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That way even 9800X3D is within design limitations. 95 C is max temp it can go to and it will throttle itself to stay at 95 C or less.
 
pututu said:
Oh boy, this is a ginormous card. Cooling and performance are excellent with gaming bios setting.


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Read somewhere that the 5090 Suprim isn't using a premium PCB and parts tho. It's not a true "flagship" card compared to previous generations.

But as long as it performs, I guess it doesn't matter that much but it's disappointing that they raised the prices and then cheapened on the components.
 
rhcliff said:
I have to find it but it's from someone that opened up the Suprim.
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wasnt kitguru, just watch that one. pcb looks like a normal pcb to me. only thing they complained about was that it had normal paste instead of LM.

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wasnt HUB either, they only complained about the amount of thermal pads....
 
Blackstone said:
I only played an hour or so of Cyberpunk on 3090. Last night I started playing it for the first time for real. On 5090 with DLAA Transformer Model and Frame Gen, the game looks and feels like something from the future. The 5090 just absolutely blows the doors off of Cyberpunk. The new hardware, which is clearly well supported by the game, works almost perfectly. It easily saturates my 120Hz OLED at 2x frame gen. Ridiculous performance and image quality! Benchmarks aside, the subjective experience is simply stunning. I simply did not expect Cyberpunk to run this good with full path tracing. I’m simply stunned by the game itself but also the way 5090 makes it seem easy run.
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Congrats on getting one. The performance seems to be where it needs to be, excellent for a halo product.

Here's my question how does the noise levels compare to the 4090? I'm concerned with Nvidia going to the 2 slot form factor for the looks, but does this design change make it noisier than the 4090 model?

PS What process did you go through to obtain one? I've only heard stories of people failing to buy so far.
 
Blackstone said:
I actually signed up for HotStock’s autobuy feature and logged into Best Buy through the Hot Stock App. The subscription is $13 and gets you access to the faster notification servers. Set Best Buy app to default to the local store where you normally shop. On launch day, I got HotStock push notifications that it was in stock during the initial morning drops. Was able to get in line but sold out. Then I got another notification for the afternoon drop, clicked the notification, it moves me to Best Buy’s 5090 page, add to cart, and got through. I got lucky, but the app helped a lot.

I figured New Egg, Amazon and NVIDIA’s own site would be unreliable, so I targeted Best Buy.

I also have a Best Buy plus membership which I did for a year to maximize my chances in case Best Buy decides to give subscribers the edge on drops. I have a feeling that is not the case but I did want to disclose it.

My order was 1/30/25 and arrived at store for pickup on 2/3/25.

I also tried Distill.io, which scans the website on your PC for changes. That also can work, but you need to be in front of your PC. Ultimately, it was when I got up away from my PC to make lunch that the afternoon drops happened and i got the iphone notification from HotStock. I would not have gotten a card without it. It doesn’t quite “autobuy” it for you, but it can get you to add to cart button after a drop in one click.

It is a great card and worth the hassle if you are on 3000 series. The new GPU cooler is very effective and looks killer. 4090 owners probably are ok to hang in there, but the upgrade is tremendous from 3090.

I would not be surprised if there was another drop next week. If not, it could be a while.
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Thanks for the tip! I'll have to try this out next time I want to buy a new video card.
 
yeah i saw that. Don't think its worth the water cooling unless they can make it thinner.
 
revenant said:

View: https://youtu.be/41eZsOYUVx0?si=HqJLwaq_6HoZv0lf

Pretty informative video.. the Asus rog astral 5090 will be the one I am after...

TL;DR: Nvidia should add extra shunts to monitor the current balance of the connector(like ASUS is doing on their cards).
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They are pushing even more power through that cable, so this is no surprise. I know the failure rates were very low last gen, but I'd be curious how many show up with the 50 series cards.
 
Furious_Styles said:
You want to buy the most overpriced 5090 on offer?
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not anytime soon... gonna wait till things get back to msrp.. that'll be a while.. if you watch the video you will know why.
Niner said:
They are pushing even more power through that cable, so this is no surprise. I know the failure rates were very low last gen, but I'd be curious how many show up with the 50 series cards.
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yup... that cable is literally maxed out.. the Asus power monitoring circs seem to give you the best shot at not melting the cable.. I hope other AIBs do similar designs.
 
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xDiVolatilX said:
Lmao I love this 😍 this is the definition of a "rig" 💛
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Heh, thanks. I went [H]ard quite some time ago when it came to my case and watercooling solution. Wanted something where the case HW internals remained easy to access in order to make upgrading easier. Also went push/pull config on both rads to maximize their cooling performance… hard to do if mounted inside a case. The top radiator also makes use of fan shrouds on the top and bottom - prevents airflow dead-space, where a fan’s center motor hub against the rad would otherwise block substantial airflow.

