Because I'm cheap... This is why I just put tower on its side instead of pay £50 for a bracket or a crutch. But it's also why I hope in the future we move towards vertical mounting as standard somehow.
As graphics cards get ever more powerful there isn't much we can do if we keep cooling them on air as standard, but water cooling adds cost and then leave the radiator needing to be put somewhere anyway.
RTX 5060s Announced.
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RTX 5060s announced.
Seun said: » Gotta love nVidia. Make you pay 3k for a GPU that comes with a crutch so you can prop it up to keep it from collapsing on itself. 2kg is too much, huh? We can't engineer our way out of that somehow? Someone please tell me it's not science fiction. Welll... There IS a way? But it's gonna suck *** through a straw: Limit the length of the Card to maximum of 10" (254mm)and Stack them vertically. It would basically be like stacking 1080TIs but every GPU would come with two parts lol. It would solve the sag issue but now you'd have most of your board occupied, two PCIEs occupied or otherwise blocked and no room for any other peripherals unless you have a Workstation Board, and Airflow concerns would increase. Not to mention that there are GUARANTEED to be problems with having a GPU split into two pieces like that vs having everything on one singular card. It would work and I bet money they thought about it but probably decided it would be easier to just go longer and add a support vs going taller and needing to make changes to the standard MOBO specs. On this topic I installed new drivers before shutting on
Pc down last night and just booted it up and loaded two FFXI instances and the GPU is going wild like it's on full load. Very worrying The function has outgrown the form it seems. It's funny because I considered how it would work if they positioned the PCI more toward the middle of the card and had the excess stick out the back of the PC, but.. yeah, it's overdone.
The drivers are tragic though. They used to be so good at that. Like if you ordered the GPU on launch, the drivers are legit before you get the GPU in the mail. Dammit Jensen K123 said: » On this topic I installed new drivers before shutting on Pc down last night and just booted it up and loaded two FFXI instances and the GPU is going wild like it's on full load. Very worrying They released a new update yesterday but I don’t know if the issue was fixed yet or not. Seun said: » Gotta love 2kg is too much, huh? We can't engineer our way out of that somehow? Someone please tell me it's not science fiction. It's not a crutch, it's the massive coolers these things now need. As I mentioned the entire concept of daughter + motherboard joined by a slot dates back to when those daughter boards were much smaller. The 4090FE weights ~4.62lbs and it's on the lighter side of the available cards. AIB partners will install bigger cooling solutions as a way to provide additional value, which makes them heavier. The 5090'S are coming in around 5lbs due to their 600W power requirement vs the 450W of the 4090. The AMD cards are also in the 4~5 pound range as they can use over 400W. Now if you disagree with this, feel free to stand outside NVidia or AMD HQ and protest or demand a personal audience with Jensen Huang or Lisa Su to tell them how they are "doing it wrong". If you disagree with the entire slot design, feel free to go stand outside these guy's building and tell them how wrong they are. https://pcisig.com Non 5090 cards are dropping below MSRP in some countries. 5090 still rare
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