NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

[Rogueywon]

Well, for some fun, 4 months later, how did everyone's original plan for a 5090 work out?

Tidying my Desktop tonight and found a word doc the 'master plan' of choices for the 31st July launch, oh how that worked out. Choices (as if) plus prices I must have got from somewhere, maybe speculative tbf and for more some 'fun':

Asus Tuf (non oc) : £2500/€2985/$3112
Oc Tuf. : £2580/€3081/$3211
Asus Astral oc. : £2700/€3224/$3360
Asus Astral LC. : £2880/€3439/$3584
Msi Suprim soc. : £2600/€3105/$3236

My planned 1st choice was a budget of £2,500 for Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce 32GB (wasn't even available at launch as it turned out) and the backup was the Asus TUF plus a block for under £2,500.

Of course, never went to plan, but I'm now settled with a quiet Waterforce, for £100 over my original budget, which I think worked out well in the end?

A mixed bag for me. My original plan was to get an FE if possible and a Palit Gamerock or Inno3D X3 if not. Why the Palit? The price is usually close to the FE and I've had decent experience with Palits in the past. Plus, of course, their availability around launch tends to be good. Inno3D is because the 4090 I got from them was a genuinely excellent card.

I obviously missed an FE and, for the first time since i started buying launch-day with the 1080Ti, I didn't get a launch day card. Inno3D were completely no-show to begin with, but I did get a pre-order for a Gamerock at £2150 from the barcode place, starting at position 37.

By mid-March, I was still at position 21 in the queue and there were no signs of significant movement. A friend ended up with two 5090s - got a Gamerock for £2400 from the cubic place the day before the barcode place shipped his Astral. I bought the Gamerock off him (unopened) at cost. £2400 was obviously more than I'd wanted to pay, but by that point I just needed to get out of stock-checker hell.

 

[BubbySoup]

Definitely get an HDR OLED. It's a game changer, a proper graphics upgrade.

Yeah I agree with this 100%.

GPU's are nice and getting the latest and greatest for that boost in frames or settings is satisfying, but nothing will make you go wow like turning on an OLED for the first time and seeing those colours just pop!

 

[Rawr]

Well, for some fun, 4 months later, how did everyone's original plan for a 5090 work out?

Tidying my Desktop tonight and found a word doc the 'master plan' of choices for the 31st July launch, oh how that worked out. Choices (as if) plus prices I must have got from somewhere, maybe speculative tbf and for more some 'fun':

Asus Tuf (non oc) : £2500/€2985/$3112
Oc Tuf. : £2580/€3081/$3211
Asus Astral oc. : £2700/€3224/$3360
Asus Astral LC. : £2880/€3439/$3584
Msi Suprim soc. : £2600/€3105/$3236

My planned 1st choice was a budget of £2,500 for Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce 32GB (wasn't even available at launch as it turned out) and the backup was the Asus TUF plus a block for under £2,500.

Of course, never went to plan, but I'm now settled with a quiet Waterforce, for £100 over my original budget, which I think worked out well in the end?

My plan was always to either get a FE or a cheap AIB, and that's how it ended up. I missed out on the FE drop on launch due to how rubbish the site was(plus I didn't know people were bypassing the site and using the api), and honestly I got a bit of cold feet getting one anyway due to having less airflow in my case with a air cooled cpu. The Zotac has been solid, my only complaint is the fan starting at 1300rpm when it switches on, otherwise it's a great card. I guess I paid a bit over for my card considering its £2000 now, but I got a good 2 and a half months of usage out of it up until now, so it is what it is. At the time stock was looking real dodgy so couldn't have known it was going to be this plentiful by now.

 

[Gibbo]

Last chance buy guys at this price as stock has sold very fast and future shipments looking slim for rest of month so grab one while you can. Price will go up in next 24hrs on the £1879 5090

 

[Sc00p007]

This sums up watercooling. Always takes longer than you expect. I am also using epdm and the EK quantum fittings are so random whether they do up all the way first time. I spent ages on one tube on the weekend. The Palit card is great though. Barely any coil whine. Undervolted to 2925mhz at 0.925v, so far stable. All the pesky ROPs. Good luck for the final stages!

