Oh finally one that is not PALIT and it's sub 4000 for the first time!
Worth mentioning that this card is standard 3-slot, so a bit thinner.
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Uh oh
I'm rejecting Palit because it seems that all their card use the same fan motor, and people continuously complain about the 'grinding' noise of this fan.
Not sure if this has the same issue, at least the fans look different.
I'm rejecting Palit because it seems that all their card use the same fan motor, and people continuously complain about the 'grinding' noise of this fan.
Perhaps the fan noise of the Palit is particularly bad, but I've never found GPUs to be quiet. Small fans, pretty dense fin arrays, quite a lot of air resistance (because it's not a natural front to back flow direction)…etc.
Only way to get a quiet GPU is to put a waterblock on it, really.
Yes got what you mean.
The problem is that Palit's grinding noise is 'bearing noise', kinda a design flaw.
Its thermal is 10 degrees worse than the Rog and MSI, that's kinda appalling, but this has nothing to do with the bearing noise anyway. The high rpm contributes to the low-frequency humming, and the bearing noise adds high-frequency noise (which is always more annoying). So the noise will be particularly bad.
Shouldn't be too much of a concern speaking of a normal situation, but I'm upgrading my open-case itx build, so yeah…
@charmandad: Does this problem exist in all Palit or is it just the 5090? Just got the 5070ti Gaming Pro
@notmatt: All palit.
The fans are completely the same across their range.
Don't be too concerned, it shouldn't be a deal breaker unless you have an open case build.
Just returned my palit 5070ti…thought I could get used to the noise, but seriosuly makes the sound of a 737 taking off from the interior.
Otherwise it performs really well, real shame for the fan noise.
@brimmy11: Yeh I did still noticeable for it to be too annoying for me. I'm pretty sensitive to it as my systems are usually abnormally quiet
@sn00kered: I don't blame you, I should have as well (I did try but in store they said it sounds normal) then I ran out of time because I had to go overseas for a couple weeks).
I'm considering getting a 3d printer and doing a shroud mod with some case fans.
This is a good deal and it’s every better than Queensland won state of origin this year !! Yay
Palit and Galax are the same company based in Taiwan. Zotac is its own, based in Hong Kong. Inno3d is also based in Hong Kong but no connection with Zotac.
Correct about Palit and Galax (they also own Gainward), but PC Partner own both Zotac and Inno3D, also they recently moved company headquarters to Singapore. Manufactured in China though.
Tbh, all GPU are manufactured in China now. The Smarter Every Day video on this was very informative and a great background watch. Also, worth mentioning, Asus is Taiwan headquartered
@aaronsd: How do they then limit the amount of Ai cards to china if they are manufactured there? Is it kinda like how Australia sells all our resources overseas and then has to buy them back at inflated prices?
@Jazza2400: @Jazza2400 Ahh sorry I don't check my post notifications often, only saw this now. I doubt you'd even see this message but this is an interesting topic in general so here's my response.
Not sure the mechanisms by which the US can actually limit how much AI tech China has access to. The NVIDIA stuff doesn't really add up, but beats me man, your guess is as good as mine on that.
All I can say is the limit on AI tech is obviously not working if Chinese researchers can pump out solid AI models like DeepSeek R1, WanX A1 and Hailuo AI for example. For all we know we are getting gaslit by US media we consume about US being the leaders in AI when we see all these high quality models pop up free to use from Chinese researchers from mainland China directly on HuggingFace, CivitAI etc 🤷.
Like hell, when DeepSeek R1 first came out, I remember the videos that popped up from Fox News in the US about how DeepSeek R1 is a copy of OpenAI/ChatGPT, but, that was quickly squashed because researches confirmed it was a fresh take they had done which the other AI companies are now copying. There's a great Computerphile video about DeepSeek R1 and how it is fresh take and NOT based on ChatGPT.
For some context, quick Googling about manufacture locations:
Shenzhen in Guangdong (China) is considered the "Silicon Valley of China" - this is a sentiment accepted by both large and independent media outlets - including people you can trust in the space of PC Parts like Gamers Nexus. They are world leaders in this space man, but there is also a lot of China-phobia going around when it comes to these things.
Your message sentiment is right though, I should have said "almost all" manufacturing is in China lol, tbh I was sick in bed and half asleep when I typed that response. Also, what really is Taiwan, in another couple of decades it could become a part of China in the current global state of things LOL.
Also your second response brought back a silly memory. I've bought some beef jerky from the grocers once, when I got home and had a look at the label: "Beef used in this product is a product of Australia. Processed and packaged in Korea.", and then the import label on it "Imported to Australia by XYZ in Springvale, Victoria". Globalism!
Thx bought 10
Inno3d x3 is kind of sucks..If its ichill then its nice
I reckon we'll continue to see prices trending downwards on the 5090s
So annoying, at checkout they only allowed me to purchase 4 of them.
Man I miss the 1980s.
Yep, Commodore 64 was peak gaming computer
8 sprites per scanline. Couldn't ask for more.
