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Grabbed a 4080 Super FE for $999 and free overnight shipment from Best Buy. The price cut has made the card a good offering. Looks like 4080 Super is actually using 24gbps spec vram even though they're shipping with 23gbps speed. All cards seem to be using this when looking at the chips on the teardowns at tech power up. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-super-founders-edition/43.html 4080 FE Super gained 8% with overclock. Pretty nice.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/nvidia-rtx-4090-super-and-rtx-titan-could-be-back-on-the-menu-because-rtx-5000-gpus-might-slide-to-2025 If they drop an RTX Titan, dang. 48gb and full core with huge cache. That would be a monster gaming GPU. Probably monster price at $2500 easily. Intel LGA 1700 not dead yet? New refresh inbound later this year along side Arrow Lake? https://videocardz.com/newz/budget-focused-bartlett-lake-s-reportedly-intels-fourth-desktop-lga-1700-cpu-series

$999 4080S and wait for 5090. Pray to gods you get good GDDR6X 23gbps that can crank to around 26+. Should make for a very decent chip to ride out this gen. Will blow your old 3090 away in every single way and offer lower power consumption. Hopefully another 4080 XOC vBIOS leaks. Alternatively you could pick up a 4080 used, and flash the XOC vBIOS to it. That XOC vBIOS can do 1250mV. With chilled water, that would be fun. A real XOC vBIOS leaked, something that hasn't happened for the even the mightly 4090.

@tps3443 Just 1 RTX 4090 in my house. I have a Strix OC I got on day one before I found out that isn't necessary anymore.

They're fools lol. Let them pay for it while someone smarter will just buy the MSRP 4080S and blow it's doors off. @tps3443 I'm planning on testing a 4080S as well. I hope I hate it so I don't keep it lol. I sold my 4070 Ti Super today after being pretty underwhelmed with the performance difference between it and my 4070S.

I would easily give up 2% at 1440p and 7% at 4K raster perf over the 7900 XT all day long. DLSS, RT, and FG on Nvidia are all better. FSR is still terrible. Not to mention the significant power savings over the AMD cards. I still really like the 4070 Super though. Get it, or get the 4080 Super if upgrading today unless you need that VRAM.

100% wait for 4080 Super. Try not to overpay, they all can be flashed and use the same power limits. Especially if you're considering going H20.

Yes they flash without issue. I've flashed a 4090 FE to the OG 1.1v FE vBIOS. Flashed my 4070 Super FE to various vBIOS as well. I have never had an issue flashing over the years or bricked a GPU. It certainly is more risky flashing with a single vBIOS but I've never had an issue. As long as you have a backup GPU or iGPU, you should be able to boot into windows and still recover from a bad flash. Unfortunately FE cards now use a weird vBIOS chip that cannot be flashed directly with a test clip/usb. You'd be hosed if you somehow bricked it. I always do things with the understanding I won't mess with something I don't feel comfortable replacing if I screw something up.

Yes I flashed my 4070 Super FE with the Gigabyte/Aorus 350w vBIOS. 240w just wasn't enough for benchmarking. For gaming, 240w was no issue even for 4K gaming. The card is very efficient. I didn't have any issues with it running the gigabyte vBIOS. I lost a bit of fan speed, but nothing I cared about. I don't usually run 100% fans. You don't need a hardware flasher. Just use Nvflash64K and command prompt as admin. Make a backup copy of your vBIOS first, obviously. Newest GPU-Z can read the new GPUs for vBIOS copy or use Nvflash to back it up with -b. https://github.com/notfromstatefarm/nvflashk nvflash64k -6 rtx4070super.rom or whatever the name of the rom file is. It will ask you to type YES in all caps. YES again. Hit Y. and it will flash. then reboot and wait for the Nvidia driver to reenable itself.

Looks like 4090 stock is normalizing again though. My local MCs have plenty in stock at normal pricing again. Strix tariff still in place at $1999 for OC model.

Hey sorry I misspoke, it was indeed pulling 285w. I'm using a 320w vBIOS from galax now. Oddly enough the cores on my card is just weak sauce. Could be the vBIOS, could be just it doesn't scale well. It's one sample. Highest I've gotten on PR is 16.8K and it pulled around 300-310w. So it would seem around 300w would be ideal for the card in most situations. Will have to try new drivers tomorrow.

