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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

GoRedwings19 said:
That's meh. In SE Asia you have whole shopping complexs just full of tech vendors. They are jam packed stall to stall and you can get anything tech related there. I went there over 20 years ago and had to take fresh trousers. It a literal tech enthusiasts wet dream and then some.
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I know what you mean, I was in Thailand around this time last year and they had a VR cafe, just two dudes with six VR headsets that charged around a tenner an hour so you can fanny about in VR with your pals.

Worth every penny!
 
andybird123 said:
The extra power connectors on teh motherboard are for teh CPU
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No not the EPS ones at the top. The supplimental PCIE power 8 pin you find on teh bottom of some high end mobos, sometimes they are on teh side but some of those are just for providing pwer to the USb for chartging
 
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RavenXXX2 said:

Biggest Market Loss In History: Nvidia Stock Plunges 15%​


Rtx supply increase is back on the menu boys.
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Halliphax said:
I know what you mean, I was in Thailand around this time last year and they had a VR cafe, just two dudes with six VR headsets that charged around a tenner an hour so you can fanny about in VR with your pals.

Worth every penny!
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The PC hardware prices are about the same though. I enquired about a 4070ti one place and it was equivalent to £800GBP.
Also meh selection. Tried looking for 32GB DDR4 3600 for my cousin and most places didn't even have more than 16GB kits of DDR4 or even DDR4 at all.
Also barely saw any AMD GPUs, I'm sure a lot of places didn't bother to stock them.

And to those who sold their 4090s, etc hoping to get a 5090 on launch... was the 4090 launch not traumatising enough? :cry:
Looks like @mrk made the right choice this time.
 
Gazanimal said:
Not sure if it's a slip up, but on a big electrical retailer's website (I prefer mine quite mild, like a Korma) they have the ASUS GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB ROG Astral Graphics Card listed for £3,000. I expect that's on the money tbh.
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Just noticed the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB AORUS MASTER Graphics Card is also listed for £3,000. Two other models (MSI and Palit) are listed at £10k, which makes the £3k seem more plausible for real pricing.
 
Gazanimal said:
Just noticed the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB AORUS MASTER Graphics Card is also listed for £3,000. Two other models (MSI and Palit) are listed at £10k, which makes the £3k seem more plausible for real pricing.
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They also list the RTX5080 at £3k and £9K which makes me hope they 5090 maybe placeholders (they also do price match tho)
 
Grim5 said:
that didn't take long boys

MFG 4x hacked to run on RTX4000 GPUs

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Not surprised actually, it's an artificial lock and NVIDIA's own VP of AI said it himself by stating they're looking into bringing MFG to the older generations as well (not just 4000 but even older ones). The question wasn't if 4090 could run that - it has faster AI than slower 5k series GPUs which will have MFG. 4080 and below were more of a question. And now it's been answered - yes, it can run on 4080.
 
Tinek said:
Not surprised actually, it's an artificial lock and NVIDIA's own VP of AI said it himself by stating they're looking into bringing MFG to the older generations as well (not just 4000 but even older ones). The question wasn't if 4090 could run that - it has faster AI than slower 5k series GPUs which will have MFG. 4080 and below were more of a question. And now it's been answered - yes, it can run on 4080.
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The GPU in the video is a 4080 laptop, so it's weaker than a desktop 4080 as well, probably closer to a 4070
 
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mahius said:
Unfortunately that just gets you a different sort of 'whine' instead :cry:



Jokes on us, those aren't holding prices :eek:



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.
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Not quite true. The enemy is having a launch event with 5090's and 5080's to buy if you attend and you are able to pre order before launch.

But as much as I want one more than anything I am not buying from there in this life or the next

As much as. OCUK is one of the UK biggest retailer for tech the enemy has secured more stock than OCUK
 
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