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Yep! I sold the Zotac 5080 last night. I had a buyer for the 5080 Astral too, and I was going to buy GTZ’s 5090 Gaming OC for $3,000. But I decided, what the heck am I doing with my life right now lol… Let me just keep the 5080 Astral and be happy with it. It’s so tempting to jump on that 5090 though. But, I just don’t really need it. This hobby can be so unhealthy at times. All for the love of PC hardware. 😀 The 5080 Astral OC is awesome. So, it really started to grow on me. And trying to be responsible has taken over. Im over here twitching man, wanting that 5090 like a crack pipe. 😂 But I know after I get it, I’ll probably feel guilty and irresponsible.

These 5060Ti’s are INSANITY. This one can run +525 on the core and does not give trouble until +550.

The Quiet bios is far superior to the Performance bios in my opinion on the 5080 Astral. And I can appreciate how ASUS set these two bios up. The quiet bios does not cap max TGP like most GPU’s with a dual bios option would. The quiet bios is 360-450w, and the performance bios is 400-450w. The Performance bios only runs a much more aggressive fan curve, so much so that you can hear the GPU just a bit. That rear fan noise everyone talks about on the Astral’s. Well, the quiet bios still has a 450w limit, but runs a much quieter fan curve. And the card has such an overkill cooler, you can’t even notice it temp wise. So the quiet bios is just better. No need to mess with the fan curves, this bios has them set up well. Im starting to like this card. 😭 May sell the Zotac instead. generate image code for forums

I’m just not as impressed with the 5080 Astral. I was expecting better. It’s a very nice looking GPU, and the dang card weighs a ton. I bought the Astral from a private party sealed/brand new. So no return policy with this one though unfortunately. It has proven to be very stable, I like the GPU software leveling feature, and per pin monitoring is. It doesn’t overclock all that much better than my Zotac’s maybe +50 more MHz, although it does send more voltage at 1075mv. My 5090FE would out clock all three 5080’s I have tested. I was expecting the 5080 to be the king of clocks over 5090. But it just hasn’t been this way. All three 5080’s landed around 3,142-3,187 at 4K using the 450w bios. Now, that’s not exactly a fair comparison. The 5090 was on water cooling, and it was shunted so it thought it was always pulling half power. My 5090 FE stock on air before shunt would run like 3,030-3,060Mhz depending on how demanding the 4K game was. so technically the 5080’s do clock well past that. 5080’s are all hitting PWR limits at 380’s watt range though. So they really need a shunt mod. They will pull more power but you have a heart monitor looking graph on the “PWR” area in MSI Afterburner, and that can cause latency spikes. The Astral definitely seems to be the best of the three overclocking wise. But it’s also running the coolest so that naturally will happen. I’m leaning towards keeping the Astral, unless someone buys it. I might go ahead and list the Zotac 5080 as well. And let fate decide! Whichever one sells I can keep the opposite lol. Also, one way to test your stock air cooled 5090 for max clocks to see how it would run “IF” shunted and on water. Go run Unigine Heaven at 1080P windowed auto fan speed, and start adding clocks in MSI AB, with HWinfo open, check the max reported clock speed during this period. Then subtract -70Mhz from that max. That clock speed is where it will land. I’m going to guess and say your MSI is probably a really good sample. I think your Astral probably was too. This method is nearly fool proof though.

I bought this Astral from a Reseller on Marketplace who is local to me. It was sealed in the box. After I handed them the money, I opened it right in the spot to just confirm it was legit. And it definitely was, so I grabbed it. It’s a very nice 5080 though! It’s actually starting to grow on me. 😬 uh oh. 😂 I do like the cooler on it. Man, it runs like 58c full tilt overclock with its default 450w bios. And auto fans. My Zotac 5080’s are pretty good but horribly inefficient idling on the desktop. As a matter of fact, both Zotac 5080’s I tested idled at 30-40 watts. This Astral idles at 10-13 watts. That 5090 cooler on this thing is the real deal.

