Yeah gigabytes first email "user error" lolInternet says: bad design
Rejected warranty claim says: user error
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NVIDIA 4000 Series
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Its out of stock? lol first time I have seen it tbh, every time I have checked its been constantly stocked up, they must be limiting it to keep demand up.
I checked last week by adding it to basket and it was still in stock. Checked today and it says in stock but when you go to add to basket, its out of stock.
It shouldn't be too long until its restocked again, it was in stock for months before that.
Yeah given the price I'm not surprised they had stock for a while. I’ve been debating for weeks so will have to just wait
Yeah given the price I'm not surprised they had stock for a while. I’ve been debating for weeks so will have to just wait
Same but i debated for about 6 months lol until i finally found a buyer to buy my 3090 at a decent price. It's definitely a huge step up from the 3090.
The fans on the zotac are apparently really bad though because of the dual ball bearing fansI'm coming from a 2070s. Quite like the zotac’s from a uk rma/warranty perspective but width is just out
Ball bearing fans aren't necessarily loud, depends on the fans and I'd prefer ball bearings on a graphics card to Gigabyte's sleeve bearings (not used on all their stuff)
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I'm coming from a 2070s. Quite like the zotac’s from a uk rma/warranty perspective but width is just out
Zotac ones seem to be pretty highly praised here. The warranty period alone would win it.
Not sure that is entirely true.
Noise normalised the cooler including fans is better than the FE. Techspot
The Zotac AIRO has larger more aggressive profile fans so at the minimum 30% speed (start stop) it shifts more air and so makes more noise than the standard model or many comparable models.
Once at a gaming temperature there shouldn't be much in it amongst similar budget cards, though if you pay the extra for a strix etc the more efficient cooler should allow it to run the fans slower and quieter.
Not so much an issue with the normal fans, on the stock or OC model.
I have the standard Zotac 4080 in a Fractal Define R6 under the desk and fan noise isn't an issue.
I barely hear the card above the 120mm ~900rpm fans I have for the AIO and case ventilation.
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That ping is a one way trip? Just saying, people complained about extra latency of FG, but this is seen as ok?1GB virgin media here, using ethernet:
My ping is usually around 25-30ms to nvidia servers in london.
The thicker blue area is when I have been using geforce now (or probably downloading on my pc)
That's the total ping to my knowledge.
Latency is basically a non issue when not using frame gen and with frame gen, it's slightly noticeable in cp 2077 but easy to overlook when the "overall" experience is far better.
Latency is still better than playing on a console locally.
Its not so much how loud the fans are when pushing air through its how they sound, much like the gainward 4080 I had that used dual ball bearing fans, it had this almost coil whine like noise as soon as the fans started to spin (like a fridge humming), very very annoying as it couldn't be fixed with an undervolt or lower rpm, it was always there. The slower the fans the easier it was to hear
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Soldato
Looks like an added £2 extra a month from 1 November I seen.
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30ms would be too much, I guess. I played a bit and there's a difference with just raster vs. PT of about the same value (perhaps a bit lower). What I'm getting now with PT is roughly my upper limit for a good experience (latency wise), adding even more on top... nope. I guess it would be fine played with raster only with that 30ms on top, but there's a lot of other (possible) shortcomings I wouldn't really want.
Still not that much.
I would say I'm quite sensitive to latency (can even tell the difference between 144 hz and 175hz on my aw qd oled) and am pretty impressed with geforce now ultimate, obviously I'm not comparing it to a local 4080 but compared to my local 3080, latency is much the same, if not slightly better due to increased FPS, it's only when I turn on frame gen when my 3080 has noticeably lower latency compared to geforce ultimate:
In geforce now, the ping shows as 25ms.
It's essentially a case of either:
- maxed path tracing with dlss balanced and frame gen and smooth as silk gaming, basically 90/100+ fps the entire time
- maxed path tracing with dlss performance on my 3080 and getting 40-50 fps
- maxed ray tracing with dlss performance and getting 60-70 fps
First one is a considerably superior experience to the 2nd and 3rd options. IQ wise, there is some compression obviously happening, mostly noticeable during motion (although I think this is also largely down to ray reconstruction having its own issues as when disabling that, things look a bit better in motion, same as is the case with my 3080 locally too [but still much better to keep ray reconstruction on for the overall improved iq])
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Soldato
I think the FE is going back to the old price of £1579 (from £1520).
