The power connector really is bad, at least with the way they have it hooked up to the card. I had mine melt with my 4090. May have been because I was using one of the janky CableMod 180 degree adapters. May have been because one of the pins on the cable going into the adapter was loose and was making poor or no contact (I have an HTPC case and the card was installed in a tight position where I could not really see the cable, so I am not sure whether the pin had backed out when in use, or if it didn't come loose until it was removed). Could have been both. Either way, it melted.You know, I think I would have been happy to switch to AMD this gen if they just had made a card that was slightly faster than a 4090, I'm so sick of having a melting timebomb in my pc.
Apparently the AI market is slowing down and more nvidia chips are going to be directed to consumer cards? Might mean prices are reasonable-ish eventually?
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Finally, some good news about Nvidia’s new GPUs: RTX 5090 stock levels rumored to surge in a month or so
Scalpers will be left high and dry if this stock forecast pans outwww.techradar.com
And if the 5090 market can't move that many, then pushing more of those chips into 5080 (disabling stuff) may even happen.
TechPowerUp has discovered that there are NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards in retail circulation that come with too few render units, which lowers performance. Zotac's GeForce RTX 5090 Solid comes with fewer ROPs than it should—168 are enabled, instead of the 176 that are part of the RTX 5090 specifications. This loss of 8 ROPs has a small, but noticeable impact on performance. During recent testing, we noticed our Zotac RTX 5090 Solid sample underperformed slightly, falling behind even the NVIDIA RTX 5090 Founders Edition card. At the time we didn't pay attention to the ROP count that TechPowerUp GPU-Z was reporting, and instead spent time looking for other reasons, like clocks, power, cooling, etc.
Squid adapter never fails! I am kinda glad I never got a newer power supply.....Nvidia cards melting cables again?
Ouch! Rough launch overall for nVidia on this one. Hopefully it will even out as it goes along here.It looks like the 5070 will be a phantom edition card in Sweden, one retailer has confirmed that they will be getting 0 cards for the official launch date.