I picked up a brand new 5080 Astral to play with. It’s pretty nice, and it was a good deal for a new Astral. It doesn’t do much over my Zotac Solid Core 5080 though. Other than running 20c cooler. I remember when I bought a MSI 4080 Super Expert and I didn’t really like it, and I swapped to a MSI 4080 Super Suprim OC. The difference was astronomical. It felt so much better, it overclocked better and even performed much better. I just loved the 4080S Suprim OC so much. Coming from the Zotac 5080, and popping in the Astral 5080, it feels like I have committed a sin and I almost feel guilty or nauseous. 😂 We’ll be seeing a like new Astral 5080 on marketplace here shortly. It’s a nice GPU. But I do not feel or notice a difference other than super low temps. And yes it’s freaking massive! I had to add (2) 45 degree fittings, and remove the flow meter for my CPU inlet tube to clear the width of the card. I’m not really digging the 5080 Astral OC as much as I thought I would.

Yeah it’s very tough these days. 5080‘s are taking over lol. Too many of THEM! I did think about grabbing a PREMO 5080 to play with. Maybe an Astral or Master. Newegg has a $240 off promo on the Aorus Master ICE 5080. But that Astral looks great! Would like to try a 1.125v card, and see how that performs. Was thinking if I’m going to ride out on 5080, let’s make it a premium 5080. If you do sell your 5090 that’s it. These prices are insanity trying to grab another. I scour the internet everyday. Microcenter for $3,499+ Tax is probably the best bet for a Gaming OC 5090. That is an insane price you paid! It really is. The AI community has just hammered the 5090’s. It would be great if some sort of forced update crippled the 5090’s performance in AI. Maybe where if an AI workload is detected it only sees 8GB VRAM or something. 😂 I’m looking at eBay flooded with coreless cards and I’m shocked how GPU’s even got here. Could someone tell me what they think about this motherboard? I really like it!

I almost got scammed on a 5090 tonight!! I drove 65 miles to buy a ASUS RTX 5090 TUF which was listed for $2,800 USD. After meeting him, I inspected the card, no core, no memory chips, fans unplugged etc, stripped screws pure junk, I turned him down right away and explained the situation (He played dumb of course) , then I quickly left feedback to try and help any other potential buyers, let’s just say I didn’t buy it! See my review below. (He had like (5) 5090’s apparently) Here is the Facebook ads attached as well. It’s still up! What a scammer!! This was not a FIFTY-NINETY but it was a FIFTY-NONE-dee lol. https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQULuMgY3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Dang! Ya’ll I got fired today. Been with the company 6 years now. I’m kind of relieved. 😌 PS: I ordered a Alphacool block for my 5080! 😎

I do think I’m probably going to shunt mod and waterblock this Zotac 5080. I been holding out hoping some magical 5090 deal comes along. But, I don’t think it’s going to happen.

Yeah the Astral 5080 is a joke money wise. These cards are $1,950 USD BEFORE TAX lol. 😂 Well in NC if it’s 10 years old or older, we don’t need a title to sell as junk or sell for parts, I’d only want a title if I’m reselling the vehicle to a person as a running car, which rarely happens. Checking the vin is easy to do, but if it’s not marked stolen when you buy it, and then suddenly reported stolen right after you buy it, then no checking can help avoid that situation. Which is apparently what happen with the Jeep.

