Mr. Fox

Gimmicks. Other than the image looking kind of rough and a tiny bit muddy with AMD FidelityFX turned on, I seriously can't tell the difference between these settings. I can measure the FPS with the benchmark, but otherwise would have no clue which one was turned on or if all are turned off. As far as NVIDIA (or AMD or Intel) being honest... what I said the other day about wishing in one hand...

If I am not mistaken, I-225V LAN was the last NIC driver that could be successfully modded for W7 support and I think Intel LAN after I-226V and the latest AX WiFi has no Windows 10 driver support. I think WiFi 7 is not allowed to be Windows 10 compatible (by driver development being blocked). We are living in the bad old days for PC, with worse days looming on the horizon. What they do not deliberately screw up gets screwed up by accident. After I repasted the Strix 1080 it has been great and I haven't even bothered putting the 3090 Ti back into that system. I've tested quite a few games on the 1080 after work (it's my work PC) and everything run smoothly and plays very nice at 1440p. With overclocking and benching being intentionally diminished and destroyed by the dishonest, retarded and corrupted "leaders" of the industry, I am quickly moving in the direction of not buying anything new and reverting to older hardware whenever a purchase is necessary or desired. It sure would be nice if enough gamers could grow their gonads and deny themselves of juvenile pleasures long enough to inflict some major financial harm on all of the big tech companies. But, that will never happen because their priorities are all jacked up.

I'm not a huge fan of growling, but man this kind of metal grind is just SO awesome. I can't avoid feeling compelled to head bang and fist pump. Absolutely love it. I could listen instrumentally for hours. No lyrics necessary. No growling on these...

Amen. It's vicious by design and nefarious by intent and should be treated as nothing less. The people and organizations responsible for it should be treated as organized crime syndicates. Survival should be made difficult for them. They need to be snuffed out.

Yes, unfortunately. This is because it has been allowed to happen. It should not be allowed. The only way to fix it is to stop permitting it. China cannot participate if they are deliberately excluded and cut off. They need to replace Afghanistan as the world's poorest nation. That is why the US, UK and EU need to ban together and outlaw any form of trade or exchange with China and any other nation that considers itself an ally to China. Any travel to China should be one-way, with no pathway back by land, sea or air.

Then he should have his US citizenship revoked and get deported to China. All of his personal belongings can be confiscated, sold and the funds used to support something that benefits everyone else. Screw them. Tech companies need to either fall in line or get expunged by the use of force. There should be zero tolerance for any company supporting China or any other enemies of the free world in any form. These vile nations need to be cut off from the rest of the world, isolated and left without any basic resources of any kind and allowed to wither and die. There should be no trade with them in any fashion and their currency should not be accepted as tender for any financial transactions. As long as stupdity is tolerated, prices of PC hardware (and many other things) will never correct. Stupidity is extremely common, and it is easy to identify stupid. You don't even have to try. It stands up, waves and screams, then introduces itself. Found two examples of it in about 10 seconds.

What needs to happen is NVIDIA (and any other company) that cooperates with China in any way gets all of their patents revoked and everything they produce is automatically gifted to the world as open source and free for the taking. Also needs to happen with Micro$lop, Intel and AMD. Need to make it a law that they have to provide newly released hardware driver support back to the initial RTM release version of every OS produced for the greater of 3 OS generations or 15 years. If they do not, patents are denied or revoked and their products (hardware and software) are gifted to the world as open source. If they try using their lies that the old OS doesn't "support" certain feature they want to implement they can choose between not implemented or being forced to provide an update for the OSes they (falsely) claim lack support. Windows 2000 and Windows 7 will support any and all hardware features introduced in 2025 and beyond except for the deliberate actions taken to prevent support.

They should be but it should be 25% more than an acceptable FE base price not screwed 25% harder than already screwed for 200% more than what an FE should sell for. None, not one, of the GPUs are worth the price they are being advertised at. Everyone that buys one is getting sodomized. And if the only thing available turns out to be shitty Windows 11 driver support it will be getting shanked in the groin on top of the sodomization. There are already components on new motherboards that have no Windows 10 drivers. I'd love to round up all their idiots responsible for that, put them into a cage and drop the cage into the ocean. They are unworthy of oxygen.

