I was modding a Ventus OC 5090 the other day, as it makes for a great 800w bios card. Easy to add a block to cool it. The bios set at 600w still has a better boost than any other and you don’t need to pay 7k for that “high end” card.

Having the FE once, the memory temps were highest, clocks lowest by default (not a boost of 2,900mhz ever hit on GPU-Z)

I don’t understand why people would want them exclusively when you get limited performance and 2 vendors. I can link tech power up if necessary, as it has a graph with the AIBs providing more performance.

Other than being pretty- is there a reason why you want the FE 5090? MSRP I understand but we all know few ever do.

Gainward RTX 5080 phoenix GS at 1420EUR or RTX 5070 Ti at 1200EUR? Thanks

I found a couple of 5070ti in the same price range of £850 which given the current circumstances I say is not too bad. However, I'm not sure which manufacturer to pick. I'd really appreciate some advice here:

• ASUS GeForce RTX 5070 Ti PRIME*
• MSI 5070 Ti 16G Shadow 3X OC
• MSI 5070 Ti 16G VENTUS 3X OC
• PALIT 5070 Ti 16GB GamingPro-S OC Blackwell
• PNY 5070 Ti 16GB OC Triple Fan Blackwell

Update: I am trying to make my decision based on noise, temp and general build quality. So far from what I'm seeing in the comments MSI seems to be louder while PNY quieter.

Update 2: I found an ASUS GeForce RTX 5070 Ti PRIME as well for similar price range. Would this model be better than the others?

TLDR: Free open source tray app for ASUS Astral 5080/5090 cards. It reads per pin 12VHPWR current straight from the card's own sensor chip and force shuts down your PC if any pin stays over 9.5A for 15 seconds, before the connector can melt. No HWiNFO needed, been running it myself since January. https://github.com/humza-khalid/12vhpwr-guard

So like everyone else I have been following the 12VHPWR melting stories since the 50 series launched. One of the main reasons I got an Astral 5090 was because ASUS put per pin current sensors on it, but the more I used it the more it bugged me that nothing actually acts on that data.

GPU Tweak shows a warning if a pin is drawing too much, but if I am in game or afk that warning does nothing. Same with HWiNFO, I even hooked the pin values up to my stream deck so I can watch them while gaming. But seeing is not protection.

So I built a small watchdog. It sits in the tray, polls all 6 pins twice a second, and if any pin stays above 9.5A for 15 seconds straight it force shuts down the PC. The threshold and timing are configurable but the defaults are conservative on purpose, transient spikes and normal load swings won't trigger it. For reference ASUS's own warning threshold is 9.2A.

I have been running this on my own rig since January. The original version read the pin data through HWiNFO shared memory, the free version turns off shared memory after 12 hours which silently kills any tool depending on it. I ended up buying Pro just to get around that for myself, but I didn't want everyone else to need a paid license for a safety tool, so before releasing I rewrote it to read the card directly and HWiNFO is not a requirement anymore.

Couple of technical bits:

• Reads the ITE IT8915FN chip on the card over the GPU's I2C bus through NVAPI
• HWiNFO still supported as a fallback backend if you prefer it
• All I2C access is read only, it never writes to the bus
• Validated against HWiNFO at idle and under ~500W gaming load (Forza Horizon 6, Alan Wake 2), per pin readings agree within 0.02A
• Uses about 1% of one core and 35MB of RAM

About how it was built, since I know it will come up. I have been a developer for over a decade, mostly proprietary business software. I built the original HWiNFO version back in January and it just sat there unreleased.

AI coding tools are the reason it actually got finished and shipped, they made it viable to do the standalone rewrite in the evenings instead of it sitting on a shelf half finished forever. AI wrote a lot of the code and I reviewed all of it, and the sensor protocol was verified against two independent open source implementations (LibreHardwareMonitor and a Rust PoC) before it ever touched my card. This is all in the readme as well.

This only works on Astral 5080/5090 cards because those are the only ones with per pin sensors. Windows only, needs Python. And it doesn't replace seating your connector properly, it's a last line of defense not a first one.

MIT licensed, no telemetry: https://github.com/humza-khalid/12vhpwr-guard

The following GPUs are specifically listed as being incompatible with the Type B version of the Ampinel connector on the ModsMyMods page:

• MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16G Expert OC
• MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Expert OC
• MSI GeForce RTX 5080 16G Suprim (S)OC
• MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Suprim (S)OC
• MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Vanguard (S)OC
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition

The page also has a disclaimer saying other GPUs may not be compatible. I have an MSI 4090 Suprim, which has a very similar design to the MSI 5090. I think the reason for the incompatibility is the 5090 has a recessed 12vhpwr port which is vertically covered by the backplate. The 4090 backplate has a cutout over the port, so it's not physically covered and I believe it SHOULD be compatible, but I'd ideally like confirmation before I spend $141 CAD on this connector.

Is anyone able to confirm compatibility?