NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

heatonpkmassive · 26 Dec 2025 at 17:17

~>Dg<~ said:
this year we also have all the new super varients for the 5 series cards coming out.

I wouldn't hold your breath..

cyclonus10 · 26 Dec 2025 at 17:23

heatonpkmassive said:
I wouldn't hold your breath..

Where only the founders cards have vRAM

Skynet5 · 26 Dec 2025 at 18:10

Things change I've changed said:
Well as an owner of an OG RTX 3080 10gb running @ 3440x1440 I can also confirm that all the fuss over the ram was definitely unwarranted, for £649 it's become the best value card I've ever owned.

Still rocking mine. I think you’re right.

I’ve had a good 4 and a bit years out of this almost. I won’t be selling, and will use for my sim rig. Still runs everything I want. My lad has found its limits in some games with mods apparently, but he ain’t bothered, just dialled it back.

Ev0 · 26 Dec 2025 at 23:19

How stupid am I for possibly going for a Zotac 5060Ti 16Gb that’s on offer here for £380?

Currently rocking a 1080 GTX, I’ll wait until you’ve stopped laughing….

I game at 1080/60Hz at the moment (again will wait for the laughter to stop, although am looking to up this soon to a 1440 unit with decent refresh rate), and keeping with my budget upgrade theme my general system will also get a minor update from a 7700k to say a 5800X (one more belly laugh for you all), to reuse my ddr4.

I was planning a ‘bigger’ upgrade of things but with prices on things going silly, and given my usage this seems like a relatively practical upgrade to tide me over a bit longer.

Better performance than current and keep me going for a few more years, or stupid stupid idea?

~>Dg<~ · 26 Dec 2025 at 23:44

Ev0 said:
How stupid am I for possibly going for a Zotac 5060Ti 16Gb that’s on offer here for £380?

Currently rocking a 1080 GTX, I’ll wait until you’ve stopped laughing….

I game at 1080/60Hz at the moment (again will wait for the laughter to stop, although am looking to up this soon to a 1440 unit with decent refresh rate), and keeping with my budget upgrade theme my general system will also get a minor update from a 7700k to say a 5800X (one more belly laugh for you all), to reuse my ddr4.

I was planning a ‘bigger’ upgrade of things but with prices on things going silly, and given my usage this seems like a relatively practical upgrade to tide me over a bit longer.

Better performance than

i get how you feel i was just about to buy a 5070 during black friday. the asus was 420 now its 500. so gonna see how january sales go. thing is they making out there is this that shortages abosolute bs. they had a rebate on 5 series cards couple weeks ago then shut down fabrication. you wouldnt shut down fabrication if you were running low on gpus or do rebates. just trying it on. also doing this in the worst sales period of the year ? crazy. everyones not rushing out buying in january unless its a bargin. not a rip off price.

if you can id hold off for a few weeks see if they do some sales. the 5060ti isnt going up or a lot of the models arent they going down.

Vimes · 27 Dec 2025 at 16:47

This is "probably" a fried one.....

5090 seems to bite the dust.....

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power wire reportedly caught fire despite using the original cable — CPU cooler's tubing was also caught in the blaze

User error or design error, pick your fighter.

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I spied two sticks of Gskill memory in the first photo, hopefully they have survived, the most expensive part of that build.

heatonpkmassive · 27 Dec 2025 at 17:45

Vimes said:
the most expensive part of that build

Ev0 · 27 Dec 2025 at 17:53

~>Dg<~ said:
i get how you feel i was just about to buy a 5070 during black friday. the asus was 420 now its 500. so gonna see how january sales go. thing is they making out there is this that shortages abosolute bs. they had a rebate on 5 series cards couple weeks ago then shut down fabrication. you wouldnt shut down fabrication if you were running low on gpus or do rebates. just trying it on. also doing this in the worst sales period of the year ? crazy. everyones not rushing out buying in january unless its a bargin. not a rip off price.

if you can id hold off for a few weeks see if they do some sales. the 5060ti isnt going up or a lot of the models arent they going down.

