*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

EKWB product. 😎 I guess they are here to stay after all. 

I hope so they have the best fittings anywhere. Quantum Torque are the best.

[tps3443]

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

That WB reminds me of this one I saw today. Cute and small. Would you want one? And on top you get 8-pin power connector🙂 YEEESton

 

 

https://videocardz.com/newz/yeston-announces-geforce-rtx-5060-cute-pet-graphics-card

Measurements are 8.4”x5” and about 1.40” thick, I think it’s maybe same size as the Inno 3D iChill 4090/5090. 
 

 

[Mr. Fox]

9 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

That WB reminds me of this one I saw today. Cute and small. Would you want one? And on top you get 8-pin power connector🙂 YEEESton

 

https://videocardz.com/newz/yeston-announces-geforce-rtx-5060-cute-pet-graphics-card

When I see things like this (which I find very repulsive) it almost feels like it is a deliberate mocking of gamers and PC enthusiasts. It is somewhat ironic that one of the most wicked and despicable governments in the world presides over a nation that is composed of people that find pleasure in such simplistic and juvenile things. I have to remind myself it is a reflection of Chinese culture and they are making this disgusting garbage for their own people that actually love it and think it is awesome. It is difficult for the rest of us to relate to. The most comical and puzzling part about it is how it is presented to the rest of the world as if it were something special and desirable when the exact opposite it true.

[tps3443]

4 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

When I see things like this (which I find very repulsive) it almost feels like it is a deliberate mocking of gamers and PC enthusiasts. It is somewhat ironic that one of the most wicked and despicable governments in the world presides over a nation that is composed of people that find pleasure in such simplistic and juvenile things. I have to remind myself it is a reflection of Chinese culture and they are making this disgusting garbage for their own people that actually love it and think it is awesome. It is difficult for the rest of us to relate to. The most comical and puzzling part about it is how it is presented to the rest of the world as if it were something special and desirable when the exact opposite it true.

I almost bought a Yeston 4080 Super on Newegg. It was a very good deal

at the time which was the only driving factor, it was priced cheap and seemed like a good buy, and I liked the white PCB. It was not a micro GPU though. 
 

 

 

[Papusan]

10 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

When I see things like this (which I find very repulsive) it almost feels like it is a deliberate mocking of gamers and PC enthusiasts.

 

Here's the thing. Nvidia just launched RTX 5050 for Jokebooks and Desktops. A Game Changer🤢

 

 

RTX 5050 desktop card = 8GB GDDR6 with Memory Bandwidth 320 GB/sec

 

RTX 5050 Jokebook soldered on chips = 8GB GDDR7 with Memory Bandwidth 384 GB/sec

 

Is this meant as a JOKE ? Any reason Nvidia couldn't use faster GDDR7 for their RTX 5050 Blackwell desktop cards? The desktop variant of RTX 5050 offer slower vram with lower memory bandwidth and lower AI TOPS. IS LESS MORE? Jensen Huang bring Blackwell RTX To Gamers Everywhere, Starting At $249. Nice.

 

 

 

Pay more. Save more. At least you get GDDR7 for desktop cards😁

 

The cheap mans RTX PRO 6000

 

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

Here's the thing. Nvidia just launched RTX 5050 for Jokebooks and Desktops. A Game Changer🤢

 

 

RTX 5050 desktop card = 8GB GDDR6 with Memory Bandwidth 320 GB/sec

 

RTX 5050 Jokebook soldered on chips = 8GB GDDR7 with Memory Bandwidth 384 GB/sec

 

Is this meant as a JOKE ? Any reason Nvidia couldn't use faster GDDR7 for their RTX 5050 Blackwell desktop cards? The desktop variant of RTX 5050 offer slower vram with lower memory bandwidth and lower AI TOPS. IS LESS MORE? Jensen Huang bring Blackwell RTX To Gamers Everywhere, Starting At $249. Nice.

 

 

 

And, some people will find a way to be happy about it. Just because you can play games on the lowest settings, with the lowest expectations, and it is cheap. Maybe they did not realize you can do that with integrated graphics and it is free if you purchased the right CPU. 😒

[Papusan]

5 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

And, some people will find a way to be happy about it. Just because you can play games on the lowest settings, with the lowest expectations, and it is cheap. Maybe they did not realize you can do that with integrated graphics and it is free if you purchased the right CPU. 😒

 

There is even people that buy PSUs without knowing what they pay for. See this one... Many modern motherboards use an extra 8-pin connector. So two 8-pin for the CPU and one to power the rest of the components attached to the MB. But you get an 12V-2*6 connector you can't connect to your Intel, AMD or older nvidia graphics card. Yeees, some will jump on it. Because it's from Seasonic.

