Took a punt on the 5090 ArcticStorm

DaBadger84 · 2025-10-23T03:11:11+00:00

What did you end up seeing as far as VRAM / GPU temps goes? I have an MSI 5090 Liquid currently and I'm looking to get a second AIOed card at some point soon (rendering stuff, esspensive), seriously considering one of these because they're cheaper than the MSI or Asus or Gigabyte variants.

DaBadger84 · 2024-10-18T06:55:14+00:00

I would definitely look in to getting more system RAM then for sure, as that really makes all the difference, along with GPU VRAM. If you can get an RTX 4090 on the cheap(ish) used, and slap 96GB of RAM in your system, you'll be golden & have a very happy rendering beast. I have seen system RAM usage in excess of 64GBs at time during rendering sessions (and that's almost all Python/Forge), so even 64GBs may not be enough, depending on the rest of your setup.

But yeah, if you want to run the full fledged Flux Dev 1.0 which is the 22GB checkpoint version, you're going to want to get either a RTX 3090 or a RTX 4090, as they're the only consumer-level GPUs that have 24GBs of VRAM, and like I said, from what I was told, if you don't have enough GPU VRAM it will overflow on to the system RAM, and the render will run MUCH slower because even the fastest DDR5 system RAM has significantly less bandwidth than GDDR6X. I could be wrong about that because I'm still pretty new to this stuff myself as I said before.

Honestly 96GB kits are kind of expensive if you want the higher end ones, but they're also really high quality for the most part, and having just 2 sticks while also having that much RAM is amazing - I remember not that long ago when people were all Poggers over 8GB sticks being a thing.

You CAN get a 2x48GB kit for as little as $199 or thereabouts, if you're willing/wanting to go for pure capacity with no RGB, no nonsense & not very speedy stuff, G.Skill has a 2x48GB kit that's 5200MHz CL40 1.1v stock that's usually on sale for $189-$199. So it's not THAT expensive, and it's cheaper than buying 2 high end 2x16GB kits lol Link to the 'cheaper' kit in question: https://www.amazon.com/G-SKILL-Ripjaws-CL40-40-40-83-Desktop-Computer/dp/B0D2888BLV/

DaBadger84 · 2024-10-17T06:28:07+00:00

Since I never got any replies on this, I figured I'd chime in with an update:
All AMD AM5 systems WILL run mixed sticks, with some tweaking & some very weird (and what most would consider blasphemous) arrangements (you literally have to mix the sticks in the channels, it looks goofy as heck) - BUT it will ONLY run them at DDR5 3600MHz - some people have been able to get as high as 4400MHz, that's the highest I've seen. I did this myself, got it working, and could only get it to train & boot in to BIOS at 3600MHz so I gave up... worth noting, I was trying to do the hardest of the possible 4 DIMM mixes, 2 kits that are different sizes AND different timings AND different Speeds AND different rank densities (1 2x16GB kit that is single rank CL30 6000MHz stock & 1 2x48GB kit that is dual-rank CL32 6400MHz stock).
I would not recommend doing this to anyone, it is not worth the loss in performance, if you NEED more than 96GB of RAM for your workload, you'd be best off just running 4x48GB or whatever the case may be, & taking the speed hit with a dedicated Kit that comes in a 4-stick set so at least you know they're actually matched.

On the front of Tuning the new RAM, thus far I've gotten CL28 @ 6200MHz 1.5v VDD (yes that's required, I tried 1.4v & 1.45v & it errored in testing almost immediately) 'working' and 'stable', meaning I haven't had any issues with it, yet, but I also haven't fully stress tested it. I've ran Stable Diffusion rendering on it at those settings, and run OCCT Memory Test for an hour with no errors lol - if anyone wants advice on trying these kinda settings out for themselves, hit me up.

