NVIDIA Quad Slot Beast GPU (FE-style)

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4 slot NVIDIA FE design

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View: https://youtu.be/lyliMCnrANI?si=Gr1HRE_tZowOUYYs
 
Loved this video and what a wild card. That cooler is incredibly impressive not only just to look at, but in operation. The difference in temperature vs. a stock 4090FE is massive.

So great to finally see what we've been only seeing leaks of for damn near two years.
 
Dan_D said:
Let's be honest. Most of the time Nvidia has been around there hasn't been much of any competition for them.
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that's only true in recent years. anything before the TNT2 wasn't very good compared to the competition - and the TNT2 wasn't that great either. it wasn't until the GeForce 256 did they become good. and let's not forget the junk models they put out over the years...and the ATI 9700 cards...

at the start we had many companies making video cards and it was damn cool. S3, Kyro, ATI, nvidia, 3dfx, sis....and so on. if only one or two of those had kept up we'd be way better off now.
 
They should release a 5090 fat version built like this one. Is the 5090 a full-fat gb-202 chip, not sure if anyones mentioned it yet?

Edit: Looked it up, it's not. Yuck.
 
THRESHIN said:
that's only true in recent years. anything before the TNT2 wasn't very good compared to the competition - and the TNT2 wasn't that great either. it wasn't until the GeForce 256 did they become good. and let's not forget the junk models they put out over the years...and the ATI 9700 cards...
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I mean that was a LONG time ago. The GeForce 256 launched almost 26 years ago. Once the GeForce hit, they were usually dominant. They've had a few slip ups I can think of, the FX series was one and the long delayed 480 was another, but most of the time their hardware has been pretty dominant. Even if not, the software side has been another factor. Like I bought a Radeon 5870 when they came out because I wanted DX11, it was powerful, and nVidia had nothing... and while it was a good card it still had issues, the most notable being with OpenGL. GL games just ran like dogshit. The issues were enough that when the GTX 570 came out, I got one of those.

There's a reason that nVidia is like 75% of all cards on the Steam hardware survey and new sales are even more nVidia slanted.
 
The power these cards draw is getting ridiculous. How long before the (cards) have 1/0 connectors to accept welding wire like car stereo amps and custom power supplies with 100A Anderson connectors? Well at least we wouldn't be burning up cards! :-P
 
THRESHIN said:
that's only true in recent years. anything before the TNT2 wasn't very good compared to the competition - and the TNT2 wasn't that great either. it wasn't until the GeForce 256 did they become good. and let's not forget the junk models they put out over the years...and the ATI 9700 cards...

at the start we had many companies making video cards and it was damn cool. S3, Kyro, ATI, nvidia, 3dfx, sis....and so on. if only one or two of those had kept up we'd be way better off now.
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It's really not. The TNT Ultra was very fast and I believe it was generally the fastest card. Since the GeForce 256, NVIDIA has been dominant for all but a few short periods in history. Most notably during the Radeon 9000 series days. There have been a couple times where AMD was on top but it wasn't what I'd call a decisive lead usually meaning there was some sort of downside to going with the ATi / AMD option. The 4870x2 had lots of problems but was generally faster than the NVIDIA equivalent, the 5970 was the same with the latter failing because it couldn't be used in Crossfire with a second 5970 until so late in the product life cycle as to be irrelevant. The Radeon HD 7950 was another stellar option with a massive Achilles heel. Specifically, it couldn't do more than 5760x3240 due Crossfire bandwidth issues. I had to go with three NVIDIA cards to solve that problem.

In any event, its rare that NVIDIA has faced any serious competition in anything but the midrange. Yes, that's where the money is made but NVIDIA has always done pretty well there too. All they normally have to do is adjust their pricing to be competitive. Typically though, its AMD that has to make the adjustments more often than not. As for S3, Kyro, Intel etc., none of those were viable competitors after NVIDIA released the TNT2 family. 3DFX coasted on their brand recognition and made a laundry list of mistakes before NVIDIA put them out of their misery culminating in NVIDIA assimilating what they wanted from the husk of the once dominant company.
 
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