• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

NVIDIA 4000 Series

Greebo said:
To dumb it down, some of the best performing overclocks in reviews have been got with low wattage limited cards. Just because one card needs 666W to get its best overclock doesnt mean another card only needs 475W

For example have a look here, The strix OC has the second lowest max overclock despite having a 600W bios and lots of cards with a lower wattage bios score higher

www.techpowerup.com

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC Review

With the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC, the company offers a reasonably priced alternative to the NVIDIA Founders Edition that still comes with a powerful VRM, RGB lighting, an excellent cooler and great out of the box performance.
www.techpowerup.com www.techpowerup.com
Click to expand...

It's silicon lottery mate with the gpus and also the type of VRM setup they have and how efficient the whole power delivery is on the card, this is why I wait normally for tear downs of cards so can see the components used and power delivery setup they used.
 
Gypsum Fantastic said:
Okay, so here was my buying experience from yesterday. I really would like OCUK to listen to this and actually improve things for the next big launch. I prefer to shop here because I rate the company and the service they provide. The intel on stock levels is great and I enjoy this forum in the leadup. But it's not all unicorns and rainbows.

--snip--
Click to expand...

Personally, I do not mind paying a little extra to a retailer if I know the service they provide is objectively better, maybe the staff are paid not awful wages, customer service, better atmosphere, better kept building, etc etc
But when it comes to OCUK I see no benefit from them charging above other retailers in the space, none.

Their website can't cope, as far as I know their staff aren't paid any extra, nor do their customer services do anything above other large retailers in the area.

Unless you want to buy the worlds most expensive bag of Haribo... I would avoid OCUK.


Gypsum Fantastic said:
This is the thing. I've noticed this about OCUK on the last couple of years. It has a habit of charging what it thinks it can get away with and has been consistently more expensive than elsewhere on GPUs for a long time now.

It's a true 'head-up-ass' approach because while it may cream off a little more profit on GPUs in the short term, it ****es off customers to the point we won't be coming here in the intervening years for other stuff for our PCs. There is a huge hidden cost in customer loyalty when engaging in obvious price-gouging. And for me personally, unless there is a radical U-turn on this policy, I will never be coming back to OC. It's absolutely appalling behaviour.
Click to expand...

The forums are good, but I have already taken up a vow of avoiding buying from the OCUK for the past 3 years or more because they are basically scalpers in and of themselves.
 
Last edited:
Greebo said:
To dumb it down, some of the best performing overclocks in reviews have been got with low wattage limited cards. Just because one card needs 666W to get its best overclock doesnt mean another card only needs 475W

For example have a look here, The strix OC has the second lowest max overclock despite having a 600W bios and lots of cards with a lower wattage bios score higher
Click to expand...

That's simply not true. If you actually look at a few reviews as I've done you would have noticed that 450w cards and 600w cards actually more or less use the same wattage and there is not a single 4090 that is actually using 600w.
Even if you set it to 600w it will use 450w only and even if you do a voltage overclock it will use 480-500w only.

People are completely misunderstanding how power works on RTX4000, its not the same as RTX3000 or RTX2000
 
Last edited:
Maccy said:
I think only the FE card was £1699, all of the AIB cards are/were a few 100 more.
Click to expand...
They were many AIB cards for £1699, from every AIB. Even the ASUS TUF was £1699 at many retailers yesterday a card that normally is way more because it's price gouged and we blame it on ASUS TAX, reality is retailers know they are in demand and price gouge them.

We purchased 4 cards yesterday for our work colleges home systems not one was more than the MSRP of £1699 and two were ZOTACS oc models (can't remember exact model) and 2 were ASUS TUFS none oc models.
 
sewerino26 said:
why? keep it
Click to expand...

Maybe. I'll think it over today, I won't open it. Just knowing two others that got the same card for £200 less, makes me want to wait. I missed out because my original plan was the FE and then I had the £1699 edition of the same card I paid £1910 for here in my basket, but bank decided to do an app check AND a text that came too late so I lost it, OCUK I got the other through at 14.59, so much later with the website troubles.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom