Nvidia 3000 Series Tonight
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t"?derBauer has got hold of one of the Asus Noctua 3070s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpk4UM1VQOY
FourWheelDrift said:
derBauer has got hold of one of the Asus Noctua 3070s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpk4UM1VQOY
That card/heatsink/fan setup is THICC ! 4 slots is a wee bit too much for a basic 3070 .. if it was 3090 or 3080Ti it would be more acceptable.You can't fault the quietness and general cooling performance though. As for looks, it looks pretty nice to me but I guess that Nokia beige/brown is going to put a lot of people off.
The fan shroud on the Asus 3070 Noctua edition is just a 120mm fan bracket, it seems you can swap out the brown fans and put whatever you want in there, black chromax Noctuas if you want, or any other that fits the shroud - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44PEl57EJo4
Keep an eye on those 3090 reference board cards. Voltage controller for the VRAM looks like being the culprit for failures. Reference PCBs using the UP9511 for Vcore.
https://twitter.com/Buildzoid1/status/144715681155...
"The more I probe the 3090 the more confused and horrified I am by the absolutely abomination that is the Vcore VRM. At this point I'm not surprised by 3090s dying I'm surprised by them being able to turn on in the first place."
https://www.youtube.com/c/ActuallyHardcoreOvercloc...
https://twitter.com/Buildzoid1/status/144715681155...
"The more I probe the 3090 the more confused and horrified I am by the absolutely abomination that is the Vcore VRM. At this point I'm not surprised by 3090s dying I'm surprised by them being able to turn on in the first place."
https://www.youtube.com/c/ActuallyHardcoreOvercloc...
Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 11th October 11:45
HRL said:
Thankfully the 3090FE is a non-reference board. 
I did read that AIB’s were having to cut corners to keep costs down when they initially launched. They simply couldn’t compete with the FE pricing, at least partly due to how much Nvidia were charging them for the chips.
NVidia sold the FE cards at a discount relative to the costs of what a third party would incur by building a board at the prices that Nvidia were charging them for the chips.I did read that AIB’s were having to cut corners to keep costs down when they initially launched. They simply couldn’t compete with the FE pricing, at least partly due to how much Nvidia were charging them for the chips.
It allowed them to compete price wise with the headline RRPs of rival AMD 6xxx cards and put the pressure on third parties to cut costs.
Of course, this was before ALL GPU prices went nuts so now NVidia are taking big losses on the FE cards relative to what they resell for on the open market. I suspect the 3080Ti was an attempt to redress that. To their credit, they've continued to make FE cards available through tightly controlled sales, which at least gives gamers a chance to get one at a realistic price - that's how I got my 3070FE.
Not Nvidia but only £1,199 for a new AMD Radeon MSI 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio is not to the sniffed at - https://www.ebuyer.com/1258468-msi-radeon-rx-6900-...
The Z is the higher clock boost speed version faster than the X.
Ps. MSRP for the 6900 XT was £1,099 for the basic AMD edition and this is an MSI special.
The Z is the higher clock boost speed version faster than the X.
Ps. MSRP for the 6900 XT was £1,099 for the basic AMD edition and this is an MSI special.
FourWheelDrift said:
Not Nvidia but only £1,199 for a new AMD Radeon MSI 6900 XT Gaming Z Trio is not to the sniffed at - https://www.ebuyer.com/1258468-msi-radeon-rx-6900-...
The Z is the higher clock boost speed version faster than the X.
Ps. MSRP for the 6900 XT was £1,099 for the basic AMD edition and this is an MSI special.
Brilliant headsup thank you. Even Scan has these up for £500 more. Arrives tomorrow hopefully and saves cutting up a 3090.The Z is the higher clock boost speed version faster than the X.
Ps. MSRP for the 6900 XT was £1,099 for the basic AMD edition and this is an MSI special.
Has anyone found any third-party options for the proprietary power cables for the Founder's Edition cards? Specifically, ones which are a lot longer than the ones included with the cards - nothing wrong with the standard one I have, just that because it's pretty short it connects to a couple of ugly PCIe power connectors/cables which are visible, awkward to bend/route and just generally get in the way. There was chat when the cards were released that there'd be third-party options for these but I've yet to find any...
This is the only one I have found mainly because it's a match for my PSU but it's never in stock - https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/Categories/Products/...
8bit said:
Has anyone found any third-party options for the proprietary power cables for the Founder's Edition cards? Specifically, ones which are a lot longer than the ones included with the cards - nothing wrong with the standard one I have, just that because it's pretty short it connects to a couple of ugly PCIe power connectors/cables which are visible, awkward to bend/route and just generally get in the way. There was chat when the cards were released that there'd be third-party options for these but I've yet to find any...
I think you can get them from cablemod?https://store.cablemod.com/
DuncsGTi said:
8bit said:
Has anyone found any third-party options for the proprietary power cables for the Founder's Edition cards? Specifically, ones which are a lot longer than the ones included with the cards - nothing wrong with the standard one I have, just that because it's pretty short it connects to a couple of ugly PCIe power connectors/cables which are visible, awkward to bend/route and just generally get in the way. There was chat when the cards were released that there'd be third-party options for these but I've yet to find any...
I think you can get them from cablemod?https://store.cablemod.com/
Thanks all. It is a Corsair PSU I have but doesn't look like that's available really. I've emailed Cablemod to ask if they can do one of these but I imagine it will not be cheap.
HM-2 said:
You can also make your own, it's relatively easy as long as you have a pinout of the PSU. That's what I plan to do if I manage to secure a FE 3080Ti.
Do you have any links on how-to instructions for that? I guess you'd need to disassemble a standard cable and build it back up with longer wiring? Actually thinking about it, I had to buy a set of tools for removing wiring from connectors to fix a brake light issue on the wife's old car a couple of years ago so that might have whatever tool I'd need for that...8bit said:
Do you have any links on how-to instructions for that? I guess you'd need to disassemble a standard cable and build it back up with longer wiring? Actually thinking about it, I had to buy a set of tools for removing wiring from connectors to fix a brake light issue on the wife's old car a couple of years ago so that might have whatever tool I'd need for that...
The pinout for the 12 pin to 8 pin adaptors you get can be found here- https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/j3feyu/pi...That would be enough to make your own custom double 8 pin to 12 pin adapter in whatever sleeve colours and length your heart desired. There's a decent guide here https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/guide-m... for the traditional heatshrinked method, I use heatshrinkless as per https://www.overclock.net/threads/heatshrink-less-...
If you wanted to make a fully custom cable from your PSU all the way to your GPU 12 pin you would need a pinout diagram.from your PSU, a PSU tester or multimeter, or to be willing to sacrifice a few cables of your own for testing purposes.
You can find the male and female versions of the connectors and make extension cables, which would just be straight through, no wiring diagram necessary. I did this some years ago when I first had a GPU requiring external power, in a full tower case.
The crimp tool for the pins is fairly unique, IIRC - I borrowed mine from work.
The crimp tool for the pins is fairly unique, IIRC - I borrowed mine from work.
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