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[tps3443]

4 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Bro. You bought the wrong card😀 Why go so damn cheapo? And I know you you love the FE design. Maybe next month the 6000 Pro will go for over 15K. so this will be a damn good deal, LOOL

 

Run and buy, and return that Asus turd🤣

 

NVIDIA now lists RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB GPU at $13,250

 

 

 

 

You need  all 4 of them for your lonely 5090 😀 And Asus should really offer an fire extinguisher in the PSU package charging +$1000. Who said graphics cards was so damn expensive?🤔

 

ASUS ROG Thor 3000W Titanium III Edition 20 PSU listed at €999, comes with four ROG Equalizer cables for quad RTX 5090 setup

 

The limited edition PSU includes four ROG Equalizer 12V-2×6 cables for four single GeForce RTX 5090 card. No fire extinguisher, though.

 

ASUS has listed the ROG Thor 3000W Titanium III Edition 20 power supply at €999. This is the company’s new limited edition PSU shown during Computex as part of the...

 

 

 

 

Hard to believe the 5090 Astral OC is $4,329 at best buy and sold by Best Buy then 5% sales tax on top of that. +60% more than launch MSRP. It’s insanity. Also I really thought the RTX Pro 6000 would not increase, but I guess it did. It’s so expensive. 

[tps3443]

Just a update since having an Astral, I was able to see the per pin amperage using my Lian Li 12v2x6 cable. And it was really bad. That cable was toast. I swapped to a fresh Corsair cable which has it balanced pretty well. I noticed even just how the cable is routed or tucked in somewhere in your case has a huge impact on good per pin balancing of the cable. 

[Mr. Fox]

1 hour ago, tps3443 said:

Just a update since having an Astral, I was able to see the per pin amperage using my Lian Li 12v2x6 cable. And it was really bad. That cable was toast. I swapped to a fresh Corsair cable which has it balanced pretty well. I noticed even just how the cable is routed or tucked in somewhere in your case has a huge impact on good per pin balancing of the cable. 

Probably has been plugged in and removed too many times. So far everything is staying evenly distributed across the pins according to both of my WireView Pro 2, but I have have not disturbed the cables very often. You have been doing a fair amount of GPU shuffling recently and these are pretty fragile connectors.

[tps3443]

10 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Probably has been plugged in and removed too many times. So far everything is staying evenly distributed across the pins according to both of my WireView Pro 2, but I have have not disturbed the cables very often. You have been doing a fair amount of GPU shuffling recently and these are pretty fragile connectors.

So when I installed a brand new cable, and my balancing sill just wasn’t good at all. And I’m thinking what the heck, the Astral was throwing alarms to let me know balancing was pretty bad. Nothing I could do to fix it. So I followed the 12vhpwr from GPU plug back to PSU plug, and I had it tucked in tightly to hide it with wire management and even pinched or pressed bent in a few places in my case to make things look neater. I pulled the cable out in one spot near the PSU side, and tried to make it as straight as a run as possible everywhere else. And balancing is completely fixed. These cables are crazy sensitive. I’ve never been able to monitor per pin amperage before. And a bend anywhere on the cable even towards the PSU side can completely throw things off. I’m wondering how unbalanced my 5090 FE might have been. 
 

This is what I learned, on the PSU side and GPU side you want the cable to be coming straight out to about 50mm length of wire. Then it can start to bend.

 

[Papusan]

On 5/21/2026 at 1:22 PM, Papusan said:

My main problem is high bloodpressure (also one of the reasons for stoke outside my higher colestrole). They need to reduce it further. Both the bloodpressure and colestole. But each new dose medicines need to  work 3-4weeks to see an effect. Not fun sit here with high bloodpressure and know the risk is still high for a possibel second stroke.

 

Some progress. Today is 4 weeks since the stroke. The bloodpressure is on the way down. Down from 170-190/95 So the risk for a new stroke is reduced. But my heart rate is awful. Hower around 95-100 due broken lungs😗 The lifestyle change and medication seems to help. But this can't  fix my broken lungs. It's what it is.

 

 

11 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

So when I installed a brand new cable, and my balancing sill just wasn’t good at all. And I’m thinking what the heck, the Astral was throwing alarms to let me know balancing was pretty bad. Nothing I could do to fix it. So I followed the 12vhpwr from GPU plug back to PSU plug, and I had it tucked in tightly to hide it with wire management and even pinched or pressed bent in a few places in my case to make things look neater. I pulled the cable out in one spot near the PSU side, and tried to make it as straight as a run as possible everywhere else. And balancing is completely fixed. These cables are crazy sensitive.

