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NVIDIA 4000 Series

Had a 256ddr myself, an open box off the long since defunct jungle.com, the actual card came in a cardboard envelope so I'm amazed it was in one piece when I got it. This "first gpu" thing (that NVidia like to tell anyone that will listen that they came up with the term) I've always found comical. I remember people calling the voodoo 1 a gpu, basically any half decent 3d accelerator back then got the gpu tag, I remember magazines like pc gamer and pc pro using the term long before NVidia claimed they came up with it and long before a gpu with the name Geforce even existed.
 
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I bet they spend more money on handbags that serve no real upgrade over a 100 quid one.
High end handbags tend to hold their price or even appreciate in value after a decade or more if looked after, a 4090 in 10 years will probably only be worth 50 quid.
 
What the heck is this? I paid just over £1800 for my PNY 4090 shortly after launch. Just looking at OC UK now - £1949. Seriously, 5000 series is just around the corner.
 
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You guys remember the thermal paste pump out issue plaguing many aib gpu's. well i was one of them saw temps over 2-3months slowly increase until 80c gpu and 100c hotspot was too much. So i change my paste to arctic mx-6 and had the same issue just now. i have now replaced with cheaper paste that came with my gamemax cooler. Lets see how this works. so far much cooler than any new paste i applied getting 60c max temps 5-6c cooler than the rest. if the same happens here then i would start to think it's a gpu issue maybe?
 
You guys remember the thermal paste pump out issue plaguing many aib gpu's. well i was one of them saw temps over 2-3months slowly increase until 80c gpu and 100c hotspot was too much. So i change my paste to arctic mx-6 and had the same issue just now. i have now replaced with cheaper paste that came with my gamemax cooler. Lets see how this works. so far much cooler than any new paste i applied getting 60c max temps 5-6c cooler than the rest. if the same happens here then i would start to think it's a gpu issue maybe?

Sometimes with GPUs you get better results with the thicker pastes like MX-2, etc. than stuff like AS5 and MX-6. Large surface areas tend to need a different approach to CPUs.
 
What the heck is this? I paid just over £1800 for my PNY 4090 shortly after launch. Just looking at OC UK now - £1949. Seriously, 5000 series is just around the corner.
Who is even buying 4080s/4090 at this point :confused: especially for over 2 year old MSRP.

Some suckers must be gobbling them up for prices to stay the same. Anyone remember those clearance deals we used to get when a new gen was on the horizon?
 
What the heck is this? I paid just over £1800 for my PNY 4090 shortly after launch. Just looking at OC UK now - £1949. Seriously, 5000 series is just around the corner.
looks how much inflation there was in the last 2 years though

5090 will prob end up being around 2000-2500 and not much faster than a 4090
 
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You guys remember the thermal paste pump out issue plaguing many aib gpu's. well i was one of them saw temps over 2-3months slowly increase until 80c gpu and 100c hotspot was too much. So i change my paste to arctic mx-6 and had the same issue just now. i have now replaced with cheaper paste that came with my gamemax cooler. Lets see how this works. so far much cooler than any new paste i applied getting 60c max temps 5-6c cooler than the rest. if the same happens here then i would start to think it's a gpu issue maybe?
I had an Asus 6800XT and now an Asus 4080S. Both GPUs had terrible hot spot deltas after only a couple months of use.

PTM7950 fixed the issue on both GPU's.
 
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