long-time lurker, first post, please be nice.
If you miss the Gigabyte deal before, this is the lowest price according to https://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Tuf+4090&s….
10 are available at the time of initial posting
Thanks to https://www.ozbargain.com.au/user/113465 for the 8% off by using SAVB8. Expires on 6th Apr
WTF and Asus denied that guys RMA too.
Ive got zero coil whine on my Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC
If I had any interest in paying this much for a card, I would probably settle on the Gaming OC. The TUF is good in that its good 2 HDMI ports but if coil whine is a issue, its a big nono.
@John Doh: The only issue is if you want to waterblock the card, you have way more options (from high end blocks) as most of them make blocks for the FE and Asus models.
I've researched both the TUF and the gaming oc. The gaming OC has thermal pads on the inductors which helps with coil while. However it has 2 more power stages that are cheaper, less intelligent and less efficient (by about 3%) than the TUF. Having more of something increases the probability of failure
you can undervolt to kill some of that, fair few videos on youtube showing the steps
it reduces the core/power/heat/coil whine at the cost of a few fps
Kinda defeats the purpose of paying a kidney for the highest fps.
Undervolting to a point shouldn't reduce performance, basically all you're doing is reducing the voltage provided at a certain clock speed. Cards typically supply more voltage than the GPU needs from factory, usually for stability.
@XeKToReX: Undervolting is absolutely nice thing to do, but a card of this cost shouldnt have the whine in the first place.
After undervolting and/or decreasing the power limit, you can install more GPUs and stay within your PSU limits.
@2024: It's a common issue for deep learning systems, it's nice to have 4 4090 GPUs (usually with the Threadripper system to have enough PCIe slots), but it's hard to power, cool and fit 4x 4090 GPUs, even with the power limit reduced and 2kW PSU.
https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni…
@DmytroP: Well no body said enterprise: I take my laughing face back lol
I thought you were being tongue in check to older SLI or RGB fanboys or something
@2024: It's not very common, but I know a few who is building and using such deep learning systems as a hobby, to compete on platforms like kaggle.com and similar. More computing power is not enough to win there, but it gives a bit of a competitive advantage, and building your own system is cheaper than renting from AWS and similar.
That sucks my 3080 TUF is whisper quiet whereas it's my Gigabyte 2070S that sounds like jet engine when the fan ramps up.
Tuf on the 3000 series was a nice card. It seems with 4000 series, they swapped places with GB. That large chunk of heatsink on the GB is mesmerizing compared to TUF ;)
Yea right good to know not that I plan to get a 4000 series card any time soon.
der8auer also covered this few months back on 4080 Strix. Tbh I would contact Asus as this seems pretty common.
My TUF 4090 has no coil whine, lucky I guess
this is the lowest price according to
The lowest price would be the same listing, but using coupon SAVB8 instead to get it for $2,667.08
thank you, revised the deal with credit to you.
Good price for a good card
OzLowestPriceOnStaticIce
the 4080 tuf has been holding @ 2k forever, makes this much more attractive
$1,899 at a few places now. Scorptec, Mwave….
Not much better though!
The whole point of introducing the gimped 4080 at higher prices were
a) to sell the remaining 3xxx cards at higher price.
b) to make the 4090 look attractive.
Nvidia won big time with this strategy, I think they sold more 4090 than 4080 based on the retailers sales data posted on wccf.
Yep 100%…they'll drop the price towards second half of the year and intro the 4080ti at $100-200 more than then 4080 rrp… 4080ti being what the 4080 should have been to begin with rake in more from that before throwing in a $2k 4090ti to finish up the generation.. Even better is how they are making the news for their 'cheap' 4070 at $US600 which in actual is a x060 class or at best a x060ti if you want yo be generous … Not to say AMD are any better with the 7900XT getting the extra X so they can call the 7800XT a 7900 class…. This gen is a bit of a sh*t show unfortunately…
Exactly, they have stepped down all the cards by 1 or even 2 tiers. Many nvidia fans argue against it, but most of the reviewers agree with it. AMD 7900XT if you consider its performance, it should have technically been a 7800XT and costed around ~1000 AUD or even less considering its a 4070Ti competitor. Unnecessarily they have introduced an extra tier to milk the customers more which they learnt from nvidia pricing. Unfortunately, the stupid fanbois are too blind to admit it. Now the real 7800XT that is gonna release, will be another sh!t show targetting 4070 performance for 1000 bux. The inflation reason and the cost increment due to TSMC reasons are BS if you consider the die size to wafer cost that TSMC is charging.
here we go… another wave of 4090 deals. Seems like we see ~$100 cut (or not) compared to previous wave.
I would actually consider this deal if I didn't buy my unwarranted gaming oc….
Will buy if it is ROG
Just shows how much fluff is in those $3699 price tags from launch, but they are still making a tidy profit at $2,667. Unless you need the bleeding edge performance and have money just sitting around, boycott NVIDIA, don't reward the dark side of capitalism.
Shouldn’t you blame the ocean of fanbois buying them at way beyond reasonable prices? Nvidia could charge way more, as already proven, if they wanted to.
I'm guilty of the 3080 and 3060 price markups, I can afford it and somewhat needed it, that's the problem. Well it hasn't worked out so well for them now, all these GPUs aren't being brought.
my tuf 4080 have terrible coil whine. avoid tuf if you want a quiet card