Monday, September 26th 2022
GIGABYTE RTX 4090 Goes on Sale in Hong Kong Well Ahead of Time, But it's a Paperweight Until Drivers Release
A GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC "Ada" graphics card allegedly went on sale way ahead of the October 12 retail availability date. The person who bought it, "Likhg," posted unboxing pictures of the card, revealing a gigantic 4-slot design, a triple-fan cooling solution, with flow-through for the third fan; and accessories that include a reinforcement brace with some screws, an NVIDIA adapter that converts four 8-pin PCIe power connectors into an ATX 12VHPWR connector, and well, that's about it. Graphics card manufacturers have mostly weaned away from including a driver DVD in the box, and point you to download the latest compatible drivers from the NVIDIA website, which means this card is a paperweight until we're closer to the retail date. We're hearing that whoever bought this card managed to resell it for a hefty profit.
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VideoCardz
28 Comments on GIGABYTE RTX 4090 Goes on Sale in Hong Kong Well Ahead of Time, But it's a Paperweight Until Drivers Release
Amd now says 95c is the new normal for its 7000's series, i like the high end spectrum of the technology but i dont want to sit next to a furnace lol.
I hope the manufacturers of cooling tech comes up with more powerful cooling solution.
Before you say there is custom water cooling but ill be honest custom water cooling takes quite a bit of maintenance and not to mention overall costly to get it up and running
From adding tubing, testing for leaks etc etc
www.sonnettech.com/product/egfx-breakaway-box/overview.html
They've been around for years. I know Razer makes one too; there are other companies as well.
Works fairly well. I have one of the older Sonnet eGFX models housing a Radeon RX 580 card for my Mac mini 2018. I don't play games on it, it's mostly for when I dabble with video editing (DaVinci Resolve). When not needed, it's completely powered down and I use the integrated graphics in the Core i7 CPU which sips power compared to the discrete graphics card.