u/jcmred82

I had purchased a 5080 Astral as a egpu setup with my Xbox Ally X. Loved it looked great. When I travel it's not in use. I decided on reusing a X870e Crosshair Hero board I had and build my kids their first pc. Connected to a 75" Sony TV.

MB: X870e Crosshair Hero

CPU: 9850X3D

RAM: 32gb Gskill Ripjaw Neo (they are currently running my 64gb royals)

1tb 990pro for OS/Apps

2tb 990pro for games

GPU: 5080 Astral

Seasonic 1000W Vertex PSU

RYUO IV SLC 360 Argb AIO

Extras: Thermaltake Red Contact Frame

Lianli Verticle Mount

CableMod carbon cable replacement.

This case was super easy to build in, hardest part was routing aio wires so that you don't see it over the black motherboard. Kids loving it. Once they learn to use it and in need of one each, I will give this to my son and build my daughters build.

Originally had a 5080 and Ally X on a Ag02 egpu worked great. Too great ended up building a PC. I left performance on the table.

Ended up returning the 5080 Astral for a 5090 Astral.

I ended up changing job and travel alot picked up a Xbox Ally X for when I'm away.

I have small kids that I would like to orientate them towards PC gaming so decided as a new 4k 120hz living room setup. Yes w frame gen.

Went with a Aoostar EG02 this time

White OC 5080 Astral

And Seasonic 850w PSU.

So far this experience was alot smoother.

Had to download the Power Delivery Firmware update so that I can use a Tb5 hub and that's it's. Installed the 5080 with ease, the XAX saw it no error 43 script needed.

I did have to use a keyboard and look up the keyboard shortcut to enable extended display. This was only to be able to click on the Nvidia installer program. Once driver's were installed went somewhat smoothly.

Yes there was another issue I did see, Nvidia App overlay cause the screen to go black other than the overlay and the task bar. I disabled it and just use the GPU Tweek OSD for now.

I do use my pc, I can now use this w the kids in the living room, currently playing Lego Batman, and use it while I'm on the road.

Oh also set the gpu ram to Auto. The system does it thing.