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

[GoRedwings19]

Well I'm delighted to say after some initial teething problems my 5080 has it's full complement of ROP's and none of the other reported issues of random black screens etc (that was apparently happening to both 40 and 50 series owners with the recent drivers).

One weird curiosity to point out, I ran a 3D Mark Steel Nomad when I first got it installed and it was a nice score, but when I tried to "overclock" the card using MSI Afterburner it actually got slower for some weird reason, like it was taking a +800Mhz OC in MSI just to get it back to the stock speeds and it got to the point I had to system restore to earlier in the day as my OC went a bit too far and I didn't realise Safe Mode is borked in Windows in 24H2, but once I did restore and everything was back to stock it was back to it's full speed again and actually posted an even better Steel Nomad score. So no idea what's going on there.

Did but any chance you select the unlock voltage control in after burner or in the Nvidia app. When you do this it will drop the base clocks to about 1800 MHz.

 

[GoRedwings19]

I’m already in a pre-order queue for an MSI Suprim (air cooled) on the basis that it’s supposedly the quietest of the bunch with average to good coil whine. Looks nice and ‘premium’ too.

Downsides are a potentially laborious RMA process, if you’re unlucky (apparently MSI are just about the worst for GPU RMAs) and a ‘premium card’ price tag.

So on 4xxx series launch day I got a suprim 4090. Within anfortnight it started to show these small artifacts on the screen like only 5 or 6. Within a few days the memory went kaput.

So I just Rma it via OCuk and I waited about a month. They returned to me a spanking brand new card which suprised me as this is the only time I have ever rma'ed a video card and the first time a GPU has ever died on me in over two decades.

I often hear about manufacturers returning a refurbished card or a return which In some cases is worse than the card you sent in so that did suprise me. I don't know what the reputation of MSI Rma is in general but I thought the RMA process was pretty good. Although if the didn't return the card to me then OCUk would have to refund me for it.