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

[Personality+]

Thanks. Its so much money to spend on a graphics cadd but once I sell the 4090 it will be a £700-£800 upgrade (still crazy)

I am a little concerned about the power connecter though. I upgraded my power supply to a Thermaltake 1200w atx 3.0 one and have used the single power cable with it and have had no issues with the 4090. I should still be ok right

Should be all good

 

[Personality+]

Some B-Grade 5090's just dropped on OCUK for anyone who may be interested.

 

[deviation]

Some B-Grade 5090's just dropped on OCUK for anyone who may be interested.

B grade only offers 6 months warranty - that's a hard pass for a budget brand's model, that's still a wink under 2 grand.

 

[Personality+]

B grade only offers 6 months warranty - that's a hard pass for a budget brand's model, that's still a wink under 2 grand.

With OCUK, should be fine for registering directly with manufacturer - if serial number not registered already. Done it a couple of times in the past and had no issues.

Otherwise in full agreement.

 

[deviation]

With OCUK, should be fine for registering directly with manufacturer - if serial number not registered already. Done it a couple of times in the past and had no issues.

Otherwise in full agreement.

Do you mean, you'd still get the original warranty length if registered via the manufacturer directly, versus OCUK?
If so, that's something I'm not a fan of, I prefer not to deal with all the long winded back and forth ball ache of all that I'd rather just go back to the supplier in the UK and cry to them if it breaks

 

[Personality+]

Do you mean, you'd still get the original warranty length if registered via the manufacturer directly, versus OCUK?
If so, that's something I'm not a fan of, I prefer not to deal with all the long winded back and forth ball ache of all that I'd rather just go back to the supplier in the UK and cry to them if it breaks

Yeah that's what I meant, but fair enough.

 

[deviation]

Yeah that's what I meant, but fair enough.

I've heard too many horror stories in the past, where someone waits forever for a reply in broken English, then is instructed to send it to **** knows where, that they've never heard of, then they either hear nothing after that, or the place they've sent it to, refuses the RMA/return/replacement, and doesn't send it back or tries to nail them on the cost of returning it, of which then the buyer gets conned the additional import tax/duty etc.
I couldn't be dealing with that kind of risk for a 2 grand fire hazard.

 

[Andy Pandy]

Well I took the advice from Personality+ and Dicehunter and I bought the Windforce 5090. I did expect to see bigger gains though, maybe I expected too much of an upgrade. There is a bit of noticeable coil whine from the card too, which I didnt notice from the 4090FE

I have only briefly tested the card in a few games at 4k max settings. I need to tinker more later. I also need to figure out how to undervolt the card

I downloaded the 3dmark demo and got a 14377 score on Steel Nomad, does this sound about right?

 

[Personality+]

Well I took the advice from Personality+ and Dicehunter and I bought the Windforce 5090. I did expect to see bigger gains though, maybe I expected too much of an upgrade. There is a bit of noticeable coil whine from the card too, which I didnt notice from the 4090FE

I have only briefly tested the card in a few games at 4k max settings. I need to tinker more later. I also need to figure out how to undervolt the card

coil whine can go down after some usage in some cases

I get it as well, (high refresh rate 1440p or high fps 4K)

As long as it's not annoyingly loud? hopefully it softens over time and definitely will reduce if you undervolt the gpu.

For the price you were getting it at, should work out as a decent upgrade I'd hope, even if it didn't meet your expectations.

I guess I'm kinda the same when thinking of it's performance without DLSS/MFG involved, lots of games will struggle to max out your monitors refresh rate natively.

If you mostly play single player games, definitely make use of MFG with DLAA/DLSS Quality (for the better optimised games that use it)

A whole bunch of games have come out this year, where if you max it out natively even the 5090 is only getting 50-90fps.... F125 + Borderlands 4 + Expedition 33 at launch come to mind for me.

 

[Andy Pandy]

I have a 240hz 4k monitor and I was thinking I’d be approaching that number in Battlefield with dlss quality but I’m far off it haha. Dlss performance isn’t too far off though. What do you generally use in games? I’ve always gone for quality but is performance good to use too?

In my head I just think a 5090 should be max settings max everything lol.

Borderlands 4 with 3x frame gen and maxed settings I was getting great fps. The coil whine isn’t too bad I guess, hopefully it will go down over time though. I had a feel of the power connections when gaming and yes they are hot but not so hot I can’t touch them, so hopefully they won’t melt lol.

I think for the price I paid I am happy with the card and upgrade. Next on the list is a 9800x3d. I’ve got the upgrade bug again!

 

[Personality+]

I have a 240hz 4k monitor and I was thinking I’d be approaching that number in Battlefield with dlss quality but I’m far off it haha. Dlss performance isn’t too far off though. What do you generally use in games? I’ve always gone for quality but is performance good to use too?

In my head I just think a 5090 should be max settings max everything lol.

