I sent a web note to Overclockers about the Sapphire Radeon RX7900XTX Nitro+ Vapour-X graphics card and the fact its on pre order now. My reply regarding pre-orders and how many are in the queue, was that there is fewer than a hundred! I don't want to pre-order and having paid, sit in a mini series 3000 queue for months, which is what looks like could happen??
Taking the above into consideration, I am also considering going back down the Nvidia RTX 4090 route. (having had a Inno3D GeForce RTX 3090 ICHILL X4 when they were released) At the moment, I have a Sapphire Nitro+ SE OC RX6900XT 16 GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (a great card) which has two 8 pin and one 6 pin power connectors. I have three 8 pin power connectors going to that card, from my PSU, which is a Corsair HX1200i 1200W '80 Plus Platinum' Digital Modular Power Supply (CP-9020070-UK) I also have a Lian Li strimer plus v2 triple 8 pin RGB GPU extension cable, from those three 8 pin cables, going to the graphics card.
I have looked at what stock Overclockers have in the Nvidia 4090 range and have checked what 12 pin to 8 pin adapters they come with. As I have three 8 pin cables, I would need a 12 pin to three 8 pin adapter, which the card I am looking at, the Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 ICHILL X3 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card comes with.
My question now you know my PSU and cable situation is, I obviously want to keep the strimmer, (as I love my RGB), would it be ok to just plug the 4090 three 8 pin adapter cables into the strimer?? As the strimer is technically an extension of the three 8 pin cables plugged into the PSU, I can't see an issue, with the power demands of the card via these cables?? Would this be ok?
I don't really want to go down the route of buying a ATX 3.0 PSU, with all the hassle of completely gutting my PC and installing a new PSU, if you know what I mean?
The other option of course, is just wait it out and pray that the Sapphire Radeon RX7900XTX Nitro+ Vapour-X graphics cards come in abundance (can't see that happening though), and I can just order one....at some point?
Taking the above into consideration, I am also considering going back down the Nvidia RTX 4090 route. (having had a Inno3D GeForce RTX 3090 ICHILL X4 when they were released) At the moment, I have a Sapphire Nitro+ SE OC RX6900XT 16 GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (a great card) which has two 8 pin and one 6 pin power connectors. I have three 8 pin power connectors going to that card, from my PSU, which is a Corsair HX1200i 1200W '80 Plus Platinum' Digital Modular Power Supply (CP-9020070-UK) I also have a Lian Li strimer plus v2 triple 8 pin RGB GPU extension cable, from those three 8 pin cables, going to the graphics card.
I have looked at what stock Overclockers have in the Nvidia 4090 range and have checked what 12 pin to 8 pin adapters they come with. As I have three 8 pin cables, I would need a 12 pin to three 8 pin adapter, which the card I am looking at, the Inno3D GeForce RTX 4090 ICHILL X3 24GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card comes with.
My question now you know my PSU and cable situation is, I obviously want to keep the strimmer, (as I love my RGB), would it be ok to just plug the 4090 three 8 pin adapter cables into the strimer?? As the strimer is technically an extension of the three 8 pin cables plugged into the PSU, I can't see an issue, with the power demands of the card via these cables?? Would this be ok?
I don't really want to go down the route of buying a ATX 3.0 PSU, with all the hassle of completely gutting my PC and installing a new PSU, if you know what I mean?
The other option of course, is just wait it out and pray that the Sapphire Radeon RX7900XTX Nitro+ Vapour-X graphics cards come in abundance (can't see that happening though), and I can just order one....at some point?
