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My apologies mate. I watched more than the first 10 seconds of the video, I got a little distracted by all of the rest of the goodies in there to zone in on just the one card. There was a LOT to oogle over in there.

Yeah, hopefully Kingpin finds something else that he really loves doing. Working for EVGA overclocking everyday for the last 15 years has had to have been a dream job. Some of that stuff he brought out....man oh man. The LN2 closed loop build, his 4 way SLI riser, all that history on the shelves that he created, just wow. And some of those pots he had, just some seriously awesome stuff he has there in his little dungeon. I don't remember him pulling out the "not a 4090" card though? I might've missed it with all the rest of the video though. There was tons of stuff going on in that video afterall.

You know..........I'm no "expert" by any means, but there's tons of people that DIY exactly those kinds of adapters at home. I was actually JUST looking into some adapting risers, that I'm going to keep secret until the next good hwbot competition, but its something I'd have to fabricate to an extent. Not a 4 way like that, but its similar concept.

Yeah, the RT performance hit, I mean we knew before release it wasn't going to be spectacular. But I'd like to actually be able to fully enjoy RT games with maxed out graphics (Portal / Cyberpunk cough cough). So since that still can't be done, I don't mind waiting, although I absolutely DO want one of the 7900XTX's. I apparently have a collection or something, so now its an impulse "must have". But.....it can wait till its ~$500 ish or less on the used market. I already bought a "top dollar" GPU (as did a LOT of us). This just isn't that exciting, as great of a card as it is. Same goes for the 4000 series in my book. Yeah, the 4090 is top tier, high end performance. It's a great card, please don't get me wrong. But it even can't play 4k native res RT titles at smooth framerates, as it relies heavily on DLSS. Both launches suck so far. -_-

I could be wrong to be honest. I really didn't look at the reviews all that terribly hard when I bought mine. I knew it was a ton faster than my 5700XT, so I bought one (my 6900xt). I just know the 7900XTX is just about my dream performance card for my monitor finally (other than RT performance). I'm not willing to shell out $1600, or even $1000 to get that though, so *shrugs.

600w GPU + 200w CPU + 100w for the rest of the system (typically), I mean that's 900w power draw right there before PSU efficiency (super rough estimate). We've used 1000-1500w systems in the past. It's not exactly anything new to be breaking this kind of power draw. What IS however "new", is using this much power on a single CPU / GPU system. With that said, YOUR results are one thing. You probably have a newer home, or at least an electrically sound home. Probably also not running a ton of other stuff on the same breaker (obviously or it'd pop). The fella you read about could have been in an older home or had his system on a heavily loaded circuit. Hard to say. He probably would've had the same problems had he been running an e8500 Core 2 Duo at 4GHz with 3 or 4 way SLI 8800GTX's too like we used to do 15 years ago. 600w shouldn't be popping a circuit. For that guy you read about, "welcome to enthusiast computing". I see no problems with power draw so long as we stay under 1000w or so for single CPU / GPU setups. I think its a tad much, but whatever we don't use crossfire or SLI anymore. We're getting pretty near that now with the 4090's, so hopefully Nvidia has a solution to that for next gen. Otherwise, we're going to start seeing more examples of that person you read about. US homes, typically don't have a dedicated 120v for just a single computer; nor do they have 240v like our friends across the pond which can handle a higher load like that.

To be fair, the 6900XT didn't compete with the 3090 either, the results were pretty similar to what we see this gen, with the 7900XTX being in between the 4080 and 4090 in most tests. Some tests it even beat the 4090, and yes, some tests it was slightly slower than the 4080. Personally, it looks to be about the same as last gen as far as comparisons go. I do agree with you on the pricing thing. As much as I want to get one, because I really do feel like it'd be JUST ENOUGH performance finally that I'd be perfectly content at my resolution......I'm gonna pass till they hit the used market at a more affordable price. Same goes for the AM5 kit too. Nope, it can wait. I jumped on the 5800x / 6900XT, made that mistake. I'm almost, ALMOST happy with my rig's performance. I think this gen might finally do it for me. But........it can wait. I still have a lot of enjoyment to get out of my current rig anyway.

Even if they were that deep man, I wouldn't judge you. This is an entirely different beast than just a regular $1600 video card, especially now that its shown to be a real auction. "Collectors cards" are definitely more valuable. How much more? Guess we'll see Dec 16th huh?

.......But can it play Portal? No seriously, I want to know because I'll be happy with its performance everywhere else except Portal.

If I remember the youtube videos on it right, its actually a tech demo for the new RTX tools to mod ANY older games into RTX titles. But yeah, its basically for the 40 series only, and basically a tech demo for the cards. Kinda sucks, I was really hoping to be able to play it (and enjoy it) on my setup. I played it, I didn't enjoy it.

Hope you've got deep pockets, latest bid is $8300. They did state this though, "Bids turned in within 1 hour of auction closing WITHOUT any prior bid will be removed". So yeah, so long as you bid before the last hour, you should be good to go. I know you wanted one of these to add to your EVGA collection, so I hope you have good luck.

Alright, so I really need to start taking some pictures. I didn't realize I had this much done already. Here's a slight update, although nothing physical yet. Just been going through "finished" rigs to make sure they're actually finished....... The following list is 100% done rigs, fully installed with their "correct" OS's, imaged for easy re-installation, and ready for me to play with. The rest of my originally stated project list, is going to get hopefully finished after Christmas. AGP GPU's are still with a buddy being "repaired" (re-greased / re-padded / stripped screws fixed), so I'm not counting any AGP builds as "done". With that said, I do have the ONE AGP build "done" so far, but not really since missing GPU and "wrong" OS on it. So whatever........ Anyway, enough rambling. Here's what's "DONE": Done rigs: Ryzen 5800x / RX 6900XT / Windows 11 Ryzen 3600 / RX 5700XT / Windows 10 Ryzen 2600 / Vega 64 / Windows 10 (not imaged since kiddo's rig right now, but done) Ryzen 1400 / Fury X / Windows 10 FX 8350 / R9 290x / Windows 8.1 Phenom II 1100T / HD7970 / Windows 7 Phenom 9850 / HD6970 / Windows Vista Opteron 180 / HD5870 / Windows XP x64 Still have to finish (* denotes needs lots of work, otherwise noted): *Opteron 180 / HD5770 CFX / Windows 7 *Opteron 180 / GTS 250 SLI / Windows 7 *Athlon64 3200+ / X1950 / Windows XP SP3 x86 *AthlonXP 3200+ / X850 / Windows XP x86 Athlon T Bird 1100 / Radeon 9800XT / Windows 2000 (done except GPU) *K6 II 600? / Radeon 9000 or 7500? / Windows 98SE *K5 or K6 underclocked? / Radeon 7500 or Rage 128? / Windows 95 I still have quite a bit left obviously, however MOST of the missing equipment is just drives and peripheral expansion cards and stuff like that. I do have 2 cases I need to finish refurbishing, but can't do that till it warms up a little. Board that needs to be recapped, just the one though. Idk, things are moving along. Just wanted to share the "kind of" update, that I've started installing the "proper" OS's on things and getting things imaged, making sure compatibility is all there, stuff like that. The ones listed as "done" are absolutely, 100% done unless something breaks.

No, its actually legit............. Kinda surprised to be honest. https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-Next-Gen-Graphics-Auction-for-Charity-m3590023.aspx

Whoa. So according to Rob @ EVGA it actually was legitimate? Again.....whoa. o.0

From what I've been seeing, you "should" be capable of running it at 4k with DLSS on "Performance" mode. You'd probably be a lot happier at 1440p "Performance" DLSS though. Either way, yeah seems like if you don't have a 4080 or better you're not going to see the benefits as well from this title, which is a huge shame. Yeah, its a great way to "showoff" the new technology in the 4000 series, but even people that run them admit the AI frame insertion and DLSS isn't nearly as good as playing native.

Not hard to pull up Wikipedia to see where EVGA is headquartered at and create the listing as being from 92821 in Brea, California. I just created a dummy listing (didn't fully create it), and ebay let me create mine as being from Brea, CA despite me being thousands of miles away from there.

eVGA's already been emailed. If its legit, then its legit. If not, I'm sure they'll release an announcement or something, who knows.

Dude, that whole listing just SCREAMS fishy...... Seller just joined ebay Dec 7, 2022. Seller claims no returns or refunds on both their active listings (even though eVGA is still in business for now) That listing has jumped literally $12,000 in just hours...... eVGA has their very own web shop on ebay, and that's not them I dunno man.....it just screams scam to me. Maybe I'm wrong. The hilarity of my original comment aside, there's a sucker born every minute.....this really REALLY seems scammy to me. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe somebody will get their $10,000 GPU, excuse me $11,000, excuse me, $12,000......is it done climbing yet? This thing's going to be $100k before the first day is over....... Inb4 TPU publishes an article about EVGA scammers on ebay......

I can't find it on ebay myself. Link? Are people SERIOUSLY bidding $10,000 for a card that's not even worth $1600 because its EVGA? -_- I mean I guess because its "REALLY LIMITED" edition its worth more, but $10,000???? EDIT: Nevermind, link is in OP but you've got the image in the link too so it was hard to find.

With my RX 6900XT, I was getting around 25-30 FPS at 1280x720, ish, give or take. It was ALMOST playable at 16:9 720p. I played the first few levels though at 1920x540 due to having an ultrawide. RSR was active, and honestly it didn't help anywhere near enough at "540p" ultrawide. It just looked horrible. The lighting effects were nice, but the rest looked really bad. Performance was ALMOST okay, almost. I got 23-30 FPS at 1920x540. EDIT: I figured out the ALT + X menu thing. Got things "tuned". 1280x720 with "performance" mode on, "enhanced graphics" on but the preset on "high" instead of "ultra" at 50% res scaling (so basically 360p), and I played through the whole game. It looked horrid, didn't use my whole monitor, but at least I could kinda almost tell what they were going for. Was getting 30-36 FPS with those settings. I did notice at 1920x540, if I could turn OFF the resolution scaling in the game itself, RSR actually made it look not too terribly bad (same with 1280x720). But the performance was just not there with the in game scaling turned off. Like 8-12 FPS. Sigh. -_-

I'll give it a try, why not? -_- I was REALLY hoping Valve would make it more open so it worked on a wider variety of hardware better.

I lick windows....... But yeah seriously, other than being a little "edgy" with a $1000 case comment, so what? Who cares? Thermalfake? I have a Thermaltake case, and I am absolutely offended. Wait, is offended the right word for laughing my butt off at calling them "Thermalfake"? Seriously, @Outsider, bro, this isn't reddit. And from what I've gathered around here, that's part of the reason E made this site, was so us enthusiasts could openly speak our mind after OCN went the way it did. Other than saying you're going to be banned for being offensive, I haven't seen anything actually offensive said yet. Quit talking about being banned, and have some fun man.

Because I've personally degraded those chips, but I have yet to degrade an AMD chip. I've killed RAM sticks on an AMD setup, but not the IMC yet anyway *knocks on wood

Still? No lol. I scored the SOHO BNIB "new old stock" on ebay a while back, and the PC-60 was a rescue from a computer repair shop locally. When the weather gets better, I get the lovely joy of sanding the PC-60, and re-graining it because its got some massively deep and bad scratches on it. Wanna sell some of those beauties? LOL No, don't answer that, I have enough. -_- Back on topic: There's some modern cases that are pretty good. I can honestly say the HAF 700 was a joy to build in.

You're talking about digital efficiency as far as frames on the screen go. We're talking about real world efficiency, as in the heat being dumped into your room. 2 different things here mate. "Energy in motion is ALWAYS in motion". Comparing a turbo's efficiency isn't the same thing as discussing a GPU's heat output. A turbo takes waste heat energy from a car's combustion engine, and brings it back into the engine to produce more power, or more "movement" if you will. A GPU's ONLY purpose physically is to literally dump heat in the terms of wattage. That's the only physical thing it does. That energy HAS to be going somewhere, period, per the laws of physics. Talking about turbos vs GPU's would be like if we could take the waste heat off a GPU and re-circulating it with a "turbo" to produce even more frames per second. That doesn't exist because frames aren't a physical thing. Heat is the byproduct of energy being used. You're using 400w worth of energy, so 400w worth of heat is being dumped. A car....a car is using so many watts of power (kilowatts+), but its actually producing movement. Energy in motion is always in motion. Until your GPU starts zooming around the room from the power its using, the only PHYSICAL measure you can have from it is heat dumped into the room. That's the only "movement" it can have with the power it consumes.