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

[Mr. Fox]

37 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

BF6 is very fun! 

IIt looks fun. f you have to enable TPM and Secure Boot I'm out. Very upsetting to me. BF6 will be the first in the franchise that I will never purchase because of that, but there is no way I am going to bend my knee to that sort of Nazi crap. They can kiss my butt.

 

Does the game launch and run single-player campaign, or did they throw the baby out with the bath water and require their Micro$lop-sponsored anti-cheat cancer even for those that do not do online multiplayer?

[Mr. Fox]

So, I flashed the Gigabyte AORUS Master 5090 vBIOS and got an instant boost in performance. @Papusanand @jaybee83 isn't that the one you both decided was the best? I tried the Extreme Waterforce version and it disables the fans since that card does not have fans.

 

Same exact overclock settings as the previous post, just different firmware. If  keep this it will get blocked and shunt-modded because the voltage and power limits are crippling it.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139535603 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878242?recalculate=true

[electrosoft]

15 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

So, I flashed the Gigabyte AORUS Master 5090 vBIOS and got an instant boost in performance. @Papusanand @jaybee83 isn't that the one you both decided was the best? I tried the Extreme Waterforce version and it disables the fans since that card does not have fans.

 

Same exact overclock settings as the previous post, just different firmware. If  keep this it will get blocked and shunt-modded because the voltage and power limits are crippling it.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139535603 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878242?recalculate=true

 

Yep, that's one of them.  If you shunt it, you may also find like many your voltage max will also go up too in tandem albeit some stay the same. I think @tps3443 voltage didn't go up when he shunted or minimally.

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

11 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

 

Yep, that's one of them.  If you shunt it, you may also find like many your voltage max will also go up too in tandem albeit some stay the same. I think @tps3443 voltage didn't go up when he shunted or minimally.

 

 

That has been true on all of my shunt mods. Not as much as I wanted it to go up, but enough to get a higher core overclock. But, I think they have locked down more stuff on the 5090 FE, which might be why.

 

My Port Royal score also went up about 700 points with the same overclock just by switching to the AORUS Master vBIOS.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3593815 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878251

 

[Papusan]

14 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

So, I flashed the Gigabyte AORUS Master 5090 vBIOS and got an instant boost in performance. @Papusanand @jaybee83 isn't that the one you both decided was the best? I tried the Extreme Waterforce version and it disables the fans since that card does not have fans.

 

Same exact overclock settings as the previous post, just different firmware. If  keep this it will get blocked and shunt-modded because the voltage and power limits are crippling it.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139535603 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878242?recalculate=true

 

This one is meant to be best I think. But the AIO version screw up fan control... https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/277257/277257 But the Stupids at Gigabyte offer several versions of same firmware version number (the hashes ain't equal). 

 

https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-nvidia-rtx-5090-owners-club.1814246/post-29492089

 

Next gen and nvidia and their AIB parntners will continue lock down for cross-flashing. Thats how they bin their different cards tiers forwards. Slight better firmware for maximizing profits. The firmware will be the golden cow. Slap on a $30 better cooler and a bit more tuned firmware and charge 200-300 USD for almost nothing in increased cost. Greedy bastards.

 

When Astral SKUs don't offer max profits... Asus find their way out of the dark and launch the Noctua Edition. 

 

ASUS RTX 5080 NOCTUA GPU costs £1500: ASUS’ most expensive RTX 5080 yet

 

 

[tps3443]

13 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

That has been true on all of my shunt mods. Not as much as I wanted it to go up, but enough to get a higher core overclock. But, I think they have locked down more stuff on the 5090 FE, which might be why.

 

My Port Royal score also went up about 700 points with the same overclock just by switching to the AORUS Master vBIOS.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3593815 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878251

 

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! who is this guy and what happen to Mr.Fox?? All AMD rigs? Ryzen themed wallpaper? 🤣 BRENNER is Totally AMD fanboy’n it up in 2025. Hahaha. I’m just messing with you man lol. 😆 I’m about to jump to AMD soon my self. The new Threadripper 9960X has me drooling, and it’s the first time in years since original AMD Threadripper 1900X/1920X/1950X when I have really really wanted something from them like this. 🤩

 

You got to shunt mod and block that Zotac 5090. ASAP! But it’s a GREAT GPU. I don’t care if it’s Zotac or other brand, good price, good performance, let it rip! The 5090 is a great improvement over 4090. Very efficient! Better silicon, higher clocks, less voltage needed, better thermal transfer. The 32GB VRAM works great in a few high memory leak games I play, that still can’t fill up the VRAM. I can play for hours and will see 28GB VRAM utilized, and the 1% lows are butter smooth and no skips. 
 