Man the guy with the Astral was very iffy. It was a 2 hour drive just going there. We were good for $1,300. Then I was about to leave, and he messaged me and said another guy offered him $1,350. And if I wanted to one up the other guy, I could pay $1,400 lol. I didn’t say anything, then he said NM guy wasn’t serious if you want it for $1,300 C’mon and get it and I’ll stop taking messages. Then he messaged again! Okay, guy for $1,350 is serious now, if you want for $1,400 you can come get it though. I told him no, I need a 100% legit deal if I’m coming. Then he messaged again, said he felt bad and he would now take $1,300. And I just couldn’t drive this far with him potentially changing his mind again or trying to get more from me when I got there. 😂 He went back and forward on me three times! But I will tell you all a crazy story! I bought a junk car Wednesday, I towed it home, after getting home with it, my phone notified me that a tracking device was nearby. Presumably inside this 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee that I just purchased which was sitting on my trailer 😁. So, this Jeep was full of trash. Who knows where it was, I didn’t really care. I was gonna haul it in for junk. I paid $180 dollars for it, and was offered $550 (Easy money) the next day sheriff shows up at my door. “Is this your Jeep” yep! I bought it! “You got a bill of sale?” Or “Title?” NOPE.. But I have a string of text messages showing who I bought it from though and where to go pick it up at. “SIR, this Jeep is reported stolen” “You are in possession of it” “Can I have some ID?” Handed over my ID. And then about 4 more Sheriff vehicles and two unmarked detective vehicles rolled up at my house. OH CRAP.. They said well, the owner may decide to press charges, and you could be arrested for theft of a motor vehicle. I started getting very upset at this point. No freaking way right now. I had to explain the story a few times to two different detectives and show the texts and conversations again about how I obtained this 2004 Jeep. They wanted me to make a recorded and written statement. And describe the guy who sold it to me. After giving them everything they needed. I offered to bring the vehicle back to where I got it. Which I did lol. They said This guy has sold three cars out of the same location under false pretense to other people just like me. The tracking device that was in the Jeep belonged to the Sheriff department lol. 😂 they also had cameras out there mounted to trees. This area was a flood area and has a lot of abandoned homes and RV’s, cars, trucks out there. Anyways, I thought this was crazy! I have purchased and sold about (40) cars, trucks, vans so far just this year. And this was the first one ever reported as stolen in all my time of doing this off and on over the years! And fortunately the truth set me free on this 100%. I was only out the $180 and cost of gas. Which they said I may get back, since I was a victim in all of this I was able to identify the guy though a picture they detectives showed me. So they already knew exactly who he was, and who they were looking for.

I’m hopefully picking up an ASUS RTX 5080 Astral OC tomorrow for $1,300 cash. I’m going to try to negotiate a bit once I meet the guy. It’s about a 2 hr drive. But it’s an amazing deal. If the card is terrible for some odd reason, and not worthy over my Zotac Solid 5080, I can always sell the Astral 5080. Those 5080 Astrals are very nice. But new MSRP cost is CRAZY TALK!!! Edit: Anyone playing the game Crimson Desert? It’s actually really good.

So I may try another 5080 model for fun. I sent the Newegg Zotac 5080 Solid Core OC back today. If I could find a white Astral 5080, or maybe the Aorus Extreme WB model for not crazy prices. I had so much fun testing these two 5080’s. Maybe a Giga Master OC 5080. 🥹 @electrosoft the higher voltage card, my original Zotac was the better overclocker in the end. It was weird, on paper the low voltage card looked great at first showing crazy high clocks idle, low power consumption. But under an actual load, the other one would clock higher in actual games, score higher in benches, and it was more stable. Weirdly enough, it also ran cooler by 2c at least. They even had totally different color thermal pads and all. Maybe that had something to do with it. You could see the pads from the side of the cards. One had solid black pads, the other had light gray pads.

Yeah I feel silly now. The $2,700 dollar Astral seems like a great deal right about now. You got any of those? 😁😁😁!! @Mr. Fox Rocking triple 54mm thick HW lab GTX 480’s with Quadra pumps! Two in main case compartment, and one in the basement. These rads are insane. Have you ever tried them? I got hooked when someone sent me one years ago in a 280mm variant, it outperformed (2) 30mm thick EKWB classic 360’s. Hot air does not stand a chance in this case. It is pushing hot air directly up and out of the case, as well as intaking cool air from the front of the case. And from the basement side panel of the case.

I am confident we could probably snatch up (3) RTX 5080’s for $3,000 USD. But yes you’re right the 5090 really is the worst value in history right now. That’s really crazy! Since we can’t even find one for an even 3K USD. I think (3) used 5080’s and (1) used 5070 would 🟰 (1) retail 5090. 😃

Man, the clocks we can run on a 5080 is awesome! GPU Tweak III lets me run 34,500 on the GDDR7. This gives a +15% memory bandwidth increase of a stock RTX5080. It gets really warm with auto fans playing Death Stranding II at 4K. The thing is not bad for $1,000 bucks!

