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NVIDIA 4000 Series

Awful convenient the sub 1k 3 series cards magically vanished, probably removed from sale rather than sold out.
 
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Seems to be quite a bit of stock around, seen about 10 alerts so far today. Just etailers gouging hard!
Give it a few weeks, prices think will be much better.
 
Which card have you got? My Suprim X arrived before but leaving it in the box for now as considering returning it. I think its probably going to be overkill for 3440 x 1440 @ 120Hz :D Will mull over it this weekend.
Suprim x liquard. For warhammer 3 ultra settings 4k I am getting anywhere from 100fps to 140. My 3080 did 37 to 76 on high settings sonots a fab upgrade
 
I suppose it depends on how you do it but I can't hear my pump at all - not over case fans for example. It's pretty easy to isolate the noise (or it has been for me). The voiding thing is always a fun debate but something I've lived with for years (although my current WB was prefitted for the first time due to availability) without issue (I've done RMAs). I'm really glad to hear (pun intended) yours is so quiet though. I've been WC for well over a decade, originally for noise reduction but also I realised how low temps with far more efficient cooling and this is especially true for GPUs (more so than CPUs for example). When asked about WC by friends I tell them not to do it - not unless you're prepared for the expense and complexity that comes with it.

Love it tho me :D

The plus with the 4xxx series is that it seems nvids fumbles meant the AIB builders over specced the cooling versus the actual power draw on release so the air coolers are doing a good job indeed.

Yeah I have water temp sensors on GPU loop and CPU loop and the pumps and fans are tied to those temps. They only spin up as the water temp rises. Never hear either pump or rad fans. If done well water cooling is totally silent.
 
My Inno3D seems to have a buggered bearing on one of the fans, rattling like crazy if the fans go above 80%. Can't see anything loose.

:(

Ah that sucks. That's a dilemma, as the fans will never get to 80% during use, but at the same time you don't know if the fans will deteriorate over time.

I'd contact OCUK and see if they kept any GPU's unsold as spares for this purpose.
 
The Nvidia price-gouging angle doesn't hold up if you lookat the financials over the last few years. The group typically enjoys a gross margin (sales less direct costs of production and marketing, as a percentage of sales) of about 65% and that has fallen to c.60% this year because of the inventory overhang in the 3xxx series. For the next five quarters (i.e. the release of Ada as the inventory overhang passes) the market is only expecting gross margin to get back to normal, and the weak macroeconomic backdrop combined with currency fluctuations and input cost inflation is making that very uncertain. The major change in cost structure has been at TSMC - who are really the only fab with the ability to compete on leading edge process nodes at the moment. Nvidia spent a reported USD 10bn to secure capacity on N4 and the pricing of Ada cards is based on maintaining historic gross margins. Demand for leading edge process nodes has been huge in the last few years and because fabs (and lithography equipment) have long lead times and 'extreme ultraviolet lithography' is tough, there are lots of barriers to entry for new firms. There is a veritable ****-ton of money being spent breaking ground on fabs in the US at the moment...Intel, Samsung and TSMC are all pouring concrete at the moment and they are all likely to do lots of business for fabless semi producers...so hopefully the fabs will have less pricing power in a few years, but TSMC can almost name their price right now.

I just hope the China/Taiwan tensions ease a bit....Morris Chang of TSMC has already said that a Chinese military presence in Taiwan would make their operations untenable. N4 chips would skyrocket in value under those circumstances!

You're having a laugh right ?
 
Ah that sucks. That's a dilemma, as the fans will never get to 80% during use, but at the same time you don't know if the fans will deteriorate over time.

I'd contact OCUK and see if they kept any GPU's unsold as spares for this purpose.
Damn that sucks, I remember a lot of people having issues with the Zotacs on the 30x series, I had a Trinity which was fine fan wise but didn't like the gimped GPU and the build quality imo was awful, The thinnest backplate I ever saw for a GPU with that performance, It's why I gave Inno3d a try this time and to be fair it seems a solidly built GPU there's no flexing issues with the fan shroud and the backplate is much robust than the Zotac Trinity 3080 I've got.

I do think also as Dave has suggested the Zotac 30x series also had something trapped inbetween the fans causing them to rattle maybe it's just a loose cable that has not been pushed or clipped away properly, I wouldn't go opening it up though if you can't fix it externally get a replacement unfortunately if you can :(
 
ppl are really buying 4090s for 2500 to 3000 pounds

desperate rich ppl

Shocking, bad behaviour, though its business right?, they are not forcing ppl to buy at extortionate prices...

same crap with the PS5 which after 2 years they are still mostly out of stock
 
I thought mining was on the back foot? Seems a lot of miners with 4090 cards in other forums and all over you tube.....


So much for this gen not really suffering with miners and scalpers.... seems both out out in force again
 
Same with mine, should be ok though
Out of curiosity what are you getting with the ichill or aren't you tweaking it.

I managed to get 2950 with 1025ma last night and it run through timespy I don't actually know it this is of benefit though with the marginal FPS boost in real world performance.
 
After the failed attempt at getting a 3000 series card on launch I had prepared as best as I could for this launch.

I managed to get two 4090s which both got delivered yesterday I've sent the Asus tuf oc back today (didn't even open box) and kept the inno3d ichill x3 which was about £300 cheaper.

I couldn't be hassled with having to sell it, or being labelled a scalper. Whilst both would fit in my case the ichill is lighter and smaller.
 
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I thought mining was on the back foot? Seems a lot of miners with 4090 cards in other forums and all over you tube.....


So much for this gen not really suffering with miners and scalpers.... seems both out out in force again
Lol are you serious right now?

I have seen scalped cards sitting overnight. (You needed bot alerts to even catch a glimpse of cards listed at 2X MSRP during the mining boom)

I saw a Gigabyte 4090 priced at 1.3X MSRP sit for a few hours. (Never even saw that in the mining boom)

Plenty of 3000 series cards in stock at decent prices. (I got $600 for my many-years-old 1080Ti during the mining boom because *every card* was overpriced and hard to get)

Just checked: A 1.5 X MSRP Gigabyte is still there from 5 hours ago.

This is not anything like the last time.
 
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