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Maybe better have a nap😁 Not all average Joe see it this way. If the PC cost above $1000 then it has to be good. And don't expect everyone know the difference between 8 and 16GB vram. You shouldn't give so much credit to humanity. Even stupids can be great people. Sad seeing they become screwed. See bolded text.

Nvidia is ready to help China with "cheaper" graphics cards for AI workloads. If you aren't alloved to sell higher tier graphics cards... What is better than offer them needed parts for DIY ? If they can offer the GB202 silicon and vram IC's much is done. And probably more difficult to track where it lands. Just use shell companies or/and their AIB partners around the China region. 48GB 5090's is incoming. But not for everyone. Jensen Huang will do everything for China. Even go outside the US ban for higher profits Samsung GDDR7 3GB modules now available for DIY purchase in China, RTX 5090 48GB mods incoming? In China, Samsung’s new K4VCF325ZC-SC28 24Gb memory is now on sale. Potential customers apparently need to buy at least ve modules to get free shipping, and each module costs around 10 USD.

Who is supposed to buy this? Microsoft's Surface Laptop 13 is worse and just as expensive as the Surface Laptop 13.8

Most people buy prebuilt systems and keep them 4-5 years. And up to $2000 for the whole systems and with 8GB vram cards in 2025 ain't nice. Rather ugly. Even $1200-1400 systems with this type of scam ain't pretty. But that's me. I don't like being scammed. I rather pay a bit more or buy used than support this form of tech degradation... And this ain't pretty. Form over function....

Why the 5070 ? Maybe the worst SKU in nvidias's lineup. I know you won't keep it but support Nvidia this way ain't very productive.

@Mr. Fox Here's the thing.... We had something similar with older Win 8/8.1 and Windows 10. If you run benchmarks and the processor maxed out at 100%. This smart ass operating system from Redmond figured out that you weren't using the machine if you weren't touching the mouse and hence started up collecting telemetry, maintaining the OS and then sending the data back to Microsoft's servers. Only because the OS think the machine wasn't in use when you run benchmarks. Maybe it will be the same with the new Win 11 build, but with baby cores running to collect your data (the P cores is disabled while Microsoft gets its share of your data/privacy). No in Hell Microsoft is able to do this correct. Windows 11 25H2 Introduces User Interaction-Aware CPU Power Management These adjustments may include lowering clock speeds and voltage, extending time spent in deeper C-State sleep modes, and disabling high-performance cores while leaving low-power cores active. This approach aims to optimize energy consumption without compromising system responsiveness.

Dedicated to @Mr. Fox😀

For the Red Team jockey's. What you see isn't what you think it is. Samsung isn't what they were in the older days... RX 9070 XTs with Samsung memory are almost 2% slower than those with SK Hynix despite having higher GPU frequencies AMD has not clarified anything, manufacturers do not want to talk We've been working on a cross-platform comparison of the RX 9070 XT recently, and during testing we noticed that many high-end graphics cards, no matter how high their base clock, how good their quality, or how capable their overclocking is, simply couldn't outperform some models with more basic materials and reference designs in 3DMark. The increased sale of Nvidia gaming cards is a lie. Just more 5090's feeded into China. Yup, that's spot on. I have said the same a long time now. China will always get what they want. And Nvidia's CEO Jensen is fine with that.

This. Nvidia can just stop the card from function properly afterwards with just the geforce driveres.... I look at you Maxwell (Nvidia killed voltage tuning with newer drivers and the voltage slider is greyed out/not working anymore even with kingpin cards and their own XOC software). And people want/need newer drivers as months goes, so.... Isn't that nicly done by Nvidia? And I'm 100% sure Nvidia could easly open up the max vram cap for 5000 series cards with their drivers if they wanted (this will overide any firmware lock). Both for desktop cards and those castrated soldered chips (better word for BGA) for Jokebooks.

Previous gen aka 4090 had access to 600W vbios. Even Nvidias own FE card. Would be nice to see if the RTX 6000 Pro have the hot spot monitoring. But I doub't it. At least Nvidia gave the 6000 Pro access to lowering the Power limits well below what you can do with 5090. So there is some differences. But why not for the 5090 ? Here is what @Mr. Fox looks for when he want to buy new gen processors. And Intel will offer in loads.... Better iGPU and more baby cores than ever. Can you really ask for more?🤐 Nova Lake-S could benefit from a hybrid GPU architecture And AMD learn everything from Nvidia. Or do they? AMD has limited Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB sampling based on ‘regional market deman

Hmmm. The 12v-2*6 adapter that follow with the FE package is the best in the tech industri🙂 From what I have seen, AMD cards just run hot on hotspoot temp and same with vram (this gen and previous). Not sure why Nvidia removed it but I doub't we would see same high temps on nvidia cards. My best guess... The FE cards run hot so Nvidia removed it from being monitored (even for the best cooled AIB cards out there). In short.... None of the customers should be allowed to know how hot it will reach. So this stupid move is only due the roasting hot running FE cards.

