NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - OFFICIAL PRE-ORDER THREAD!

[Nitefly]

I just recently seen the Astral and now the Auros 5090 cards, they do look really nice ngl. I am assuming there have been previous editions of them for the 40 series, spec and price wise, how did they fare against the other branded 40 series cards?

The Strix was generally considered the ‘top dog’ when it came to build quality and power delivery. However, the early variants were notorious for coil whine. Apparently this was partially resolved with a semi-silent revision of the conductors, around the time the ROG Matrix card was released.

The Aorus was ‘upper mid-range’ for performance, some resolvable fan ramping issues because of RGB in the fans, but ran nice and quiet.

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

The Strix was generally considered the ‘top dog’ when it came to build quality and power delivery. However, the early variants were notorious for coil whine. Apparently this was partially resolved with a semi-silent revision of the conductors, around the time the ROG Matrix card was released.

The Aorus was ‘upper mid-range’ for performance, some resolvable fan ramping issues because of RGB in the fans, but ran nice and quiet.

How familar are you with the MSI Suprim series? I recall it having a very beefy 4090 VRM, but I know it's not as popular as the Strix line up for example.

 

[Nitefly]

How familar are you with the MSI Suprim series? I recall it having a very beefy 4090 VRM, but I know it's not as popular as the Strix line up for example.

I never owned the Strix or the Suprim but I gathered they had the same pros and cons; mega performance, cool, but horrific whine. Not sure if MSI fixed it.

 

[Absolutely Clueless]

I never owned the Strix or the Suprim but I gathered they had the same pros and cons; mega performance, cool, but horrific whine. Not sure if MSI fixed it.

Potentially silly question - Has coil whine always been an issue with high-end GPUs? I only really engaged from the 20 series onwards. The 20 series from afar whilst still on console and then I switched to PC and have owned 30 and 40 series cards.

 

[Nitefly]

Potentially silly question - Has coil whine always been an issue with high-end GPUs? I only really engaged from the 20 series onwards. The 20 series from afar whilst still on console and then I switched to PC and have owned 30 and 40 series cards.

I honestly don’t know, I’m not very knowledgable! But as power draw and frames have increased, so has everyone complaining about whine.

This was the 40 series thread on it: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/4080-4090-coil-whine-thread.18960456/

 

[GoRedwings19]

I just recently seen the Astral and now the Auros 5090 cards, they do look really nice ngl. I am assuming there have been previous editions of them for the 40 series, spec and price wise, how did they fare against the other branded 40 series cards?

So the strix, suprim and the aorus master are in the class money no object I want the most overclockable quietest, coolest running cards.

So even though you are paying a way way higher premium other cards and they do perform pretty much same as all 4090’s there are distinct differences.

I cannot speak for the aorus master but I can speak of my experience of the strix and suprim x. And I have owned a lot of them. 4 strix and 3 suprim x.

The first thing that grabs you is the build quality compared to other 4090’s now while build quality doesn’t really directly affect how the card runs they are way solidly built. The suprims are the best built bar none. Secondly would be the strix.

So out of the box a strix will run quieter, cooler than a suprim to be fair there is not much in it. Suprim idles higher and the mem temps are higher than a strix but well within the rated temp limit which is kinda disappointment given the suprims build quality.
Overclocking wise it is a strix by far. I have never owned a suprim even a very very good modded one that I bought off @LtMatt that could beat the strix.

Noise wise the strix just edges it. It just that touch quieter than the suprim x which I would hardly call loud in any shape or form.

What are the cons easily price. You are paying way more than the founders and a lot more than other manufacturers. And the strix is way more expensive than the suprims. On 4090 release day I paid 2.1k for my suprims the black strix 4090 was 2.4k but because I only do white builds I had to wait until the white strix was released which then cost me 2.6k.

If budget is a concern then got anything other than strixs, suprims, aorus master. You will still get a very similar performance. I mean I did try other 4090’s as well but I didn’t think much of them besides the founders 4090 I liked that one even though it run louder and warmer than the strix suprim.

Also I should add

When I bought all of my strix and suprims X’s every single one of them had coil whine. So even though they were built better and cost a lot more the coil whine affected allnof them. Funnily enough the cheaper budget 4090’s didn’t have it like the zotac, gigabyte and founders edition etc.

