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Yep just single cable into the gpu. No need for adapter. Make sure no yellow part of the connector showing.

When I get mine this month I'll also be undervolting and over clocking it. Not for heat concerns but just to get it running cooler, quieter and more efficient.

I'll be intrested to know your impressions when you get it, since it's the same model I will be getting unless Amazon cancel it. The prices of the Trios have shot up massively in the last week here in the UK. Nearly all retailers starting the listing at 2.7k. A bunch just went on pre order for 3.1k to arrive end of March and they went within a few hours and a minute of a popular app pointing it out (that's pounds not euros as well, convert to your horror).

Do you already have a delivery date?

My order status was "article not yet in stock" yesterday, today it's "in progress". Would be amazing if it would already arrive on Saturday. During the order process it was Monday or Tuesday, let's see.

My mainboard is from MSI as well, so I'll be rocking the full on cringe dragon superiority.

Edit: delivery started, order has been processed, I received a tracking number, it'll get picked up shortly for shipping.
 
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The "OC" variants of the 5090 are kinda laughable. My MSI Gaming Trio OC has an incredible 3% overclock! An incredible 75mhz increase over the FE.

Ok, the card offers better cooling and less noise, which is very good. And that leads to more OC potential, sure. But even that won't be that insanely much.

At this point, they should offer a Silent Edition because it's more about noise and heat.
 
The "OC" variants of the 5090 are kinda laughable. My MSI Gaming Trio OC has an incredible 3% overclock! An incredible 75mhz increase over the FE.

Ok, the card offers better cooling and less noise, which is very good. And that leads to more OC potential, sure. But even that won't be that insanely much.

At this point, they should offer a Silent Edition because it's more about noise and heat.

Let me know how you do connector-wise. Might need to bug you lol.
 
Nvidia shipped twice as many 50xx cards than 40xx cards on their respective launches.

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But there was only the 4090 when it launched, while now it's a bunch of 50xx cards. So it's less per model but more overall.
 
Thanks to Nvidia (power draw) and PCI-SIG (12v-2x6 standard), we've reached the point where people are worried about the act of plugging in a GPU power cable.

And for 3k cards, that's especially ridiculous. That's the halo product from one of the most valuable companies in the world. lol
 
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My 5090 arrived today. I've been debating on making the switch to a 9800 or just going and picking up a 14900K? Worried about the power draw and temps of both the 5090 and 14900K combined though
 
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My 5090 arrived today. I've been debating on making the switch to a 9800 or just going and picking up a 14900K? Worried about the power draw and temps of both the 5090 and 14900K combined though

If you can find a 9800x3D then get that. No reason to go Intel right now
 
My 5090 arrived today. I've been debating on making the switch to a 9800 or just going and picking up a 14900K? Worried about the power draw and temps of both the 5090 and 14900K combined though

Hell yeah, congrats! I just arrived home and unboxed mine, will install it later tonight. It's such a huge fucking brick lol

Yeah temperatures are an issue, CPU gets like 10C hotter if you don't increase the cooling performance from tests that I've seen.
 
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If you can find a 9800x3D then get that. No reason to go Intel right now

Yeah. The only issue is I'll need an AM5 MB. So basically spending another $900 to go AMD. The temps and power draw combined though of a 14900 and a 5090 seems a bit scary. I have an ASUS Thor PSU so it should handle it. Just would feel more comfortable with a bit more headroom
 
Interested in your opinion on build quality of the Trio @regawdless. Its definitely my favourite looks wise, it does use more plastic though than the very top end.

I don't like the design of the Trio. It's just a plain plate on top with that dragon. Other designs are way more appealing, I like the ZOTAC Solid for example.

Btw. I installed it and let 3DMark run without any tinkering. Very, very quiet. Two case fans didn't work, gotta open that fucker up again and check the connection.

3DMark score with the 3080:
42 fps average

With the 5090:
143 fps average

Nearly 3.5x the performance.

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Fucking hell, people, I'm so jealous.

Right, this coming week I'm ordering the Simagic set and once thats out of the way, I will start checking components stock on PC Specialist to build the new beast. I cannot be left behind.

It's kinda crazy to double or even triple the performance. And so far, temps are not bad at all, in my new set up the 5090 runs cooler than my 3080. Having a huge ass tower case with a lot of space because of the AIO for the CPU helps a lot, apparently.
 
It's kinda crazy to double or even triple the performance. And so far, temps are not bad at all, in my new set up the 5090 runs cooler than my 3080. Having a huge ass tower case with a lot of space because of the AIO for the CPU helps a lot, apparently.

Yeah I didn't notice anything worse than the 4090 while playing yesterday. I have a decent amount of fans and a Ryujin II so I'm sure it helps to a degree but I'll probably pull it apart soon and redo the thermal paste. I wanted to yesterday but didn't realize what I had was old. I need to run over to microcenter.
 
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Newegg only selling 5080 bundles today. They've been in stock all afternoon, people aren't biting. If I needed a new monitor or power supply, maybe I would get one, but not yet. I think in the next two weeks prices and supply will start to stabilize, maybe can snag a SFF card
 
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Yeah I didn't notice anything worse than the 4090 while playing yesterday. I have a decent amount of fans and a Ryujin II so I'm sure it helps to a degree but I'll probably pull it apart soon and redo the thermal paste. I wanted to yesterday but didn't realize what I had was old. I need to run over to microcenter.

