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One of my Hardware Lab 480mm radiators leaks. I did a leak test on it, and I can set 0.50 Bar, and that leaks down to 0.25 bar in about 2-3 minutes. Then It leaks down to 0.00 Bar in about 30-45 minutes after that. What a shame. This was a “Clearance Item” sold by PerformancePC’s so clearly I can see why it was on clearance sale (Someone returned it maybe) lol. But I’m not sure how they didn’t catch this. This radiator would probably work fine in a build without leaking, but you’d be slowly sucking air in to your loop which is really annoying. It would make your pumps noisy, and it would slowly pressurize your system. What a shame.. It’s going back 😎 PS: My other one does not leak.

Two 480mm rads so far. Black and white is GTR, all white is GTX. This Lian Li V3000+ can easily hold (4) 480x60 radiators. So, I might go with all four I’m still deciding! HWLabs GTX 480 (Lower FPI) HWLabs GTR 480 (Denser fin stack) While either one of these will run circles around any other radiator available. The GTR has some extra performance available for high RPM fans above 2,000RPM. While the GTX is gonna perform better with low RPM fans. Just one of these bad boys in push/pull will out do most (3) 360mm rad setups. 😃 It is pretty miraculous how good these radiators really are. (3) will outperform a big external rads. A million of them would never out perform a chiller 😂

Okay, I gave in and pulled the trigger! Singularity Computers Dual D5 V3000+ Plus Distribution plate. I optioned mine like this: The D5 covers are silver, and the accents and back cover are white. This matches my case perfectly! $330 shipped with taxes for a Dual D5 distro custom to my case is not BAD! I would have paid more for two tall individual reservoirs actually lol. This build is gonna be CLEAN!!! All 16MM hard tube, all black EKWB 16MM hardline fittings throughout, HWlab GTX/GTR white 480mm radiators. I’ve never done hardline before. I also bought a heat gun. I have everything else I need besides fans. I’m still deciding on those 😂 I want all white, and no RGB. delete repeated words

As an overclocker and heavy power user. I can say that PCIe Gen 5.1 seems okay to me. I haven’t ran a 5090 yet. But with my 4090 and 666W bios with no fans I have seen my connector reach 38c temps, and the wires reach 59c hottest under gaming sessions that last hours and hours, this is with no fans blowing on the GPU, and partly because the 4090 blows hot air on it, because if I increase my GPU fan speed and remove “Auto” the wires only run 40C. Since I use my system for work daily. I really think that this design works okay. It’s just unfortunate people are having issues with it. But I haven’t, so I can’t complain at all lol. The thought of this one little cable delivering all of that power is kind of amazing. I assume the 5090 will stress this even more, with even warmer temps. The RTX 5090 really needs like 700+ watts to comfortably flex its full potential in 4K gaming. I am grateful that nothing has melted. Fingers crossed it stays this way with my 4090, and potential future 5090.

I LOVE THIS!!! Amazing comment!

I was in Queue for 5090 FE 4 or 5 times. I have actually just set up a best Buy bot as of typing this with Auto Verification and Auto Buy. So, I am hoping I can just sit back and buy one now at this point. There was like 3 different drops I think. I saw the 5090 sell out, and come back in a few times. We are contending with scalpers 97%, and 3% people who want a 5090 to own and use. All of these cards just go right on eBay after someone buys one. Pretty sad.

Yeah Best Buy is a joke. I got in line like 5 times, one time I sat in line for 10 minutes or more and I felt like I was going to get it only to be let down. Also ,MSI is INSANE! PS: All of the best buy 5090's and 5080's that were sold today are all on eBay already being scalped.

BestBuy had a drop of 5090's and 5080's I got in line twice. It was a swing and a miss both times. This is ridiculous...

We’re screwed lol. This reminds me of the 3080 selling for $1200 or so. Now it’s just a tier below in GPU class. Give it a few more years, for the “Ultimate Nvidia Dream” #1“Gaming is a high end luxury for the wealthy Per Nvidia” #2 RTX 5060= $699 USD #3 RTX 5070= $899 USD #4 RTX 5070Ti= $1200 USD #5 RTX 5080= $2000+ USD #6 RTX 5090= $4500 USD I hope everything goes well and happy recovery Brenner!

It’s the mild after effects of brain washing is all. I’ve been dreaming of getting my hands on a 5090 Aorus Extreme WB. So when I see the replica version as a 5080 Aorus Extreme WB in-stock. I’m like, I can buy this card and complete my build! lol. But then I started to actually think about it 😂 and was like, ummm yeah no.. I’ll get a 5090 eventually. Though this stock issue is a distraction sometimes.

I think you’re right! This will probably be the only way to go. We’ve got to resort to last gen left overs.

I think Nvidia is making the same amount of GPU’s on launch that they always did. And maybe that’s the issue. And just Nowadays there’s a world full of PC gamers/Streamers/scalpers that we must contend with, and they’ve never really increased that demand. I never would have dreamed a graphics card would become so popular. I almost bought a Aorus RTX 5080 Waterforce WB model with the waterblock. It was $1,509+ tax. But I hesitated and it sold out. I didn’t feel right paying 4090 prices for something that’s not a 4090 at all lol. Less VRAM, and less speed.

