WYP
News Guru
Nvidia's RTX 4090 Ti graphics card is going to be HUGE!
Read more about Nvidia's leaked RTX 4090 Ti GPU design.
Read more about Nvidia's leaked RTX 4090 Ti GPU design.
Nvidia RTX 4090 Ti Renders Leak - A 3.5-slot Monster!
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What else do most gamer use those slots for? Might as well fill it up with heatsink for the one and only GPU.
Dawelio
Active member
I’d say it’s more a case of if you even have enough slots. Not everyone using mid tower chassis, the SFX space for example has gotten very popular in recent years.
AlienALX
Well-known member
You don't need to worry about that because SFX power supplies are simply too small to contain what is needed for the transient spikes.
So no one will be using one in anything even remotely resembling an ITX rig any way.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
To be fair those days the GPU's were immensly simple compared to what we have now, Eventually though I can see GPU's being so expensive that the market will shrink drastically and cloud gaming will be the only viable option for most, Even working people with very decent incomes will wince at the prices.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Depends what period you are talking about.
The GTX 480 was a huge die and cost a lot to make. They would have charged far more for it too, but AMD were in the way with their half size just as fast for gaming GPUs.
What you are seeing now? is just a return to those large dies. And in the interim Nvidia got used to charging a F load for a tiny die and making bank. Now they have scaled those prices up to the die size, and RTX is costing people a fortune.
Whilst AMD went in the opposite direction again.
That said in fairness the actual GPUs you should actually be buying? are now no more expensive than ever. If we take say the 3070 and 6700XT? they are more than enough for any one really and at RRP? are no more than ever. Even the 3080 is now completely affordable (and about in line with inflation VS all those years ago) and so is the 6800XT.
Now the poser cards? different beast entirely. They are what you speak of. A lot more complex. *However* that complexity does not translate into gaming performance. They are simply what Nvidia were doing elsewhere (deep learning cards) that spilled over into the gaming market because Nvidia know the posers will buy anything.
Even the 3090Ti is still a pathetic attempt at a 4k RT card.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Yeah, SFF YouTube channels like Optimum Tech, Machines & More, and Hardware Canucks are no longer gonna be running bleeding edge technology like they're used to. They'll have to 'settle' for 'lower' end hardware.
Yeah, SFF YouTube channels like Optimum Tech, Machines & More, and Hardware Canucks are no longer gonna be running bleeding edge technology like they're used to. They'll have to 'settle' for 'lower' end hardware.
Probably the SFF market will just shift to external Power Supplies, it's already a thing for the thinnest SFF builds it will just get more widespread.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I'm wondering if someone can invent something that can store energy for the spikes. Like a small power bank or something?
The same issue exists in car audio, though the fix isn't really a fix. You would just use a giant capacitor, but it didn't last long enough to stop you burning out your alternator. However, had it had some sort of battery in it too? it would have worked much better.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yeah, SFF YouTube channels like Optimum Tech, Machines & More, and Hardware Canucks are no longer gonna be running bleeding edge technology like they're used to. They'll have to 'settle' for 'lower' end hardware.
haha
TBH PCs are going to get bigger again. Not because of the PSU, as you can easily tuck 1200w into a 140mm fan sized package, but more because of the cooling you will need.
Efficiency has gone out of the window in favour of brute force it seems.
That was another big factor in buying the 6800XT. I don't strictly mind paying £730 for a GPU, but I am not bloody paying £200 for a PSU to power it and then that much again and again in leccy.
The PC market has a huge shock coming tbh. It's already got one now with cost of living, inflation and energy prices but come October energy prices are being hiked again.
The arse has already fallen out of the bicycle market tbh. I thought about selling up but the prices are below on the floor. Thankfully for me they are totally stashed so I can just ride it out, but it's hard giving stuff like that away atm.
It's like we are back in the 70s. Kids are going to have to learn to see the magic in the world without money. Which tbh? was never a bad thing.