With the new case and new set up, my 5090 runs consistently 10-20 C cooler than my 3080, while everything being very quiet. I'm very happy with it! @Hostile_18 while I don't like it that much design wise, build and quality wise the Gaming Trio is really good. Cooling solution is awesome, getting 50-67C max during gaming with very low noise.

Performance wise, also a big increase obviously with some curious cases. @Dreamlord should be interesting for you. Here's a few games and just a random scene per game, compared:

Nothing scientific, averages are just the ballpark in what range it usually ran. 3440x1440

3080 vs 5090

Monster Hunter Wilds

Textures high
DLSS4 Quality, transformer
Running around the base with all the NPCs

Min 33 vs 64
Max 45 vs 75
Average 38-40 vs 65 - 70

Seems to be CPU bound towards max fps. Increasing the settings by enabling DLAA and highest textures had barely any effect on the fps. Meaning I can now play at max settings with DLAA at 60fps, which is awesome. With the 3080, I also had texture streaming issues at high settings, them appearing with a delay. The 5090 is brute forcing it's way through the bad code with the 32GB VRAM.

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FFXV

DLAA max settings, with the new transformer model injected for great image quality.

Min 40 vs 79
Max 54 vs 112
Average 42-48 vs 95-100

Doubled the performance. The min was more like 85 fps but there was one dip to 79 turning the camera quickly in a busy area. Great result and pristine image.

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Injected transformer model, DLSS quality

Min 33 vs 84
Max 46 vs 151
Avg 37-40 vs 95-105

Looking absolutely crazy, running smoothly. Let's see if I can get unobtanium settings at 60fps.

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A Plague Tale Requiem

Max but no RT, DLAA transformer

Min 50 vs 78
Max 73 vs 119
Avg 55-65 vs 85-110

Now that's an interesting scene because it's one where you're completely surrounded by rats in a large open space. Meaning it's CPU limited to some extent.

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Atomic Heart

Max with RT, DLSS Quality, opening scene

Min 19 vs 37
Max 38 vs 69
Avg 31 vs ~50

The magic of Unreal Engine 4 with RT, it's always bad. The min fps happen every time on a specific invisible point, even when running back and forth. The infamous Unreal Engine traversal stutter. Performance is screwed by the bad asset streaming of the engine. Still, the game is playable now while it wasn't with the 3080 often at sub 30. Keep in mind the RT is a post launch phoned in beta test feature.

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RoboCop

Max DLAA

Min 36 vs 90
Max 61 vs 141
Avg 45-50 vs ~120

Big improvement. The 5090 apparently likes UE5, performance more than doubled. It was a scene in a closed environment without enemies though, just running around with flashbacks happening. The flashbacks caused the fps drops, curiously. So the large drops didn't happen during normal play.

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Love it, what an upgrade, rocks hard.
 
Had to tone down some settings in Veilguard. There are locations that tank performance really bad, primarily cities, especially Treviso. At first I blamed CPU. But after doing some tests the culprit are ray traced reflections. Turning them off boosts performance to silky smooth.

I have to wonder though. In graphical options game marks which settings are CPU or GPU heavy, and all ray tracing options are marked as very heavy on both CPU and GPU. Does ray tracing really affect CPU that much? Could I still be CPU limited.
 
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Had to tone down some settings in Veilguard. There are locations that tank performance really bad, primarily cities, especially Treviso. At first I blamed CPU. But after doing some tests the culprit are ray traced reflections. Turning them off boosts performance to silky smooth.

I have to wonder though. In graphical options game marks which settings are CPU or GPU heavy, and all ray tracing options are marked as very heavy on both CPU and GPU. Does ray tracing really affect CPU that much? Could I still be CPU limited.

Shadows, Textures, Lighting, AA(Especially MSAA), Ray Tracing tend to be GPU intensive.

For CPU, anything that puts more stuff on the screen. Mesh quality, object draw distance, using low resolutions, ai logic, any kind of physics/particle effects
 
Shadows, Lighting, AA(Especially MSAA), Ray Tracing tend to be GPU intensive.

For CPU, anything that puts more stuff on the screen. Mesh quality, object draw distance, using low resolutions, ai logic, any kind of physics/particle effects

That's what I also thought but googling suggests ray tracing is also heavy on cpu. Veilguard gives me 90-95% cpu usage while gpu is around 50-70%
 
Had to tone down some settings in Veilguard. There are locations that tank performance really bad, primarily cities, especially Treviso. At first I blamed CPU. But after doing some tests the culprit are ray traced reflections. Turning them off boosts performance to silky smooth.

I have to wonder though. In graphical options game marks which settings are CPU or GPU heavy, and all ray tracing options are marked as very heavy on both CPU and GPU. Does ray tracing really affect CPU that much? Could I still be CPU limited.

RT can be taxing on the CPU but it depends on the game and the implementations. In some games, there isn't much impact on any CPU above mid range. Other games like the infamous Unreal Engine 4 ones that feature RT, it affects CPUs more and causes stutters because the engine sucks for RT. Others like Cyberpunk scale really well across CPU cores.
 
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@HE1NZ regarding ray tracing, I justed watched the DF analysis of the GTA5 RT patch. Turns out it's pretty heavy on the CPU and only high end ones can hit 60.