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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.

Nice work! That is a substantial improvement. 30 series coolers were just OK. The 40 series is a pretty substantial improvement. The lack of backside vram on the 40 series is very helpful too.

Dang, I have a 4090 FE in my other rig and I love it. It runs ridiculously cool on my end, but I'm not on an open air bench. I have fans blowing over that chonky boy.

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Higher performance with APO, lower power consumption. Intel being a bunch of di**s not giving this to 12th and 13th gen though. I am happy to see HWU shit all over Intel in this case because they deserve it. APO, if implemented into enough games moving forward should be on all of their LGA 1700 hybrid CPUs. This type of anti consumer behavior is BS and needs to be called out as such.

Wow Newegg is sold out basically, and my local Microcenters have almost no stock left, just a few cards. Here we go again!!!! Again, again again...

I edited the BIOS for the Z690 Dark to enable Intel Dynamic Tuning Technology in the BIOS, and therefore Intel APO or Application Performance Optimization with 14900K for BIOS version 2.13. As it stands, this is not available in the default BIOS and therefore you cannot enable APO or use the required DTT driver. I used the Asrock Z790 Nova Intel DTT driver as all mobos are using a generic Intel driver package so can be cross installed. https://imgur.com/iSJMx2Z I tested Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, and it's working 100% like my Z790 Apex with 14900K. APO ON: Average Framerate (99th percentile): 176.03 Max. Framerate (99th percentile): 272.78 Min. Framerate (99th percentile): 97.92 APO OFF: Average Framerate (99th percentile): 150.81 Max. Framerate (99th percentile): 231.70 Min. Framerate (99th percentile): 94.0 Works a charm! Apparently were going to have to fix these issue ourselves going forward with EVGA completely MIA. Thankfully it appears we can at least fix some of the issues and big thanks to them for leaving the BIOS open to custom modded BIOS flashing. I'm going to try and get the newest Microcodes added to the BIOS and flashable without brick like this fix. Unfortunately I am learning as I go and really have to rely on other peoples guides. Hopefully I can get it figured out.

When are we setting up the notebooktalk/NBR squad lol?

Awesome! Love this haha. I'm about to punt my Z690 Dark right out of the window. EVGA is not bringing updated BIOS for 14th gen, and while that isn't a huge loss, it sort of is. It kills some of the resale value, it won't have support in the future for any issues that may arise with future hardware. We had plenty of those with new RTX 4000 series that needed BIOS updates to correct. I think I'll drive over late tonight or early tomorrow morning to grab one of the few remaining APEX at my second local MC. My closest MC sold out last night. So I gotta drive a tad bit further to get this one.