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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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Where are my brothers from the UK part of the world? I need some places to look for a gaming pc. Thanks.

@electrosoft That batch lasted all day at that price.

2919.99 Gigabyte 5090 https://www.microcenter.com/product/690449/gigabyte-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-gaming-overclocked-triple-fan-32gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card

And here is one of mine PNY Epic. Core 2736/1750/65C. Running on my gaming drive with everything running. lol https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3394426

A guy made a shunt calculator along with the settings to change in gpz and hwinfo to get the correct watts. The problem I'm having is I used 1.5 which it does not calculate. 🤦‍♂️ Edit

Can you show me your stock runs for PR?

700W This one with max voltage slider. Both are with Gigabyte vbios. 761 Stock max voltage watts. Seems pretty significant increase over 600 to 636 spike watts....

Who knew shunting the card would show you your stock watts. 🙂 I would have given an exact number but .... well.... Amazon sent the wrong wireview. LOL Glad you found a good one to settle down with. You got me. At the last minute, I chose Amazon refurbished. The pictures and description said reversed. The one that showed up was normal. I think this was on their earlier cards because the 5090 uses normal. Edit: Normal when purchasing the angled Pro version, but reversed getting the normal version I went ahead and ordered from TG direct and the one I ordered is normal 90 degree with sensors for the Astral. https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/wireview-gpu-pro/s-tg-wv-90-p-h1n This is stock with no power or voltage adjusted 686W

Well, in reality, the power limit is going to be user-controlled as you can max out 600+ watts just running at stock clocks and voltage. My stock watts right now are something like 700W. So your main friend is going to be that curve editor with any vbios you choose. There is a performance variance between the Astral and Gigabyte vbios, being the Gigabyte is better, but as mentioned you lose fan control. If you're not going for benchmarks I would just stay with the MSI vbios. I mean my MSI card ran fine for gamingon stock vbios, but was not catching anyone on benching with it. @Mr. Fox So called Amazon and they said keep it and we'll send you a refund. Gotta love Amazon! On the hunt for the right now. LOL

So you didn't notice that stock boost clocks for the Gigabyte are 3000+, depending on temps and voltage slider? Might make things slightly higher? Also, these are really meant for people with water blocks and not stock air cooling as they wont have the same addressing for things like fans and hdmi or displayports. @Mr. Fox Wireview came today and you guessed it. It's the wrong one. 🤦‍♂️🤬