johnksss Posted yesterday at 02:50 AM Share Posted yesterday at 02:50 AM 12 minutes ago, tps3443 said: Dang congrats man! So, MSI Afterburner OSD shows the external clock. Which is greatly inflated. If I go by these measurements my card is a 3.3Ghz+ queen everywhere. But the internal clock is only 3.1Ghz+ range. GPUz also only shows external clock. HWinfo has both. Nvidia Overlay shows internal clock only! I had no idea all this time, I’ve been thinking my clocks are much lower than what they actually were. 🙂 You have to let that go. The clock that matters is the average clock. Not the clock speed you set. Nor the max clock that is shown. Side note: This card's max voltage is 1.09V 1 1 1 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps3443 Posted yesterday at 03:00 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:00 AM 18 minutes ago, johnksss said: You have to let that go. The clock that matters is the average clock. Not the clock speed you set. Nor the max clock that is shown. Side note: This card's max voltage is 1.09V So which one do you go by? You use MSI Afterburner OSD? So if this is the case. my care completely stock runs 2,880Mhz in games. Which I had no idea. I am curious to know how the astral is. Man, you are on your 3rd 5090 now? 🤣Nice! 2 1 13900KF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 03:09 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:09 AM 11 minutes ago, tps3443 said: So which one do you go by? You use MSI Afterburner OSD? I am curious to know how the astral is. Man, you are on your 3rd 5090 now? 🤣Nice! Thanks. 🙂 The first card a customer was like. I'll take it because he could get a card for months. The second card was a place holder for today when I checked the website and bam! they said they had 12. I got card number 8. And I traded in the PNY, but not before getting a 200 dollar rebate for the cards price drop. So far, I like the card alot. So much so I got accidental damage warranty so I can shunt it and feel comfortable. 🤣 They even asked me. John, you plan on tearing this card up and put it on water as well. I said yep~!!! So far though, I really do like the feel and look of the card and it over clocks nicely. GPU effective clock is the one you are after. Run a benchmark in window mode and watch what that clock does. The closer you get it to the clock speed you set. The greater the reward. The guy asked me about my 14900KS I bought from them a few weeks ago. Asked me if I delided it already. I was like, not yet. but I think I'm going to pay my man @Mr. Fox to do it as I don't have the tools for that. 5 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps3443 Posted yesterday at 03:20 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:20 AM 17 minutes ago, johnksss said: Thanks. 🙂 The first card a customer was like. I'll take it because he could get a card for months. The second card was a place holder for today when I checked the website and bam! they said they had 12. I got card number 8. And I traded in the PNY, but not before getting a 200 dollar rebate for the cards price drop. So far, I like the card alot. So much so I got accidental damage warranty so I can shunt it and feel comfortable. 🤣 They even asked me. John, you plan on tearing this card up and put it on water as well. I said yep~!!! So far though, I really do like the feel and look of the card and it over clocks nicely. GPU effective clock is the one you are after. Run a benchmark in window mode and watch what that clock does. The closer you get it to the clock speed you set. The greater the reward. That's what I have been going by since my 4090. The Nvidia overlay uses the GPU effective clock speed just like HWinfo does(Only I did not know this). My FE does a great job with keeping up high internal clock speeds considering how dang hot and tiny it is. You seriously need to shunt that card. If I had a block already, mine would be done. Lucky you, you have a few block choices already available for blocks, I think. @Papusan Are you watercooling your Astral lc as well? 2 1 13900KF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 03:29 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:29 AM 6 minutes ago, tps3443 said: That's what I have been going by since my 4090. The Nvidia overlay uses the GPU effective clock speed just like HWinfo does(Only I did not know this). My FE does a great job with keeping up high internal clock speeds considering how dang hot and tiny it is. You seriously need to shunt that card. If I had a block already, mine would be done. Lucky you, you have a few block choices already available for blocks, I think. @Papusan Are you watercooling your Astral lc as well? My apologies brother TPS, I thought it was based off your max clock speeds dropping. Yes, time to hunt down a block.:) 1 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papusan Posted yesterday at 03:44 AM Share Posted yesterday at 03:44 AM 1 hour ago, tps3443 said: @Papusan Are you watercooling your Astral lc as well? Not sure I want to spend more money on computer parts right now. And not much time for it now. All to much to spend on the house rehab and other peripherals for the house. I also thinking about a robotic lawnmower. But that's also equal pricy as the +$3000 graphics card. And then I have to set aside money for our usual one mont summer vaccation outside Africa. 