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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

benjii said:
It would be nice if Zotac released a bios update to fix the random fan ramping during what should be low power/idle moments. Is that a Zotac only issue or are other people experiencing that?
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Seems to be surprisingly common across many models (not just nvidia either), don't know if this is a symptom of where they complained about how little time they get for design and testing before launch?
 
benjii said:
It would be nice if Zotac released a bios update to fix the random fan ramping during what should be low power/idle moments. Is that a Zotac only issue or are other people experiencing that?
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I think the biggest issue is the quiet bios should be quiet. It still starts at 1300 odd rpm even on the quiet bios for some stupid reason.

I can recommend adding the 92mm fan on top. I don't hear the gpu ramp up any more because of it lol. Stupid it's what you've gotta do.
 
benjii said:
It would be nice if Zotac released a bios update to fix the random fan ramping during what should be low power/idle moments. Is that a Zotac only issue or are other people experiencing that?
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Not limited to Zotac, check this post. Best way to fix it is to use a 92mm fan above the flow through area pulling air up.
 
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Rawr said:
I think the biggest issue is the quiet bios should be quiet. It still starts at 1300 odd rpm even on the quiet bios for some stupid reason.

I can recommend adding the 92mm fan on top. I don't hear the gpu ramp up any more because of it lol. Stupid it's what you've gotta do.
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Can you not set a custom fan profile in software like MSI afterburner?
 
Vito said:
Different card, but my fan stop tends not to 're stop' after games unless I put the HDR back off. Just in case that helps?
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Nah my fan-stop works fine with no bugs if I disable a custom curve in afterburner. It's just enabling the custom curve seems to force it to 30% even if you make the curve go below.
 
Rawr said:
Nah my fan-stop works fine with no bugs if I disable a custom curve in afterburner. It's just enabling the custom curve seems to force it to 30% even if you make the curve go below.
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Ah. Yeah 30% seems to be the lowest if not in fan stop state. Fortunately that is 520/700 rpm for me so can't hear it.
 
Rogueywon said:
Yeah, I'm absolutely not defending the 5060 Ti 8GB here (the card shouldn't exist), but the customer you describe is real and I know a couple. They're the type who by some metrics would count as "hardcore PC gamers" because they spend a lot of time gaming on PC, but who also know very little about the hardware side and almost exclusively play one or two older games (Counter-Strike and League of Legends are the obvious ones, though Fortnite probably belongs there as well). Steam stats showing most users are playing games over 5 years old is a big market.

And yes, when their GPU conks out, they tend to go and buy the cheapest "new" GPU on the market, which right now may mean the 5060 Ti 8GB. On one level, that makes me cringe because they are buying an obsolete-at-launch product. On the other hand... chances are that in 5 years time, they'll still only be playing Counter-Strike or League of Legends and will never have been anywhere near the VRAM limit.

Slightly hilariously, the guy who bought my old 4090 almost exclusively plays Counter-Strike and took a fair bit of persuading to move from 1080p to 1440p.
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Well let's simulate scenarios where would anyone intentionally buy an 8GB version. You somehow need to check exactly how much VRAM your played games require, there's a few ways to do so, and these customers do their homework just to save what, 50 quid?
So they are certain that their favourite title require less than 8GB VRAM, how about future games they might like? How about some games they could run on higher settings, but have to reduce to medium or low to play it? How about future hardware upgrades? Maybe switch to 1440p monitor?
In my opinion, saving £50 by 8GB VRAM less GPU is terrible idea. Much better of saving that money elsewhere or just wait another month or do some overtime, but if £50 is really a matter of paying bills/buying food, then they can't afford a GPU of any tier in the first place imo.
Those who are not insane, will not go for 8GB version unless they have absolutely no other option, and those who can afford an 8GB version can also afford a 16GB version for 50 quid more.
 
benjii said:
It would be nice if Zotac released a bios update to fix the random fan ramping during what should be low power/idle moments. Is that a Zotac only issue or are other people experiencing that?
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I never experienced that issue on mine, but I used slightly different fan curve and sync enabled in Afterburner from day 1.
 
Richdog said:
Yeah its only £180 more than I paid for my 4090 so I'm not unhappy with the price. If it arrives it will be my first Zotac, I usually buy Gigabyte.
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I got this card last week - also my first zotac. I have been pleasantly suprised - good temps, no coil whine and pretty quiet
 
CornyOC said:
I never experienced that issue on mine, but I used slightly different fan curve and sync enabled in Afterburner from day 1.
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What is your ambient case temps and gpu temperature? With my Zotac Solid 5090 no matter what I tried with a afterburner custom curve I could not get it to stay fan-stopped at any higher temp than 55C/56C or so. Without firmware mode it lower bounds you at 30% so there is no fan-stop, with firmware control you can get fan-stop working but the fan still turns on at 55-56Cish even if you've set it to turn on at a bit higher on the curve.

Now I can see some people having a case ambient temp which allows the gpu to stay under 55-56c under light usage like videos. Unfortunately that isn't my case, it has more limited airflow. I set my case fans quite low too as I don't like too much noise if I'm just working and don't have headphones on.
 
Richdog said:
Ok I caved in and ordered a Zotac RTX5090 Solid for 2250 EUR (£2050)... supposedly gets here early May. Lets see.
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May?
i thought pre-orders are clear?
like the 50 series drought is over, no more scalping too, everywhere has stock available plus FE has taken a price drop to like 1800 quid or somthing, still 2 bagz for a 5090 is an aight price, considering I paid 2650 for my 5090, 1950 for my 4090 and 1900 for my 3090ti all on day one release.
 
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