NVIDIA 4000 Series

Wintermute2 · 2 Nov 2022 at 13:45

guys, with the clocks going back this weekend, does that mean that the drops will be at 1pm rather than 2pm until pacific time also changes?

deuse · 2 Nov 2022 at 13:46

peahead said:
I heard a few people complaining about the Zotac cards having noisy fans/motors but they could have just got a faulty unit.

Any owners of Zotac like to comment ?

My friend who has good hearing, tells me the middle fan is making a noise..

JonRGV250 · 2 Nov 2022 at 13:50

peahead said:
I heard a few people complaining about the Zotac cards having noisy fans/motors but they could have just got a faulty unit.

Any owners of Zotac like to comment ?

A few owners inc myself have problems with the fans, see the last few pages..

The Ada Lovelace RTX 4090 Owners Thread

I know the Airo uses dual ball bearing fans, not sure about the Trinity or OC I just arranged to RMA my AMP, cant cope with that noise, not sure if wait or go for different. let me know what u end up doing :)

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Chuk_Chuk · 2 Nov 2022 at 13:53

Wintermute2 said:
guys, with the clocks going back this weekend, does that mean that the drops will be at 1pm rather than 2pm until pacific time also changes?

I think it has already gone back.

Edit: I Just read the rest of your post. Ignore my post.

Wintermute2 · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:02

Chuk_Chuk said:
I think it has already gone back.

Edit: I Just read the rest of your post. Ignore my post.

yeah you're right, that wasn't worded very clearly...UK clocks changed on sunday....US clocks change in a few weeks. iirc the drops are based on 6am PT, hence it would be 1pm GMT drops in the UK

could all be nonsense though...

Chuk_Chuk · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:05

Wintermute2 said:
yeah you're right, that wasn't worded very clearly...UK clocks changed on sunday....US clocks change in a few weeks. iirc the drops are based on 6am PT, hence it would be 1pm GMT drops in the UK

could all be nonsense though...

hmmm... Good point.

My guess is that the drops aren't actually done by a team based in America. I'm just not sure where they are actually based.

VinylRichTea · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:05

MODDIY Cable, 2x8pin 600w (checked the power slider in MSI Afterburner and goes up to 115%) :cool:

Purgatory · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:29

It just works... and a giant leap forward....

Fake frames is the new in thing now.... :cry:

1988-DD-1988 · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:41

Cablemod has arrived a lot happier now without the spaghetti junction of cables

cHk4 · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:52

peahead said:
I heard a few people complaining about the Zotac cards having noisy fans/motors but they could have just got a faulty unit.

Any owners of Zotac like to comment ?

Mine seems fine, fans rarely go above 30%. To be fair though I do have 13 fans in my case so I’ve not noticed much noise from the gpu.

Black Noir · 2 Nov 2022 at 14:57

1988-DD-1988 said:
Cablemod has arrived a lot happier now without the spaghetti junction of cables

The cable seems really taught, are you sure it's ok? It looks too short or at least pulled too much beneath the card.

chroniclard · 2 Nov 2022 at 15:01

Disappointed at the minimal levels of RGB on these builds above.

1988-DD-1988 · 2 Nov 2022 at 15:06

Black Noir said:
The cable seems really taught, are you sure it's ok? It looks too short or at least pulled too much beneath the card.

there is slack in the cable i just had to pull it close to edge of the card like this to avoid cable drooping into the fans of both the gpu and also the row of fans inbelow

gpuerrilla · 2 Nov 2022 at 15:19

Chuk_Chuk said:
AIBs can customise their cards but I thought Nvidia has to give final approval.

Did you get debunked?

Woodsta888 · 2 Nov 2022 at 15:42

peahead said:
I heard a few people complaining about the Zotac cards having noisy fans/motors but they could have just got a faulty unit.

Any owners of Zotac like to comment ?

Seems on installtion Afterburner sets fans at idle for 30%. Switching to auto fans are then 0% at idle. Playing around with the fan across the range - there does seem to be some electrical 'drone' / 'whine'/ resonance aside the actual fan air noise.

Greboth · 2 Nov 2022 at 16:23

Does anyone know of any benchmark comparisons for the 4090 on pcie3.0 v pcie4.0 for productivity workloads? specifically 3d rendering? All the comparisons I can find only compare games on the respective pci generations.

Gaming wise it seems to be about a 1%-5% drop in fps between 4.0 and 3.0 but I can't decide if rendering would see a similar drop or if it's a different enough workload that the results could be different.

peahead · 2 Nov 2022 at 16:29

Greboth said:
Does anyone know of any benchmark comparisons for the 4090 on pcie3.0 v pcie4.0 for productivity workloads? specifically 3d rendering? All the comparisons I can find only compare games on the respective pci generations.

Gaming wise it seems to be about a 1%-5% drop in fps between 4.0 and 3.0 but I can't decide if rendering would see a similar drop or if it's a different enough workload that the results could be different.

You may have already seen this.

NVIDIA RTX 4090 PCIe 3.0 vs. 4.0 x16 & '5.0' Scaling Benchmarks

Sponsor: Montech Sky One Lite on Amazon https://geni.us/sux2This testing is for PCIe generations on the NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU. We're benchmarking PCIe 3.0 x16 ...

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MikoSkye · 2 Nov 2022 at 17:03

peahead said:
I heard a few people complaining about the Zotac cards having noisy fans/motors but they could have just got a faulty unit.

Any owners of Zotac like to comment ?

Zotac owner here and nothing abnormal in noise levels from my card.

OC2000 · 2 Nov 2022 at 17:32

Interesting, apparently the 4090 power adapter restricts the supplied voltage to the card. Using a cablemod or equivalent increases its overclocking capability by a bin or two due to cleaner power being supplied. Would be interested know if someone could verify this.

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Curtis vincent · 2 Nov 2022 at 17:59

Jay-G25 said:
Something doesn't sound right there , 60 in gaming is shocking when watercooled... 100% sounds like a contact issue somewhere. Have you contacted EK about this yet or anything about it on their FB group?

Greebo said:
Got my Ek waterbclock on my 4090FE last night and I am disappointed in EK.

Quality of the waterblock is shocking, no where near the levels they used to be.

The block doesnt cover the whole board and as such there are two LR22 phases right next to the power connector which are uncooled.

Not convinced that the thermal pads they send with the block make a good contact all over. I put it all together and stripped it down and there is very little pressure on the pads.

Same with the gpu chip. Nvidia has a very strong spring which clamps their block in good contact with the gpu, the ek waterblock just uses 4 small screws. There dint seem to be much pressure and there is a warning not to overtighten as you could crack the chip (thats the problem you get when not using a big spring.

And lastly, i didnt get much time to do much testing last night but bearing in mind its on its own watercooling circuit with a 560mm rad and 280 rad, the gpu still gets to 60C in gaming.

And thats not even doing any overclocking. But something weird going on power wise I think, I never go above 48% power and never draws more than 280w but it was boosting to between 2850 and just over 3000 last night.

I wish I had waited for waterblock reviews as some of the other blocks available look much better and covers the whole circuit board.

How did you even get one, I thought they weren't out yet. I've got my 4090 now but got to wait like a month for it