jaybee83

aight boiz my trigger finger is itching. starting to see offers on ebay (would never buy there, retail shops only!) and also found a shop in france that sell the Suprim SOC barely 300€ above my spending limit i set for myself for this card. its getting interesting!

its here boiiiiiiz time to update bios, chipset & igpu drivers, set up process lasso (not taking any chances) and then see what this chip can do 🙂 also got myself a V2 AM5 thermal grizzly high performance heatspreader. u might remember that they changed the manufacturing on these, with the new version performing 5C lower than the initial release.

nice, lets push our little forum to new popularity heights andgive those reddit clowns a run for their money 😄 omg....why would anyone do that. i hope the owner of that card is aware that the wrap is basically suffocating the metal fins on that card 😅 keep those deetz coming on how the new one is treating ya! yup i feel ya. with the little princess around and job starting back up in april (end of my parental leave), the little freetime i have is mostly spend with a bit of quality alone time with my lady, as well as playing games. but i recently started compiling a new benchmark suite to get some base numbers on my current setup before new CPU / GPU arrive 😛

damn thats crazy, right smack between the 3090 Ti and 4090, talk about bang per buck! dude, congratz! im jealous, although the stream of 5090s available for purchase has been quite constant recently, MSI cards are few and far between. most of them are basic zotac / gainward / palit cards, which i have zero interest in. and the few MSIs are either ventus / gaming trio or the liquid SOC. the only place im seeing the air cooled SOC is on ebay, ugh... im like you in this regard, when spending such a huge amount of money i damn well sure get the card i actually want! anyways, my 9950X3D will be arriving tomorrow, so thats nice at least 🙂

dayum...so that makes the 5090 even less enticing, considering were basically comparing stock 5090s at 600W to fully unlocked and OCed 4090s.... ugh but then again...everything will be leaked sooner or later 😛

LOL they probably thought it was a scam cuz it was TOO cheap and once u bumped it up it came into the realm of "possibility" of it being real 😄 crazy times

sure hope ure planning to put a waterblock on it then....the stock cooler is already at its limits out of the gate 😅

nice loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong desktop 😄 yeah the image quality is something u may read a lot about in reviews but i find it something different still to actually experience it in person 🙂 enjoy those new displays! ikr, lets see what an AMD RTX-4090 equivalent would look like on equal power footing! welp....this just goes to show how dire the situation must be at Intel that they go the bean counter route now....ugh LOL i had to laugh hard at this, so basically owning a 4090 absolutely MAXIMIZES your chances of "winning" that 5090 purchase lottery... thats crazy. 322 out of total 820 4090 owners got an email, thats 39.3% 37 out of 1847 non-4090 owners got en email, thats 2.0% thus, owning a 4090 increases your chances by 20-fold(!!!), insane 😄

please do keep us posted with 600W+ 7900XTX results and how the PTM7950 is treating ya, very curious on those results! 🙂

aaaand managed to place a third order, now 25 bucks BELOW MSRP! this is a good day 😁😎 Nvidia, take notes: THIS is how u do supply and sales!!!

snatched a second one at MSRP and cancelled the first one, 30 bucks saved! 😄😄😄 i was actually thinking of you bro Fox when reading through the 9950X3D reviews. its regularly beating the 9950X at the same power budget, it seems they kept all the high bin chiplets for this sku (both X3D and non-X3D chiplets). the X3D clocks up to 5.55, with the non-X3D going to 5.7. funny enough, at the stock power budget of 200W the all core clocks 100-150 Mhz higher than the regular 9950X, pointing to improved V/F curves. so the X3D part MIGHT actually overclock better. wanna give it a shot? 😏😁

boom. snagged one 8 minutes in at 4% above MSRP. can totally live with that 😄 could be here by end of this week! w00t w00t! edit: LOL damn i think i was lucky / fast this time around. the shop i got it from was sold out inside of 3 minutes 😄 edit2: no wait, they just got in more supply. enjoy the race, folks! 😄 edit3: aaand theyre gone again....total 7 minutes in stock lulz edit4: aaaand another supply drip just in. ok, enough with these edits! anyone else here on the hunt?

color me impressed! definitely worth the wait, about 30-40% uplift in games vs. my 7950X and even in productivity it regularly beats the 9950X! take a wild guess what ill be doing tomorrow:

nice, thats pretty good value for 100 bucks more.