For speedway you want 572.43 or 572.83, Steel nomad still loves 576.28 lol. Anyways, shunt mod won’t increase voltage it’ll just allow the max voltage to always be tapped as if the card is pulling 50 watts, but it’s really pulling 600+ watts, so it’s not throttling back the voltage anymore. You can exceed 600w in some heavy games and benches even with just 0.895mv on these monsters. 🔥you will notice the power limit can kick in much sooner than 600w and it’s all for the sake of maintaining stability trying to fit in that small power envelope, so without shunt it’s forcing down clocks and voltages. Either way, it’s a great GPU and a solid upgrade over the 4090. Especially for brutally heavy gaming like many games upscaled to 8K, the 5090 just chews right through it with ridiculous memory bandwidth. 
 

Pricing isn’t bad nowadays. It looks like you got a good deal! As far as shunt modding, I would go for soldering (2) 2mohm shunts or maybe even (2) 1mohm shunts. 
 

2mohm will give you 1200w max, and 1mohm will give you 1800w max. The thing is you may see phantom throttling much sooner than that so the more the better. Reliability is top notch! No melting cables here. I trust it 100%! All buttoned up in a closed case with some serious GPU power being put out in BF6 at 3.3Ghz on the core! I’ve had mine since March, and have been shunted since June. It has been 100% reliable with no 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[jaybee83]

18 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Still slowly working toward finding the max core OC. Not there yet. This is with +300 core and +3000 memory. Max voltage is 1.070V. Temps are still great in spite of the little fans @Papusan  mentioned. I might have to dust off the portable AC and see if the boost clocks will hold higher under load.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139527683 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878196

 

 

14 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

So, I flashed the Gigabyte AORUS Master 5090 vBIOS and got an instant boost in performance. @Papusanand @jaybee83 isn't that the one you both decided was the best? I tried the Extreme Waterforce version and it disables the fans since that card does not have fans.

 

Same exact overclock settings as the previous post, just different firmware. If  keep this it will get blocked and shunt-modded because the voltage and power limits are crippling it.

 

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/139535603 | https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878242?recalculate=true

 

oh mymy, what have we got here? 😄 welcome to the club bud, curious to see what u can squeeze out of that card. how much did u pay for it? hope u got a good price.

 

yeah, the GB Master vBios seems to be the best if you still need proper fan control. if you dont, then the waterforce xtreme seems to be quite nice, although i dont have any personal experience with that.

 

1.07V max vcore is quite nice, congratz on that! 

[Mr. Fox]

16 hours ago, tps3443 said:

You got to shunt mod and block that Zotac 5090. ASAP!

If I decide to keep it I am going to. I do really like this Zotac Solid OC model. The aesthetics, build quality, size and performance compared to most of the other options is really good IMHO.

16 hours ago, tps3443 said:

For speedway you want 572.43 or 572.83, Steel nomad still loves 576.28 lol.

Thank you. I will have to drop back to those drivers and re-run all of the benchmarks again. I suspect my Sky Diver and Fire Strike and Time Spy scores will also likely go up using old (better) drivers. The newer ones are mostly gamer crap I think.

15 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

oh mymy, what have we got here? 😄 welcome to the club bud, curious to see what u can squeeze out of that card. how much did u pay for it? hope u got a good price.

 

yeah, the GB Master vBios seems to be the best if you still need proper fan control. if you dont, then the waterforce xtreme seems to be quite nice, although i dont have any personal experience with that.

 

1.07V max vcore is quite nice, congratz on that! 

Thank you. I paid $2399 for it. Cheaper than we have seen AIB 5090 selling for, but still probably not worth it when I stop to think about it. Nice GPU, but way too much money for how little gain (related to price) that I am seeing over my 4090.

