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@tps3443 Ah, ok. I thought you were able to lock it then set a core speed by typing in say 200+ and see if the core stay locked at the voltage set. speed will def go up and down though. In other news I snagged an Astral today at Micro Center!

Oh, I was only doing that to show you how the locked voltage worked. To see if you could lock at 1.V. I wasn't trying to do anything. LOL

@tps3443 I was thinking it was already done. My bad. As to voltage, you can try this and see if it will lock the higher voltage. You are not trying to break any records or anything, only trying to lock the voltage and move the core. In the picture it's only 1105 because I'm not using a full screen bench test, so it slightly lowers itself. That and temps. Also that yellow line is the locked voltage point.

Can you post some of your benchmarks of before and after showing gains? Shunting has to make sense and actually do something other than show more watts with worse performance. And going by effective clocks. I have yet to be above 3 ghz yet. 572.83 had my card not running the same, so on this card i did not use that driver. Not sure if there are any blocks yet. I need to check. Also I remember flashing an Astral vbios and it did not unlock 1.1 volts for me. Now I wonder if that was really an Astral vbios.

That's what im trying to do right now, but voltage seems to be all over the place... Edit: It's the the Epic RGB OC model. And the Gaming trio someone who could not get a card bought it off me.

Before I can get to shutting it it has to be a good card to work with. And right now it's hard to say as at stock it's pulling 630W

Without the slider, its 1.085V and with slider, it's 1.110V And my PCIE slot voltage and 16-Pin voltage go no lower than 12.1. While my other card dipped in the 11.8 to 11.9 range. Please be a good card.😂

I'm still tripping out on the voltage. it's 1.110V! So a shunt mod would actually do this card justice or an unlocked power mod PNY vbios. I had not seen any other card with a voltage that high before.

Thank you @Mr. Fox ! Package arrived safe and sound and it up and running like a champ! Okay, so i ended up selling my Gaming Trio 5090 to one of my customers and grabbed this PNY Epic from Microcenter a little while ago. And I must say i was quite surprised at it's stock bios settings.

Did you shunt mod your card already or get the tools and vbios to unlock your card?

Intel is about to have serious problems as well. China is kicking them to the curb for local chip manufacturing. Guess they dont want US tech in none of their goverment machines anymore either.

Of course we still have problems getting 5090's. LOL 3059.99 was the sticker price.

Thanks bro. I'm not so sure Zotac is actually trash this go round. They have their own 5080 450W vBios and it's sitting pretty high up the ranks.

Got a text to get to MC. I grabbed the very last one.

Well alrighty "Mr You're gonna carry me" When do we start. 😂

Wait, is that for real? I was debating on starting to play that game as my buddy said it was pretty good.

Does your country have a 150% tariff going on?

You already know how to get a hold of me if I'm not active here. 🙂

How much are you selling the Mora Radiator for?

I guess the real question would be, better than what? LOL As for this Firestrike benchmark. You have to find the right core count and get test one in the 400 fps range. Then you can run the full bench.

https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33211678 https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33211691

Hummm, 28 cores. Try just disabling HT and see what you come back with first.

Been camped out for 6 days and all I got was a Zotac 5080. The only 5080/5090 that showed up in 7 days.

Hummm, had to think about that for a moment.... I was in the store for something else and asked about 50 series cards. They said they had some 5070's and I was like. That's a hard pass. Went to online order line and a manager said John, we know you're looking for a 5090, but we have this 4090 sitting here. Do you want it? I thought for a moment. I was like, sure. Why not. I'll hold onto it for you guys for a few weeks. The actual price on the box was 1745.96 though

Is the hype real or fabricated for the Astral?