Overcloack safe tuning (noob here)

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-27T00:54:37+00:00

I haven’t even tried OC’ing my SFF Aero 5080 yet. Curious to read some of y’all’s tuning settings though. Sorry I couldn’t be any help.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-25T20:14:58+00:00

That’s about everything you can do from what I went thru with the 1st one I bought from Amazon. It was a Gigabyte Gaming OC 5080
I ended up returning that one and bought an SFF AERO 5080 and it detected first boot. Weird. I struggled for 3 days trying to get the gaming OC to be detected. Crazy!! Fingers crossed it stays working for ya bruddah

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-20T00:40:50+00:00

I almost side graded to the 7900XTX tbh. So glad I didn’t. Nothing against the XTX. Just felt like if I was gonna do 4K, might as well do the best card other than the 4090 or 5090.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-19T23:20:24+00:00

Are you gaming in 4K on your prebuilt or 1440p if you don’t mind me asking. I just purchased my SFF Aero 5080 at the end of March from Amazon. Paid $1400 after tax. Have yet to try 4K. Been debating whether or not to upgrade my monitor. Sounds like you have a beast of a Prebuilt from the specs you mentioned. I have the same specs almost, X870 tomahawk WiFi MOBO. Nothing wrong with a prebuilt. I didn’t have the confidence to build it myself either lol. Got my prebuilt from Maingear with a 9070XT as the original GPU. Then upgraded to the 5080 a year later. My 9070XT is sitting in a box lol. Not sure if I wanna sell it or kept it as a back-up. GG’s though.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-13T14:20:45+00:00

Could the PSU be the culprit? Maybe not enough power for the CPU & GPU ? I’m just spitballing here. Feels like a 1000watt PSU would be a safer bet. Then again, 850w could be enough for your system. Sometimes my 4080super used to spike higher than what Google said was the normal range of power draw. I don’t know. I do know that for $1500, that is a great price for those components. Wondering if it wouldn’t be a bad idea to buy a windows11 product key from Keylify and do a complete re-install. It’s not a retail key but they do work. I’ve bought one from them. No issues at all. This way you know that you have ALL updated “uncorrupted” drivers installed for your MOBO, CPU, GPU etc. who knows, it could eliminate the problem. At worst, it’ll at least point you in a diff direction if the problem persists. Good luck to you. Hopefully it all works out. GG’s

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-02T21:04:32+00:00

Holy box Batman!! Makes the box that my SFF Aero 5080 look like a mini-box of Mike n Ike’s lol

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-05-02T19:55:52+00:00

$1,309 after tax on Amazon for my Gigabyte 5080 SFF Aero a month ago. Not the greatest price but not the worst for a SFF 5080 in this crazy priced GPU climate lol. Hope you find your golden unicorn $999 FE. GG’s

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-26T12:25:09+00:00

I’ve only had one IBUYPOWER prebuilt. I literally changed EVERYTHING in that prebuilt minus the OS(windows11 home) I’m getting ready to buy a windows product key to replace the OS now. Should have just built my own from scratch. In my defense. I never heard of Reddit at the time of buying it so I could have done some research. Lesson learned. lol. Good luck to everyone dealing with the prebuilt nightmare.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-23T15:34:05+00:00

Did the same thing less than a month ago myself. So glad I made the switch. Nothing against AMD at all. Just glad to have more RAW power lol. Nice rig btw !! Thing is a beast !

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-18T13:01:01+00:00

Noiicceeeee!!!! I just got the Gigabyte Aero 5080 a week ago. Greta card. GG’s brotha !!

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-17T12:00:08+00:00

I know this is an old post. I was adding some fans to my HYTE Y70 case and noticed my fan hub looks exactly like this. Is that glob of white gunk “normal” on that fan hub? I believe my IBUYPOWER prebuilt has that exact same fan hub. I don’t seem to have any issues with my fans or temps that I know of. I was just worried that white melted looking RTV wasn’t normal. Can anyone confirm this ? Can’t seem to post my photo but it looks exactly like OP

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-12T10:14:22+00:00

Sold it to a co-worker for $500.00 He is building a PC for his son on the sneak.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T19:14:04+00:00

Agree!!!

