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Being able to directly hook up all of our fans, and pumps, and USB 2.0 devices directly to our Power supply is a thing of MAGIC!!!

@Papusan I’m selling my 4090 for $500 bucks and snatching a 5070 ASAP! 🥴 What I am doing is putting a waterblock on my RTX 4090. I just ordered one of those Optimus ultra soft 3mm Fujipoly rear full cover thermal pads. These pads are like a god send to any GPU. It’s truly a miracle what happens when we cover our whole GPU backside with a thermal pads. And more build pics!! I have discovered that when you use hard tubing, each piece to connect a component is like specially crafting a single pipe to a custom fit. The process takes the longest. Bending, Cutting, beveling the edges. It’s a process! But when you get it just right, it’s very rewarding!

I’m excited to upgrade my 4090 laptop and 4090 desktop GPU once the 5090 laptop and 5090 desktop parts Are no longer interesting to the whole world. 😀 These companies AMD and Nvidia are so shady and extremely greedy.

Id be running that MSI 1300w over the EVGA 1600w any day, smaller and could probably pull down the same juice without breaking a sweat. That’s just my opinion. My MSI 1KW with the single 2x6 Gen 5.1 connector has been one of the best PSU’s I’ve ever owned, the fact that it has been powering a w3175X/Doninus Extreme/ 192GB DDR4/ 5 pumps/ RTX 4090 with 666w bios Is a miracle. This is a system with 2x24 pins meant for (2) power supplies. It has always stayed silent and never batted an eye to this system, it’s a much smaller unit than I’d typically run but that just goes to show how good the unit has been. Just my system ram consumes 120 watts under heavy loads 🤣 Both my EVGA power supplies were noisy and sub par. Maybe the 1600w models were built to different standards. But my EVGA models also had that big fat C19 style power plug too. I’m still using one of them in my son’s build but even with his RTX 3060/12900KS we hear the coil whine sometimes. Lately the random power offs have been occurring and I’m worried this 2nd EVGA unit is on its way out. I’ve never owned a EVGA 1600w, so I cannot speak on those units. Maybe they are good. My white Lian Li 1200w Edge Gold will be here tomorrow, I hope it’s as good or better than the MSI PSU. 😁

The air cooled stock 9070XT is still faster than the worlds fastest watercooled tapped out XOC’d 3090Ti. I think that’s pretty good. Shame these AIB’s and Retailers are a whole bunch of scammers/scalpers. And now the 9070XT price is just too high to make sense. $600 is good. But I think everyone as a whole needs to stop buying graphics cards. I cannot support this horrible market we’re in.

Build update. The GPU sits so well. Just perfectly straight. The case quality and also case and motherboard rigidity play a huge impact on this.

I have torn down my entire test bench in a matter of minutes. I plan to hook the laptop up to the chiller now 😂 I’m joking. But I do have the pumpas ready to go in new rig. Going to tear them down for inspection. But chilled water doesn’t grow anything so it’s amazing how all of the parts are just pure spotless inside.

It’s really a great platform! It has been crazy reliable. I wasn’t expecting to like it this much. But it’s a great platform.

This motherboard how it sits in the photo weights 15.2 pounds. 🤯 It is 14”x14” and 192GB DDR4, CPU block, VRM block installed. It’s a massive 15+ pound chunk!

The OG 3090KP was really a great value for the $1,949 MSRP. Being that It was actually cheaper than the 3090 Strix air cooled model and slightly faster right out of the box than future released 3090Ti FE. If there was a Kingpin now, it would be crazy expensive probably. If the Astral is still $4,000-$4,500. I’d say at least that much.

The 5090 scalper prices on eBay have reached an all time low. So that’s definitely GOOD!!

Man your overclocking results with your 5070Ti were impressive, I am really wondering how one of these would do on chilled water or something. But, yeah I really think so lol. Jensen was talking about 5070Ti beats the RTX 4090. the 175w laptop 4090 from 2 years ago 😂. Would be so cool to juice one of these laptop 4090’s up to the same power levels as the 4080 desktop. @jaybee83 which GPU are you running? Did you ever get a 5090? Would be awesome to see Nvidia drop a 5090Ti with dual connectors. Something capable of 1200W. Maybe if that launches it’ll bring the regular 5090’s down.

Yep! I had been in the market about a few weeks tossing around the idea of getting a new laptop. I was looking at Asus G14’s. Preferably the 4090 models, but I know they get super hot and are extremely limited. But it’s really okay I think. I’m gaming on this Acer Predator Helios. And the experience is fantastic! Butter smooth. I can dial the performance down and reduce the fans a bit for a quieter experience. And it’s still smooth. This machine is really big and heavy though, but I only move it to my kitchen island, kitchen table, back to my office desk. I can work on the go around my house. And at night I can play a game out in the kitchen while my wife makes dinner sometimes. That’s about it really. After owning this 4090 machine, I can really appreciate the lighter 4060/4070 machines even more now. Because this machine has more power than I need really.