Amiga 500 IMO
I miss when good GPUs were only 3 figures.
What makes it more confusing is 3 years ago we had the flagship for $2500. Now the flagship is $4000 and the same RTX 4090 from 2022 is still 2500. wtf. It's as if we made no technological progress in the last 3 years.
I'm travelling and so have been hoping for efficiency gains. Cards are still way too thirsty for what they can deliver.
So many graphics / AI developers here?
How can someone afford such expensive card?
I saved up all my food stamps
Tax deductions.
Also older IT workers on good incomes who have paid off their mortgage often buy the best of the best, because they can, and have run out of other things to spend money on.
You mean I can claim it by justifying I need it for work? 😅 Do they actually check? I'm a software engineer.
I only ever claimed a monitor and keyboard.
Checks out!
I claim my GPUs as I work from home not even in IT.
I wonder how that works, monitor and accessories make sense, but anything within the chassis wouldnt make sense
and have run out of other things to spend money on.
😂😂😂
I stopped buying smashed avo on toast for a few days and put those savings into a new GPU, house deposit, and a new car.
But also, the people that you see on ozbargain are a different breed of people, and I don't think they're that representative of the average australian. Going by how we all react to deals for eneloop batteries, headphones, phones, pc parts, games, tech gadgets, and apple products, I would assume a larger portion of us are a younger crowd with interests in technology (or in the industry). So you end up with people with lesser financial responsibilities and more disposable income.
Conversely, it could also be people are just irresponsible with spending, or have given up on saving for the future as it becomes more meaningless (e.g., war, climate change, housing affordability, etc.).
You forgot to add the bullshit factor too.
The average Ozbargainer (and whirlpool user) is on $80m a year and each has a 40 acre property in Toorak
hey. Im old. 40s! Paid enough to consider then not buy a ~$4k card
So many graphics / AI developers here? How can someone afford such expensive card?
What makes you think any significant number of people here have actually purchased this card?
Given this isn't eBay, it's hard to know the exact numbers, but if you look at something like this 5080 deal (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/914023) which was posted on 07/07, you can see from the purchase history for this item (https://www.ebay.com.au/bin/purchaseHistory?item=12709482631…) that only 8 units have been sold since it was posted as a deal here.
Whilst there's no publicly released figures for 5080 vs. 5090 sales, you can see from the Steam Hardware Survey (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw…) that 5090 is 0.18% of respondents, and 5080 is 0.55%, so the 5080 is likely outselling the 5090 by around 3:1. Just extrapolating, this means if the other 5080 deal had 8 units sold, there would probably only have been around 2-3 sales of a 5090 arising out of this deal.
I think the cancer that is social media somehow has made everyone think that everyone except for oneself can afford (or is actively purchasing) expensive luxury goods on the regular. The reality is very much the opposite - the vast majority of people can afford or wish to purchase a 5090.
If it's for paid work it's really not much. A part of the reason why prices are dropping now is the release of RTX Pro 6000 cards that are much better for AI workloads and even at $20,000 if you genuinely need it for work (as opposed to trying to convince your mother / wife that "no it's for work, honest" while turning all the setting to max in Cyberpunk) finding the money isn't that hard.
people write this as a tax deduction, pretty easy to abuse the tax system if you work in IT. this is a nothing burger compared to 5 digit server equipment people write off for "work" use
I work in STEM and I don't have kids
Trade in price of this card in some countries is much higher than $4000.
With great difficulty. I saved for years and then got blind-sided by ngredia's massive price increase and ended up having to pass on this generation.
the world is healing
Still long way to go
Upgrade from RTX 3090 to RTX 4090 then RTX 5090. Got a Zotac RTX 5090 recently. Sharing my 2 cents with the community.
This is soooooo wrong!
Watch northwest repairs on youtube, the guy is literally the best gpu repair guy in the world, he explained cheaper brands have cheap part and less parts (caps/mofsets/etc) compared to better brands! He also explained they have higher failure rates due to this!
It was in one of his recent 5090 fix videos (look it up yourself) people were shocked in comments to see companies cutting corners to save a few bucks on a $4-5k card…
Before you say "but there is warranty", that doesn't change the facts above!
100%. Waterblocked my Techfast Zotac 5090 and applied UTP-8 putty on the frontside and backside of the VRAM+DrMOS modules. Achieved extremely good 3DMark results with it.
Though it's worth noting that the Zotac 5090 is an outlier MSRP model. It has a great PCB since Zotac decided to use the exact same PCB design across their 5090 entire line-up (ie. the 5090 SOLID has the exact same PCB as the more expensive 5090 AMP infinity)
Did you find any brand being better than other?
My Inno3D 8800 GTX died after a couple of years, RMA took months and they only gave me a crappier 9800 GT, never again.
You hold a long grudge!
As the old saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me… you can't get fooled again."
Ah yes, wise words from a wise man.
guys, they are in stock longer each time,
each time:
stock remains far longer + price a few hundred less than last time.
