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Have not upgraded to newer driver either and running onscreen display as well, but with that 4x help none of that really matters. About to turn it all off and see how it fairs.

Running FG$ i get 400+ frames at times. Right now average is 350fps with no over clock. But you are right, i was at like 70 to 90 with it turned off.

Well load up the 4090 laptop and get to testing. I'll load it up on my laptop and see what it can do at 2k/5070ti

It also came with my Astral and my laptop. Plus a few other games I need to get installed.

If it's passable on benching and able to hold all my drives, then I would just give the Apex back and wait on next gen in that respect and grab another AORUS Master and call it a day. If I have no plans on a 5090, then the Master would be the final answer. PS, I already gave mine back and went back to my Z790 Apex. I loved the options the new board had, but could not get past those crappy CPU's. In some respects, they did pretty well, but I felt that it was going backward because we were used to at least 32 threads, and 24 just wasn't doing it for me.

The other alternative is abit more costly, but you can add a 4 nvme drive enclosure using those USB4 ports. The con to this is that the enclosure would need to be kept cool enough to keep maximum write speeds. I could be routed inside the case near the fans as an option. Read and write speeds up to 3.5K, but using TB5 it's 6K or so. I use this as an option when running other drives, because taking out the GPU over and over gets annoying. Not sure what this means for you... Edit: From their site. AMD Ryzen™ 8700 & 8600 & 8400 Series Desktop Processors* 2 x PCIe 4.0 x16 slots with Q-Release Slim (only supports PCIEx16_1 & total bandwidth for x8, PCIEx16_2 will be disabled) AMD Ryzen™ 8500 & 8300 Series Desktop Processors* 2 x PCIe 4.0 x16 slots with Q-Release Slim (only supports PCIEx16_1 & total bandwidth for x4, PCIEx16_2 will be disabled) AMD X870E Chipset 1 x PCIe 4.0 x4 slot 1 x PCIe 3.0 x1 slot * Please check the PCIe bifurcation table on the support site (https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1037507/). Just an option to think about.

Question, now that you guys have had a chance to play around with your cards. What is your stock and top overclocked scores for Steel Nomad today? @electrosoft @jaybee83 @tps3443 Were you able to run and keep your memory overclock speeds at 2125 average the whole run?

I have the MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG-061US. I7 255HX/512GB/16GB/240Hz 1600P/5070TI. Already changed the memory to 32GB and about to change the 512GB to 4TB of storage. It replaces an older MSI laptop I had for work.

I was not joking when I said the Dubai Edition. They love everything in gold.😂

That's the Dubai edition.

Cool. So have you heard any news on when yours is going to ship?

In the words of everyone here....I sure hope it's form over fashion.

That score is not very promising with a shunt mod..... He might be missing the steps to make the score much better and more presentable for other FE owners. This score I posted on OCN is using stock cpu and memory. Meaning bios is stock right now. Which is good news for SN as this means nothing else is really influencing the score. It's pure GPU https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5920108

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