Mr. Fox

It's almost midnight in Norway. Happy Birthday tomorrow Brother @Papusan. May you enjoy many more of them, filled with happiness in between. We are glad you are our friend.

Frank and Dusty are jamming together in paradise now. Billy is no spring chicken, so he may join them soon. ZZ Top was one of my favorite Southern Rock bands of all time. True icons that produced some legendary and timeless music hits. The entertainment industry just does not make music like they did any more. I had the privilege of seeing them live, in concert, at the Arizona State Fair in November of 2005.

I do not disagree. It should be priced under $200 or not at all. But, less money compared to their other offerings. Their new loss leader for losers. The notion that they would sell a 4GB version is beyond laughable and worthy of harsh ridicule.

Confirmed only blown fuses. GPU is totally fine. I bridged the F1 fuse solder pads with a wire for testing and it's good to go. Now I just need the fuses and we'll be back to normal +1 fuse for extra capacity.

Nothing has changed, unfortunately. They are still as stupid and incompetent as ever.

I am actually kind of surprised they have not already blown the way I have pushed this GPU for benching. I've run way more than they should have allowed me to, but Steel Nomad is famous for the massive power spike in the first couple of seconds and I think that experimenting with the 2000W vBIOS together with the shunt modding was the straw that broke the camel's back for the fuses. I normally have used a 800W or 1000W BIOS.

Well, it seems the 12VHPWR fuses are blown on my 5090. I was launching Steel Nomad with a heavy overclock and the card turned off (red light for 12VHPWR came on). I checked the three fuses for the 12VHPWR with my mullti-meter and all three are open. So, I ordered new fuses from Mouser. I am going to add a 4th fuse to the open solder pads for F1 that Zotac did not populate. That should take it from 720W fuse limit to 960 with the 4th 20A fuse. I checked the output side of the fuses against ground and there is no short. I think the massive power spike lauching Steel Nomad was just too much too sudden. In one way it sucks because it is very inconvenient, but in another way it is awesome that they did exactly what they are supposed to do. This will give me a reason to test my new soldering tweezers. Should be (hopefully) fairly easy to replace them.

You'll want big speakers and a nice sub for this one.

More garbage for less money.

Maybe another variant would wake up the non-functional fan. This is the XOC 450W vBIOS I use on the Prime 5080 and all three fans work. The one not working is near the I/O so that is a more critical fan being close to the die and VRM. But, it certainly will not matter when blocked. Absolutely. I have hated having to use the EVC2 for voltage control. It is a cool mod from a hardware geek perspective, but a real pain in the butt to have to implement, and we should not have to. All GPUs should function like a K|NGP|N or HOF GPU. I'd love it if we could get the power limits unlocked (adjustable) or simply removed (increased to something more than the GPU can ever pull, like 5000W) using software to avoid having to shunt mod. The risk involved with that kind of geeky fun (and loss of warranty) loses appeal when GPUs cost two to five times what they are actually worth. If it is done with software, there is no way to prove or enforce a warranty that excludes overclocked hardware that fails for reasons that have nothing to do with overclocking.

This is with the Astral 5080 XOC vBIOS. It totally exhausts the 450W power limit (pegged to 450W on the WireView Pro). I've ordered a block for it and will shunt mod it. One fan does not run so it is getting too hot and thermal throttling, but the software works great for the tweaks.

Thanks. Nice. All rolled into one now. No need to use a separate tool for crossbar. I love it.

It does fantastic with the stock vBIOS but I have not had time to research or test one with higher power limit. If there is one you suggest give me a link to which one (or upload) and I will run some tests on it. I just ordered a Bykski block for it on AliExpress for $200 ($75 less than from Byski.us) with free shipping. Bykski Armored End Port GPU Waterblock Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC 16G (N-GV5080GMOC-X-V2) Here is a 12-loop run of Steel Nomad usng the stock vBIOS. About 10 loops in I installed the side panel and the GPU temps dropped by 2-3°C so the max temps would have been that much lower than HWiNFO64 is showing.