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The gift that keeps on giving across all spectrum including PSUs, tentacles and AMD and Nvidia! Ugh.... On the flipside, has anyone in this thread experienced a burned out connector? Over on the enthusiasts forums it is indeed rare to encounter a burned connector especially at proper 600w spec. Why can you have some throw 800w+ through their connectors on the regular or bench at 1200w+ and no problems and Bobby the Basic User burns up their connectors? Even in that realm, it is a small sample across all connectors.... How is it we all ran XOC last gen and not one burned connector among any of us? Why is this?

As soon as I saw this, I thought, "Oh, he's purposely trying to trigger @Papusan and @Mr. Fox!" 🤣 Looks good! I, too, loop my connector(s) over the top of my GPUs when able so you can see the whole card and it takes a bit of the downward pull off the connector. I've done this since Ampere as an additional reason on top of aesthetics. Hmmmm, I wish you had the other board too to see if you could reproduce this on two of them. Might need to talk to other X870e owners to try to recreate a similar test scenario to see if they can trigger a memory fail.

Love by the sword, die by the sword @Papusan!! Time to order your pair (or two!) ASAP! 🤣

It didn't even cross my mind l2c vc controller support would be an issue so I understand. Hopefully they can provide an update or if your other one is supported. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- More MSI connector woes, but again with the sheer amount of cards being sold, it does come down to potential user error or one off issues. This was on a Gaming Trio (not like that matters) This isn't like the CM debacle which was much more prevalent and seemed like a daily occurrence with a crap ton of units showing up at repair shops across the world. Lightning striking the second user TWICE is just odd...... The bulk of users over on the forums shooting 800w+ daily through their units having zero problems. The vast majority of 4090 users never having a problem. Just like my 4090 I run my 5090 full tilt. The one bonus about using the supplied OEM tentacle is if it burns, you're completely covered from the OEM/AIB unlike if you use a third party connector. I will always continue to use the supplied connector. I might pick up an Ampinel simply because it looks interesting as a protection mechanism.

I'm so glad the damage was material only and everyone is safe and sound @Papusan!! Material items can be replaced / covered. Loved ones can not. Good fortune it didn't hit the house or do even worse. By chance, was your collection of Crocs maybe caught under the tree? Maybe? 🙂

Claims of turning a 9070 into a 9070xt have been greatly exaggerated.....as always..... Agreed, the juice isn't worth the squeeze on that one. Eventually a time will come around where you might have a scenario where you can test it in transit, but with everything set up as now? Nope. So both the 9950X and memory are retail rolling the dice? Good luck! My experience with EXPO is similar with some kits. They work as rated, but if you lower the frequency, they suddenly become unstable. This was the case with a Crucial 6400 kit and G.Skill 6000 kit. I've also had several needing more voltage on the Aorus B650i than rated versus the x870e Hero. I can see why kits get returned with such unstable variability. In the end, I just end up dialing each and every kit in manually. Same as I did for years on Intel. That, in turn, shows the variance between even "same" kits which made me realize (you too obviously) that binning also exists with memory kits too to go along with CPUs, GPUs and depending on how hard you're pushing even motherboards. Ugh... 🤣

Can the Strix run 8200 looser or caps out at 8000 regardless?

Overall trend from makers like Thermalrite and ID Cooling and more along with even MSI and Phanteks offering excellent 360mm AIOs for $100 or below. Go to PCpartpicker and the sheer amount of 360mm AIOs available for sub $60 is refreshing to view. Even 360mm models with LCD displays now can be had for sub $100. This flies in the face of Asus and NZXT trying to pass off display enabled AIOs for $440 and $300 respectively. Insane and truly made for the idiots out there.

Most modern users, even over on OC, all prefer clean runs to their 5090s and below. Most are either using the supplied PSU 12vhpwr cable or custom ordering one for their PSU with the connector included. Just about every model in the Nvidia consumer stack now uses it. Who in this forum are using the tentacle and running it to 4x PCIe 8 pin connectors to the 5090 besides me? Unfortunately we're three generations in now on Nvidia and the 12vhpwr connector. Nvidia dominates the market so it makes sense that PSU makers are starting to default to having one on their PSU What I would like to see though is always having at least 4x 8 pin connectors too along side it especially on models 850w+ and up but the bean counters have run their numbers and some models are sacrificing them for $$$. For lesser wattage models I can kind of give it a pass. So far we've only seen two AMD models with it: The Taichi and the Nitro+ 9070xt models. I suspect more will adopt it for future models. 😞

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What the hell man!!!! Et Tu @Raiderman?!?! 🤢 On the other hand, the system looks great as long as you remove that abomination from the foreground.... 🤣

Decent video showing once again the power of X3D but more importantly the overall futility of 6000 vs 6400 vs 8000 for AM5 along with the strength of 2DPC boards vs 1DPC with 800 series chipsets.... I'd like to see this run back on non X3D chips....

