Yeah I don't see myself going in on this round. The stress and anxiety that the 40 series cards gave me while trying to purchase one really wasn't worth it. I think back now and feel pretty dumb that I put myself through that honestly.
This right here. I'd prefer one with a pre-installed block. And my 2080Ti is getting a little long in the tooth.
I can see the appeal - and it does depend on how Nvidia does their FE 5-series - but I'd almost rather have the stock air cooler back in the box and available if needed. Both for potential second-use locally and for potential resale.
I couldn't care less. I rarely sell my old hardware.
Well, I don't either; I do however move parts to other systems, and pass them down to family members. In these situations there's rarely a new home for a WC part that has the appropriate watercooling infrastructure.
I've been experimenting with the super resolution capability, and even ancient BF4 will pull over 400W just by upping the resolution by 50%. This does absolutely look much better than any native antialiasing game setting could produce, of course, but the game typically uses ~150W at the monitors native resolution. Quite a price to pay!
I care about wattage cuz I can't be having my equipment tripping the circuit breaker on my UPS. I came real close to that with the 3090 when I was on my X99 system. And I had to move some equipment off the UPS too (like a NAS and one of my monitors).I don't really care about the wattage, I care about the price.
My 3090 does 420W and that's pretty f*cking extreme to me. It was the first time in my life I had to really think about power usage. I had to play Tetris with the wattage of all my equipment after that 3090 was thrown into the mix. I'd like for my next GPU to not be quite as power hungry.
I agree, but the way things are going that is going to be a stretch.