All set up now (ill do cable management at the weekend, looking at it now is stressful ). Still figuring out how to setup the loop temp curves etc. Not tested anything except a 5 min coil whine test, which was the most important (as it can make my WC for quiet redundant), pleased to hear no coil wine even on my open test bench.

 

[0121danwilliams84]

All set up now (ill do cable management at the weekend, looking at it now is stressful ). Still figuring out how to setup the loop temp curves etc. Not tested anything except a 5 min coil whine test, which was the most important (as it can make my WC for quiet redundant), pleased to hear no coil wine even on my open test bench.

Great work! I use fan control and have the fans react to the GPU temp. Cool whine is a big one for me. Glad I have hardly any too.

 

[V5ilver]

Usually best to set fan speed to vary with coolant temp imho

 

[0121danwilliams84]

Usually best to set fan speed to vary with coolant temp imho

Yeah that is a good option. I wanted fans to react a bit sooner under load as the loop takes a while to heat up. Water temp is sensible too.

 

[Rusty0611]

Well, for some fun, 4 months later, how did everyone's original plan for a 5090 work out?

Tidying my Desktop tonight and found a word doc the 'master plan' of choices for the 31st July launch, oh how that worked out. Choices (as if) plus prices I must have got from somewhere, maybe speculative tbf and for more some 'fun':

Asus Tuf (non oc) : £2500/€2985/$3112
Oc Tuf. : £2580/€3081/$3211
Asus Astral oc. : £2700/€3224/$3360
Asus Astral LC. : £2880/€3439/$3584
Msi Suprim soc. : £2600/€3105/$3236

My planned 1st choice was a budget of £2,500 for Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce 32GB (wasn't even available at launch as it turned out) and the backup was the Asus TUF plus a block for under £2,500.

Of course, never went to plan, but I'm now settled with a quiet Waterforce, for £100 over my original budget, which I think worked out well in the end?

5090 Xtreme Waterforce might be the goat of graphics cards...

 

[ImMrChris]

I got my 5090 today OMG it absolutely kills my 4090 in VR i've never seen games look so good or such smooth framerates! I'm well chuffed even though it's like the sahara desert in my room after a few hours gaming

 

[Rusty0611]

I got my 5090 today OMG it absolutely kills my 4090 in VR i've never seen games look so good or such smooth framerates! I'm well chuffed even though it's like the sahara desert in my room after a few hours gaming

Same here mate. Imagine what it’s gonna be like in a couple of months

 

[hlennie]

Just received my palit 5090 house brick cant wait for my heatkiller to come next week cut it down to size. I dont think the rgb on it looks that bad

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

Same here mate. Imagine what it’s gonna be like in a couple of months

I will be forced to play old games that use <200w Tbh, i'm struggling already after an hour or two of gaming and my windows shut to keep the bugs out!

 

[glenimp617]

I got my 5090 today OMG it absolutely kills my 4090 in VR i've never seen games look so good or such smooth framerates! I'm well chuffed even though it's like the sahara desert in my room after a few hours gaming

Yeah, they pump out some heat don't they! I was encoding a gaming video last night and was sweating just from that

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I got my 5090 today OMG it absolutely kills my 4090 in VR i've never seen games look so good or such smooth framerates! I'm well chuffed even though it's like the sahara desert in my room after a few hours gaming

It gives my air con a good workout. I’ve never needed the air con on for every single gaming session before the 5090. That said, it’s amazing how cool the card keeps, the cooling solution is impressive. Should act as a good heater in the winter. Undervolting has helped a fair bit, about 100w less.

 

[ImMrChris]

i am absolutely sweating buckets after being in VR racing for 3 hours! at least i know my case is expelling the heat

 

[RCM]

Well, for some fun, 4 months later, how did everyone's original plan for a 5090 work out?

Tidying my Desktop tonight and found a word doc the 'master plan' of choices for the 31st July launch, oh how that worked out. Choices (as if) plus prices I must have got from somewhere, maybe speculative tbf and for more some 'fun':

Asus Tuf (non oc) : £2500/€2985/$3112
Oc Tuf. : £2580/€3081/$3211
Asus Astral oc. : £2700/€3224/$3360
Asus Astral LC. : £2880/€3439/$3584
Msi Suprim soc. : £2600/€3105/$3236

My planned 1st choice was a budget of £2,500 for Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5090 Aorus Xtreme Waterforce 32GB (wasn't even available at launch as it turned out) and the backup was the Asus TUF plus a block for under £2,500.

