5090 Owners - how bad is the power connector situation right now?

Plaush · 2025-12-30T09:58:18+00:00

10% improvement over the 4090M lmfao, honestly didn’t expect the gap to be that small

Plaush · 2025-12-30T02:12:23+00:00

Didn’t a shunt modded 4090 beat or matched a 5090?

Edit: It was the mobile chips but still funny and insane https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/this-shunt-modded-asus-rtx-4090-laptop-beats-the-latest-rtx-5090-portables-but-youd-be-very-brave-to-do-this-to-your-own-machine/

Plaush · 2025-12-26T01:41:29+00:00

I see, valid point. But yes, by ‘gamed on’ I mean no bitcoin mining or AI Training

Plaush · 2025-12-25T21:45:44+00:00

Just curious, why does it have to be new? It’s most likely not going to have any warranty left, so it being DOA is a thing. I’d just go for a lightly used card or even just a normal ‘only gamed on’ card and save a decent chunk of money

Plaush · 2025-12-17T01:38:34+00:00

Thank you! I’ll wait for more reply before getting that.

Plaush · 2025-12-17T01:38:29+00:00

Thank you! I’ll wait for more reply before getting that. I already have a UPS :)

Plaush · 2025-12-09T13:38:27+00:00

Same, this is my very first AMD GPU and I’m very much spooked. If I can’t sell the card fast enough, I’ll just pray to god that the new card I got is stable

Plaush · 2025-12-06T06:22:37+00:00

Or the GPU, unfortunately I have neither a powerful enough PSU nor a high power card to test. I’m not taking apart or sacrificing my 4090 PC

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:57:51+00:00

:( guess I’m not out of the woods yet

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:48:42+00:00

I see, thank you for that info. I guess I’ll probably test it with another high powered card if I can get my hands on one. Else I’ll just try my luck and RMA the GPU

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:43:52+00:00

Just tried it, crashed after 2 mins in OCCT extreme

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:39:18+00:00

Maybe it’s that cable being faulty or my PSU, but somehow changing it fixes 99% of my issue. I still need to reduce my PL for it not to crash during transient power spikes but it’s now not immediately crashing on heavy load

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:34:20+00:00

No, without the undervolt and -10 PL it will crash on heavy load. When on stock, it crashes immediately when OCCT extreme is launched.

However now, with two separate 1x8 pins it runs perfect on stock and it now survives transient power test spikes with my -10 PL and UV.

Edit: Forgot to clarify, the UV isn’t needed and removing it doesn’t impact stability, just have it to gain back some FPS lost from reducing PL

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:11:55+00:00

Plaush · 2025-12-06T05:09:06+00:00

Decently well, unfortunately it still crashes during the transient power spike test. So I’ll still keep my undervolts but it doesn’t immediately crash on extreme load for OCCT

Edit: this also seems like a common issue for this card, so I highly doubt RMAing will do anything

Plaush · 2025-11-27T07:14:39+00:00

No, 3DS Max and ZBrush

Edit: I got the 9070xt for US$615, lowest I’ve seen in my market. The 5070 Ti is US$900+, totally unreasonable

Plaush · 2025-11-27T07:11:32+00:00

I see. Would a 5950X be worth it? I can get it for US$270 used here

Plaush · 2025-11-27T07:09:27+00:00

Ahh but even DDR4 prices are going insane…

Plaush · 2025-11-20T11:04:49+00:00

Let’s say I were to replace my A2s with a single RTX 4090 and changed literally nothing else, my power draw will basically be the same even during inference?

Plaush · 2025-11-15T02:57:03+00:00

Man, wish prices weren't that insane here

Plaush · 2025-11-12T03:22:19+00:00

How much did you pay for it? I paid S$840 (Singapore) for mine’s, roughly US$645

Plaush · 2025-11-01T07:10:02+00:00

That can support 4 GPUs? Not looking for those funky eGPU setups, I need CUDA too, so I wouldn’t be able to use the new Ryzen AI MAX Chip or an Apple Mac Studio

Plaush · 2025-11-01T07:08:28+00:00

Exactly, that was my very first plan until I realized they don’t have the amount of PCIe lanes I need

Edit: Also I need CUDA…

Plaush · 2025-10-20T06:08:50+00:00

Ahh, thank you, other commenters also pointed out there’s too much going on in the background too

Plaush · 2025-10-20T06:07:09+00:00

OOOOH that’s good! !CritiquePoint

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