Yeah probably will wait, as I’m sure a lot of people are in kicking myself I didn’t just buy all the bits I was originally going to get a few more the ago

~>Dg<~ · 27 Dec 2025 at 18:14

Ev0 said:
Yeah probably will wait, as I’m sure a lot of people are in kicking myself I didn’t just buy all the bits I was originally going to get a few more the ago

i test lots of games so i know basically what i need so im too bothered yet. but yeah once some of the new games come out its going to be a big leap up performance wise. as long as im sorted before then im fine. i aint feeding the nvidia greed train

LostCorpse · 27 Dec 2025 at 18:38

thats probably repairable if its only the connector thats fried, assuming you have skills at electrcal component repair.

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psu 1200
and a replacement gpu it seems

Purgatory · 27 Dec 2025 at 22:59

Vimes said:
This is "probably" a fried one.....

5090 seems to bite the dust.....

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 power wire reportedly caught fire despite using the original cable — CPU cooler's tubing was also caught in the blaze

User error or design error, pick your fighter.

www.tomshardware.com

original Reddit post....

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I spied two sticks of Gskill memory in the first photo, hopefully they have survived, the most expensive part of that build.

There has been a few more connectors melting and burning even before this one, but they never mentioned them because they didn't look as bad but still died in the end and caused almost a fire.

These connectors need to go now. I won't be buying a card that has one in any form.

Dicehunter · 28 Dec 2025 at 21:13

Purgatory said:
There has been a few more connectors melting and burning even before this one, but they never mentioned them because they didn't look as bad but still died in the end and caused almost a fire.

These connectors need to go now. I won't be buying a card that has one in any form.

The cards could easily use 3 x 8 pins at 150 watts each and 75 watts from the PCI-e slot, That's a total of 525 watts safely spread out and delivered over 4 connections instead of 600, Which is just a silly number, Over the crappest wire man has ever invented.

Gerard · 28 Dec 2025 at 22:49

Dicehunter said:
The cards could easily use 3 x 8 pins at 150 watts each and 75 watts from the PCI-e slot, That's a total of 525 watts safely spread out and delivered over 4 connections instead of 600, Which is just a silly number, Over the crappest wire man has ever invented.

Makes you wonder why some partner cards don't use regular connectors. Nvidia must have some say in whether they can or not or there would be a few by now.

Dicehunter · 28 Dec 2025 at 22:58

Gerard said:
Makes you wonder why some partner cards don't use regular connectors. Nvidia must have some say in whether they can or not or there would be a few by now.

AFAIK Nvidia dictates the power connector has to be used which is all kinds of sucky.

Vito · 28 Dec 2025 at 23:05

The Gigabyte 5090 can take an additional 12V-2x6 connector towards the rear. A few have successfully modified their cards and checked they work. Not 50/50 split but seeing about 60/40 which still helps keep it cool. So technically not that difficult, so why didn't Nvidia allow partners to do it officially?
...that would be recognising the issue I suppose.

Dicehunter · 28 Dec 2025 at 23:15

Vito said:
The Gigabyte 5090 can take an additional 12V-2x6 connector towards the rear. A few have successfully modified their cards and checked they work. Not 50/50 split but seeing about 60/40 which still helps keep it cool. So technically not that difficult, so why didn't Nvidia allow partners to do it officially?
...that would be recognising the issue I suppose.

Like all big companies, Nvidia aren't good at admitting they messed up, They would rather blame the customer.

scubes · 29 Dec 2025 at 18:15

do they honor your warrenty when this happends?

Kaapstad · 29 Dec 2025 at 19:24

I am surprised Nvidia have not been facing a Class action for the connector problems and possible fire hazards.

If this was a vehicle fault I suspect it would be a different story.

Livewire88 · 29 Dec 2025 at 19:24

Ive resorted to lowering the max power level to 90%. Only doing so on the higher demanding games that hit 600w.

To be honest, I dont even notice the drop in performance with the 90% cap!

Absolutely Clueless · 30 Dec 2025 at 00:25

Livewire88 said:
Ive resorted to lowering the max power level to 90%. Only doing so on the higher demanding games that hit 600w.

To be honest, I dont even notice the drop in performance with the 90% cap!

Have you tried undervolting? It is much more effective with the 5090 than powerlimiting was with the 4090. It is incredibly easy to set up in MSI Afterburner. Takes a few minutes.