Mr. Fox

I will give it a go after work.

The petite arson connector will always be the weakest link. Two is better than one, but not as good as none. Two places for disaster to strike. The only way to fix the problem is to get rid of the engineering defect and stop tempting fate. The higher the performance limit goes, the more likely it becomes that disaster will strike. MSI will always be MSI, which is less than ideal. But, I can see the logic in their concern about a $5000+ GPU becoming a financial liability under warranty. If they were intelligent they would have never released the 5090 Lightning because of the defective 12V-2x6 specification standard. They're not intelligent, just dishonest.

I think the vBIOS has to support it. If it does not that might be why there are no examples of it having been done on numerous other video cards rather than just a select few.

That's totally dishonest. They should take the 15% depreciation off of the current market price or refund 100%. If that user were smart he would provide evidence of the current price and insist that Silicon Power send a replacement kit from that retailer or any other retailer that has it in stock. If they refuse, then take them to small claims court. If the product has a lifetime warranty (which most DRAM does) it would be inappropriate to charge depreciation. If something is guaranteed for life there is no legal basis for depreciation.

About 12-13A per pin.

Quake II RTX - silky smooth on Linux at 5120x2160. Had to lower my power limit with LACT to 500W because the shunted 5090 with the 800W Matrix vBIOS was making the WireView Pro II scream like a stuck pig. My UPS also started squealing because it exceeds its 1500W capacity.

That level of caring died when EVGA left the building. Their competitors never gave a damn, and now there is no reason for them to even pretend they do.

He does not seem to be into that nonsense. Cherry-picked CPUs, GPUs and RAM seem to be more plentiful in China and neighboring Far East nations and Germany for some reason. The crappier stuff seems to get shipped out to the rest of the world.

Here is what I use. Save it as Boot-to-BIOS.cmd (or whatever you want) and run as admin. I added it to my right-click context menu using File Menu Tools. Very handy when you plan to reboot and enter the BIOS to make setting changes. @echo off shutdown /fw /r /t 0

I do not have any Windows 10 devices missing drivers, but after installing AMD chipset drivers I always have to browse from Device Manager and point to the C:\AMD folder to get one or two items to install because the automated chipset installation process skips them for some reason. This has always been this way for me since I first purchased an AM5 system, on both Windows 10 and 11. I'm not sure why. I can't remember now which device(s) that occurs with. Maybe the PSP or I2C device? I used to have something similar with Z790. I think it was GPIO or something like that which I had to always manually select the driver from Device Manager.

I returned the X870E Taichi because installing anything in a PCIe slot dropped the GPU to 8X. It was installed and running 30 minutes before I started the RMA. Functionality is the equivalent of an ITX board with only a GPU slot. Very idiotic engineering and lousy bifurcation design decisions are a curse on MOST X870E mobos. We can partially thank AMD for mandating the waste of PCIe lanes on USB4/TB (which most never use and never will). I could see limited use cases for it with a turdbook (like using an eGPU or having no external display options without it) but USB4/TB is irrelevant and mostly worthless on a desktop with a dedicated GPU.

For the past 6+ years I have used my own desktop PCs for work and now I will be using a company-issued turdbook for work. I repurposed my dual Acer 4K 160Hz panels for the work PC since I will be needing the massive screen real estate for work. I grabbed a 40" Samsung Odyssey G75F 5120x2160 180Hz WUHD monster on sale at Micro Center for $638 (model LS40FG75DENXZA) and it seems pretty great so far. It doesn't like the 4090 and neither does my ASUS 4K 120Hz monitor. I have to lower the resolution to not have a BIOS or Windows Boot Manager black screen (same problem using the ASUS screen with 4090) when using DisplayPort. Something about 40-series firmware and high refresh rate 4K on DisplayPort is glitchy. There are many examples of people complaining about this online. Using HDMI 2.1 it functions flawlessly. The 5090 doesn't care whether I use DisplayPort or HDMI.