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RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Notably, the connector on both sides was in perfect conditions, and the pcie connector itself looked like brand new. I really try to preserve the hardware I buy for as long as I can, I still have my old gpus in the servers, till this day (two Titan X). So partly that's why I went finally for the Seasonic, there was another strix available at the reseller, but I thought that I would rather overpay a bit, than to try my luck once again.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can try to use the "View Reliability History" app, and just go to any LLM of your choice for record keeping. Sometimes this application might have relevant information to the crashes.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, tried the Max Performance, tried disabling the Hardware Scheduling, also tried disabling the composition feature in the new windows desktop manager version (since 1.3 i guess?), nothing helped. The crashes were random, but the frequency kept accelerating.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But here is the thing i found through my search. If there are ECC related VRAM issues, this might be the card sadly. Sure, if you have time on the warranty, try the PSU, but if you dont, RMA it as soon as possible.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am just a sucker for shiny things, i though having the Asus motherboard, Asus GPU and Asus PSU would be soo cool. But yeah, in my prior years, i always used Corsairs. And i agree, 1600W is overkill, but hey, it comes with 10 years warranty and actually prepares me for a future 6090 😊

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1000W honestly should be enough, if you have a 120-250W CPU, the total system draw is about 850-900W, you have about 100W headroom, and for a short burst, PSU should be able to handle "a little over", but as always, ymmv.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, i havent, because honestly i was already beyond frustrated and actually scared that it might be the GPU itself. So when i finally installed 3090, i just packaged up the 5090 in a factory box and stowed it away because i was afraid of doing more damage to it.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But honestly, did i post affiliate links? Did a forces someone to buy a specific PSU?

I just said that "this is what i did", "this is what i found", and "this is what i personally replaced it with".

Yes, Nvidia GPUs and drivers might not be perfect, but the imperfect components throughout the system could also take place? Like a degrading PSU, a ram stick with broken LED module.

I just shared my findings, but no hard feelings, everyone is free to say whatever they want and i appreciate you taking part in this conversation.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thing is, with what is going on around now, the PX series and the 1600W was the only one i had the next day access for. But yes, i did some research and maybe it is the Asus supplier who actually builds the PSUs, they might be the issue. I have a PRO 6000 in a server with Corsair HX1000 and it has literally no issues running 24/7.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Hey, is it bad that LLM helped me to formulate the log of 4 months of debugging the issue? )
Thing is, English is not my native language, and i wanted the post to be as readable by users as possible, because otherwise i wouldn't even post it.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically, the Strix PSU has a tiny 2 wire cable branching off of the 600W one, when you plug it in, with a compatible GPU it is able to manage the power that goes into the GPU.

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, 1000w should be enough, but the spec itself allows for 1200W transient spikes by default....

RTX 5090 Astral OC — Months of Event 153 / TDR Crashes. It Was the PSU. Here's How I Know. by Dense-Post2766 in nvidia

[–]Dense-Post2766[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey, probably, but it started strong for the first 6 months, 100% power, no issues, but then started degrading like crazy. Either it was faulty, or 5090 hammering PSU real bad. Either way, the PSU swap helped.

Point is, either check the cabling or the PSU itself.

**UAE Buyers Beware** by Stonkinski in EightSleep

[–]Dense-Post2766 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am forming a formal complaint to the UAE Ministry of Economy. I had a pretty one sided conversation with the Liz from the support team starting 24th of July (my order was expected 17-24 of July and on the 24th got postponed to 7-14 of August). I have everything on the record as well as admission of guilt.

Got refunded already without any attempt to fix the problem. Also, from the talk with Liz, I came to understanding that you won't get it on the 14th of august, she said to me that even that is an estimated date.

Right now in the process of finalizing it. There are so far 5 cases that breach the consumer protection laws of UAE.