NVIDIA 4090 $1599 Oct 12 4080 16gb $1199 4080 12gb (basically 4070ti) $899 Nov - stay warm this winter

[Valver]

17 minutes ago, JoeK said:

 

I know she clearly wasn't one, but all I ever think of when I read that name is a 70s porn star

 

😆  Debbie does maths

[Wiper]

Ordered one of those hot new graphics cards everyone's talking about, din't I!

 

 

*awaits deluge of Team America vomit gifs*

[JoeK]

To be fair, it’s the nicest looking gpu on the market! 

[Wiper]

I'm mostly just curious to play with the AV1 encoder (for the zero videos I make these days...), and to "enjoy" having an immature graphics card for the first time in a few decades. Hoping it's just as much "fun" as it was trying to get the ATI All In Wonder Pro to play nice back in the day

 

(also, yes, its understated design has beguiled me a little)

[SMD]

36 minutes ago, Wiper said:

I'm mostly just curious to play with the AV1 encoder (for the zero videos I make these days...), and to "enjoy" having an immature graphics card for the first time in a few decades. Hoping it's just as much "fun" as it was trying to get the ATI All In Wonder Pro to play nice back in the day

 

(also, yes, its understated design has beguiled me a little)

 

wow i hope you don't like playing old pc games

[Len]

44 minutes ago, Wiper said:

Ordered one of those hot new graphics cards everyone's talking about, din't I!

 

 

*awaits deluge of Team America vomit gifs*

 

Very intrigued what you make of this. Do let us know.

[Wiper]

6 minutes ago, SMD said:

 

wow i hope you don't like playing old pc games

 

I spent the better part of the year using an HD 5770, it'll be fun to compare it to that experience!

 

(I'm also intrigued to see how it compares to the GTX 1660 I'm currently using. It should outperform it comfortably on anything relatively modern, but it'll be interesting to find out just how much buggier it is the further we go back)

[SMD]

3 minutes ago, Wiper said:

 

I spent the better part of the year using an HD 5770, it'll be fun to compare it to that experience!

 

(I'm also intrigued to see how it compares to the GTX 1660 I'm currently using. It should outperform it comfortably on anything relatively modern, but it'll be interesting to find out just how much buggier it is the further we go back)

 

jokes aside, I'm deadly curious because a new competitor is desperately needed but all the benchmarks have...not been good. good luck!

[SMD]

also lmao

 

 

 

[JoeK]

Clearly the right decision. God knows who thought it would have been a good idea in the first place.

[amc]

I have a fat fund for a whole new system, could be a tit and even pay gouge prices from the shysters on Ebay or whatever. But, I'm holding fast for the new year. The machine I have now was the hot shit a few years back and I know how nice it is to have an easy glide in the settings (well, at the time, a lot of the time) so I want something to make me feel all glowey in front of my telly for the next few years.

 

I am 110% going to build a fantastic machine, soon. DDR, Nvme, I9, with all the latest numbers after them. My machine has served me well but I'm down for more. 90TI etc.

 

Just gonna let the dust settle.

 

 

Just ignore the last bit of that roach strip. Always gave me a tingle that bit of marketing. 

[Siri]

1 hour ago, SMD said:

 

wow i hope you don't like playing old pc games

 

I am very curious if a remedy to playing old games on these newer Intel GPU is to use a compatibility layer with them - I think the Windows version of DXVK (one of the components that makes up modern WINE and Proton on Linux) can be just dumped into them via a DLL file swap. As a result, it'll pump games through Vulkan that would be more agnostic towards these cards.

 

It's proven a big benefit to make the windows version of GTAIV not be complete bobbins, even on the Deck, so there's promise.

[JoeK]

Well, it arrived rather quicker than I thought it was going to...

 

 

Pity I'm working all weekend, but there we go.

[amc]

Very nice lad, very nice. There sure is some power with these latest cards. Happy days for the upcoming engines and juicy patches. You'll be flyin' along nice for a good while.

 

See you soon*

 

 

*Just with a TI at the end, you know it's coming.😉

[Len]

1 hour ago, JoeK said:

Well, it arrived rather quicker than I thought it was going to...

 

 

Pity I'm working all weekend, but there we go.

 

Beautiful. 

 

Just an fyi, Nvidia are still sending out the geforce invites so soon, hopefully soon, for us all. 

[JoeK]

Tell you fucking what though - all the reviewers were talking about the size of the card. That's not the problem. If you haven't got (and most of us won't have, including me) one of those new fancy PSUs, then forget about anything remotely akin to nice cable management. It was a bit of nightmare getting the cables through to where they needed to go, and looks absolutely hideous.

 

Thankfully, my PC sits under the desk and pretends to blend in anonymously.

 

It was all worth it to run a benchmark in CP2077 and get an average FPS of 101 with everything set to max though.

 

Also - fans noticeable quieter than my 3080ti. Clearly this card ain't breaking out much of a sweat.

[mushashi]

On 14/10/2022 at 15:07, Angles Morts said:

Why did they call the architecture "Ada Lovelace"? It wasn't "Alan Turing" or "André-Marie Ampère" was it? Was just "Lovelace" too sexy for Jensen?

 

Probably exactly because of the post below yours

 

I'm sure Ada wouldn't enjoy sharing a surname whose most famous use is for a stage name for a pornographic actress from America, not exactly a problem for any other notable scientist or computer pioneer to my knowledge.

 

The chip shortform is AD rather than GL or LO anyway, but as all their current codenames are based on the surname, they had to use both to avoid any stupid jokes.

[Wiper]

The Arc arrived!