 

I dusted off the portable AC unit sitting in the garage and parked it in front of the GPU and that made a huge difference in boost clock. I can't catch brother @Papusan with his arctic temperatures. His max load temps are about 15-20°C lower than mine and that really makes a big difference. Anyhoo, so far I am running like 3300-3325 MHz core and that is losing around 200 MHz on account of the higher load temps, but pretty much pegged at the 600W limit (605-610W). Maybe if I keep it and block/shunt/chilled water it, I might be able to give him more of a run for the money. Its too close to stock behavior right now to get within slapping distance.

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https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_speed_way/submissions/5878520
https://www.3dmark.com/sw/2591206

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_port_royal/submissions/5878519

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3594837

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_vulkan/submissions/5878517

https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957241

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_steel_nomad_dx12/submissions/5878516

https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7957336

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_solar_bay/submissions/5878515

https://www.3dmark.com/sb/326913

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_time_spy/submissions/5878513

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57999178

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_fire_strike/submissions/5878511

https://www.3dmark.com/fs/33672605

https://hwbot.org/benchmarks/3dmark_-_sky_diver/submissions/5878518

https://www.3dmark.com/sd/6526977

 

[Mr. Fox]

4 hours ago, tps3443 said:

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! who is this guy and what happen to Mr.Fox?? All AMD rigs? Ryzen themed wallpaper? 🤣

This one is better.

[tps3443]

BF6 with my Xeon 3175x, DDR4, and PCIe Gen 3.0 x16, and 5090. 
 

This game loves lots of cores! 
 

 

[electrosoft]

Superior cooling and noise levels with the Alienware 16 and 18 2025 models....

 

I'm telling you, outside of a lack of an open BIOS, hardware wise, these redesigned models are my favorite hands down. I can only lament the lack of a 9955HX3D/5090 model. It would absolutely rip in this chassis and cooling.

 

 

 

 

[Papusan]

On 7/28/2025 at 4:15 PM, Papusan said:

US can't even fulfill own needs of advanced AI chips yet they will allow Nvidia to sell 900.000 chips to China. What the hell is that? Give the man the boot....

 

Sell your own homelands national security for a few $$$ is quite disgusting. This isn't much better than outsourcing jobs to your enemies homeland to maximize profits. This is so sad. First you bash the business leaders for maximizing profits from outsourcing jobs (crying in news), claims security then will be a problem. Then follow up afterwards in this retarded way and remove the US chips ban for a few dollars in revenue. I haven't words. This is just sad. Again read the letter... Where some begs for continuing the chips ban... Letter-to-Secretary-Lutnick-on-H20-restrictions.pdf

 

I really hope this is fake and not real. If it's real.... Greed have no limits anymore. Maybe put with a gold stitchy letter from the Gov adm blessing China for buying US made tech? Yep, do that. Maybe China will buy more instead of smuggling in US made tech.

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly pay 15% of their Chinese revenue to the US government so they can sell AI-capable chips there, despite warnings from security experts

 

A Commerce Department adviser for the Biden administration, Alasdair Phillips-Robins, was quoted by Reuters as saying, "If this reporting is accurate, it suggests the administration is trading away national security protections for revenue for the Treasury".

 

15 hours ago, electrosoft said:

Superior cooling and noise levels with the Alienware 16 and 18 2025 models....

 

 

Yup, Dell Alienware nailed it for me🙂 Nope all the way. The closest I will buy such type tech... A new smartphone or tablet. My best guess... A new smartphone that works better than the trashphone I already have.  

 

For the pict lover😀 Me making ready for our 1 months summer vaccation outside Africa. We leave the cold and rainy North tomorrow. Sadly it's a heat wave down there now. And will probably be like this one more week. Yesterday it was 44C and quite humid with Calima as the cherry on top (not good for my broken lungs)😒 So not the normal weather. The normal is more like 26-27C and always sunny days and rarely above 30C. Oh'well can't have it all and the same all days. 

 

 

On 7/28/2025 at 3:02 AM, Papusan said:

Intel prefer to give away money and let the competitors come in front... Intel does as always. Making wrong choices. The recent past (last decade) show that clearly.

While other tech companies invest and get subsidies for expansion, Intel put their money in layoffs and reduced production capacity. Want to play... That's not how you prepare for the future. That's doomed to fail.

