Mr. Fox

I think any decent PSU will include a Gen5 GPU cable that is as safe as one of them can ever be given the inherently flawed design. I've got two 4090s and a 3090 Ti that are using the cables that came with my Corsair RM1200x SHIFT, my RM1000e and Thermaltake Toughpower 1650W PSU. I would avoid any PSUs that have the crappy new connector on both ends of the cable. I think that is really stupid. The connectors on my 3090 Ti and both 4090s show no signs of getting hot. They look the same as when they were new. Don't use aftermarket cables and adapters on 12VHPWR connectors (or whatever new name they have invented for the same crappy connector). Exactly. 💯 Very simple and sound logic. It's rare today to see sound logic and simple things are almost always better and more reliable than complex things. It's when things get too fancy and/or overly complex that everything starts turning to crap. That would be perfect. Keep everyone guessing and speculating from the photos. If the 9070 XT comes close to 4080 and does RT at least as good as 3090 Ti or 4080 and comes in under $700 it will be interesting to see what NVIDIA does with pricing, or if they will remain absurd simply because fanboys will continue paying 5090 scalper prices for 5080 and 4090 GPUs It's anyone's guess how 9070 XT will turn out. As much as I don't like Radeon cards, it might be the only option that ends up making any sense whatsoever based on price. Being the best and owning the best is always preferrable, except in circumstances when the absence of value becomes impossible to rationalize. Why pay 400% more per FPS when the best doesn't offer a 400% performance increase? Dumb.

Interesting. Really pushed the 4090 watts. https://nemez.net/projects/gpuperftests/ It is showing 50% of TDP because I am using a 1000W vBIOS.

Unfortunate how idiotic the design of the 50-series FE cards turned out. Everything is possible, but that doesn't mean anything about it was intelligent. It is nice that Roman is finding solutions to the horribly flawed engineering mess with the 50-series FE GPU design for those that make the mistake of purchasing one. While I don't like the FE design, I do like the design of the waterblock using mostly metal, some real glass and no acrylic or acetal plastics. Once it is all nickel plated it's going to be pretty sharp-looking.

NGREEDIA is probably shafting all board partners for the price of a 5090 chipset and leaving them with an inadequate space for profit margin, so they're probably not able to make and sell a GPU people want for an acceptable price. This smarter ones will build on a PCB for 5090 that is dimensionally identical to their 4090 PCB and re-use the 4090 cooler. Basically a mini product refresh. Wasting time and money to develop anything aesthetically different would be super stupid.

That's only because taking steps backward and regression on new product launches was never as common as it is now. It's pretty inexcusable when you stop and think about the amount of gall it takes to expect people to jump on the hype train and pay substantially more for something only because it is new when performance gains are tiny or non-existent, or even a downgrade. Newer is always better newer. @tps3443 why spend a lot for a turdbook when you could spend the same or less for something a whole lot better. That makes no sense. You could buy this prebuilt with a 5080 and get a complete system for roughly the same price as a 5080 scalper-edition GPU or a crummy turdbook. Then you could drop a different low-cost GPU in it and probably sell it for enough to make the 5080 end up costing you about $500. If you put your 4090 it in you might even make a profit on the sale of it. But, that would be minor GPU downgrade. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1874887-REG/cyberpowerpc_slc11040cpg_gamer_supreme_liquid_cool.html

There is no royalty in the Land of Turdbooks. Only dictators dick taters.

LOL. Yup, I enjoy most of his videos as well. He is right more often than wrong and I am so used to his potty mouth that it is started to become amusing to see a public figure that is so oblivious to their own uncoutheness. I'll accept friendship and appreciation as payment in full. 🤣 I think those are 8 mohm. Even on 4K the image is a little fuzzy, but it looks like 8 is printed on the resistors. And, those are what generally work best for shunt mods. Here is a photo from one of my shunt mods. It looks like what he used. My last time was on my Eluktronics Tongfang MECH15 turdbook. The benefit was minimal because the entire platform was severely limited... which is status quo for all mobile trash. It did help, but the reward was much smaller than the effort it required.

Yes, you are correct. He actually soldered shunt resistors on top, which is how I have always done it. @johnksssspotted the changes in the video. I was hoping he would actually demonstrate it, but he probably did not because he is greedy and expects people to pay him for everything. He doesn't share most things for the good of the community like most of us do. He wants that $500 "consultation" fee way too much. He probably did not elect to skip demonstrating it because he is scared someone will screw up and blame him for it. I don't think he actually cares about that to be perfectly honest. And, he shouldn't care. Not his problem. Not my problem. Not our problem. Bad things happen to stupid people. Stupid and/or unskilled people should not try to do things that require intelligence or skill. If they screw up it's 100% on them. I never advocate withholding useful information that smart people can benefit from to protect stupid people from being harmed by their own stupidity. So, he topped 5 resistors with a shunt resistor from what we can see here. I highlighted in yellow the resistors that he soldered on top of original resistors in the images below (before and after). Yup, liquid metal dissolves solder. In fact, you can use it to dissolve solder on a delidded CPU if you don't have any QuickSilver. Liquid metal works the same, it just costs a lot more than QuickSilver.

It is not as aesthetically amazing as the copper piped steampunk ITX build, but this 3D printed SFF modular server case is still pretty slick. The guy did a really nice job. If @Rage Set gets deeper into this kind of thing it will be awesome to see what kind of creations he comes up with.

