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duuuude 😄 but WAIT, no 9995WX? peasant! 🤣 what are ur plans for this beastly setup? post some pics of the hardware and internals 🙂

Thought you all might appreciate a few photos I took from my own reference of the internals since it was my biggest interest on the redesign

Boo! Ghost from the dead saying hi.

Hey Papu, glad to hear that some of the heat is reaching you up north. Yeah, did some 5090/80 testing for Brandon (gizmosliptech), to demonstrate what this gen could be. Here a more recent run for the old gang: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57674088

Oh no, it works with the reaper too, I don't need water cooling, I don't need water cooling 😄

If I decide to keep it I am going to. I do really like this Zotac Solid OC model. The aesthetics, build quality, size and performance compared to most of the other options is really good IMHO. Thank you. I will have to drop back to those drivers and re-run all of the benchmarks again. I suspect my Sky Diver and Fire Strike and Time Spy scores will also likely go up using old (better) drivers. The newer ones are mostly gamer crap I think. Thank you. I paid $2399 for it. Cheaper than we have seen AIB 5090 selling for, but still probably not worth it when I stop to think about it. Nice GPU, but way too much money for how little gain (related to price) that I am seeing over my 4090. I dusted off the portable AC unit sitting in the garage and parked it in front of the GPU and that made a huge difference in boost clock. I can't catch brother @Papusan with his arctic temperatures. His max load temps are about 15-20°C lower than mine and that really makes a big difference. Anyhoo, so far I am running like 3300-3325 MHz core and that is losing around 200 MHz on account of the higher load temps, but pretty much pegged at the 600W limit (605-610W). Maybe if I keep it and block/shunt/chilled water it, I might be able to give him more of a run for the money. Its too close to stock behavior right now to get within slapping distance. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878520 https://www.3dmark.com/sw/2591206 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878519 https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3594837 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_vulkan/submissions/5878517 https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957241 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/5878516 https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957336 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_solar_bay/submissions/5878515 https://www.3dmark.com/sb/326913 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/5878513 https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57999178 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5878511 https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33672605 https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_sky_diver/submissions/5878518 https://www.3dmark.com/sd/6526977

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! who is this guy and what happen to Mr.Fox?? All AMD rigs? Ryzen themed wallpaper? 🤣 BRENNER is Totally AMD fanboy’n it up in 2025. Hahaha. I’m just messing with you man lol. 😆 I’m about to jump to AMD soon my self. The new Threadripper 9960X has me drooling, and it’s the first time in years since original AMD Threadripper 1900X/1920X/1950X when I have really really wanted something from them like this. 🤩 You got to shunt mod and block that Zotac 5090. ASAP! But it’s a GREAT GPU. I don’t care if it’s Zotac or other brand, good price, good performance, let it rip! The 5090 is a great improvement over 4090. Very efficient! Better silicon, higher clocks, less voltage needed, better thermal transfer. The 32GB VRAM works great in a few high memory leak games I play, that still can’t fill up the VRAM. I can play for hours and will see 28GB VRAM utilized, and the 1% lows are butter smooth and no skips. For speedway you want 572.43 or 572.83, Steel nomad still loves 576.28 lol. Anyways, shunt mod won’t increase voltage it’ll just allow the max voltage to always be tapped as if the card is pulling 50 watts, but it’s really pulling 600+ watts, so it’s not throttling back the voltage anymore. You can exceed 600w in some heavy games and benches even with just 0.895mv on these monsters. 🔥you will notice the power limit can kick in much sooner than 600w and it’s all for the sake of maintaining stability trying to fit in that small power envelope, so without shunt it’s forcing down clocks and voltages. Either way, it’s a great GPU and a solid upgrade over the 4090. Especially for brutally heavy gaming like many games upscaled to 8K, the 5090 just chews right through it with ridiculous memory bandwidth. Pricing isn’t bad nowadays. It looks like you got a good deal! As far as shunt modding, I would go for soldering (2) 2mohm shunts or maybe even (2) 1mohm shunts. 2mohm will give you 1200w max, and 1mohm will give you 1800w max. The thing is you may see phantom throttling much sooner than that so the more the better. Reliability is top notch! No melting cables here. I trust it 100%! All buttoned up in a closed case with some serious GPU power being put out in BF6 at 3.3Ghz on the core! I’ve had mine since March, and have been shunted since June. It has been 100% reliable with no 🔥🔥🔥🔥

3090 vs 4090 vs 5090.... that 3090->4090 uplift was crazy but 5090 is still good too.... @Talon Jarrod really loves the Acer Predator Helios 16S 275hx + 5070ti ...... 🤣 5070ti is capped to 115w as is the CPU to ~95w and a 230w PSU tops comes with it. It scores lower across the board vs similar, bigger, stronger versions of that same combo. Curious to see what the 5060 version has in it and what it is capped to on the GPU when it finally arrives.

