Mr. Fox

I've have two of them already and the first one was the initially released product from a long time ago and I haven't had any problems with them on both 4090s. The only reason why I had to buy a new one is because my connector is reversed on the Zotac. I think the possibility of the connector melting in the GPU if it is plugged in all the way could be less than a cable melting because all of the current is passing through a large piece of metal instead of individual wires. I think the possibility of the cable melting where it plugs into the WireView is exactly the same as it would be with the cable connected to the video card. The biggest issue with them is not fitting everything that uses this power socket. There are too many design variances from one GPU to the next. I had to use a Dremel tool to carve away part of the acrylic on both of my 4090 Bykski waterbocks. And neither one of them would fit with the stock air cooler installed. From any angle that I look at it there's nothing good or satisfying about this new power connector and it amazes me that they continue using it in spite of its extremely stupid, fragile design and glaring engineering defects. That is a reflection of what a sad, sad, sad situation we have in the PC tech space. We have been overrun by retarded baboons that have been given free reign to make stupid decisions that screw things up for everyone and no accountability for their stupidity.. it is the perfect example of the classic definition of insanity... Continue making the same mistake and expecting a different outcome.

So, as best I can tell just playing a game like DOOM: The Dark Ages with no overclock the GPU is pulling around 700W now and between 950 and 1000W from the wall now. Boost clock is a little over 3000 MHz and no fluctuation.... just a flat line. Speedway the same. Stock boost is a flat-line 3000 MHz and about 1100W from the wall. runing Speedway. The power cable is not even getting a little bit warm to the touch. I ordered a new Cyberpower 1500W UPS because both of the 800W untis that I have power off under 100% 3D load. They used to beep once in a while using the 4090 but never powered off. They clearly cannot handle what this shunted 5090 is requiring of them. I also ordered a new WireView Pro with the down-facing connector so I can actually see how many watts are getting pulled through the 12VHPWR cable. GPU-Z is showing like 480W paying DOOM, so it may be more than 700W just stock. Both of those will be here tomorrow. Here's the stock clock flat-line graph from Speedway. Before the shunt mod a stock run was something like 2850-2870 boost clock and constantly fluctuating. So, without touching anything is running much more aggressively now.While I am waiting for those items to arrive I am going to switch to the stock vBIOS and see if the behavior is the same, better or worse compared to the GigaChad vBIOS after the shunt mod.

Mission accomplished. 100% working. My UPS is screaming bloody murder now and a quick MSI Kombustor run is now showing nearly 1200W getting pulled from the wall, whereas before it was between 850-900W doing the same thing. It was not possible to do the Jufes incognito shunt mod because this new style of resistor has the solder points lower than the black plastic part of the resistor. Older resistors were the opposite, with the solder points on each end being flush or taller than the plastic. The resistors don't make contact as the solder points unless you use solder to bridge the air gap with this newer design. The dimensions are also smaller, so even if I had the right resistors in terms of resistance they would have been too long to work. So, she is soldered. I figured out on the second resistor that it worked easier to flip it over with the labeled side facing the original resistor. It was easier to hold in place for soldering with them face-to-face instead of labeled side up due to the shape of them. I have to leave for a doctor's appointment in a few minutes but I will do more testing tonight and this weekend. Will most likely hook up the chiller tomorrow. Here are the PCB photos. Very well-made GPU. Shunted resistors... Looks like Kombustor was drawing around 800-900W. @tps3443

We are surrounded by stupid. Here is some new well-deserved Razer hate... https://youtu.be/8w8m1UuLsEQ I received the shunt resistors yesterday so I will probably do the mod tomorroww.

NVIDIA would have to really eff things up or price themselves out of business (which they almost did) to get most people to move to AMD. Stupidity and screw-ups on an order of magnitude and as unpardonable as removing hyper-threading and focusing on smartphone cores are the only reason my house is no longer an AMD-free zone. AMD did not take the win as much as Intel losing focus on what matters and giving it to them. All three companies suck and are run by idiots that suck at their jobs. Actually, that is the new normal for the industry as a whole.

Alienware has met its match... they no longer the hold the title to "worst" thanks to HP. They are now the runner up.

Darn. I almost texted you to see if you were interested. I figured you would see the post. Had I known you were away I would have gone with my initial instinct. I'm sorry, brother. I would have loved for it to go to you. It was purchased by another Texan. A guy in San Antonio from overclock.net snagged it. I have a water cooled 3080 if you need a GPU. I've been hanging onto it as a spare part.

