I don’t need it though. Its overkill for me. Also, space heater and PSU upgrade required.
I’d really love to see more World of Warcraft benchmarks. Seeing nothing but benchmarks for games that I don’t play and couldn’t care less about is very frustrating.
On my current RTX 2080 card, when I enable Ray Tracing there is a pretty significant performance impact. As a result, I usually leave Ray Tracing disabled.
Of course, Ray Tracing isn’t something that just automatically upgrades a game, the game content actually has to be designed to take advantage of Ray Tracing. Ray Tracing was introduced into the game too late to be properly implemented into Shadowlands content, which is why it’s not much of an improvement over normal shadows.
With that in mind, it seems very possible that Dragonflight might be the first WoW expansion to properly make use of Ray Tracing (since it has been in the the game since before the expansion content was created). Since the 4090 has enough power to enable Ray Tracing without concern about it’s performance impact, it could be quite nice.
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i ordered a 7950x and 4090 computer build. ill be looking quite forward to testing wow
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I leave RTX shadows on because even though the effect is minor, they fix my longstanding peeve of lack of attenuation — with normal shadows, you can be hovering on your gryphon 1000ft in the air and your shadow on the ground will be crystal clear, when in reality shadows get fuzzier with distance. RTX produces shadows closer to reality, blurring with distance. While turning them on drops FPS significantly on 3080 Ti @ 2560x1440, it’s still well above 120hz most of the time which is good enough for WoW.
I would love to see them using raytracing for lighting too though, it could really transform some parts of the world if done correctly.
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sadly the 4090 won’t give much of an uplift in WoW. The most you can do is up resolution scale with 0 fps loss, and bump up some quality to like MSAA 8x with 0 fps loss.
If WoW is your main game, and your trying to get fps gains, the CPU is the best thing WoW can benefit from.
Until WoW engine gets more multi threaded load, GPU’s like this will have 0 improvements.
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Looks like new connector is fire hazard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/yc6g3u/rtx_4090_adapter_burned/
The real hazard is the price. Not that I would ever buy a video card that high. $2200-2800 up here, damn Canada tax.
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So far all of the new gen CPU’s and GPU’s are having heat issues. Once more and more get out into hands of people who aren’t adept at cooling, problems are really going to pop up.
I’ll wait a year until they figure out how to lower temps with all the watts they’re pulling in. The design seems flawed at the moment.
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Seems like part of the problem is trying to push stock performance at the high end as high as possible for marketing purposes. If they did what undervolters are doing from the factory, the gains would still be very very good and the average user wouldn’t be exposed to power draw and heat issues.
Yup, more cases.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/another-geforce-rtx-4090-16-pin-adapter-bites-the-dust
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/yfqevh/msi_gaming_x_trio_rtx_4090_adapter_burned/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/yf9rn8/msi_suprim_liquid_x_4090_12vhpwr_connector_melt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Just get a ATX 3.0 or a proper 12V cable from your PSU.
Nvidia thought having a $1599USD and putting a 2c power adaotor was ok, not to mention include any 90 or 180 degree adaptor as 99% cases can’t fit without having the cable squished.
I believe MSI Trio is the only one that can somewhat fit as the width on that is about 20mm shorter than most of the other AIB, they also have 3x1 8pin which actually makes this worse due to nvidia going cheap on the adaptor.
Long story short, throw adaptor away, use a proper cable and your fine. Nvidia in its all wisdom thought the 6 cables for 12V to be put into 4 . Either ends of the cables were soldiered , with the two in the middle Soldering togeather (2x2). This made the either edges weak and causes it to easily come off, which then puts the load on the other, and with a lose wire…we have issues. This is why on all burnt cases its the edges that start the problem.
I installed this after my built system with the MSI RTX 4090 Trio arrived yesterday.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B4DFRX1G?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
Runs great. Fast as hell. Maxed out all settings getting 120 FPS… Capped because of monitor. I wanna pick up the new Alienware 34" Ultra Wide Curved OLED …175hz 