Happy Anniversary and congratulations. We live in a day where marriages that last the test of time like ours have is becoming more rare and commitments don't mean as much as they used to. Getting old sucks, but getting old with the person you have given your life and your heart to make the years go by faster and with more happiness. We will celebrate 39 years in November and it seems so weird that so much time has passed so fast. Sometimes I forget that I am approaching 63, but my real life started only 39 years ago. May the rest of your years together be filled with love and happiness.

You can see what changed here.... What is it to trade? Sell your soul, credibility, country and your principles for highest bid? This leadership is awful. Crawling on your knees for a trade talk with your enemies? For what? Disgusting. US can't even fulfill own needs of advanced AI chips yet they will allow Nvidia to sell 900.000 chips to China. What the hell is that? Give the man the boot.... @electrosoft you are spot on. "the devil is in the details". See also the signed letter in bolded text. Yep, they begging the US administration to keep up the chip ban. In short... The US government with today's administration selling their own country's security for pennies, to pay off for the lower taxes for billionairs and millionairs. Trump freeze on export restrictions to China reportedly in aid of trade talks — However, while companies that thrive on Chinese trade are keen to take advantage of this lull in economic hostilities, not everyone within the Trump administration is pleased. The Financial Times Reports that a letter signed by over 20 ex-US administrative officials has been sent to the Trump administration, urging it to reverse course on its tech export bans, especially with regard to Nvidia GPUs. "The decision to ban H20 exports earlier this year was the right one. We ask you to stand by that principle and continue blocking the sale of advanced AI chips to China as America works to maintain its technological edge," it reads. Of course Nvidia follow what they got from the US administration (Trump administration reversed the chip ban).... How stupid is this @Mr. Fox Giving the Green Light to build China as super power is perverse. People will regret what they put in the position. The history will show that Papusan have correct. As usual😐 Nvidia seeks extra 300,000 H20 GPUs to meet China's surging AI demand — places order with TSMC to meet unexpectedly strong interest __________________________________________________________________________________________ Today 29. July is my and my lovely wife's 30th wedding anniversary. Also known as a pearl wedding. That's something to celebrate🙂 Then the 5 years we lived together before that sunny and beautiful day we put on the wedding rings. So 35 years now together as couple. Oh' as the years have gone. A bit above two weeks and I'm passing 60 as well. The life go damn fast now. And faster and faster the older you become. At least the way I see it. And I'm sure many others also see it the same way as me. I wish the speed could be slowed down a bit. Oh'well, it's what it is.

Every % increase counts.... Linux Just Hit a Big Milestone in the Desktop OS Race According to Statcounter's June 2025 stats, spotted by TechSpot, Linux now has a 5.38% share of the US desktop operating system market, its highest-ever result. But though Linux is holding a bigger slice of the pie than ever before, OSes from tech giants like Apple and Microsoft still control the vast majority of the market. Microsoft's Secure Boot UEFI bootloader signing key expires in September, posing problems for Linux users

Yeah I watched this last night. I absolutely refuse to use Armory Crate. Last time was on the wife's system and pure laziness setting it up decided to give it another chance. She kept getting stutters and freezing in games and random BSODs. It was a clean install and the only difference was Armory Crate. I removed it and everything went back to working like normal. I installed it again as a test and the crashing and game issues returned. This was with as minimal of an install as I could get on there for RGB controls. I ended up just nuking the whole thing again and used SignalRGB and smooth sailing since. You definitely need AWCC to control the power modes. Balanced is king. CPU is almost to max and the 5070ti pulls 175w. I didn't even know a 5070ti could be rated this high. I thought it was 140w. In Overdrive mode the CPU pulls 170w+ and the GPU drops down to 140w. Everything just stays so cool. Hardware wise, Dell knocked it out the park this time but I agree with the forced updates. I'll have to check to see if there is an option in BIOS to disable BIOS updates. The redesigned AWCC isn't that mad or intrusive. What is intrusive is all the other Dell custom software crammed on there as always. The 5070ti in there performs like a 4080 mobile even down to the benchmarks. I used an Asus Strix 18 with a 13980hx in it and a 4080 before so performance is good. It can't touch the MSI A18 Raider's 23k+ 4090 Timespy with it's 18k+, but still gets it done. I wish they offered an 18" version of the Hydroc. I see it will have a 9955HX3D option soon which is nice! I expect the 9955HX3D to come in like the 7945HX3D and rule the roost..... 9955HX vs 275HX is a wash. Both are fantastic mobile chips:

Your nephew will (should) be super happy. Those are some decent upgrades from Uncle Electrosoft. ❤️ He should be commended for exploring Linux as a solution to the Micro$lop cancer dung OS. I am approaching the end of week #2 using Linux exclusively and only resorting to opening Windoze in a virtual machine when I need to do something that only PowerBI and Excel can do. As soon as I am done I shut it down. No regrets. If I didn't need to use those applications for work I would not even bother with the virtual machine. Kubuntu with Plasma 6 is fantastic. Very satisfied and even more impressed than I have been in the past with Linux. I'm so sick of the nonsense from the Redmond Retards. 25H2 is going to be the most vile strain of colon cancer to have ever emanated from their posterior orifice.

While trying "new things" with the desktop I built him a few years ago, my nephew managed to nuke all his drives (sans the one mechanical 1TB drive I put in there and told him to use it to backup everything important which he did) on top of his system running oddly. He was trying to learn how to install Linux and use Mint. The more he did the worse it got till eventually his mom dropped it off for rescue work. They live 2-3hrs away. I ended up upgrading his system with the components I picked up from gtz over on OCN: 12100f -> 13400f A380 -> 3060 12GB 128GB boot -> Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Gave it a most needed cleaning from head to toe (it was chock full of dust and dog hair), recert/tested all his components. Replaced a faulty Sata cable, discovered the distro he was trying to use failed sha256 checksum, created a proper mint distro install for him and reinstalled Windows 11 and made a proper dual boot Mint system for him along with reorganizing his data properly. He will be pleased. Games wise, this is a pretty decent upgrade since he games on a 25" Dell 240hz IPS 1080p display I gave him along with his system 🙂 I closed up my desktop. Glass and front panel back on signifying it is in final AMD boss form. The 9800X3D and 9070XT run cool enough that I only have the three AIO fans on the 420 as intake and everything else passively exhaust cooled and the case is so big and porous enough and the 9070xt doesn't pull the sun into orbit like my Astral 5090 did that temps are the same even after hours of gaming on the 9800X3D and 9070XT. In addition, my computer room doesn't turn into a 1970's sauna within an hour of playing.... I just can not get over how well the 9070xt handles the lows/fps when the CPU is being assaulted with all that player data. It can never soar as high as a 5080/4090/5090 when being fed properly, but in WoW how it handles the lows is most important and routinely in Raids, PvP and ORBs, utilization drops under 100% same as the other cards and that is where it shines.... One thing I do miss though is the locked 240fps in delves. That was just a super, silky smooth experience on the 5090. Fallout76 on the 5090 was beast mode too.

Sure ! That was FHD LCD, and thanks! No, only 8560w. 8770w is very rare "pokemon" in my place. And cost waay too much, like 300-400$. With MXM cards, if it fits heatsink, then it is matter of correct vbios, which you need to find out yourself, propably. Or look for info in NBRChive (old forum) --- About eDP Panel! Some good news, some bad. Good is my 4K cable works ! Panel is damaged, though. But I saw backlight working and content (bios logo). Bad news is those cable work only without installed GPU drivers. Also UEFI is a must, otherwise LCD won't even turn on. I experimented on spare HP and I could set up even FHD resolution, but after installing drivers laptop don't even shows internal panel connection. Only external output works. This is problem I had in my Clevo before, I tried to upgrade screen to 4K and it also worked until installing drivers. Seems like I need to troubleshoot another problem. I heard about EDID, now I need to check out how to program them or something.. So we're halfway to success...

Agreed. Another reason I skipped the PNY. I had BB match it and everything and then said, "no thanks." I mean if it drops to $1999.99 then I will most likely take the trade off but at $2199.99? Pass. Absolutely agree with all those points.....

Unfortunately I strongly dislike colors that are not a neutral black / silver / grey base color and these are what - blueish / turquoise? And do they still have the rubber-finish on the palm rest? Also not a fan of the inverted mainboard design that makes maintenance a pita. Too bad Alienware has decided to go that way. With that being said I love that they don't give a shit and make these quite deep and heavy and also the cherry keyboard is great and of course the cooling.

lesson learned for the 6090: will not bother to spam refresh during launch, but rather lean back and enjoy the 5090 3-4 months longer until prices come down to normal levels 🙂 (watch me eat my words once the 6090 actually launches 😄)

If it is any consolation, I already wiped the stock install and did a optimized clean clean install and with just that Steel Nomad and Timespy at stock went from "good" to "excellent" in both. Dell always has the trash cookie cutter OS installs. Now to start dabbling with the BIOS CPU OC options and OC this 5070ti and see where we can take this finely milled piece of beauty. 🤣 Ugh, I was out of town a few months ago and we stopped at a random mall and they had another full on CROC STORE! I hissed at it and shielded my eyes from the horror! 🤣 Interesting fact, kids at my wife's school are banned from wearing these because they do not promote sure footing and can cause potential accidents or trips/falls. 🙂 This can mean only one thing! @Mr. Fox is keeping his 5090!! Now I feel like the odd man out!! I need to double down looking for a good open box deal or promo! If a good deal on a 5090 comes my way, I'll end up passing the 5080 down to the Mrs. and the 9070xt to my daughter as I have a whole pile of components to build out her new desktop or if she is leaning towards one of my full fledged gaming laptops one of those since I have like 7 of them again.....

BF6 Beta was such a TEASE! The game was INSANE. Now we cannot play anymore!!! 😭I got to rank 10 Can't wait for next weekend. This game needs to launch already! @Talon was hitting it harder than me lol. I wish I would have started playing it earlier. Anyways, it's amazing how useful cover is in this game. And spray someone with a M4 takes a little practice as first. But you can get the pattern down after some practice. GREAT GAME! Game was completely butter smooth. Maybe once per hour you would feel the tinniest stutter, but not enough to care. And it could have been because my frame rate was like sub 400 with x4 Frame gen on. Anyways. Fantastic game! It feels FASTER moving than other Battlefield titles. Kinda like a mix between COD and BF2042. I really like it! We can play again on 8/14 THRU 8/17 Can't wait.

This one is better.

oh mymy, what have we got here? 😄 welcome to the club bud, curious to see what u can squeeze out of that card. how much did u pay for it? hope u got a good price. yeah, the GB Master vBios seems to be the best if you still need proper fan control. if you dont, then the waterforce xtreme seems to be quite nice, although i dont have any personal experience with that. 1.07V max vcore is quite nice, congratz on that!

The AI boom is more overhyped than the 1990s dot-com bubble, says top economist Sky-high price-to-earnings ratios suggest investors are overestimating the value of AI Of course Altman change course. Always what will benefit him. But the bubble will burst. Not if, but when. Sam Altman steps into political power vacuum after Musk breaks with Trump Sam Altman teases 100 million GPU scale for OpenAI that could cost $3 trillion

That has been true on all of my shunt mods. Not as much as I wanted it to go up, but enough to get a higher core overclock. But, I think they have locked down more stuff on the 5090 FE, which might be why. My Port Royal score also went up about 700 points with the same overclock just by switching to the AORUS Master vBIOS. https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3593815 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878251

Yep, that's one of them. If you shunt it, you may also find like many your voltage max will also go up too in tandem albeit some stay the same. I think @tps3443 voltage didn't go up when he shunted or minimally.

Doing some testing with the MSI Raider 7945HX3D/4090M vs the Alienware 285HX/5070ti in Fallout 76 first and as expected, the Raider wins decidedly at 1600p. This is with both units on the newest BIOS, complete stock optimized defaults no tuning / re-tuning yet....I expect post tuning for it to get even worse for the Alienware because MSI via their Bios and/or Smokeless has so many more tuning options. In Timespy GPU, the 4090 is ~ 28% faster than the 5070ti, but in actual gameplay it is ~41% faster because of that X3D loving and probably a hair more because when the skies turn dark in FO76 and overcast, it hits a little bit harder. I'll be looking for a proper spot on the MSI to see if I can cap out 99% isolated to then switch back to the Dell to test a proper GPU cap out on both where I expect the chasm to widen even further. I'm in the process of giving the Alienware a proper clean install as there is so much Dunk (Dell Junk) in there it's ridiculous. I had actually listed the MSI for sale and figured the free Alienware was good enough but after these preliminary results I took it down to keep. The temps you see are after about ~5-10 minutes in that spot. Both units have fantastic thermals. I just realize I need to tune the MSI's fan curve to stop that stop/ramp cycle with the CPU. That's its only flaw because temps are not bad at all. Fans maxed on both, the Alienware has better frequency and dB but sitting there for ~10 minutes and they do get audible. 🙂 Alienware: MSI Raider: Yeah, that jump from my KPE 3090ti to my MSI Liquid 4090 was bonkers but the 5090 definitely was no slouch. It was good seeing what Nvidia COULD bring to the table when they felt threatened by AMD. They didn't hold anything back with the 4000 series. So far seems to be an decent sample. Cap out vmax to see what is your pre-shunt voltage max. Also do a quick GPU-Z render test to see where you crash with voltage pushed to max slider in AB. You never know, but as you continue to test you may have scored some good silicon. We'll know soon enough. 🙂

I have both 30 pin and 40 pin schematics, they're pretty standard. It also checks out that 4K screen with touch screen capability have separate flex cable for touch, separately from 40 pin LCD. Why I know ? Because I have such screen from tablet Zbook 🙂 EDIT: for 1080p we need only 2 pairs + aux channel in eDP, that is 30pin one is used for. For 2k-4k we need correspondingly 3 pairs + aux and 4 pairs + aux. That's why I made another cable for 30 pin, because I needed to solder a lot less cables, easier on myself. Just to check out if my mod would work. Dreamcolor uses all of lanes because it is 8 bit conversion to 10 bit, but with 1080p resolution. For same resolution output in LVDS (compared to eDP) you need twice as much lanes. eDP FHD takes 2 pairs + control channel, LVDS takes 4 differential pairs + control channel. Thanks to AstroMan helping hand, we are figuring out what I missed. When I was writing answer to why it is not working and I don't have ideas, I had such code programmer duck moment ..! I have hypothesis to check, I may had mistaken LCDVCC to be panel supply line. My theory is to connect panel supply pins to +3.3V line instead of LCDVCC - I think it is just signal from MXM connector, it was used only in LVDS technology. But we all, you and me, have to wait till monday for next part of my troubleshotting... I took my modded cable but forgot to take eDP panels from job place 😞 so we wait till monday for news - do I fry my lovely HP or does it work. I lost yet another low cost HP auction. And spare board died out of nowhere, no idea why. BTW: having steam deck OLED I am tempted to make 32GB ram mod on it. It seems so easy, because I would need to change only two RAM chips. And would love to share process here, what do you think ? 😄 I have only little board heater and Quick hot air station, but that was enough for Clevo chipset change. My only concern are my hands, since I have "heavy" carpal tunnel in both and my next appointment is early october. But two chips instead four seems easy!

Thanks. Maybe. 🤣 It definitely doesn't impress to the same degree the 4090 over 3090/3090 Ti did. It is actually not seeming like a huge upgrade over 4090 in spite of what the price would lead one to expect. The build quality is really solid. It doesn't have the cheap plastic vibe going on. Yes, Alphacool makes a Core block for it. If I decide to keep it I will order one. If I keep it I will probably sell the 9070 XT. I'm taking it slow right now. Did a small overclock and got into the top 20 right off the bat. Not sure if there are lots of duds or what. That was too easy, so I don't know what the deal is there. I saw people in reviews complaining this GPU model runs too hot, but that does not seem to be an issue on this one. Temps are better than I expected (65°C core and 72°C memory) for air cooling. I've maxed out the memory slider at +3000 and a mundane +200 core. System is pulling just under 1100W from the wall and a bit over 600W at the GPU. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5877947 | https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139475307

Yeah I've hit a personal wall in GPU pricing. When you're paying 2-3x the amount of all your other components just for the GPU, something has to give. Remember when the golden rule before was to grab the cheapest model and block it for those who run CLs? I'm ok with RGB as long as I can adjust or turn it off. Products coming with default rainbow pretty much forces users to use their data gathering software to control it to turn it off or to something more pleasing. Every RGB enabled item should ship in a default state of OFF. That should be mandatory and let the user choose if they want to turn it on. Yeah, it boggles my mind that some people can not see those with an absolutely clear and selfish, narcissistic, greedy agenda that are in it profit above all else while pushing a, "trust me bro" approach and try to isolate and make themselves the purveyors of truth and default to the "misinformation" label at every opportunity to push their platform. It is PAINFUL to watch. Dufus does it ALL the time.... I'm not a big BF fan so ah well but they use that to identify cheaters and ban their hardware primarily. As for the dual X3D CCD, would have been nice to have a dual binned X3D 9950X3D but it's not the end of the world.... 🤣 -------------------------------------------- In 5090 news: Newegg is now either offering promo codes and/or hardware tossed in to try and move cards ranging from 9700x to 7800X3D CPUs along with now MSI slashing prices on their cards. Clearly no one is buying enough and as reported, stockpiles are growing. Zotac Solid OC 5090 is still down to $2399.99 MSI Ventus is now down to $2499 w/ promo code MSI Vanguard 5090 is down to $2599 with promo code MSI Gaming Trio 5090 is down to $2799.99 and you get a free 7800X3D with it MSI Vanguard Launch Edition (8 months later??) is down to $2799.99 and includes a keyboard(!) Gigabyte Gaming RTX 5090 is down to $2809.99 and includes a free 7800X3D MSI Suprim Liquid finally dropped in price by $250 and is now $2999.99 MSI Suprim Air 5090 dropped in price to $3149.99 and includes a 9700x In addition, the Gigabyte Master (both white and black) and TUF OC are all down $60 (!) to $2939.99 now... those must be official as Best Buy also lowered the price on the Masters cards. Everything in stock.... Only cards that continue to remain out of stock now are the Gigabyte AIO/WB models.... And of course Asus continues to not lower the price of their Astrals holding steady at $3359.99 Microcenter 5090 pricing continues to fall: Zotacs down like Newegg, but also PNY ARGB down to $2499.99 Gigabyte 5090 gaming down to $2599.99 Like Newegg Trio down to $2649.99 Asus TUF OC down to $2799.99 One of the few rare times you can get overall better deals from Newegg than MC on 5090s atm with the promo codes and free hardware tossed in. Microcenter has serious markdowns on 5090 laptops.... That MSI 5090/285hx raider on launch was $4399.99 VERY glad overall (after the rush of early adopters) buyers are just flat out not buying this stuff and prices continue to trend down.

