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Did you plug the 5090 into your computer or did you plug the computer into the GPU? It's funny to think back to my old voodoo 3 3000 and then see this. Also cleaning up the input wave form or even just changing it a bit can impact the harmonics you will get through the different conversions in the system so that's very believable.

Morning all. Lot's has happened over the past 4 years. To put this in perspective, the 9000 AMD cards are the polaris cards. That year, they did not bring the high end. And Moore's law is dead already mentioned and commented on leaks of a giant card in the next round of RDNA cards. Which is sorely needed. The real deal is we need MORE RAM. But I'm getting into local AI, so I am biased. Yes, part of the enemy. lol.

An idiot from Facepoot messaged me a few days ago about my 9070 XT ad with "$650" and said nothing else. I replied back "today only, come get it while you can" and he never replied. He messaged me around midnight tonight. Further proof he is a dumbass. "$600" this time, so I replied "$675" and said nothing more. If he replies with $625 then I will reply $725. (Listing is $700.)

I surprised her with the Series 10 Apple Watch she has been wanting for quite some time and a no holds barred dinner. Funny, we went to Microcenter and it was getting a little late and I didn't get a chance to look around like I wanted (I could have spent 2-3hrs in there easily. So much sale and clearance stuff it was insane). While looking at rows upon rows of clearance motherboards I turned to her and said, "can you believe all this stuff? wow!" and she looked me dead in the eye with a smirk and said, "Is it your birthday too?" 🤣 I knew right then and there it was time to pack up and head out to the stores and dinner for her birthday. I'm warning you @Mr. Fox and please take these words to heart.... ....Microcenter is a dangerous place to peruse with a credit card in hand. It is doubly dangerous with a Microcenter Credit card getting 5% off items at checkout.... When your MC opens up in Arizona, you have been warned. 🤑

MSI 5090 installed. Still a chonker, but a $2k chonker vs a super $3.6k chonker. MSI 5080 Shadow 3x OC vs MSI 5090 Ventus 3x OC.... Installed: No coil whine again. I'm now convinced the Tripp-Lite surge protector + filter along with the EVGA 1600w P2 is helping. The odds of scoring what is quickly approaching 15 cards in a row on this setup tested not having coil whine or anything of note starting with the KPE 3090ti would have to be an incredible string of luck. If I want to close the case back up, I'm going to have to plug back in the lower 3x120mm and install 140mm fans back on the top to keep the airflow going properly. ---- The new zone in WoW for the Xpac that dropped 10 days ago is brutal. It hits the 5090 harder than any other zone I've seen so far and immediately caps it to 100% utilization zoning in and getting about 130fps pure stock For reference the 5080 was getting about 81fps in the same spot overclocked (+300 / +3000) This is 4k Ultra 10 RT High (which is basically max everything)

Mission accomplished! 🤣 (Out to dinner with the wifey tonight for her birthday)....... 5090 for $2054 total in my hand secured...... Foxtrot Tango Whiskey.... (That look when you refused to pay the stupid high prices, returned your Astral, and calmly waited and watch the market to drop and hoping to snag an Open box sub $2k).....

That better not be a Janky yellow dongle I see😂. Be very careful!

Facebook attracts the worst buyers sprinkled sparingly with decent folk. The lowball offers are insane. The responses even worse. Put up a $500 GPU and $800 system and these are all variations of actual responses over the years.... "Will you take $100?" "I don't have any money. Could you give it to me?" "I really would like this for my little brother but I don't have much. How about $200?" "I can go $250 which I think is fair...." "I can trade <Insert worthless item here>" "How about I trade my old GPU and $100?" (Old GPU is worth $100 tops) "I'll take it for asking! Let's meet up at (Totally equivalent of a dark alley)" "Do you check cash? If so, how?" "I don't like to meet in Banks" (Immediate currency check, cameras) "I don't like to meet in Police Stations" (Safe trade space, power available) As a buyer: "Cash and carry, no testing" "I don't like to meet in Starbucks" (power available for testing) "I don't like to meet in Police Stations" (Safe trade space, power available)

I think his card has no power cable so it can support up to 200w.

Happy birthday to her. But the birthday present is for you?

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Unless single-player campaign functions with Secure Poot and TPM disabled I will never know because I won't enable them or spend my money on any game or software that requires it. Even if Windoze 11 was a good operating system (which it is not) I would refuse to use it if bypassing those requirements was made impossible. These are decisions that should be left to the personal discretion of the end user. Now that I have been using Linux as my primary operating systems for about 6 weeks or so and it is starting to "feel like home" to me, I am finding myself to feel that even Windows 10 LTSC is an annoying product that I would prefer to avoid. One of the reasons is the increased degree of power and autonomy to make my own decisions. I tried Bazzite and CachyOS and, while I liked them and thought they provided an aesthetically pleasing GUI, I found them both to be too restrictive and eliminated both of them. When it comes to owning my computers, I insist on actually owning them and acting as a god that will be obeyed unconditionally. My commands will be followed immediately and without question. Even if that means self-destruction. 🤣

That sucks... But here's the positive the game is very optimized which is a miracle in 2025 where majority of games run like crap and some having forced RT on. I couldnt try out the BETA because the new NVIDIA 580 drivers are broken especially for laptops, Low GPU usage in games which causes low FPS and performance, This affects GPUs in the 50 series, 40 series, 30 series, and even the 20/16 Series, probably affects the 10 series too. Going back to 577 and older fixes it.

So I managed to snag an open box MSI Ventus 5090 3x OC edition for $1932.26 or $2054.30 after tax or in other words $1360.29 when as is said and done (rewards and all that jazz) cheaper than the Astral I returned aka ~40% cheaper which is sick. And yet I'm wondering if I hold out can I get one even cheaper! 🤣 Once you've been to the mountain top at jacked up MSRP and seen what the 5090 can do, all you want to do at this point is try to score one as cheap as possible.

😆🤣 Her jeans and her genes are both great.

I have tried to like RPG and RTS games and I just can't do it. Something about them is extremely annoying to me. In particular I hate the "camera angle" or vantage point to such a degree that even trying to enjoy playing them makes me angry. There's zero chance I'm going to enable Secure Poot and TPM filth. It makes no difference how wonderful and awesome the game might be, that's just not going to happen. A snowballs chance in hell to be precise. I hope the game developer loses millions of dollars and becomes an object of hatred and scorn for making such horrible decisions. If there was some way I could delete those options and remove them from my BIOS completely so that they could not be utilized I would do that.