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alec said:
After sleeping on it, the non-XT 9070 an awesome card I would recommend to anybody, no if and buts... except one. If it was at 450 not 550.
There is definitely a price cut coming for it (after 7800XT stock runs out maybe?)
Right now its existence somehow makes the 5070 look ok.
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I agree that the nonXT would be a great card for many including me if the price was more in line with the XT. Although before the drop to £569 for the XT the difference was more reasonable and it will probably return to that once the initial stock is sold. At the moment though I have difficulty considering the non XT when the XT is only £40 more even though I think the non XT would be the better card for me.
 
humbug said:
Not true, watch the whole video.

The problem with the 12v high power connector is if short circuits or there is a bad connection the load moves to a small part of the circuit and with that it overheats to the point of melting.

What Sapphire did was split the circuit in to two, added some filters to smooth out transient spikes and 20A fuses in each of the the circuits they just created.

Ok so the fuse in its self should stop the melting, except Sapphire were smart enough to realise that simply adding a fuse in to the circuit would not work because it would have to get to around 40 Amps to trigger it, that is already too high, the cables are already smouldering before then, that is why the split the circuit in to two and then added 20 Amp fuses in to each, so if it shorts or if there is any high resistance it will trigger the fuse at 20 Amps, this is not enough to melt the cables.

That's pretty clever and Nvidia have been using this thing for 5 years, they are still melting cables now, first try Sapphire solved it.
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I watched the video as well and that's not what Buildzoid said either?

In his words, the fuses on the Sapphire card protect board components from a 'power stage failure', nothing to do with the 12 pin cable and/or connector. That's great for Sapphire when repairing the card, they can salvage more components, saving them money.

However, Buildzoid specifically says there's nothing different to NVIDIA regarding the connector and load balancing and gives the example of several pins/cables failing and all the power going through one cable. He's very critical on this and speculates that it might be part of the 12 pin spec to have no protections at all
 
It doesnt help that that so few retailers have even listed there prices yet, forcing more people to go to the very few retailers that have shown there launch prices.
 
iMacMart said:
I can’t see anything on their website? Or on the 9070 page?
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alec said:
After sleeping on it, the non-XT 9070 an awesome card I would recommend to anybody, no if and buts... except one. If it was at 450 not 550.
There is definitely a price cut coming for it (after 7800XT stock runs out maybe?)
Right now its existence somehow makes the 5070 look ok.
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I think a large part of the problem is I suspect its a die cut, rather than a die salvage part; in other words they're making it with perfectly decent 9070XT cores, the card is costing roughly the same to make, and they're chiselling a core that could be used as a full fat otherwise.
The card still performs decently, and runs quite a lot lower power; usually faulty dies tend to be leaky, so less efficient, but the 9070 is not, meaning they're likely binning some off further down the power curve, and cost to them essentially.

The 9070XT is the card they're aiming at everyone, the 9070 is for lower power/heat/size requirements.
 
ChosenName said:
Next question regarding the queueing system: if I leave a browser window open at the page of the card I wish to purchase will it need to be refreshed in any way before purchase?
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Here's a handy page that will answer maybe a few other questions that you might have...

www.overclockers.co.uk

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"there are 260 people viewing this product" (Pulse 9070XT) Yeah I think stock will be fine, I'm sure they will sell out but I imagine everyone thats here at 2pm will get one :)
If your one of those, good luck my friends.
 
Armageus said:
Is it not just a bit of a nothing burger though? Factory spec is 304w... Even if overclocked and pulling 400w, up to 75w is coming from the PCI-E slot - these cards aren't going to pull anywhere near what 5090's are.
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Sure, it's much less likely but we've already seen a 5080 melt. Why bother though? The connector is stupid.
 
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