I forgot to add in I have those Kingspec 8400 sticks too that are currently running tight CL28 2000/6000 on the B650i I'll also test. Sheesh, my local MC has 25+ of those 5080s in stock for $899.99. I'm still waiting for 9070xt's to bottom out a bit more to pick up another one for my SFF for testing. I have and will continue to avoid Furmark like the plague, but always fun to see others run it for shiggles. Whew, CPU still toasty? What was your final analysis of the Alienware 18 5090 you have (had?) overall and in comparison. WoW on both systems? Full W10 support on the newest hardware is nice! I didn't realize it came with the 285HX either.

Nice! I'll have to give these a once over and see what they do on my Hero x870e and 9800X3D w/ T-Force 8200 sticks and B650i Aorus Ultra (1DPC) and 9600x. I've just been running 2200/6400 (Hero) and 2000/6000 (Aorus).

I'm not surprised. Targeted and blanket marketing across many companies and spectrums, like many things nefarious, will use the tools available to them and now it happens to be AI and bots. Still sad to see from MSI 😞 (Hugs Vanguard while rocking back and forth and asking MSI 'Why? WHY?") 😂 Best bet is to have a games only install of W11/10 if you're that concerned with nothing else of value installed. The low level access afforded to anti-cheat measures is pretty alarming, but it shows the extent some gamers and companies will go to cheat.

That's beautiful and...AND plenty of space for more GPUs to go up on the wall.... 😍

Seeing as AMD offers a complete vertical offering with CPU and GPUs, it makes sense even if it makes me feel a lot of icky. I suspect over time, based on how things go, Nvidia will continue to purchase more of Intel and could actually acquire a majority stake if not buy them outright at some point. This is the logical conclusion and AMD vs Nvidia is headed to final boss mode showdown. Heck, maybe Nvidia can right their CPU division down the road. Let's not forget Nvidia is an American company too as is AMD. A lot of this is on Intel.... And a lot of this is on AMD....

Only one way to find out @tps3443. Give it a whirl. If it works, that would rock as you could run the gigachad! ---- Gigabyte Windforce 5090 on sale at MC atm for $1999.99. I know my local MC has 5 in stock. Best Buy had a small drop of 5090 TUFs for $1999.99 drop today. They're all sold out in my region though.

As predicted by mid Sept at the latest, price drops bottomed out on the 5090 (don't say I didn't tell ya a month or so ago), and now stock is slowly drying up on several models and prices are slowly trending back up on several models especially with MSI cards where they are also out of stock across many models everywhere on several models including the Vanguard which has gone back up from $2499 to $2599/$2669. Even the Ventus is back up to $2399.99. On the plus side, Asus Astral has dropped to $3199.99 (yay?) at Da Egg and Amazon atm.... 9070xt's continue to come down in price and a few models are back to their MSRP including the Taichi 9070xt at Microcenter for $729.99. With MCC discount, $693.50. I might snag one of these as they have the most robust build yet again this time around for my Jonsbo Z20 fun times and my sff testing is rocking a dirt cheap, open box Cool Master 850 SFX w/ 12vhpwr connector. ------------------------------------------------- Glad to see you check in @Rage Set! Hope everything is going well in life and yeah 5090s and 4090s even are still commanding a pretty penny. As stated above, prices are slowly trending back up on 5090s in the retail channel along with stock dropping. I'm seeing a lot of out of stock on many 5090 models at Newegg and Microcenter now where a month ago almost all of the models were in stock everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------- Funny to see China sour on Nvidia a bit lately especially with all the improper channels to get cards into the country at better prices. As long as they can memory mod the 4090s and 5090s in tandem with the cost for a 6000D, Nvidia will win out in the end either way. They can just slow production and redirect dies elsewhere as needed. Two points here. #1. The Japanese Yen is very weak atm so I would expect higher costs. #2. Making a better / more robust version of something doesn't mean the original isn't still competent. Look at the tiers of PSUs when Gold is more than enough in the face of Platinum and Titanium. Look at their tiers of GPUs all with the same die in there and the price variance based on the surrounding components. This is no different. On the other hand, this is Asus...... 🤣 All you have to do is use DLSS and FG..... (massive eye roll here) but in all seriousness, this is how it goes (sans poor coding/optimizations). Devs push the boundaries in upper end settings. Modern cards struggle to run it as is pushing high end settings (4k, High/Ultra settings, etc...). As time passes, what was once nearly impossible to run will eventually run with ease as hardware advances over X amount of years I like to call this the 'Crysis Paradox' 🤑 ----------------------- At this rate, you're going to be in competition with @Papusan for collecting and benching older cards! Do either of you have a dedicated wall kind of like JayZ2C has for his EVGA card collection for your collections?