Too bad for the dumb-dumbs that already wasted money on the latest GPUs with only 8GB. Sucks to them, but also not cool on NVIDIA's part to screw them over like that. For anyone that believes NVIDIA actually wants to futureproof (i.e. sell fewer) GPUs, I have some ocean beach property in Phoenix that I am selling very cheap.

September 13 will be here before you know it...

Sybella has a pretty voice. All of the AI stuff is getting too real. Dangerous road we are going down. It would be nice to see more real people.

Ooops. No chiller on this one. Voltage got higherwith the comparatively elevated temperature. https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/5889007

No she would not be. But, she is in WA visiting relatives and friends. I have 2 more weeks of having free reign of the house and then I will have to retreat to my hot little laboratory. The dining table seems to be a universal taboo with the ladies. If I scratch it that is the end of the world. If the grandkids scratch it, that is adding "character" to the table, LoL. 🤣

I only need two, but I will have spares. I am going to try the Jufes no detection easy reversal sneaky technique this time instead of solder and see how that works. If it doesn't I can always solder it after the fact. If we eventually get a 1kW XOC vBIOS leaked then I can just peel them off without a trace and without any effect on the warranty. If it works well I will send you a couple for your 5090 @electrosoft https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/755-PMR100HZPFV2L00

OK I think I am done now Fire Strike - https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33747306 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5888849 Fire Strike Extreme - https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33747317 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike_extreme/submissions/5888851 Fire Strike Ultra - https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33747324 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike_ultra/submissions/5888853

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/cinebench_-_r23_multi_core_with_benchmate/submissions/5888802

It's not over. Looks like it is worse and is harmful to more Phison controller models than originally reported. I don't have to worry about this because I do not allow Windoze Updates and I cannot remember the last time I loaded Winduhz 11. I did some benching today (Windoze 10) and it was the first time I have needed to use Windoze in a while. It feels really weird and almost awkward using Windoze 10 after using Linux as my primary OS for a while now. I have been a casual Linux user for many years and it never felt like home. It was mostly something geeky to goof around with when I was bored, but now Windows doesn't feel like home anymore. I am glad that I will have no reason to use Winduhz 11 for the foreseeable future. I should format the drives I have it installed on and use them for something else. Morbid stupidity on steroids. Picture a busy office with all of the zombie sheeple in their cubicles talking to their computers. "Working quietly at their desks" would no longer be possible. Creepy to imagine that, and equally creepy that the Redmond Reprobates are this stupid. Touch input has always sucked. They tried and failed to force that nasty mess, now they're going to try to cram this new tech fad up everyone's butt? No thanks. Keep the change.

I figured I had better do it while I had the wild hare up my butt or I'd end up deciding it wasn't worth the effort. 🤣 I wheeled everything into the living room and benched from the comfort of my recliner. Definitely power-limited. There is no point in repeating these benchmarks without a shunt mod because it's maxed out on the power budget now. But the clocks are holding a lot higher with the chilled water. These were pulling less than 1.000V under load. +300 core offset. I will have to order the resistors Brother @tps3443 mentioned since all of my spares are too high resistance. Travis do you have a link where you bought yours? Digi-Key or Mouser? Speedway - https://www.3dmark.com/sw/2656446 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5888556 Steel Nomad (DX12) - https://www.3dmark.com/sn/8377250 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/5888557 Steel Nomad (Vulkan) - https://www.3dmark.com/sn/8377374 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_vulkan/submissions/5888558? Port Royal - https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3623727 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5888560? Solar Bay - https://www.3dmark.com/sb/367617 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_solar_bay/submissions/5888561? Solar Bay Extreme - http://www.3dmark.com/sb/367638 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_solar_bay_extreme/submissions/5888562 Time Spy - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/58438069 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/5888565 Time Spy Extreme - https://www.3dmark.com/spy/58438160 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy_extreme/submissions/5888567

When I was a young buck I wanted to live off the grid in Alaska or the Yukon. Then I got married and had a family. I wouldn't trade my wife, kids and grandkids for anything in the world, but there is still a part of me that would love to own several thousand acres in the middle of nowhere, live in a log cabin with nothing but motorcycles and guns to entertain me and answer to no one about anything. Here is a nice jam.

