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Man I would embrace that so hard. Go outside with the rig and do some OC fun. Covered of course. Then light a fire inside and chill sipping some coffee.

I mean, there are multiple RTX 5090 GPUs available shipped and sold by Newegg right now. But the price is over $6000. But shockingly, they've remained in stock for over a day. If stock builds back up, we might actually see prices finally start to drop as well. https://www.newegg.com/asus-rog-astral-rog-astral-rtx5090-o32g-gaming-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814126751 https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-n5090aorus-m-32gd-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932760 https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-n5090aorusm-ice-32gd-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932765 https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-n5090aorusst-ice-32gd-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932810 https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-gv-n5090gaming-oc-32gd-geforce-rtx-5090-32gb-graphics-card-triple-fans/p/N82E16814932761 Don't everyone buy at once! Stand back people! LOL. At least the Gigabyte cards come with a motherboard?

She has expensive taste. It all makes sense now.

Well this was wrong. I foolishly thought the riser card was needed to connect to the BTF port but completely not needed. 🤣 It's for using to connect to a BTF board. The BTF to 12v2x6 cable works flawlessly. Near perfect 12v under 800w load with great per pin distribution.

Went into Microcenter to add the warranty. Brought the card with me and talked with the tech and manager about the artifacts. Had the video on my phone showing it happening on the desktop and in games. They said not normal and wanted to swap the card. They only had the demo unit they had on display behind glass left but offered that card. They took the card, put it into it's retail box and swapped the GPU and added the 2 year warranty. Just got the card in and it's significantly better and no artifacts yet. 57.6% ASIC, not a lottery winner but not a dud at all. My previous card would crash at 3300Mhz in GPUZ. This card does 3400Mhz and uses 1085Mv max. I'm just happy to have a card that isn't artifacting out of box. Got my adapter delivered and unfortunately, my Apex board blocks the cable. The heatsink gets in the way. Ugh. So now I'll have to use a small offset or go vertical or something. Not my favorite but it seems no choice.

Have any of you had weird artifact/purple like boxes flicker in your displays before? I can’t figure out what is causing this issue on my new GPU. Tried DDU. Tried swapping cables. It always seems to come back. Sometimes a restart takes care of it for awhile but it reappears randomly. Even happens in games which shocked me as I figured maybe it was an idle memory issue. Sorta stumped on it. I’ll upload a video later if I can

This is just really sad. The 5090 couldn’t be exported but a 84gb card can? Makes no sense. This card is easily better for AI given the vram and same core count. The slightly cutdown bus likely won’t hinder it much at all.

Probably did one of the most idiotic things I've done in a long time lol. I went to Microcenter the other day and took the last 5090 Astral 20th Edition they had on hand. The catch was you had to buy the entire ridiculous bundle. I'm not even kidding when I say I was shocked at the size of the boxes and it looked ridiculous packing it into my SUV. The price was just stupid. But I figured I could sell of the extra parts. I also sold my 5090 D HOF XOC locally for $6500 and it took a lot of the sting out of it. I sold off the motherboard and PSU and am likely going to keep the case because you can use it as a open air test bench which I've always wanted. This thing looks quality and I can use it as a vertical open air case too. So while I have no use yet, I plan to eventually build a nice test bench setup and this case will fit the bill. My biggest concern was I wanted a warranty on my 5090, and given the "D" model, I thought it might be hard to sell in the future locally. The reason I wanted this card was the dual power input. I bought the adapter and the adapter cable from China, so I can use the card with dual 12v2x6 inputs and no need to use a stupid BTF board. It also locked in my warranty for another 3 years and at the crazy price Asus charged. I passed on the Microcenter warranty, but I'm now wondering if I shouldn't go back and add it. I might even take the 3 year warranty, especially since things like mvolt exist now. Downside, the card is kinda meh. Like it's barely better than my 5090 D HOF which was already a terrible bin. Still need to really test it once I get dual power input on it and can push the amps. Upside is that it seems to undervolt like fairly well. I am able to run +350 at .9v for around 2850mhz. It shaved off around 100w for almost identical perf. Microcenter did have an already built unit, so there is a card in there technically I could swap for. But honestly, I don't just benchmark all day long, my time that I have I mostly hit up the games so I'm not upset the silicon is mid at best. The card is just ridiculous sized too. The cooler is insane. It has the 800w vBIOS by default, but of course you can't use that until you use the adapter/cable or BTF connector. Of course mvolt takes care of that too.

Congrats Mr. and Mrs. Fox! I just celebrated 13 years last month.

Kept my 5090D HOF XOC because I love the dual power input and I may as well keep a 5090. I also picked up a 5080 Astral before the price hike, thank god. Now that same GPU is $2700 at Microcenter which is just absolutely insanely stupid. I actually still have not opened it yet, been way too busy with work and picking up extra time. Now I hear a 24gb 5080 is coming and considering returning the 5080 and waiting for that as my secondary card. I'm still planning on grabbing that Nova Lake day 1 as is tradition lol.

Yes I believe it has all Extreme features. But the new "Extend limits using BIOS override" lets you essentially take any 5090 vBIOS and modify it's limits. Essentially letting you XOC any vBIOS file. It then simply does a driver restart to apply those new limits and they stick even after reboot, so set it and forget it. I guess it was some backdoor Nvidia put in to allow for OEMs to test hardware without needing to flash? AI has lead to insane advancements lately. Hard to keep up with all the changes. On a side note, I have offers to buy my 5090 D HOF XOC for $6000 locally. I am considering it, but then I'd be left without a 5090 and only a 5070 Ti and 5070 Prime on hand.

https://github.com/b00nz/mVolt/releases This new version of mVolt is insane! It basically has vBIOS editing! No more need to disable secure boot or mess with drivers. You load your vBIOS file, set the limits you want, and hit restart driver and boom unlocked vBIOS power limits/current/memory offsets with any vBIOS file. It also survives reboot and then you can use MSI Afterburner for overlay, etc.

I will hopefully be grabbing one day 1 LOL. I swear in my next house I need an entire basement as a man cave for all of this hardware I've been collecting over the years. I want to build a rack of test benches. Setup a nice home gym in one of the corners, a coffee bar and some nice lazy boys in the other corner with a big home theater setup.

Hard to keep up these days, so many changes. mVolt 0.33+ add many new features, including fan controls, new System Clock and Video Clock Offsets. No idea what they are for. Also have a new Xbar Ratio that allows even higher Xbar according to some. https://github.com/b00nz/mVolt/ @Mr. Fox Sorry to hear about your fuses, but glad it was just that and you'll have them fixed up with higher amp versions soon.

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/274990/274990 https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/273887/gigabyte-rtx5080-16384-250110-2 This should work. 450w from Aorus, should make all fans work and has a higher default boost. If not maybe Gaming OC, same 450w but lower boost by default. https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/273730/gigabyte-rtx5080-16384-250108