 

 

What did he think when he know the 5090s is 600W cards? Edit, yet again the Nvidia reps removed the OP post. Awful

 

 

[tps3443]

BF6 Beta was such a TEASE! The game was INSANE. Now we cannot play anymore!!! 😭I got to rank 10 Can't wait for next weekend. This game needs to launch already! 
@Talon was hitting it harder than me lol. I wish I would have started playing it earlier.  Anyways, it's amazing how useful cover is in this game. And spray someone with a M4 takes a little practice as first. But you can get the pattern down after some practice. GREAT GAME! Game was completely butter smooth. Maybe once per hour you would feel the tinniest stutter, but not enough to care. And it could have been because my frame rate was like sub 400 with x4 Frame gen on. Anyways. Fantastic game! It feels FASTER moving than other Battlefield titles. Kinda like a mix between COD and BF2042. I really like it! 

We can play again on 8/14 THRU 8/17 Can't wait. 

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

BF6 Beta was such a TEASE! The game was INSANE. Now we cannot play anymore!!! 😭I got to rank 10 Can't wait for next weekend. This game needs to launch already! 
@Talon was hitting it harder than me lol. I wish I would have started playing it earlier.  Anyways, it's amazing how useful cover is in this game. And spray someone with a M4 takes a little practice as first. But you can get the pattern down after some practice. GREAT GAME! Game was completely butter smooth. Maybe once per hour you would feel the tinniest stutter, but not enough to care. And it could have been because my frame rate was like sub 400 with x4 Frame gen on. Anyways. Fantastic game! It feels FASTER moving than other Battlefield titles. Kinda like a mix between COD and BF2042. I really like it! 

We can play again on 8/14 THRU 8/17 Can't wait. 

Will single-play campaign work with TPM and Secure Boot disabled, or did they screw the pooch for everyone including those that do not care about online multi-player?

[Mr. Fox]

 

[tps3443]

41 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

Will single-play campaign work with TPM and Secure Boot disabled, or did they screw the pooch for everyone including those that do not care about online multi-player?

I went through a whole mess making this work on my windows. But I ended up having to enable secure boot in the end, I made a mess of my Windows install trying to work around it, and then last night I ended up just re-installing Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC, Local account only, then I disabled updates, disabled defender, and used the app crapfixer to disable a whole bunch of other bloatware junk. New OS is running smooth and fast though! But it has secure boot enabled. Nothing I could do to get around it. 
 

Fortunately the game is well optimized! I mean Battlefield games have been messed up since Battlefield 1/Battlefield V/Battlefield 2042. It’s almost like their games have been so HEAVY feeling. Lots of ram usage, lots of AVX cpu usage, and TONS of skipping and loading in that you can feel in the mouse movement. For the first time EVER Battlefield has fixed this. Upon first load in, it’s smooth and stays smooth. It doesn’t feel like your PC has an elephant sitting on its chest like all older Battlefield games have felt. So that is great news! I hope it stays that way. But this is the first time in years where they actually have a smooth game. 
 

I think it’s worth buying. Also, multiplayer is GREAT. Everyone seems equally bad at the game, some people are really good here and there. So it’s good to start now because you can build on your skills and not start out playing with level 100 veterans who are elite players. Definitely a fun game! I can’t wait until 8/14 to play again. 

[Talon]

7 hours ago, tps3443 said:

BF6 Beta was such a TEASE! The game was INSANE. Now we cannot play anymore!!! 😭I got to rank 10 Can't wait for next weekend. This game needs to launch already! 
@Talon was hitting it harder than me lol. I wish I would have started playing it earlier.  Anyways, it's amazing how useful cover is in this game. And spray someone with a M4 takes a little practice as first. But you can get the pattern down after some practice. GREAT GAME! Game was completely butter smooth. Maybe once per hour you would feel the tinniest stutter, but not enough to care. And it could have been because my frame rate was like sub 400 with x4 Frame gen on. Anyways. Fantastic game! It feels FASTER moving than other Battlefield titles. Kinda like a mix between COD and BF2042. I really like it! 

We can play again on 8/14 THRU 8/17 Can't wait. 

 

I hit the max rank 20 lol. Man I really do love it, next weekend hit me up and we can squad up if you want. I'm off on Thursday so I'll be locked and loaded for some BF6 action and try to grind hard. I still played BF2042, it got better, but dang if it isn't sterile feeling going back to that after tasting BF6 action. 