Borderlands 4 with 3x frame gen and maxed settings I was getting great fps. The coil whine isn’t too bad I guess, hopefully it will go down over time though. I had a feel of the power connections when gaming and yes they are hot but not so hot I can’t touch them, so hopefully they won’t melt lol.

I think for the price I paid I am happy with the card and upgrade. Next on the list is a 9800x3d. I’ve got the upgrade bug again!

Check out Digital foundry optimised settings perhaps, if you want to get closer to hit that 4K 240Hz - I hear you though for the price you pay - you'd like to think we'd be hitting that with all the bells and whistles, but a lot of these games are quite taxing with the ray tracing etc, you will need to make use of MFGX2 on Battlefield 6 to hit that 240Hz maxed out, without lowering settings. But if you do some small gains to be made with each setting change.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

I have a 240hz 4k monitor and I was thinking I’d be approaching that number in Battlefield with dlss quality but I’m far off it haha. Dlss performance isn’t too far off though. What do you generally use in games? I’ve always gone for quality but is performance good to use too?

In my head I just think a 5090 should be max settings max everything lol.

Borderlands 4 with 3x frame gen and maxed settings I was getting great fps. The coil whine isn’t too bad I guess, hopefully it will go down over time though. I had a feel of the power connections when gaming and yes they are hot but not so hot I can’t touch them, so hopefully they won’t melt lol.

I think for the price I paid I am happy with the card and upgrade. Next on the list is a 9800x3d. I’ve got the upgrade bug again!

Plenty of games struggle to even reach 120 at 4k without frame gen. I often use quality setting for a boost. I thought the same about the 5090, I’m sure we’ll be relying more on frame gen as we get closer to the 6090.

 

[deviation]

Plenty of games struggle to even reach 120 at 4k without frame gen. I often use quality setting for a boost. I thought the same about the 5090, I’m sure we’ll be relying more on frame gen as we get closer to the 6090.

You should have got a PS5, it does 8K and 4K 120

Spoiler

Like **** it does!

 

[heatonpkmassive]

I’ve always gone for quality but is performance good to use too?

Usually balanced is the lowest I'd go but I believe that performance also looks very acceptable with the transformer model of DLSS.

 

[Andy Pandy]

I’ve changed the Dlss preset option to latest inside the nvidia app, is this all I need to do to make sure games use the best version of Dlss then? You dont need to use Dlss swapper any more?

I was playing bf6 on Dlss performance and it looks pretty amazing and I was getting over 200 fps at times so I think I am quite happy with the 5090 now.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

I’ve changed the Dlss preset option to latest inside the nvidia app, is this all I need to do to make sure games use the best version of Dlss then? You dont need to use Dlss swapper any more?

I was playing bf6 on Dlss performance and it looks pretty amazing and I was getting over 200 fps at times so I think I am quite happy with the 5090 now.

Pretty sure the default DLSS preset on the app is K, which is the one you want.

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

I have a 240hz 4k monitor and I was thinking I’d be approaching that number in Battlefield with dlss quality but I’m far off it haha. Dlss performance isn’t too far off though. What do you generally use in games? I’ve always gone for quality but is performance good to use too?

In my head I just think a 5090 should be max settings max everything lol.

I have a 4k 240khz monitor and reach between 200-225 on BF6. DLSS balanced, with a mix of med-high settings (textures and other texture related settings on overkill). I will happily lower down to DLSS balanced or performance to increase my frame rates in a first person game.

I'm now waiting for a 10800X3D so I can push more frames when CPU bottlenecked

 

[T1Cybernetic]

coil whine can go down after some usage in some cases

I get it as well, (high refresh rate 1440p or high fps 4K)

As long as it's not annoyingly loud? hopefully it softens over time and definitely will reduce if you undervolt the gpu.

For the price you were getting it at, should work out as a decent upgrade I'd hope, even if it didn't meet your expectations.

I guess I'm kinda the same when thinking of it's performance without DLSS/MFG involved, lots of games will struggle to max out your monitors refresh rate natively.

If you mostly play single player games, definitely make use of MFG with DLAA/DLSS Quality (for the better optimised games that use it)

A whole bunch of games have come out this year, where if you max it out natively even the 5090 is only getting 50-90fps.... F125 + Borderlands 4 + Expedition 33 at launch come to mind for me.

Coil whine is not something I've ever experienced or even know much about with any component, thankfully. Is it anything to worry about, or just an annoyance?

 

[Personality+]

Coil whine is not something I've ever experienced or even know much about with any component, thankfully. Is it anything to worry about, or just an annoyance?

An annoyance if you're sensitive to high pitched sound frequencies it emits, even if you're not it being there is an annoyance, when a system could otherwise be totally silent as an example.

Luckily I usually wear headphones so not too annoying for me, also had it with my previous PSU.

 

[Personality+]

5090 FE in stock