Nearly all the 5090, but in most cases the coolers the same for the 5080.
Honestly a lot of strong options this time around, I love loads of them.
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Nearly all the 5090, but in most cases the coolers the same for the 5080.
Honestly a lot of strong options this time around, I love loads of them.
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Top ones are the FE, Asus Astral, MSI Vanguard/Suprim/Trio/Inspire and the Zotac Infinity IMO.
There's going to be some tough choices to be made. Zotac most improved visually IMO, the Flip-Flop Sandel has gone. MSI Inspire feels like an answer to Asus's Pro Art line.
There's going to be some tough choices to be made. Zotac most improved visually IMO, the Flip-Flop Sandel has gone. MSI Inspire feels like an answer to Asus's Pro Art line.
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If this trend of size carries on. We'll soon be building the rest of the PC inside the GPU 
I don't know why Gigabyte insist on that awful flashing RGB. Suprim looks more plain (worse) this year, possibly to make room for the Inspire and Vanguard.
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FE by a mile, plus putting the main PCB in the middle and having through-flow on both sides seems like a great idea. Will have to see what the noise levels are once reviews drop, but hopefully will be good!
Of the AIB designs, I have to say I quite like the Asus Prime model - very understated and clean looking (I'm not a huge fan of the 'RGB all the things' trends of the last few gens
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Of the AIB designs, I have to say I quite like the Asus Prime model - very understated and clean looking (I'm not a huge fan of the 'RGB all the things' trends of the last few gens
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Yeah I agree about the FE being the best. I just hope we can change the lighting colour this time. Also its the only card I can see with a angled 12 pin socket. It looks to me like the wire might cover the led logo?FE by a mile, plus putting the main PCB in the middle and having through-flow on both sides seems like a great idea.
Of the AIB designs, I have to say I quite like the Asus Prime model - very understated and clean looking (I'm not a huge fan of the 'RGB all the things' trends of the last few gens
When I've looked into it on some of the ones I've liked at first glance and there's some really odd decisions colour wise. On the Trio for example a big what looks permeant Pastel Dragon, on the Zotac heavy company RGB branding and on the TUF a painted yellow logo.
For me FE 1st, then Astral, then Vanguard, then Prime. I need to see more photos of the MSI Inspire to judge fairly though.
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As long as the lighting is white, I wouldn't be too put off by the lighting, but ymmv - I'm not fond of the green on my 780ti in my 'server' PC, luckily it's stuffed away in a bedside table so I don't see it much!
And yes, I think the cable will mostly obscure it if routed in a nice way.
Hadn't noticed the pastel dragon on the trio backplate. The TUF logo is pretty much the same as the 4x series design, but again not ideal.
I really like my 7900XT pulse design for the most part, but wish they'd done the graphics in white or grey, rather than having a red 'heartbeat' line across the backplate
And the inspire I assume is aimed at the 'creative' crowd (or at least the ones who you can pry their macbooks out of their greasy palms ) much like the asus pro-art series.... Seems to be a brass/gold colour (and hopefully metal construction!)
And yes, I think the cable will mostly obscure it if routed in a nice way.
Hadn't noticed the pastel dragon on the trio backplate. The TUF logo is pretty much the same as the 4x series design, but again not ideal.
I really like my 7900XT pulse design for the most part, but wish they'd done the graphics in white or grey, rather than having a red 'heartbeat' line across the backplate
And the inspire I assume is aimed at the 'creative' crowd (or at least the ones who you can pry their macbooks out of their greasy palms
) much like the asus pro-art series.... Seems to be a brass/gold colour (and hopefully metal construction!)
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cannot wait to see the galax h.o.f . anyone remember the 4090 with that screen and 2 12vhpwr cables and forgot the bios
As long as the lighting is white, I wouldn't be too put off by the lighting, but ymmv - I'm not fond of the green on my 780ti in my 'server' PC, luckily it's stuffed away in a bedside table so I don't see it much!
And yes, I think the cable will mostly obscure it if routed in a nice way.
Hadn't noticed the pastel dragon on the trio backplate. The TUF logo is pretty much the same as the 4x series design, but again not ideal.
I really like my 7900XT pulse design for the most part, but wish they'd done the graphics in white or grey, rather than having a red 'heartbeat' line across the backplate
Yeah any colours should ideally be largely neutral (though I didn't mind the red and blue on the underside of the 4090 Strix). The cable on the FE is probably to allow more clearance in small form factor builds, but it will be a touch harder to make look good maybe.
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Same for me. I wonder if it would be more cost effective (if you can call it that for a 5090) to get a FE and fit an aftermarket water block.
Yeah it's a shame the Asus cards look great, but the Asus tax just isn't worth hundreds extra.
Worth noting MSI and ASUS fans are a notch above everyone else's, pretty much silent 99% of the time.
The PCB was cut down a fair bit last gen, it was a notable downturn Gen on Gen for Palit. I wonder how this one will fair.
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Whatever happened to Kingpin going to PNY? Did nothing ever come of that?
Same, mainly because they don't look like breeze blocks. FE is the other preference for me.
Asus and Noctua have partnered up on a couple of previous generation's cards. Expensive as hell, but pretty tempting none-the-less, to those that like that sort of thing! IIRC, they didn't arrive until ages after launch though.