The NVIDIA RTX 4090: A Beast of a Graphics Card

We've been waiting for what feels like an eternity to get our hands on the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, and finally, it's here. In this article, we'll be putting this powerful graphics card through its paces, testing it against some of the most demanding games out there.

Our First Look: The Power Supply

First things first, let's take a look at the power supply unit that comes with our RTX 4090 reference design. As you can see, it's a very small connector that will be used to connect the GPU to the power supply. This is where things get interesting, as NVIDIA has designed this connector to be small enough to be hidden away under the GPU shroud, which means we won't need any fancy braided cables to keep things looking tidy.

We're currently working on the power supply unit, and then I'll rejoin you in just a moment. But for now, let's take a look at how this thing performs in our custom build. We've tested everything from the latest Cyberpunk update to Overwatch 2, Fortnite, and even some older games like Call of Duty and GTA V.

Overwatch 2: A Smooth Experience

Starting off with Overwatch 2 at 4K, we achieved an impressive 469 frames per second on average. The game looked absolutely fantastic during our tests, and we managed to achieve some great results. This is never a tricky game to run, but Overwatch 2 is no exception.

Cyberpunk 2077: A Frame Rate Boost

Next up in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K High settings with DLSS set to Performance and Ray tracing set to Ultra, specifically leveraging DLSS 2.0 which was the standard until now. We achieved an impressive 93 frames per second. But that's not all - if we tune things up to DLSS 3, enabling NVIDIA's fancy new Frame Gen Tech, our frame rate supercharges right up to 141 frames per second.

Formula One: A Smooth Ride

Moving through into Formula One at 4K using the ultra-high preset, we managed to pull in an impressive 227 frames per second. This is a similarly positive story jumping through into Spider-Man next up here at 4K High settings with DLSS enabled, we pulled in an impressive 158 frames per second.

Apex Legends: A Positive Story

Moving on to Apex Legends at 4K High this title delivered us 186 FPS on average. Our results for good measure if frame rate's what you're after our next title is sure to cater to you Valorant here at 4K High we pulled in 510 FPS on average.

Fortnite: A Great Experience

Finally, we also tested out Fortnite at 1080p Competitive settings here the frame rate was still very good but definitely a little lower 337 to be precise. We were very impressed with the results we managed to achieve here this is where you tune everything to low except the render distance which you set to far I think at 1080p we're probably experiencing a CPU bottleneck implying that with a faster processor maybe the upcoming 13th gen are RTX 4090 could push itself even further.

Call of Duty: A Great Experience

To wrap things up, we also tested out Call of Duty at 4K High settings with DLSS set to Performance mode just regular DLSS2 no DLSS3 at play here. We've pulled in 215 frames per second on average. Oh my goodness the game looked awesome you're gonna have to buy yourself the most expensive monitor in the world to actually be able to enjoy any of these frame rates properly.

GTA V: A Frame Rate Cap

Finally, we also tested out GTA V it's a game which caps out around 180-190 FPS mark and here at 4K High using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode you guessed it we basically hit the cap. 182 FPS on average with all of our frame rates today tested using MSI afterburner's Reaver tuner and NVIDIA Frame View is this graphics card crazy.

Conclusion

So, should you buy this thing? Well, that depends how much money you've got to burn in video. I've created a true top-end graphics card that kills out any of the competition. You can buy all the parts mentioned or at least check the latest pricing down below. Thanks for tuning in make sure to get subscribed and as always we'll see you in the next one

