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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!

  Highlights: OLED 48 monitor XSX console A5+ speaker 3900X CPU RTX 3090 GPU

 

Ran benchmarks to make sure nothing changed performance-wise. All look good!  

So I received  be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 Cooler today and proceeded to replace the stock  AMD Wraith Prism Cooler . Well, I ran Prime95 first for about 30 minutes to heat up the CPU thermal paste. After shutting PC down, I quickly opened up the case and then unlocked the cam lever of the stock cooler. After unlatching the retention clip underneath that lever, the cooler assembly jolted itself loose. Yey! CPU : Cooler heatsink: I then cleaned up the CPU lid using 100% isopropyl alcohol and an eyeglass cloth: Size comparison between the coolers: Thermal paste application: Install done!

The thing finally arrived!  Good news - it's not as big I thought it would be. In fact,  Galax GeForce RTX 2070 Super EX Gamer Black Edition 8GB is a bit thicker and definitely taller. This Zotac unit is about 15mm longer though and weight seems the same: Galax 6-pin & 8-pin Power Connection: Zotac dual 8-pin Power Connection: The Zotac unit came in with two pieces of the dual 6-pin to single 8-pin Cable Assembly: I have to use one of the dual 6-pin to 8-pin cable assembly: Up and running! Benchmark Test Results: with RTX 2070 Super - with RTX 3090 - That's a 153.85% difference! with RTX 2070 Super - with RTX 3090 - That's a 98.16% increase in Graphics Score! with RTX 2070 Super - with RTX 3090 - Not much difference here except for that massive difference in OpenCL: 9,387 gflops vs 37,551 gflops!

I finally nabbed an RTX 3090 GPU! It's  Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity 24GB  and it will be coming from Scorptec. I placed the order at 2:24pm and it was marked ready to be dispatched by 4:26pm. Thanks to the good people at Whirlpool for the heads up. The stock was quickly depleted after a forum posting.

Another hectic launch!  Most sites collapsed (again) due to the horde and very limited stock. I managed to placed an order for  GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 SG (1-Click OC), 24GB with Scorptec . It was in stock but after receiving order confirmation, delivery is TBA. If I lost the allocation, then I'll cancel the order and will just wait it out with my RTX 3080 pre-order with PLE. 26/09 update: I missed out on the launch stock allocation so I cancelled my order.