Olle

The new game, Starfield , is the first game that crashes my PC all the time. It seemed to suck out all 850W of my PC's PSU.  Well, Starfield is still buggy and un-optimised but as my RTX 4090 is recommended to have a 1000W PSU, I got the itch and upgraded PSU to  be quiet! PURE POWER 12 M 1200W . Installation was a breeze. I run 3DMark again and here's the latest score so connections seem to be all good (eg no unintentional cable disconnection): Hopefully, no more crashes when playing with Starfield in ultra settings. Latest photo of my PC:

  Score was 25036 about a year ago so probably just need some system tweaking, if I can be bothered.

So I upgraded from a ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity to  Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING OC 24GB during RTX 4090 release last October 13, 2022. And, oh boy, the memes were exactly right - 4090 is a chonky boi! Photos below show Gigabyte 4090 and Zotac 3090: Luckily, I went big with PC case and PSU 12 years ago so no parts were affected by this upgrade. Benchmarking results show big brother performs bad ass against RTX 3090: Novabench 3090 4090 Not much difference except for the 133% increase in Open CL GFLOPS (Billion floating-point operations per second). 3DMark 3090 4090 Just amazing result!