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I agree but the Zotac I got is base level and it's as fast as top 100 hall of fame with only 450W and 3 power plugs. Plus I have a longer warranty than all other vendors. Should be under £1800 though.
I'm sure the zotac is a good card but when you're spending that kind of money most people want a tier 1 vendor. Especially the Suprim as it looks great.
The Palits are one heck of an acquired taste to be fair. Zotac has warranty and the only rounded design. Having said this I would not have bought if it weren't for the fact it has a 5 year warranty and that performance of all cards overclocked on air is within 0.1% or so. My card just does 3075mhz without tweaking or more than 450w. There are people with £2500 cards that can't do this with 600w. This gen you simply buy the cheapest card you can from any vendor and it'll be in the ballpark.
I think you're right most people that got early cards have a Zotac tbh. Those of us that paid under £1800 should be advising people without a 4090 to wait for AMD to release in order to secure one for a similar price. These £2000+ restocks are silly especially when the pound at it's absolute weakest in 50 years got us our £1800 cards.
You only get a two-year warranty with Palits and if you have to RMA, they go all the way to Hong Kong.
Well, more like Aldi
Nope, depends on their card model, some are tier 1 cards and some not, depends on the model. Last gen Gamerocks were one of the best built and quality components card and had a better VRM than some of the regular top brands. Depends on the generation and the components they used at the time for the models. This time 4090s have had a downgrade in my opinion they have not used all VRM spaces and used cheaper components but funny thing is these cards with the lower quality components have no coil whine.. So maybe they did that because of the coil whine issue and when I say lower quality components I mean not the regular high end well known brand components, they are all in spec of course.
Everybody seems to go for Asus Strix even though there is no point with the 4090 it does not perform any better than the cheaper models you are just paying for the name and to be one of the cool kids.Well, more like Aldi
But seriously, I would have paid hundreds over RRP for say a Suprim, not so much for a palit/inno/zotac. These have traditionally been the budget brands.
Yes and the current one is quite ugly too. Not as bad as the palit gamerocks though!
I’ve had four different 4090’s (don’t ask but there is a logical explanation), and three different AIB models. There was almost no difference between them, other than cooler noise and performance. Despite the different power limits, they all clocked to similar levels within 25-50Mhz and were separated by no more than a few percent in performance at most. Therefore my recommendation would be to go for the cheapest model that has the most appealing cooler, based on the memory junction, hot spot temps, and noise profile.