3.5 months go fast. 300-500 USD here and there will be a lot money in the end. Same vram clock cap also with Hynix. You lust got a love nvidia. The next level of stupidity will be capping the core clocks or remove the voltage slider from working with new Geforce drivers as they did with Maxwell graphics cards. Nvidia just make it harder and harder to love them😒 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti With SK Hynix GDDR7 Memory Overclocked To 34 Gbps; Delivers 7% Performance Uplift 1 1 "The Killer" ASUS ROG Z790 Apex Encore | 14900KS | 4090 HOF + 20 other graphics cards | 32GB DDR5 | Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 12 - 1500 Watt | Second PSU - Cooler Master V750 SFX Gold 750W (For total of 2250W Power) | Corsair Obsidian 1000D | Custom Cooling | Asus ROG Strix XG27AQ 27" Monitors | Papusan @ HWBOT | Team PremaMod @ HWBOT | Papusan @ YouTube Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrosoft Posted yesterday at 05:45 AM Share Posted yesterday at 05:45 AM 5 hours ago, tps3443 said: I just discovered something interesting with my 5090 FE. So my clocks were kinda pathetic.. And I guess they are, but that’s a stock 5090fe after all, however I notice using Rivatuner/MSI AB OSD, and that app shows the external clock speed. If I use Rivatuner through MSI AB it says my card is running 2,872Mhz “Stock”. The Nvidia app portrays the internal effective clock speed. Right now I’m playing KCDII and Nvidia overlay says “2,670Mhz” that’s a stock 5090fe spec. But GPUz says “2,857Mhz” and even HWInfo says “2,857Mhz” I never knew this before. But just something to consider. If I go by this number, it’s going to show some seriously inflated clock speeds. I’m actually amazed by this because if I run MSI AB as an overlay it shows some pretty WILD clock speeds of about +200 on everything. So, if I’m running just 3,270 I’m running 3,470 using your monitoring tool. Yeah on all my Astral 5090 screenies and benchmarking results reports, ALL I use is Nvidia's monitoring tools. My last big post with the card comparisons for the 5080 and 5090 was all Nvidia's tools. You gotta figure they know their hardware better than any other external monitoring tool and it works well enough for my needs to a point. Go back and look. I just customized the screen read out because I like it to the left, vertical and in red w/ a larger font but that's Nvidia's statistics reporting utility (Alt+R baby). I use AB when I'm doing fps session grabs to get average framerates via Rivatuner and/or usually overclocking, albeit I used PX1 for that last session for both the Astral and FE. For AMD, if you go back and look at some of the first DXMD pics, you will see AB and Adrenalin on screen at the same time. Using Nvidia's OSD, I'm hitting 2745mhz on the 5080 FE stock and 3030mhz OC'd 99% util in WoW so based on your older posts, that is right in the neighborhood of your stock clocks. Both our FE's have subpar voltage caps at stock. 3 hours ago, jaybee83 said: nah not interested in water blocks. i got the air version specifically to stay on air. i just filled up the gap between PCB and backplate. welp, seems like i killed the 9950X3D 💩 delidding went down pretty smooth, but i think something about the TG HPHS install sent it into oblivion. after lots of troubleshooting i swapped the 7950X back into the socket and after many attempts it finally booted up (apparently the mobo asks if the cpu had been switched and one needs to manually confirm that. however that message didnt show up, just blackscreen. found out about this "invisible message" online and just attempted a blind confirmation via kb, it worked 😛). im relieved that the mobo is still functional and also LUCKY that i still have the 7950X around (its already on sale on ebay but no buyer yet). sooooo yeah....i guess time to order a new CPU 😄 and the RAM binning will have to wait 😛 ugh, this is so annoying....welp, maybe the new cpu will at least have a better IMC. DAMN!!!!! I'm so sorry bro. 😞 I've killed a few chips over the years pushing them too hard. Still hurts to see it happen. They aren't cheap! A proper sorting of the universe would have your replacement 9950X3D having a monster IMC and run ice cold. Next question is, do you plan on delidding this one? 3 hours ago, johnksss said: In other news I snagged an Astral today at Micro Center! Awesome! Congrats @johnksss!! Which block are you going with? 2 hours ago, tps3443 said: So which one do you go by? You use MSI Afterburner OSD? So if this is the case. my care completely stock runs 2,880Mhz in games. Which I had no idea. Go by your results. You're overthinking a good, solid, average very well priced card. Just enjoy it. I can't imagine stressing this much or coming at it from so many directions to extract water from a rock. I would just focus on the price, aesthetics, potential lack of coil whine and the fact it IS a 5090 and keep it moving..... 