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

[Papusan]

9 hours ago, electrosoft said:

HU did their due diligence. Maybe the Asus PR thought it was off the record? 

 

I can also see Asus not getting anywhere near enough 5070ti dies and/or packages (depending on if Nvidia still plans on decoupling the memory) and basically EOL'ing their own cards but other, smaller makers continue to offer them when they can too.

 

This is not new for a company to walk back bad PR......

 

Asus is Asus. I will see it before I belive it (always empthy). Prices will go up. On all SKUs. Those that want 16GB cards that can't afford xx80 will go either with 9070XT or 5070Ti. They will pick what they see first in the store (nvidia if they only want Nvidia). I expect more pressure also on 5080 cards. 

 

Picking your favorite brand and SKU model will be much harder forwards. But if you are in for new 16GB cards, you will get one. But it takes longer time than before. And more expensive.

 

Same as I did with my 5090. Empty everywhere in the spring months but grabbed one once I had the chance. There will always come a chance you find what you need/want. 

 

It's Wccftech, but still. As I already pointed out... You get cards if you really want. Just don't buy from scalpers/scammers. 

 

https://wccftech.com/the-current-state-of-nvidia-rtx-50-gpus-our-exclusive-report-on-geforce-production-aic-supply-memory-shortages-prices-eol-rumors/

 

$3299 (ROG Astral)5080, LOL

 

Edit. 4090 have offered an fantastic value over the years. But the vanilla 4080 was a huge failure for $1200.  

 

 

9 hours ago, tps3443 said:

@Papusan What are you running for a custom loop? 

 

480+420 EK rads in push and pull. Two D5 and EK-made EPDM rubber tubing. EK block for the Cpu. Fan for cooling the ram. AIO and aircooled cards. + loads of fans in the D1000 big black box. 

[tps3443]

21 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Asus is Asus. I will see it before I belive it (always empthy). Prices will go up. On all SKUs. Those that want 16GB cards that can't afford xx80 will go either with 9070XT or 5070Ti. They will pick what they see first in the store (nvidia if they only want Nvidia). I expect more pressure also on 5080 cards. 

 

Picking your favorite brand and SKU model will be much harder forwards. But if you are in for new 16GB cards, you will get one. But it takes longer time than before. And more expensive.

 

Same as I did with my 5090. Empty everywhere in the spring months but grabbed one once I had the chance. There will always come a chance you find what you need/want. 

 

It's Wccftech, but still. As I already pointed out... You get cards if you really want. Just don't buy from scalpers/scammers. 

 

https://wccftech.com/the-current-state-of-nvidia-rtx-50-gpus-our-exclusive-report-on-geforce-production-aic-supply-memory-shortages-prices-eol-rumors/

 

$3299 (ROG Astral)5080, LOL

 

Edit. 4090 have offered an fantastic value over the years. But the vanilla 4080 was a huge failure for $1200.  

 

 

 

480+420 EK rads in push and pull. Two D5 and EK-made EPDM rubber tubing. EK block for the Cpu. Fan for cooling the ram. AIO and aircooled cards. + loads of fans in the D1000 big black box. 

That’s great, yeah I’m genuinely amazed that just (2) 480’s is so powerful. It’s easily better than my previous External Alphacool 1080x45 rad. 
 

I’m wondering about adding another though in the future, but the only way to add another would be to introduce warm air in to the case. And I never like doing that.

 

Currently I’m setup with (1st) 480mm GTX rad in the basement (Air passes through the bottom sides of the case) the 2nd 480mm GTX rad is in the top roof portion of the case, so it exhausts warm air out of the case. So my case stays incredibly cool inside. 
 

If I added to the front= Warm air inside case.

 

if I added to the floor below the 5090 warm also blows inside. 

 

 

 

[Papusan]

 

Sum up for the weekend.

 

Best tech news of 2026. China don't need or want anything from Nvidia. They are soon on par with the best you can get within a few months with own homebrewed AI accelerators for their server parks. Trump need to find other ways to fulfill billionairs hope for real tax cut.

 

NVIDIA experiences a collapse in sales in China: market share will fall from 66% to 8% in 2026

We started 2026 with a host of new products that we saw at CES 2026, one of the world's most important technology events. There, we saw companies like Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD, and many others such as ASUS, MSI, and Samsung...

 

Yup, never get rid of your backup-plan.

NVIDIA confirms there will be no price increase for its graphics cards "for now" and denies GPU recalls: "All RTX 50 series cards are still in production."

 

And the AI tech trend continue... What is a month without screw up from Microsoft.

The latest Windows 11 update is causing performance issues on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs

That's right, a new Windows 11 update, and another blunder, this time directly affecting gamers using an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card.

 

 

 

[electrosoft]

TG just let me know my WV2 shipped, woot! 

 

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1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

Sum up for the weekend.