Absolutely ridiculous. I actually looked into Linux yesterday after reading about some of your successes with gaming on that platform. I've only briefly tried Linux way back in 2012 and I'm sure a lot has changed since then. I might install it on another drive to test out and learn.

Honestly I don't want them know my discovery and their oversight lol. 🤠 I'll gladly share it with you privately but not sure how much use it would be. Actually might be useful for those running custom situations.

Got my 4070 Ti Super working. Severely power limited at 280w default. It's sitting right at 280w and core throttling. Time to flash it. Stock Still severely power limited at 280w but with OC at 4K/G-Sync On and not using ReBar.

Hardware Unboxed video is completely scuffed. Wrong SPECs for card in the video? They also used the MSI Ventus card with a bunked vBIOS, even after being told it had a faulty vBIOS. Instead of redoing the video with updated vBIOS or using a different card, they went with the screwed card and claimed it's only 1%. That isn't even close to true. You can see this in by looking at TPU which published a lot of 4070 Ti Super card reviews and it's clear, the MSI is on average 6-7% slower across the board vs other brand 4070 Ti Super cards. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/msi-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-ventus-3x/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-tuf/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/pny-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-verto-oc/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/galax-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-ex-white/ https://www.techpowerup.com/review/palit-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-jetstream-oc/

Was available online last Friday at a retailer I use regularly, I bought it and it arrived this morning from FedEx 😀 Honestly I was pretty shocked when I saw the "shipped" and a FedEx tracking # arrive in my email so quickly. That said, even with modded INF driver, the card runs essentially in a low usage state until official driver support arrives for gaming. But for creators and professional use, the card runs full tilt and produces normal performance. It's very odd, anyone have any ideas on how to bypass this limitation? I can run games/benchmarks but they run hella slow or produce less than half the expected result. I modded the setup file for the latest driver, disabled driver enforcement and installed without issue. But like I said, it won't run properly in games. It shows up fine in device manager, NVControl panel all works properly, even g-sync and pendulum test. Production tasks work and render fine, but gaming or 3D benchmark loads seem to be the issue.

Well I have a serious hardware problem. I need rehab. I have a 4070 Super FE, 4070 Ti Super arrived today (early) and I think I'll grab a 4080 Super FE because why not. I'll keep one and sell the rest. But more toys to play with vs one single 4090 FE.

All clear on mine. What is this supposed to show? Is it an issue with the card if it had logged errors?

https://www.3dmark.com/pr/2760784 Think I got a pretty decent card.

4070 Super delivered today! Beautiful card, honestly awesome looking little card. +2000Mhz to the memory looks to be a go lol! I got the new MSI Afterburner, card locks out at 1115mV on voltage which is nice to see I can push it up a bit. Will test stock vBIOS and then flash unlimited powwah.

Already preordered, shipment locked down. 😄

Buy cheapest card/MSRP and flash higher TGP vBIOS from the "super duper" cards. Profit. Sold my RTX 4090 FE yesterday after using it for about 5 months. Grabbed a little baby MSRP RTX 4070 Super FE from Best Buy this morning. Free overnight shipment. Plan to flash the 350w Gigabyte vBIOS to it with the unlocked flasher. A 4090 in a secondary rig was a total waste of a card. Glad I was able to sell it for what I paid to a nice guy that was building his first rig.

Have the apps on your phone. So Best Buy, Newegg, and possibly Amazon (usually Amazon sucks and won't have day 1 stock from my experience). Be logged in with your payment information and shipping address saved to your account. I also use Apple Pay which makes check out even easier as you can just hit a few buttons and your on your way and it's usually much quicker than trying to go through multiple pages of a swamped server on launch day. Good luck! The Super series actually look to be a nice refresh.

Dang, ya I'm done trying my luck with any 2x16gb A-Die kits. The 2x24gb new M-Dies seem to go further. These things can boot 8800 CL38 and I'm trying to stabilize 8600 CL38 right now. Will see if I can get it stable tonight or tomorrow. Otherwise 8400 is worth the price.

New TeamGroup TForce Xtreem 8000 CL38 1.4v 2x24gb kit. Plug and play auto voltages, set to 8400 and set VDD/VDDQ ram to 1.435v. 8400 CL38 easy peazy.