Nvidia just dropped a new driver (572.83) that should fix the black screen & full speed fan issues EDIT - There's a new Linux driver too (570.133.07)
I just gave Scan a quick call, and I'm something like 117/178 in line for my MSI RTX 5090. New deliveries are due in towards the end of March and April, so it may be a while before I finally get my grubby hands on one. I'm somewhat taken back at how popular the 5090 is, despite the high prices.
At least you managed to pre-order one. The one I want (Gigabyte 5090 Aorus Master Ice) wasn't even listed by Scan on launch day
Slightly off topic..is a 7900xt for £583 worth it? I know occasionally you can get a 9070 for a little less sometimes of you are quick enough. For 1440p. Either of these cards would be a decent jump for me as I am using a 6750xt
Get this quick https://amzn.eu/d/6xIDNgr 9070 for close to MSRP £559 for base Sapphire Pulse model Edit: my bad 27th April delivery date. For some reason my brain read March
I'd wait until you can snap up a 9070 / 9070 XT, the reason being that some games are starting to require ray tracing and the 9070 is much better at that than the 7900XT.
Plus, FSR4 - There's no guarantee that it will come to the 7000 series but, if it does, the performance hit due to the reduced number of AI accelerators on the 7000 cards will likely push them further behind the 9000 series.
Taking a look at undervolting a Palit Gamerock 5090 and seeing odd behaviour. Can set the curves and everything but the GPU just chooses to do odd things. The card's default comfortable point is around 2800MHz at 1.05V. So I try a classic undervolt and set every frequency above 2500MHz to a flat 0.9V. And the GPU just decides to move up the curve and throw 0.985V at it for no apparent reason. I tried a different approach of dropping 0.05V from base and setting every frequency above 2800MHz to 1.00V and the GPU decides to run at ~2735MHz at ~0.985V and I'm not sure why it isn't moving up the curve. Clocks and voltages in general don't seem very stable either. Wonder how it'd perform under water?
Lower spec cards have been announced to launch in the next few weeks 5060Ti - Mid April (8GB & 16GB VRAM versions) 5060 - May (8GB VRAM only)
Give you... *checks wallet* 37p for it [FAOD that's a joke] Still resent that the only upgrade for a card i overpaid for with not enough VRAM is to overpay for a card with not enough VRAM
I read that as "FOAD" at first, and thought "blimey, that's an aggressive pre-emptive defence, that is."
The LTT apologists in that comments section... About a half hour after the vid dropped, they were in there trying to shout people down, saying you can't have had time to watch both vids, stop taking him at his word when he says LTT spread misinformation.
Not watched LTT for a loooong time, plenty of reasons I've not cared to use brain matter to remember, but I see he's apologising again for something... May give it a look tomorrow to see what it's all about this time.
At first glance it just seems like an attempt to stir up drama tbh. Yeah LTTs video was wrong in that claim. But that claim sounds like it’s based on what the MSI and Asus reps told them, and it turned out that MSI were talking out their arse. So a correction was issued. So… does that mean the world is gonna end now…? Also: “go buy a card from a scalper who will charge you 2-3 times the original $2500-$3000 price so you can check whether a PR rep was talking out their arse”. Uhhh… no… thanks…? I’ll watch the full video above tomorrow, it’s getting a bit late for yet more bloody internet media drama…
I don't know what power consumption is like, will we get a 16GB 5060Ti LP? I'm sure a 5060 LP won't be a problem to build.