 

Best tech news of 2026. China don't need or want anything from Nvidia. They are soon on par with the best you can get within a few months with own homebrewed AI accelerators fortheir server park. Trump need to find other ways to fulfill billionairs hope for real tax cut.

 

NVIDIA experiences a collapse in sales in China: market share will fall from 66% to 8% in 2026

 

 

As soon as China saw the "procedures" being enacted by the US government for AI hardware to ship to them , they balked and are slowly, but surely, turning to in house advancements on both the CPU and GPU front for the future. If they ever decide to invade and annex Taiwan they will become the front runner in technology pretty fast. There is a reason the US and other countries are all in diversifying production and fabs away from China and China adjacent.

 

Those "procedures?" Well, Nvidia chips have to be shipped from Taiwan to the US, go through a series of validation steps over here and be assembled in the US before being shipped to China and 25% of the sales go right into the US government's pockets.....yeah I don't blame China for basically saying forget that and continue to use back channel ways of piping in same or similar hardware into their country.

 

If China produces an ASIC specific computing device (as rumored) for AI that is more efficient and less expensive than using GPUs, the GPU market will crash harder than the Cryptobooooooom and I'm 100% here for it.

 

Personally, removing China from their sales is a win for us and will start to bring Nvidia back down to reality and demand will plummet enough to offer more products to consumers but that really doesn't address the ram crisis as GPU, CPU or ASIC based AI will still require godsmackingly large amounts of ram for those ever growing LLMs....

 

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

NVIDIA confirms there will be no price increase for its graphics cards "for now" and denies GPU recalls: "All RTX 50 series cards are still in production."

 

Producing 1 card a year is still technically "in production" 🤣 But seriously.....

 

Nvidia is still providing the entire GPU / Memory package for now, so unless they decouple it they will most certainly be raising prices right along with AMD......

 

1 hour ago, Papusan said:

 

 

 

Corsair's stock has tanked. They are trying to redirect to that sweet, sweet AI money and downsizing their consumer division which they were most likely going to do anyhow. I don't think the market conditions (AI AI AI AI!!!!!!) is the problem for them. Their issues are elsewhere. I do think they view the AI market as their hail mary atm.

 

 

[win32asmguy]

On 1/16/2026 at 1:50 AM, electrosoft said:

Take away? On X3D, WoW doesn't give a crap what speed you run your memory or settings at 4k Ultra....

Fallout on the other hand prefers 8000......

 

Any difference at 1600p Ultra? Have you tested the 265K with WoW to see if the same holds true? Is this bottleneck usually observable if neither the CPU or GPU are thermal throttling but also not at maxed utilization (or no P-cores at max turbo clocks)? I have seen that happen often on the Legion 9i G10 with memory capped at 5200 CL38.

[electrosoft]

3 hours ago, win32asmguy said:

 

Any difference at 1600p Ultra? Have you tested the 265K with WoW to see if the same holds true? Is this bottleneck usually observable if neither the CPU or GPU are thermal throttling but also not at maxed utilization (or no P-cores at max turbo clocks)? I have seen that happen often on the Legion 9i G10 with memory capped at 5200 CL38.

 

I'll retest at 1440p Ultra just to see if memory (and CPU) comes more into play removing player physics as a constraint as we both know tanks GPU utilization quickly and when pushed to 100% GPU utilization even on a 5090 does memory settings on AM5/X3D make any difference because at 4k it means nothing even at JEDEC which was surprising. It could be with zero player physics at play, WoW can sit in the cache comfortably but with raids, PVP, city the cache exhausts pretty quickly. I could swap in this 9600x I have here in my ITX setup and test that theory.

 

I haven't tested the 265k yet. I am just wrapping up dialing in memory tuning at G2 8600 on the test bench and then will OC dial in once this new AIO comes in on Thursday. This is my ghetto current memory tuning setup.....

 

 

I have some custom brackets coming in to set up an adjustable 140mm fan over the DDR5 memory (this will carry forward regardless of what CPU/MB is installed) along with ordering a singular Silent Wings 140mm Pro fan for it for two tiered speed adjust-ability.

 

Apparently the new king of AIOs is the Lian Li Galahad II Lite which in several reviews is the top dog and for ~$100 so I ordered one. It even beats down their former Trinity Performance model at a much cheaper cost, easier hook up and better designed pump. 

 

I ordered one of these to slap on the test bench with the 265k and if I like what I see, I'll move it into my case too replacing the AC LF II 420 that's in there now along with the 265k after my DDR5 fan parts and WV2 arrive but want everything tuned up and ready to go before the transplant.

 

 

[Mr. Fox]

Really liking MX Linux. I am glad that I decided to give this distro a go. I've got all of my Windoze applications working in Winboat. Micro$lop PowerBI, Excel, Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, etc. Windoze is continuing on the path of become irrelevant.

[electrosoft]

7 hours ago, win32asmguy said:

 

Any difference at 1600p Ultra? Have you tested the 265K with WoW to see if the same holds true? Is this bottleneck usually observable if neither the CPU or GPU are thermal throttling but also not at maxed utilization (or no P-cores at max turbo clocks)? I have seen that happen often on the Legion 9i G10 with memory capped at 5200 CL38.

