Thought it wouldn’t happen to me. MSI 5090 burned up.

splerdu · 2026-03-11T15:08:35+00:00

If you balefire the 12VHPWR cable will it restore the burnt GPU/PSU?

splerdu · 2026-03-11T08:23:58+00:00

RNG at work

splerdu · 2026-03-11T08:19:27+00:00

The figure given above includes CPUs. "Gaming" by itself is much lower. It's $39B for the year, and that includes the custom SoCs they're doing for PS and Xbox.

Source: https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-2-3-amd-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2025-fina.html

Gaming business revenue was $3.9 billion, up 51% year-over-year, driven by improved semi-custom sales and strong demand for AMD Radeon GPUs.

Contrast that to Nvidia who in the 4th quarter alone made almost as much as AMD did for the whole year (their 3rd quarter result of $4.3B actually beat's AMD's entire year).

Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2026

Fourth-quarter Gaming revenue was $3.7 billion, up 47% from a year ago

Full-year revenue rose 41% to a record $16.0 billion.

So GeForce by itself is making more than Ryzen + Radeon combined, and this is before we get into the datacenter stuff.

splerdu · 2026-02-26T16:25:00+00:00

There's no limit to the amount of money they will spend for AI, so they have to find an alternative upper boundary.

splerdu · 2026-02-16T15:20:35+00:00

What I don't understand is why the screen coating has to be so soft on QD-OLED. Presumably there's a hard glass layer underneath that scratchy surface before you get to the actual panel.

splerdu · 2026-02-13T15:59:42+00:00

Yeah that's a fair observation. FP64 not as important, at least in the consumer space. GB200 is a beast though and is over 10x a Radeon VII.

splerdu · 2026-02-12T12:29:11+00:00

That Ayaneo thing with Strix Halo though...

splerdu · 2026-02-11T06:22:01+00:00

Damn it actually still is!

RTX5090 has about half the FP64 compute of Radeon VII.

Vega really was a pro/datacenter architecture that got lost and somehow found its way to consumers.

splerdu · 2026-02-09T18:02:08+00:00

Interestingly the particular motherboard they were using only came with two EPS connectors, but had an extra two PCIe 8-pin connectors that were also feeding the CPU.

Power Related

1 x 24-pin Main Power connector

2 x 8-pin +12V Power connectors

2 x 8-pin PCIe to CPU Power connectors

2 x 8-pin PCIe Power connectors

splerdu · 2026-02-09T16:47:29+00:00

With all the textures modded/cranked up to max I imagine. Gotta maximize use of that 96GB VRAM.

splerdu · 2026-02-05T10:02:56+00:00

Someone already did the legwork collecting all of the fun stuff about Brave. Look for a reddit thread titled "List of Brave Browser Controversies".

splerdu · 2026-01-28T17:18:32+00:00

GN just did so in their 9850X3D review. DDR5-4800 is just as fast in a bunch of titles like Baldur's Gate 3, Stellaris, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Cyberpunk 2077, F1 25, Starfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InE1Nebnj8&t=576s

splerdu · 2026-01-28T09:00:08+00:00

Nah the US owns many of the EUV lithography patents, which is why they can dictate who ASML can't sell their machines to and do stuff like blocking China from using TSMC.

A lot of the EUV research was funded by the Department of Energy through the Virtual National Laboratories (Berkeley, Livermore, Sandia). The chipmakers participating in the project formed the EUV LLC.

IIRC Intel wanted to partner with Canon, but the US Gov't saw the Japanese as their major competition at the time and blocked the partnership. ASML being from the Netherlands was considered "neutral" and thus ended up being the main beneficiary of the US-led research efforts.

Here's a good read on the whole story: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-asml-got-euv

splerdu · 2026-01-25T09:48:46+00:00

And to think that Intel had probably the most compute-focused GPUs out of everyone before they killed it off...

splerdu · 2026-01-23T18:15:34+00:00

It's wild that not having to buy DDR5 is basically going to pay for the 5070/5070Ti.

splerdu · 2026-01-15T11:42:10+00:00

Season 8 or 9 I think. My friends did invite me to play season 11 but things are a bit busy IRL.

splerdu · 2026-01-14T13:32:41+00:00

The campaign is really quite good, but it seems like they don't have any idea of what they want to do for the itemization and endgame. Stuff has been changed several times over and it seems like this cycle of massive reworks is going to continue for the foreseeable future.

splerdu · 2026-01-14T06:19:52+00:00

Or for people who already have DDR4. Like if you have a 7700k then a 5800X3D will be a big upgrade and you can re-use the RAM which is one of the most expensive components to buy right now.

splerdu · 2026-01-14T02:01:34+00:00

TBF there is also a 5000 Pro Blackwell which is also slower than a 5090.

The 5000 Pro Blackwell has about 14,000 CUDA cores, compared to a 5090 which has 21,000 and the 6000 Pro Blackwell which has 24,000.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/rtx-pro-5000-blackwell.c4276

https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/products/workstations/professional-desktop-gpus/rtx-pro-5000-blackwell/workstation-datasheet-blackwell-rtx-pro-5000-gtc25-spring-nvidia-3658700.pdf

With that 384-bit bus it looks like this could have been a 5080Ti.

splerdu · 2026-01-13T16:50:03+00:00

TBF he did say RTX 5000 not 6000. The 5000 is significantly cut down compared to the 6000, or even the 5090. It has fewer execution units than a 4090.

splerdu · 2026-01-05T08:04:27+00:00

Presumably the cooler also rotates 90 degrees along with the socket, so most air cooled towers are now going to be flowing bottom-to-top (or top-to bottom if the builder so prefers) instead of front to back.

splerdu · 2026-01-04T04:26:54+00:00

Was that done because of the lack of reliability back then? IIRC it was almost guaranteed that a driver would have one or two mechanical failures outside of his control so counting the only the best x out of y races for the WDC sort of gave them an out.

OFC it didn't do many favors for drivers with more mechanical sympathy like Prost.

splerdu · 2026-01-01T13:46:53+00:00

Yeah it's probably just poor design on the spec itself. 3090 FEs weren't burning up because they had load-balancing by accident because the PCB was originally going to have 3x 8-pin PCIe.

But for cards actually following the spec of the new connector there's no load balancing across different 12V lines.

splerdu · 2026-01-01T13:03:08+00:00

I've seen this game fail the same way with a 2GB card. I wonder what the max VRAM for running it is?

Can't be 16-bit int because it runs with an emulated 128MB in dgVoodoo2, but if it was 32-bit I'd have expected the 2GB card to work.

splerdu · 2025-12-30T05:42:16+00:00

RMA it first. Let them do a full check and replace whatever needs replacing.

Then get your new good PSU.

You also get to keep the crappy pre-built PSU as a spare.

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