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe RTX 4090 is here and in this video we're going to be building the ultimate 4090 gaming PC that you can assemble right now with a brand new ryzen 9 processor x670e motherboard ddr5 and this the aorus master 4090 this build is going to be absolutely Bonkers can this thing really game at 8K it's 4K gaming really a breeze on the 4090 we'll be answering those questions and more at the end of the video let's do this the brand new engine XT c1000 provides loads of power in a compact form factor with a fully modular interface and a high 80 plus gold efficiency rating it's easy to install in your next build and while future proof for higher wattages of next-gen gpus the c1000 joins a range of great 80 plus gold psus with a wattage for everyone learn more about the c1000 at the first links in the description below let's start off shall we by looking at this Behemoth 4090 GPU as that's what most of you probably clicked on the video for I'm hoping you've clicked for the 4090 and you'll stay for the Epic montage and benchmarks a little bit later now in here is of course our aorus 1490 design the most powerful GPU the world has ever seen at least for gaming kind of nervous you know oh my goodness this is like the third 4090 I've unboxed so far and let me tell you they don't get any smaller with a whopping three 110 millimeter fans these are nearly as big as what you get in the back of a PC case a triple slot form factor and a half a vapor chamber cooling design with two colossal heat sinks and a massive form factor this is certainly a GPU that means business of course as well we've got a bit of appeal oh yes there's another one here we go oh beautiful look at that now with loads of RGB effects as well it should look awesome and an LCD Edge view display just here to the right hand side of the top of the graphics card that means we're mounted in a standard horizontal pcie slot you'll be able to see temperatures and other GPU data right on the graphics card itself the reference design can pull an astonishing 450 watts and requires an 850 watt PSU while this requires a 1 000 watt power supply and pushes the wattage even further you can either use the new compact 16-pin digital power connection or the included dongle which splits it into a modest 4 8 Pin GPU power connections oh my goodness now in terms of the actual technology on this card that makes it so special you've got over 16 000 Cuda cores providing a really great jump from the last generation support for DLS S3 which actually uses a new frame blending technique to increase frame rate the results we've had have been very good and we'll dive into those more later you also get 4th gen tensor cores and third gen RT cores for AI accelerated performance features like dlss and of course Ray tracing on the RT cores and yes it's very expensive I mean this thing costs an absolute Fortune but from what we've seen so far from the founders Edition card we featured in a video yesterday which you can watch in the card section now it may well be worth the price point for those who want the best of the best you can read a full review of this card and others over on the website and we will of course be taking a more detailed look later when we install it into the rest of the build now what kind of system can we possibly build that a won't bottleneck our 4090 and B will do it just as aesthetically well of course there can be no other option at least for the next week or so then the ryzen 9 7000 series The ryzen 9 7950x or 7900x are both good shouts I've got the 7900x for feature in this video of course with Intel's 13th gen this whole video might be well I mean out of days in a week but hopefully not and even if it is get subscribed so you don't miss our 13th gen content a bit later for now though let's deal with what we know to definitively be the best of the best on the market and the the x670 aorus extreme is going to be the motherboard platform we'll be using for our ryzen 7000 CPU this motherboard sits on the very top end x670e chipset standing for extreme basically we get a bit more overclocking Headroom with loads and loads of power phases on this board and we also get support for PCI Gen 5 on both our SSD and on our GPU it is worth noting that our graphics card only requires a PCI Gen4 slot the power connection is the only Gen 5 bit meaning a non-xtreme chipset would also work as with a slightly older motherboard we've got four random slots here for ddr5 memory of course supporting the latest AMD Expo kits you've got a quick release button for your PCI slot allowing you to easily uninstall these very heavy cards something that's quite important and features like a q code display loads and loads of cool in and if we take a look at the rear i o you'll also find yourself with a 10 gigabit Ethernet loads of USB 3.2 ports 20 gig USBC and Wi-Fi 6E for good measure any feature you could want this board has apart from usb4 but there's not really loads of implementations for that yet anyway now these new ryzen 9 processors are a little bit demanding when it comes to the parts you install with dom in fact it's the case for the whole ryzen 7000 series which is why I can easily recommend this chip but not the more affordable ryzen 5 CPU as you need expensive RAM and an expensive motherboard to really get The Talented performance thankfully today though the ryzen 9 is going to work a charm and if you're already spending you know 600 on a CPU what's spending a couple hundred more dollars on a motherboard I mean today's video is not designed to be the price to Performance King we're just expecting it to be the performance King by quite a healthy margin one of the things about the ryzen 7000 lineup that is so perfect for today's video is the single threaded performance these chips are incredibly solid when it comes to those single threaded numbers and that's something that when gaming with the top end GPU is really important you do not want to hold the graphics card back with a slow processor and I would expect 4090 benchmarks to massively vary depending on the CPU that was used at the time of testing we're going to take off our black plastic socket cover add our socket back into place and with the CPU seated nice and easily add in the retention arm that's basically it with ryzen processors the pins this time are on the motherboard so just be a little bit