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This is my first EKWB plexi block. I’ve used had acetal ek blocks before. Unless ek made the 3090kp block. That thing was a tank! Anyways, you need some 2512 sized resistors they are 0.25x0.12 dimensions and make sure it’s miliohm /or mohm and not just ohm. You probably want 2mohm if you are after 1200 watts, if you go 1Mohm it’ll be 1800watts. You’ll need two of them.

Man! You have a 7995wx? That is insane! Knowing me, if I had this CPU I’d use it for gaming lol. 😂 Well, work and gaming. That thing is a MONSTER! I wouldn’t mind having a 7980x my self. They are so strong! Or maybe even just the 9960x threadripper would be good as well. Funny how new AMD chips sound like old Intel chip model names lol. Anyways I saw your 118K R23 score, that’s really impressive. Nice waterblock! Their new core series really are the best looking. Their previous models looked kinda budget oriented. My EKWB 5090 FE block has cracked to pieces in me lol. 😂 it’s not leaking so that’s good. But I’m not happy about it. I’m waiting on EK to send me a replacement. I hate that I even have to tear this thing down again. Hope you’re shunting and blocking in one swing!

I know lol. Can’t run a 5090 on air 💀! Anyways, your clocks are low before 3160ish under load due to power limits for certain, not temp limits just yet. Most 5090’s should hold 3300 at 45c temps maybe even more, maybe a tiny bit less. Voltage is all over the place on these cards but so far high/low it doesn’t even matter, I think cooling and tuning skill is critical for max benches with 5090. I have seen a few 1.100v+ 5090FE’s which can beat my lower voltage 5090FE, but they are on 8c water or something crazy like that. Which would make sense. The voltage really didn’t provide anything meaningful, it’s just based on how the card actually performs overall. And block+shunt is the only way to know.

@electrosoft I’m thinking about selling my laptop. How much do you think it’s worth, or what should I maybe start at? Predator 18 14900HX/4090/32GB DDR5 5600/ 250Hz Mini led/ 1TB M.2. Thanks.

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

Sounds great! Watch out for lions! 🦁 😆 You know, I downloaded the first Ashes of Singularity just for the benchmark on my Xeon 3175x because I had ran it on my 10900K/11900K/13900/14900/7980xe systems. And then I started playing the game. It’s kinda fun if you give it a chance. But it is dated looking now, I made it through a few levels and just stopped because it became too difficult to continue lol. But it’s pretty fun either way! I’ll try the 2nd one for sure. I love the original benchmark on the first one. I want to love RTS games but hard for me to fully invest in them. Also, BF6 Beta is live again tomorrow. If you decide to play. 🥳

That’s gonna be rare to absolute mission impossible to find such a deal. I have only seen like two crazy cheap 5090’s from Walmart and that’s one of them. Walmart marks down returns by like 50% apparently. But my Walmart doesn’t even have 5090’s, let alone people returning them there lol.!😂 I think your card for $2,399 is very decent price. I’d be happy with that my self. Only other option would be to return the Zotac and grab the PNY Epic for $2,199 that @electrosoft shared. Save $200 bucks get the same or better at least. 🤷‍♂️ $2,399.99 is a good deal for a 5090 in my opinion though. I think you have a decent card that needs shunt+water. My last BF6 session was pulling down WAYYY more power than that Zotac was I’m certain of it. Also I was set at 3350Mhz boost in MSI Afterburner lol. Thing might hit 30c on the back side on a bad day. Tiny FE PCB is completely sandwiched in Liquid Metal and thermal pads on either side. If any fire starts I think it’s gonna be my power supply, being that it’s a 1200 unit pretending it’s something much bigger. I am not sure how much GPU power BF6 uses. Since I recently disabled GPU power monitoring in my OSD Riva tuner. So I’m not really sure how much the game uses GPU power wise. But that’s surprising any 5090 would catch fire in BF6, I didn’t get the feeling it was one of those (Super GPU power hungry games). My system idles at 340 watts just chilling at the wall. In BF6 I was hitting 1,200 watts at the wall. My CPU was eating 300 watts of that alone. So I’m gonna say maybe 600 watts with a full tilt OC on my GPU. Not a very power heavy game. That Zotac that burned was probably just busted lol.

Someone snatched one of these up at Walmart for $1,124.99. But I’d still get it at $2000. Walmart is crazy lol.

I went through a whole mess making this work on my windows. But I ended up having to enable secure boot in the end, I made a mess of my Windows install trying to work around it, and then last night I ended up just re-installing Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC, Local account only, then I disabled updates, disabled defender, and used the app crapfixer to disable a whole bunch of other bloatware junk. New OS is running smooth and fast though! But it has secure boot enabled. Nothing I could do to get around it. Fortunately the game is well optimized! I mean Battlefield games have been messed up since Battlefield 1/Battlefield V/Battlefield 2042. It’s almost like their games have been so HEAVY feeling. Lots of ram usage, lots of AVX cpu usage, and TONS of skipping and loading in that you can feel in the mouse movement. For the first time EVER Battlefield has fixed this. Upon first load in, it’s smooth and stays smooth. It doesn’t feel like your PC has an elephant sitting on its chest like all older Battlefield games have felt. So that is great news! I hope it stays that way. But this is the first time in years where they actually have a smooth game. I think it’s worth buying. Also, multiplayer is GREAT. Everyone seems equally bad at the game, some people are really good here and there. So it’s good to start now because you can build on your skills and not start out playing with level 100 veterans who are elite players. Definitely a fun game! I can’t wait until 8/14 to play 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.

BF6 with my Xeon 3175x, DDR4, and PCIe Gen 3.0 x16, and 5090. This game loves lots of cores!

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 🔥🔥🔥🔥

BF6 is very fun!

Yeah Intel was being dumb. They were not innovative at all. Releasing terrible re-hashed products. And slowly losing bit by bit for years to AMD, seems like they literally let AMD catch up to them slowly over the period since 2017 when Ryzen first hit the streets. They lost the multithreaded crown first, (They still were not worried) then they lost the IPC crown. When the 10900K launched I knew it was gonna be over pretty soon. AMD now sells the most expensive crazy powerful CPU’s you can imagine. Their new Threadripper line-up is amazing! And they’ve been good for some years now. The one thing Nvidia is doing is they are innovating though. The 5090FE is innovation. High quality GPU I thought when I took mine apart. Their factory Liquid metal setup is top notch, incredible cooler solution, we need this on every GPU, cooling 600 watts on a real 2 slot cooler, the 4090 Asus Matrix failed terribly with factory Liquid Metal. The GPU’s are getting faster and killing it at the forefront performance wise. Even last gen 4090 is still the king compared to other brands. Biggest problem is pricing and popularity. It makes it so tough to buy brand new released products when everyone else wants one. It’s a businesses best friend though. And they’ve now grown to #1 richest company in the world. No competition is also very unfortunate. I do not want to see prices rise again on GPU’s. I hope they don’t because no way I can afford something like a RTX PRO 6000, and I feel like we’re headed that pricing direction.

Guys.. We are so screwed. Nvidia is officially the richest company in the WORLD. 😂