2 1 Electrosoft Alpha: 9800X3D | Asus X870E Hero Crosshair | Nvidia RTX 5080 FE| AC LF II 420 | TG 2x24GB 8200 @ 2200/6400 tuned | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | EVGA 1600w P2 | Phanteks Ethroo Pro | Alienware AW3225QF 32" OLED Heath: i9-14900KS SP109 | EVGA CLC 280 | Asus Strix Z690 D4 | Asus Strix 3080 | 32GB DDR4 2x16GB B-Die 4000 | Samsung 980 1TB Pro | EVGA DG-77 | Samsung G7 32" 144hz 32" MSI Raider | 7950HX3D | Nvidia RTX 4090 | Kingston Fury 2x16GB DDR5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | 18" QHD | WiFi 7 Eurocom X15 Raptor | i9-12900k | Nvidia RTX 3070ti | HyperX 3200 CL20 32GB | Samsung 990 2TB | 15.6" 144hz | Wifi 6E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps3443 Posted yesterday at 06:18 AM Share Posted yesterday at 06:18 AM @johnksss Share your Steel Nomad results please. 13900KF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 06:54 AM Share Posted yesterday at 06:54 AM 2 hours ago, tps3443 said: @johnksss Share your Steel Nomad results please. https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5655620 Edit: For anyone thinking they have no coil whine only needs to run firestrike extreme to find out the truth. I can hear that wine over all 15 fans running in here on full blast. LOL 4 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted yesterday at 11:36 AM Share Posted yesterday at 11:36 AM 5 hours ago, electrosoft said: DAMN!!!!! I'm so sorry bro. 😞 I've killed a few chips over the years pushing them too hard. Still hurts to see it happen. They aren't cheap! A proper sorting of the universe would have your replacement 9950X3D having a monster IMC and run ice cold. Next question is, do you plan on delidding this one? thx for the kind words bud, i feel like an idiot 😛 trying to remember how many cpus ive destroyed thus far in my pc lifetime... aside from 1-2 cheapass budget cpus to hone my vice delid skills (back in the day there were no resdy made delidders, had to help urself 😄) i think this might be my very first cpu haha 😛 storage, mobos, gpus, even ram, have all crapped out on me before, but not cpus. in that case it was about time i guess?! 😄 anyways, ill first have to check and see what i got with the new cpu before deciding on delidding. itll hopefully get delivered by tuesday. problem is also time constraints, this weekend was basically a golden opportunity to do the cooling upgrade for cpu & gpu, not sure when the next time is ill get this chance #familylife 2 1 Mine: Hyperion "Titan God of Heat, Heavenly Light, Power" (2022-25) AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (TG High Perf. IHS) / Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme / MSI Geforce RTX 5090 Suprim SOC / Teamgroup T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-8200 2x24 GB / 4x Western Digital Black SN850P/X 8TB in 2x16TB RAID 0 / Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 (Push/Pull 6x Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC-3000 intake) / Seasonic TX-1600 W Titanium / Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 TG (3x Arctic P12 A-RGB intake / 4x Arctic P14 A-RGB exhaust / 1x Arctic P14 A-RGB RAM cooling) / Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 32" 4K 240 Hz / Ducky One 3 Daybreak Fullsize Cherry MX Brown / Corsair M65 Ultra RGB / PDP Afterglow Wave Black / Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro X Limited Edition My Lady's: Clevo NH55JNNQ "Alfred" (2022-25) Sharp LQ156M1JW03 FHD matte 15.6" IGZO 8 bit @248 Hz / Intel Core i5 12600 / Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070 Ti / Mushkin Redline DDR4-3200 2x32 GB / Samsung 970 Pro 1 TB / Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB / Intel AX201 WIFI 6+BT 5.2 / Win 11 Pro Phoenix Lite OS / 230 W PSU powered by Prema Mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps3443 Posted yesterday at 05:57 PM Share Posted yesterday at 05:57 PM 11 hours ago, johnksss said: https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5655620 Edit: For anyone thinking they have no coil whine only needs to run firestrike extreme to find out the truth. I can hear that wine over all 15 fans running in here on full blast. LOL Thats a great run. I cannot hit more than 15.3k with mine. Not only is my Founders Edition model in the stock format holding me back, but my current platform is holding me back by about 500 points at least. My stock score is like 13,800. I just cannot get Rebar working. And PCIe Gen 3. I think it's getting about that time to retire the Dominus/3175x soon. 2 1 13900KF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 06:46 PM Share Posted yesterday at 06:46 PM 49 minutes ago, tps3443 said: Thats a great run. I cannot hit more than 15.3k with mine. Not only is my