No there is no gurantee this will translate to the 5xxx series but I have been using the strix and suprims since the 3xxx series and the same pretty much applied the same.

 

[GoRedwings19]

Potentially silly question - Has coil whine always been an issue with high-end GPUs? I only really engaged from the 20 series onwards. The 20 series from afar whilst still on console and then I switched to PC and have owned 30 and 40 series cards.

Never heard coil whine on the gigabyte . Zotac or founder edition 4090 I had.

 

[harmattan]

The Strix was generally considered the ‘top dog’ when it came to build quality and power delivery. However, the early variants were notorious for coil whine. Apparently this was partially resolved with a semi-silent revision of the conductors, around the time the ROG Matrix card was released.

The Aorus was ‘upper mid-range’ for performance, some resolvable fan ramping issues because of RGB in the fans, but ran nice and quiet.

I had a 4090 Gigabyte Gaming, then FE, then Strix. The Strix was definitley the quietest and coolest (the cooler is a honking chunk), but by ansolu no means worth the premium. The FE was very decent, and best priced.

The Gigabyte Gaming was hot garbage: ran hottest, worst coil whine, and died about four month in. I had had a 3090 that behaved similarly.

 

[TheCarcassKing]

The only time i hear coil whine from my tuf 3090, is when i launch up minecraft with shaders Any other game it never seems to appear.

Funnily enough the cheaper budget 4090’s didn’t have it like the zotac, gigabyte and founders edition etc.

I bought my monitor off a guy a few months ago, who had a 2 high tier 4090's (asus and gigabyte ones i think), but returned them both for coil whine and ended up with an inno3d 4090 which he reckons had little to no coil whine so decided to keep it.

 

[GoRedwings19]

The only time i hear coil whine from my tuf 3090, is when i launch up minecraft with shaders Any other game it never seems to appear.


I bought my monitor off a guy a few months ago, who had a 2 high tier 4090's (asus and gigabyte ones i think), but returned them both for coil whine and ended up with an inno3d 4090 which he reckons had little to no coil whine so decided to keep it.

Some people get triggered by it. I don’t really care about it. However there is one card I have had and I have yet to hear any card from any generation from any manufacturer regardless if it was nvidia or amd.

That is the ASU’s strix 3090ti liquid cooled version. It whined so loud and so much that I had the whole of neighbourhood dogs outside my door. ;p

I should have kept it to show people as you have never heard anything like it. People complain about coil whine. There is coil whine and then there is the ASU’s 3090ti strix LC edition coil whine. Even the RMA department of a competitor who phoned me to try and fob me off saying high end gpu have this problem so I replied have you heard any thing louder than this? He replied no so RMA was approved.

I still can’t believe their RMA department hooked it up and phoned me to say this was normal. It coil whines the moment you power it on…

 

[GoRedwings19]

I had a 4090 Gigabyte Gaming, then FE, then Strix. The Strix was definitley the quietest and coolest (the cooler is a honking chunk), but by ansolu no means worth the premium. The FE was very decent, and best priced.

The Gigabyte Gaming was hot garbage: ran hottest, worst coil whine, and died about four month in. I had had a 3090 that behaved similarly.

I didn’t like the giga. I mean it performed like a 4090 so no complaints there but it ran hotter than what I am usually use to but still fine. No coil whine an added bonus. But the bios more specifically adjusting the power limit it used the same power regardless until you dropped it to 50% or 60% I can’t remember drove me nutty.

I get it. People will love it for it price point but for me I just hated it.

I am more than willing to give the aorus ice a chance though. But let’s be clear the moment it give those
gigabyte 4090 bios vibes it’s gone and will wait for the white astral.

 

[Sedgey123]

i have a gigabyte gaming OC and have no coil while and the temps are great, most i have seen is 63 degrees under full load

 

[hugh.m]

If I have no intention of OC, sticking with just a default will be just as good? I dont think there is much difference if you OC the Gfx is there, not for gaming atleast?'im trying to weight my options as the most optimal card to possibly get, im running 12gen i7 with a 4090 asus tuf

 

[Nitefly]

Thanks all for the comments re: whine.

Yeah… it’s just a total lottery isn’t it! conflicting info across the space of just a few posts!

My FE and Gaming OC were very whiny and tbh the 4090s that seem most immune were Zotacs (terrible fans though) and PNY.