While last Sunday's question on air or water in PC cooling topped last week's reports, the forthcoming GeForce RTX 4080 casts its shadow in the news – leaked ones Benchmarks take the top spot.
Water cooling continues to increase slightly
The question of whether air or water is used for cooling is currently more than 60 percent in favor of air cooling in the ComputerBase community, but the proportion of users who also use water for cooling is growing at over 30 percent. AIO water cooling is favored by the majority, around 45 percent rely on their own custom water cooling. While almost all readers who voted cool their CPUs with water, less than half also flooded their GPUs.
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The GeForce RTX 4080 launches next week
In the case of the reports, it is the first benchmarks for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080, which will be released next Wednesday, that interest most readers. After Nvidia canceled the GeForce RTX 8080 12 GB, only the 16 GB version is available for the time being. The RTX 4080 12 GB could celebrate a comeback as the RTX 4070 Ti at the beginning of January at CES 2023. The leaked benchmarks almost always confirm the expected large gap between the GeForce RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 16 GB.
High prices for PC hardware Hardware
In line with the launch of the RTX 4080 16 GB, whose Founders Edition Nvidia will offer for 1,469 euros and where custom designs from manufacturers such as Asus, MSI and Gigabyte will be priced even higher, the comment ranks second in the reports of the last week our author Michael Günsch on “hardware (at prices) beyond all reason”. The fact that the pain threshold for a graphics card has long since been exceeded not only for him but also for many readers is also confirmed by the survey, in which around 65 percent of the readers who took part would spend less than 750 euros for a graphics card – and many far fewer of them, because around 40 percent set the limit below 500 euros.
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RTX 4080 and new Snapdragon SoC flagship
The central topic for the next week has already been found with the GeForce RTX 4080. Even if it is not the only announcement already foreseeable next week and, for example, Qualcomm holds the annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, where a new Snapdragon SoC is expected, other manufacturers have even postponed their planned announcements in order not to compete with Nvidia for the attention of the readers to have to compete.
With this reading material in your luggage, the editors wish you a relaxing Sunday!