NVIDIA 4000 Series

Kelt · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:28

Hostile_18 said:
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.

Which one, an FE?

I still would have gone for a Zotac.

If it's good enough for @mrk, it'll be good enough for anyone, this is the guy who sent back eighteen (count 'em) Alienware OLED monitors until he got one that worked!

gjbf1 · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:30

Kelt said:
Which one, an FE?

I still would have gone for a Zotac.

If it's good enough for @mrk, it'll be good enough for anyone, this is the guy who sent back eighteen (count 'em) Alienware OLED monitors until he got one that worked!

Lmao! Great effort hahaha.

Hostile_18 · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:33

Zotac has very little coilwhine but very few are happy with the fans.

Honestly its really hard to get a 4090 card that has everything unfortunately.

gjbf1 · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:36

Hostile_18 said:
Zotac has very little coilwhine but very few are happy with the fans.

Honestly its really hard to get a 4090 card that has everything unfortunately.

What's wrong with the fans? Noise?

Hostile_18 · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:38

Haven't had one myself but ones that have said they have cheaped out on them. I think it's a high resonance pitch.

Author_25 · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:44

Hostile_18 said:
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.

The new connector should have, H++, stamped on it, if you are able to fully see the connector, to check.

mrk · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:50

I genuinely don't have any issue with the Zotac fan noise? And that's in standard VBIOS setting. In the quiet setting it's even quieter still lol. My card is the Trinity for reference. I keep it in the quiet fan VBIOS mode 24/7.

Also, 18 QD-OLEDs is a bit of a stretch :cry:

- I'm on my third!

JediFragger · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:55

Kelt said:
And still not as cheap as the more desirable (IMO) Zotac 4090 available at OCUK, with the longer 5 year warranty.

The Zotac cooler is great too, at least on a par with the TUF one (I've had both).

JediFragger · 14 Jul 2023 at 09:55

mrk said:
I genuinely don't have any issue with the Zotac fan noise?

Nor me, been great.

Firestar_3x · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:04

Me either Zotac 4090 OC has been a great card.

Hostile_18 · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:06

Strange if you google Zotec 4090 fan noise, it gets a lot of hits. I know one member here at least that sent it back after no joy from Zotec. Anyone running a silent PC build, are the fans silent at lower RPMs like the MSI and Asus ones? (coil whine issues aside).

mrk · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:13

Hostile_18 said:
Strange if you google Zotec 4090 fan noise, it gets a lot of hits. I know one member here at least that sent it back after no joy from Zotec. Anyone running a silent PC build, are the fans silent at lower RPMs like the MSI and Asus ones? (coil whine issues aside).

My PC is silent, for reference my monitor is louder than my PC (!!!!) -My work laptop is louder than my PC (!!!) - So with that in mind I can tell you that the fan noise is a non issue really

The spool-up idle fan speed of the Zotac in the quiet VBIOS mode is 1000-1100rpm (it goes into 0rpm mode within a minute when not gaming, and when gaming it sticks to the 1100rpm range too) - You can also see below the average metrics recorded by HWINFO since my last reboot from Tuesday:

gjbf1 · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:21

Does the quiet bios mode reduce clocks or just fan curves and limits?

JediFragger · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:24

gjbf1 said:
Does the quiet bios mode reduce clocks or just fan curves and limits?

All 3 usually.

Kelt · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:26

Hostile_18 said:
Out of stock message has gone for me (was there half an hour ago) but add to basket button is also removed. Strange.

Add to basket back now.

Hostile_18 · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:28

Im going to reject delivery I think. I'm spent quite a bit on my PC making it totally silent, so it would be a shame to mess that up now. If the heaviest games have coil whine, so be it.

mrk · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:28

JediFragger said:
All 3 usually.

Nay, with Zotac the quiet mode only reduces the aggressiveness of the fan curve. Clocks remain the same.

Hostile_18 · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:30

JediFragger said:
All 3 usually.

My TUF it was just the fan curve, Suprim it did cut the power limit a bit (130%>115%) IIRC.

I found power limit barely a factor in overclocking tbh, especially with my last card.

Hostile_18 · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:32

mrk said:
My PC is silent, for reference my monitor is louder than my PC (!!!!) -My work laptop is louder than my PC (!!!) - So with that in mind I can tell you that the fan noise is a non issue really

The spool-up idle fan speed of the Zotac in the quiet VBIOS mode is 1000-1100rpm (it goes into 0rpm mode within a minute when not gaming, and when gaming it sticks to the 1100rpm range too) - You can also see below the average metrics recorded by HWINFO since my last reboot from Tuesday:

Thanks for the info. What case/fans are you using? I did have a Lian Li XL so fans directly under the GPU, now im using a Fractal North, with 6 Noctua Chromax A25's.

RavenXXX2 · 14 Jul 2023 at 10:40

Is this Jensen dropping his knickers or a currency thing...........

Either way the 4080 needs to be well under a grand to make sense.

In fact at current GBP Vs dollar the 4090 should be under £1500.