I think A$$zeus could put RGB on a cow patty and their idiot fanboys would pay $10,000 for it just because of the RGB and ROG name on it. If the ROG logo is RGB they'd pay $12,000 for it. Can't fix stupid. We really need to start punishing bad behavior instead of rewarding it. The only way we can do that is by depriving them of the revenue they need to survive unless or until they knock it off. If they don't knock it off then their companies all deserve to die of monetary starvation. We have all the power and hold all the cards. We need to start playing those cards and begin wielding the deadly sword of common sense. Easier said than done when common sense has become so uncommon.

Haters are gonna hate. It's their loss. Good music regardless of what they think about it. The haters can go fly a kite. Can't fix stupid.

Yeah, that's definitely not ideal. I wouldn't call it "breaking" GPUs but it is, best case scenario, causing physical damage like that is undesirable and unaesthetic. If a person took their GPU in and out of the slot on a frequent basis it could hurt the resale value of the GPU or void its warranty with the GPU manufacturer having it all scratched up like that. What would be humorous is if the motherboard and GPU are both made by ASUS and they end up having to foot the bill for replacing both. I'd still buy the Apex though. My 4090s will be out of warranty long before any surface scratches on the PCB ever matter. It's good that the contact fingers are not being affected by that ridiculous retention mechanism the clowns at ASUS decided to make. Things like that are truly worthy of severe punitive legal action. It's sad how all of the big names in tech act first, think later and just don't care. I'm starting to grow numb to how we are getting screwed over at every turn. AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock... all of them. All shady and greed-driven self-centered entities that ultimately don't really care about the quality of their products, the people that make them or the people that purchase them. The joke is on us for thinking anything different. The brain cancer that turned all laptops into digital feces is metastasizing and degrading the desktop space. But, there is still satsifaction in knowing it's all gonna burn and take them with it. I'm honestly in a place where I just wouldn't own a computer any more if I had to purchase a modern turdbook. There are no words to express the contempt I have for mobile dung. They're trolling the people that waste their money on defective trash engineered by idiots.

ASUS should focus more on what actually matters and stop burning calories on unnecessary fluff like going nuts putting RGB crap on everything, garbage like Armory Crate and "gaming smartphones" and other silly things. It seems like some of the biggest brands are becoming the "trashmasters" of the industry. FE teardown... 90°C memory temperatures... SMH

I chuckled as I posted it as well. 🤣 We have all contributed to the lunacy and unless the price is even more off the rails more than the Intel versions I will again be contributing to the problem when I purchase an X870E Apex. But, there has to be a point where the line gets drawn into the sand and we say no to insanity. It seems like with GPUs it is going from a tolerated level of insanity to the point of an intolerable degree of criminal insanity and on an unacceptable and steep trajectory. If they keep tacking on an extra 20 to 25% scalper premium for video cards every year, including the crappy brands and models, that kind of predatory behavior deserves to end in abject failure. We should not be paying Galax HOF and K|NGP|N prices for Ventus, Trinity and Trio gamer garbage SKUs. Just like we shouldn't pay Apex, Tachyon or Godlike prices for Prime, Tomahawk and Eagle tier motherboards.

My response is: wish in one hand, poop in another... see which one gets full first. The problem is there are way too many sheeple that will pay the extra $800 A$$zeus fanboy tax as though it was normal and OK. They wouldn't be raping people with asinine prices if they didn't voluntarily drop their drawers. Seems many others posting in the thread feel the same. No. Just... No A$$zeus. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/asus-geforce-rtx-5090-astral-oc.331516/page-2

Yes, it is made like a "normal" GPU now, not Gigabyte's previously flawed/weak design that was easier than normal to break.

I honestly do not believe NVIDIA cares if anything less than 5090 is popular or sells well as long as they can't keep any 5090 FE cards in stock. I think they stopped caring what performance enthusiasts and gamers want a few years ago, and until AMD or Intel can launch an assault that threatens their flagship model they don't care about anything else except for maximizing profit on their most expensive product that they have shrewdly made the only product too many people want by simply dumbing down everything else.

