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NVIDIA 4000 Series

Looking into my crystal ball, it shows me Nexus18 giving in and buying a 4090 towards the end of it's product life cycle.

Then 6-12 months later I will grab a 5070 Ti that performs around the same for around half the price and is more efficient.

The best bit is, he will then start saying yeah, but yours only has 16gb. Is that really enough? 24GB is where it's at :cry:0p:D
 
4070 is actually the best uhm "value" option in nvidia's lineup (other than the 4090:D) and if it drops in price and I can get one used it'll be worthwhile.

4070Ti is worse even though it'd be a great card if priced accordingly. It'd make a lot more sense with 16GB.

My line of thinking is that if I want to look at a 4070Ti with the same 12GB of VRAM for significantly more than the 4070, I might as well look at the 4080 as I don't feel the additional 20% perf will future-proof me in any way. After all, I'm not thinking about keeping it for god knows how long.

It should do as a stopgap just fine and it's not even that much slower than a 3080Ti considering the efficiency and thermals, which is super-good. And that's not even taking DLSS3.0 into account.

It just should've been called the 4060Ti and sold for 450:p

Anyways I've got time, have waited three years already so what's another few months:P We'll see about the prices and maybe I'll get something better.
 
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Probably been asked a million times, but is it ok to piggy back one PCIE cable with a 4080? Like the far bottom right setup in the image linked below.

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PSU is a Seasonic focus+ platinum 750w
 
Amatsubu said:
4070 is actually the best uhm "value" option in nvidia's lineup (other than the 4090:D) and if it drops in price and I can get one used it'll be worthwhile.

4070Ti is worse even though it'd be a great card if priced accordingly. It'd make a lot more sense with 16GB.

My line of thinking is that if I want to look at a 4070Ti with the same 12GB of VRAM for significantly more than the 4070, I might as well look at the 4080 as I don't feel the additional 20% perf will future-proof me in any way. After all, I'm not thinking about keeping it for god knows how long.

It should do as a stopgap just fine and it's not even that much slower than a 3080Ti considering the efficiency and thermals, which is super-good. And that's not even taking DLSS3.0 into account.

It just should've been called the 4060Ti and sold for 450:p

Anyways I've got time, have waited three years already so what's another few months:p We'll see about the prices and maybe I'll get something better.
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Makes sense to me.
 
Neil79 said:
*dribble*

Ahh still want a 4080 though :(
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That's what I'd be getting if nvidia were sane but well:/

It's not that I cannot, I just refuse to. I still might choose to get it over the 4070 depending on the circumstances but if so, it'll 100% be a used one.

The 4070Ti would be a good option as well... had the MSRP been that of the 4070.
 
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Amatsubu said:
That's what I'd be getting if nvidia were sane but well:/

It's not that I cannot, I just refuse to. I still might choose to get it over the 4070 depending on the circumstances but if so, it'll 100% be a used one.

The 4070Ti would be a good option as well... had the MSRP been that of the 4070.
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Had Nvidia released the 4080 at £799 I would have got one on release. Instead they got greedy so I got a used 3080 Ti for £575 a year ago and been happy with that.

Now knowing these cards have been out for a year and 12-18 months at most left until new ones are out I honestly am not sure I would pay that today.
 
Funny thing is the first time I hit the VRAM wall was in Skyrim when I added too many 4K textures, it was like 8023 and stuttered rather a lot. I'd like to see how it would fair with those mods and a 4080 at some point when and if prices come down.
 
ColEx said:
Probably been asked a million times, but is it ok to piggy back one PCIE cable with a 4080? Like the far bottom right setup in the image linked below.

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PSU is a Seasonic focus+ platinum 750w
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Bottom right example is fine... Obviously the recommended ways to the left of the line are better, but there shouldn't be any issues with the bottom right example either. That's why those daisy chain cables exist
 
Sooo in a 180 from my posts last week I’m probably getting a 4090FE :o

FE makes sense to me because of supposed refreshed connector and opinions that the FE is a good choice for coolness, coil whine and fan noise etc.

I have a Corsair Shift PSU where the plugs on the PSU side are micro plugs. It came with the dreaded 40X0 series adaptor but it plugs into 2 of the micro PSU slots on the PSU side. Obviously it wouldn’t be included if Corsair didn’t back it.

I’m a little worried on the RMA status if I have the melted cable issue. From what I’ve seen, Gamers Nexus have reported that Nvidia itself will accept RMAs regardless of the cable used (and won’t deny RMAs because of third party cables). Is that correct?

I’m aware that some people have said Nvidia has denied RMAs for third party cables but from what I gather that was a ‘myth’ spread from a poorly written article on Tom’s Hardware.

There seems to be a lot of conflicting info on this, so thanks in advance for the replies :)
 
Nitefly said:
Gamers Nexus have reported that Nvidia itself will accept RMAs regardless of the cable used (and won’t deny RMAs because of third party cables). Is that correct?

I’m aware that some people have said Nvidia has denied RMAs for third party cables but from what I gather that was a ‘myth’ spread from a poorly written article on Tom’s Hardware.
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Supposedly, but I've seen FE cards in repair shops for connector repair and I can't imagine the owner would be paying for that if they could have got an RMA with nvidia?

This was the only article on their website that I could find:

NVIDIA and our partners are committed to supporting our customers and ensuring an expedited RMA process, regardless of the cable or card used.
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NVIDIA Support

nvidia.custhelp.com nvidia.custhelp.com

Which is definitely not true in regards to the "our partners" part, since AIBs do deny RMA if you don't use the octopus.
 
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