The A$uS tax is alive and well and even growing..... Top gear MSRP from Asus.... $450+ for an AIO.... $1k+ for a MB.... $700+ for a PSU $3359 for the Astral fits right into that pricing.... MSI is trying hard to be like Asus lately too with their pricing..... Damn right it is..... Still holding onto that SP109 14900KS because I know it can do 59/45/50 all day everyday for gaming on an AIO..... it has my 9070xt capped out in WoW at 1440p quite nicely on the wife's system. I'll probably never let it go and have it drive the wifey's system for quite some time. I might pick up an EVGA Dark Z690 or Z790 to fully complete her "Ode to EVGA" system when they are dirt cheap because I will say having run that 14900KS tuned on a Z790i lightning with TG 8400 DDR5 for quite some time tuned that DDR4 with the same 9070xt is now noticeably inferior even tuned 4000 CL15 or 4200 CL16 tight. --------------------------------------------- Dude is always hustling to sell his bundles or "PC Optimization classes" Monthly fees to join his discord.... Plenty of other tiers: $10/$20/$40/$75 per month $750/yr tier also gets you access to his PC Optimization class.... Or the class on its own for ~$400..... FC 48GB or 32GB DDR5 kits for $500..... $100 "another chance" to get unbanned from the community if you were banned.... MAX fps build lists with affiliated links.... $500 consults on your hardware..... Sheesh, dude is probably making a killing. Expect merch sooner than later on top of it. Still watch his videos though.... 🤣

I described my experience above, I did use a P5000 in a M6800 briefly to flash the vBIOS on it and I had no trouble with it being "discovered". @DynamiteZerg just joined up and he has a M6800 with a P5000 GPU (see posts above), apparently still in active use? It seems like it "should work" and I'm not sure what was going on in your case, if the GPU card wasn't actually dead. That said, any GPU upgrade beyond K5100M is an "unsupported" upgrade and brings the risk of unknown issues.

If AMD can't produce more cutting edge Radeon cards than the overpriced 5090's maybe it's time to shut off the GPU business. But I guess every cents count on the bottom line to please the shareholders. Sell a lot Radeon GPUs but no where you see it in any statistics.... And all the talk about shortage of nvidia graphics cards after the launch due low production... Something is off. And Nvidia showed fantastic sales figures for the gaming division. AMD reports record $7.69 billion revenue but data center slowdown hits shares CEO Dr. Lisa Su said demand for its Radeon RX 9000 GPUs has outweighed supply

Dang. Hello bro. +4 years at least since we crossed roads. Hope you're doing well. AMD needed a gaming chips (X3D) at Threadripper price point. Hope they don't break $1000. All depends on 52 core Nova Lake. It will be like this when Intel mixed the cores clusters for Arrow Lake. And they did it to reduce max temp for the more powerful P-cores. Desperate rescue of Intel: US to force TSMC to buy 49% to secure tariff advantages for Taiwan Intel credit rating hits rock bottom at Fitch, Intel sits at just two notches above junk status Hmmmm. 5080 and 5090 on Steam surway but none of the newest Radeon cards. And this is from Asia. 20% market share in an important Asian region and yet no penetration on Steam. This smells. South Korean GPU popularity market: 76% for NVIDIA, 21% for AMD and 3% for Intel

Death by a thousand papercuts! great to see you again bud 😄 what kinda system are you rocking these days? VERY curious to see what kinda CPU that will be, if at all. heres to hoping that they supercharged their chiplet binning so as to provide the same clocks or maybe even higher than non-X3D chiplets, to have the best of both worlds. plus no more need for any scheduler / process lasso shenanigans 🙂 looking forward to this! the thing to consider with AMD cards is that there are lots of regions in the world that barely have any AMD market penetration whatsoever. especially in emerging markets like south america or asia Nvidia is basically the only game in town. sso even if AMD kicks butt in the US and europe, that would barely equate to a drop in the proverbial bucket when looked at on a global scale vs. the preinstalled base and new sales in most other regions.

