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Who's waiting for the 3090 and which brand are you getting?
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For me, patience is a virtue, I’ve pre ordered the Asus ROG Strix 3090 gaming OC - I don’t expect to see it for possibly months sadly but I live in hope Of that despatched email
first two weeks of November if you are one of the first to get your order in
Your metric for "one of the first" must be a huge sample of orders given that the first should be seen next week
You don't mate you just stick it with a working GPU and flash it. Use working GPU for the video out to see what you are doing and then flash. Single BIOS is not an issue with GPUS , motherboards that get totally bricked without a flashback option yes you need to get a new BIOS chip then or a EEPROM writer, it's all pretty easy and chips are available already flashed for almost every motherboard.
GPU is really simple as you see now all you need is a working gpu or the integrated on many motherboards.
All true but still less of a worry with a dual bios. Plus easy then to have two bioses to switch between like a day to day or a benchmarking bios. Just cheap of MSI skimping on one.
Yup agree always better to have the option of a dual but for me makes no difference really, I always stick them on performance and leave them like that. Also the MSI has 2 vbios available on their site and have a feeling a 3rd is on the way too, so hopefully unlocks more power for people that want that. 370w is fine by me it will stay at its silent bios for now or may stick the performance one on and forget about it. Will see when I get it but have a feeling will just stick the performance bios on and forget about messing with it. These GPUs are not giving massive overclocks anyways and ones that make a huge difference in real world use, benchmarks and fancy cooling to break records yes I get it but I don't do that.
I actually don't get why they are releasing any "budget" version of this card. Considering the price and the audience they may as well only release high end cards.
It's like releasing a Ferrari with budget seats out of a Dacia Sandero.
I would agree that if you are on air there is probably very little to be gained from having a bios that gives more than 385W overclocked than the MSi does now.,
Looking at the 3090 strix with 480W going through it, most of the extra boost was wiped out by the card hitting 80C even with the fans running at 100%. That meant the av boost only increased from 1940 to 1960 in that review. But looking at the graphs, the card was running at between 2050 and 2100 until the heat rose and then the boost kept stepping down,.
Thats why reviewers are saying there is very little point trying to overclock the 3090s as you get 1-2% more performance at best and just a load of noise and heat. They are missing the fact that what they are doing to increase the max potential boost then gets wiped out by the card stepping down 15mhz if it goes up another 5c. If you can solve the heat issue, you can gain 5-10% by overclocking and upping the wattage to close to 500W.
But lots of us enthusiasts watercool and I will be running mine below 50c in silence so I want that 2100mhz boost and that extra 5-10% performance
It is really strange as its a custom board, with increased power phases and beefed up components so they have spent lots of good money but then saved peanuts on a 2nd hdmi and dual bios.
I would have paid another £10 for the board to cover those costs.
Exactly, at the price it's being sold what is a extra few £
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