4x 8pin any day. And weird AMD cards run so damn hot compared to nvidia. A 600W Radeon card would be a disaster. It would cook itself to death within a month. Is this with out any tax? Aka MSRP ? What cost will it be added when you pay? Right below $3000 here home without tax (MSRP).

Hmmm. Also trash/buggy drivers from Nvidia help people migrate over to the Red side. Nvidia has reached Microsoft's low level now. Using more and more AI for geforce driver development show it's ugly face. Microsoft does exactly the same for their monthly weekly hotfix patches to patch previous buggy patches. Then create new problems. Use of less engineers come at a price. So this is to expect from today/tomorrow's tech world. Lower the bars, the happier you'll be. Or will you? NVIDIA releases GeForce Hotfix 576.66 drivers fixing crashes and bugs in several games

I'm sure you know the answer (and you say so). Black tubing is the only option for me. I used clear tubes many years ago. But only for a short time. Black is pretty. Black is classic. And black tubes offer less maintenance. So best of both worlds🙂 What a fantastic stupid connector design choice for the cards. They (the engineers) know the fragile tiny trash can melt/overheat and burn up, yet they prefer to hide the problem behind the 4th fan. Aka you'll never know what about to happens before it's too late. You may get lucky and get blackscreen and can find the problem. But not everyone understand what't about to happen. Here's @Mr. Fox looking on the stupidity from his smartphone... Aka nowadays computer for the young ones. Make stupid design choices... Then hide the tiny connector/cable to make it more pretty🙄 Gigabyte Launches the Aorus GeForce RTX 5090 Stealth Ice Graphics Card Here's one more. Hide the power connector behind plastic covers.... Out of sight. Out of mind. Until you can smell some burnt plactic. AX Gaming GeForce RTX 50xx X3W MAX Series Debuts With Hidden Power Connection System

LOL The 5090 is all too cheap.

He did some changes to his pc. + maintenance. Aka he did a few disconnects of the trash cable. Once he should start use it the Astral monitoring showed imbalanced amps. Total out of specs. He bough new cable and everything was well again. Just show how unreliable this tiny trash is. Aka saved by the Astral monitoring. nvidia should have done what Asus did with the ROG tax and implemented monitoring of the power pins/rails. Maybe they don't like critics of Nvidia?

We have now come so long that buying etc a new PSU ain't enough. You need buy spare power cables to be able to use your PC. Good luck try do that from some PSU vendors/manufacturers (Msi we look at you). Some will refuse offer you spare parts. Either due nothing in stock, don't sell spare parts or being difficult. Newer is newer. Not always better. The trend is crystal clear... You don't get what to expect. Not even if you buy the more premium products.

Hmmn. I wonder why I'm still on older Raptor lake refresh. Maybe the newer products from AMD and Intel doesn't offer much more than what I already have or want? Paying premium for the modern tile mess isn't exactly what I want. Nope, I'm fine with what I already have. New is just newer, isn't it?🙃

I have still not heard what nvidia will do with the Chinese market due possible (5090D /5090) US ban. If they are forced to make castrated 5090DD (dual dumbed down 5090s) I expect 5080Ti will have a hard launch for gamers (complete deficiency). China will grab +20-30% of all sub castrated 5090 cards with +24GB vram. Aka a horrible 5080Ti launch for the global market.

5090 is just an expensive midrange high end gamer cards. The more you pay the more you save. Here's Nvidia's new "gamer "flagship" card😀 Not sure this would please @electrosoft😁 The $10.000 cards almost sounds like a real circular saw. Very special sound from it. Not the worst I have heard but the sound from this is awful and more annoying than this one from my older post

So this was the culprit for Cablemod failure with the Cablemod 90° adapters. Bad construction. Aka bad quality. And me pointing out the problems and hence got banned from CM reddit. Oh'well. Honesty is not appreciated over there at CM reps/mods.

Why not the 5060? Towards a reduction in RTX 50 production in favor of AI chips?

The Astral is still high priced here home. More like $3195 (but still much cheaper then US). The TUF and a similar other 5090s dippping around $2200 now. Seen it down to $2140.

The nice thing here home. Each circuit breaker is 16 Amp or 3680W. And minimum two of them in the main rooms. So a total of +7360W. I had a complete electrical upgrade of the house 1.5 years ago, so it should be good until I'm finished here on earth🙂 The Intel Ryzen moment. ASSRock or/and AMD won't tell whom to blame. Maybe we will see some more dead Ryzen chips the next 3 years (from earlier batches chips).

Instead for buy overpriced low/mid end 8GB graphics cards 30-50% above MSRP there is options for those that don't care. Do Gamers Need A Graphics Card? iGPU Performance Explored I remember the flack Nvidia got from launching two different 4080 SKUs. One of the 4080 become withdrawn due wrong naming. AMD does the same in 2025 for 9060 XT. They never learned from Nvidia's failure/scam. The 8GB cards should be branded non XT and re labeled as 9050 8GB Edition... And nvidia continue with bad QC. Nvidia releases emergency RTX 5060-series firmware to fix blank screens on reboot