NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you

Control · Dec 25, 2024

Captain Suave said:
Well in my case, with an older house I'm already at the limit of my breaker panel both in circuits and amperage. Adding anything requires a panel replacement and service upgrade, which at current trade prices in my area is north of $15k. The average house in the US was built circa 1980, so there are a lot of people in my position.

No worries, just run a fat extension cord to the kitchen! Who needs 220s when you have a whole house full of perfectly good 110s?!
Sure, your frozen pizzas and tendies might thaw, but it's a small price to pay for gaming nirvana!
(besides, tendies wouldn't last long in anyone's house that's doing this anyway...)

mkopec · Dec 25, 2024

Control said:
No worries, just run a fat extension cord to the kitchen! Who needs 220s when you have a whole house full of perfectly good 110s?!
Sure, your frozen pizzas and tendies might thaw, but it's a small price to pay for gaming nirvana!
(besides, tendies wouldn't last long in anyone's house that's doing this anyway...)

Yeah like the beer brewers on the forums were jerry rigging 220v plugs for the dryer to work with their 220v beer brewing equipment. I mean thats great and all but water+220v plug thats usually on the floor with no GFCI sounds like a great way to fry yourself.

Kajiimagi · Dec 26, 2024

ok so we've gone off the rails here.
My wife & In laws are British. We are two people separated by a common language for sure. Keeps popping up even today. My MIL called my wife a creep. I bowed up to put my foot in her ass but living around them long enough I asked for a clarification. Apparently it means a suck up in Britain?

Anyhow , I'm over at the in laws house , older place and my father in law knows I'm an electrician so he asks me something and I'm only half paying attention. Plus he has a thick northern England accent (think Ozzy Osborne) I hear 'yadda yadda electric fire' and I jump up and shout "WHAT ELECTRIC FIRE" , he says the one in the bathroom. I'm like take me there RIGHT NOW.
He was talking about an in wall space heater. I guess that was a thing in old houses. After I got my heart beat under control I told him to take the cover off and take a vacuum to the dust after he turned the breaker off. Good times.

Kajiimagi · Dec 26, 2024

mkopec said:
Yeah like the beer brewers on the forums were jerry rigging 220v plugs for the dryer to work with their 220v beer brewing equipment. I mean thats great and all but water+220v plug thats usually on the floor with no GFCI sounds like a great way to fry yourself.

Yeah that is a fantastic way to die right there. But: Darwinism and they gotta have that beer I guess.

Sabbat · Dec 26, 2024

mkopec said:
I mean, there is only so many amps you can pull from a 110v circuit. So there is only so much wattage they can go with. I think the limit is like 1600W for 110v appliances. So it will be the same for PSU unless you get a dedicated 220v circuit to run your shit, lol.

Australian power outlets are 50hz 240v. Yai.

Borzak · Dec 26, 2024

I have 220 in my office, just one outlet. Same office I'm in now and all my computer stuff. Of ourse it's at home, floor below(is my shop and at one time I had 3 phase power coming in to run a lathe and mill. Now it's all rotary phase convertor. So maybe I'm good to go until Bill Gates produces small and portable nuclear power plants. Hmmm, maybe not.

Noodleface · Dec 26, 2024

My breaker panel is maxed out as well and we even have a sub panel. An upgrade to 220a here I was quoted at $5k

ronne · Dec 26, 2024

My entire apartment is run off one ONE 20amp breaker, cause it got 're-wired' under the table by the owners cousins. Every outlet, same breaker.

I have to turn off my AC to use the microwave.

No shot I can run one of these cards lol.

Mist · Dec 26, 2024

Kajiimagi said:
Bro 1st thing I did in the house I'm in was run (3) 120V dedicated lines to my game room

When I went full-time remote, I did the same thing. All new dedicated lines, UPSes for my gaming and for my work gear.

Borzak · Dec 26, 2024

^^^^^^

Things people say before a fire for $100

Kuro · Dec 26, 2024

Just install a waterwheel in your cooling system to generate power ezpz

Izo · Dec 26, 2024

Perhaps wire a Trumpsla two way to your circuitry, run the GF from the battery.

Kajiimagi · Dec 26, 2024

Mist said:
When I went full-time remote, I did the same thing. All new dedicated lines, UPSes for my gaming and for my work gear.

If I was working I could probably justify the cost of large UPS units for my PC's but just gaming? Nah. Also back in the day I had a direct strike on my house that grounded through the wood on my house. It went through/around all the UPS units I had and destroyed my 2 gaming PC's. One so bad it physically blew caps off the board. The UPS units didn't even beep. I had everything on them because I lived in an area where it would brown out all the time and remember those old tube projection TV's? They didn't like power interruptions and I had to have me a big screen. Those 'warranties' on the UPS units seem great until you try to claim something, thankfully my homeowner's insurance covered it all

Lambourne · Dec 27, 2024

Nvidia's data center GPUs already hit 1000w TDP. They use a different socket without the shitty 12VHPWR plug though. Doubt home GPUs go anywhere near that high, it would be hard to cool at acceptable noise levels.

Nvidia has also already sold the entire 2025 production of Blackwell GPUs so I wouldn't expect a to get a 50x0 GPU for cheap anytime soon.

Palum · Dec 27, 2024

Leaks are wrong, 5090 will ship with 12VHPWR to 110v extension cord, just have to plug it into the circuit on the other side of the house.

gak · Dec 27, 2024

Palum said:
Leaks are wrong, 5090 will ship with 12VHPWR to 110v extension cord, just have to plug it into the circuit on the other side of the house.

Tasty The Treat · Dec 28, 2024

I don't even see the point of these things anymore. What are all these latest games pushing the boundaries I would want one for?

Lambourne · Dec 28, 2024

Think of how fast the blur will be

Axiel · Dec 28, 2024

Tasty The Treat said:
I don't even see the point of these things anymore. What are all these latest games pushing the boundaries I would want one for?

As a gamer- It lets you play rushed & sloppy UE5+ games by devs that can't be bothered to bake in lighting let alone optimize; at more acceptable frames / settings.

A better use is for businesses, could let them get away with not buying workstation GPUs and $100,000 dedicated AI cards.

Big reason for the 90 series is it helps Nvidia sell lower cards. Think a sports car at the showroom, getting customers in to push cheap appliance vehicles on.

Hateyou · Dec 28, 2024

Axiel said:
As a gamer- It lets you play rushed & sloppy UE5+ games by devs that can't be bothered to bake in lighting let alone optimize; at more acceptable frames / settings.

A better use is for businesses, could let them get away with not buying workstation GPUs and $100,000 dedicated AI cards.

Big reason for the 90 series is it helps Nvidia sell lower cards. Think a sports car at the showroom, getting customers in to push cheap appliance vehicles on.

There are cheap graphics cards?

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