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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

Tetras said:
If you can call a £1K+ GPU sensible, a 5080 is more sensible in your case, especially since you mainly play at 1440p.

Any reason you're not considering a 9070 XT?
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Mostly bad luck with AMD over the years. Had so many failed AMD GPUs I wouldn’t go back there on principle.
 
Dave2150 said:
To many, including myself, they look like a child designed the card with crayons and shiny plastic.

If you're not displaying your GPU in a glass case on a desk though, Palit and other colourful monstrosities will do just fine.
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Palit's JetStream cards used to have a nice, fairly understated design. I had both their 1080 and 1080 Ti and they were great cards. Not sure why they abandoned it for the hideous 'GameRock' nonsense.

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Qitarah said:
Mostly bad luck with AMD over the years. Had so many failed AMD GPUs I wouldn’t go back there on principle.
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...Really? On average, I've had the opposite experience. That, and coil whine over the oast few years has been more prevalent and pronounced on the nV cards I've owned.
 
O yeah, had so much drama with AMD GPUs.

X2 290, 390 and a 580 all died prematurely, one of the 290s lasted all of two weeks and the others died within a year of having them.

Obviously quite a while a go, but it was enough to swear me off AMD GPUs that’s for sure.
 
Jay-G25 said:
As expected a good chunk of the FE drop on Thursday has made its way to Ebay :rolleyes: was checking on there on Thursday just after the drop and were probably like 3 cards remaining... now a good 48 :mad:
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I'm seeing lots listed on fb for 4k, nuts. I hope the scalpers get screwed as most people decide the 30% increase isn't worth it.
 
Qitarah said:
O yeah, had so much drama with AMD GPUs.

X2 290, 390 and a 580 all died prematurely, one of the 290s lasted all of two weeks and the others died within a year of having them.

Obviously quite a while a go, but it was enough to swear me off AMD GPUs that’s for sure.
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I had all those and other ATI/AMD cards, basically every generation (I normally buy one manufacturer, then get bored and buy a card from the other dur8ng a generation). The only issue I had was with a Powercolor 5870 LCS I had running in Crossfire where the memory would glitch at stock speeds -- Powercolor replaced it. Longest one I used was a 295x2 in a backup mining rig which lasted ~ 5 years before I sold it.

Many nVidia card issues, on the other hand. Most recent was a Gigabyte 4090 Gaming which just up and died after running for four months. The worst was 2/4 GTX 480s I owned overheated with fried PCBs.
 
For those still awaiting 5090 hopefully this article holds some truth :)

videocardz.com

NVIDIA GB202 GPU supply for RTX 5090 set to increase, retailer has 147 RTX 5080 Cards but not selling them separately - VideoCardz.com

Some retailers have cards but won’t sell them to you According to MEGAsizeGPU, a person with very good ties to NVIDIA board partners and responsible for many GeForce leaks in the past, there is a significant increase in GB202 GPU supply. At least one board partner has already received “tons of...
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Jay-G25 said:
For those still awaiting 5090 hopefully this article holds some truth :)

videocardz.com

NVIDIA GB202 GPU supply for RTX 5090 set to increase, retailer has 147 RTX 5080 Cards but not selling them separately - VideoCardz.com

Some retailers have cards but won’t sell them to you According to MEGAsizeGPU, a person with very good ties to NVIDIA board partners and responsible for many GeForce leaks in the past, there is a significant increase in GB202 GPU supply. At least one board partner has already received “tons of...
videocardz.com videocardz.com
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I'll believe it when I see it, and if this article is to be believed resellers are actually holding back supply to keep prices higb.
 
harmattan said:
I'll believe it when I see it, and if this article is to be believed resellers are actually holding back supply to keep prices higb.
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Same here, but there has to be a finite number of people prepared to pay 2k for a graphics card let alone a prebuilt pc.
Personally I suspect a few of the retailers are on dodgy ground with regards finance. I wouldn’t like to be over say 30 in a queue anywhere, presumably if you pay on credit card you have some protection though.
 
Jay-G25 said:
For those still awaiting 5090 hopefully this article holds some truth :)

videocardz.com

NVIDIA GB202 GPU supply for RTX 5090 set to increase, retailer has 147 RTX 5080 Cards but not selling them separately - VideoCardz.com

Some retailers have cards but won’t sell them to you According to MEGAsizeGPU, a person with very good ties to NVIDIA board partners and responsible for many GeForce leaks in the past, there is a significant increase in GB202 GPU supply. At least one board partner has already received “tons of...
videocardz.com videocardz.com
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I posted the other day that it's going to be very interesting to see all the returns and drama when there's huge amounts of 5090 stock on shelves.

There's a limited market willing to spend £2000-3000 on a GPU. I think a 1000 card delivery (of varying models) into UK would lead to mass returns and refunds etc.
 
Curtis vincent said:
About 6 or so sold today. Prices varied between 3100 and 3800i
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If this week's 5080 stock has show anything, people are willing to pay hundreds and hundreds more instead of waiting a few days. People who bought 5080s on Thursday for £1400, effectively paid an extra £250 to have a card one day earlier.

Edit: Good Lord. I just looked at auction site listings for 5090s. At least 80 just on that one site, prices between £3800-4500. Hardly any selling. That's a lot of pent up supply for a product with a relatively small market.
Dave2150 said:
I posted the other day that it's going to be very interesting to see all the returns and drama when there's huge amounts of 5090 stock on shelves.

There's a limited market willing to spend £2000-3000 on a GPU. I think a 1000 card delivery (of varying models) into UK would lead to mass returns and refunds etc.
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This is why I think, even if they get 5090 stock, some resellers will dribble out (using a finance term) to try to keep prices bouyant. They know of prices drop too quickly, there will be a deluge of returns from scalpers.
 
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Nitefly said:
Surely this is a joke… you bought the Astral without sizing it up :p

Edit: oh might not be the Astral, I could only see the one fan at first.
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It is the Astral and I was joking:

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The Thermaltake V21 says 350mm max GPU length, but 358mm fits just fine.

Using the 12 pin cable included with my NZXT C1200 3.1, pin current distribution looks good:

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Next step is sorting out the quiet bios update and testing thermals/fan configurations.
 
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