Mr. Fox

Will do. Will test more later tonight or in the morning. Thanks for the help. I tried it on my 5080 and it is not working even after enabling the DLL. The hardware ID should be G1B3 = 2C02h (forgot to add the h) Maybe there is something different needed in the DLL for 5080. Correction: also working on the 5080. I forgot to add the "h" after 2C02 for the HWID.

After it began working the dll file changed from 6kb to 7kb somehow. Weird stuff. But, it is working now. The part missing in the instructions is adding a checkmark to the pluging to make it active.

I deleted the profile and force Afterburner to create a new one and edited this time. Now it is working. However, it does not work if I do not add a checkmark to the pluging to make it active. Something wrong with the profile must have kept it from launching with the dll enabled.

Yup, exactly like that.

The dll is show there. I did not know I needed to look on that page. If I add a checkmark to the dll in that page Afterburner will not launch.

Yes. I added it as shown in your screenshot. There is no new sensor in the Monitoring tab. I followed all of the instructions exactly as you presented them. Does not work. I uninstalled Afterburner and tried again and no dice.

I have followed the instructions in the PDF but I do not see the sensor in the Monitoring tab in Afterburner. Edit: I uninstalled Afterburner and started again from scratch, followed all of the instructions precisely and still no new HotSpot sensor(s). Do I need to be using an obscure version of Afterburner? I am using the latest I can find for download on Guru3d.

Mumak has a test build available that has hotspot temps. Here is a link to his post. https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/nvidia-rtx-5080-incorrect-gpu-hotspot-temp-missing-3rd-fan-speed-summary-info.10306/post-52987

Good news, because HWMonitor sucks. Another happy degradation-free experience with 13th and 14th Gen Intel.

That was a really fantastic deal by 2026 "standards" (as if there are any now) in this insane AI-crazed world we are biding our time in.

I'm happy to hear that you are making progress but sad that you are having to go through it.

The thing that is even more stupid than Samsung doing this is the reality that some people will fall in line, like good little sheeple, and do it. The will rationalize the decision because they "have nothing to hide" or because it is "for the greater good" but at the end of the day everyone else knows they are idiots that are a danger to themselves and everyone around them.

He is using the G.SKILL Trident Neo 6000 C26 2*16 1.450V magic sticks. It is unusual to find any others that can do so well, and part of the reason for that is the effort ASUS has put into making them be able to.

@tps3443 did you see this? https://www.overclock.net/posts/29599251/

It is impressive how close to the same performance the 270K Plus delivers compared with the 9950X with 25% fewer threads to handle the workload. The 270K Plus is actually just a tad better, and it's half the cost. Not to even mention the fact that the 270K Plus is much easier to tune and runs circles around AMD's best where memory overclocking is concerned. 💖

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/6046141 With E-cores bumped to 54x... https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/6046144

Wow, down to just under 60% now. Wonder why it is still so high? Micro$lop deserves to lose another 25-30% market share, but that might not even be enough loss for those idiots to pull their head out.

I've never truly liked them and was always a desktop-only guy until a career change had me only home only on PTO, holidays and weekends for about 12-14 years. That's why I accepted the big Alienware 17 and 18 inch and then Clevo DTRs as a necessary evil. After a while I kind of grew numb to how pathetic they are and even began to view them favorably. I even made lame excuses and rationalized a degree of legitimacy for their glaring shortcomings, but it did not take long after moving back to desktops for the misguided novelty to die and my disdain for them quickly reignited. My new job is going to require a little bit of travel, unfortunately. My last two business trips I did not even bother packing my Precision turdbook. If something happened to it, there is a fair chance that I would probably not purchase a replacement turdbook. Using a notebook keyboard and screen is annoying to me, even for web browsing. The only thing worse to me than a turdbook is a slimy touchscreen smartphone or tablet, but all of them are garbage cut from the same cloth to me now. Turdbooks are engineered from end-to-end as compromised products, in varying degrees of trashification... none actually worth a damn. I really like my 5080 Prime. I might end up with another 5080 at some point. The thought of selling my 5090 for significantly more than what I paid for it, spending 25% of the proceeds on a 5080 and doing something else with the remaining 75% has crossed my mind a time or two. The possibility for regret is the only thing that gives me pause. I'd not consider buying another 5090 again but I own it and it is paid for, so why tempt fate? Finally stopped tinkering with the new hardware toys and took a few minutes (literally all it takes) to get Kubuntu installed and configured on the Z890 Apex. I'm so used to it now that a clean Linux install is faster and requires less effort than debloating, removing garbage and the extensive manual de-configuring of all of the trash necessary to make Windoze an acceptable OS. Having to use the Windoze Cancer OS for everything was starting to make me feel kind of icky on the inside. The longer I use Linux, the harder I find it to forgive the Micro$lop clown posse for their atrocities. The only thing saving their lousy hind ends from perma-death is the Windoze-only software that I sometimes want or need to use.

Easy and hassle-free installation on the Z890 Apex. Everything just works, and works well. No debloating or tweaks necessary.

If the BIOS mod was created by Prema after the GPU was released it should be supported and it is about 99% certain it will be supported. If it was before the GPU was released then it is very unlikely. I'm glad that I don't have to worry about that kind of nonsense anymore. Sometimes I forget how bad laptops suck. Even the better non-BGA turds with desktop CPUs and MXM suck without a lot of stupid rigmarole. In hindsight I don't know how I put up with them for as long as I did.

Actually this version might be even better. I adjusted more obscure timings after doing a bit more research. Totally stable with my G.SKILL Trident F5-8400J4052G24G kit. Testing now with the TeamGroup Xtreem CUDIMM kit and seems to be identical. Below is a link for the settings. Z890 Apex 8600 Validated - BIOS 9901

Does your chassis have fans in the bottom blowing directly on the cable and GPU? I also wonder if the width and frequency of the temperature delta between room temperature (cold) and maximum sustained load temperature affects anything, even when the high is totally fine, how often it experiences that range from low to high to low. The frequency of that delta shift might be causing fatigue of these incredibly fragile turds? It is unusual how fast your system chews through these crappy cables. But as you said, thank God for the WVP2. It is a reasonable expectation for PSU cables to last beyond the lifespan of anything in the system, including the PSU. But, these are such $hitty examples of engineering incompetence that it is not the case. There is no reason that anyone should ever have to replace any PSU cable due to any reason except for accidental physical damage (cuts, pinches, etc.). "Normal wear and tear" is an unacceptable reason, especially if they are less than 10 years old.