The Ada Lovelace RTX 4090 Owners Thread

[Dicehunter]

See all that exposed copper on the heat pipe? it's meant to be covered in black plating.

It won't hurt performance and it's not like you can see it unless you go searching for it anyway, I'd personally keep it

On a side note I ended up getting an adjustable angled GPU bracket with PCI-e 4 ribbon cable for a grand total of £20 from someone local on Facebook marketplace.

Due to the angle it seems temps have gone down 1-2'c so not bad IMO.

 

[sunshinewelly]

can someone recommend a decent PSU - i assume 850w is ok - i am just running a non overclocked amd 5600 cpu. I have a nztx 500 case so ideally want a PSU with a cable straight to the CPU so i can avoid the included adaptor

 

[Dicehunter]

can someone recommend a decent PSU - i assume 850w is ok - i am just running a non overclocked amd 5600 cpu. I have a nztx 500 case so ideally want a PSU with a cable straight to the CPU so i can avoid the included adaptor

Just curious but why are you running a 5600 with a 4090 ?

 

[sunshinewelly]

Just curious but why are you running a 5600 with a 4090 ?

Just curious but why are you running a 5600 with a 4090 ?

will it bottle neck the 4090. I game on an OLED TV so 4k 120fps - will the 5600 be an issue - the 4090 was ordered today

 

[sunshinewelly]

RTX 4090 Trashes Old Ryzen CPUs - 2600X to 7600X Tested

What is the best CPU for a new graphics card? That's what I wanted to find out by using the fastest GPU right now, the RTX 4090, to test CPU scaling on AMD ...

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[Dicehunter]

will it bottle neck the 4090. I game on an OLED TV so 4k 120fps - will the 5600 be an issue - the 4090 was ordered today

Even at 4K depending on the game you are going to be leaving performance on the table with a 5600, At the very least I'd upgrade that 5600 to a 5800X3D, It's a cheap upgrade but will help massively.

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[sunshinewelly]

Even at 4K depending on the game you are going to be leaving performance on the table with a 5600, At the very least I'd upgrade that 5600 to a 5800X3D, It's a cheap upgrade but will help massively.

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the youtube site i linked to suggested at 4K there wont be a massive effect

 

[Dicehunter]

the youtube site i linked to suggested at 4K there wont be a massive effect

Depends on the game, He listed a very small amount of titles, I saw a fair uplift coming from a 5800X to a newer CPU but whatever, Your money not mine.

 

[kmax86]

Anyone here with a phanteks PSU and tried this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phan...24-12vhpwr-adapter-cable-black-ca-0c3-pt.html ?

Im looking to change the standard adapter that came with the FE and wondering if the phanteks cable is any good given all the various cable issues floating around.

 

[sunshinewelly]

Anyone here with a phanteks PSU and tried this https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phan...24-12vhpwr-adapter-cable-black-ca-0c3-pt.html ?

Im looking to change the standard adapter that came with the FE and wondering if the phanteks cable is any good given all the various cable issues floating around.

i have seen suggestions that the corsair one works very well . I currently have a Antec HCG Gold 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular and was seeing if that would sufice for my system as i am only running an AMD5600 (its quite a low power draw) . I note that nvidea recommend 850 watts PSU

 

[kmax86]

I dont think the corsair cable is compatible with phanteks psu though unless I am mistaken.

 

[86dan]

All you 4090fe owners, is the card quiet or not? All the reviews seem to point to it being a quiet card at 42ish db? that's not quiet in my eyes. On reddit at least the fe owners say the card is actually loud at 35% fan speed and above, my old 4090 ventus was loud at anything past (40%)1500rpm so would be interesting to see what others say as I am somewhat limited to cards as would like to downsize to a formd t1 or something of similar size but not if it sounds like my pc wants to take off.

 

[Hostile_18]

All you 4090fe owners, is the card quiet or not? All the reviews seem to point to it being a quiet card at 42ish db? that's not quiet in my eyes. On reddit at least the fe owners say the card is actually loud at 35% fan speed and above, my old 4090 ventus was loud at anything past (40%)1500rpm so would be interesting to see what others say as I am somewhat limited to cards as would like to downsize to a formd t1 or something of similar size but not if it sounds like my pc wants to take off.

