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Even though both use GA102 silicon, they aren't the exact same. The 3080 has more shaders fused off than the 3090, so you couldn't just add more memory chips and then use the 3090 BIOS since it isn't the exact same chip.

Forget the RTX 4090 and RX 7900 XTX. According to Chat with RTX, this is the best graphics card in 2024!

I agree with Dr. Dro in that you should vote with your wallet and (theoretically) companies will respond to that feedback. But also realize that if it is selling well then it could also be that your needs are just different than the needs of most buyers.

I look at the most extreme scenario at present and then assume that will be the "normal" two years from now. If that's the case, then games won't use more than 16GB two years from now, and the current generation cards are still going to be limited by their compute power before their VRAM...

No game shows any performance improvement with more than 16GB. Even 12GB is more than enough except in edge cases that are way too stressful for the market these cards serve anyway.

That doesn't jive with my research. Look at images of manufacturer-supplied 600W 12VHPWR cables. They all have only two sense pins. Examples below: https://seasonic.com/pub/media/pdf/consumer/datasheet/EN-12VHPWR-Cable.pdf...

It only has two pins. However, according to https://www.igorslab.de/en/this-is-how-nvidias-4-fold-adapter-for-12vhpwr-connection-of-geforce-rtx-4090-works-with-workaround/, only those two pins are needed for 600W.

I'm having trouble with my RTX 4090's power limit. GPU-Z reports a "PWR" limiter whenever the GPU gets to 450W power draw. The card I have should have a 480W power limit by default, and when I set the power limit to 110%, that should raise it to 530W. I suspect that the 12VHPWR cable...

I have a custom loop in my own PC but if I'm helping a friend or family member spec out a PC then I'm recommending an AIO system every time. The lack of needing maintenance, ease of installation, and the lower chance to catastrophically damage something are all benefits to the novice PC builder...

@Wizzard The conclusion on all of these 4070 TI Super reviews incorrectly states that going from a 192-bit to a 256-bit bus is a 25% increase. This must be a slip of the mind because the introductions correctly list it as 33% increase; I'm not sure how that error happened in only the...

UPS batteries are lead acid not just because of price but also because they have huge currents. I would be careful in using a different battery chemistry without first checking that it can put out the same amount of current for a long time. Most lithium ion batteries are designed for much lower...

I can't see any semi-serious CS player using this considering how concerned they are about even single ms increases in latencies.

The 58 comments on that article proves the opposite. Also, the numerous press releases posted verbatim as news do make people forget that there are articles with original content. I realize they are tagged as press releases but the small size of the tags and sheer number of press releases...

That submission was done on dual Xeon 8280s (Cascade Lake), so it's three generations older.

The Intel processor lineup forked when the Pentium 4 was introduced around 2000. Since Pentium 4 was not great for mobile, the Pentium III architecture was adapted for their Centrino/Pentium M laptops, which meant that Intel was then developing two separate, incompatible architectures. The...