 

Maybe it have asingle reverse 12V-2*6 to 2x8-pin cable but that is an idiotic  solution. Only to cut costs.

 

 

Seasonic Core GX-850 in a short test

 

Great value....🤢🤮🤢

 

 

Second ugly for the day.... Microsoft will trade your data/privacy for extended Win 10 support. Isn't that disgusting? 

 

 

[jaybee83]

so boiz, anyone notice this 1200W vBios on TPU? its from a GB Xtreme Waterforce and states the following:

 

"Requires DBG#2 GND (BMG)"

 

Anyone tried this yet or know of someone who has? 

 

Link: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/276683/276683

[Papusan]

3 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

so boiz, anyone notice this 1200W vBios on TPU? its from a GB Xtreme Waterforce and states the following:

 

"Requires DBG#2 GND (BMG)"

 

Anyone tried this yet or know of someone who has? 

 

Link: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/276683/276683

 

No go. Go up to 97% and then error out (failing in the verify step). And for everyone that tried this vbios. 

 

 

 

On 4/19/2025 at 10:37 PM, Papusan said:

I have said this before. More than one time. Asia  and China have above 1/3d of the whole tech market. Everyone know where the graphics cards going. And if they want to stop Nvidia, AMD and Intel they need to stop sell their product in these markets.

 

The US government need to issue a ban for the whole Asia region (or 1/3 of the market) if  they want to stop Nvidia from selling their chips into China. nvidia or Jensen Huang doesn't bother where in the world they get their profits from..,. 

 

DeepSeek somehow acquires NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs, after US bans NVIDIA from selling chips to China

 

The official added: "DeepSeek sought to use shell companies in Southeast Asia to evade export controls, and DeepSeek is seeking to access data centers in Southeast Asia to remotely access U.S. chips".

 

 

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[electrosoft]

4 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

so boiz, anyone notice this 1200W vBios on TPU? its from a GB Xtreme Waterforce and states the following:

 

"Requires DBG#2 GND (BMG)"

 

Anyone tried this yet or know of someone who has? 

 

Link: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/276683/276683

 

3 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

No go. Go up to 97% and error out (failing in the verify step). For everyone that tried. 

 

 

 

I had posited months ago that one big fear was an XOC Bios that required a hardware checksum of sort for verification and it looks like so far our worst fears are potentially realized.

 

The ultimate insult would be their cards requiring an proprietary attached dongle or hardware device of some sort to be able to flash it successfully that can then be removed afterward. That would be game over for it ever making it into the wild unlike previous cards along with custom flashed cards only being distributed from the AIBs to the master overclockers (tongue in cheek) to then flex with as they climb the charts.

 

Luckily shunting still works but I fear the day they eventually find a way to shut that down too.

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

3 hours ago, Papusan said:

The US government need to issue a ban for the whole Asia region (or 1/3 of the market) if  they want to stop Nvidia from selling their chips into China. nvidia or Jensen Huang doesn't bother where in the world they get their profits from..,. 

I agree wholeheartedly that we need to do that. But an even better solution is for all nations to cut off China completely. Russia can be their only customer. If nobody has products manufactured in China, nobody buys anything made in China, and all exports of anything and everything to China are banned by all nations that's an instant win for the world. Excommunicado... just like John Wick.

 

Stuff might cost more, but sometimes you have to break some eggs. In the end everyone (except China) will profit monetarily, philosophically and spiritually in a world without China and Chinese garage soiling our existence. The Chinese people can thank Xi Jinping for it, if they choose to allow him to live. 

[Papusan]

57 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

I agree wholeheartedly that we need to do that. But an even better solution is for all nations to cut off China completely. Russia can be their only customer. If nobody has products manufactured in China, nobody buys anything made in China, and all exports of anything and everything to China are banned by all nations that's an instant win for the world. Excommunicado... just like John Wick.

 

Stuff might cost more, but sometimes you have to break some eggs. In the end everyone (except China) will profit monetarily, philosophically and spiritually in a world without China and Chinese garage soiling our existence. The Chinese people can thank Xi Jinping for it, if they choose to allow him to live. 

