NVIDIA Updates GeForce RTX 4080 Silicon with AD103-301 SKU

[ARF]

Well, quite frankly liquid coolers are ticking time bombs, especially if blessed by Asetek's domestic quality production. I consider anything with a water pump a ticking time bomb. You can always have an easier time fixing up and refurbishing an air cooler fan system. I'm not huge on the idea of WC as a must on cards. All I really want is more compact and just a genuine variety of form factors for high end cards.

One of the problems that now arise from the use of these gigantic cooler designs is that companies like MSI, ASUS and GBT started slightly altering and using them on Radeon cards too, so those now also fit into the monster size category for a lot of models. Thankfully AMD does not force particular form factors and design guidelines on its AIBs.

There is no complete happiness.
Either you choose between:
1. A gigantic GFX which doesn't fit in your case, but even if it fits, could cause a melted PCIe garbage connector which is bent because you can't close the side panel, or;
2. Use a liquid cooler which is much more compact and there is very little chance for something to go wrong.

It is up to you. I choose the second option

Asetek on Liquid Cooler Failure Rates, Causes, & Reliability : hardware (reddit.com)

Are AIO CPU coolers unreliable? : hardware (reddit.com)

 

[AdmiralThrawn]

Intel and Apple are different, they sell their own products. Nvidia and AMD have to go through AIBs, that's why I asked specifically for how AMD handles this.

AIBs are not allowed to give credits because nvidia sets price limits and minimums on all SKUs. I do not personally know what AMDs policy is.

 

[bug]

AIBs are not allowed to give credits because nvidia sets price limits and minimums on all SKUs. I do not personally know what AMDs policy is.

But if we're talking price cuts, those minimums are going down. Anyway, I think I got an idea...

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

AIBs are not allowed to give credits because nvidia sets price limits and minimums on all SKUs. I do not personally know what AMDs policy is.

IIRC AMD has done it before, back with hawaii when the price cratered following the first crypto crash. It's pretty rare tho.

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There is no complete happiness.
Either you choose between:
1. A gigantic GFX which doesn't fit in your case, but even if it fits, could cause a melted PCIe garbage connector which is bent because you can't close the side panel, or;
2. Use a liquid cooler which is much more compact and there is very little chance for something to go wrong.

It is up to you. I choose the second option

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Asetek on Liquid Cooler Failure Rates, Causes, & Reliability : hardware (reddit.com)

Are AIO CPU coolers unreliable? : hardware (reddit.com)

I mean at those prices I'd much rather have a 4090 with a waterblock on it so I can choose the pump and reservoir, and replace them if they fail.

 

[N3utro]

There is a cost to changing the design of the cards to this new PCB. I doubt it's worth it for just a 1$ difference. There is probably another reason behind this.

NVIDIA Revised AD103 & AD104 GPU Silicon For RTX 4080 & RTX 4070 Ti Resolves Fan-Speed Bug

NVIDIA recently started shipping its GeForce RTX 4080 & RTX 4070 graphics cards with revised AD103 & AD104 'Ada' GPU silicon.

wccftech.com

We started hearing rumors about the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPU silicon when we reported about two unique GPUs, the AD104-250 and AD104-251, going into mass production later this quarter. Earlier rumors claimed that the new GPUs will get rid of a comparator circuit and even lower the BOM costs by $1, as indicated by HKEPC. As it turns out, this is true but the removal of the circuit shouldn't help the efficiency of the card in any regard but instead fix of crucial bug. (...) The main change between the two versions of the silicon happens to be an issue with how the fan speed was controlled.

It's boring to be always right

 

[Mussels]

View attachment 279709

There is no complete happiness.
Either you choose between:
1. A gigantic GFX which doesn't fit in your case, but even if it fits, could cause a melted PCIe garbage connector which is bent because you can't close the side panel, or;
2. Use a liquid cooler which is much more compact and there is very little chance for something to go wrong.

It is up to you. I choose the second option

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Asetek on Liquid Cooler Failure Rates, Causes, & Reliability : hardware (reddit.com)

Are AIO CPU coolers unreliable? : hardware (reddit.com)

You cant use those NZXT AIO's on a GPU any longer