[electrosoft]

 

8 hours ago, Papusan said:

Yup, Dell Alienware nailed it for me🙂 Nope all the way. The closest I will buy such type tech... A new smartphone or tablet. My best guess... A new smartphone that works better than the trashphone I already have.  

 

 

If it is any consolation, I already wiped the stock install and did a optimized clean clean install and with just that Steel Nomad and Timespy at stock went from "good" to "excellent" in both. Dell always has the trash cookie cutter OS installs. Now to start dabbling with the BIOS CPU OC options and OC this 5070ti and see where we can take this finely milled piece of beauty. 🤣

 

8 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

 

For the pict lover😀 Me making ready for our 1 months summer vaccation outside Africa. We leave the cold and rainy North tomorrow. Sadly it's a heat wave down there now. And will probably be like this one more week. Yesterday it was 44C and quite humid with Calima as the cherry on top (not good for my broken lungs)😒 So not the normal weather. The normal is more like 26-26C and always sunny days and rarely above 30C. Oh'well can't have it all and the same all days. 

 

 

Ugh, I was out of town a few months ago and we stopped at a random mall and they had another full on CROC STORE!

 

I hissed at it and shielded my eyes from the horror! 🤣

 

Interesting fact, kids at my wife's school are banned from wearing these because they do not promote sure footing and can cause potential accidents or trips/falls. 🙂

 

5 minutes ago, Mr. Fox said:

 

 

This can mean only one thing! @Mr. Fox is keeping his 5090!!

 

Now I feel like the odd man out!! 

 

I need to double down looking for a good open box deal or promo! 

 

If a good deal on a 5090 comes my way, I'll end up passing the 5080 down to the Mrs. and the 9070xt to my daughter as I have a whole pile of components to build out her new desktop or if she is leaning towards one of my full fledged gaming laptops one of those since I have like 7 of them again.....

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

12 minutes ago, electrosoft said:

This can mean only one thing! @Mr. Fox is keeping his 5090!!

 

 

Now I feel like the odd man out!! 

 

I need to double down looking for a good open box deal or promo! 

 

If a good deal on a 5090 comes my way, I'll end up passing the 5080 down to the Mrs. and the 9070xt to my daughter as I have a whole pile of components to build out her new desktop or if she is leaning towards one of my full fledged gaming laptops one of those since I have like 7 of them again.....

Hold on brother, not necessarily. 🤣 It could mean that. I'm still not convinced that it's worth it. I have 30 days from the date of purchase to decide. If the 9070 XT sells then I will be keeping it because my only other GPU is a 3080. I like it but I haven't decided if I want to keep it or if it's worth what I paid for it. I have very mixed feelings about it because it is such a poor value. If I can't sell the 9070 XT for an acceptable price then I might decide that I'd rather have my money back. Whether I keep it or I don't, I can't help but feel like I'm getting screwed.

 

Is it a nice GPU? Yes, very nice. 

 

Is it more powerful than my 4090? Yup, a little bit.

 

Is it more powerful than the 9070 XT? Yeah, quite a bit. 

 

Is it  priced right? Hell no, the price sucks.

[electrosoft]

And prices keep coming on down, down, down.....

 

$2199.99 brand new PNY ARGB model no less.....

 

 

https://www.microcenter.com/product/690486/pny-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-argb-epic-x-overclocked-triple-fan-32gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card

 

Apply for a MC credit card and it's $2089.99 at check out......

 

NOW WE'RE TALKING!!

 

And reports are prices will continue to come down because the 5090 stock piles just simply aren't moving....

 

To think at one point this card was $3300+ 3 months ago.....

 

FYI Best Buy will price match this online and with 5% rewards, it is the same price ($2089.99) when all is said and done and you don't have to open up a MC CC to get it.

 

I'm mulling this one over, but I might stick it out for another model / price. We'll see. At this rate, some of the original $1999.99 launch models might return to that pricing and via MC or BB, that is $1899.99 new or B&H even more with their tax back CC.

 

 

 

 

[jaybee83]

7 hours ago, electrosoft said:

And prices keep coming on down, down, down.....

 

$2199.99 brand new PNY ARGB model no less.....

 

 

https://www.microcenter.com/product/690486/pny-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-argb-epic-x-overclocked-triple-fan-32gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card

 

Apply for a MC credit card and it's $2089.99 at check out......