I still have the chiller. I can't remember the last time I turned it on. I think it was last year. I probably need to flush out the tank in it. One of the reasons I lost interest in it is that it is a total waste on a Ryzen CPU. Getting colder doesn't really give you any overclocking headroom unless you go to extreme cold and use BCLK to increase the core ratio beyond AMD's sissy-boy fused limit crap. I can easily connect the chiller directly to the GPU and bypass the GPU on the loop inside. I have used quick-disconnect fittings to facilitate doing that, just haven't mustered the desire to screw with it. Talking about it makes me want to, but if I don't run with it when the desire hits me an hour later I will decide it is not worth the hassle, LOL. Now that I moved away from an open bench and built both systems with internal cooling loops it is less convenient than it used to be and doing things that are inconvenient has become less attractive to me over the past couple of years. You probably noticed the RAM fan attached to the top radiator. I have the RAM water cooling parts, but haven't found enough desire to screw with converting it. I think the amount of effort required for a comparatively small reward with modern parts has become a major demotivating/discouraging factor for me. With the portable AC forcing freezing air into the air cooled GPU... https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957336

Here was this run on normal air (no AC) Same exact OC profile after installing the waterblock. Higher boost, higher score, lower temps.

Well, my ""official" benchmarks were with a portable AC ramming 34°F (1°C) air directly into the GPU so the water cooler is not going to get it that cold due to the ambient temperatures. I can compare against the benchmarks I ran without the AC unit. I think I have a few of those. Boost clocks are absolutely staying higher on the waterblock than they were on normal air cooling. The GPU and memory are about 20°C cooler under load and memory is essentially equalized with GPU core temps now. The memory was generally 10-15°C warmer than the core. I hate NVIDIA's "normal operating temperature" GPU boost limits as much today as I did when they introduced that crappiness into the mix. Things were better when clocks ran full blast until you reached TJMax. Now that stupid cancer has spread to CPUs. I did not take pictures and figured I would do that when I do the shunt mod. The resistors are very close to the 12VHPWR connector, so I am going to have to be very careful not to get that too hot. I had multiple doctor appointments yesterday so I was trying to hurry to get it done. I am assuming I need to shunt the two right next to the power connector and no others. I am considering the idea of doing a shunt mod and installing a ElmorLabs EVC2SE for voltage control. Part of me wants to do it real bad and part of me doesn't care anymore. I haven't decided yet. I am less motivated to do some of these things than I used to be. There are days that I question my intelligence for even buying the 5090. It was definitely not something I needed and my passion for this is starting to dwindle. But, when I am playing with it I am glad I did.

I just finished installing the 5090 Core block. It's pretty decent and it made a huge improvement in temperatures. It is not nearly as polished and does not have the same degree of aesthetic elegance as the 4090 Core. (It does not conceal the PCB and have the same high-end feel to it, but it is still really nice.) The only thing Alphacool did that I would consider stupid is put the warranty void seal on the front, directly in plain view instead on on the motherboard side. After I have used it long enough to know there is no problem with it I am peeling that off... idiots. I wish the block assembly was 1.5-2.0 inches longer. It is just barely long enough to reach the GPU support bracket attached to the motherboard. (It is about a half inch narrower than the motherboard.) But, I bet SFF jockeys are probably glad it's not longer. I am going to have to order shunt resistors. I checked my stash and mine are more than 2 mOhm. Tearing down the Solid GPU I have to say that I am highly impressed. The GPU and the air cooler build quality are every bit as excellent and high precision quality as the 4090 Suprim. I still think it was a poor value, but I am glad that I bought this particular model and not one of the other "inexpensive" options. Zotac did an amazing job on it. The "Solid" name is very fitting. You can see that stupid decal to the left of the fitting manifold, straddling the cold plate and acrylic. Some bubbles need still to find their way out.

Wonderful. I hope they have a great time. California as a whole, and San Francisco in particular, are an absolute mess by every measurement. Portland and Seattle are nearly as bad now. Marginally better. Portland had been one of my favorite cities for years and now it is a truly horrible place that I go out of my way to avoid. Once beautiful and vibrant cities that have turned into dangerous, filthy cyberpunk garbage dumps. All three have something in common that makes them what they are today. Human Wasteland | San Francisco, CA Human Feces Map