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RTX 3090 in my paws!

Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:53 am

PNY got slammed pretty badly on 3080 and 3090's respective launch days, and while I cannot speak for their stock on hand on 3080's launch, I know for a fact that PNY had all of 2 cards in stock for 3090 launch, and it was purely due to the fact that all of the big name vendors like Newegg, Amazon, and Best Buy, as well as OEMs like Dell and HP ate up PNY's entire stock of cards for both launches... Or, ALMOST all of it. Of the 2 cards PNY had to sell directly on launch day, none ever went up on the site for sell.

Both cards sold that day went to a list of users who had suffered problems with the website in earlier purchase transactions, my name being number 1 on that list. PNY actually called me at 10 minutes after launch time to take my order over the phone, charged my card through the PNY internal system (meaning I paid factory price, no tax, no shipping, flat 1499.99), and shipped the card out the next morning. It is now in my hands. The specific card I ended up with is the PNY RTX 3090 XLR8 model number ending in PPB. The only other PNY 3090 ends the model number with MPB, but otherwise identical first part of the number, but even worse, identical model name! The MPB model is plainer looking than the PPB model I received.

Build quality is rock solid, this thing is VERY well built. PNY's customer service really came through for me as well. For the next 3 weeks, PNY direct will only have a couple cards a week, according to Lisette at PNY. In 3 weeks or so stock should fully stabilize. This is due to all of the major vendors selling out of PNY cards faster than they can make them, but production is still ramping up and will meet demand soon. PNY prices will NOT inflate as a result of this, according to Lisette, PNY will not bow to scalpers, bots, or crashes (PNY used reference 4+20 capacitor config and had no crash reports).
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:55 am

Copy/paste post of my post over on Rage3D for pic links...

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Box on my desk. Pretty...

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Close up of box

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Box opened, card inside. Preeeetty. (I'm easily amused at this point)

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Cats less amused. "Dad, yer disturbing our vibe here..."

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Strange finding in box! A slot brace? Oooooo!

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Everything that came in box, now out of box.

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Side view of card as would be facing out of the case.

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Back plate, simple yet effective looking.

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Inside end of card.

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Business end of card.
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:22 pm

Awesome. Gear lust.
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:27 am

Nah, they are waiting for 3090 to generate "warm" for them sit on top of the chassis.
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:03 am

This is awesome! Is it worth to buy? Been considering to have mine as well. Cute kitties too!
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:18 am

Honestly, as expensive as it is, that's the kind of card that even a decade later with it in a cabinet somewhere, when you see it, you'll still get a warm smile of affection. That's true for me re the GF4 Ti4400 AGP and Voodoo 5 5000 PCI cards I still have from a special bygone build. To my dying day I'll likely still have them, still with the thought in the back of my mind of 'someday' bothering to cobble together a Win98SE build for legacy gaming.
 
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:14 pm

Krogoth wrote:
Nah, they are waiting for 3090 to generate "warm" for them sit on top of the chassis.


The kitties know better than to pick fights with Yamato and Andromeda. The tower case top is held by two very spiky warships :P

DrCR wrote:
Honestly, as expensive as it is, that's the kind of card that even a decade later with it in a cabinet somewhere, when you see it, you'll still get a warm smile of affection. That's true for me re the GF4 Ti4400 AGP and Voodoo 5 5000 PCI cards I still have from a special bygone build. To my dying day I'll likely still have them, still with the thought in the back of my mind of 'someday' bothering to cobble together a Win98SE build for legacy gaming.


Absolutely truth. I also had a GF 4 Ti 4400, though my earliest great video setup was a Guillimot Phoenix Voodoo Banshee 16mb in the AGP slot with a pair of STB Blackmagic 12mb Voodoo 2 in SLI. Had to use Glide switcher to select either the Banshee or the V2 SLI, but really only used the Banshee for it's decent 2D desktop, lol. Also have extreme fond memories of the entire R300/350/360 lineup as well, having had a 9700 AIW, a 9800 Pro 256mb, and a 9800XT to top off the generation just because I loved everything about the R3x0 architecture. There has been a LOT of cards since those that while memorable, didn't have nearly the lasting impressions until now.

RTX 3090 felt more like Voodoo 2 coming full circle and I HAD to be in on this gen. Voodoo 1 really made rasterized gaming broadly appeal, but was kinda slow. Voodoo didn't really introduce any new features over Voodoo 1, just made all the features properly usable and fast. And introduced SLI. RTX 3090 doesn't really introduce anything new over Turing, just makes everything Turing did faster and makes ray tracing a non-problem for any game I wanna throw at it. And also signals the death of SLI. The times have come full circle.

Interestingly enough, a pair of Voodoo 2's in SLI = 24mb. RTX 3090 = 24Gb. Lots of parallels to Voodoo 2, I could list more, but those are the bigger ones.
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Re: RTX 3090 in my paws!

Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:17 pm

PranavG wrote:
This is awesome! Is it worth to buy? Been considering to have mine as well. Cute kitties too!


Yes, TOTALLY worth the buy. In every way important, it FEELS like a Titan class card. I paid exactly 1499.99, no tax, no shipping costs. So for 1500 flat pretty much (-.01 cent), I have a card that will likely last me for years and not feel slow for as long or longer than any card previously. I just do not see ANY game coming for years to come that will overwhelm this beast. Futureproof may be a myth, but I will tell you that the RTX 3090 just feels mythical in it's raw power. :P
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