I’ve upgraded three generations of MB/CPU/GPU internals with this setup over the past decade and have never had to worry about not having enough cooling. :D

The 14 rad fans all Nidec Gentle Typhoon 1850's that are on fan controllers to slow them down to around 1250rpm, so they are nice and quiet.
 
Supercharged_Z06 said:
Heh, thanks. I went [H]ard quite some time ago when it came to my case and watercooling solution. Wanted something where the case HW internals remained easy to access in order to make upgrading easier. Also went push/pull config on both rads to maximize their cooling performance… hard to do if mounted inside a case. The top radiator also makes use of fan shrouds on the top and bottom - prevents airflow dead-space, where a fan’s center motor hub against the rad would otherwise block substantial airflow.

I’ve upgraded three generations of MB/CPU/GPU internals with this setup over the past decade and have never had to worry about not having enough cooling. :D

The 14 rad fans all Nidec Gentle Typhoon 1850's that are on fan controllers to slow them down to around 1250rpm, so they are nice and quiet.
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Sweet bro love it. I noticed those shrouds but didn't ask so I'll ask now, did you customize the shrouds or bought them? How'd you get the air tight seal on them?
 
xDiVolatilX said:
Sweet bro love it. I noticed those shrouds but didn't ask so I'll ask now, did you customize the shrouds or bought them? How'd you get the air tight seal on them?
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Earlier pic is from a good 3 years ago - that top rad shroud used to be a box I cobbled together from cut up Home Depot rulers and black gorilla tape. :). Was somewhat ghetto, so last year when one of my top fans started failing/making noises and I went in to replace it, I stripped the shroud box out and 3D printed proper shrouds for each of the top fans.

Here’s a current pic as of 10 min ago:
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For the underside of the rad, I used gutted fan cases for shrouds. Here’s a pic inside looking up.

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As to sealing, I used a combo of rubber fan gaskets and thin window foam weatherstripping.

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Taking these pics made me realize just how friggin dusty everything is… time to do some cleaning! :p

And back on topic, I’m glad I didn’t score a 5090 now as it seems that other than the Gigabytes Auros Xtreme Waterforce, there really aren’t any pre-built waterblocked 5090s out there… and a custom water block for a 5090 will most likely run close to $400+. So once available, that would be dumping $3000+ towards a 5090, and for me at least the 25% performance gain over my 4090 seems like a bad spend. Just going to wait for the 6000 series to hit a couple years from now… which should be much more significant gains that would justify the spend. My slightly OC’d 4090 is definitely no slouch, runs plenty cool and handles everything I throw at it… so plenty of life left to sit out this particular gen.
 
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Why don't they just go back to larger connectors, it's not like they make enough 5090's for the extra metal and plastic to cost that much.
 
Azphira said:
Why don't they just go back to larger connectors, it's not like they make enough 5090's for the extra metal and plastic to cost that much.
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Nvidia seems to be prioritizing thermal design and volumetric efficiency. Hence, their coolers tend to be pretty small relative to the AIBs and cool pretty decently.
 
Niner said:
Yeah he pretty much wrapped it up. It's a sad state of affairs that an iffy card and cable has that much of a negative affect on the whole video card market right now.
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The 4090 series had the known cable connection issue.

And the 5090 has a revised slightly better version, but people are seeing the faulty burned out wiring AGAIN on the 5xxx series.

Like Jay said, why not go to 2 separate connectors on the video card. Or like AMD does it, 3 separate.

As it is the 5090 is stupid expensive, it can draw crazy watts and the cables may or may not be up for it safely, plus the card is a minimal "upgrade" over the 4090, what 28% better performance? That's a freaking joke.
 
Zorachus said:
As it is the 5090 is stupid expensive, it can draw crazy watts and the cables may or may not be up for it safely, plus the card is a minimal "upgrade" over the 4090, what 28% better performance? That's a freaking joke.
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Yeah, it's like Nvidia said "we were having a few issues with the 4090 let's make a card with a heavier power draw while basically using the same cable!" Don't really get the reasoning behind it honestly.
 
Niner said:
Yeah, it's like Nvidia said "we were having a few issues with the 4090 let's make a card with a heavier power draw while basically using the same cable!" Don't really get the reasoning behind it honestly.
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I was 50/50 on getting a 5090 from my current 4080 FE, but [H]ard pass now.

The price isn't even the big issue for me ( I mean it is ) but the main things are the stupid high power draw and potential strain on the connection, and it's not much of an "upgrade"

Last Gen to gen was a 70% "upgrade" this new gen ONLY being 30% "upgrade" and costs way more is just a slap in the face to gamers.

And nVidia still hasn't figured out a good power connection design, which isn't a good feeling.

My opinion.
 
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