The Ampere RTX 3090 Owners Thread

RexAlba · 1 Oct 2020 at 13:54

I have a 10900k which has higher TDW than your 9900k I will be watercooling with my 3090FE and i bought an 850w after doing some research, should be plenty i believe.

Edit: Come to think of it I have a power meter on my main line and my whole house is only drawing 800w when I was overclocking the 3090 last night.

Sedgey123 · 1 Oct 2020 at 14:47

My new system has arrived! It hasn't come with the 3090 box but i will grab some photo's and benchmarks shortly

adamcs · 1 Oct 2020 at 15:29

Really happy with my Gigabyte Gaming OC. 40-50fps average with full ultra settings (2160p) in MSFS2020 flying over Rio. It looks stunning.

Quite a step up from my 780ti.

Sedgey123 · 1 Oct 2020 at 15:38

Just done time spy, this a fresh OS install and CPU OC'd to 5.1Ghz

Not sure why its not showing the picture but heres the link and 3dmark link as well

https://imgur.com/a/x71uVX5
https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/51138550?

agnes · 1 Oct 2020 at 15:50

RexAlba said:
I have a 10900k which has higher TDW than your 9900k I will be watercooling with my 3090FE and i bought an 850w after doing some research, should be plenty i believe.

Edit: Come to think of it I have a power meter on my main line and my whole house is only drawing 800w when I was overclocking the 3090 last night.

With that said then, I'm gonna get the RM 1000 then, as I really don't want to risk it 'capping' so to speak and stressing the PSU too much. Plus, will be a very easy swap seeing as it's modular.

cHk4 · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:13

My Ventus turned up, woooooooooooooooooooo!

Greebo · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:28

kitkat9933 said:
I can hide a GPU purchase but a new case that's bigger will arouse suspicion.

Yeah I do quite well on internals swapping them while she is out at work. Case changes she always notices though,

And monitors. First thing she spotted when i went from a 24" to a 27" and then again when I went to a 32". She was aware of the 48" step up as that is going in the new office

Jay85 · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:47

Greebo said:
Yeah I do quite well on internals swapping them while she is out at work. Case changes she always notices though,

And monitors. First thing she spotted when i went from a 24" to a 27" and then again when I went to a 32". She was aware of the 48" step up as that is going in the new office

How do you guys not tell your wife stuff lol. I tell her everything and shes very understanding. She says its your money, you worked for it so you buy what you want to make you happy.

She actually gets seriously annoyed if i lie to her, breaks the trust in the relationship as she says.

agnes · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:50

Jay85 said:
How do you guys not tell your wife stuff lol. I tell her everything and shes very understanding. She says its your money, you worked for it so you buy what you want to make you happy.

My wife encouraged me lol, she saw me moping about watching Youtube vids for reviews and she just said 'buy it before I do for my PC'... I couldn't argue with that.

FxUK · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:50

lol, my missus is the one to hit the checkout button in frustration, whilst I'm still pondering over all the brands, hours later.

Jay85 · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:52

agnes said:
My wife encouraged me lol, she saw me moping about watching Youtube vids for reviews and she just said 'buy it before I do for my PC'... I couldn't argue with that.

LOL wish she was into pc's but shes alright with her ipad and youtube. Saves me money buying 2 rigs i suppose.

FxUK said:
lol, my missus is the one to hit the checkout button in frustration, whilst I'm still pondering over all the brands, hours later.

Haha! Does she pay for them as well?

FxUK · 1 Oct 2020 at 16:56

Jay85 said:
LOL wish she was into pc's but shes alright with her ipad and youtube. Saves me money buying 2 rigs i suppose.

Haha! Does she pay for them as well?

We just have one pool of earnings, always have. I never really understood keeping things seperate in a serious / long term relationship, I do of course in something developing or similar. So, we both pay, I guess.

chaparral · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:03

agnes said:
With that said then, I'm gonna get the RM 1000 then, as I really don't want to risk it 'capping' so to speak and stressing the PSU too much. Plus, will be a very easy swap seeing as it's modular.

I saw this while looking at PSU reviews a few days ago

The RM1000 didn't come out very good at all in this test

kitkat9933 · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:06

Jay85 said:
How do you guys not tell your wife stuff lol. I tell her everything and shes very understanding. She says its your money, you worked for it so you buy what you want to make you happy.

She actually gets seriously annoyed if i lie to her, breaks the trust in the relationship as she says.

Because if I spend £1,500 on a Gpu she gets mad. Same as I get mad if she spends £5000 on cushions.

Frubeling · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:11

FxUK said:
We just have one pool of earnings, always have. I never really understood keeping things seperate in a serious / long term relationship, I do of course in something developing or similar. So, we both pay, I guess.

Honestly I've seen people pull some **** on their partners. I mean fully rinsing the bank account and running off to another country after 20 years of marriage type ****. No matter how much trust I have I don't think I'd ever be comfortable having everything pooled. Especially not my record collection

kitkat9933 said:
Because if I spend £1,500 on a Gpu she gets mad. Same as I get mad if she spends £5000 on cushions.

Flashbacks to trailing after my ex up and down Oxford street buying hundreds of quids worth of clothes with MY money only for her to chew me out for spending 30 on myself because "you can't afford it"

Greebo · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:18

Jay85 said:
How do you guys not tell your wife stuff lol. I tell her everything and shes very understanding. She says its your money, you worked for it so you buy what you want to make you happy.

She actually gets seriously annoyed if i lie to her, breaks the trust in the relationship as she says.

Who is lying? If she asks or she spots it I tell her the truth.

PitchWhite · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:19

We both pay in roughly the same percentage of our earnings into a joint account (that way if one person works more hours/earns more it doesn't matter) - that acount is used for the mortgage and bills. Whatever is left is completely left for that person to spend how they wish. Most stress free system imo.

Greebo · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:21

FxUK said:
We just have one pool of earnings, always have. I never really understood keeping things seperate in a serious / long term relationship, I do of course in something developing or similar. So, we both pay, I guess.

You see we have never been like that ever. maybe cause of the massive discrepancies between wages. We have a joint account and we both put a set amount in there each month that covers the mortgage, bills, food, holidays, restaurants, takeaways, home improvements etc. And then what each of us has left is out own money to do what we want with.

I spend mine on cars, watches and PC gear and she spends hers on horses and savings (to my embarrassment as she has huge amounts of savings compared to me)

exiges · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:31

So.. about these 3090s then..

Any good overclocks ?

FxUK · 1 Oct 2020 at 17:31

I guess its very situational. In my case, we have 50% stake in our company, 50% in our home, earn the same.. etc etc.. lol, we even have a 2 kids and 2 dogs (50/50

) and if I want to splurge every now and then, I can.. and likewise. There's no.. well you bought x for £1500 so now I get to buy Y for the same. We just do what we do as a unit... and have for approx 30 years

Funny where the thread is heading though

Edit: and its the same in the "next gen ampere thread too" lmao.