Of course, never went to plan, but I'm now settled with a quiet Waterforce, for £100 over my original budget, which I think worked out well in the end?

I went round the houses and originally wanted the Aorus Waterforce WB. When that never seemed to appear, I moved on to looking at the Astral LC (and briefly the Suprim LC and Waterforce) but they were never at decent enough prices as "second choices". Then I started looking at cheap cards to throw a waterblock on but never really liked the iffy warranty situations on those. Eventually circled back and ended up getting the Waterforce WB from the rainforest three weeks ago, overpaid by a few hundred but it's still way better than some places are even now trying to sell them (cough, cough).

Absolute bliss seeing the GPU rarely get out of the 30's while gaming and tops out in the low 40's with the most demanding games at 4k (+3000Mhz OC'd memory sits in the mid 40's). In the end, glad I got my original first choice card. However, like some others, I do slightly miss the chase but a few months of it was probably enough until the 60 series...

 

[Vito]

I went round the houses and originally wanted the Aorus Waterforce WB. When that never seemed to appear, I moved on to looking at the Astral LC (and briefly the Suprim LC and Waterforce) but they were never at decent enough prices as "second choices". Then I started looking at cheap cards to throw a waterblock on but never really liked the iffy warranty situations on those. Eventually circled back and ended up getting the Waterforce WB from the rainforest three weeks ago, overpaid by a few hundred but it's still way better than some places are even now trying to sell them (cough, cough).

Absolute bliss seeing the GPU rarely get out of the 30's while gaming and tops out in the low 40's with the most demanding games at 4k (+3000Mhz OC'd memory sits in the mid 40's). In the end, glad I got my original first choice card. However, like some others, I do slightly miss the chase but a few months of it was probably enough until the 60 series...

Yeah, quite a lot of folk getting the 'cheaper', cough, cards and sticking a water block on it. I considered this, but 2k plus and no warranty cover for the likes of Palit, possibly others, thought better to get the Waterforce AIO with 4 years warranty. The WB you have is getting great temps, and you have a 4 year warranty also, great choice imo.

With my fans at maximum 1000 rpm (but generally lower), I'm getting 55 ish max on core, 76 ish on memory after a few hours of gaming, at my 240 fps monitor 4k refresh rate, which is ideal as I want a quiet system. So OK for an AIO, lower temps than Astral LC, and MUCH quieter for sure.

Also, nice to see OC's prices now coming down for the 'higher' end cards. But, 'your' WB still a very hard to get item and expensive.

 

[Zigwig]

Yeah, quite a lot of folk getting the 'cheaper', cough, cards and sticking a water block on it. I considered this, but 2k plus and no warranty cover for the likes of Palit, possibly others, thought better to get the Waterforce AIO with 4 years warranty. The WB you have is getting great temps, and you have a 4 year warranty also, great choice imo.

With my fans at maximum 1000 rpm (but generally lower), I'm getting 55 ish max on core, 76 ish on memory after a few hours of gaming, at my 240 fps monitor 4k refresh rate, which is ideal as I want a quiet system. So OK for an AIO, lower temps than Astral LC, and MUCH quieter for sure.

Also, nice to see OC's prices now coming down for the 'higher' end cards. But, 'your' WB still a very hard to get item and expensive.

I'm surprised thats the temp you are getting on memory as thats what my average is throughout a heavy gaming session on the FE. Your core temps though are about 10-15c cooler.

 

[Vito]

I'm surprised thats the temp you are getting on memory as thats what my average is throughout a heavy gaming session on the FE. Your core temps though are about 10-15c cooler.

Yeah, agree, OCd and low fan speeds and hours of gaming, but was the same with Astral Air and LC, but higher fan speeds? It's rated for 95c tbf. Could turn up the fans but it's just a number, well within spec and no performance difference.
I think they concentrated on core cooling knowing this.