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So many people on here were claiming that the Series S, let alone last gen, wouldn't hold back anything

You're not. VRR making lower fps seem smoother is the main point of it.

40fps VRR for me

Hey, if AMD had something even remotely competitive/faster I'd buy that over nVidia, and so would Stepee and Vic

Comment sections is where happiness goes to die. I see people on nVidia’s facebook/twitter/instagram commenting on anything 4090 related with things like “I hAvE a 3080 BuT i’M sWiTcHiNg To AmD nExT!!1!1!!!1” and “DLSS dOeSn’T wOrK aNd jUsT mAkEs ThE gAmE bLuRrY”… like… you don’t have an nVidia gpu and never did lmao

The default hardware lighting is better than ANY of the mystic light options. The default is a rainbow wave using, I assume, basically all possible colors; the wave in Mystic Light only cycles between three… AND ONCE YOU SELECT A MYSTIC LIGHT PROFILE THERE’S NO WAY TO GO BACK TO THE HARDWARE DEFAULT ONE. JFC. I kinda wish I waited and hunted for a Galax one now - the RGB on theirs looks phenomenal and it has a 3pin connector attachment that you can plug into your mobo so you don’t need to rely on their software. Anyway, you and @stepeewill enjoy this: in my search for alternative MSI RGB software yesterday (yet to find any that works for just GPUs (needs an MSI Mobo too or simply doesn’t seem to recognize the video card)), I stumbled across a reddit thread where someone said they just ordered a 4090 and were upgrading from a 3090. All the replies were “upgrading from a 3090…? Wut?”, “bruh”, “4090s are a scam”, “DLSS3 is garbage”, etc. I noted my upgrade from a 3080 Ti to a 4090 and posted the benchmarks I uploaded in this thread, it’s been almost a full day and all the shit talkers seem to have disappeared

Like, if I’m going to water cool a GPU, I’d sooner buy one with a pre-installed water block to run off of a custom loop. This way if something goes wrong in terms of the pump/reservoir, it can be fixed. I don’t even know if I’d get a custom water block from Corsair or EK since I’d void the F out of the warranty installing one of those. BTW, going back to our MSI 4090s; holy F their RGB software is ungodly bad. Like JFC

How do you enroll in the beta?

I always debate on getting one of those AIO-like hybrid models, but then I remember that AIO die after 3-5 years and there’s zero chance of just buying a new cooler for a hundred or two; you’re just boned with an out-of-warranty $1-2k video card that can’t be cooled anymore. It makes me wonder why people buy those kind. Sorry, just random thoughts.

I'm surprised it's this much better than the 7900x/7950x. I expected this to continue to be a Frankenstein monster of a CPU until next gen.

FWIW I was never going to get this crappy looking game

@Mr.Vic20 Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K Review: Raptor Lake Beats Ryzen 7000 | Tom's Hardware WWW.TOMSHARDWARE.COM The Raptors are out of the cage! Uhhh... Intel kinda just curb stomped AMD (for gaming at least)

It's DDR4, I can't remember if it's 3200mhz or 3000mhz. I can't imagine that making a 5-ish fps difference (nearly 10%)

Ryzen 5900x

@Mr.Vic20did you install yet? The brace/support that it comes with is more-than fine. People who were having a hard time with it must be really bad at hardware installs tbh... or were trying to install this without their PC on it's side The top screw for the brace shares the bottom screw of the 4090 (so, you need 5 brackets available in total in your case 3 for video card + 2 extra for the bracket).

58.3 is avg, the others are min and max? That’s weird you’re getting better performance than mine. Hmm I haven’t played the game at all yet lol. Can I just load into the area or do I need to progress to that point?

This should help:

Run the benchmark. It's under "extras" in the main menu, hoe

Is that the Speedway one?

Also, something I noticed with the 3080 and 3080 Ti was that there was sometimes a tiny bit of "frame hitching" or micro stutter, similar to what I remember SLI doing. It wasn't the video card being "bad" or anything as it was there on both my 3080 and 3080 Ti. However, it seems to be completely gone on the 4090 now.

All benchmarks were done with max available settings (except for Deus Ex which was done in DX11 because the DX12 mode is stupid). If DLSS was available it was set to "quality". Vsync was, of course, off for all benchmarks. Assassins Creed Odyssey: Cyberpunk 2077: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (4x MSAA, DX11): Forza Horizon 5 (I like how the recommended settings on my 3080 Ti are "extreme", but the 4090 suggests "low" ): Gears Tactics: Guardians of the Galaxy: Hitman 3 (Dartmoor + Dubai benchmarks): Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Watch Dogs: Legion:

I'm gonna guess you didn't run the actual benchmark?

MSI and Gigabyte 4090s were in stock at Best Buy this morning