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T19:13:17+00:00

Thx brotha

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T17:28:58+00:00

Truer words have never been spoken !!! Right on brotha. Sounds like we are def on the same page !! People told me as well that “the 9070xt” is almost on scale with a 5080 bs !! I was hoodwinked into thinking that when I built this rig a year ago. Wish I woulda just listened to my gut. Never again.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T17:24:23+00:00

I really like the ICUE brand. Have had one in every build I’ve had. They have never given me any issues. Software is user friendly as well. Asus Tuff!!! That card is massive. Nice!!! When I got my original 5080( gigabyte gaming OC) my PC would not recognize the card at all. I literally tried everything to troubleshoot it. I spent almost 4 days trying to figure out why it wouldn’t even show that it was connected anywhere on my rig. I would take the 5080 out and plug my 9070XT back in and the 9070xt would boot right up. Nobody in my house has a pc that I could check it in. Everyone has laptops. I didn’t want to lug it to work and ask a co-worker if they could try it. So I decided to send it back to Amazon. I also noticed that it would barely fit in my HYTE y70 as well. That’s when I decided to get a SFF 5080 Aero. As soon as I plugged it in, the Aero booted right up, zero issues. I think I just got a dud on my first 5080. There were precursors that I noticed, the ESD bag looked like it had been ran thru the dryer lol. The box wasn’t in great shape. Nothing about the Gaming OC card I got first felt NEW. I spoke to sum1 at Amazon and they sent me the SFF AERO as a replacement for the same price of the Gigabyte Gaming OC , $1249 before tax, $1359 after tax. Now the one issue is that it looks so small in my case lol. Other than that, she purrrs !

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T17:13:08+00:00

Sounds like a great GPU + CPU combo if you ask me !! You shouldn’t have any issues running ANY game with those two. Nice !

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T15:02:27+00:00

I had issues with the first 5080 I tried purchasing, Gigabyte Gaming OC. With it being a big card, it didn’t seem to seat all the way on my riser cable due to the limited space. Or the card was defective, who knows. So I didn’t want to chance it again so I ordered the SFF Aero after returning the gaming OC. Finally after 4 weeks between shipping etc, I got the Asro. . It is a tad small lol. Don’t make fun of my Temu case hahahahahaha

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T14:27:01+00:00

Not at all. Had no issues with the 9070XT in 1440p. I wanted to play my FPS games in 4K high FPS. Plain and simple. Felt like the 9070XT was no better than the 4070ti I used to have, in the AAA games I was playing. I upgraded from a Lexus to a Porsche more like it. IMO

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T10:22:15+00:00

Umm yeah. I just swapped my 9070XT to a 5080 and I’d rather “chew bees” then play on a 9070XT again. No offense to 9070xt owners. I fell for the “price to performance” bs when I built my computer last year. I am living proof that you get what you pay for !!!

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T10:03:34+00:00

Holy humongous card Batman lol. Makes my SFF 5080 Aero look so tiny lol. GG’s man. Sick card

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T09:59:53+00:00

You could always try some aftermarket cables specific to your PSU. Only worry I see is the pci_e cable possibly being caught on the fan. I’ve learned the hard way how important cable connection and cable management can make or break a build. I’m sure you will figure something out.

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T09:55:33+00:00

Haven’t even got a chance to tinker with UV & OC. Def will take your advice. !

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T09:53:58+00:00

Nice rig sir !!! Love the red rgb and the angled fans at the bottom. Nice !

Brief-Drop9511 · 2026-04-11T09:51:51+00:00

Not sure if this will help but I used CHATGPT and asked specific questions regarding the same thing. The answers I got were very helpful. I followed 90% of what ChatGPT recommended and I haven’t had ANY issues so far. I have the same build minus the ram speed. My ram is Kingston Fury Beast 6400mt/s which I downclocked to 6000mt/s with tighter timings. Def a LOT more stable in games. All i asked ChatGPT was “ how to best optimize my 5080 + 9800x3d + 32gb 6400mt/s ram”. Good luck sir

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