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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

McCarthy said:
I found a way of fixing coil whine……

A wife :D
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Unfortunately that just gets you a different sort of 'whine' instead :cry:

cliffy said:
I see another store has list prcing today, surely at least some of them are place holders, only 4 cards listed though
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They must be holding prices as they also have
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Jokes on us, those aren't holding prices :eek:

Halliphax said:
I’m honestly kinda jealous that the US has something like Microcentre.

UK feels so boring for tech shopping and general excitement by comparison.
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The closest nationwide chain we had back in the day was basically just another generic electronics retailer and honestly... I recall they only had a single shelf section with a handful of GPUs. And that was decades ago. Not really an enthusiast tech or PC parts store. They don't really exist anymore, got merged with another similar electronics store.

After Overclockers, one of the competitors used to have a handful of locations, now they got rid of their brick and mortar stores and seem to only really do delivery. They were decent while they were around though.

The average folks in the UK can't really afford to spend thousands on fancy PC and PC parts. Heck, most folks don't even have the space for a full tower nowadays in our tiny abodes.
So the market doesn't really exist for such retailers to be around.

Heck look at this GPU launch. The biggest PC part retailer here is getting single digits of 4090s. There wouldn't be any spare from the UK allocation for other shops lol.
 
Joxeon said:
Not sure why retailers don't have pricing up yet when the NDA was last week.
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Yeah I'm hoping we start seeing prices before release day so can make a decision on which sku to go for but we probably not gonna see sweet fa until 2pm on Thursday... almost like they are scared to show us the prices :rolleyes:

McCarthy said:
What makes things worse is I sold my system and now only a Cornflakes box stands where my 4090 rig once did.

Take the not so great performance leap into account, and this is looking like a bag of dicks.

I need the e peen but I ain’t paying more than £2500 and that’s with promising to mow grannies lawn.

Come to me my beloved Palit, you were always last choice but I’m sure that won’t bother you too much :)
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Yeah sold my 4090 at the beginning of the month and have no IGPU output on my stupidly expensive Asus Apex so it's just sitting there doing nothing until I get a 5090 :cry:

The Palit will be a good card , the way I see it is they are all signed off by Nvidia so even the cheapest sku will be more than capable if you just want to play games on the thing... will see what the MSI Suprim is like price wise as so far all usa prices I've seen have put it cheaper than the Asus Tuf at £2500...
 
Jay-G25 said:
Yeah I'm hoping we start seeing prices before release day so can make a decision on which sku to go for but we probably not gonna see sweet fa until 2pm on Thursday... almost like they are scared to show us the prices :rolleyes:



Yeah sold my 4090 at the beginning of the month and have no IGPU output on my stupidly expensive Asus Apex so it's just sitting there doing nothing until I get a 5090 :cry:

The Palit will be a good card , the way I see it is they are all signed off by Nvidia so even the cheapest sku will be more than capable if you just want to play games on the thing... will see what the MSI Suprim is like price wise as so far all usa prices I've seen have put it cheaper than the Asus Tuf at £2500...
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It’s rough out there without a system, I feel your pain. Let’s hope we get a nice surprise when prices are announced. It’s the availability that will dictate further increases and unfortunately it’s not looking good.

It’s every man for himself :cry:

The Palit card would be fine apart from the warranty is normally less isn’t it?
 
Quick question - Does anybody though how power is handled by teh graphics card when a motherboard has asupplimental PCIE power source? From reviews I have seen all the power seems to come from teh graphcis cards own power connector and not teh motherboard PCIE slot so wondered of teh supplimental power really done anything?
 
cliffy said:
Quick question - Does anybody though how power is handled by teh graphics card when a motherboard has asupplimental PCIE power source? From reviews I have seen all the power seems to come from teh graphcis cards own power connector and not teh motherboard PCIE slot so wondered of teh supplimental power really done anything?
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The extra power connectors on teh motherboard are for teh CPU
 
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