ada lovelace Massive quad-slot cooler for unreleased 900W GeForce RTX 40 series GPU has been pictured

[StDragon]

They're doing it all wrong. Nvidia should just release a workstation box (like the old days of SGI), then socket your own CPU, RAM, and storage into it.

Note: A dedicated 20A circuit required.

[IkeaGnome]

This wouldn't be a problem or even a thought if people didn't insist on 8K 1000 FPS.

You can still get dual slot Quadros. 

Spoiler

The size limitation is purely gamers' own doing. More frames, must be silent. How else are they going to get that done except more power, and then massive coolers to compensate for more power.

[Moonzy]

1 hour ago, Kisai said:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/newegg-up-charging-pre-built-4090-by-520

Meanwhile.

what does this have to do with the gpu size?

 

1 hour ago, Kisai said:

An ATX board is 12" by 9.6" An RTX 4090 FE is 12" long. See the problem?

no...?

 

see the two screw holes at the rear of the GPU?

almost every 30 series GPU have them, and i reckon the 40 series will have it too, it is for a GPU bracket, use it

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

Looking at some of the PCB analysis of the chapter cards by Buildzoid, some of them have such a bad voltage spikes that they may vary by 100mV or more meaning you can have massive power swings. It's not the same as sustained power but it still affects the PSU requirements even if the avg power may be lower than last gen.

If you watch the Gamers Nexus video on this with the Nvidia engineers the transient power is less on the RTX 40 series than the RTX 30 series, that was one of the issues they specially wanted to address. That was verified during the review, although note on the FE card so if that issue is worse on AIB cards than their RTX 30 series card then it's an AIB issue and not actually RTX 40 series.

 

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

So the funny thing about all of this is that if you get a "cheap" 4090 you need to spend more on a PSU even if you don't OC. 

Get an FE card and you don't, see above.

 

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

Der8auer OCd the 4090. He found that just few extra mV (50mV to 100mV) increases the power usage drastically to the point that even 600W power limit is easily reached. 

Well that was also true of the RTX 3090/3090 Ti. It should be more the case with the RTX 4090 of course because it's a much more dense die with WAY more transistors etc.

 

Anyway if you watch those videos I mentioned you'll note that part of the design requirements and goals for Ada and the FE card coolers were to:

• Reduce transient power
• Reduce average power
• Reduce the cooler size
• Reduce the cooler weight

Notice how these are all counter to pre-launch rumors and any rumors of 600W-900W cards and massive coolers. At no point ever were these on the table for PCIe cards.

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, StDragon said:

They're doing it all wrong. Nvidia should just release a workstation box (like the old days of SGI), then socket your own CPU, RAM, and storage into it.

Note: A dedicated 20A circuit required.

They do, DGX workstation. Just without the socketing your own stuff but you can of course do that.

 

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-station-a100/

[leadeater]

3 hours ago, porina said:

I'd argue the more slots GPUs get, the less likely they are to cause damage in transit or suffer from sag. When we have "thin" GPUs, the PCB is the main structure. As they get thicker, by necessity the metal parts would become more structural and the PCB is now just hitching a ride on the cooling. Also with more slots worth of case attachment, there's less room for it to move as long as the case itself is strong enough in that area.

In a way yes, you have one end secure down much more (assuming every slot has a bracket screw. The problem is the other end of the GPU and also simply the weight itself. UPS yeet that across the back of the truck and that 4kg mass will spank that PCIe slot real hard lol.

 

Less weight is just safer when it comes to shipping.

[ravenshrike]

2 hours ago, Moonzy said:

almost every 30 series GPU have them, and i reckon the 40 series will have it too, it is for a GPU bracket, use it

Alternatively, grab a wooden dowel, cut almost to size, sand down last couple mm, and then paint a matching or properly contrasting color to the case.