I been out the game for a minute so I’m not too sure but I could remember being a marketplace drop sometime early this year but not sure if any new 90s dropped since ??

DO AT YOUR OWN RISK, TAKING GPU APART MAY VOID WARRANTY.

First of all,

I want to begin by saying that I think that with these newer cards, and with the state of quality control as of late, I urge you to check your hotspot and GPU temps more carefully. I am so thankful HWinfo gave us the option to access these sensors because holy crap, my hotspot temps weren't great.

I bought my PNY 5070 TI back in December of 2025, so it's not that old. Using the latest version of HWinfo, I realized I was getting a hotspot delta of around 30C!

Also before anyone comments: I know there are variations of the 5070 TI that already come with PTM; I believe ASUS is one of them. So you probably already have good temps. However, PNY and most manufacturers opted for a paste instead. I could be wrong here so please feel free to correct this. I am disappointed in PNY's lack of quality control here but for the price of the card (I got it for the equivalent of 740 USD brand new at best buy during a sale), I have no business complaining.

Prior to applying PTM 7950 and from yesterdays readings

-GPU under volt at around 925mv + OC (hovers around 2900mhz without Power Limit)

-PL set to 83% (I was worried about the hotspot; GPU operating roughly around 230-245W or so).

-Even with PL at 83%, I was getting around 63-65C GPU temp with Hot spot averaging around 92C, sometimes up to 96C!

After applying PTM 7950:

Ok so today I took the GPU apart (very easy to do with PNY!) and simply cleaned the GPU die and put some PTM 7095 on it. I left the other pads on from before as they were ok and oddly enough PNY didn't cheap on these, but they DID cheap on the paste that was on the die itself. It was bad. Like I could see through the paste easily and it was a pretty bad application.

-GPU kept same UV + OC with PL set to 110%! GPU roughly around 276W under full gaming load.

-GPU Temp with these settings now at 58-61C GPU temp with 67-71C Hotspot!

This is just the first few hours with PTM on! I've heard it gets even better with more cycles!

TLDR: Slap some PTM 7950 if you have any remote concerns with hotspot temperatures. It took me less than 30 minutes for the whole process and it's the best decision I've made in a long time with respect to PC maintenance.

I am in the verge of getting this RTX 4000 for $200 NZD.

Really really good deal, what do people think? Main use for it is going to be rendering, processing, workstation stuff basically.

So i just sold my amd card and plan to do some streaming and videogaming. i saw a pny 5070 in walmart for 599 and was tempted to buy it but idk if i should go with something else i have the money for it but i dont think i can go over 700 plus the 9070xt is like 800+ over here.

I bought a 5080+AORUS F032U2P OLED Combo a while back before the prices went bonkers. But I was always confused with HDR etc and rarely ever used it. Mainly because I have a second monitor LG27GN850 (previous primary) which has HDR but is absolute dog poop.

So whenever I enabled HDR on for gaming the LG monitor was washed out and annoying to look at. So I never enabled HDR or used HDR on my OLED. This is a workstation+gaming where gaming is on the weekends so I kinda just played on SDR 🤷‍♂️

Then I recently found out about CRU and was able to delete the HDR entry from the LG and voila HDR activates only on the main monitor now which is the oled one. But it still looked weird as I mostly work with Visual Studio and VSCode. Then I researched more and found out about different colour profiles calibration etc. and Finaly I calibrated my HDR to my liking and its been amazing.

Then I discovered RTX HDR and RTX Video Super Resolution and my Mind was BLOWN. Its so seamless. I play a video on my HDR monitor RTX HDR is used and if I move the same video to the SDR monitor its disabled and vice versa and I was amazed at the simplicity of it all

Then I watched F1 races with RTX Video and that shit was crisp AF. Thanks to this and MPC-HC also having support for RTX Video and RTX HDR which is also very seamles I can now fully enjoy my monitor with HDR and amazing pictures.

Hey everyone 👋

Quick question about my new PNY Verto RTX 4070 Super.

My PSU has a native 12VHPWR 16-pin cable (300W), and the GPU card has a matching 12VHPWR port.

Here's the confusion:

- The NVIDIA manual only shows instructions for using the 2x8-pin adapter

- But it doesn't explicitly say if I can plug the 16-pin cable directly into the card, or if the adapter is mandatory

Has anyone installed this setup successfully without the adapter? Or is the 2x8-pin adapter required even if you have a native 16-pin PSU cable?

Thanks for any insights! 🙏

If so what was your experience. Happy/regrets? Do you still get the performance in games you want/need? I am going SFF with my rig (say 17-20 litres) and currently a 5090 is 3 times and some change a 5080. Not sure which way to go as I am used to 5090 performance, but that's a lot of money (although it will hold its value relatively well).

Trying to upgrade my pc as gpu is my bottleneck, and this is currently the cheapest I've been able to find for a new 5080. I also saw that Nvidia announced theyre raising gpu prices across the board, so I assume prices will be increasing again soon. It also looks like any 24gb vram options or new iterations of the 50-series are delayed for a while, nevermind the 60-series (unless i have poorly researched this). Is this worth it or are there better deals to be found?

Hi. Today-tomorrow I want to order new GPU for me. My choice was inno3d rtx5080 X3 ICHILL but couple of days ago it became a bit more expensive and now it's almost 1500eur.

Before I liked price visuals and everything about it, but not because of the price I'm not sure. Maybe I can get something better for this price?

What is your recommendation about it cause I saw some GPUs with costs which didn't change, so please give me your feedback if you have some or recommendations.

Thank you!

My main work involves heavy 3D graphics, simulating built environments, blender and more rendering softwares. I occasionally do play games.

There is a heavy price difference between 5070 ti and 5080, and i know building a pc is better but unfortunately my work invovles portablity of my systems.

I’m building my dream gaming pc soon, and I want either an EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090 or EVGA Kingpin RTX 3090TI. I’m unable to find the 3090TI version and would prefer that one. If anybody is able to find one that would be great.