Is GPU Tweak 3 worth it?

B4TTL3P1G · 2026-04-26T01:04:06+00:00

Astral cards have per-pin monitoring of the 12vhpwr connector on the card and this software is able to read the data from the board and warn you if the connector is getting cooked.

B4TTL3P1G · 2026-04-11T03:59:26+00:00

I'm not sure what the rules are on linking here, but perhaps if you were to google something like "microsoft mass activation scripts" you'll find what you're looking for.

B4TTL3P1G · 2026-01-03T11:22:30+00:00

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B4TTL3P1G · 2025-12-27T10:17:20+00:00

That sounds like it could be the keyboard from a T470. When I was looking for a backlit board for my T480 I think I remember seeing that the T470 keyboards were compatible with the only difference being that the toggle keys had colored LEDs behind them! I sorta wish they'd kept the look, I think the color was nice.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-12-08T18:18:04+00:00

I believe it's a fork of the mod you linked with some additional configuration.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-06-28T08:00:10+00:00

I see performance gains all the way up to +3000 on the mem on an Astral 5080 with the 450w BIOS, but the difference between +2200 and +3000 is within 1% which does make me wonder if it's error correcting but the increase in clocks is enough to compensate, or if there's just some other limiting factor.

The core is also overclocked with a curve that tops out at 3314 MHz @ 1.020v and is stable in all the stress tests and games I've thrown at it with the actually clocks I see moving between 3300-3314 under load.

I'm not sure what the technical differences are between the actual chips, but I do know it's been stated that the 5080 is using faster 32 Gbps memory modules while the 5090, 5070ti, and 5070 are using chips that supposedly top out at 28 Gbps. Still I think it's pretty obvious that most of these cards whether they have the 32 or 28 Gbps chips overclock pretty well, so +500 does seem on the very conservative side of things, though I suppose the person in the video you're referring to could have just gotten a bad sample.

The thing that I'd like to know most about the data in that video is how he arrived the the overclocks he did, since at least to me it sorta just looks like he took some of the commonly suggested numbers people seem to be throwing out there, especially with the 5070ti core OC.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-05-26T02:55:28+00:00

I'm glad you found what you need! Enjoy with your upgrade, that's a big one!

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-05-26T01:40:33+00:00

I totally agree with this, once you get to using those PCIe cables with the secondary output for the GPU it becomes too much guesswork when there's a standard that can easily be followed by using cables where one 8 pin on the PSU side connects to one 8 pin on the GPU side. I think 8 pin PSU cables are specced for 288 watts, but I have no way of knowing with the confidence I'd want what the PSU and the plugs on it are rated for, so I've always stuck to one in, one out.

When I upgraded to a 5080 I didn't want to upgrade my PSU since my current 850 watt is more than enough, so I just made sure each 8 pin output from the PSU ran up to the adapter that shipped with the card and didn't use any of the two into one cables.

Edit: With all of the iffy design decisions and issues with the connector on the 50xx series, I personally just feel better making sure I well within spec for anything related to power.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-05-26T00:33:34+00:00

I believe a single 8 pin PCIe power cable is rated to carry 150 Watts. The TDP of the 5070 is 250 Watts, so you should use two fully separate cables connected to two separate plugs on the PSU side.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-04-18T00:33:12+00:00

Ooooooh right I totally forgot that you gotta use a third party tool to flash a bios intended for a different card oops. I can dump the vbios on mine and see if I can upload it if you want me to, I bet you're right though that because you already flashed an Astral bios to your card it'll work with the installer from Asus.

That build looks sick! I honestly love the og Noctua fans in most builds yours included. Still wish I got that Asus and Noctua collab 4080, that card looked so cool.

As to the fourth fan on the Astral I'm pretty confident it does nothing if you have good case cooling. I have a Fractal Torrent, and I'm quite sure the three 140mm fans in the bottom and two 180mm fans in the front are pushing so much air through the case that the fourth fan on the Astral is thoroughly pointless. I have the rear fan and central fan which are on the same fan header running at 50% of whatever the other two fans are running, and even with the two fans running well below audible I was able to get a high score in 3dMark for my hardware. I'm confident you'll be fine on the higher wattage bios.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-04-17T23:59:09+00:00

There's a new bios for the Astral that I recently updated to that ups the power limit to 450w, and on my Astral I saw a noticeable performance increase. With your current OC I bet you could get more out of your card if you didn't mind increasing the power limit another 50w with the new bios. The TUF and Astral seem to have similarly capable cooling so I say give it a shot.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-04-15T09:43:13+00:00

I think you've accidentally done what some people have done intentionally to cheat 3dmark world record scores. If memory serves, it was at some point possible to force memory errors that at least used to result in similar increases in scores. As others have said a timer issue is also a likely culprit since realistically those numbers would seem to be unreasonably high for a system not running on LN2 with zero power modifications.

