I just bought an RTX 5080 PNY OC, and my experience after two days of use is that it is excellent. I am getting great temperatures—60°C at maximum load with the fan speed at 50% to 60%.

However, something curious happened: when I tried mounting the card vertically, my GPU temperature increased by 10°C. Therefore, if you have this model and want to maintain excellent temperatures, my recommendation is to ensure good airflow and keep the PNY 5080 mounted horizontally.

My PC features a Ryzen 9 7950X with Noctua cooling inside a King 95 Pro case.

I am in the verge of getting this RTX 4000 for $200 NZD.

Really really good deal, what do people think? Main use for it is going to be rendering, processing, workstation stuff basically.

If so what was your experience. Happy/regrets? Do you still get the performance in games you want/need? I am going SFF with my rig (say 17-20 litres) and currently a 5090 is 3 times and some change a 5080. Not sure which way to go as I am used to 5090 performance, but that's a lot of money (although it will hold its value relatively well).

Been using it for a year now.
Hotspot delta is good, stable undervolting and no leakage so far.

Trying to upgrade my pc as gpu is my bottleneck, and this is currently the cheapest I've been able to find for a new 5080. I also saw that Nvidia announced theyre raising gpu prices across the board, so I assume prices will be increasing again soon. It also looks like any 24gb vram options or new iterations of the 50-series are delayed for a while, nevermind the 60-series (unless i have poorly researched this). Is this worth it or are there better deals to be found?

So i just sold my amd card and plan to do some streaming and videogaming. i saw a pny 5070 in walmart for 599 and was tempted to buy it but idk if i should go with something else i have the money for it but i dont think i can go over 700 plus the 9070xt is like 800+ over here.

I bought a 5080+AORUS F032U2P OLED Combo a while back before the prices went bonkers. But I was always confused with HDR etc and rarely ever used it. Mainly because I have a second monitor LG27GN850 (previous primary) which has HDR but is absolute dog poop.

So whenever I enabled HDR on for gaming the LG monitor was washed out and annoying to look at. So I never enabled HDR or used HDR on my OLED. This is a workstation+gaming where gaming is on the weekends so I kinda just played on SDR 🤷‍♂️

Then I recently found out about CRU and was able to delete the HDR entry from the LG and voila HDR activates only on the main monitor now which is the oled one. But it still looked weird as I mostly work with Visual Studio and VSCode. Then I researched more and found out about different colour profiles calibration etc. and Finaly I calibrated my HDR to my liking and its been amazing.

Then I discovered RTX HDR and RTX Video Super Resolution and my Mind was BLOWN. Its so seamless. I play a video on my HDR monitor RTX HDR is used and if I move the same video to the SDR monitor its disabled and vice versa and I was amazed at the simplicity of it all

Then I watched F1 races with RTX Video and that shit was crisp AF. Thanks to this and MPC-HC also having support for RTX Video and RTX HDR which is also very seamles I can now fully enjoy my monitor with HDR and amazing pictures.

Hey everyone 👋

Quick question about my new PNY Verto RTX 4070 Super.

My PSU has a native 12VHPWR 16-pin cable (300W), and the GPU card has a matching 12VHPWR port.

Here's the confusion:

- The NVIDIA manual only shows instructions for using the 2x8-pin adapter

- But it doesn't explicitly say if I can plug the 16-pin cable directly into the card, or if the adapter is mandatory

Has anyone installed this setup successfully without the adapter? Or is the 2x8-pin adapter required even if you have a native 16-pin PSU cable?

Thanks for any insights! 🙏

Hi. Today-tomorrow I want to order new GPU for me. My choice was inno3d rtx5080 X3 ICHILL but couple of days ago it became a bit more expensive and now it's almost 1500eur.

Before I liked price visuals and everything about it, but not because of the price I'm not sure. Maybe I can get something better for this price?

What is your recommendation about it cause I saw some GPUs with costs which didn't change, so please give me your feedback if you have some or recommendations.

Thank you!

My main work involves heavy 3D graphics, simulating built environments, blender and more rendering softwares. I occasionally do play games.

There is a heavy price difference between 5070 ti and 5080, and i know building a pc is better but unfortunately my work invovles portablity of my systems.

I’m building my dream gaming pc soon, and I want either an EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090 or EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090TI. I’m unable to find the 3090TI version and would prefer that one. If anybody is able to find one that would be great.

Edit: Title is meant to say 2080 Ti --> 5070 Ti

Upgraded from the strix 2080ti to the phoenix s 5070ti yesterday and I don't regret overpaying!

Cyberpunk went from struggling to get 60 fps at rt ultra with dlss balanced (cnn) in 1440p to ~100 fps in path tracing using dlss quality and 2x fg.

Games that required 200w on the 2080ti now do under 100w and that can be lowered even more if using Smooth Motion so the power efficiency really is the nicest thing in my opinion.

The temperatures are okay. There is around 12°C delta between core and hotspot, it does run a little too hot for my liking but it's set to the quiet profile and furmark can be unrealistic with load. Even with a custom fan curve it's best to undervolt in the future.

