Mr. Fox

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

I think we should call BTF trash WTF instead. The real value comes from the use of an Arabic word and making everyone except for a small minority of PC enthusiasts in the world that speak Arabic, and otherwise would not give a rat's butt, have to stop and Google search just to try to figure out what the crap A$$zeus is selling this time... Only to find out that Google Translate cannot identify the word. The same word for "gold" also means to go away, to leave, to depart. to disappear, to vanish. to decline, to dwindle. That is actually a more fitting use of the word in connection with the ASUS brand. They should include a small plastic figurine like this to set on the backplate.

Thank you for the info.

I respect your priviledge to be wrong, misinformed or uninformed. If that floats your boat, more power to you. I think it is clear that the opposing view is totally irrelevant to both sides and that will not be swayed by a civil exchange of views or personal insults. But, that's OK when it doesn't matter what the opposition thinks about it. I think the insults help the person hurling them feel better. That's OK, too. Feeling good is nice for the person feeling it.

AI is getting really scary. It is already being used for nefarious purposes and it will only get worse. The parodies are funny and cute, but they are a wake up call. All of the fake garbage people believed that is being exposed based on leftist talking head brainwashing will be eclipsed by fake videos of "newsworthy" events that never happened. As far as whether to cry or laugh, I think the off-the-rails insanity of the small group of woke leftist sheeple freaking out about their rapidly growing irrelevance and advancing mental illness is worth crying about. It is so sad to see how many irrational reprobate idiots that lack the mental capacity to discern the truth still exist, but proportionally they are a small and rapidly shrinking group. Some of them were smart enough to have figured out that they have been victims of years of gaslighting and woke brainwashing and many of them are defecting to the side of truth, decency and normalcy. Their echo chamber has fewer irrational voices than it ever has and those of average or greater intelligence don't give a rat's butt about their silly, corrupt, small-minded and mentally insane echo chamber any more. It is understandable that people that are not American and live in countries still run by the kind of creepy demented bastards that recently had a foothold here still have no clue because they get their information from the same Soros, Inc. fake news shadow organization as the shrinking group of morons that need mental health care in the US has been.

I am probably not going to shunt and block in the same operation. I am not sure what dimension of resistor is needed on this GPU and I have not had time to research it between being crazy busy with projects at work, too many doctor appointments and exhausting myself getting UPS to correct their incompetence. I know I need 1 or 2 mOhm but there are different sizes and I need to confirm which resistors on the PCB need to be shunted. My 4090 Core block is also super nice. Out of the EK, Bykski and Alphacool blocks this one, the 4090 Core and the Aurora block on my 3080 Turbo are my favorites. The Bykski blocks are good but have kind of a dated look to them. Bykski's new aesthetic for 50-series looks really nice but I have seen some issues with fit being reported. All of my EK blocks have ended up having cracks around the screw holes and I won't buy the EK blocks anymore. I am sorry to see that has happened to yours. Those cracks on yours are much larger than mine have had. Mine were always small and not obvious at first glance. I do not know if it is something with their acrylic or if they are overtightening the screws.