Compelling argument. The boy gets a snazzy monitor too then 
So, the SSD got swapped for the version without the heatsink and the CPU got downgraded to a 9800X3d. Boy gets a better case and a monitor. Damage remains about the same
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There are DCS VR Benchmarks for the 9800X3D vs the 9950X3D and they show a very consistent but small advantage for the 9950X3D. The frametimes are slightly better with less hiccups and streaming or recording video will increase the advantage a little. It is still a very slim advantage though.
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Which case will you be using @schurem ?
I know from experience that the current generation of GPU’s need some space to live in and a well engineered case will keep your system cooler with lesser fan noise.
Also make sure the memory you are choosing is on the QVL (Qualified Vendor List) supplied by the motherboard manufacturer to prevent issues.
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This baby:
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That will do the job!
Allright. Bomb dropped. Piggy bank evaporated. Set delivery for a week from now, I’ll have that day off and the worst of the heatwave should be over by then
I ended up opting for a 9800x3d on @Freak’s advice and dropped the AIO watercooler for a big phat aircooler. Price difference went into a sweet screen for the kid.
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Enjoy. It will be a beast of a machine, very similar to mine.
Did you go with the 5090 Astral or did you leave it and trust that the hardware gods have mercy on your 12VHPR cable?
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I consider myself a fairly adept priest of the machine spirit and trust on my own two hands to get it right.
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Well, you definitely want to check how hot the cables get when the card is under load from time.
You are probably going to be okay but due to the practically nonexistent safety margins in the design of the cable you can never be sure that it’s not going to cause problems at some point. Even 4090ies are known to sometimes melt their cables and they draw far less power than a 5090.
I know. The manufacturer of the PSU rates the 12VHPWR at 600 and I’ll have to trust that. They’re Germans so I have no reasons not to believe them
I also am going to undervolt the card. They seem to run much better and cooler like that.
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Your fate is sealed, your house will burn down.
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Yep, with a 75W ‘safety’ margin, that’s around a ~12% margin. You don’t really need to worry about it but it’s definitely not enough of a ‘safety’ margin to be safe. As someone who works with electronics that’s not enough for me to trust it, I want to know when something goes wrong. For comparison the old PCIe 8-pin cables have almost a 2x safety margin in their design and the 6-Pin PCIe cables have a more than 2.5x safety margin in their design
I haven’t really been following the whole “melting connectors” saga, as my 2070 does what I need for now. Is it the connection on the graphics card that is suspect? Main reason I ask is it’s not hard to change cables or connectors on cables if that’s the issue, but I wouldn’t want to mess with pulling the connector off the board and changing that.
Unfortunately short of soldering a big-ass 50A connector with a single phase directly onto the PCB of the GPU and to the power rail of the PSU there’s nothing we can do.
The spec of the connector itself is insufficient for this kind of power delivery. Sure, it’s rated for 600W and yes, in most cases it will work, but usually when you have a connector that’s rated for 600W it will be designed with a minimum 50% safety margin because things can and will fail but if they do then at least it won’t do any damage.
IIRC data center GPUs use two 300W EPS connectors instead. You know, the ones that are labelled CPU on your PSU and are designed with proper safety margins…
Edit: @schurem I don’t mean to scare you and I trust that you know how to plug in a cable properly. The probability of something actually going wrong is very slim but I want to make sure you know that the probability is not as slim as it should be.
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praise to the omnissia and remember the sacred rights and spill some blood on a sharp edge inside the case (which i seem to do every bloody time I build a machine) 
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My case didn’t come with sharp edges. I was pleasantly surprised how far Case design has come in the last ten years (my old case is from 2015).
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Another good reason to buy German engineering when it comes to cases 
My Be Quiet has no sharp edges either
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I got the white 802 turned around so it opens from the other side. GPU on top. Works great, but it’s harder to add a small support gizmo for the GPU weight.
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Took delivery of a bunch of boxes today. They taste yummy 
Remember guys, if the tax man asks, the thing is for “innovations in AI driven garden design”.
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How much does your 5090 weigh? Mine is absolutely monstrous, almost all aluminium coming in at just over 3kg
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