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What are you doing with the 4090 Strix?

I’m guessing inventory will probably be slow and back to normal after a month maybe?

I still play RDR2 to this day. And I run DLSS quality just because their implementation of TAA is poor and always has been. And DLSS Quality looks ten times better. The game didn’t always have DLSS though. I’m glad it does, and not just for the performance benefits, it fixed that crap TAA cartoon looking garbage they had implemented in the game previously.

I’d love to go ahead and get mine. Newegg ships items after release date though unfortunately. I am guessing they will ship it on the 21st. I’m assuming on the 24th or 25th I’ll finally join the fun. 😭 PS: 22 days waiting so far. It went by pretty slow lol.

Do the Intel 13900K reviews finally come out tomorrow? I found some new R23 benchmark numbers for the 13900K. It looks to just match the AMD 7950X with the stock power TDP, and outpace it with higher power limits. 13900K Leaked benchmarks https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-13900k-raptor-lake-cpu-same-performance-as-core-i9-12900k-at-80w/

What kind of 3090 do you have?

I know that the 3090FE’s with even just their 350-400 watt power limits. The memory TJMax which is a sensor inside one of the memory modules would run north of 100C-110C. People were re-doing the pads and getting that down substantially to the 80’s which was perfectly fine. Watercooling any of them helps drastically. Apparently this was fixed a while back though. I think any 3090 now a days is good to go.

FUN FUN FUN!!!! Memory at 23GBPS 😃 Great performance out of the RTX3090. I think 4K 60+ may be possible on one of these last Gen AMPERE GPU’s. I had all of my dip switches enabled on the back of my GPU. Cut down on power usage DRASTICALLY!!

If I restore defaults, and limit power to 500 watts. It runs about 30c. Same 1.1V. No under volting or anything.

Water is locked to just 70F. I use a switch for my radiator fans to turn them off. Condensation can form really bad. But I would have to set my water temp to about 53-55F to reach condensation. I usually keep it at 70F liquid temp though.

Anyone play A Plague Tale: Requiem yet? Boy is it power hungry!! Peaking at over 625 watts. This 3090 smashes it though!! With this kind of power usage, any standard 3090 would just clock flop on you. It would probably tank to 1,700Mhz range.

I have seen some beautiful Mora3 setups before, so nice in fact it really makes me want to set aside the funds and do it all for nothing more than nice looks. But they are expensive. They sell aluminum and copper variants too with lots of accessories. I run a Pora3. The Pora3 is the “Poor man’s Mora” 😎. It’s a solid copper 1,080x45mm thick radiator. Holds (18) 120mm fans. And it’s only $122 dollars. I actually have two of them. But one is plenty overkill. Okay, I’m kidding. It’s not really called a “Pora” it’s really a Alphacool Nexxxos 1080, and they sell enclosures with feet as well. It’s pretty cool. After hooking it up, I never looked back. Real God like cooling.

Nice to see free gains with the RTX3090 with the new driver. Assassins Creed Valhalla has boosted up nicely a few other titles as well. I’ll take anything. So while a GPU fps boost helps, I’m still CPU limited in certain titles. RDR2 especially running around Valentine with lots of people around, other games too. I’m ready for a 13900K and that nice double in multithreaded performance.

I assumed you’d grab a RTX4090, then the RTX3090 KP HC would move in to your work Computer. But after hearing that the RTX4090 doesn’t support Windows 7, then I guess that’s a no go for you.

One single HW Labs 360 GTX or 360 GTR will get the job done EASY. Most people who are using massive radiators are chasing very low coolant numbers. You probably don’t need all that. (1) single really good 360mm radiator can go along ways! If I were to run one radiator it would be a HW Labs 360 GTX or 360 GTR. The HW Labs GTX models work great with lower fan RPM’s and fan speeds up to 1,800RPM. The GTR is a new model that scales a little better with really high fan RPM’s. So starting at 1,800-3,000+ RPM. But we’re talking about a lot of noise. So the GTX is a little more flexible. The HWLabs GTX is easily the best radiator in the world “If using a case”, and nothing can beat it. Even just a 280GTX and a single D5 pump will cool a 4090 and a 12900K.

