Confession: I haven’t actually seen a modern desktop GPU that was released in the last three years, up close and in person.
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Confession: I haven’t actually seen a modern desktop GPU that was released in the last three years, up close and in person. Until today.
Holy crap these are massive now! (Cassette tape for scale)
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Professor Codereplied to Jason Evangelho last edited by
@killyourfm Does that mean you usually stick to laptops or prebuilt desktops?
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Jason Evangelhoreplied to Professor Code last edited by
@ProfessorCode Well, traditionally I have been a desktop guy, whether that's prebuilt or DIY. But during my time at Mozilla I just used laptops. This is the first modern prebuilt desktop I've touched in about 4 years.
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@killyourfm yeah modern high end GPUs are... Oversized. It's gotten a bit ridiculous. Personally I'm not going to buy a new PC case just to fit a video card haha.
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Raptor :gamedev:replied to Jason Evangelho last edited by
@killyourfm it's mostly heat-sink and fans, cpu ones are massive now too. I have the water cooled version of the 4090 and it's far more reasonably sized, about the same size as my old 960, only takes up one slot and doesn't require a longer case (you can still fit drive bays/etc in front of it)
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Jason Evangelhoreplied to Jason Evangelho last edited by [email protected]
I figure these RGBs give me at least an extra 15fps at 4K.
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@killyourfm How else are you going to be able to hack the Gibson?
Hopefully Soundwave approves...?
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@necrophcodr Yea, it's jarring when the conventional wisdom has always been "tech gets smaller" lol.
I miss building mini-ITX systems with small footprints like this (from one of my DIY build articles in 2015).
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Jason Evangelhoreplied to Raptor :gamedev: last edited by
@raptor85 OK now I have to seek out a side-by-side 4090 air/liquid cooled comparison.
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@plwt *Soundwave glances down briefly at the inferior technology and resumes his quest for more Energon*
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Raptor :gamedev:replied to Jason Evangelho last edited by
@killyourfm
They make my exact card both air/liquid cooled (the 4090 suprim 24G by MSI)
Air Cooled: 336x142x78mm
Liquid: 280x140x43mmbasically it's considerably shorter and almost half as thick.
granted the liquid does obviously use an external radiator similar to the cpu one (they're actually pretty much the exact same), mine I replaced two of my three front fans with the radiator setup.
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Jason Evangelhoreplied to Raptor :gamedev: last edited by
@raptor85 My first question is why they can't spell Supreme properly. (I do appreciate the comparison, thank you for that.)
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@killyourfm what's that robot top left?
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@cupcakerob Soundwave!
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@killyourfm EXPLAIN!
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@cupcakerob Iconic character from Transformers...
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@killyourfm is it optimus prime?
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@cupcakerob No, his name is Soundwave.
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@killyourfm It has been a shock. I went from a triple fan 3070 to the 6900XT.
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@OptiplexPrime wow! I had a 6800 XT and I don’t remember it being a chunky boy like that.
But yeah, GPU size is getting out of control