though as that is more than enough for its needs but then a couple of modern free laptops sent for eval and it didn't make any sense at that point performance wise and off she went. 🙂 I'd say bin on a cheap desktop board and lesser cooling to get a good chip. I did this when I was binning 12900k chips for the NH55 and used an ID Cooling mid grade air cooler to at least simulate similar cooling conditions and the variance in chips with heat and pull was pretty insane. It gets even more insane with the 14900KS chips. I did the same for the X170SM with a rash of 10900k chips. The X170KM was hilarious because I bought an 11900k model and it had one of the sweetest, cool running 11900k chips I had ever seen in it. I cleaned up the thermal interface on it and it literally ran full tilt out of the box with no adjustments needed. One and done. Same process used for the glory years of the P870 too from 6700k up to the 9900k tons of fun binning to get them tamed for D2D use. *Sigh* we need another real DTR ASAP....

Ha yup AM5 longevity ftw! been on it with the X670EE since Oct 2022 😄 exact reason why i got it in the first place and went all out on the mobo, enjoying the platform longevity to the max! im definitely curious about the X3D2 and how the reviews will turn out on it. however, im cautious, a mere 10% in productivity and/or gaming will not be enough for me to pull the trigger on it. for that, Zen 6 is already too close to release. my previous upgrade coming from the 7950X to the 9950X3D made much more sense, productivity wise it was in the range of +10-15%, with gaming at a whopping 30-35%. compared to that, wouldnt make sense to switch over to an X3D2 for single digit gains... bro @electrosoft brought up a good point with the IF though, if either that or the IMC is in any way improved ill be very curious to see what kinda extra gains we could get out of it. im a bit doubtful though, since zen 6 is gonna bring updates in those regards anyways, so wouldnt make sense for AMD to push their last zen 5 chips up, would eat away at their perfomance gap to the next gen.... btw guys, anyone with a 14900K(S) willing to part with it for a good price? think might be time for my lady's machine to get an upgrade 🙂 lemme know! im hesitant to pay full price for a new part since its already a bit dated, at the same time i wouldnt trust second hand due to the degradation issues with RPL...

This GPU seems to like Fire Strike. It would be interesting to see how well it would do with a waterblock, but I don't want to spend $200+ on one. I'm keeping an eye open for a cheap one. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/6007753 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155933233 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/6007762 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155933802

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/6007736 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/155931816

A decrease in boost by 100MHz creates a very unfavorable first impression with me. I would have been lukewarm to it staying the same and I think it is lame that it was not increased by 100-200MHz. It will also be interesting to see if they have better quality and matched CCD bin. If they continue with having one good CCD and one trash CCD that's going to suck, too. Considering the massive increase in price it needs to deliver a scaled increase in performance. If it doesn't do that then it's just a worthless gimmick to entice people that are obsessed with the notion of having more 3D cache regardless of whether it actually does anything for them.

My SP109 14900KS + Z790i lightning 8400 was a beast and is now still going strong on that Z690 D4 for almost a year now in the wife's system rock solid and error free. You can't deny there were issues with the microcode and there are still some stray systems out there from unknowing users that need to update their BIOS (and that doesn't even guarantee a save) but the "crisis" has been over for quite some time. I absolutely love 12th-14th gen. My personal favorite is still 10th gen, Intel's last monolithic design. With Intel opting to extend LGA1700 now, I hope they "officially" embrace Bartlett and let it fully sing. An all P 12 core chip? Heck yeah.... The real star is the Asus Z690 Strix-A D4 that has been in service since December 2021 and has seen everything from the 12900k to the current 14900ks and keeps on truckin'. Rear USB ports are a little loose now, but that's it. I also realized I've been running AM5 now since December 2024, so 16 months in service on this Crosshair X870e as my main driver. That might be a record for me. 🙂 I definitely plan on giving Nova a shot while I continue to play around with Arrow Lake atm. Unless reviews are amazing, I am not seeing the upside to the 9950X3D2 unless it has some of the reported fabric improvements slated for AM6 in play to let those dual X3D CCDs truly shine in unison especially in gaming. The increased PPT and overall power draw potential bodes well but we will see.

New version of ZenTimings with new features. Works nice and looks nice. Square corners FTW! Much better than icky round Winduhz 11 ugliness. https://github.com/irusanov/ZenTimings/releases/tag/v1.38 @jaybee83 @Raiderman wassup?

I just tested it to see and yep. Trash. All that noise about wanting the XOC bios and it's just as I suspected. Give people the warm and fuzzy's so they can say I pulled 1200W from the wall, but yet....nothing else to show for it.

Hummmm.... Well I do have my water block, I was just trying to make sure I have a better sample to start with than I did the first time around. I'll probably do the evc2, resistor and shut mods later today, then block the card back up. Did anyone manage to get the software that goes with these vbios files?

I would say it is hitting 3412 at 40C right now. I was shunted with evc2 on my first card, but it didn't seem to be a very good overclocker. 18K https://www.3dmark.com/sn/6448799 I was using the gig vbios on my last Astral. Hummm, now that does sound interesting. Any vbios. I'll read up on it. A few reasons why. A white card would have cost me roughly another $1200. They did not have a white one instock. My direct replacement was using my MC warranty claim instead of having Asus attempt to fix whatever the issue was. When I bought my card it was $3399.99 at the time. It is currently $3899.99. And that took me a few months to catch MC with an Astral instock. When they had like 25+ my card was still sort of working. No white one at this time. Although I didn't even know about the resistor issue as I had not been keeping up on the overclocking for the last 6 months or so.

This is my approach atm too. That SP85 270k from you is better (understatement) than my SP83 265k and runs cooler overall to boot which was a pleasant surprise considering I thought that SP83 265k ran so much cooler and better than that trash SP77 265k I sold off. I'm not sure there is much where else to go from here unless on water and/or delid at this point. I am eagerly awaiting Nova and I think I'm going to shut down any/all CPU purchases till then unless a stupidly binned 270k/285k suddenly rears its head and even then....meh. Prices are coming down fast after the initial rush. Newegg has them for $322 and that includes the game AND an Asrock &nbsp;Pro 850w PSU. Microcenter has a decent bundle deal that has dropped now to $599.99 from the original $649.99 including the 270k + Gigabyte Eagle Wifi 7 Z890 MB + 2x16GB 6400 Crucial kit.

welp the listed hardware specs for that tier are pretty old and weak, anyways....guessing they wanna make sure they can sell their game to as many hardware-starved kiddos as possible 😆 it was just a question of when not if they would be starting to use DLSS and framegen as crutches.... finally back to gaming here, finished high on life 1 + dlc yesterday, now playing through alan wake 2 DLCs 🙂 after that not sure yet, maybe black myth wukong or star trek voyager across the unknown?

By nearly a 1000 points too!