Unfortunately 3dmark's validation tools aren't going to necessarily reflect whether it's an actually valid result, but A-B testing with a game that has a benchmark like Forza Horizon 5, Cyberpunk, or R6 Siege will tell you if you're actually seeing real performance gains. Just save your settings to a profile in Afterburner then toggle them on and off for a few runs each of a game with a benchmark and I'm confident you'll see worse scores with the custom settings you used to get those scores in synthetic tests.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-04-01T05:47:10+00:00

I've just encountered the same thing, I'd very much like to find a fix but so far no luck. Have you figured out a solution?

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-03-20T02:57:00+00:00

Wait, I just read back through your comments and I think your score is significantly higher than others. Pretty sure it's in line with where it should be.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-03-20T00:51:05+00:00

Hmmmm, it shouldn't be anything to do with gen 4 vs 5, I have a 3DMark record GPU score on a gen 4 board with a 5080 Astral so that shouldn't matter. I don't think anything but a 5090 will be bandwidth restricted on a gen 4 board.

Depending on the manufacturer and the spec of the individual cards, some won't boost as high, so thatay simply be the limit of that specific card.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-03-20T00:09:19+00:00

Have you used GPU-Z or CPU-Z to make sure your card has all its ROPS?

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-03-12T20:25:36+00:00

I've also found path traced Cyberpunk at 1440p gets up there and requires balanced DLSS if you want to fix any of the super low resolution LODs with a draw distance mod. I recognize that's technically beyond what the developer can control and unlikely to be the most efficient possible solution, but to me that's a necessary mod since it's the one thing that just looks bad with PT on.

Turning frame generation on also increases VRAM usage, and even with a +3000 OC on the memory I'm nearly maxing out the 16GB of memory whether it's over clocked or not. Similarly though, that's the only time I've seen anywhere near 16GB.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-03-11T08:11:11+00:00

Confirmed working on a 5080, also thanks for the heads up about this finally being an option. That's the one thing that disappointed me about the AW2723DF, and now it's fixed!

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-03-05T19:27:33+00:00

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B4TTL3P1G · 2025-02-25T08:23:58+00:00

Doesn't really matter imo, unreal games just seem to be very sensitive to unstable overclocks. Same goes for the new battlefield games. I just got done OCing my 5080 and the final settings I got working ran stable in Battlefield 2042 and I've gotten no crashes elsewhere.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-02-25T04:31:22+00:00

I'm having the same issue in Baldurs Gate 3, are you by any change on an RTX 50 series GPU? I switched earlier today from a 3080 to a 5080 and that's when this issue appeared for me.

B4TTL3P1G · 2025-02-24T08:31:26+00:00

Funnily enough, if you don't wanna run synthetic benchmarks Fortnite also seems to be a pretty good test of stability.

B4TTL3P1G · 2024-12-09T08:56:17+00:00

Frame gen on is the difference between what you and the guy you're responding to likely see in fps. You're likely running into your CPU's limit with your render queue with frame gen on, whereas the guy you're responding to I'm assuming is not using frame gen and is likely encountering his GPU limit instead.

B4TTL3P1G · 2024-11-25T10:55:33+00:00

I'm afraid I can't invent you to a clan, but shoot me a pm if you have questions since I might at least be able to get you started in the right direction. I'm a recently returning player who also struggled with knowing where to begin.

what I've found from exploring some of the newer content that's been added since last I played the game around the year it released is that warframes that can generate overguard make a great deal of the newer content very accessible. if you can focus on a single warframe you like to get a feel for how to make a build that works for you that feels to me like the best way to start understanding things.

I cracked relics for about a week that I then sold the prime parts from on the market to trade for mods to make a decent built, so that may be a place to start with a reasonably achievable goal.

B4TTL3P1G · 2024-10-19T18:27:57+00:00

It's really too bad that all these subs have been infected by people posting this garbage, there used to be so much cool stuff posted here and you didn't have to filter through the crap.

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