It's quiet. Audible, but still quiet. For complete silence you want Asus or MSI. The Gamerock, Zotac and Gigabyte cards are somewhere in the middle.

 

[86dan]

i have seen suggestions that the corsair one works very well . I currently have a Antec HCG Gold 750W 80 Plus Gold Modular and was seeing if that would sufice for my system as i am only running an AMD5600 (its quite a low power draw) . I note that nvidea recommend 850 watts PSU

I was running a 5600/4090 combo with no undervolt/powerlimit without a single problem on a sf750

 

[86dan]

It's quiet. Audible, but still quiet. For complete silence you want Asus or MSI. The Gamerock, Zotac and Gigabyte cards are somewhere in the middle.

Audible I can deal with as sit 7ft away from pc, might have to give one a shot, whats the coil whine like if you got any?

 

[Hostile_18]

Audible I can deal with as sit 7ft away from pc, might have to give one a shot, whats the coil whine like if you got any?

All are going to have it, but in your case I'd go with the Gigabyte. Fan noise is less than the FE and it had the lowest reports of coil whine. Build quality wise I'm not a fan (don't like the plastic shroud or flashing rgb). The fe I had 3 and it hasn't been bad at all (though present). MSI and ASUS are worst for it, though MSI have improved a lot on its units since launch.

 

[Dicehunter]

All you 4090fe owners, is the card quiet or not? All the reviews seem to point to it being a quiet card at 42ish db? that's not quiet in my eyes. On reddit at least the fe owners say the card is actually loud at 35% fan speed and above, my old 4090 ventus was loud at anything past (40%)1500rpm so would be interesting to see what others say as I am somewhat limited to cards as would like to downsize to a formd t1 or something of similar size but not if it sounds like my pc wants to take off.

With Spiderman Remastered at 4K max settings with the fan curve on auto and 800RPM case/cooler fans I measured an average of 41.1db outside the case, A Corsair 5000T with the window closed, Using a proper decibel meter I bought a few years ago.

All things considered I'd say that's pretty quiet as it isn't intrusive at all, I don't know if you've ever gotten a decibel meter out and done measurements but 41db in the real world is fairly quiet.

 

[Dave2150]

the youtube site i linked to suggested at 4K there wont be a massive effect

I used a Ryzen 7600 with my 4090 Strix, just temporarily to get my AM5 setup going while waiting for a 7950X3D. In many games, it caused lag spikes and horrible minimum FPS values. CPU was at 100% on each core in most games. 6 core are just not enough. 8 should be the minimum, even then I'd recommend 12 if you like to have at least some background applications running.

This is how my 7600 looked running Cyberpunk at 4k max, RT enabled, on my 4090 Strix

 

[uscool]

I used a Ryzen 7600 with my 4090 Strix, just temporarily to get my AM5 setup going while waiting for a 7950X3D. In many games, it caused lag spikes and horrible minimum FPS values. CPU was at 100% on each core in most games. 6 core are just not enough. 8 should be the minimum, even then I'd recommend 12 if you like to have at least some background applications running.

This is how my 7600 looked running Cyberpunk at 4k max, RT enabled, on my 4090 Strix

any chance to look at processes ? see what else is running I recall you saying you have youtube / streams / discord/ spotify and more stuff while playing ?

Edit nevermind I think you have me blocked lol

 

[Hostile_18]

I used a Ryzen 7600 with my 4090 Strix, just temporarily to get my AM5 setup going while waiting for a 7950X3D. In many games, it caused lag spikes and horrible minimum FPS values. CPU was at 100% on each core in most games. 6 core are just not enough. 8 should be the minimum, even then I'd recommend 12 if you like to have at least some background applications running.

This is how my 7600 looked running Cyberpunk at 4k max, RT enabled, on my 4090 Strix

I use a 7600x CPU (while waiting for next gen) and at 4k it's been wonderful. Clocks to 5.4 ghz. Never been limited by having 6 cores. According to Tech Power Up doing so only loses 10%, performance max. Not worth paying hundreds more IMO.