 

Imagine how many users use cables with load balancing problems.

[Mr. Fox]

5 minutes ago, Papusan said:

 

Some progress. Today is 4 weeks since the stroke. The bloodpressure is on the way down. Down from 170-190/95 So the risk for a new stroke is reduced. But my heart rate is awful. Hower around 95-100 due broken lungs😗 The lifestyle change and medication seems to help.

 

 

Glad to see you are making good progress, brother. 

[Mr. Fox]

15 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

So when I installed a brand new cable, and my balancing sill just wasn’t good at all. And I’m thinking what the heck, the Astral was throwing alarms to let me know balancing was pretty bad. Nothing I could do to fix it. So I followed the 12vhpwr from GPU plug back to PSU plug, and I had it tucked in tightly to hide it with wire management and even pinched or pressed bent in a few places in my case to make things look neater. I pulled the cable out in one spot near the PSU side, and tried to make it as straight as a run as possible everywhere else. And balancing is completely fixed. These cables are crazy sensitive. I’ve never been able to monitor per pin amperage before. And a bend anywhere on the cable even towards the PSU side can completely throw things off. I’m wondering how unbalanced my 5090 FE might have been. 
 

This is what I learned, on the PSU side and GPU side you want the cable to be coming straight out to about 50mm length of wire. Then it can start to bend.

 

Glad it was just a poor connection. Sort of. Unfortunately, having a poor connection with these garbage cables is common. They are fragile, inferior and the people responsible for making them a standard need to lose their jobs and be forced to find a new occupation. One they are good at, 'cause they suck at their current job.

[electrosoft]

18 hours ago, win32asmguy said:

 

Well in the process of talking about the Raider A18 value I eventually decided to return it.

 

I found a good deal for a used Titan 18 with 14900HX, 4090M and UHD+ 120hz. The build quality is top notch and the vapor chamber is a good boost above the Raider 18 heatpipe solution. The 14th Gen chip does almost as good as the X3D in WoW with some memory tuning. The only thing I want is to do is downgrade the display to either 1600p or ideally 1200p.

 

I reopened my eBay store and am pretty steadily selling off my excess hardware.

 

This week Nvidia released a hotfix driver that addresses DX12 issues in WoW which has been great. A lot of the problems like the screen going black and slowly rerendering everything after opening the transmog window in certain areas has been fixed.

 

Titans are on another level. Many think the Titan is a slightly better Raider, but it is MSI's flagship and it shows. Nice pickup! 4090 and 5090 mobile are much closer than their desktop parts anyhow.

 

I was bidding on a 9955HX3D + 5090 Raider on eBay, but the price got outlandish pretty quick and I was out. It ended up selling for something like $4k so yeah.....

 

Yeah, I am getting ready to open mine back up and sell off several items that missed the first wave along with a few extras too.

 

I'll have to give that driver a dry. I have to admit I haven't had many problems in WoW lately with the 9800X3D + 5090, but if there are DX12 direct issues addressed specifically with WoW, I'm going to want to update anyhow.

 

3 minutes ago, tps3443 said:

This is what I learned, on the PSU side and GPU side you want the cable to be coming straight out to about 50mm length of wire. Then it can start to bend.

 

 

I've been advocating and have posted this advice several times in this very forum  now for this for years now since the 4090. One of the reasons I kept my front panel off was so the 12vhpwr cable could have a clean, straight run for a bit from the GPU/PSU before introducing any type of bends......

 

With the WV2Pro now, I could put the glass back on, but I like an open case now and zero extra fans needing to run except what's on the GPU and the 420mm AIO fans. Keeps things pretty quiet.

 

 

1 minute ago, Papusan said:

 

Some progress. Today is 4 weeks since the stroke. The bloodpressure is on the way down. So the risk for a new stroke is reduced. But my heart rate is awful. Hower around 95-100 due broken lungs😗 

 

 

 

That blood pressure is excellent @Papusan!! The fact is is much lower also means the heightened stress on your system will allow it to relax and may even allow your breathing to become a bit more relaxed too.

 

How did you damage your lungs? Was it the smoking or something else? Either way, good job on the BP! Now hopefully we can get that heart rate down. Has your doc asked you to try nebivolol? It is for BP but also helps slow your heart rate a bit too and prevents spikes.

