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kadinshino t1_ivoku19 wrote

Reply to comment by pikamakarooni in RTX 4080 GPUs Are Just as Large as RTX 4090s | Size will still be a problem with the GeForce RTX 4080 by chrisdh79

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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