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New HP Omen Laptop SKUs Confirm Nvidia 4090 is Going Mobile!
Immediately leading up to the launch of the desktop Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, rumours appeared online suggesting that the development of a laptop variant was (not surprisingly at the time) already underway. Now, while this was clearly not entirely unusual, when the 4090 finally dropped and we saw just how…
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Nvidia (Sort Of) Lowers the 4090/4080 MSRP in the UK & Europe
When originally launched back in September, Nvidia confirmed that the 4090 graphics card came with an official UK MSRP of £1,679 whereas the 4080 came in at £1,269. – Now, admittedly, these were the standard base figures which, typically speaking, would only initially apply to their own ‘Founders Edition’ models.…
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PCI-SIG Tells 12VHPWR Manufacturers to NOT Deviate From the Specs!
The transition to the new 12VHPWR power adaptor standard certainly hasn’t gotten off to the best of starts with various reports from users that the connectors and graphics card ports have been melting. It is, infact, an issue that has significantly plagued the reputation of the Nvidia 4090 ever since…
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Nvidia Confirms Portal RTX to Launch on December 8th
Representing one of their truly surprising announcements at the GeForce RTX 40XX series launch, Nvidia confirmed the upcoming release of Portal RTX. A completely remastered version of the highly-popular title updated with masses of ray tracing and DLSS features. – Put simply, if you really wanted to stretch your GPU…
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Research Finds Undervolting the Nvidia 4090 Provides Surprisingly Decent Results!
Undervolting a graphics card is certainly not an unusual practice, but in this regard, it was something only typically done by the cryptocurrency mining community. The overall concept was that by reducing the power requirements of the GPU you could get a significantly better optimised performance-per-watt balance which, ultimately, resulted…
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Nvidia 4080 Scalpers Suffer as Consumers Show Little Interest in the GPU
While the graphics card market has undoubtedly calmed down a lot when compared to this time last year, following the launch of both the Nvidia 4090 and 4080 it was hardly surprising that scalpers were looking to turn a quick buck by buying the GPUs at their retail price and…
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EKWB Unveil its Zotac 4090/4080 AMP AIRO and Trinity Water Blocks
EK Water Blocks (EKWB) has announced the launch of the ultimate water cooling solution for Zotac AMP Extreme AIRO and Trinity GeForce RTX 4080 and 4090 graphics cards. Zotac’s RTX 4090 cards get a water block with a passive backplate or a cooling solution with an active backplate that’s sandwiching…
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AMD Takes Hilarious Shot At Nvidia With 12VHPWR Adaptor Jibe!
I daresay that it didn’t escape your attention that during the AMD Radeon 7900 launch event, Team Red made a small but very notable comment regarding what power adaptor their upcoming 7900 XT and 7900 XTX graphics cards would require. – Put simply, rather than moving to 12VHPWR as per…
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Retail Information Suggests Nvidia 4080 Isn’t Proving Popular With Consumers!
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 is undoubtedly an excellent graphics card (and if you want proof of that, check out our review of five different variants of it here!). – With that being said, however, that’s not to say that it doesn’t have its problems (and no, I’m not referring…
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Nvidia Issues Statement Saying 12VHPWR Melting Issue is (Basically) User Error!
Given that it’s basically been a month since Nvidia launched the 4090, the lack of any formal statement from the company regarding the numerous reported instances of 12VHPWR adaptors melting has clearly been more than a little worrying for owners. – Earlier this week, however, a video post by Gamers…
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Nvidia Release 4090/4080 Firmware Update to Fix Booting Black Screens
Although predominantly identified as a mostly isolated issue, earlier this month Nvidia confirmed that a number of 4090 graphics cards would only display a black screen when a system was booting up. Well, more accurately, nothing was getting displayed until the operating system had completely loaded. – An issue which,…
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Nvidia 4090 Founders Edition Pictured With Melted 12VHPWR Adaptor & Port!
Given the amount of evidence seen over the last month, it is clearly no longer merely a rumour, theory, or isolated issue. There is, categorically, a problem with the new 12VHPWR adaptor (or port) utilised with the Nvidia 4090 and 4080 graphics card. – If you do, in fact, want…
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Nvidia Says There Are 2 12VHPWR Adapter Manufacturers (1 Good and 1 Bad?)
The saga (and controversy) surrounding Nvidia’s 12VHPWR adaptor is showing no signs of slowing down as more and more users continue to post reports online of them melting. – While Nvidia is still formally investigating the matter, however, so far they have yet to provide the community with any kind…
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Nvidia Controversy Returns as 4090 Owner Says Fully-Connected 12VHPWR Still Melted!
Not long after the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 was officially released to the public, alarming posts began to appear online showing the 12VHPWR power adaptor melting. – And this wasn’t an isolated incident either as the user reports continued to grow to the point that no other conclusion could be…
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Nvidia Might be Imminently Set to Release Newly Revised 12VHPWR Adaptor
The matter of the 12VHPWR power adaptor saga seen with the 4090 graphics card continues to seemingly progress without any recent updates. At least at the time of writing, Nvidia has still not provided the community with any formal announcement regarding the growing reports of adaptors melting, and, specifically, whether…
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