 

We will need decades to fix our old sins. And there are neither the resources nor enough workers to meet the needs. And many countries already have very low unemployment. The reserves we can take from is often well below 4%. Here in Norway the unemployment is close to 2%. Then we have poverty, sick and disabled, low-income earners/pensioners. Many of them live from hand to mouth every day, week and month. Even in a rich country as Norway. Stop imports from China for everything you need in life will be their downfall. They just can't afford 5-10-15 or 20% higher prices for living. Some people can't even eat every day today due to the already high prices/living requirements to have a fairly decent life. 

 

Sadly, a wish dream. US need to stop Nvidia. Either with fines that kill their profits, or stop them from selling their products everywere in some regions. And not only Nvidia. Do the same for all US tech companies that can feed their war machine. But corruption and greed infiltrated in the Goverments/administration will always win in the end.

China’s DeepSeek Is Reportedly Powering Military Operations With “Illegally Sourced” NVIDIA H100 AI

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@RecieverIt looks like the forum is very slow today. Very unstable.

[Reciever]

57 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

We will need decades to fix our old sins. And there are neither the resources nor enough workers to meet the needs. And many countries already have very low unemployment. The reserves we can take from is often well below 4%. Here in Norway the unemployment is close to 2%. Then we have poverty, sick and disabled, low-income earners/pensioners. Many of them live from hand to mouth every day, week and month. Even in a rich country as Norway. Stop imports from China for everything you need in life will be their downfall. They just can't afford 5-10-15 or 20% higher prices for living. Some people can't even eat every day today due to the already high prices/living requirements to have a fairly decent life. 

 

Sadly, a wish dream. US need to stop Nvidia. Either with fines that kill their profits, or stop them from selling their products everywere in some regions. And not only Nvidia. Do the same for all US tech companies that can feed their war machine. But corruption and greed infiltrated in the Goverments/administration will always win in the end.

China’s DeepSeek Is Reportedly Powering Military Operations With “Illegally Sourced” NVIDIA H100 AI

Edit.

@RecieverIt looks like the forum is very slow today. Very unstable.

 

It appears to be running ok over here at the moment, but we'll keep an eye on it.

[tps3443]

Guys the 5090 FE cooler is amazing! Highest quality I have ever seen. Comes apart like it was engineered to be disassembled. Fans come out easily. Entire heatsink, everything! I carefully removed my 5090FE cooler for future use when I revert it back to stock, but it has impressed me. Even the fans are extremely high quality. Anyways, water cooled 5090FE is complete. I just have to put it in my rig, might use some soft tubing because I’m impatient. 🤣

[electrosoft]

4 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Guys the 5090 FE cooler is amazing! Highest quality I have ever seen. Comes apart like it was engineered to be disassembled. Fans come out easily. Entire heatsink, everything! I carefully removed my 5090FE cooler for future use when I revert it back to stock, but it has impressed me. Even the fans are extremely high quality. Anyways, water cooled 5090FE is complete. I just have to put it in my rig, might use some soft tubing because I’m impatient. 🤣

 

Yeah go for soft tubing for testing/validation and once you're happy with everything then do a couple hardline runs.

 

 

[tps3443]

FE cooler is back together for further use. whenever I remount it again.

 

 

[tps3443]

28 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

 

Yeah go for soft tubing for testing/validation and once you're happy with everything then do a couple hardline runs.

 

 

PS: My card is shunted for 1200 watts of cable melting power. 🔥 🤣

[Mr. Fox]

3 hours ago, Papusan said:

@RecieverIt looks like the forum is very slow today. Very unstable.

 

2 hours ago, Reciever said:

 

It appears to be running ok over here at the moment, but we'll keep an eye on it.

It is being a little bit laggy for me as well. Not so severe as to present a big problem, but slow enough to notice.

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

PS: My card is shunted for 1200 watts of cable melting power. 🔥 🤣

Please share photos of the shunt mod and completed block installation. I'm sure it is going to be like a different GPU now.