 

 

It's a tad longer than the mini GTX 1660 it's replacing:

 

I prepared for it in advance, with my BIOS updated to support resizable BAR (hurrah for my three year old X570 and 3700X combo being just modern enough to support it), and setting DDU to get to work a few minutes before the card arrived. Installing it was pleasantly painless (no issues with it e.g. failing to output video to my screen, making it significanly easier than both the RTX 2080 Ti and the GTX 1660 I previously installed, both of which needed me to hook the PC up to an ancient HDMI-only monitor and install up to date drivers before they'd deign to output to my ultrawide via either HDMI or Displayport; in this, I've actually had the opposite experience to a few of the reviewers I've seen of the Arc cards), and I've now got the up to date drivers and software installed and it seems to be running happily.

 

Three observations to make so far:

 

1. As I've seen mentioned elsewhere, the card has yer standard 'fans stop at idle' behaviour... until you install the non-generic drivers, at which point they constantly spin (albeit silently). Hopefully this is a short-term bug, because there's no reason to add that wear and tear to the fans.

2. As also mentioned elsewhere, the overlay software is obnoxious (particularly on e.g. an ultrawide screen). It takes up a fixed visual space on the screen, can't be moved, and prevents interaction with anything else while it's open; it should either be a window, or a permeable overlay, not something which takes the worst of both worlds. Fortunately, I don't see myself spending much time in here.

3. Having gotten everything ready to install the card as soon as it arrived, I was looking forward to testing it on Total Warhammer III — a DX11 game which hovers in the low 30s on my 1660. Alas, I can't actually give any results of that test just now, because... I forgot I'd uninstalled it to make space on the drive to backup a friend's data for them while they were between machines I'll post an update once the 110gb download is done. I can confirm that the card runs Return to Monkey Island perfectly, which I'm sure will come as a shock to everyone (though I do note that some small visual glitches that were present when playing on the 1660 are missing here, so that's nice)

[Uzi]

 

Do you think Jensen will read this and send me an invite for him to rip me off?

[JoeK]

50 minutes ago, Uzi said:

 

 

Do you think Jensen will read this and send me an invite for him to rip me off?

 

I do hope so, and hope he doesn't just send you some sort of 1060 card just out of spite

 

I'll say this now - when you do get one, make sure the first game you play is CP2077. 

 

Honestly, it's fucking transformative the level of fidelity you have with it. It's eye-wateringly pretty with everything turned on, and HDR aswell. It's obviously a wonderful looking game anyway, but I catch myself just looking at things completely differently now. It's bizarre, and wondrous.

 

The card will be worth the wait - and, as I said before: the card is not breaking a sweat with it. Bonkers power, and just a fucking brilliant design for the cooling.

 

 

[Gabe]

2 hours ago, Uzi said:

 

Do you think Jensen will read this and send me an invite for him to rip me off?

Damn, I almost want to give you my invite, as I'm not likely to use it...

 

Spoiler

I don't really have one, I'm so sorry...

 

[JoeK]

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-4090-gaming-oc-24gb-gddr6x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1fc-gi.html

 

£2189 mind...the psychological factor of going over the £2k is clearly putting people off

[Lying Cat]

1 minute ago, JoeK said:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-4090-gaming-oc-24gb-gddr6x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1fc-gi.html

 

£2189 mind...the psychological factor of going over the £2k is clearly putting people off

 

*Doubt noises regarding Overclockers actual stock levels*.

[Vulgar Monkey]

Re cable management, I did see the other day that some companies are already selling third-party cables with what look like right-angle connectors, which may help.

 

Also, being reported today that a handful of these cards can crack passwords. Who needs to mine crypto when you can just steal someone elses?

[JoeK]

42 minutes ago, Vulgar Monkey said:

Re cable management, I did see the other day that some companies are already selling third-party cables with what look light right-angle connectors, which may help.

 

Also, being reported today that a handful of these cards can crack passwords. Who needs to mine crypto when you can just steal someone elses?

 

Well, I ordered some thinner cables for the thing (my previous ones were dual-ended, and they were terrible bastards), so as it stands this is what I've got at the moment. 

 

Just need to do a bit of a dust bust to the thing (it's a dust magnet...and I've run out of compressed air), but I'm happy enough...I think.

 

 

As you can tell, I'm not one for RGB...

[mr_woo]

Well jealous of everyone able to afford an RTX 4090, i'll just have to sit here with my RTX 3060 and turn settings down 

[Uzi]

Bought a FE today!!!! Refreshed nvidia at 2pm and it showed in stock 

[JoeK]

18 minutes ago, Uzi said:

Bought a FE today!!!! Refreshed nvidia at 2pm and it showed in stock 

 

Yay! I won't be alone for much longer . 

 

Make sure you indulge in the unboxing process, because it's really nice on the FE one

 

[Uzi]

1 minute ago, JoeK said:

 

Yay! I won't be alone for much longer . 

 

Make sure you indulge in the unboxing process, because it's really nice on the FE one

 

Got some maintenance work to do on the PC before it gets here  Replace the 750watt PSU with the 1000 I bought a lil while ago and figure out the mess of cabling 4 x PCI gpu connectors! But I can't wait. S95B and Cyberpunk 4090 driven weekend incoming!!!

[JoeK]

Just now, Uzi said:

Got some maintenance work to do on the PC before it gets here  Replace the 750watt PSU with the 1000 I bought a lil while ago and figure out the mess of cabling 4 x PCI gpu connectors! But I can't wait. S95B and Cyberpunk 4090 driven weekend incoming!!!

 

What I have found out is that DLSS 3 and Overdrive raytracing isn't there yet for Cyberpunk, which was a bit of a surprise! Apparently it's coming later? I dunno - it looks amazing nonetheless, but I'm keen to see how it performs with the extra stuff going on!