This case freakin swallows thick 480’s whole!!! I need two more lol. Dang….I need one for the front, and one for the bottom.

Look what just arrived!!!

What a disaster! I was so tempted to wait and buy a RTX 5080/5090 laptop. But after discovering their tiny performance gain, I passed. RTX4090/RTX5090 are both limited by almost the same power limit and almost the same CUDA core count. This makes both of these machines perform almost identically in real world. The only thing that changed was MSRP. If we want a MSI TITAN 18, it will cost me $6,500 USD with taxes. 🤯MSI has lost their sanity on that one. I don’t even get it, the $4,999 price point was already so much higher than the competition, they add another $1,000 USD on top for the same performance. The whole industry is just all over the place.

Yep the gaming days are over with. I still think it’s all a lie. If they can launch and sell a PS5 Pro and keep it in-stock for $699.99. Then They can definitely launch and sell a much lower demand item like the 9070XT for $699.99 and keep it in-stock 24/7/365. We are being lied to 100%. And these companies are ruining the hobby. If the whole world wants to be a PC gamer and pay $1,000+ bucks for mid range junk they can have it. The truth is, I’m gonna be a last gen man from now on. That’s what I was before. It’s the best habit to practice. I’ll get my 5090 in 2 years! I’ll get my 5090 laptop in 2 years as well. These companies are literally dumping off all stock to scalpers, and system builders. As I have said before, there will be AI ran GPU dealerships in the future with 5-6 year financing options, and they’ll cost like 10-15K lol. Gaming is taking over at a level of holy crap. Unfortunately Acer has no such update for Intel 14th gen laptops. I’ve read that they aren’t really part of the degradation but I guess only time will tell. It really has been 100% reliable so far.

This 14900HX machine has been extremely reliable for gaming. No crashing at all, hours and hours and hours with consistency. I’ve got a feeling that even if I could undervolt it, I’d be running in to the “Out of vram error code” anyways lol. I tend to starve Intel chips on voltage and run them bare minimum. Anyways, the CPU is extremely fast for a laptop. Even though it’s all BGA, it’s seriously impressive how we have this in a portable package. I can’t really pick on the machine. It does the job really well. Especially after replacing the stock Liquid Metal and GPU thermal paste. I run the fans on auto and they are actually quiet. It has a turbo mode which really kicks up the GPU/CPU clocks, but it also kicks up the fan speed to cope with the extra power. This mode is not needed at all, I don’t feel the need to use it, the best part is I don’t have to use it. Auto fans run about 50-60% speed. My experience with the machine. Day 1: Meh it’s kinda cool 🫤 Day 2: I may want something else, unsure.. Day 3: I love it, I’m keeping it. 😁

That’s pretty good to hear. I’m going to just keep this machine then. I mean, It runs great. The first thing I noticed when playing games on this machine was how smooth it feels no chugging or skips. The panel is very good. I like that I can run 5% brightness on battery and it’s still useable, and I can get about sub 3 hours run time unplugged. I can’t really undervolt it, but that’s fine with me. The CPU is trying to push its self to MAX clocks within its MAX temp range lol. It likes to run on the warmer end, so long as it doesn’t skip around in games I’d be okay with any laptop. I may look in to further improving its temps, by using different thermal putty. When I re-pasted it. I scraped off all of the original thermal putty, put it in a bowl, mixed in some new thermal paste to make the putty soft again, cleaned everything up with alcohol, and re-used it all 🥴. So, I’m not really sure how effective that stuff is. But I guess it’s good enough. I have lots of thermal paste, lots of Liquid Metal, but no putty.

(8) fans and only 2 wires!!! I love these Lian Li P28 fans! They will match the case perfectly. Once the dual D5 distro plate arrives I can get to building.

I'd rather buy that than support Nvidia right now. The way I see it is, these GPUs are going to only get better. If the 9070XT is anything like AMD's prior GPU's then the performance should only go up. The 7900XTX looks pretty amazing right now in rasterization. It seems like it has come a long way.

This is a stock time spy run as a baseline for comparison. I really do not know how bad this may be. NVIDIA RTX 4090 (notebook) video card benchmark result - Intel Core i9 processor 14900HX,RPL IONIQ_RTX Even though it's a locked down BGA book like many call them these days. I still really like it. It absolutely folds my living room PC which is a LTT Golden sample 10900K/Intel ARC B580. I really need to add more storage to this thing though. The base 1TB is meh. Gaming is ultra smooth. Even if the CPU is throttling at times. I honestly really like having a laptop again. I can work in my kitchen, office, living room, wherever I want!

I wonder if @Premacan unlock the bios if I paid him. That would be really cool. 😎

Oh, I don't really care. I am kind of done with overclocking anyways. I am just going to use it for work. Everything sucks nowadays. Nothing much we can do.

Yeah I cannot undervolt at all. I am at the mercy of the Auto voltage.