 

Speaking of GPUs, I'm liking the 3080 Turbo on water a lot. It works great. I might skip buying a block for the 9070 XT and just sell it to get most of my money back. I don't need any more than the 3080 in that rig or the 4090 in the other rig. The 9070 XT is definitely more powerful (by a lot) than the 3080, but at this point it just seems so unnecessary. I may still do it only to see if the hotspot temps are improved for nothing more than curiosity. It was puzzling that blocking the 6900 XT made so little difference in the hotspot temps. Radeon thermals are just goofy. While greatly improved, even after replacing the paste with a PTM phase change pad, better thermal pads and replacing the spring-loaded screws with normal screws the memory junction and hotspot temps are much higher than I have ever seen with a GeFarts card. Closest I have ever seen the temps on an NVIDIA card anywhere close to "Radeon high" was when crypto mining on the 3090 K|NGP|N during the summer heat.

 

I'm liking the Radikult Customs D5 distro a lot. More than I expected to. Mario is a talented fabricator.

 

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And, let there be light...

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If anybody needs some good memory kits... works fine for AMD or Intel.

 

G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo 8000 EXPO Kits | Overclock.net

 

[tps3443]

Just got my PC up and running. 3AM now going to bed! Okay, shunt mod WORKS PERFECTLY! Voltage locks out to 1070mv and card runs 2,902Mhz default with no overclocking. Power usage is cut in half all the time. Temps are beyond ridiculous. 

My card was idling at 26c, and in games running 38c-40c with some quick testing. 

[electrosoft]

2 hours ago, tps3443 said:

PS: My card is shunted for 1200 watts of cable melting power. 🔥 🤣

 

Well let's get it rockin' and rollin' Elvis! 🤣

 

9 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Just got my PC up and running. 3AM now going to bed! Okay, shunt mod WORKS PERFECTLY! Voltage locks out to 1070mv and card runs 2,902Mhz default with no overclocking. Power usage is cut in half all the time. Temps are beyond ridiculous. 

My card was idling at 26c, and in games running 38c-40c with some quick testing. 

 

Phase 2 tomorrow! Time for some benchmarkin' bro! Time to stretch her legs....

 

2 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Speaking of GPUs, I'm liking the 3080 Turbo on water a lot. It works great. I might skip buying a block for the 9070 XT and just sell it to get most of my money back. I don't need any more than the 3080 in that rig or the 4090 in the other rig. The 9070 XT is definitely more powerful (by a lot) than the 3080, but at this point it just seems so unnecessary. I may still do it only to see if the hotspot temps are improved for nothing more than curiosity. It was puzzling that blocking the 6900 XT made so little difference in the hotspot temps. Radeon thermals are just goofy. While greatly improved, even after replacing the paste with a PTM phase change pad, better thermal pads and replacing the spring-loaded screws with normal screws the memory junction and hotspot temps are much higher than I have ever seen with a GeFarts card. Closest I have ever seen the temps on an NVIDIA card anywhere close to "Radeon high" was when crypto mining on the 3090 K|NGP|N during the summer heat.

 

Awwww, back to Nvidia only again? 🙂

 

Problem with Gigabyte cards (the blessing and the curse) is they come right out of the box firing on all cylinders. Elite has a bigger heatsink than the Gaming which is actually one of the smallest 9070xt's on the market. You repadded and repasted it but it still runs toasty?

 

2 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

 

 

I'm liking the Radikult Customs D5 distro a lot. More than I expected to. Mario is a talented fabricator.

 

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And, let there be light...

 

 

 

Pics and lighting are very nice. Feels likes a scene out of Sin City or 300.

 

2 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

 

G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo 8000 EXPO Kits | Overclock.net

 

 

If I hadn't picked up a set of those 8400 sticks you recommended, I would be all over the 2x24GB sticks. That is  good pricing on all three sets. They won't last long.

[Mr. Fox]

12 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

You repadded and repasted it but it still runs toasty?

Yes. Minimal improvement. Almost not worth the effort it was so little.

12 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

Pics and lighting are very nice. Feels likes a scene out of Sin City or 300.

Thank you.

 

9 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

Awwww, back to Nvidia only again? 🙂

Not deliberately. I really like the 9070 XT. It's a great card. But it is a Radeon space heater. I am merely second guessing the intelligence of buying a block for it if the hotspot temps might end up remaining as insane as the 6900 XT remained after putting a block on it. Core and memory temps came down, but hotspot barely improved. Doesn't make sense to spend $200 on a GPU block if it is not going to help it $200 worth of better. Why spend money at all if the 3080 is doing everything I need it to is what I was thinking. Not because I dislike the 9070 XT. I only dislike Radeon thermals. They suck and almost always do. I don't understand why.