 

Addendum to 4k response as I don't think I gave you enough data for reference (sorry):

 

Oh and zero thermal throttling anywhere and CPU utilization on any of the cores at any given time is never more than 50-60% using this approach which is designed to allow you to stress the GPU to 100% load really taking the CPU out of the equation.

 

If Blizzard could figure out a way to load balance player physics across a true multicore design versus still really stuck in a single threaded model it would work wonders. 

 

One of the reasons I threw FO76 in the mix was to see if it was the same, but you can clearly see the uplift from JEDEC to 6400 Tuned and 8800 Tuned which might negate some of the X3D potential blame in WoW.

 

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Here's a screen shot I took of my exact chosen place to benchmark in Tazevesh so I know exactly how to position my toon and distances for future benchmarking on the 265k and you can see all the relevant data. Neither the 5090 or 9800X3D are overclocked for these tests on purpose to control all variables at stock.

 

I plan on going back in and testing this exact same spot after the Midnight patch on Tuesday to see if anything has changed. If you want to benchmark here, make sure to get your toon and camera angles the exact same. You know you have it right when you have the small cat pat in and out in the lower, right corner.

 

 

GPU at 100%

CPU usage 16% (of course based on 8 cores, but you get the idea it is low)

 

Temps are low on both even with the GPU fully maxed and 500w+ but the Vanguard Heatsink is ridiculously good along with the Suprims. Fans are at their lowest speed (33%) on auto. Voltage at only 1.085 (max of 1.125v).

 

 

 

 

[Reciever]

On 1/14/2026 at 2:06 PM, Mr. Fox said:

It is really hard, at least for me, to find any contentment with air cooling or AIO after being  comfortable with a custom loop for so many years. I tried because it is way cheaper and much easier on the wallet, but I find myself very unhappy with an air cooled CPU or GPU at this point and I normally find that I am ready to be done with the idea within the first day or two. Using an AIO is a slight improvement, but still not nearly as good.

The ideal setup would be a clean and enclosed/ventilated area of crawl space or an unfinished room in a cool basement for the chiller with QDC fittings attached to a plate on the floor with a light switch to turn the chiller on and off. You would need an extra pump or two (or just one crazy powerful pond pump) to handle the gravitational effect of the added vertical height of the tubing runs, but it would be worth it.

 

I always make things more complicated than they aught to be, like using 3x PSU's for each 8-pin on the bottom shelf, an ITX system since HEDT has been more or less dead to me since the X58 days (though Im sure there were options since, poor decisions didnt allow them to be obtainable) so anything beyond ITX or cheap laptops like the M4600 were simply not even considered. Then naturally a UT45 make perfect sense in my hodgepodge of parts. 

Since the 5800X3D sips power and is locked a cheap Thermalright PA120SE does fine for gaming though if I go the 9800X3D route I could definitely see a second UT45 in my future. During the era where I surfed OCN AIO's were still called CLC's mostly targeted at ITX users who later got to deal with the pumps dying or tubes coming undone and leaking over everything, I never considered CLC's since they were considered "Cheap Low Cost". 

Anyways it feels like I have been typing this post for a week now. 


I was making progress when perplexity recommended changing the power plan in Windows. Ever since then I have not been able to get the EVC2SE to change the register for the IOUT Gain so its stuck at 683 which is the default. I tried a couple of fixes but for the evening I am going to call it a night. 

Core: 3450 

Mem: 2764

Now my clocks are back to stock and until I figure it out, I cant get them past 2850 in Steel Nomad, a far cry from 3450. Was working on getting 3450 sure stable before moving on to 3500 then seeing what I could do about the memory. 

 

With a 16c ambient, 21c idle, and 30c peak load temperature I feel like I still have some performance to get out of the 7900 XTX. Hot spot was "bad" from a differential standpoint, 30c at its peak so it peaked at 60c. Still well within margin for benching (105c throttle).

 

Since it wasnt working before, I tore down the loop and took apart the GPU to reflow the solder. Worked great after that. I also checked on the LM application and all was well on that front as well.

[Papusan]

Rumors but still......... Asus did similar after the release of Nvidia 5000 series. The prices of Asus cards have never come down again. The MSRP is a fat lie. 

 

AMD and Nvidia to set fake MSRPs as Asus and Gigabyte reportedly raising GPU prices soon by up to 15%

 

Interestingly, since AMD and Nvidia haven’t officially raised prices of RDNA 4 and RTX 50 GPUs, it seems Team Red and Team Green are going to let MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte implement the price hikes, and, thus, face customer backlash. This is a pretty terrible move, if true, as AMD/Nvidia can then hide behind fake MSRPs. 

 

Simply put, the time of GPUs retailing at or near MSRPs seems to be over. Things are going to get worse in the coming days.