Nvidia RTX 4000 Launch

[FourWheelDrift]

RTX 4090 FE cards are still available.

I'd say very confidently that whenever they are in stock now you don't have to be there immediately or lose out.

[cadmunkey]

FourWheelDrift said:

RTX 4090 FE cards are still available.

I'd say very confidently that whenever they are in stock now you don't have to be there immediately or lose out.

All the mugs have bought one now I will wait for the inevitable price drop, but happy with my 3090 for the time being.

[8bit]

I scored a 3070 FE on launch day, happy with it for the most part except I play in VR a fair bit more now. Half tempted to see if I can get a 4070Ti and sell on the 3070 to cover some of the outlay, if the general view is that the 4070Ti is a decent bet for VR? My headset is the Oculus Quest 2.

[FourWheelDrift]

Loads of RTX 4070 Tis on the shelf

This one in particular - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-nvidia-geforc...

£1,049 ! -

[mmm-five]

FourWheelDrift said:

Loads of RTX 4070 Tis on the shelf

This one in particular - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-nvidia-geforc...

£1,049 ! -

Yes, but it's the Strix OC version - so if you must have that version you'll see a similar mark-up on the 4080 (£1529) and 4090 (£1999)

[8bit]

No Founders Edition tho? Have they just sold out quick or are they not bothering with a 4070Ti FE?

[Brainpox]

8bit said:

No Founders Edition tho? Have they just sold out quick or are they not bothering with a 4070Ti FE?

They haven't bothered. So, there is no RRP, and the prices mentioned in the reviews are somewhat irrelevant as, at least initially, no partner will sell their card at Nvidia's RRP if they want to make any money.

[8bit]

Brainpox said:

8bit said:

No Founders Edition tho? Have they just sold out quick or are they not bothering with a 4070Ti FE?

They haven't bothered. So, there is no RRP, and the prices mentioned in the reviews are somewhat irrelevant as, at least initially, no partner will sell their card at Nvidia's RRP if they want to make any money.

That's a shame. The nicest thing about my 3070 FE (apart from it sold for RRP instead of the insane partner board prices) was the cooler - it's the quietest stock air cooler of any graphics card I've ever had.

Scan list a Zotac card at the £799 RRP - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/zotac-nvidia-gefor...

[FourWheelDrift]

mmm-five said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Loads of RTX 4070 Tis on the shelf

This one in particular - https://www.scan.co.uk/products/asus-nvidia-geforc...

£1,049 ! -

Yes, but it's the Strix OC version - so if you must have that version you'll see a similar mark-up on the 4080 (£1529) and 4090 (£1999)

It's also a cuda count percentage equivalent (to the 90) to a 60 series card. For over £1000, non-crypto inflation.

[FourWheelDrift]

Noctua and Asus have made their brown and cream RTX 4080 and it's 5 slots thick this time.

https://www.techpowerup.com/303148/asus-x-noctua-r...

[mmm-five]

Do many people have a brown & cream aesthetic to their builds...or are these intended for opaque cases only?

Although if someone was to offer me one for free, I'm sure I could ignore the colour scheme

[Stevil]

I've got the Noctua fans in my case as they're highly rated and very quiet, don't give a monkeys what they look like and my case is closed as I've no interest in what it looks like inside. I can see some people designing a build around that aesthetic though. Would look great in a really retro unassuming cream case.

[FourWheelDrift]

mmm-five said:

Do many people have a brown & cream aesthetic to their builds...or are these intended for opaque cases only?

[mmm-five]

FourWheelDrift said:

Oh no, I've got a little bit of sick in my mouth

[mmm-five]

Stevil said:

I've got the Noctua fans in my case as they're highly rated and very quiet, don't give a monkeys what they look like and my case is closed as I've no interest in what it looks like inside. I can see some people designing a build around that aesthetic though. Would look great in a really retro unassuming cream case.

You mean like in the first PC I ever had...an IBM XT in hearing aid beige?



I know the fans are good, and I replaced the ones that came with my Thunderbolt RAID boxes with them...but they are at the back of the enclosure so I don't see them. But don't they now do the same fans in grey/black now...so there's no excuse...except to be different

Edited by mmm-five on Friday 6th January 10:49

[Brainpox]

mmm-five said:

Do many people have a brown & cream aesthetic to their builds...or are these intended for opaque cases only?

Noctua have a built a reputation for fans that means they sell well despite the looks. The beige and brown are the colours of the materials they use and painting them would only make them perform worse... supposedly.

Luckily they sell black versions of a lot of their products if you've got another 20% in your budget

[8bit]

I've got 3x 140mm Noctua fans in my system but they're grey, not sure if that means they're less effective or more noisy than the brown ones. Don't really see them though.

[Lucas Ayde]

8bit said:

I've got 3x 140mm Noctua fans in my system but they're grey, not sure if that means they're less effective or more noisy than the brown ones. Don't really see them though.

The grey ones are 'budget' versions that don't have the full retail packaging and all the cables and extra bits that you get with the retail version.

They're just as good though. I bought a bunch of them for my case a while back. I needed 4x 80mm so I bought two brown/beige retails and two grey ones and used the extra cables from the retail versions to connect the grey ones. It massively reduced the noise and cooled the system better (admittedly, the old fans had been in the case for well over a decade and the filters on the case vents were clogged up with dust when I changed them).

They also do a 'black' range of retail products that are more expensive than the brown/beige versions. When I upgraded my CPU I got their black NH-U9S heatsink/fan and it works great for my 5900x ... quieter than the Wraith Prism that I'd been using on the 3700x that I upgraded from despite the new CPU having a higher TDP.

Expensive - but good. For an air-cooled 5900x/3070 in a (small by modern standards) 2 decades old case it's pretty quiet and all runs well within the recommended temps.

[thatsprettyshady]

I've got 9 noctua fans, dotted around my case- they're the best fans money can buy

[Lucas Ayde]

If you watch the 'Foresty Forest' youtube channel (Hiking with some Vanlife) he uses Noctua fans on his homemade leisure battery cabinet .. he knows his stuff