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Well, I ended up getting an Asus 5070 ti. I really wanted the Gigabyte gaming version but that thing is a monster 13-14" card.. would slam into the fans at the front of my case. I didn't want to move those fans to the top as they're for my liquid cooler.
Hopefully this card is good for 4k.
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Have the Asus ROG 4090. Just sitting the card in the case like a normal card was blocking ventilation big time. I ended up doing an extension and having the card vent directly outside of the case. Dropped the entire build down an average 12 degrees and thats with 10 fans (not including the three on the card itself).
Not at home to show the new position but it sat in the regular slot for months before i changed it up. Switching from the 13900 to the 14900 made me change it all up because of the heat. But you can see where it eventually ended up on the back there.
After having the “best of the best” that even rivals the new shit - Ive learned one thing. 98.99% of games are optimized like complete garbage. Thats great that I can play WOW on ultra at 240 fps. But i didn't buy the card for a 20 year old game.
Whats worse? I think developers are letting these bloated PoS’s out the door because they think frame generation will shore up their inadequacies. So theres like no hope on games coming out without them running like shit. Hell, it took CP2077 how long before it wasnt chugging down 600 watts to put out 70 fps?
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Have the Asus ROG 4090. Just sitting the card in the case like a normal card was blocking ventilation big time. I ended up doing an extension and having the card vent directly outside of the case. Dropped the entire build down an average 12 degrees and thats with 10 fans (not including the three on the card itself).
Not at home to show the new position but it sat in the regular slot for months before i changed it up. Switching from the 13900 to the 14900 made me change it all up because of the heat. But you can see where it eventually ended up on the back there.
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After having the “best of the best” that even rivals the new shit - Ive learned one thing. 98.99% of games are optimized like complete garbage. Thats great that I can play WOW on ultra at 240 fps. But i didn't buy the card for a 20 year old game.
Whats worse? I think developers are letting these bloated PoS’s out the door because they think frame generation will shore up their inadequacies. So theres like no hope on games coming out without them running like shit. Hell, it took CP2077 how long before it wasnt chugging down 600 watts to put out 70 fps?
I thought this pic was upside down but then I saw the floor.. very interesting, never seen a case with components laid out like this.
Yea the 5070 ti isn't something I really needed that much, more because I have a bunch of cash sitting around and figured why not. Big upgrade coming from a 3070.
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Whats worse? I think developers are letting these bloated PoS’s out the door because they think frame generation will shore up their inadequacies. So theres like no hope on games coming out without them running like shit. Hell, it took CP2077 how long before it wasnt chugging down 600 watts to put out 70 fps?
We are going to get it from both ends. Game devs will lean on FG to counter-act poor optimization, and GPU makers will use FG to reduce GPU die size and thus native performance. .
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Commented in the nvidea thread, but looking for more input. I have a 3080 aorus that's kinda gay. (Funny issues here and there currently ok, but recently seemed to die, appeared not to be installed and a clean install of drivers seemed to fix, was after I had played the night before, no updates or restarts just poof
I was loosely planning on getting a 6 series card when they come or an AMD offering because fuck nvidea politically. But... with current hikes on the horizon I'm debating if I just grab what I can now and hope that lasts me 5 years or so. I'm super unfamiliar with AMD cards but I'm open to making that jump.
I quickly forget what I researched in the past. What would some bang to value options be as poor as they are in this market. Like can I even find a 3090ti, does a 4070 ti even really come ahead by much? I dont want to be limited to 10gb like I was here, if I broke down on a 5 series I was hoping for a 5080 super refresh which looks unlikely now, is the 5080 my best play? I'm still nervous about it melting, heard of some, but obviously a bigger issue possibly with 5090's. I've had bad luck w/ this rid all around so a bit gunshy on that.
I was loosely planning on getting a 6 series card when they come or an AMD offering because fuck nvidea politically. But... with current hikes on the horizon I'm debating if I just grab what I can now and hope that lasts me 5 years or so. I'm super unfamiliar with AMD cards but I'm open to making that jump.
