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Zhiye Liu News Editor, RAM Reviewer & SSD Technician Zhiye Liu is a news editor, memory reviewer, and SSD tester at Tom’s Hardware. Although he loves everything that’s hardware, he has a soft spot for CPUs, GPUs, and RAM.
bit_user Why is Toms calling this a "finger"? The proper name for it is a PCIe Edge Connector . The first time I saw an article on this site refer to it as a "finger", I had no idea what they were talking about! Reply
hvrivas The part that gets damaged is the ribbon connector not the finger itself. Do these kits include it? Reply
teeejay94 On paper the 5090 is the best GPU going right now. In terms of what the community says the 1080 Ti is still supreme. So yes as technology goes on we all know the latest and greatest will always be technically better but for what the 5090 makes up for in performance it completely 💩's the bed in terms of soul. They couldn't even release it with proper circuit protection from Nvidia. The card is a joke. Reply
bit_user teeejay94 said: On paper the 5090 is the best GPU going right now. In terms of what the community says the 1080 Ti is still supreme. Supreme in what sense? Toms recently looked at it and found it's outperformed at 1080p by a RTX 5050! Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/saying-goodbye-to-nvidias-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-as-it-rides-into-the-sunset-we-benchmark-2017s-hottest-card-compared-to-modern-gpus They're even neck & neck at 1440p. But, when you go to 4k, you'll want something with more memory capacity & bandwidth. There have been plenty of cards which fit that bill, as the following graph clearly shows. teeejay94 said: They couldn't even release it with proper circuit protection from Nvidia. The card is a joke. If you're talking about the power connector melting, then just step down one level to the 4080/5080 tier and you can avoid such problems. Reply
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