How is the noise level for this? Can you hear the pump for the radiator? I don't know much about water cooled GPUs but I'm assuming there's a pump similar to a CPU watercooler? If you already have a radiator occupying the top of the case, could one buy this setup and just then replace the three vertically mounted fans (x3) on the side of the case? For example, in the Lian Li O11 Dynamic?
I am currently using the NZXT H9 Flow with an Arctic Liquid Freezer 3 radiator on the top and the MSI Suprim Liquid radiator on the vertical mounts, very little pump sound to be honest. I hardly ever notice any noise while gaming.
I don't quite understand the 12VHPWR cable. Is there a new type of cable that may be needed to supply power to a 50 series card? Specifically the 5090? Could I just use the same cable that I have been using with my 4090 with a 5090? Or do I need to purchase something new?
I don't quite understand the 12VHPWR cable. Is there a new type of cable that may be needed to supply power to a 50 series card? Specifically the 5090? Could I just use the same cable that I have been using with my 4090 with a 5090? Or do I need to purchase something new?
At this rate, you'll need to have a 6.7 liter diesel engine to power the 60 and 70 series cards.
I don't quite understand the 12VHPWR cable. Is there a new type of cable that may be needed to supply power to a 50 series card? Specifically the 5090? Could I just use the same cable that I have been using with my 4090 with a 5090? Or do I need to purchase something new?
The cable is the same, what was changed is the port on the GPU to improve safety and most 4000 series cards were already updated mid-cycle to use the new connector.
The cable is the same, what was changed is the port on the GPU to improve safety and most 4000 series cards were already updated mid-cycle to use the new connector.
Oh great. This helps. So the difference between a PCIe 5.0 Power Supply and an older power supply (Seasonic Prime TX-1000) is that rather than use a dedicated 12VHPWR port on the power supply I'd have to use three PCIe ports on the power supply.
Oh great. This helps. So the difference between a PCIe 5.0 Power Supply and an older power supply (Seasonic Prime TX-1000) is that rather than use a dedicated 12VHPWR port on the power supply I'd have to use three PCIe ports on the power supply.
Yep, that's really the main change between the two generation of PSUs and a great quality PSU like the Seasonic Prime is more than capable of powering new GPUs.
Reviews are out and the 5090 seems to boil down to 30% more performance from 30% more hardware and 30% more power for 30% more $$.
Which is fine I guess, though it feels like that's been the story for a number of generations now... no real qualitative improvement in the hardware capability, just adding more of it to improve things and any other improvements are around the edges with upscaling and frame generation.
For me I'm now leaning towards skipping it.. it's not the "4K 120fps for everything" card I would want.
For the games where I'm well below 100fps (or even below 60fps) at 4K even with RT on and DLSS this isn't going to really move the bar. I'm still going to be turning off RT or dabbling in frame generation to make the game smooth.
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Yeah it's going to be fun spending the next week or so trying to secure one. Jazzed I don't need to change my PSU/connector at least.
My wife stopped playing games in the last couple years so I guess I'll be putting the 4090 up for re-sale at some point unless I upgrade her PSU.
As is often the case, this will bloat the market. Originally I thought I was going to drop the cash right away for the 5090, the more details that come out the more I just feel like I am good skipping this generation....until I get FOMO
I'll also be looking at securing one on Thursday. From some of the comments from Reddit, there may be very limited stock for Canada. It's hard to tell what's true and what's made-up with availability but it seems like all regions are reporting very small quantiles. Every region except the US - land of 9800X3Ds and 5090s I guess.
Reddit rumors claiming that prices could go to $4000 CDN depending on model?
That's just under half of the cost of my complete setup.....
In other news, the AMD RDNA 4 demo at CES was very impressive. When I help my buddy build his first gaming rig for 1440p FPS focused gaming, the RX 9070 XT will be my recommendation this year.
After watching some reviews it seems like the MSI Suprim might be a good, albeit expensive, alternative if the FEs are not available.
Memory Express is still not sure what's coming in and when. I spoke to them and they said when they know more they'll contact the people on their list and those people can opt in/out for purchase. They weren't able to tell me where I was on the list or confirm that I'm on the list so it may get a touch dicey as we get closed to Thursday.
NewEgg has started to list 5090s on their website. No price of course and only the Asus cards.