I quickly forget what I researched in the past. What would some bang to value options be as poor as they are in this market. Like can I even find a 3090ti, does a 4070 ti even really come ahead by much? I dont want to be limited to 10gb like I was here, if I broke down on a 5 series I was hoping for a 5080 super refresh which looks unlikely now, is the 5080 my best play? I'm still nervous about it melting, heard of some, but obviously a bigger issue possibly with 5090's. I've had bad luck w/ this rid all around so a bit gunshy on that.
The issue was poor engineering of the power connectors but its solved now if you get a 3.1 atx power supply with the new connectors. I think the general consensus is the 5070 ti's are the best bang for your buck but if you don't care about getting gouged the 5080 is about 10%-15% faster and the 5090 is 40%+. Also depends if you plan on 4k gaming or VR, otherwise getting a lower tier card makes more sense.
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Just get a 9070XT if you want to stop supporting those faggots at nVidia and get a card that has a great performance/cost ratio.
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This. I have a ROG Strix 4090 (~$2700) and there's no reason I shouldn't have just gotten a 9070 Red Devil (~$750) Amazon.com
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If you're doing anything that needs the vram, it's hard to beat a used 3090ti for the money, and you can probably resell it without too much loss whenever you upgrade (depending on what comes out between now and then of course).
You might take a look to see if anyone has run 3090/5080 benchmarks/comparisons for some of the games you play or whatever your usecase is. Here's someone with a few comparisons.
More Marketing BS: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review & Benchmarks vs GTX 1060, 4060 Ti, & More | GamersNexus
GPUs More Marketing BS: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review & Benchmarks vs GTX 1060, 4060 Ti, & More April 17, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-04-17 We benchmark the RTX 5060 Ti against the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, the RTX 3070 Ti, 3080, RX 9070, and dozens of other GPUs The Highlights NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 Ti ships...
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Finding one still new in box would be rough though I imagine.If you're doing anything that needs the vram, it's hard to beat a used 3090ti for the money, and you can probably resell it without too much loss whenever you upgrade (depending on what comes out between now and then of course).
You might take a look to see if anyone has run 3090/5080 benchmarks/comparisons for some of the games you play or whatever your usecase is. Here's someone with a few comparisons.
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More Marketing BS: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review & Benchmarks vs GTX 1060, 4060 Ti, & More | GamersNexus
GPUs More Marketing BS: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review & Benchmarks vs GTX 1060, 4060 Ti, & More April 17, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-04-17 We benchmark the RTX 5060 Ti against the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB, the RTX 3070 Ti, 3080, RX 9070, and dozens of other GPUs The Highlights NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 Ti ships...gamersnexus.net
Jumped because I was watching things sell out live. First website friend linked w/ in stock was actually special order w/ a note about they can jack up price and will check with you....
A few on newegg etc turned out to be 3rd party with like 5 reviews.
Was eyeballing a zotach solid white OC but ugly and plastic and forget what other concerns I saw. For $50 more was working on checking out a Asus Prime on bestbuy and it poofed out of my cart. Ended up finding a TuF direct from asus and did that for now unless someone can maybe pull the 3090ti from the ether at a good price.
If nothing else 3080 as backup or possibly sell in 3 months when it's going for like $400+ possibly. I'm gunshy on used myself, which was another one, saw a website that's apparently legit with a "like new" open box 3080 but it was only like $100 cheaper than just direct from asus.,
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Well yeah, for a card that old you'd pretty much need to use ebay or a local marketplace, so a bit of a roll of the dice. $800ish looks like the current buy it now on ebay if you're not picky about the flavor, but depending on how patient/lucky you are, you could probably get one quite a bit cheaper, especially if you could find one local. On the upside, I paid 1100 new for mine like 3.5 years ago, and I could probably sell it for close to that today (again, somewhat dependent on patience and luck).
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