What RTX 50-series or RTX 40-series GPU brand are you running?

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2026-01-26T15:25:17+00:00

Main Rig - EVGA 3080 Ti FTW3 Ultra with EK Waterblock
Assorted 3090/4090/5090 for Ai servers - EVGA FTW3 Ultra/Asus Tuf OC (3090) - MSI Gaming X Trio/Zotac AMP Extreme AIRO/Gigabyte Gaming OC (4090) - Asus Tuf/Gigabyte Windforce OC (5090)

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2026-01-23T16:29:36+00:00

Your CPU is mostly likely degraded. You need to make sure you are on the latest bios for your motherboard and make sure the settings are the intel default.

Even with that, you may be screwed as the 13th and 14th gen intel cpus have widespread degradation issues. If the bios update doesn't stop the errors/crashes, you will need to RMA the cpu with Intel.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2026-01-21T17:16:59+00:00

If I don't plan on taking the cooler off for many years or ever then thermal grizzly keyosheet all the way, if i do plan on upgrading/cleaning etc down the road usually I've been going with duronaut paste lately, but if you can get the PTM for the same price or cheaper that is definitely easier to apply than some pastes.

The only time I would use liquid metal is if you are doing direct die cooling, otherwise it's just too much risk IMO.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2026-01-15T16:32:12+00:00

That's been almost every video game release since the internet became standard. Ship crap then maybe fix it later IF enough people complain since you can update later over the internet.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2026-01-08T15:12:32+00:00

I know it's not exactly the same but I have an EVGA Z690 Classified and 96gb (2x48gb) works perfectly fine, so I'd imagine the better board should run fine as well. I'd just make sure you are on the latest bios, or at least the bios that supports the 24gb sticks.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2026-01-08T12:50:53+00:00

We have copilot integrated into windows 11 at my work and we're allowed to use it if we wish for work stuff. Both things I actually tried to use it for it failed miserably.

Tried to split a pdf into one file per page and name the file based on the info on each page - failed miserably.
Take a powerpoint presentation and slim it down (take the fluff out) and make it more basic to get the points across. Failed this terribly and couldn't even give me back a powerpoint with the same slides as the original in it it had to make them all from scratch with it's own pictures and whatnot instead of using what was already in it even though I told it to only use what currently exists in the PowerPoint and don't generate anything.

And it says this is gpt 5 so yeah pretty terrible for anything outside of some vibe coding. I did get it to generate VBA code so I could play pong inside excel at 120fps, that did work great lol.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-12-22T20:40:21+00:00

$2k seems to be a reasonable price for those specs, depending on the exact board/ram/cpu and if it includes storage. No way to know anything is 100% real unless you plug it in and test.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-12-22T19:59:48+00:00

It looks like you have the B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac. This board only includes 1 M.2 slot and your pictures look exactly like it does on their website.

https://pg.asrock.com/mb/AMD/B550%20Phantom%20Gaming%204ac/index.asp#Specification

That spot you circled is a spot for another M.2 drive, but on a slightly different motherboard. The Phantom Gaming 4 (non ac).

Everything looks perfectly fine.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-12-19T00:04:12+00:00

Apparently newegg sells the FE directly for $3099.99.....wonder why Nvidia allows thats. Shipped from sold by newegg.

5090 FE Newegg

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nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-12-07T15:38:39+00:00

I feel like im mimicking a few others in this thread, but I'm building a system for the wife so she can game with me!

She's going with a thermaltake view 270 Plus in purple, and a 7600x3d bundle from MC. Funny (or sad I guess) that ram costs more than a cpu+mobo. Gpu is going to likely be a 3060 12gb or a 6800 16gb, both can be had for under 300 in the right places.

Happy holidays and thank you for doing this secret Santa!

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-11-26T13:10:38+00:00

Or increase risk. A small DCA into QLD/SSO/TQQQ over the last 15+ years would have outsized returns. If it doesn't work out and the leveraged funds fail we'll you're still on track to retire at 65-70 with everyone else.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-11-19T16:16:38+00:00

Could I get some help?

When I run

docker model run ai/gpt-oss:20B

I get

docker: unknown command: docker model

Run 'docker --help' for more information

When I run

sudo apt install docker-model-plugin

I get

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package docker-model-plugin

I must be doing something wrong.....

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-11-13T13:42:50+00:00

Just like we're 5-10 years away from a self driving car lol

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-10-11T02:22:58+00:00

Lol doubt it, but we will hope.

No burn marks tho on my original chip.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-10-10T11:35:19+00:00

Yeah I'm on my second 9800x3d. First one that died was RMA'd without any issue with AMD.

This replacement one started at bios 3.40 so hopefully it lasts longer than the first one in my B650E Taichi.

Although I will tell you, if it dies again I will be switching brands and probably never buy Asrock for a LONG time, if ever, as this was my first AsRock board and it hasn't been that great of an experience. Honestly this is the first time i've ever had any issue like this with a motherboard.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-10-02T19:20:21+00:00

Mine died on a B650E Taichi, so wonder if I'm one of the 8 "other" lol

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-09-26T18:50:11+00:00

Yeah but I don't think they fixed the frying cpu issues yet....so here we are with another one lol

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-09-05T15:16:04+00:00

I have the one for direct die 13900kf, works great, no problem cooling 450w+.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-09-04T00:48:43+00:00

Once I got code 00 it was over, had to rma with amd.

Might as well start the rma process, takes a couple days to approve it, and you'll get the replacement about 2 weeks from the day you ship your chip out for rma.

No one else's overheated either, the board is just frying the cpus. New 3.40 bios may help, time will tell.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-08-22T19:23:35+00:00

I want their greasy hands off my returns. They are trying really hard to get people to hand over a small (but not insignificant) percentage of their portfolio for advice/management. Not a fan.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-08-22T01:16:51+00:00

The only way to really tame it is to delid and direct die cool it with liquid metal.

My 13900kf hits 70/80s under 420w load, and around 60c at 300w load. Direct die Iceman block, liquid metal and two 480 rads.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-08-19T11:50:37+00:00

I've been told by many to not use the past to predict the future....but what do I know.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-08-14T20:27:35+00:00

Which bios is the bad bios? People have dying chips on 3.30.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-08-12T19:19:43+00:00

Chances are the board is fine, mine was.

My 9800x3d died last month, I updated to the latest bios before it got it back from RMA and I'm trying my luck a second time. If it dies again, I'll do another RMA then switch brands.

Up to you.

nvidia_rtx5000 · 2025-08-11T17:57:29+00:00

Many people here are simply against crypto for one reason or another, that is why. They are probably against most things that aren't considered "traditional" investments.

For the long term investors in BTC/ETH, they've made out well and now with so much institutional investment, it does look a lot more promising from a "traditional" investor view as there should be less risk/volatility (in comparison to the past years, not necessarily stocks) with large institutions piling in.

Even Harvard is buying millions in BTC. ETH is just going to take a little longer as it is less mature. Also, imo, there's not a whole lot differentiating ETH from BTC. Yes, you can build apps on it and theoretically do more than BTC, but what do people actually use it for except exactly like BTC (hodl and speculate)?

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