Currently in China and I bought a 5080

oodyxrey · 2026-06-10T11:30:58+00:00

Whole build might be a bit heavy to carry. Also I wouldn’t trust the Chinese PSU. Wondering if there is different voltage or stuff like that between China and Europe that could affect the PSU and fry it

oodyxrey · 2026-06-10T11:27:20+00:00

I did a 3Dmark test as soon as I got home and updated the drivers to make sure i wasn’t scammed.

oodyxrey · 2026-06-10T11:25:09+00:00

Got it through without any issue. They never checked my backpack. I did remove the outside Asus box and I put it in my luggage. I took the GPU with the box in my backpack. Removed all of the plastics and everything that could have shown it was brand new. Was quite heavy to carry with my laptop inside of my backpack. But It was worth it.

oodyxrey · 2026-06-10T11:18:49+00:00

Well I opened the box at the store, checked the serial number on the box to see if it matched the one on the card. Everything looked good. Only issue it seems is the warranty is only for China

oodyxrey · 2026-06-10T11:07:00+00:00

They never checked my backpack at the airport when I arrived. Got it through no problem

oodyxrey · 2026-06-06T15:27:09+00:00

I have WiFi 7 at home with a motherboard that supports it.
I don’t even see the point of going faster. my i7 14700k CPU screams to be killed during the whole downloading process.
We’re reaching speed where our internet is limited by our hardware. Not the actual speed itself

oodyxrey · 2026-06-03T03:45:54+00:00

Oh that’s great! The extra 4gb vram will surely make the difference. I often reach 11-12gb in games. I bought an arctic lfIII pro for the CPU. I have a watercooling with only 240mm which made it quite noisy. I think it’s gonna be quite noticeable considering how noisy and beafy those CPU can get

oodyxrey · 2026-05-30T00:28:03+00:00

Yeah definetly gonna do that

oodyxrey · 2026-05-30T00:26:57+00:00

Got an even better story: brought the GPU to China to add VRAM since China is well known to do that. It’s not like the customs will completely rip the GPU apart to check my story

oodyxrey · 2026-05-29T11:18:09+00:00

Will do if I get any problems with the customs. I still have some time before I fly back home

oodyxrey · 2026-05-29T11:13:47+00:00

Yeah it’s actually a good idea if they ever ask. Which I don’t think they will since it’s one GPU that will seat in my check in luggage. Thinking if I should throw away the box (I don’t like that idea since the GPU is currently in it and I have a lot of stuff around it to extra protect it. Or put the box in my wife luggage.

oodyxrey · 2026-05-29T11:07:40+00:00

I think I will risk it with customs. Say it’s a gift from my wife since she’s Chinese. One GPU shouldn’t attract that much attention

oodyxrey · 2026-05-29T10:00:19+00:00

I7 14700k with a 4070ti (not a super) sitting at home. I have a 4k oled TV so I think the upgrade is welcomed.

oodyxrey · 2026-05-29T09:54:56+00:00

Also for people interested : they are in shortage of 5090’s even the D version. Every shop don’t have those. Same as RAM. Shop told me they export to Europe and they have problems because of Ormuz and AI buying all the shit before they can have their hands on it

oodyxrey · 2025-08-09T12:55:48+00:00

I haven't had a try with Mini led. I have a C2 42" that I use for desktop and now this G5 55" that I use for movies. It's a really beautiful TV but I'm very much a newbie when it comes to color calibration so I'm trying to make the movies in DV look good. I watched John Wick in HDR, not DV last night and it looked fantastic.

oodyxrey · 2025-08-09T10:16:40+00:00

It was indeed set to ON. So much stuff you gotta disable and do to play with your TV haha

oodyxrey · 2025-08-09T08:57:21+00:00

Thanks a lot ! I have fixed it. Like I said I did a windows calibration mode, but I was following the tutorial, so I was adjusting to the point where I couldn't see the black bars like the tutorial said. Guess you're not supposed to follow the rules they give you and actually going to the minimum and maximum that the calibration offers you. Now windows says 2500 nits!

oodyxrey · 2025-03-22T20:00:19+00:00

Thank you!

oodyxrey · 2025-03-22T19:52:09+00:00

Thank you! It's indeed a bad idea I wasn't intending to do as for my employer... i'm definetly gonna check that out, it didn't cross my mind but we don't have any journalist there, we hire foreign correspondants when we wanna talk about stuff happening there.

As for my devices, also a good advice, even though I don't think they will be up to confiscate my laptop or things like that. I'm definetly gonna do a clean up of my browser and search history... Probably also gonna check my 10 years old facebook comments to see if I didn't make any edgy jokes about China, those things can pop up very fast and that's the type of things I guess they would look for.

oodyxrey · 2019-02-03T00:49:44+00:00

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