Founders Edition model in the stock format holding me back, but my current platform is holding me back by about 500 points at least. My stock score is like 13,800. I just cannot get Rebar working. And PCIe Gen 3. I think it's getting about that time to retire the Dominus/3175x soon. Hummmm, do you have links to any of your scores? PR? What driver did you use? And not sure the FE is really up to snuff this round with the 5090. (I could be wrong) What FE's have you seen holding spots near the midrange to upper levels in the ranks? Including the ones that may have been shunted. Also to note, i'm only speaking on benchmarks. The card seems perfectly fine for gaming. Benchmarks are about scores while gaming is about FPS. And just because it might be 0.03 FPS behind does not mean a card is trash. 😂 And why is nvidiainspector not working on your card? You are using the new version that has the rBar settings right? 1 1 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrosoft Posted yesterday at 07:35 PM Share Posted yesterday at 07:35 PM 1 hour ago, tps3443 said: Thats a great run. I cannot hit more than 15.3k with mine. Not only is my Founders Edition model in the stock format holding me back, but my current platform is holding me back by about 500 points at least. My stock score is like 13,800. I just cannot get Rebar working. And PCIe Gen 3. I think it's getting about that time to retire the Dominus/3175x soon. Too many small limitations on the FE this time around. I know I dig in on ya for fun (light hearted ribbing), but the FE will not be setting the world on fire this iteration. It's strengths lie elsewhere (aesthetics, engineering, compact size, price). You notice the Gigabyte vBIOS coupled with the Astral too. Like @johnksss said and to further I keep pressing is a 5090 FE is still a 5090 and a monster card out of the box that will lay waste to everything out there and blocked and 1 stage shunted you will extract every bit of performance out of it to let it flex as hard as it can but even in a game of inches it will still fall short due to several factors compared to the top dogs. It's not a knock on it at all and I hope you're not taking it personally bro. 🙂 And you are spot on with your rig limitations. It's fun and nostalgic and has its pros and country charm but it just can't keep up with modern hardware from your former 14th gen platform to an AM5 platform. Even a 285k will outpace it to extract as much performance as possible from your 5090. Now you get to think about what you want to move to next. Back to 14th? 285k looks like a lot of fun to tune up. AM5 is a proven winner. 12 hours ago, johnksss said: https://www.3dmark.com/sn/5655620 Edit: For anyone thinking they have no coil whine only needs to run firestrike extreme to find out the truth. I can hear that wine over all 15 fans running in here on full blast. LOL Nice score! I see that GB vBIOS. 🙂 I'm afraid, but I'll give it a run later to see if my ear drums explode. 😁 2 1 Electrosoft Alpha: 9800X3D | Asus X870E Hero Crosshair | Nvidia RTX 5080 FE| AC LF II 420 | TG 2x24GB 8200 @ 2200/6400 tuned | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | EVGA 1600w P2 | Phanteks Ethroo Pro | Alienware AW3225QF 32" OLED Heath: i9-14900KS SP109 | EVGA CLC 280 | Asus Strix Z690 D4 | Asus Strix 3080 | 32GB DDR4 2x16GB B-Die 4000 | Samsung 980 1TB Pro | EVGA DG-77 | Samsung G7 32" 144hz 32" MSI Raider | 7950HX3D | Nvidia RTX 4090 | Kingston Fury 2x16GB DDR5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | 18" QHD | WiFi 7 Eurocom X15 Raptor | i9-12900k | Nvidia RTX 3070ti | HyperX 3200 CL20 32GB | Samsung 990 2TB | 15.6" 144hz | Wifi 6E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 07:40 PM Share Posted yesterday at 07:40 PM 3 minutes ago, electrosoft said: Too many small limitations on the FE this time around. I know I dig in on ya for fun (light hearted ribbing), but the FE will not be setting the world on fire this iteration. It's strengths lie elsewhere (aesthetics, engineering, compact size, price). You notice the Gigabyte vBIOS coupled with the Astral too. Like @johnksss said and to further I keep pressing is a 5090 FE is still a 5090 and a monster card out of the box that will lay waste to everything out there and blocked and 1 stage shunted you will extract every bit of performance out of it to let it flex as hard as it can but even in a game of inches it will still fall short due to several factors compared to the top dogs. It's not a knock on it at all and I hope you're not taking it personally bro. 🙂 And you are spot on with your rig limitations. It's fun and nostalgic and has its pros and country charm but it just can't keep up with modern hardware from your former 14th gen platform to an AM5 platform. Even a 285k will outpace it to extract as much performance as possible from your 5090. Now you get to think about what you want to move to next. Back to 14th? 285k looks like a lot of fun to tune up. AM5 is a proven winner. Nice score! I see that GB vBIOS. 