Looking at the Steam July survey data, Windows 11 absolutely dominates Windows 10 ~60% to ~35% 16GB wins with ~42% but 32GB is gaining speed with ~35% 6 and 8 core CPUs dominate the chart with ~29% and ~25% respectively As for GPUs.... The only other desktop GPU that comes close to the 4.44% of the 3060 (which went UP +0.02%) is the 4060 with 4.20%. 9070 and 9070xt have yet to gain enough traction to not be classified as "other" Highest rated discrete AMD GPU? 6600 with 0.88%...... 🫢 Intel ARC finally getting its own listing at a whopping 0.25% but zero discrete variants.... Meanwhile 5070 (1.28%), 5080 (0.62%), 5070ti (0.60%), 5060 (0.57%), 5060ti (0.56%) and 5090 (0.21%), have all made enough penetration on Steam to have their own percentage listings with the 5070 dominating every other GPU in the 5000 class. ------------------------------- I spent the last several days running tests between the 5080 and 9070xt and with the newest drivers on both, I'm switching back to Nvidia. The newest Nvidia drivers are much smoother, getting better fps and fixed the sporadic RT issues. A lot of that lower threshold chunk is gone so I'm sticking with the 5080 for now. $825 was a KILLER price with a bang for buck that crushes everything in sight including 5080/5090FE pricing and being able to run the Astral 450w vBIOS makes up for the 5080FE Fail not being able to cross flash vBIOSes on the FE cards. The transition in motion. MSI 5080 to my system and now my 9070xt to my wife's to replace her 5070FE and the 5070FE goes back to BB tomorrow. She also gets a clean install and recert on her components. With the 9070xt, her display will spend its time locked at its max 165hz 1440p in WoW. I'll turn RT off to basically leave her running silky smooth everywhere capped out. I was going to upgrade her PSU, but I forgot I had put a Seasonic 1000w in there a few years ago.... 9070xt will be running on the wife's tuned SP109 14900KS @ 59/45/50 on air as always. Chip is a beast and running just as well as it did when I picked it up over a year ago tuned properly for AIO duty.

Was fortunate enough to pick up a used MSI Shadow 3x OC 5080 for $825 shipped. Currently running the Asus 5080 Astral vBIOS. Zero coil whine again. I'm seriously starting to think it is the triplite + 1600w EVGA I installed at the same time in August 2022 that is helping out more than I realize. The odds of scoring ~12 GPUs in a row both AMD and Nvidia tested with various MBs and CPUs in the mix all producing low to no coil whine can't be a massive streak of luck. 🤔 It's pulling more and scoring more in WoW and fps have gone up by ~17% in my testing spot (that's good for anything not a 5090) vs 5080FE at launch: 5080 FE at 99% 4k Ultra max scoring ~122fps stock launch drivers: MSI 5080 Shadow 3x OC running Astral 450w vBIOS stock 577 drivers scoring 143fps: Driver refinements also adding in too. I could always install launch drivers and see how they compare to really differentiate the two.

Sup! Guys what do u think, this guy did shunt mod for his AW18 r1 ( 13980HX, 4090) cuz almost 27K in Time Spy graphics is NUTZ on par with top 5090 OC results https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57554922 I never heard of shunt modding AW18. Lenovo legion, Asus Scar, Hydroc 16 - yes , but never Alien. Is it possible to reach this guy somehow?

Happy anniversary @Papusan! You are right, time does fly by. 35 years is a wonderful milestone! Slow down and smell the roses and enjoy every day with your loved ones.

I was introduced to Dire Straits at a young age and impressionable age.....thank God. I like just about everything they ever released....but this one is very special. Dire Straits - Ride across the river.

X3D laptop dominance overall on average at 1600p: When you have the 7945HX3D + 4090 basically matching non X3D + 5090 laptops in gaming and then winning 1% lows against all of them accept the 9955HX3D + 5090 model. Again, it makes sense why Jarrod conveniently omitted 7945HX3D results numerous times when testing the 5090 models for gaming benchmarks. I asked a few times why with no response....I lost a lot of respect for him about that. He's right about the keyboard on MSI's though. Steelseries is average at best. I greatly preferred the NH55 keyboard and the Alienware keyboard Then again, I think Apple's Macbook Pro Mx 16 series of keyboards are garbage too.

Not quite, that article the other day was based on manipulated data. While AMD has definitely gained market share in server, they're definitely not at 50%

I'll take a look later when I get a chance to really play with it hopefully sooner than later. Not really sure it needs any type of repaste atm but we will see. For example, just recently had the chance to meaningfully put the Raider through the ringer from top to bottom with the new July BIOS and newest MSI Center to get the fans under better control but it may need a repaste/PTM because the CPU runs pretty toasty. On the other hand, this Alienware is running ice cold in comparison. Even in full overdrive mode pulling as much as it wants, it caps out at ~170w, temps cap out at 68 and it scores 38368. Compare that to the Raider w/ a 285k out of the box needing some love. Overheating like crazy, pulling 200w+ and only scoring ~35k in R23. Could be cooling, TIM and a bit of silicon lottery at play on my end. Timespy balanced with fans not even really reving up CPU topped out at 80 pulling ~102w and GPU topped out at 62c pulling 175w. Real test is when I settle in for an extended session of WoW and FO76 where I expect the Raider to beat it clearly in WoW and flat out trounce it in FO76 because of X3D and FO76 ideal combo is X3D + Nvidia. I would need overheating/high temps to even want to repaste with the temps I'm getting. Running in balanced and gaming, I am just gobsmacked at how quiet it is even with the 5070ti pulling 175w. Just seems odd that before recently meeting with trump, trump wanted to break up Nvidia, enforce pre-existing restrictions from the previous admin (which was an addition to his term one restrtictions) and add more down the line. But after the meeting? Singing his praises, lifted pre-existing H20 AI restrictions and is buddy buddy with him including at a recent AI summit....why is that? So which is it right now in this scenario? Is Jensen the problem? trump the problem? both? Maybe a bit too much anti-china sentiment? It isn't logical or objective thinking to think you can just shut down a country economically with a blunt instrument like China which is massive. Looking at Jensen's background, he barely spent any meaningful time in Taiwan before moving out of the country with his family as a child. I wouldn't attack him on his upbringing or origins, but corporate greed? That's fair game.