 

 

[Papusan]

6 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Glad to see you are making good progress, brother. 

 

6 hours ago, electrosoft said:

That blood pressure is excellent @Papusan!! The fact is is much lower also means the heightened stress on your system will allow it to relax and may even allow your breathing to become a bit more relaxed too.

 

How did you damage your lungs? Was it the smoking or something else? Either way, good job on the BP! Now hopefully we can get that heart rate down. Has your doc asked you to try nebivolol? It is for BP but also helps slow your heart rate a bit too and prevents spikes.

 

Thanks, both. I have even go down in weight. Close to 5KG down in 3.5 weeks🙂 Target is 75 KG (184-185 height). So still need go down 18Kg. Then I have my cholesterol. I need to get it down from almost 5 to 1.4-1.8. Need to be that low due the increased stroke risk.

 

Regarding broken lungs. The work I did, heredity and of course the smoke. so triple reasons for the problem.  Papa,his sisters had same lung disease. Also my sister have it now. They have never smoked but still got same lung problems. 

[Mr. Fox]

4 minutes ago, Papusan said:

Thanks, both. I have even go down in weight. Close to 5KG down in 3.5 weeks

Good job on that brother. Yeah sorry to hear about the lung problems. For your dad and sisterwas it entirely heredity or did they also do the same type of work that contributed to the problem?

[Papusan]

3 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Good job on that brother. Yeah sorry to hear about the lung problems. For your dad and sisterwas it entirely heredity or did they also do the same type of work that contributed to the problem?

 

For them it's the heredity. Some have never been in work. But the common denominator is same lung illness. And none of those smoked much. 3 sisters have suffered the same fate of the disease. The same goes for my father (the brother). Also my sister (no smoker). The resemblance between them is quite clear. This illness is hereditary. But for me it can be from 3 reason as already mentioned. With triple reasons it is doomed to happen🤨  

 

3 hours ago, Mr. Fox said:

Glad it was just a poor connection. Sort of. Unfortunately, having a poor connection with these garbage cables is common. They are fragile, inferior and the people responsible for making them a standard need to lose their jobs and be forced to find a new occupation. One they are good at, 'cause they suck at their current job.

 

NVIDIA's connector story: EPS vs. 12VHPWR Connector – Good doesn't always win, but evil does more and more often (background information) | Retro

 

The 12-pin connector as a space-saving art object

Because Ampere also brought the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and the RTX 3090 Founders Edition with their avant-garde shaped design to the market. All well and good, but where to put those space-hogging headers? When the PCB designer runs out of space, in the worst case scenario, this is compensated for by a great deal of audacity; others call it creative waste. The problem was that there simply weren't any suitable, upright headers available, not even from Molex in South Korea, who have been diligently producing connectors since 1984 and should know exactly what they're doing (or rather, what they're not doing).

 

However, one thing is crucial here: this 12VHPWR connector was NOT developed by Molex, but rather under the leadership of Astron as a kind of derivative.

 

 

Corsair GPU Power Bridge rated for up to 105°C melts on RTX 4090 Founders Edition

 

My Corsair GPU Power Bridge (the angled adapter for the power cable) completely melted along the top row of pins. Because it got so hot, it actually melted and deformed the plastic power plug on my RTX 4090 Founders Edition as well.

 

[tps3443]

2 hours ago, Papusan said:

 

Some progress. Today is 4 weeks since the stroke. The bloodpressure is on the way down. Down from 170-190/95 So the risk for a new stroke is reduced. But my heart rate is awful. Hower around 95-100 due broken lungs😗 The lifestyle change and medication seems to help. But this can't  fix my broken lungs. It's what it is.

 

 

 

Imagine how many users use cables with load balancing problems.

Congratulations to you on getting healthier @Papusan! That's always a good feeling. 

 

2 hours ago, electrosoft said:

 

 

 

I've been advocating and have posted this advice several times in this very forum  now for this for years now since the 4090. One of the reasons I kept my front panel off was so the 12vhpwr cable could have a clean, straight run for a bit from the GPU/PSU before introducing any type of bends......

 

I remember picking on people about the per pin monitoring. I knew if I had that, it would become a new thing to focus on (And it has).  What we do not know, does not hurt us. This 5090 Astral is giving me a special kind of feeling though lol. The feeling that the 5080 Astral is not giving me.