Final verdict: "Too many points of failure" "Stick to something traditional" I'm trying to figure out how the card was damaged to that point. They said UPS damaged it, but the way its designed no way the core comes away like that without zero damage anywhere on the outside and zero damage on the PCIe external connector but clearly bent/damaged pins on the internal mating and core contact damage. My guess is someone messed up blocking it and/or trying to reapply LM. Best thing is Tony learned a lot from working on one to refine his process for future 5000 series FE work including knowing to charge more for those repairs due to the complexity and headaches. ------------------------ *Sigh* and another scam over on OCN...... https://www.overclock.net/threads/asus-tuf-rtx-5090.1817558/page-2?post_id=29509662#post-29509662 You have to understand with so many compromised accounts that many are still in the proverbial chamber of bad actors to try and get people to pay with Zelle or PPFF or VenmoFF. You should never, ever use these methods unless you absolutely know the person personally. I was in discussion for a few GPUs recently and the breaking point was payment. I'm not sending off FF no matter how good of a deal it is ever.... You suck it up and offer G&S like every other real business and entity offers.

Yup, and HUB dropped a nice, timely video revisiting and comparing all the models across every spectrum. King of the hill overall for cooling is yet again XFX Mercury OC, but that is also one of the largest. It is $809 right now down from a high of $929 but still crazy expensive. Best GPU and hotspot temps. It can fit in a Jonsbo Z20 though. Reaper is a good compromise of price and form factor along with a sub 1000g weight (~905g). Next closest in weight is the Asus Prime at 1100g. That puppy is asking for some seriously small SFF loving. $650 is icing on the cake. Toss in 5% off from Microcenter CC and you're looking at 617.50 + tax. Performance wise, they are all within ~6% of each other at most and usually much closer from the best to the worst. Steve also addresses the Reaper model specifically in this video as to why they went out of stock for so long (Powercolor, like many AIBs during the initial rush were focusing on higher prices, bigger margin models) and why everything is coming back into stock now. I might scoop up a Reaper. It checks a lot of the boxes for SFF builds and still gives you basically the same performance on the desktop overall.

The default RGB would drive me nuts. Having to run MSI Center and SteelSeries GG software irritated me more than just running AWCC along with a lot of other not needed software. Once I was done my eval, I blasted that and did a clean install and scores in TS and SN immediately went from "good" to "excellent" just from the clean install. I can live with just AWCC. It isn't nearly as crippling as Asus's AC on the two Strix 18 4080's I tried and returned. My next step is to try and get ahold of the newest Intel APO to give a whirl on this and the wife's 14900KS SP109 for WoW. --- Yikes, yeah that's not good at all on the Alienware. I know samples are supposed to be seeded like regular line models, but only an idiot would not assume samples sent for eval / reviews aren't perhaps double checked a bit to make sure they don't get dinged or even better performing samples make their way out the door. Here is a run I did on my Alienware 18 with the 5070ti. You can see the 5070ti is pulling ~175w. This is in balanced mode. If I switch to overdrive/performance mode, the 5070ti drops back to 140w to give the CPU more juice. CPU topped out at 80c and GPU at ~63c in Timespy run. Leaving fans on their default profile and they went to I think 50% max? I initially thought this was all they could do and went, "wow, that's quiet!" then I switched to performance later and thought to myself, "Ah, there they are!' Nowhere near as bad as the Raider or other laptops I've tested though. I'll be curious to try some overclocking given the 175w budget and already cool running temps later. --------------------------------------------------------- In performance mode, letting the CPU run free it pulled up to 170w and the fans were automatically aggressive and temps topped out at ~68c. In this mode the 5070ti takes a back seat in testing and tops out at 140w. ----- And just as a refresher, here is a 275HX in my Predator 16 OLED eval unit throttling like a champ and on an ice cold run clocking in at 33k which quickly reduced to 26k on run 3 whereas my Alienware stayed the same throughout.... It is a much smaller form factor though. I'm upgrading the wife with this one over her Asus Vivobook 16 w/ Ultra 185 and 3050 OLED for the back half of our travels this year. Even dialed down, WoW was crazy chunky on that Asus at 1080p. That was pre Tazevesh Ice cold run: 3 runs:

4090 vs 5090 @8k anywhere from 24 to 58% faster..... 4090 is running out of VRAM with DOOM Dark Ages so toss out that 67% difference. Overall average difference ~43% faster on the 5090. ------------------------ Nice! Breaking the 17k mark on SN. Are you going to push for higher numbers? Chilled 4090 vs chilled 5090. I'll be curious to see how the WireView works out for you too as @tps3443 alluded to, it is hit or miss for temps but so many variables are in play and as always PEBKAC is always a factor so let's see ... ------------------- Yeah, the noise levels (especially sitting next to my former Raider) were immediately noticeable. I also think it is an AMD issue with their mobile variants even back to AM4. They just boost super aggressively and are overly aggressive with their cooling profiles. I've had 4 AMD laptops in my possession and the fans are very present. Three Acers, one MSI. Overall, the cooling system is very good on the new Alienware 18. Looks like Alienware might be playing BIOS customization games depending on model color and theme. My teal model defaults to solid teal no matter what unless I override it with ACC. Not retaining settings is the new tactic by AIBs and OEMs to force you to use their data harvesting software at all times. Asus literally removed the retention mechanism in a BIOS update on the Z690 Strix D4 to try and force Armory Crate down our throats. Maybe SignalRGB will work. Glad to know I didn't crack it open and install those sticks just for it to not work. Score one for other projects and life keeping my attention atm. My Alienware was an eval review model so while not always valid, I do tend to think the OEMs tend to double and triple check their samples sent out so there's that. How are your temps and scores so far? 5090 is more powerful, but the 5070ti also pulls 175w too so the overall cooling scenario should be about equal unless your 5090 is pulling more.

In an ideal world, absolutely but Nvidia will eventually be brought kicking and screaming into more baseline vram both mobile and desktop from top to bottom. With that being said, are there actually any games that can't run on 1080p medium with 8GB of vram? I do think Nvidia shot themselves in the foot when they offered the 3060 with 12GB. They opened Pandora's box a smidge... 🤣 If Nvidia is moving the baseline with the 070 class on up now with Supers, and slowing orders of 8GB 060ti variants, eventually it would make sense to: 050 = 8GB 060 = 12GB 060ti =16GB 070 =18GB 070ti =24GB 080 =24GB 090 =32GB The only fear of course is when 6000 series drops they regress back to non Super configs.

Nvidia doubling down on AMD and at least finally admitting gamers want more vram. 18gb and 24gb variants along with the 5070 getting a performance boost. It will close the gap between the 5070 and 9070 and give the 5070 more vram. 24gb variants of the 5070ti and 5080 just put the nail in the coffin for ther 9070xt atm unless prices seriously change. 5060 8GB makes sense for budget minded buyers. 5050 is a farce. At least AMD and Nvidia give buyers a choice between 8GB and 16GB models of the 9060 and 5060ti. Recent market data shows buyers are greatly gravitating towards the 16GB variants....shocker. Yeah, Nvidia wants to lock down the market even more. We need AMD. They keep Nvidia on their toes at least a little bit. Only reason we're getting Supers with memory bumps along with maybe a bit of stagnant sales atm from those who want more vram. Future proof? I'm sure that is blasphemy in the halls of Nvidia.... "No one can out screw up a known boutique mash up like Dell and Alienware!!!" **HP and Voodoo have entered the chat** 🤣 w00t! Looking forward to it! Seeing results from stock, AC, water, chilled and now shunted shows a nice progression.