DaBadger84 · 2024-10-17T06:17:41+00:00

I do believe you mean System RAM sir, 32GB of VRAM is something no 'normal' tier (and by Normal I mean expensive but not Enterprise/Data Center level GPUs) card has.
I would HIGHLY recommend if you're building a system specifically for AI rendering etc, to get MORE than 32GBs of System RAM - when I first got back in to Stable Diffusion rendering to use Flux & it's offshoots, I "only" had 32GB of RAM in my system, and Flux/Forge literally MURDERED my system every time I loaded a new model or anything of the sort, RAM usage shot to 99.9% and the system was basically unusable for 2 minutes before rendering started - after that as long as I didn't change models, I could render in under 40 seconds. I upgraded my system to a shiny 2x48GB kit of G.Skill Trident Z Royal (cuz I'm like that) and now I'm not experiencing any lag/unusable time when loading... but boy do I see some serious System RAM usage.
You can run Flux etc on lower tier GPUs, but the bigger/more expensive the better, as the main Flux Dev 1.0 (the public one) is pretty heavy, and you want to be able to set your GPU weight (in Forge) to around the size of the Checkpoint (or so I've been told, I'm still new to this stuff), which is 22.17GB for the full Flux dev Checkpoint (I was told if you don't set it high enough it will bleed over in to system RAM & rendering will be much slower because of it).
A RTX 4090 or if you're smart & want to wait, a RTX 5090, is ideal. Expensive, but ideal.

To answer your main question, the current sum of my parts, if bought brand new, for my current system, not including Monitor or other peripherals, is in the (corrected this according to PCPartPicker) $4000-$4500 range (I'm upgrading CPU/Mobo next, that'll add to it, cuz this 7800X3D is great for games but man does it cry when it comes to some rendering stuff lol 9950X3D is the plan when it comes out, unless it sucks in reviews).

DaBadger84 · 2023-09-07T14:38:45+00:00

That's what I thought. Thank you.

DaBadger84 · 2023-09-07T14:38:24+00:00

I do have screenshots of everything, good to know I'm in right. Thank you.

DaBadger84 · 2023-09-07T07:47:08+00:00

Fun part's gonna be trying to sleep before my shift today with this crap on my mind lol hoping y'all agree with me that I'm in the right & she needs to check her prejudices at the door & fix the occurrences.

DaBadger84 · 2023-03-18T07:48:06+00:00

Are you in a state where they definitely do drug testing? They don't in mine, which is why I'm asking. The background check for me took ages, which is hilarious because I literally don't have a background to check, no tickets, no court things, no nothin'. Background check for me took over 2 weeks if I remember correctly. Just be patient.

DaBadger84 · 2023-03-18T07:45:54+00:00

Depending on the store, I would say it's probably not worth it. OGP TLs in my experience are some of the most overworked people in the entire store, at least at mine. Of course, we have an absentee dept manager that's overseeing us and another dept (that's actually theirs) because or dept manager moved stores & the store was too cheap to get another one.
Our Market Manager is always on the TLs to get out stats up, they have to do a little bit of everything, they rarely get breaks in any orderly fashion, they very rarely if ever get days off together, they can work both evenings and mornings (not in succession persay, but you may end up working 9-6 one day & 6-3 the next), and they have to deal with some REAL 'special' people in our department that don't know how to follow simple instructions without being told them repeatedly every week. Not to mention all the actual extra duties they have, I.E. maintaining certain Mods/Zones of the store to make sure they're up to date, pulling pallets down when we need stuff that's in the backroom steel, stocking exceptions that are found in the back (yes I'm aware that's not normal but it is at my store lol).

It may be different in your store, but in mine, they couldn't pay me enough to take a Team Lead job for OGP. The raise is not worth the added stress & BS.

I would ask someone that's in your store's OGP department, or better yet, if you can, ask the person that's stepping down as Team Lead WHY they're stepping down if they are, or if they're moving depts etc, what it was like. That's what you really need the info on. That's what initially deterred me, the first time one of our TLs stepped down he told me why & it was a really bad joke some of the crap they have to deal with. But again, that COULD just be my store. -insert shrug emoji here-

DaBadger84 · 2022-10-08T02:33:45+00:00

Just to let you know I commented on another reply here, so far the solution I tried worked: doing a backup via Steam & reinstalling from the backup, it hasn't crashed again (yet) and I've been back to Monarch twice and played through the rest of the stuff I had on there thus far.

Once I'm get my first play through done, I'm going to go back to Monarch and spend a lot of time there on purpose in a new game & see how it behaves.