kool....so whos skipping the 5090 to get one of DEEEZ NUTS? 😄 edit: as for the 5090, prices keep falling and supply keeps improving. just now one of the shops im monitoring got in 8(!) 5090 Suprim Air, and theyre not vanishing inside of seconds. same goes for stuff on ebay and amazon. im thinking that the market demand for 5090s at ridonkulous markups over the MSRP has dried up 🙂 keep HODLING guys, were getting there!

aww why are u joking? DO IT 😄 when at first i got my TX1600 ATX2.4 version I was wondering to myself if i should later upgrade to the ATX3.1 version. i am sooo glad that i didnt. all 8pin goodness on the PSU side, enough wattage for two 12v2x6 connectors, super quiet and efficient and 12 years (or rather 10 left) of warranty. will not need another psu for a long time! i have a wattmeter permanently hooked up to my rig and the highest ive seen thus far was 1125W or 70% of stock psu capacity. i think ill be good even with a 5090 and a 9950X3D in there 🙂

still rocking the 4090 suprim and on the lookout for a 5090 suprim. today was actually the first time i saw one available for purchase at an online retailer outside of ebay. price was still too high though, albeit getting lower every day. shouldnt be long now anymore 🙂

oh is that the case? i just ran some quick PR and speedway and the numbers looked alright. edit: whoa this seems crazy: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidia-geforce-572-70-whql-driver-download.455596/page-5#post-6314902 definitely not seeing a 5-10% perf drop here 😮 but ill keep an eye out on those mentioned stutters during loading...

welp, if anyone is interested: i finished setting up a fresh windows install, now on 24H2 (including all the lovely performance bumps for AMD cpus) and i ran into the black screen on boot issue on driver 572.65 (was aware of that on 50 series but seems like 40 series is also affected). just updated to 572.70 and issue seems to be fixed. lets hope this sticks 😄 soooo, anyone excited and ready to get a 9950X3D next week? 🙂 curious to see if theres gonna be any impact on the max. DDR5 spee / timings i can achieve with the new CPU. held back on a bios update for that reason, as well. will do everything in one felll swoop (fresh windows, latest chipset, bios) once i got my hands on the new cpu.

very nice info my man, thanks for that. sticking to my gut feeling and keeping an eye out for the Suprim 🙂

no idea if ure already aware of that, but: with Asus its possible to downgrade even "non-downgradeable" bios versions via bios flashback functionality. the USB port for bios flashback is dumb, so it basically just flashes the bios file thats on the stick without any version checks. i was able to downgrade a bios via that route, even though the changelog said that downgrading was not possible (verified that i wasnt able to flash bios the regular way). but bios flashback worked like a charm 🙂 dual bios FTW! perfect for playing around with new revisions 🙂 one of the many reason is went with the Extreme board, one of the very few X670 boards that has two bios chips. btw, saw this review of the Gigabyte Master RTX 5090 by HUB, very interesting: VRMs for the core are +2 vs. the Suprim, albeit likely with lower amperage rating per VRM. and the temps are better for both core and VRAM. this likely due to the fact theyre using putty for the whole cards instead of pads (plus liquid metal-ish on the core). it also sports 2 more heatpipes than the Suprim (13 vs. 11 heatpipes) BUT: The Suprim weighs a whopping +1KG more than the Master. Number of heatpipes is not all, also depends on the size / diameter. So although the data looks promising the pricing should be quite similar between the two, im thinking the Suprim would still be better once swapped over to LM and thermal putty. What do u guys think? That 1kg less weight makes me very suspicious....and the putty can do quite a lot to improve temps, esp. in combo with LM. just some thoughts to pass the time until prices come down (and bugs get rectified 😄 )

gotta go for 4K minimum, otherwise ull be cpu bottlenecked to kingdom come 🙂

geez, the more of these tech desasters surface, the happier i am with my current setup 😄

HA! shocker, completely and utterly unexpected, i stand baffled

in this context, pulled out my suprim yesterday: here the PSU cable plug, original seasonic that came with my TX-1600 (ATX 2.4 version) and terminating in 2x8pins on the PSU side. here the gpu socket. all is well it seems. dont mind the slight discoloration in the upper left corner of the socket, thats actually just a bit of dust (yeah my case needs a bit of cleaning 😄) i think in total ive unplugged this cable maybe twice now....? so "should" be good to be used for a third time, which will likely be its last until i get my hands on a 5090.