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pikamakarooni t1_ivndgwr wrote

Like many others have said, it feels like these new GPU were designed for mining rigs. They’re just too big to fit inside many normal cases.

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BuckNZahn t1_ivojf36 wrote

Did they imrove VRAM cooling? I heard this was a big issue during the last mining craze…

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MakeMineMarvel_ t1_ivu8xb7 wrote

They starting putting thermal pads on them now. So there’s that.

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kadinshino t1_ivoku19 wrote

As a minor the reason why i hate the 40xx series and would not touch them, nearly hated the 3xxx series for the same reason. No one wants to use Nvidia funny adapters. Even in mining rigs those adapters are horribly dangerous. If anything all the design aspects of this card they put in place was to deter miners.

We don't want huge spacious rigs, we want small compact small footprint stuff.

Wana know why no one has MSI areo 3090 cards?

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SmashingK t1_ivq6apw wrote

The size isn't down to putting off miners though. If it was the partners producing cards would be using smaller heatsinks but they're forced to use massive ones because of the power draw and heat output.

Though I suppose it's possible that Nvidia have forced them to use larger heatsinks though. They're not known for treating partners well hence the EVGA situation.

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kadinshino t1_ivq6rv2 wrote

oh size is a huge off put. maybe not to the hobby mining or home miner. But let me tell you when you have 100+ gpus....space adds up very fast. and with dual and triple slot cards and now quadslot..... I'm good.

also, miners don't push the OCs on these cards. we power limit them to a bare minimum.

the reason why partner cards were so much more popular was that it was easier to adapt to the normal 6 or 8pin we had been using forever..

Serious miners tried to dump their FE cards asap. Poor cooling poor performance.

This is in part why the CMP cards were developed. High power amper chips in a dual-slot design.

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Wafkak t1_ivojgpb wrote

Athat and having an old display port version. At least AMD stayed sensible.

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Badassinternetguy t1_ivp95so wrote

I think their logic was that if you’re spending 1200-1600 on a gpu, you either have or can afford and will buy a bigger case.

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kaffefe t1_ivpqjz4 wrote

Probably not, no. And who wants a huge PC, r/sffpc all the way.

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