Question RTX 4090 Owner's Thread!

[moonbogg]

I don't have one, but figured I'd do you guys a solid and make a thread where people can share their personal experience with the new 4090. I made a similar thread for the 3090TI and it worked out fantastic. I know there's an army of you hardcore enthusiasts on this site that have one, so this thread should have tons of pages worth of posts in no time. Have at it!

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I bought a 6800xt can I post here?

 

[VirtualLarry]

some bugs

 

[Ranulf]

Not far in to the video but the issue immediately reminded me of bios vs uefi bios issues with some video cards years ago.

Edit: His Tachi mobo is retraining the memory after every time he turns off the power supply? Reseating ram I get but turning off the psu is nuts.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Edit: His Tachi mobo is retraining the memory after every time he turns off the power supply? Reseating ram I get but turning off the psu is nuts.

I've had more than one AM4 Asrock motherboard that would retrain memory more often than it should or lose BIOS settings after power loss. Really disappointing to hear that after 5 years they still haven't fixed their bios issues.

 

[SKORPI0]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1581613455718522881

 

[moonbogg]

I don't see any owners posting their own pics of the GPU. What? You guys don't have credit cards? It's not even your money. Just go buy one already.

 

[n0x1ous]

Been trying to get an FE since launch without luck. Need to get magical golden ticket invite from Jensen in Geforce Experience app to get one apparently.

 

[Motostu]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1581613455718522881

Hadn't looked at them or any reviews, so I had no clue what a monster the 4090 would be. Seems like you'd need extra support for the card in a normal tower case? I'd probably have to upgrade the electrical service to my house if I bought one of those (half kidding).

Thankfully I have no need for anything like that.

 

[Aikouka]

Been trying to get an FE since launch without luck. Need to get magical golden ticket invite from Jensen in Geforce Experience app to get one apparently.

They keep giving me a month of Adobe Creative Cloud instead of the chance to give them money. For shame, Jensen!

 

[NTMBK]

If I get a GTX 490 off eBay and scrawl on an extra 0 with a Sharpie, does that count? Because that's what my budget can stretch to

 

[psolord]

RTX 4090 owner's thread they say. Pfff what peasantry.

Here I am with my 5090 SLI.

Spoiler

 

[SKORPI0]

Great, Sold Out/Out of Stock in these 2 on-line retailers.

 

[Aikouka]

Speaking of poor stock, I've been surprised that Newegg hasn't started up the usual Shuffle nonsense yet. I mean... they've already got the combos ready to throw into it.

 

[NTMBK]

Great, Sold Out/Out of Stock in these 2 on-line retailers.
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That's because they can only fit one of each in their stock room

 

[GodisanAtheist]

That's because they can only fit one of each in their stock room

-Mental Image of a forklift straining to carry a pallet with one single 4090 on it

 

[Stuka87]

I've had more than one AM4 Asrock motherboard that would retrain memory more often than it should or lose BIOS settings after power loss. Really disappointing to hear that after 5 years they still haven't fixed their bios issues.

For what its worth, my Asrock (X570 Steel Legend) has never had this issue. And as I live in California, power outages are more a norm than the exception.

 

[moonbogg]

Great, Sold Out/Out of Stock in these 2 on-line retailers.
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They aren't out of stock anywhere. The stock has just been transferred to ebay.

 

[CP5670]

I might try Microcenter. I got my 3090 there two years ago, but you have to get lucky and go in the morning as soon as you see the cards in stock on their website. It's a 45 minute drive for me

I kind of wanted the FE card though, which is only at Best Buy. It seems very well designed this time around, and is not as massive as the others.

 

[Muadib]

I might try Microcenter. I got my 3090 there two years ago, but you have to get lucky and go in the morning as soon as you see the cards in stock on their website. It's a 45 minute drive for me

I kind of wanted the FE card though, which is only at Best Buy. It seems very well designed this time around, and is not as massive as the others.

My local Microcenter had a line of 15 when I was there Sunday morning. I went to pickup DDR 5 memory that I ordered online. You already know what the line was for.

 

[fleshconsumed]

My local Microcenter had a line of 15 when I was there Sunday morning. I went to pickup DDR 5 memory that I ordered online. You already know what the line was for.

Still an improvement, back in 2021, the line would be about 60 people and wrap around the building.

 

[Muadib]

Still an improvement, back in 2021, the line would be about 60 people and wrap around the building.

Oh I know, I was in their line trying to get a 5950 and a 3090. They had neither the 3 or 4 times I stood in line. They had AMD stuff each time I went though. Just not the 5950. I ended up getting a 5900x from the AMD website, and the 3090 FE from Best Buy.

 

[Aikouka]

Ended up grabbing a 4090 FE from Best Buy this morning. Now I just need to figure out if I should pre-order a block from EK or wait until Performance PCs gets them in. I am rather surprised that EK is offering active backplates for the 4090. I know they added that as an option for the 3090 due to the rear-mounted memory getting a bit warm. Is there any indication that the power components on the back need any sort of cooling beyond a simple passive backplate?

I've also ordered a set of cables from CableMod. Given that I'm using the stock cables right now, I figured I'd just go with a full set since it's $30 for just the 12VHPWR cable vs. $99 for the whole set.

 

[moonbogg]

Ended up grabbing a 4090 FE from Best Buy this morning. Now I just need to figure out if I should pre-order a block from EK or wait until Performance PCs gets them in. I am rather surprised that EK is offering active backplates for the 4090. I know they added that as an option for the 3090 due to the rear-mounted memory getting a bit warm. Is there any indication that the power components on the back need any sort of cooling beyond a simple passive backplate?

I've also ordered a set of cables from CableMod. Given that I'm using the stock cables right now, I figured I'd just go with a full set since it's $30 for just the 12VHPWR cable vs. $99 for the whole set.

Congrats! I know some of us love to trash the card for it's price, but this is still very exciting. The card is insane and you'll love the crap out of it. Do share when you get your hands on it. Hopefully some firestrike and maybe even run Crysis for us?

 

[Aikouka]

Congrats! I know some of us love to trash the card for it's price, but this is still very exciting. The card is insane and you'll love the crap out of it. Do share when you get your hands on it. Hopefully some firestrike and maybe even run Crysis for us?

How about some Minesweeper to sweeten the pot?

Oh, and don't get me wrong... I think the card is stupid expensive too. Awkwardly, one of the reasons why I wanted one is because I saw a Corridor Digital video a few weeks back where they ran the AI image generation software on their own machine and could feed their own images into it. They could send in about 8 photos of one of their personnel, and get results back featuring that person. I was all giddy like a school girl, "I wanna try!" Unfortunately, it requires a video card with 24GB of VRAM. So, my only options were the 3090, 3090 Ti, or 4090. I figured that (unless I wanted a cheap Zotac), there wasn't a ton of value in getting the old card.

Although, that did make me really bummed about the time I waited in line at Best Buy for a card. I wanted to get a 3070 to put in my girlfriend's computer as it was better suited for 2560x1440. I woke up about 20-30 minutes later than intended to go to the store and wait, and ended up a bit further back than desired. As they got close to me, they still had 3070s, 3080 Tis, and 3090s left, and I knew the guy in front of me wanted a 3090. ...and the guy in front of him got the last 3070. I only had seconds to make a decision and just went with a 3080 Ti. I should have gone with the 3090 since my 10% birthday coupon worked with it and not the 3080 Ti, and heck.. I probably could've mined the remaining $150 difference since the 3090 didn't have any limitations. Anyway, if I had done that, I would've had a GPU with 24GB of VRAM to mess around with.