careful while we're here we're also going to pop in the SSD and the RAM for the SSD I've gone for the Corsair mp600 Pro XT this is going to be good with read speeds of about 7 gigs a second and write speeds of just below six I'll be removing the top heatsink to install this and it should remain nice and visible above our GPU in the final build remember you need a teeny tiny screwdriver like this one for this stage as the screws involved are pretty small here go ahead and pop your SSD in then we can finish things off on the motherboard with the Ram or memory this is 32 gigabytes of corsair's Vengeance RGB memory for AMD pretty descript it gives you the new fancy Expo profiles which allow you to tune the memory for better latency and speed something that with ddr5 is still very important you can tell that this is of course their Expo rather than a standard kit because it's actually great unlike the normal black colors that we often get with these Ram designs we'll be installing it into the second and fourth slots on the motherboard we've got to pull the clips back on both sides and it should look a little something like this Slide the ram into place and with a bit of pressure on the left and right side of the dim with your thumbs you can click it into place it'll make a nice satisfying click sound and in this board should look pretty good maybe a darker black color would blend in slightly better but I think when it's all lit up nice and dark in the case bit of RGB it'd look absolutely perfect talking to the case I'll be back with you in a second while I'll grab our chassis Joyce the Corsair IQ 7000x AKA The Monster they should call it the monster for clarity it's not officially called the monster but it would make a lot of sense and sound very cool if there's one thing this case certainly is though it's very heavy now this is hang on there we are this I mean it's a monster really it's basically the best summary why ever gone for this case if it's so monstrous and so massive well essentially these new graphics cards are so big mainly in terms of their length that you need a case with good GPU support plus a ryzen 9 chip runs pretty hot this takes loads of power you need a big enclosure to actually get these components to their optimal there are some good ATX towers that will work but you often are sacrificing your water cooling space at the front of the chassis if you want to go for an AIO you'll need to ensure there's room for a 360 at the top as a smaller ad won't cut it on the new processors very complicated I know we'll link some good case options below this is one of them the trade-off is this absolutely huge now what I'm going to do is as usual strip all the side panels off the case because this chassis is so big they're just massive doors essentially which you can take off the hinges if you look at the rear as well it's even got this little Cable Management door which you can tuck all your cables behind and connect up to the included Fan Hub or IQ controller which then has room for up to six fans and six LED Corsair nodes your fan controller then gives you a further six fans making Cable Management in a system like this the was that it was literally Steve just this fell off it's fine it's all fine Mexico Management in a system like this a lot lot easier now then at this point in the video we'd normally go ahead and install the motherboard and that is what we'll be doing next but there's a few bits of prep we need to do first this cover here I think is going to be too far over to the left so this is going to have to be removed but Corsair make this pretty easy there should just be some screws and bolts we can go ahead and find to take this out that's because a normal ATX board would come up to around here but our eatx design today is probably going to come to about here we should be able to leave this right hand section on though so aesthetically it should still look pretty good you're also going to think I'm a bit crazy at this point but Corsair include this in the box of the 7000x now what this is is a vertical GPU Mount you do get three lanes included as standard but because RG you so big these would just be rubbing up against the front glass panel and no one wants that for airflow but I do think a vertical GPU map would look pretty cool in this chassis and if we do a quick test fit and go ahead and drop it into place you can see that actually it would physically fit it would also look sick and leave enough room for our radiator at the front potentially in a push-pull config but more on that shortly now of course if you are going to do this you need to pick yourself up a PCI Riser cable I've got this Cooler Master kit the Corsair due to a version and all we need is the PCI Gen4 Riser itself we don't actually need the holder or anything like that as we'll be using this included one that Corsair give us with the case it's just a physical Riser cable which basically extends the PCI slot on the motherboard bear with me while I go ahead and screw in the motherboard and once you've done that we can go ahead and move on to our caller and GPU pop it in the really big parts that are going to fill out the chassis first up the cooldown this is the Fairly Ram of hatron 70i elite capellix basically it's got three 140 millimeter fans making this a colossal 420 mils in size oh yes we're going there now I'm gonna pop this in the I was gonna say the front of the case but I might pop it at the top and then our pump is going to be at the lowest point which is of course great for pump lifespan we've already got 340s installed in the front as standard so another three at the top with our radiator exhausting the fresh air that these ones bring in makes perfect sense to me we'll be adding in our radiator and then the fans are going to install through to the radiator clamping it if you will to the case we're going to use the long radiator screws as included and install our lovely black h170i as follows you can also pick up an optional LCD module which can be easily added on to the top of the water block if you fancied something just a little bit different in your build it uses the stock am5 mounting hardware as well to fasten down making our installation process nice and easy and then when the coolers in it's finally time for the moment we've all been waiting for it's time to put the GPU in but there is a peel we need to do first oh yes