Mr. Fox

Good job on that brother. Yeah sorry to hear about the lung problems. For your dad and sisterwas it entirely heredity or did they also do the same type of work that contributed to the problem?

Glad it was just a poor connection. Sort of. Unfortunately, having a poor connection with these garbage cables is common. They are fragile, inferior and the people responsible for making them a standard need to lose their jobs and be forced to find a new occupation. One they are good at, 'cause they suck at their current job.

Glad to see you are making good progress, brother.

Probably has been plugged in and removed too many times. So far everything is staying evenly distributed across the pins according to both of my WireView Pro 2, but I have have not disturbed the cables very often. You have been doing a fair amount of GPU shuffling recently and these are pretty fragile connectors.

It's too bad the Astral 5080 isn't a good silicon sample. Everything in the realm of GPUs is totally random now. Paying more for the most premium model(s) now only guarantees that you will pay more for it and it will have an extra bell or whistle, but the possibility that silicon sample might be an inferior one, or it will have other defects like severe coil whine, is exactly the same as the cheapest models. Glad you got a decent sample and slightly better price on the Best Buy open box 5090. Are you going to do the Astral fan resistor mod so you can cross-flash a better vBIOS? It's a black one, correct?

Sickness? GPS? GPU Derangement Syndrome?

That is still on the public trump.com web page, no need to use the Way Back Machine. It was certainly written by someone on the T1 Mobile media team that is not very tech savvy. It is not a statement by Trump himself. T1 Mobile is using the "Trump" name (business entity) under license. https://www.trump.com/media/trump-mobile-launches-a-bold-new-wireless-service I could not find any claim on the https://trumpmobile.com/ making a false claim that the phone itself is made in the USA. Of course, we do not expect NBC or any other fake news organization to disclose anything that goes against their irrational, TDS narrative or otherwise does not fit their leftist agenda. The media hates Trump and Trump supporters and everything they publish is fabricated, spun or taken out of context. The Trump Organization is a massive business empire that has nothing to do with his political office They hate Trump, Musk and all other successful business men that are not supporting of the leftist agenda. (Elon, Mark Cuban and Jeff Bezos also used to be on their list of beloved businessmen. That changed to hate when they dared to not shift as far left on everything as they wanted them to.) The phone is made in China. There is no question. Someone from T1 Mobile published a marketing piece that is technically ignorant (using the company name under license) misspoke. Probably enough said at this point since it is off topic.

In typical leftist fake news style, the TDS-afflicted imbeciles at NBC News misreport and take things out of context in a feeble effort to cast the people they hate in a negative light. Nothing I can see published on the Trump Mobile web site (or the video on the "About Us" page) claims the hardware is made in America. The customer support is 100% US based and the services provided reflect conservative American values, better than mainstream pricing and patriotism (military discount, etc.). They offer a BYOD option as well. It is about the service provider, not about the hardware. Nice try NBC idiots.

https://www.overclock.net/posts/29592248/ Ryzen is weird in a lot of ways coming from Intel, especially on memory overclocking. Results are very similar with looser timings at the same MT/s speed. The looser timings allow lower voltage and it has a very tiny effect on benchmarks and probably zero effect on what you could feel or see outside of a memory benchmark. On a CPU with 3D vCache the difference matters even less, but latency takes a minor hit in memory benchmarks. I think my preference at this point is a CPU without any 3D cache. https://www.overclock.net/attachments/1781114307488-png.2769551/ Edit: I have noticed that the 9950X (X870E Apex) is consistently lower benchmark score versus 4585PX (B850MPOWER). Not sure if that is because of the latter CPU having 3D cache. Checking the box to force thread affinity on the 9950X (no 3D cache) produces consistently lower benchmark scores than when the box is left unchecked. Loosening tRFC (to equal 120) and setting tRAS and tRC to JEDEC standards, and changing tWRWRSCL from 1 to 8 increased the Memory Foundry benchmark score. AIDA64 benchmark remained essentially the same before/after on read/write/copy. tRAS, tRC and tWRWRSCL changed nothing with AIDA64 results other than LOWERING (improving) latency by 5 to 8 ns with those values loosened. The latency improved in both AIDA64 and Memory Foundry benchmarks with those loosened. @elbramso https://www.overclock.net/attachments/1781113928578-png.2769547/

There is certainly some truth in that and we are all guilty of wanting the best. I'm guilty as charged. Passion often overshadows prudence. In the moments I set that aside and think rationally about the cost to benefit I realize that if I do not have an overlay telling me what my FPS are in the fleeting moments I find time for gaming I do not enjoy playing less on the 5080 vs 5090 and the same was true of the Arc GPU, 9070 XT and 4090, 3090, 3090 Ti and other video cards I have spent absurd amount of money on. I can tell the difference if I am focusing on max performance, but if the game runs smoothly and I am enjoying the game, the GPU it is running on isn't something I think about. It only actually matters when the experience is adversely impacted. Most of the time it is not. If I spent a lot of time running something like Micro$lop Flight Simulator, a 5090 would be the only fantastic option because the experience is impaired in a very noticeable way. (Thankfully, I have no interest in that title whatsoever, or I would likely have wasted money on two 5090s for the sake of playing.)

You made a decision based on logic rather than passion. That's the best decision, even though it doesn't include the "best product" and once you get over not having a 5090 you won't care any more and you'll know you did what was most intelligent.

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/6030518 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/158573928 RTX 3070 (October 2020) vs RTX 5060 (May 2025) - progress +1.0% https://www.3dmark.com/compare/sn/9354597/sn/14349068

Hey guys. There is a nifty new DDR5 tool available for free during beta. You can export a HWiNFO64 report as XML and import it, then analyze your settings. It will tell you what the recommended changes are per DDR5 standards. I loosened my tRC and tRAS based on what the program told me to change. Speeds and latency are still very good. [BETA] Memory Foundry Pro – RAM Stability Tester & Benchmark | Free Beta Access It also has a built-in benchmark tool.

That is strange. My WireView Pro 2 is showing my ASUS Prime 5080 idling at 15W. I wonder what it would do if you changed a different vBIOS on the Zotac? It might be the firmware. Unfortunately, a lot of Astral GPU owners that are focused on performance and overall results (including Astral 5090) are not impressed with their purchase. For the price they are charging for Astral 5090 it should be the equivalent of a Galax HOF, but it's far from it. It should have binned core and memory, but it doesn't. It is just fancy and expensive. Nothing more. Some have changed to something better that costs less and sold or returned their overpriced Astral GPU. The black Astral 5090 also has goofy limitations on vBIOS cross flashing. The white Astral 5090 was made a little different and doesn't have the same issue. I think A$$zeus often overpromises, overcharges and under-delivers. They get away with it because the ROG fanboys often value form over function.