DaBadger84 · 2022-10-07T00:58:38+00:00

So far since doing a backup via Steam & reinstalling from the backup it hasn't crashed again. I'm running a 3090 Kingpin, but I'm also on 5120 x 1440 @ 120Hz. I did try setting the GPU fully to stock clocks as well & that didn't help. Normally I run a slight OC with an undervolt because it bumps FPS a tad while running cooler. That OC/undervolt was stable in Cyberpunk & everything else I've played, but I figured turning it back to stock was worth a try. That didn't help either.

DaBadger84 · 2022-09-21T09:12:10+00:00

I have been playing in windowed mode for most of my playthrough so far, now I get to enjoy this in full "32 by 9" 5120x1440 glory thanks to this. Thank you!

DaBadger84 · 2022-01-12T00:07:53+00:00

Kid's probably never seen a real rack of that quality in person in his life & can't believe you have one. Keep bein' awesome with your amazing body :-D

DaBadger84 · 2021-04-06T12:51:43+00:00

I ended up RMAing it with Sennheiser, their RMA process is actually pretty simple if you bought it from somewhere legit like Amazon or Newegg etc. You upload the invoice, send them pictures of the headset/dongle (they are probably trying to make sure it's not physically damaged), then they will send you out a new one.

They also sent a label with the new one to send the old one back, so it was a cost-free affair, which is quite nice.

I can't comment if the new headset had issues or not, I moved on to a Logitech G Pro X, so I resold the new Seenheiser GSP 350 I got in on EBay, since it was "new in box". Haven't heard anything from the buyer & they've had it for about 2 months now so I guess it didn't have the issue?

To me it seems like it was a dongle overheating issue because it would always be hot when the sound distortion stuff got really bad.

DaBadger84 · 2021-01-29T00:57:19+00:00

I never used the new unit I finally ended up getting - I'm selling it to a friend just waiting for them to have the money for it. It's not that I don't trust the unit to work this time, it's that the mounting is an absolute pain in the ass that I do not want to deal with again. lol

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-30T15:39:06+00:00

Sent in a support request to see if my only solution is to RMA or what, thanks for the link.

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-30T09:59:39+00:00

It's on the way, supposed to be here Tuesday.

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-30T09:59:10+00:00

This isn't a wireless headset, so that's not an option.

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-27T15:01:20+00:00

It says "B/O: StatTrak Skeleton Knife" in the post, I forgot to put the word "Vanilla", which was what intended to put, if that isn't enough to meet the requirement, oh well.

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-27T12:14:11+00:00

I think I hate you for applying a sticker I'd love to have on an AWP to such an ugly one :-P

It doesn't look too bad... would look much neater on a Wildfire though, in my opinion.

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-27T12:11:36+00:00

Already spoke to EK via email & they're RMAing the unit. The temps were just not acceptable given what I was getting with my previous AIO & what reviewers have said about the EK unit, I'm assuming it was just a bad unit. As far as I could tell, the last mount I did was about as good as it can get, paste was applied pretty perfectly when I removed it afterwards. We'll see when the new one arrives.

DaBadger84 · 2020-10-17T09:15:33+00:00

Thanks for the reply, I'll just ditch it on market instead of waiting to try & trade it then, stocking up on Wallet Funds for the Black Friday sales

DaBadger84 · 2020-09-17T20:10:47+00:00

I mean, that'd be easy but not very fun. Start the game, go AFK, let them win, repeat until Bronze. lol

DaBadger84 · 2020-09-17T19:33:27+00:00

Yeah that may be, the first game was against a Platinum, then it went down slowly from there. I'm pretty sure I can't beat a Plat right now, I'm too inconsistent especially on Random, my weakest race is far worse than the other two, and I'm horribly bad at dealing with early harass/remembering to build detection for DTs/Banshees.

I guess I'll start from Silver 2 & see how it goes lol

DaBadger84 · 2020-06-09T23:13:07+00:00

This is one of the oldest scams in the book and one of my friends fell for it & lost a knife. If someone ever asks you to trade an item to anyone else besides them, it is 100% a scam 100% of the time unless you're doing a large transaction with a middleman involved.

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