A small shunt mod I did on the MSI VG, using 2 0.008 ohm resistances on both on each shunt resistor, so basically going from 600W to 1200W limit, but card was maxed at about 850W-
It worked fine, but I unsoldered shortly after mostly because 70°C temps with auto fan may be too high when we don't know the hotspot temp, which could be near the hundreds.
Some results:
Steel Nomad (picture): https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7195665
Port Royal: https://www.3dmark.com/pr/3531074 (44532)
SpeedWay: https://www.3dmark.com/sw/2458748 (16608)
TimeSpy Extreme Graphics: https://www.3dmark.com/spy/57163069 (29578 graphics score)
With 100% fans it maxed at about 60°C, which is OK but not usable for every day.
Pic of the soldering on https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-nvidia-rtx-5090-owners-club.1814246/post-29482459
If only the normal person could get the XOC VBIOS… At least you could limit it to 400W or anything in the 400W-2000W range.
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Nice but Scary electric bill
Ty for sharing
Nice work mate, really solid effort.
I believe all XOC bios should be shared. High end overclocker are now company reps with resources others can’t even buy and I believe it’s against the spirit of the community that started all this. I can say that as I’ve been overclocking since like 2002.
I have the XOC bios for the 1080ti and took the 1080ti steel nomad world record with 26fps. Lol.
So you are 6.7x faster. Wow…
I’ve decided to hold out upgrading this gpu and 1080p TN panel until I can get at least a 4090 and higher res OLED, so that the jump will be so insane it will be like showing the Aztecs the 50mt Tsar Bomba nuke going off.
[https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7119522](https://www.3dmark.com/sn/7119522)
This is all I have got out of my Astral LC. Y’all are really making me want to just say screw it and shunt it. U really wish they would let us have the XOC bios. Cant even compete.