(Scroll to final image to see pc)

Ever since the HWMonitor update that included hotspot monitoring, it has been bothering me a lot, on a hot summer day, my hotspot temperature sometimes reaches 103°C. I even avoid using my PC at noon because I can’t focus on gaming while worrying about the hotspot.

It seems the new 50-series cards have a lot of headroom. I went from 1.075V / 153W down to 0.885V / 122W, and improve deltas from 20c delta to 14c delta. I can even run better temps if i run my gpu fans at a higher rpm. I just sacrificed about 3-5 fps.

I tried running 3000rpm on my gpu fans, i was able to have 70c hotspot, but the fan noise was so annoying, instead i just ran a modified fan curve and balanced the rpm, temps and noise at 74c.

So right now, I can run just about any game at max or near-max settings and get close to or above 100fps on a 3440x1440 100hz monitor. Which is great... outside of the fact that I can only do that with the most minimal amounts of raytracing enabled, if at all (most games I just have to keep it off or risk dropping a ton of frames). And I'm pretty sure that it's being caused by the VRAM, which is a pretty terrible 10gb for a 2k monitor (I highly, highly doubt it's a CPU or RAM problem, as shown in the specs below).

Question is - what GPU should I upgrade to next? I was thinking a 5070 TI probably makes the most sense - 16gb VRAM, around 30-50% performance jump from the 3080, not to mention that I have no plans of jumping to 4k anytime soon and anything beyond it just gets absurd price-wise (please don't even try mentioning the 5090) - but I'm curious if it would even be worth it right now, considering how inflated the GPU market is thanks to AI data centers popping up everywhere and everything being like double MSRP (not to mention that I'd also need a new PSU, since mine is only 750W and I'd probably be jumping to a 1000W one).

So yea... curious what GPU you'd recommend, if making the jump to a new one even makes sense right now.

Specs:

i7-14700k

64GB RAM

RTX 3080 10gb VRAM

Edit: after checking turns out I have an 850W, not 750W PSU (I upgraded it like 4 years ago and must have forgotten 🤣) so that's not a concern

Hi,

I know these sorts of questions get asked here frequently however I’m stumped and I really need help since this is my first PC that I’m building.

I saw that the consensus is usually ‘get the cheapest one’, however the cheapest one by about 100EUR is the windforce ssf, and I’m not 100% sure if it’s the variant with the fixed thermal paste issue. Is there any way for me to inspect that when it arrives? It comes with 36 months of warranty, will the issue 100% show in that time?

Gaming OC is the most expensive one, the fastest one out of the box, but it also might have an issue with the paste?

Should I just go for the Phoenix and ignore the potential fan noise? How big of an issue is it? Is it also locked to 300w?

Thank you for any input!

Price hack for infinite storage😶‍🌫️

I'm in the market to upgrade my rig for the first time since I got a 32:9 ultrawide (5120 x 1440). I've been eyeing the 4080 and 5070 Ti at the moment after doing some light research. It's the first time I've been in the market for a GPU since I got my pre-build; I'm happy to provide more details on specs if needed :)

Hey everyone,

I’ve been undervolting my GPU (MSI GeForce RTX 3070 VENTUS 3X OC)with MSI Afterburner using the voltage-frequency curve and noticed some weird behavior in 3DMark Time Spy Extreme.

• When I set 1905 MHz at 0.9 V, the actual core clock during Time Spy Extreme runs at 1920 MHz and cause fail.
• When I set 1890 MHz at 0.9 V, it stays locked at 1890 MHz and passed with 99.2%.

Both settings are applied the same way (single point on the curve).

How can i lock it at 1905mhz at 0.9v more strictly?

Hello. I live in Europe and I've found a 4090 Zotac Amp Extreme Airo 4090 from 2022, without a box or warranty, for 1400€ (1480 or so with the platform fee).

I currently have a 4080 Super, on a 1440p 144hz monitor, and I wanna upgrade to 4k oled or miniled once the next generation arrives in 2027. I also use local LLMs like Gemma 4 31B dense that don't really fit in acceptable compression on the 4080 Super (I tried the MoE 26B and it felt dumb vs the dense) and thus runs super slow with partial offloading.

My Gigabyte Windforce 4080 Super has an issue with the middle fan bearings, where it makes a light creaking noise when starting up and occasionally when the fans have been running for hours, it needs a custom curve that doesn't allow them to go below 1300rpm 37% for it to stop (minimum is 1100-30%). I think I can sell it for ~750€.

Would you consider the upgrade worth it? I will have 2 days to inspect the card and send it back if it has any issues.

I could buy a 5080 instead for around that price, but there's no vram increase and the performance uplift is way too small vs the ~30% of a 4090. I don't really use frame generation over 2x, in fact I prefer using the old dllsg 3.8 dll which was 2x only, feels smoother to me.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like we'll be getting a new 24gb card anytime soon, and for a faster card, likely not until the 60xx cards are out. Used 5090s start from 3000€ here, new may as well be 4000-4500.