Haha, dodgy MSI. I will be trying to steer clear of them for the foreseeable future.
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NVIDIA ‘Ampere’ 8nm Graphics Cards
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I don't understand this. My Corsair HX850 has five identical sockets labelled '6+2 PCI & 4+4 CPU'. If these are interchangeable, why does the MSI one make them specifically PCI-E or CPU?
Edit: The obvious explanation would be more power from the PCI-E specific sockets, but I can't see any mention of this.
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Further back in the thread someone posted some specs for the power of the new 12 pin connectors were actually slightly less power wise than the 8-pin. For all intents and purposes they are the same total power delivery.
To spread the load across rails maybe?
Isn't it just different labelling but essentially it's the same 4+1 or 3+2 PCI-E+CPU max connections?
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Similar to the Turing pricing, is it the the new norm? We'll know that when 40XX is releasing.
Unfortunately, it appears the Turing pricing wasn't a one-off
BTW what happened to the Hype Train Plane?
I liked that
Fantastic, I was concerned about how much it was going to cost but now I realise I'll actually be saving money if I buy two or perhaps even three!
How come?My 2080ti only cost me £750 each
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The Turing chicken coming home to roost now. People showed NV that charging anything they liked for a GPU was a viable strategy, so here's another £1400 bog standard ref edition card, and here's a mid-range 3080 with a laughable 10GB of VRAM for £800, you want a decent amount of VRAM on a mid range card?
That will be a £1000.
That will be a £1000.
Second hand. Well technically I have no idea how much they cost as I bought them part of the pc in my sig. But since the pc roughly equated to half the price all the components would have cost, then its fair enough that the 2080ti's with waterblocks cost £750 each.
No no they didnt. turing "1" sold poorly (numbers). Nvidia realised they CANT charge anything they want. Hence the release of the much better priced turing "2". (supers).The Turing chicken coming home to roost now. People showed NV that charging anything they liked for a GPU was a viable strategy, so here's another £1400 bog standard ref edition card, and here's a mid-range 3080 with a laughable 10GB of VRAM for £800, you want a decent amount of VRAM on a mid range card?
That will be a £1000.
Lol, well said
Bargain, GJ!
Lidl all the way although Waitrose sausages are good.
I hate exclusivity, why can I not buy those sausages in LIDL?
Yes Quake 2, no MS FS2020!
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The Turing chicken coming home to roost now. People showed NV that charging anything they liked for a GPU was a viable strategy, so here's another £1400 bog standard ref edition card, and here's a mid-range 3080 with a laughable 10GB of VRAM for £800, you want a decent amount of VRAM on a mid range card?
That will be a £1000.
Nvidia must know that though, I wonder if this is a pre-cursor to some fast SSD to Vram memory swapping via a special controller or the tensor cores, at which point Nvidia will claim you get up to 2TB Vram or some outlandish claim