It shows that the people who blindly buy things are mostly done overspending. Now there's people that want value remaining.
In 10 years time: 5090 still $4000. The 9090 will be $100,000. I'd be laughing if it wasn't realistic. There MOTHERTRUCKERS want technology out-of-reach for regular consumers
You'd have to missing few bolts to spend more than $2k on a graphics card. As someone that has been upgrading and working in IT for 25yrs, I will never buy bis, I'd rather upgrade more regularly, but with mid-level gear. 5070ti or 9070xt it is.
My god, when did +$1000 GPUs become 'mid-level'
Fair point, and while I could afford $5k for a pc, there is no way I would. The more consumers keep supporting this cartel, the higher prices keep pushing. I am due for a new rig and will spend $3k tops . You're absolutely correct in saying 1k+ mid level GPU is abhorrent.
about 2 years ago
It baffles me how people can only think of their own usecase and think eveyone else's usecase is BS. Its common economics, if demand is higher than supply, what do you expect? C'mon, we have had almost a decade of this going on since the crypto saga. Gaming is not the only usecase. Someone who takes this as an investment and knows how to make more out of it, will always buy it for their right price. And guess what, expect these to be even higher with the AI boom, when the free open source models start getting even more powerful and when companies start realizing they can't trust these SaaS AI companies on their data. And this is not trust me bro talking, this is another 25 yrs in IT as well.
They dont WANT that but if they can only make 1million 9090s and some stupid venture capital AI firm wants to buy them all they are going to charge the max they can. What theyd prefer is to make as many cards as they can, charge $10k+ each for 1 million 90TITANAIMAX cards and $3-4k each for the leftover peasant cards
Cannot imagine spending $3999 on an entire PC, let alone just a GPU
I remember spending $2500 back in 1998 on Pentium 4 ….graphics card was extra
In 2017 i spent $900 for a mid-high end PC with RX580 which at the time was competitive with the best.
Im pretty sure a 486 DX2 full system was approaching $3k back in the day
They raised the price to $4199. They get everyone talking about the deal and change the prices. Don't buy it.
Yes, can this be reported? Their website clearly says "DEAL PRICE: Xmas in July 2025 (Online or In-store)This Deal ends at 11AM on Monday 14/07 OR While Stocks Last Ts & Cs apply"
The issue is always us consumers, not Nvidia or any manufacturer. If we are stupid enough to pay stupidly exorbitant prices for anything, they won't ever drop their prices and only increase them more. If people refused to pay these insane prices, watch how fast they would drop.
I mean, they have dropped from ~$5-6k to ~$4k. Market in action
Haven't had issues with my 3080 x3 ichill since release, but my mate had the same card and that was a horror story. RMA was a ~3 month long process and he ended up buying a 7900xtx midway through.
Lucky dip on inno.
What, they upped the price already? This is such a bait and switch. The page says "DEAL PRICE: Xmas in July 2025 (Online or In-store)This Deal ends at 11AM on Monday 14/07 OR While Stocks Last Ts & Cs apply". From what I can see, it's neither Monday yet, nor their stocks have run out. So how come the price changed in less than 12 hrs? So hard to trust these guys anymore. Now this is toying up with the consumer emotions. Shame on you @Centrecom
I sent a compliant email. I'll contact the ACCC and fair trading for bait and switch marketing.
Same thing happened here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/912891
It was posted, and then price hiked in 7 hrs. And notice the similarlity with these posts: https://imgur.com/a/R8IZdYw
Mods need to investigate these posts, they don't look genuine.
The similarities you are seeing is because mods format the titles and post bodies to add information and it's always formatted the same.
@wizza13: Fair enough. But the practice seems to be the same. Deal is expired before the actual end date because of hiked price and with still stocks left. These are like $4k+ products, I don't think people are lining up and rushing to buy them. What's up with these deals ending prematurely.
@ggbhai: It seems like a sort of a scam, keep alternating between $4K and $4400/$4500/$4800 so when people see the price drop some will impulse buy without even thinking is the card really worth $4K. Amazon sellers and Woolies/Coles do a similar thing, alternate between a high fake price and the real price pretending to be a sale price.
To be fair to them, $4K is the cheapest price for a 5090 currently but that doesn't make it worth the price when 5080 is $1800.
@bobvegas: @bobvegas sure, but Amazon/woolies/Coles don't change the price while the deal is going on, and keep it until the advertised date. That's not what's happening here, hence my complain.
@ggbhai: When price increased to $4200 I could see some FOMO buyers having researched the product, checked if it would fit into their system looked at reviews might have bought at that price but switching between $4000 and $4500/$4800 was bizarre . All it did was hurt their reputation, nobody buying at $4500+ when advertised at $4000
BACK IN STOCK!
Yep seems the complaint email worked and they decreased the price again!
$4799 now
Look, when I said I wanted a 4K video card…
Isn't palit/zotac/inno3d the same company? I think they even use the same fans