🙂 I'm afraid, but I'll give it a run later to see if my ear drums explode. 😁 The Gigabyte seems to be a little better-rounded than the Astral vbios. Who knew... 3 1 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps3443 Posted yesterday at 08:24 PM Share Posted yesterday at 08:24 PM 1 hour ago, johnksss said: Hummmm, do you have links to any of your scores? PR? What driver did you use? And not sure the FE is really up to snuff this round with the 5090. (I could be wrong) What FE's have you seen holding spots near the midrange to upper levels in the ranks? Including the ones that may have been shunted. Also to note, i'm only speaking on benchmarks. The card seems perfectly fine for gaming. Benchmarks are about scores while gaming is about FPS. And just because it might be 0.03 FPS behind does not mean a card is trash. 😂 And why is nvidiainspector not working on your card? You are using the new version that has the rBar settings right? No one has shunted FE yet, I have not seen one. I think everyone is being a sissy about taking them apart lol. No blocks available yet, so I think most people are waiting until they have a block before shunting the card. I think shunting and re-mounting stock cooler is probably pointless. So, with my motherboard Nvinspector forced or not, I physically cannot enable Rebar. I have tried to modify the Dominus bios and dump the Rebar file on the latest bios, then flash the new modified bios, then enable rebar via CMD. And it just won't work. I lose monitor signal after setting the rebar size limit with the Rebar.exe tool. Physically impossible to make Rebar work on the Dominus which is the stupidest thing man. Because the SR3 Dark actually supports Rebar. So, with a slight PCIe Gen 3 bottleneck of 3-4% and No Rebar which cost me about another 2-3% these two things are of course setting me back on Steel Nomad severely. I should be sitting much higher than 15,350. 1 2 13900KF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 09:02 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:02 PM 42 minutes ago, tps3443 said: No one has shunted FE yet, I have not seen one. I think everyone is being a sissy about taking them apart lol. No blocks available yet, so I think most people are waiting until they have a block before shunting the card. I think shunting and re-mounting stock cooler is probably pointless. So, with my motherboard Nvinspector forced or not, I physically cannot enable Rebar. I have tried to modify the Dominus bios and dump the Rebar file on the latest bios, then flash the new modified bios, then enable rebar via CMD. And it just won't work. I lose monitor signal after setting the rebar size limit with the Rebar.exe tool. Physically impossible to make Rebar work on the Dominus which is the stupidest thing man. Because the SR3 Dark actually supports Rebar. So, with a slight PCIe Gen 3 bottleneck of 3-4% and No Rebar which cost me about another 2-3% these two things are of course setting me back on Steel Nomad severely. I should be sitting much higher than 15,350. Now that all depends on the highest FE card you seen to date. Totally forgot about the board being that old, but I was also under the impression that rebar could be enabled on boards that did not have it in the bios. I would have lost that bet. Might be time to rent a system to cure your curiosity. To see first hand how much you are missing. Or not missing. 🙂 So lots of big talk Fe owners but no one wants to be first? And shunting it and putting back stock, nothing wrong with that. Just don't go over board on the over clocks and just watch the temps. Then when the blocks are ready, grab one and you are already good to go. Speaking of which, my EVC2 and shunts should be here some time today. Other alternative.....dump the card and grab anything other than an FE. Sell it for MSRP plus Tax and shipping and call it a day. 3 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrosoft Posted yesterday at 09:19 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:19 PM Running some tests comparing the wife's 3080 10gb Strix vs the 9070xt in WoW. She plays at 1440p, but I tested both at 1440p and 4k. I'm thinking of cancelling the 5070 and giving her the 9070xt instead. Problem is in WoW I think the $549.99 5070 will plant itself much closer to the $729.99 9070xt than the 3080 in WoW. I'm also not sure the uplift is worth the disruption at this point. This is at full Ultra 10 w/ RT at max 1440p: Hallowfall: --------------------------- 3080 - 105fps 9070xt - 142fps -------------------------- Oribos: -------------------------- 3080 - 116fps 9070xt - 150fps -------------------------- 4k: Hallowfall: --------------------------- 3080 - 70fps 9070xt - 93fps --------------------------- Oribos: --------------------------- 3080 - 66fps 9070xt - 101fps 5080FE - 115fps 5090 - 186fps --------------------------- 2 Electrosoft Alpha: 9800X3D | Asus X870E Hero Crosshair | Nvidia RTX 5080 FE| AC LF II 420 | TG 2x24GB 8200 @ 2200/6400 tuned | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | EVGA 