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I recently bought a laptop with a RTX 4090 in it due to a discount so will be skipping, but might build a mini ITX pc by the time the next series of cards come out
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Poll: Whose going to get one - 5000 series
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you are right think I have had 10% increase since covid
The thing that strikes me is the elitist attitude of people the constant drone about rtx4090 and 9800x3d when in reality a very small minority own them
its not that long ago the most I would pay was £150-200 tops
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No coil whine here aye
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A 5080 in a new setup won't last you for ages, I bet they're actively developing UE6 to take care of that.
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Over the past four years, I've gone through: 3080, 3080 ti, 3090, 7900xtx, 4080, 4090, 6950xt. Every one of them (different AIBs) has had some level of coil whine, some worse than others. Even tried swapping my PSU in case there was some issue there -- nope. I'm convinced cards that don't have coil whine are the rare minority now.
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I don't even know what coil whine sounds like, which is probably a good thing.
Currently on a EVGA 2070, which is getting a little long in the tooth, especially when compared to the rest of my fairly new system (7800X3D). So I reckon I'll probably be getting the 5080. I can technically afford to buy any (consumer) PC gear I want (software developer), but the 5090 is just going to be too much money and too much power to justify. Only thing is, I may hold off for a few months to see if there's a 5080 Super or Ti with a bit more memory.
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The secret is to attend metal gigs for 25 years so you can't hear those frequencies anymore.
Same, haven't had a GPU without noticeable coil whine for a long time.
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The likelihood is I'll be grabbing the 5090, or the GPU with the most VRAM at a decent cost if 5090's can't be got (out of stock before I can finish the purchase).
With the recent update of my secondary rig, the 3060 12GB is able with dlss quality settings to hit 4k 60+ fps (BG3 at least), but it's AI capabilities are becoming more limited as I advance in what I am testing and experimenting with - 12GB is no longer realistically viable for what I am doing. 16GB is unlikely the right amount either, because that's too close to what I'm using right now and that's already a limiting factor. So it's 24GB or greater; and given 3090's and 4090's are going to be second hand only at this point and cost pretty much as much as a new card, I might as well go all the way for the new card instead.
If the 5080 models was to have one with 24GB VRAM, I might consider that still, but rumors right now place it at 16GB still. So again, the likelihood is 5090 32GB VRAM for me.
With the recent update of my secondary rig, the 3060 12GB is able with dlss quality settings to hit 4k 60+ fps (BG3 at least), but it's AI capabilities are becoming more limited as I advance in what I am testing and experimenting with - 12GB is no longer realistically viable for what I am doing. 16GB is unlikely the right amount either, because that's too close to what I'm using right now and that's already a limiting factor. So it's 24GB or greater; and given 3090's and 4090's are going to be second hand only at this point and cost pretty much as much as a new card, I might as well go all the way for the new card instead.
If the 5080 models was to have one with 24GB VRAM, I might consider that still, but rumors right now place it at 16GB still. So again, the likelihood is 5090 32GB VRAM for me.
Pretty sure if you get one of those older 3dmark tests where you can get above a thousand fps any card will whine.
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I'd love to work at a computer shop and whenever someone buys a 5090 I'll say 
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Hah, same. But I've somehow kept the (somewhat annoying) ability. Not even a recent High on Fire show put a dent in it. I may be one of those people who is particularly sensitive coil/electronic whine as I seem to be bothered by it from a lot of devices (where my wife, who is younger than me, tells me she hears nothing).
In any case, albeit my sample size is only my past 6-7 cards, every one has had audible whine. I don't expect any differnce with my next card considering new gen's power usage and likelyhood of same hardware in PCBs. Good thing I use headphones most of the time.
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There's no way I'm getting the 5090. I've never been tempted by any of the other previous top end cards either... was there even an gtx990? I can't remember. The last time I really splashed out on graphic cards was 2 x gtx280s.
Most of that £4000 will come from interest that I'm getting from my fixed savings accounts.
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You can spend money on a decent PC without going nuts, same for Hifi/av
Don't want PC's to become like the Apple cult, where £1000 monitor stands become the norm.
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3060 Ti seems fine for me still. I don't have nearly as much time as I used to for playing games, so I can't justify a huge chunk of money just to have some slightly nicer visuals.
No, there was the Titan card.
Nope my 7900xtx and 7800x3d is absolutely brilliant even on my new 4k OLED purchase a couple weeks ago.
Next upgrade will be AM5 final X3D Lineup that my motherboard supports along with whatever graphics card is out at the time for about £1000-£1200 max...or what Witcher 4 recommends.
Next upgrade will be AM5 final X3D Lineup that my motherboard supports along with whatever graphics card is out at the time for about £1000-£1200 max...or what Witcher 4 recommends.