If you are going to, I’d hold off until the ATX 3.0 PSUs start dropping sometime in January. That way you don’t have to deal with that adapter connector and the possible issues it has that Jay’s noticed.
Well that’s a selling point if I’ve ever seen one.
Yeah I would much prefer to have one of those new psus. But if I want to keep using my 750w supply, I’ll need to reduce the power limit. I’ll probably give it a try and see how it goes.
Personally im gonna hold back on the 40 series and wait and see how DLSS 3.0 pans out, and if remains a 40 series exclusive feature (pretty sure it will hit 30 series). running my monitor at 4K 100+ would be really nice for more graphically intensive games.
To my surprise, I actually managed to get one on Amazon. The hotstock app came through. Best buy sold out so fast I never saw it in stock. I got MSI’s gaming trio variant which is not my first choice. But as long the reviews are fine, I won’t cancel
Don’t know if you saw it but Der8auer talked in his video how the 4090 is way beyond it’s optimal power/performance ratio. Apparently you can reduce the power target to between 60-70% and loose only between 5 and 10% in fps. He was showing some huge gains, so this may actually be a feasible option.
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So you mean the heatsink that’s as big as a small child does it’s job 
Same thing was true with 30 series cards too.
I just looked at it and that efficiency drop off is pretty extreme. I’m also sticking with my 5800X until Amd’s new 3d cache variant comes out. So it really looks like running at 80% power should be perfectly fine for now
Well, yes, the 42C is impressive. And it should cool that well given it’s absurd size, but I meant the clock speed, lol.
It’s true of pretty much every HALO tier product.
And this is one of the many reasons I enjoy watching Level1Techs
I am out of the loop, but to anyone who has an experience or an idea about it, how do the Intel Arc GPUs are doing in the market or even in terms of usage so far? It really seems like a very good alternative for PC users who are inclined to the budget side.
I wouldnt touch them for now, a lot of first gen product problems, drive issues, game compatibility, some other more exotic issues. Its not they are “bad” but its always like this when someone comes into this space
If you want budget just get a AMD card they are cheaper on average than Nvidia
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What is this? Legitimate performance improvements on a process refinement…from Intel? We haven’t seen that in over a decade.
That power consumption though…anyone looking to buy Raptor Lake is going to want to not let the motherboard control the Vcore. Cause it sure seems like we’ve taken a step back to the days of 8th and 9th Gen in that regard.
Looks like Nvidia hasn’t fixed the peak power irregularities NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition 24GB Review - Drink less, work more! | Page 11 | igor'sLAB
Personally im more worried about thermals for the whole line up (on Intel and AMD) than anything else. if an NHD15 is the “minimum spec”, basically the top of the line air cooler (and even 80% of AIOs) than that is a problem.
I think that’s just for the top spec chips on Intel’s end. The lower SKUs won’t draw nearly as much power, so they won’t be as hard to cool. For AMD, unless you are on custom water cooling or some sort of exotic cooling it’s going to go to 90C+ under load no matter what. But it’ll also immediately fall back to more reasonable temps as soon as the load ends, so it’s not quite as bad as it seems.