1600w P2 | Phanteks Ethroo Pro | Alienware AW3225QF 32" OLED Heath: i9-14900KS SP109 | EVGA CLC 280 | Asus Strix Z690 D4 | Asus Strix 3080 | 32GB DDR4 2x16GB B-Die 4000 | Samsung 980 1TB Pro | EVGA DG-77 | Samsung G7 32" 144hz 32" MSI Raider | 7950HX3D | Nvidia RTX 4090 | Kingston Fury 2x16GB DDR5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | 18" QHD | WiFi 7 Eurocom X15 Raptor | i9-12900k | Nvidia RTX 3070ti | HyperX 3200 CL20 32GB | Samsung 990 2TB | 15.6" 144hz | Wifi 6E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Fox Posted yesterday at 09:39 PM Author Share Posted yesterday at 09:39 PM On 4/1/2025 at 2:43 AM, Mr. Fox said: Brother @jaybee83 - this one is the one I would recommend. Both of mine are solid AMD kits. https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-ddr5-8000/p/N82E16820374624?Item=N82E16820374624 Sorry to hear about your CPU Brother @jaybee83. Something similar happened to Brother @Raiderman. I delidded his 9950X and tested it out. Everything worked great. I use the TG Mycro direct die block. He had issues with contact and thermals using a die frame and regular waterblock. He removed the CPU and when he put it back in the thing was dead. It has nothing visually wrong with it. By the way. I finally found a 48GB EXPO 8000 kit and it is totally stable in the Gigabyte Master. It's on the QVL as well. I believe it is a new SKU. All other 48GB memory I have tested on every AM5 motherboard was unstable. G.SKILL and TeamGroup Intel XMP kits were never stable even with all manual tuning. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DGRLW7V7 Nice to see you Brother @Rage Set. I hope all has been well with you. About the storage addiction... no explanation for it. Don't need it. Don't use it all. But I like doing things in excess. Congrats on the Astral Brother @johnksss. I'd be happy to delid the 14900KS for you. I think I may still have an extra LGA1700 IceMan or TG Mycro direct die block. If I still have one its yours as a gift. I am almost done with the projects. My tiny office has never felt so big, LOL. I still need to install the IceMan dual D5 pump in the O11D XL EVO. I just ran out of time so I slapped a single Byksi pump along with the Alphacool pump/res. I am going to have to fabricate a bracket for the dual D5 pump and just didn't have enough time or energy left to fuss with it right now. I also still need to delid the second 9950X CPU and install the second TG Mycro block. I'll probably do all of that at once in a couple of weeks after the Alpahcool Core block for the 4090 Suprim gets here. So, the O11D XL EVO turns out to be too small for push/pull with the fat radiators I installed. Heatkiller rads in top and bottom, Alphacool X-Flow in the side next to the mobo. Using the awesome Montech Metal Pro fans. I really like these fans. I have some in the Gene build as well. Since I have extras due to not being able to do push/pull on the O11D XL EVO I am going to use them to replace the inferior fans in the Gene. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ45JWL1?th=1 1 3 1 Wraith // X870E Master | 9950X | 4090 Suprim | 48GB DDR5-8000 | GF3 1650W | Triple 360 Loop | Hailea HC-500A || O11D XL EVO (T-Rex) Spectre // X670E Gene | 9950X | AORUS 9070 XT Elite | 32GB DDR5-8000 | RM1200x SHIFT | Dual 360 Loop || Antec C8 (Rhinoceros) Meh! // Precision 7720 | BGA CPU Filth + MXM Quadro P5000 | 4K Display | $500 Grade A Refurb | Meh! (Turdbook) Mr. Fox YouTube Channel | Mr. Fox @ HWBOT The average response time for a 911 call is 10 minutes. The response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 09:58 PM Share Posted yesterday at 09:58 PM 18 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said: Sorry to hear about your CPU Brother @jaybee83. Something similar happened to Brother @Raiderman. I delidded his 9950X and tested it out. Everything worked great. I use the TG Mycro direct die block. He used it and had issues with contact and thermals using a die frame and regular waterblock. He removed the CPU and when he put it back it the thing was dead. It has nothing visually wrong with it. By the way. I finally found a 48GB EXPO 8000 kit and it is totally stable in the Gigabyte Master. It's on the QVL as well. I believe it is a new SKU. All other 48GB memory I have tested on every AM5 motherboard was unstable. G.SKILL and TeamGroup Intel XMP kits were never stable even with all manual tuning. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DGRLW7V7 Nice to see you Brother @Rage Set. I hope all has been well with you. About the storage addiction... no explanation for it. Don't need it. Don't use it all. But I like doing things in excess. Congrats on the Astral Brother @johnksss. I'd be happy to delid the 14900KS for you. I think I may still have an extra LGA1700 IceMan or TG Mycro direct die block. If I still have one its yours as a gift. I am almost done with the projects. My tiny office has never felt so big, LOL. I still need to install the IceMan dual D5 pump in the O11D XL EVO. I just ran out of time so I slapped a single Byksi pump along with the Alphacool pump/res. I am going to have to fabricate a bracket for the dual D5 pump and just didn't have enough time or energy left to fuss with it right now. I also still need to delid the second 9950X CPU and install the second TG Mycro block. I'll probably do all of that at once in a couple of weeks after the Alpahcool Core block for the 4090 Suprim gets here. So, the O11D XL EVO turns out to be too small for push/pull with the fat radiators I installed. Heatkiller rads in top and bottom, Alphacool X-Flow in the side next to the mobo. Using the awesome Montech Metal Pro fans. I really like these fans. I have some in the Gene build as well. Since I have extras due to not being able to do push/pull on the O11D XL EVO I had going to use them to replace the inferior fans in the Gene. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJ45JWL1?th=1 Hey wait, you need a Suprim block? I still have mine sitting here. 2 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Fox Posted yesterday at 10:02 PM Author Share Posted yesterday at 10:02 PM 6 minutes ago, johnksss said: Hey wait, you need a Suprim block? I still have mine sitting here. I have a Byski block on it already. That's the one in the photo. I ordered a Core for it (should be here Thursday) just because I think it looks a lot nicer. It's really chunky looking and has the backplate formed around the perimeter so there is no visible PCB or air space between the acrylic front and metal backplate. But, thank you for asking. What block for the Suprim do you have? 1 2 Wraith // X870E Master | 9950X | 4090 Suprim | 48GB DDR5-8000 | GF3 1650W | Triple 360 Loop | Hailea HC-500A || O11D XL EVO (T-Rex) Spectre // X670E Gene | 9950X | AORUS 9070 XT Elite | 32GB DDR5-8000 | RM1200x SHIFT | Dual 360 Loop || Antec C8 (Rhinoceros) Meh! // Precision 7720 | BGA CPU Filth + MXM Quadro P5000 | 4K Display | $500 Grade A Refurb | Meh! (Turdbook) Mr. Fox YouTube Channel | Mr. Fox @ HWBOT The average response time for a 911 call is 10 minutes. The response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted yesterday at 10:06 PM Share Posted yesterday at 10:06 PM 9 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said: I have a Byski block on it already. That's the one in the photo. I ordered a Core for it (should be here Thursday) just because I think it looks a lot nicer. It's really chunky looking and has the backplate formed around the perimeter so there is no visible PCB or air space between the acrylic front and metal backplate. But, thank you for asking. What block for the Suprim do you have? Ah, understood. I have a Phanteks with backplate. It was almost going to go on that 4090 LC I had last month, but that card ended up going back. Oh man, that does look nice. I might have to order one of those. 1 2 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaybee83 Posted yesterday at 10:21 PM Share Posted yesterday at 10:21 PM 8 hours ago, Mr. Fox said: Sorry to hear about your CPU Brother @jaybee83. Something similar happened to Brother @Raiderman. I delidded his 9950X and tested it out. Everything worked great. I use the TG Mycro direct die block. He used it and had issues with contact and thermals using a die frame and regular waterblock. He removed the CPU and when he put it back it the thing was dead. It has nothing visually wrong with it. By the way. I finally found a 48GB EXPO 8000 kit and it is totally stable in the Gigabyte Master. It's on the QVL as well. I believe it is a new SKU. All other 48GB memory I have tested on every AM5 motherboard was unstable. G.SKILL and TeamGroup Intel XMP kits were never stable even with all manual tuning. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DGRLW7V7 sounds very familiar, i was also struggling with proper contact and seating inside the socket. im suspecting that maybe there were some micro / hairline cracks in the silicon that destroyed the cpus in both cases, this due to uneven pressure. thats the difficult thing when having several pieces of silicon and not just a single large centrally located one on the substrate. kool, good to know with the EXPO kit, ive already had it on my list of potential kits to bin through 🙂 lets see when ill finally get around to that now that my hardware budget has taken a blow after ordering a second 9950X3D 😅 2 1 Mine: Hyperion "Titan God of Heat, Heavenly Light, Power" (2022-25) AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D (TG High Perf. IHS) / Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme / MSI Geforce RTX 5090 Suprim SOC / Teamgroup T-Force Delta RGB DDR5-8200 2x24 GB / 4x Western Digital Black SN850P/X 8TB in 2x16TB RAID 0 / Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 (Push/Pull 6x Noctua NF-A14 IndustrialPPC-3000 intake) / Seasonic TX-1600 W Titanium / Phanteks Enthoo Pro 2 TG (3x Arctic P12 A-RGB intake / 4x Arctic P14 A-RGB exhaust / 1x Arctic P14 A-RGB RAM cooling) / Samsung Odyssey Neo G8 32" 4K 240 Hz / Ducky One 3 Daybreak Fullsize Cherry MX Brown / Corsair M65 Ultra RGB / PDP Afterglow Wave Black / Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro X Limited Edition My Lady's: Clevo NH55JNNQ "Alfred" (2022-25) Sharp LQ156M1JW03 FHD matte 15.6" IGZO 8 bit @248 Hz / Intel Core i5 12600 / Nvidia Geforce RTX 3070 Ti / Mushkin Redline DDR4-3200 2x32 GB / Samsung 970 Pro 1 TB / Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB / Intel AX201 WIFI 6+BT 5.2 / Win 11 Pro Phoenix Lite OS / 230 W PSU powered by Prema Mod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnksss Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago Okay, so this showed up from Elmor's Labs. 