I don't think he actually shows what he did to power mod it. I watched it through once and tried skimming through it a couple of times and it seems he skipped over that in the video. Which kind of sucks because that was the only reason I even watched it. I wanted to see what he did. I am assuming he did a simple shunt mod. I wonder if he has been watching some of my old YouTube videos. I have been using the scribe a line at the perimeter of thermal paste before cleaning it up to mark where to apply liquid metal for years. It wasn't long after I showed using a thin foam gasket in one of my videos that ASUS started doing it, and now its pretty normal. That beats my 9950X by a little bit with roughly the same effective CPU clocks. It's a shame these newer Intel CPUs have regressed in clock speed. 5.7GHz is hard to view as something special from Intel or AMD. It was awesome a few years ago.

If I were going to sell it I would gladly swap GPUs so you could have it blocked and ready to go. I am not planning to sell and if I buy a GPU it will be a used or refurbished 3090 Ti or 3090 for $800 or less. At this point there is no legitimate reason for me to spend money on anything. I will buy an X870E Apex as soon as I can, but only because I want it. It's not needed and I am about 99% sure it won't do better at overclocking the CPU or memory than the X670E Gene already does. My limiting factor is silicon quality, not motherboard.

I watched that video the other day and is was pretty incredible the amount of work that went into that. It's not really my kind of product but you can't help but recognize the effort and the focus on quality of the build. Impressive novelty build.

Perfect song for today's PC tech trash. Needs to be at least 30% cheaper to be taken seriously.

I believe none of the 4060 GPUs are X16. I can vaguely remember that they are all X8, maybe 4070 as well. I did not pay close attention to that because I do not consider anything below a 4080 to be a relevant product. The Green Goblin deliberately crippled all of the reasonably priced products more than the crippled but still-expensive overpriced products. Edit: that seems to be correct. 4060 and 4060Ti. Yes, all Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics cards are limited to a PCIe x8 interface

If your Z890 motherboard has that new crappy PCIe connector clamp abortion instead of the release button, also check the PCIe edge connector on the GPU to make sure the new A$$zeus invention did not damage the gold contact fingers.

It is the Z890 Apex and the Core Ultra system? 4090? Are you using the latest GeFarts drivers? I've heard not-so-great things about the new driver with 50-series support. What if you disable the WiFi/BT module in the BIOS? Any change? Lots of X870E owners are having really goofy problems with the latest Windows Updates and drivers, especially with WiFi/BT modules causing undesirable things. I always disable WiFi/BT in the BIOS and have not experienced any of that silly stuff myself.

Power-crippled and thermally-limited, throttling box o' poop.

I think there is nothing that would ever make any laptop appealing to me ever again. They are all universally disgusting to me. Even if they all went back to MXM, thick and heavy all-metal chassis, 18-20 inch screens and desktop CPUs and 1000W PSUs they require too many compromises that I am unwilling to accept. That's a chapter of life where I have closed the book, wrapped it up in duct tape, thrown into the incinerator and flushed the ashes down the toilet.

Or the "Origami Edition" since it seems like a paper launch. I do not see any 50-series GPUs in stock on NewEgg. They must have sold all 4 of them already. Looks like you can still buy a 4090 for twice the normal price, or a 4080 for the price of a correctly valued 4090. Good times for the dishonest sellers that find stupid buyers. 🤣 Probably moreso dishonest distributors and retailers sharing hidden links and secret sales to select individual to buy up stock a few hours or minutes prior to launch. And, those are 111 reported sales. There could well be more sales on the down-low that have been conveniently omitted because they were shady deals to support scalpers.

AI used by IRS inappropriately.

3090 did not have it

My 3090 Ti also has it in NVCP, but HWBOT does not require it for that GPU. @Papusan maybe it would be too difficult for 5090 to distance itself enough from 4090 to justify the cost so the memory crippling option (ECC) was removed.

It will be fine. TSMC might not be intimidated by Trump's threat promise but they will be intimidated by a lack of adequate capital. China doesn't even care about its own people, but once their 1% filthy rich elite figure out their lifestyles cannot be maintained without US consumers buying their crap they'll fall in line just as Canada, Mexico and other South American countries did. As soon as they figured out what was going to happen was more than idle threats they accepted the terms set before them because survival matters. Trump means business and they can either fall in line or face new and worsening hardships. China is a third-world country ruled by a small group of despots with a pride issue and sometimes it takes a minute for reality to sink in and the pain begins exacting its vengeance. They only have what has been given to them and what they have stolen from other nations with the help of wicked rulers. The rich love money and sometimes it takes a sudden lack of it before they will pay attention. Remember we are talking about more than expensive high-end computer parts. We're talking about everything. For example, if it becomes too expensive for Apple and other American-owned companies to continue manufacturing in China and move out their operations, they'll lose that source of revenue on top of losing access to the iPhones they are addicted to as a nation. US gamers and other silicon trash junkies also need to get their priorities sorted. Winning battles doesn't mean anything if you lose the war.

Everything was rushed and premature, with not enough time for R&D or QC. And now it shows. PC world has never been more sucky for early adoption guinea pigs. Paying high prices for the privilege of being a crash test dummy instead of being paid to be one isn't a nice thing.