My wife would be like "So, you want to spend $3000 on a GPU? What do you think I should buy with my half of the $6000?"

I bought another IceMan Cooling direct touch RAM block. Delivery this time was fast... like one week. I decided to leave the magnetic black trim off this time so that accessing the screws did not require removing the fittings. The black trim looks nice, but not worth the extra effort needed. RAM temps are 1°C higher than the water in the loop.

My Gigabyte 4090 Gaming OC was $1500 and my MSI 4090 Suprim (air) was like $1700. My K|NGP|N 3090 was $1999. My EVGA refurbished 3090 Ti FTW3 was $800 on NewEgg. TL;DR - way too much money for a used 4090 FE. He is trying to sell it for as much or more than NVIDIA or Best Buy sold it for (depending on when you bought it). I bet if he sticks to his guns someone very foolish and fiscally irresponsible will pay that for it. Once prices go up they seldom ever come down, even when the circumstances that stimulated the price increase to avoid losses no longer exist. Instead of correcting, profits are maximized. The only thing that allows that to happen is the existence and cooperation of foolish purchasers that are willing to overpay and exacerbate the problem rather than do without something they want. It seems like the prices of refurbished, used and new obsolete GPUs (4090 and older) just recently saw a bit of a price jump, maybe based on the 5090 pricing so ludicrous. The only appropriately priced to value GPUs are the mid-range models and a lot of us have no desire to purchase mid-range price-conscious (budget) gamer trash.

I've had so many I can't keep them straight and sometimes my brain thinks one thing and my fingers type something different. Those 5090 prices are WAY beyond reasonable. People paying prices like that help ruin everything for the people not willing to. Those prices are really $hi**y. We are talking K|NGP|N and Galax HOF prices for crappy, emasculated, mass-production gamer-grade trash. $1,000 more than they would be if NVIDIA wasn't deliberately screwing everyone. Somebody needs to get Jensen in a dark alley and just beat the snot out of him.

My 13900KS is SP112. The 14900KS I bought from @tps3443is SP108. Their voltage requirements and MC are very similar. 14900KS SP108 (current install in my Z790 Apex) 13900KS SP112 (currently installed in my Z790i Edge)

I don't remember which cooling component vendor mentioned it, maybe it was Alphacool, but it's going to be enough of a pain in the butt that it would not surprise me at all if nobody makes a block for it. If the AIB cards use a conventional PCB layout instead of that cobbled together abortion they might just say no to the idea of making one for the FE card. If I were a manufacturer of GPU waterblocks I'd say no to that one. Not worth the hassle. They would have to build some kind of frame to hold the pieces rather than just attaching everything to a brittle piece of acrylic. The cynical part of me believe that the Green Goblin did this deliberately to impair any kind of aftermarket modification and to make repairing (versus buying a new GPU) more difficult. Yes, Roman brought that out in his video. I can't help but think seeing a @der8auer video highlighting that historically below average performance bump is going to not set well with some people entertaining the idea of dropping a ton of money on a 5090 if they already own a 4090. I hope that sales falter hard at launch and NVIDIA has to lower the price to 4090 MSRP to move inventory. That would be awesome. Not that I care much, but I am eager to learn what the deal is with the radio silence on Radeon 9070 XT. I don't recall whose YouTube video it was, but I heard that retailers have had them in stock for over a month but can't put them up for sale yet. AMD has not given them a green light to sell or given any guidance on pricing. Maybe AMD are waiting on NVIDIA products to launch in order to see where the 9070 XT falls into the performance stack with NVIDIA's cards so they can decide how much they can charge for it. It would be hard to price and market something accurately if you don't have a clue what it compares to with the competitor's product or the price of that product.

Newer is always better newer. This guy is spot on. (Channel does not allow video embedding.) I love seeing any PC tech ranting about the absolute trash we are being sold. (Software and hardware trash.) https://youtu.be/JgDZF5Aiums?si=dPXzMO1B9QgVDO41