🙂 3 2 Maximus Z790 Apex ~ 14900KS ~ Astral 5090 / MSI 4060 ~ G.Skill Trident Z5 8800 Mhz ~ 4TB Samsung 990 Pro ~ MSI-Ai1300P PSU ~ MAG 321URX QD-OLED 32" 240Hz ~ AACH100HP Water Chiller ~ Praxis Wet Bench Flat MSI MEG X570S Unify-X MAX ~ 5950X ~ GTX 1070 ~ G.Skill 3200 Mhz ~ 500GB Samsung 980 Pro ~ Lian Li O11 Dynamic EVO Tempered Glass ~ Thermaltake 650W ~ Hwbot Profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Fox Posted 12 hours ago Author Share Posted 12 hours ago 16 hours ago, jaybee83 said: thats the difficult thing when having several pieces of silicon and not just a single large centrally located one on the substrate. This design made it very hard for me to embrace Ryzen and I still really hate the design. It is an idiotic approach to processor design. It adds latency, unnecessary complexity and additional opportunities for failure. Along with the foolish elimination of hyperthreading the tiled design (a conceptually similar display of poor judgment and bad engineering decisions) was also a major factor in my rejection of Core Ultra and movement to Ryzen. The good old days are gone boys. What we're left with is the machinations of fundamentally bad people, educated idiots, greed on steroids and mainstream stupidity. End users get whatever end users get and they expect us all to feel grateful for getting screwed. Just as Big Pharma doesn't care about people getting better as long as they keep taking their lifelong poison meds, Big Tech doesn't care what is best for the people that buy their crap as long as the money keeps coming. They only pretend to care and listen when it is necessary to recover from a slowdown in revenue generation. 4 Wraith // X870E Master | 9950X | 4090 Suprim | 48GB DDR5-8000 | GF3 1650W | Triple 360 Loop | Hailea HC-500A || O11D XL EVO (T-Rex) Spectre // X670E Gene | 9950X | AORUS 9070 XT Elite | 32GB DDR5-8000 | RM1200x SHIFT | Dual 360 Loop || Antec C8 (Rhinoceros) Meh! // Precision 7720 | BGA CPU Filth + MXM Quadro P5000 | 4K Display | $500 Grade A Refurb | Meh! (Turdbook) Mr. Fox YouTube Channel | Mr. Fox @ HWBOT The average response time for a 911 call is 10 minutes. The response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electrosoft Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago 3 hours ago, Mr. Fox said: This design made it very hard for me to embrace Ryzen and I still really hate the design. It is an idiotic approach to processor design. It adds latency, unnecessary complexity and additional opportunities for failure. Along with the foolish elimination of hyperthreading the tiled design (a conceptually similar display of poor judgment and bad engineering decisions) was also a major factor in my rejection of Core Ultra and movement to Ryzen. The good old days are gone boys. What we're left with is the machinations of fundamentally bad people, educated idiots, greed on steroids and mainstream stupidity. End users get whatever end users get and they expect us all to feel grateful for getting screwed. Just as Big Pharma doesn't care about people getting better as long as they keep taking their lifelong poison meds, Big Tech doesn't care what is best for the people that buyer their crap as long as the money keeps coming. They only pretend to care and listen when it is necessary to recover from a slowdown in revenue generation. "Profits above people" extend to all facets of corporate America. The most egregious of them all is the healthcare industry as profitability is grossly incongruent with offering optimal, financially sane care for American citizens. 1 2 Electrosoft Alpha: 9800X3D | Asus X870E Hero Crosshair | Nvidia RTX 5080 FE| AC LF II 420 | TG 2x24GB 8200 @ 2200/6400 tuned | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | EVGA 1600w P2 | Phanteks Ethroo Pro | Alienware AW3225QF 32" OLED Heath: i9-14900KS SP109 | EVGA CLC 280 | Asus Strix Z690 D4 | Asus Strix 3080 | 32GB DDR4 2x16GB B-Die 4000 | Samsung 980 1TB Pro | EVGA DG-77 | Samsung G7 32" 144hz 32" MSI Raider | 7950HX3D | Nvidia RTX 4090 | Kingston Fury 2x16GB DDR5 | Samsung 990 Pro 2TB | 18" QHD | WiFi 7 Eurocom X15 Raptor | i9-12900k | Nvidia RTX 3070ti | HyperX 3200 CL20 32GB | Samsung 990 2TB | 15.6" 144hz | Wifi 6E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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