 

NOW WE'RE TALKING!!

 

And reports are prices will continue to come down because the 5090 stock piles just simply aren't moving....

 

To think at one point this card was $3300+ 3 months ago.....

 

FYI Best Buy will price match this online and with 5% rewards, it is the same price ($2089.99) when all is said and done and you don't have to open up a MC CC to get it.

 

I'm mulling this one over, but I might stick it out for another model / price. We'll see. At this rate, some of the original $1999.99 launch models might return to that pricing and via MC or BB, that is $1899.99 new or B&H even more with their tax back CC.

 

 

 

 

 

lesson learned for the 6090: will not bother to spam refresh during launch, but rather lean back and enjoy the 5090 3-4 months longer until prices come down to normal levels 🙂 

 

(watch me eat my words once the 6090 actually launches 😄)

[tps3443]

10 hours ago, electrosoft said:

And prices keep coming on down, down, down.....

 

$2199.99 brand new PNY ARGB model no less.....

 

 

https://www.microcenter.com/product/690486/pny-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-argb-epic-x-overclocked-triple-fan-32gb-gddr7-pcie-50-graphics-card

 

Apply for a MC credit card and it's $2089.99 at check out......

 

NOW WE'RE TALKING!!

 

And reports are prices will continue to come down because the 5090 stock piles just simply aren't moving....

 

To think at one point this card was $3300+ 3 months ago.....

 

FYI Best Buy will price match this online and with 5% rewards, it is the same price ($2089.99) when all is said and done and you don't have to open up a MC CC to get it.

 

I'm mulling this one over, but I might stick it out for another model / price. We'll see. At this rate, some of the original $1999.99 launch models might return to that pricing and via MC or BB, that is $1899.99 new or B&H even more with their tax back CC.

 

 

 

 

Someone snatched one of these up at Walmart for $1,124.99. But I’d still get it at $2000. 

 

Walmart is crazy lol. 
 

 

 

 

[electrosoft]

19 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

Someone snatched one of these up at Walmart for $1,124.99. But I’d still get it at $2000. 

 

Walmart is crazy lol. 
 

 

 

 

 

Whoa!

 

And here I thought my Shadow 5080 for $500+ off MSRP  $825 out the door in my hands was the killer deal....sheesh!

 

3 hours ago, jaybee83 said:

 

lesson learned for the 6090: will not bother to spam refresh during launch, but rather lean back and enjoy the 5090 3-4 months longer until prices come down to normal levels 🙂 

 

(watch me eat my words once the 6090 actually launches 😄)

 

The real trick seems to be to sell your old card when prices go insane then sit back and ride your backup card for 4-5 months till prices get sane again UNLESS you can snag a card at launch or close to it before prices start to trend up.

 

 

[Papusan]

3 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

The real trick seems to be to sell your old card when prices go insane then sit back and ride your backup card for 4-5 months till prices get sane again UNLESS you can snag a card at launch or close to it before prices start to trend up.

 

 

Yup.I can almost see @jaybee83 push frenetic on the refresh button on day one😁 Me... Know prices here dont change much the first 5 weeks. Take it calm boys and girls. And if you want or prefer Asus.... Not much to gain if you find a card within 3 weeks. Only luck of draw on an open box for a better deal. Day one or within 4 weeks and you are good to go. Extra good time if you are an scalper.

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Bro @Mr. Foxdon't play newest Battlefield due forced Secure Boot. Hence he won't cook/fry his new purchased Zotac😁 Please backup all your ssd's @tps3443🤗

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/zotac-rtx-5090-reportedly-catches-fire-during-battlefield-6-session

 

[jaybee83]

3 hours ago, tps3443 said:

Someone snatched one of these up at Walmart for $1,124.99. But I’d still get it at $2000. 

 

Walmart is crazy lol. 
 

 

 

 

 

what?! how is that even possible, wth....

 

2 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

Whoa!

 

And here I thought my Shadow 5080 for $500+ off MSRP  $825 out the door in my hands was the killer deal....sheesh!

 

 

The real trick seems to be to sell your old card when prices go insane then sit back and ride your backup card for 4-5 months till prices get sane again UNLESS you can snag a card at launch or close to it before prices start to trend up.

 

 

 

4-5 months on a backup card...sorry but nah, no amount of savings would be worth that to me 😄