It’s hard to justify keeping the 2nd one lol. That one came from Newegg, and it costed me $1,500 overnight delivery. The one I’m keeping was a different story, it was $1,000 bucks off of Facebook. I’d love to keep both. But I will definitely buy lossless scaling and give it a try this weekend though. I’m going to hang on to the other 5080 for a bit at least. I’m blown away by performance right now. Coming from a 5090 though. I did not have high expectations for the 5080, but this thing is freaking sweet!

Alright! Now that I have been able to bench and test both cards head to head without a locking up PC. Let’s get in to the details. These two cards are identical models! One built in Indonesia, the other one built in China. Origin: Made in China. Card A: Zotac Solid Idle clock: 210Mhz Max voltage @30c: 1060mv Max core OC idle @30c: 3382Mhz 1075mv frequency idle @30c: 2,977Mhz Origin: Made in Indonesia. Card B: Zotac Solid Idle clock 210Mhz Max voltage @30c: 1040mv Max core OC idle @30c: 3,420Mhz 1075mv frequency idle @30c: 3,007Mhz Card “B” seems better to me for daily gaming, it responds better to higher offsets, it responds better to undervolting. It sips power, I can run 900mv@2,977Mhz which is faster than stock clocks, which sends +120-+135 extra mv to the core and runs about 2,867Mhz in games. It loses nothing at 900mv. And it runs about 220 watt in extremely demanding 4K games I will flash the 450W Astral bios to both and see who shines under the flame of heat though, we know these cards can perform differently under actual loads. I flashed the Astral Extreme 450W bios to card “A” so far I still can’t get the idle 30c clock speed to exceed 3,367-3,382Mhz range without locking up. But, it’s performing great in Steel Nomad so far! I broke 10K, that’s not bad for a 5080. I’m really just curious who can handle the 450w bios the best! The RTX 5080 doesn’t show its self very well in Steel Nomad lol. It’s better in games.

Im not sure if I’ll keep them both yet. I may return one. I do like them though. Build quality of Zotac is pretty good. It feels dense and high quality. I have never owned a Zotac GPU before now. I’m going to research dual GPU’s a bit and see if there are any benefits. Edit: One more thing, neither of these Zotac’s have any coil whine. I think that’s one of @electrosoft big pet peeves. Speaking of which. Man I wish I could send you a power supply so you could have a listen your self. It’s an EVGA 1300 P+, It’s only a back up unit. But it is the loudest power supply you’ll ever hear in your life. Full on screaming coil whine that changes with mouse movement. YOU WOULD LOVE IT! I mean, you can hear it across the house.

Yep! That was it! A data cable just like a printer would use. It’s like a fire wire on one end, and USB-A on the other end. I ran it from my monitor to my PC. Furmark 4K has been running for 56 minutes now. What a tail chasing experience this has been!

35 minutes and counting still running Furmark!

I will check this. I have errors, criticals, and a bunch of warnings!! TPM not enabled, unexpected shutdowns, Ethernet lost connection, LSO was triggered. I have tried just 1 ram stick earlier. UPDATE: I unplugged my USB A to USB A that was going from my monitor to my desktop and suddenly now it’s not crashing. I don’t know what that would do. I’m not sure why. I had my webcam, keyboard, mouse all plugged in to my monitor, and then my monitor USB A plugged in to my motherboard. I eliminated that connection, and suddenly things seem okay. Fingers crossed here. Furmark 4K has been running for 25 minutes now.

I ran Furmark and the system just locked up on the new M.2 SSD with new OS installed. It took about 8 minutes. Dang, I guess it’s time for new board and CPU. I don’t know what else to check.

Yep, I have ran both RTX 5080’s in the bottom slot PCIe. I also tried X16 and X8 mode. We tested the 5080 in my son’s system and it works fine. I just reinstalled Windows 11 on a brand new 512GB M.2 SSD. Fingers crossed. I am only running a single M.2 2TB, I pulled that out, and trying the 512GB now.