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NVIDIA 4000 Series

S33A said:
Thanks for the reply mate. This is pretty much the summary I was getting to, it's a slight shame as I really don't like the ZOTAC design, but it's significantly cheaper than say the ASUS cards.
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Some folk have had noisy fans on their cards. One member has had 3 zotacs - 3rd being acceptable I think. Not so much fan noise but the bearings in the fans I think. Mine was noisy-ish but I rebuilt my PC the other way up and are now quieter. 4090 really is for VR, 4k and high hz UWQHD - anything less is a bit of a waste. Decent processor if not at UHD.
 
Woodsta888 said:
Some folk have had noisy fans on their cards. One member has had 3 zotacs - 3rd being acceptable I think. Not so much fan noise but the bearings in the fans I think. Mine was noisy-ish but I rebuilt my PC the other way up and are now quieter. 4090 really is for VR, 4k and high hz UWQHD - anything less is a bit of a waste. Decent processor if not at UHD.
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You can rma a GPU for coil whine? Never knew that
 
Grim5 said:
Summary: There are currently 50 cases globally of burning adaptors or cables, this is out of sales of over 125,000 RTX4090 GPUs. The vast majority of these cases were caused by the same issue - the user failed to correctly insert the cable/adaptor into the GPU. Nvidia is doing further research into finding a way to ensure the cable is correctly inserted prior to powering on the GPU.


What's really funny is how much money CableMod and others have no made for basically no reason other than fear; the issue with the burning cables still happens on 3rd party cables because they are all use the same connectors that can have the same user error problems
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It’s still a design floor. That’s why they will be covering it under warranty. If it were user error 100% they wouldn’t be.
 
lmao. Just checked the scalper listings on the fleas. They have dropped a grand overnight LOL.

It's totally a Morgan moment... "And it was at that point they realised they f-ed up". Good ! I hope they have to undercut each other muhahahaha.
 
Harshell123 said:
It’s still a design floor. That’s why they will be covering it under warranty. If it were user error 100% they wouldn’t be.
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Yes and no.

In court it would not hold up, because as Steve at GN showed it's not hard to insert the cable properly (as everyone here on this forum would know since no one here has any problems) and this is part of the expected process of installing the product into your PC.

A design flaw that would hold up in court is something a user could not remedy and is not expected to engage with - for example the airbags on your car don't deploy in an accident; this can go to court because the user of the vehicle is never expected to install the airbags or engage with it in any way, it should work out of the box without any interaction.

Another example is the petrol station; it's not a design flaw that the user accidentally puts diesel in their petrol car if the user is expected to carry out the task of engaging with the fuel system by filling up the tank and the user manual explains what fuel to use. So since the user is expected to insert the power cable, and it's possible to do so since the cable works and the manual says the user must do this task to use the GPU then there is nothing that will held up in court.

Nvidia and AIBs are covering warranty only because this has become a big story and the bad PR cost would outweigh the cost of 50 GPUs; not because of some design flaw
 
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Quartz said:
I find it plausible that people are not fully plugging the adapter in but implausible that they are leaving so much exposed.
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I’d guess not fully plugged in then gradually works its way out through pressure on it from side panels and/or the weight of all the plugs and cables pulling on it.
Few days or week and it’s out enough to cause problems.
 
S33A said:
I've been away for the last 5 weeks and sadly missed trying to get a 4090 at launch. Originally I was trying to buy the ROG Strix OC (to replace my very dated ROG OC 1080Ti). However now I'm back, after looking at a lot of reviews, am I missing something, or is there little point in going for a ROG OC at 2.5k (frustratingly 250quid more than when I left) over something like a ZOTAC?

What am I missing?
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If you still want one sign up for the FEPartAlerts via Telegram and grab a 4090FE instead.

I managed to get one at the first time of trying and performance wise you’re looking at only 1-2% difference, and in fact some FE’s have outperformed a few of the AIB cards. It’s just a silicon lottery TBH but personally I wouldn’t pay more for an AIB card.
 
I’ve had to send my Zotac 4090 Airo back for repair, of course it decided to **** the bed after 30 days and not before, so Overclockers wouldn’t replace it FFS. Now I have to wait for up to 28 working days, so nearly 6 weeks.
 
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