The black tube goes directly to a ekwb D5 pump in the bottom of my test bench.

Not at all. All of those items are name brand within the watercooling community. Magicool/Bykski/Swiftech. Also, using distilled water is your friend it’s not conductive. It does slowly become conductive over time, so swapping water periodically can ease your worries. AIO’s can leak just like anything else. I have never had a real water leak, I have never leak tested components, I don’t even use the PSU jumper to run pumps only. Never had a leak. Honestly, if you just pay attention to what your doing you’ll be fine.

Red on copper looks really cool!!

People would be better off building a custom loop with the price of a good AIO. It’s one of the few PC components we get to re-use over and over. These are (3) main parts radiator, pump, waterblock. All for the cost of only $161 dollars. Tubing is $1 dollar per 1ft, and fittings are like $5 each. Someone could probably build it even cheaper than that.

Same here. You can almost guarantee a waterblock for all the Strix models. And it looks greats too. Personally, I would just run it on air cooling for a while my self. Then I’d get bored and want to blast it with daily water chilling.

3 days before Intel 13900K testing. I imagine that 5.8Ghz beast couldn’t come any sooner for people rocking RTX4090’s waiting with Z690 motherboards , with any resolution for that matter. Hard to believe we are finally cpu bottlenecked with 4K. I remember almost 10 years ago when the GTX Titan was barely managing 23 fps average across titles in 4K. The resolution was trying so hard to become a mainstream thing, but it wasn’t physically possible with even the fastest GPU in the world.

Playing around with dyes. What have I done? I told my self I’d never do this again.

Another nice RTX4090 for sure. Honestly, I made it past launch. I was so close to getting a 4090 too by the time I rounded up some funds, they were sold out online, and no local stores are even near me. Micro Center is an almost 4.5 hour drive from me. The initial “Gotta have NOW” has come and gone for me. Now I feel content with my 3090 Kingpin HC again, because it is actually still crazy fast. Honestly, at this point I feel like it’s worth waiting for all of the 4090 AIB’s to settle in place and maybe even for the 4090Ti to release, it’ll be another 15-20% maybe. It looks like Nvidia saved some meat on the bone for a possible decent Ti model this go around. I personally like the Strix 4090. It has grown on me so much. Originally I hated it lol.

I thought the same thing. I saw that the scalpers are hardly making any money. They are probably making about $150-$300 on each card after that 13% in PayPal and eBay fees together. I wouldn’t even bother my self. Your driving a fairly heavy resolution, so long as your GPU does fine with it. You’ll probably be okay. What wattage bios do you run anyways? I noticed some of the less demanding games can pull the most power when we turn up all of the eye candy. I played a game with my son “Sea of Thieves” we turned up the resolution slider to 250% my 3090KP was churning right through it, and it looked so nice compared to Xbox. Then I checked and my 3090 was sucking down 630 watts of juice peak power. If I would have been on the standard 520 bios performance would have been throttled back and I would lose as much as 10+ fps. I have come across several games like this. You have that ultra wide 49” monitor right? I have drawn up a few ways I am going to run the watercooled M.2, so this will be really neat and simplistic. I’ll show you want I mean when I’m done. Also, isn’t it annoying how hot the motherboard is below the GPU? It’s like a constant 50C+. It’s kinda frustrating it’s hotter than my GPU and CPU, it’s just always under a load or strain. Especially with a EVGA Dark motherboard, but I imagine other boards are the same way. I’m going to be eliminating that heat soak issue for good lol. Last but not least if it is just the worst thing ever, I can remove it and run it under the motherboards heat sink.

Well, it’s also easy. Another item that’s worth water cooling is system ram. But it’s too expensive to do it right.