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NVIDIA 4000 Series

None of the 40 series generate too much heat or run noisy though - Very efficient cards and in general will run at lower wattage than specced out of the box when gaming anyway. My 4090 runs cooler, quieter and draws less power than the 3080 Ti FE it replaced, for example.

The mistake you made was getting an AMD card, because now your perspective is that all high end cards are noisy heat monsters that eat power.
 
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mrk said:
None of the 40 series generate too much heat or run noisy though - Very efficient cards and in general will run at lower wattage than specced out of the box when gaming anyway. My 4090 runs cooler, quieter and draws less power than the 3080 Ti FE it replaced, for example.

The mistake you made was getting an AMD card, because now your perspective is that all high end cards are noisy heat monsters that eat power.
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The 4090 seems to generate much less heat that it's TDP suggests?
 
It's because the 4090 generally runs at the TDP of a 3080 (~350W) - At least in my experience anyway having had both. Sure it will have spikes up to 450W if left stock, but in most situations it hovers in the 350W region when gaming.
 
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It's because the 4090 generally runs at the TDP of a 3080 (~350W) - At least in my experience anyway having had both. Sure it will have spikes up to 450W if left stock, but in most situations it hovers in the 350W region when gaming.
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Do you undervolt yours?
 
gjbf1 said:
Do you undervolt yours?
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No only Afterburner's power limit slider at 80%.

Here's a comparison:

FG on, PT on @ 3440x1440 @ 80% Power Limit = 356 watts:
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FG on, PT on @ 3440x1440 @ 100% Power Limit = 374 watts:
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gjbf1 said:
The 4090 seems to generate much less heat that it's TDP suggests?
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Yep it does. I went with a 360mm AIO cooled gigabyte xtreme 4090 cause I thought the air cooled cards would be too hot and loud - but nope the air cooled cards are cool and quiet and my card's cooling is overkill so the GPU generally runs at 40c-50c full load and if I'm playing a less intensive game like a multiplayer shooter or a cpu bottlenecked game then it runs even cooler. I'm currently mostly playing Diablo 4 which isn't very intensive and sometimes the GPU drops to 38c
 
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mrk said:
None of the 40 series generate too much heat or run noisy though - Very efficient cards and in general will run at lower wattage than specced out of the box when gaming anyway. My 4090 runs cooler, quieter and draws less power than the 3080 Ti FE it replaced, for example.

The mistake you made was getting an AMD card, because now your perspective is that all high end cards are noisy heat monsters that eat power.
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What's wrong with AMD cards? :p

I mean one could undervolt them also to be fair.
 
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Kelt said:
Eh?

Showing in stock (for me) AND with a £60 price drop! :eek:

They really want to ship the cards with the duff connector! :p

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And still not as cheap as the more desirable (IMO) Zotac 4090 available at OCUK, with the longer 5 year warranty.
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Out of stock message has gone for me (was there half an hour ago) but add to basket button is also removed. Strange.
 
Ive got one coming this morning, so I doubt it has new connector but I can check. Honestly second guessing myself between an FE and one of the silent partner cards...that still might have coil whine lol.
 
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