jaybee83

yep, things are looking rough...latest rumours suggest initial supply will be super tight here in europe. but at least there were 7 reputable shops listed in germany that would get day 1 supply. i plan to register and prepare accounts on all of them and flip through them until i get one grabbed 😄

curious to see how many of the initial "hold outs" here will cave and get a 5090 nonetheless 😄 hardware itch resistance is futile - NvidiBorg 😄

yeah....lets hope that "new trend" of Nvidia wanting to have cute lil tiny coolers on their flagship GPUs doesnt perpetuate into the future 😅 that is absolutely a 100% valid buying strategy, get whatever u can put into your basket and manage to check out 😄 beats empty hands and a 5090 budget burning a hole into your wallet lulz As for AMD, since they understandably neither have the manpower nor the budget that Nvidia has, theyre likely taking a "break" for highend to get all their IP / resources together for a proper counter to the 60 series... i mean, they have done it before, so its nothing new or surprising.

pshhh dont give them ideas.... 😉

nice, looks like well have a full 6 days to read up on reviews and decide on which card to get, 5090 reviews coming up on 24-Jan! https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-reviews-go-live-january-24-rtx-5080-on-january-30

congratz on the better bin 9800X3D 🙂 yeah the Suprim SOC seems to have the largest total volume out of all cards with known dimensions thus far. its about 10% larger in total volume than the 4090 Suprim and a tad (0.8%) chunkier than the Astral. absolutely humongous 😄 wouldnt be too sure if my budget will be enough...after all thats happened i always expect the worst when it comes to new GPU launches, ugh....heres to hoping tho.

fun fact: theres no Strix 5090 this time around, so ud have to go with the new Astral 😄 yup, right on with the price estimates. here in europe the 5090 MSRP (including tax) will be 2329€. my max budget is 3300€, but im hoping to snag a Suprim SOC or Astral for max. 2700/2800€, then Id be content.

yeah, just based on RT / CUDA cores, max. theoretical jump would be +33%. the rest will depend on the memory speed sensitivity of the respective software (5090 at +78% bandwidth vs. 4090) and the overclocking capabilities of the 5090. im hoping that the stock clocks do not point towards less maximum clocks, but rather the physical restraints of the dual slot FE design. Heres to hoping that we can use the humongous third party coolers for better clocks! 🙂

so far, all 5090 models including the FE only have one power connector, unfortunately... getting a 5090 on launch day will require, as usual, a bit of luck and some elbow grease. best to take at least a half day off to do some thorough gpu hunting, whether it be in person or online 😄

yup also got newer gen cables on my watchlist for my TX-1600 PSU. currently prepping my ebay auction for the 4090, very curious to see how the 12-pin socket held up, havent really checked it recently.....what could go wrong running it with a 1kW vbios as daily amirite 😛 😄

its hilarious, i was talking to my cousin this summer, hes a total car nut. he was like: soooo...u got a good education, great job, travel a lot, why the heck do you drive around in a POS junk pile?! he also knows a bit about pc components so i just replied with what im currently sporting in my rig, he just laughed his butt off 😄 funny thing is: hes exactly the other way around, has both a highend motorbike and a car but a PC that basically just does its job. my POS pile of junk does the same, gets me from A to B 😄 to each their own priorities in life hahaha

well duh, i think that describes basically everyone in this forum 😄

which is fine, as long as we can find a way to cross-flash vbios versions 😛 besides, its more up to Nvidia and less the board partners if and what you can do in XOC.... edit: interesting to see that the MSI Lightning Air follows a similar approach as the ASUS Astral, with push/pull fan configs. but then again, if the lightning is even MORE expensive than the Astral, ugh... i can take a bit of an upsell over the FE MSRP, but i wont take a thousand extra USD / EUR just because its ASUS / MSI lightning 😄

agreed on MSI Suprim SOC and Asus Astral skus, they look to be the most interesting. Im suspecting most "gamerboiz" will be chasing after the Asus cards, so both availability and MSRP should be horrendous. Thats why I'll likely go with MSI again, especially if their power delivery is again superior to other cards.

yup, for me it was just elbow grease, had like 10 different reputable online shops open at the same time and kept refreshing for about 1.5 hours before i got something i was happy with. ill do the same approach this time around 😄 soooo, whos got their wallets ready? here comes a statement that only very few will get behind / not lock me up for being insane: BOI am i glad the 5090 turned out to be rather CHEAP and on the LOWER side of the rumoured price ranges! now i got more than enough wallet buffer to snatch a nice AIB card 🙂 (not really interested in the FEs, they always look fancy and come with some new type of cooling ideas but in the end they only provide juuuust enough cooling to run the cards at stock with a slight overclock. this will be even more true on the 2-slot 575W 5090 this time around lulz)