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The Ada Lovelace RTX 4090 Owners Thread

Stop flexing your maths co-processors to us peasants :)

At my first "proper" job I was an AutoCAD draughtsman using a 486 SX33, my boss didn't believe that the other PC in the building with the DX would be faster. Also it was used by the secretary he was frequenting so that may be why.
 
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My first CPU was a DX2-66 and next upgrade was a DX4-100. First foray into PCs as previously I was an Amiga fan. Those were the days.


Also fondly remember my Matrox Millennium and then the Matrox RTX100 capture card which gave a lot of Realtime video editing options back in the day,
 
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Kelt said:
You should have been around in the early nineties, you think prices are bad now for PC components, they were shocking back then.

One example, I had a 486 DX33 CPU, upgraded to a 486 DX66 in 1992, cost me £600!

According to google, those 1992 600 pounds would be around £1500 today, think about that.
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Back in the day a DX66 PC system was ~ £1500+ of real money.... someone young and foolish :o spent over £2.5k on a Pentium 90 system that was pretty much obsolete for gaming in 2 years as CPU performance seemed to double every other week.

Computers were very expensive, then became much less expensive, especially with Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge being relevant for so long it was mainly a periodic GPU upgrade.

Seems to be getting a lot more expensive again with 4k and high refresh monitors, back in the day reviewers were extatic if you could average 30FPS at full screen SVGA, then it was 60FPS at 1080p.... and now sky is the limit.

You can still play almost anything even with a budget PC which definitely wasn't the case in the early days.... it's just the amount of glitter we pay more for.
 
i have to say i am very impressed so far with the 4090 FE. I got to use it for the first time last night. Its remarkably quiet whilst gaming (i have not stressed tested it yet). Its quieter than my 3080Fe

Its in a small case but fits ok but temps are not great (again better than the 3080)

my temps whist gaming were 69 degrees which seems higher than most reviews. I assume that's still within safe operating limits.
 
@Kaapstad When you return, these are for the TROH

If you can remove my TUF card now, as it has been sold

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Hey guys, doing a new build and going to grab a 4090. Any sort of recommendations on ones to grab or is it a case of just get the cheapest? Not really concerned about OC..I think. Just cool and quiet. :)
 
Managed to get an Alienware RTX 4090 at a great price so sold my TUF RTX 4080 for more. :D

The 4080 on the left dwarfs the 4090 lol.

 
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Those Dell 4090's are surprisingly well made!

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I saw that video, he posted it about 3 hours after i bought the card and was chuffed he ddint trash it.

It wont win any beauty awards but definately well bult and reasonable temps. Max ive seen is 65deg with default fan, ive added a manual fan curve in after burner and whilst still quiet it keeps the card about 55deg.

Also a good option for smaller cases, seems about the same size as my RTX 3080 was.
 
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Devious said:
I saw thast video, he posted it about 3 hours after i bought the card and was chuffed he ddint trash it.

It wont win any beauty awards but definately well bult and reasonable temps. Max ive seen is 65deg with default fan, ive added a manual fan curve in after burner and whilst still quiet it keeps the card about 55deg.

Also a good option for smaller cases, seems about the same size as my RTX 3080 was.
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And for WC'ing since it uses a reference board.
 
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