We are all gonna be buying xx70Ti cards in the near future. Nvidia is slowly making the “High End Flag Ship GPU” so expensive that only the rich will be able to buy such a lavish graphics card. Scalpers gladly pay $5,000+ for the 5090 already. And this pushes the mid range GPU’s to $1,000+ range easily. So, in the next 4-5 years, I can see the 6090 or even 7090 ranging from $8,000 to $10,000 plus. This will put it out of reach for 99%. And these high end systems will begin to be only for those with high end wallets. I cannot afford a Ferrari, and I cannot afford a 6090 either, so I’ll probably be buying a 6070 for $1800. In all honesty, I was thinking about making some T-Shirts and putting the words “Stop the abuse” with a cancel sign over Nvidia. Because we are literally headed down a path where there is no Return. They’ll be Nvidia dealerships soon where we walk in and put down 20% now and finance the rest for 5-6 years, maybe they sell us a warranty in the finance office since Nvidia builds such shabby products anyways 😂 But yeah, the 4090/5090 will probably be the last hoorah for the avg man.

Very nice GPU! You were so fortunate to have been able to get one congratulations. Did you notice the MSI US Store site always crashes when there’s a lot of activity?

But I’m just using a single Gen 5 cable though, it’s not like yours. Pretty sure @Papusan thinks my GPU will cook.

So, my 4090 is gonna catch fire? I’m just using my stock PSU cable.

That looks like an aftermarket cable to me. I wonder how they are even plugging that cable in to their PSU at all! Its literally shorter than the 5090 is long 😆 Maybe they have an extension or dongle situation going on. @Papusan I genuinely have never had any problems when using a Gen 5 PSU though. I’ve seen my card sustain 670W in Metro Exodus. I just cannot fault it, it has been perfect. I use the dinkiest cable of them all. lol.😂 Before this, I did use a 4x8 dongle. But I hated that thing, it was hideous. It Did not cause any problems either though.

Man, I don’t see the problem with it, even with no fans just open test bench and 666w bios. I have my cable bent slightly and it works wonderfully. It’s yellow on the plug portion so you know it’s plugged in all the way. It just works. Ran this with both 4080 Super’s and this 4090.

You may have misread my post. I use this cable Gen5 to Gen5, no dongles, one cable. Never had any issues with my 666 watt bios since June of 2024 on my 4090 I run that dinky MSI 1000 watt Gen 5 PSU. It doesn’t even get warm. Corsair on the other hand, uses a retro fit dongle which is 2x8 pin to 1x Gen 5. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe I’m mistaken here. But I would rather have the single Gen 5 cable like the first picture.

I think a lot of the Corsair units were sold as 2x8 Pin on the PSU side that went to 12 pin GPU cable. So, technically it’s not a real Gen 5 cable on both ends, if that’s what he was talking about. I personally think just a single Gen 5 cable on both ends will work well. No adapters, no 8 pins.

THANK YOU LORD!! This is a blessing in disguise. Maybe scalpers will stop buying them now, and demand will fall. In other news! I got me two of these bad boys! 480 GTX and a 480 GTR, one left to go! 😁for a triple white 480 setup.

Hey that’s a pretty good deal. Sold out unfortunately though. I may do that. I really just wanted something fun to play with is all. Laptops are cool because they are all contained in nice quality feature filled package that’s portable. They look cool, feel cool, and I find them interesting. But, being completely honest I’m just window shopping and browsing around until I can actually snag a 5090 GPU when they come in stock lol. Highly unlikely you’ll see me buying a gaming laptop, unless it was an amazing deal. And I’m just not seeing that. I love the MSI TITAN laptops, but they are so overpriced. Something about their heft and looks is very appealing to me. Not really sure why, I just like them. It’s almost like I need to get it out of my system lol. I went through a phase a while back of wanting a GT77 Titan really bad.

Yeah I really don’t want to pay a fortune on some last gen stuff. Though I admit RTX 4000 series still feels like current gen lol. 😂 That’s never happened to me before.

I really like this one as well. $3200 OBO. I’m thinking about taking a stab at it. It’s a loaded up Titan GT77 13980HX+4090. Very tempting. I am not sure what my fascination with these machines is lol. But I’ve always wanted one. https://www.ebay.com/itm/387898747117?_skw=MSI+Titan+GT77&itmmeta=01JKKM4VJQX3R57DQNRZBJSKWV&hash=item5a509128ed:g:wfMAAOSwhwpnlUsk&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8HoV3kP08IDx%2BKZ9MfhVJKkTgwgtpf7bbC3f9KQgQqG%2BfBXkeVSfm9ojpRJ6ogDaSoM1IWiuUydboeieYj64WKN4Msxgnvxnx6uvtdmPa3U9Ro%2BdYEgbbI294cV89rnKljFavNXYTNJfZzWXd2TE6CaraHkE9mhA0y9vZ9pgU0tf7HVrVNEQy5Gux2ergISaC1jMDxAY13hg4rqZGpb8d%2BUHGDjePl7nXKuQWeFQ6%2FZ6RjMF8w5OGfSvcvSICyEZEXtuRtaZ2pMnpYgWbKm3e4QBvrXQ24XLmi9fj3aaOT2tieSrMzycgOwh87DYfDhtUA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7y5k_ScZQ

They have a 7950HX3D available as a laptop CPU? Amazing. I had no idea. @electrosoft how much was the new 4090 machine?