9995WX scored a whopping 173K in Cinebench R23, LOL. 🤣 Around 26% faster than its predecessor. 5.0GHz on 96 cores.

Agreed 100 percent. Ai is mainly used for making images of 3 boobed women. Not taking over the world. ha ha.

Good 9955HX3D vs 275HX shootout. As expected, X3D is a beast. Figures considering 7945HX3D w/ 4090 is beating 5090 equipped systems in gaming benchmarks on the regular to the point Notebookreview AND Jarrod conveniently omitted the results from their 275hx 5090 initial reviews. Jarrod has done it multiple times now. I'm sure they'll be back for his 9955HX3D reviews 🙄 Their 275HX is getting 39603 at ~210w in CB23 but those are some great temps at 78c. @win32asmguy what are you getting in R23?

And how will that work with the AIB partners? You often have 3 years warranty for the GPU. I expect the warranty also follow everything coming in the GPU package as the 12VHPWR dongle. Have to fight with the AIB partners everytime the tiny trash fail, it will be fun being consumer. Many will still use those dongles that follow in the package. That tiny microfit 12V-2*6 connector shouldn't be specced with 600W as jonny Guru at Corsair so clever said. Standard pitch is 4.2mm for 8-pin connectors. And the 12V-2*6 microfit connector have 3.0mm pitch terminals. In reality, those 8-pin connectors can handle more current because you have 4.2mm pitch terminals vs. 3.0 pitch and they're spread out more which helps dissipate heat. That's facts. And the hook and hatch is so damn small and fragile that they slip of from small vibrations/ or you reroute cables is more than enough to make the connection to fail. Some brands of cables don't even offer a hook that you can feel is there. Let us get 8-pin EPS connectors as I already said. Then add proper circuitry to balance the the wires back as minimum failsafe feature. The only reason the 12V-2*6 connector is so small is because Nvidia prefer make small cute PCB for their FE/Pro models. There is simply not enough space to fit bigger power connectors. In short a failure from smart engineers. Also Intel's failure and tragedy continue.... No thanks to this as well... Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh processors could WILL disappoint Of course you struggle if you can't compete due making bad products. The failure above just confirm it. Intel To Lay Off 5,500 Employees Across U.S., With Major Cuts In Oregon, California, And Arizona Amid Mounting Competitive, Financial Pressures Intel is shutting down Clear Linux OS No reason for abandonment has been highlighted, but it is likely that this decision is backed by cost-cutting measures. @Prema you are in the news🙂 Hope al is well with you. Best greeting from the Cold Hot North. Yup, above 30C here now. A so called Heat wave pushing the heat over Papusan's plaza🙃 The good weather have been here soon two weeks. And back to normal in coming weekend. Aka 12-15C and rain. https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-5090-laptop-gpu-gets-shunt-modded-to-250w/ Also Notebooktalk and @seanwee is in the news @Reciever @Mr. Fox Nothing amaze me anymore. How was this below even possible at all? Why can the bosses/chiefs at Microsoft, their partners and goverment bureaucrats that follow up such work still be hired after something like this? All of them should be fired.... Yesterday. Microsoft to stop using engineers in China to work on U.S. Defense computer systems in wake of investigative report

Clean connector is fine, they just needed to balance the wires like they did to start with the 3090 and with a warning if it got to unbalanced to plug the cable back in or replace it.

Also what you do in your car.... Mercedes first then many other brands cars will follow. You can't get rid of Microsoft bro @Mr. Fox They have the money.... So they can easily pay for your privacy/data. Copilot is coming to cars — and so are Teams calls Mercedes-Benz said Wednesday that the company is working with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft Teams into their cars — and eventually Microsoft Copilot, too.

Winduhz 11 is just a scummy piece of crap any way you slice it. The best way to run Windoze is in a Linux virtual machine because it is not a respectable solution any more. I am half way through week #2 of using exclusively Linux and only launching Windowz in a vm when it is absolutely necessary to perform a task that can only be performed using a Windoes-only application. But, I am still not using that ultra-filthy malware version of it. It feels better than it ever has to avoid Micro$lop garbage. Since I'm more or less no longer benching, I don't need it for that and benching was one of the excuses I used for continuing to use it. If things continue playing out this well I will have three NVMe SSDs in each desktop (6 in total) that I can erase and use for something other than a Weendoze digital cesspool.