always appeal here we go go wait for it come on peel oh no maybe this is an appeal is this a peel that looks like appeal to you gotta be appeal I'm starting to think maybe this is just a reflective coating on the graphics card that can't be the case it looks very like peel territory it's also a fingerprint magnet it would make no sense if then again though there's no pool maybe there is an appeal we'll figure that out at a later date for now we're gonna go ahead and install the GPU now we're gonna pop it in this second recessed vertical GPU Mount and here I'm not being funny it looks sick I'm gonna add in our PCI Riser cable into the very top slot just because it makes sense to pop it into this one and then admire just how good our handiwork looks now let's wrap things up before we finally look at the performance of the 4090 in a bit more detail we're going to install the power supply this unit specifically recommends a 1000 watt unit which is where the Corsair HX 1000 I comes in you get all your braided included cables in this box here and the power supply over on this side really nice and easy and you can jump in and grab everything you need in this little accessory box which of course I kindly sent over you'll also find our 450 watt for the 4090 reference design or up to 600 through the connector power cable which just plugs up the interface on the power supply this is the really really small connector that we're going to put into the GPU and hopefully be able to hide away on the basis that the GPU shroud comes up above the connector meaning we don't need a fancy braid they want or anything like that in fact I would stick with first party cables for this connection for now until really good examples of the braided extensions come along a bit later I'm going to work the power supply in and then rejoin you in just a moment for the benchmarks but first we've got to see how good this thing looks in the only way we know how it's montage since I haven't now then it's time to see how the RTX 4090 build actually performs we've tested everything from the latest cyberpunk update to OverWatch 2 F1 Apex fortnite you name it it's in our list so stick with us and feel free to use the navigation bar to skip between games starting off in OverWatch 2 at 4K we achieved here 469 frames per second on average the game looked absolutely fantastic during our tests and we managed to achieve some great results obviously OverWatch has never been a tricky game to run and OverWatch 2 is no exception in cyberpunk 2077 we did a couple of different tests first off at 4K High settings with dlss set to Performance and Ray tracing set to ultra specifically leveraging dlss 2.0 which up until now has been the standard here we achieved an impressive 93 frames per second with dlss helping us to get a much more play able frame rate tune things up to dlss3 enabling nvidia's fancy new frame gen Tech which takes dlss a step further and our frame rate supercharge right up to 141 frames per second very very impressive indeed it's a similarly positive story jumping through into Formula One the latest F1 2022 title at 4K using the ultra high preset we managed to pull in over 200 FPS 227 frames per second to be precise moving through into Spider-Man next up here at 4K High settings with dlss enabled we pulled in an impressive 158 frames per second this was with no Ray tracing on but turning that on dropped the frame rate by about 45 or so and still gave us a more than respectable 110 FPS remember that's that 4K High settings everything set right to ultra and the game running in the worst possible scenario Apex Legends is once again a positive story 4K high in this title delivered us 186 FPS on average with strong 90 and 99 our results for good measure if frame rate's what you're after our next title is sure to cater to you valorant here at 4K High we pulled in 510 FPS on average I'm not being funny that's not a frame rate that's like a a cinebench score I mean 510 FPS on average is absolutely crackers in fortnite next at 1080p competitive settings here the frame rate was still very good but definitely a little lower 337 to be precise on average we were very impressed with the results we managed to achieve here this is where you tune everything to low except the render distance which you set to far I think at 1080p we're probably experiencing a CPU bottleneck implying that with a faster processor maybe the upcoming 13th gen are RTX 4090 could push itself even further finally to wrap things up we're also going to test out a couple of older games Cod war zone and GTA 5. in Call of Duty at 4K High settings with dlss set to Performance mode just regular lss2 no dlss3 at play here we've pulled in 215 frames per second on average oh my goodness the game looked awesome you're gonna have to buy yourself the most expensive monitor in the world to actually be able to enjoy any of these frame rates properly finally we also tested out GTA 5 it's a game which caps out around 180 190 FPS Mark and here at 4K High using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode you guessed it we basically hit the cap 182 FPS on average with all of our frame rates today tested using MSI afterburner's Reaver tuner and Nvidia frame view is this graphics card crazy Yes Should you buy it well that depends how much money you've got to burn in video I've created a true top end graphics card that kills out any of the competition you've just gotta be able to afford it you can buy all the parts mentioned or at least check the latest pricing down below thanks for tuning in make sure to get subscribed and as always we'll see you in the next onethe RTX 4090 is here and in this video we're going to be building the ultimate 4090 gaming PC that you can assemble right now with a brand new ryzen 9 processor x670e motherboard ddr5 and this the aorus master 4090 this build is going to be absolutely Bonkers can this thing really game at 8K it's 4K gaming really a breeze on the 4090 we'll be answering those questions and more at the end of the video let's do this the brand new engine XT c1000 provides loads of power in a compact form factor with a fully modular interface and a high 80 plus gold efficiency rating it's easy to install in your next build and while future proof for higher wattages of next-gen gpus the c1000 joins a range of great 80 plus gold psus with a wattage for everyone learn more about the c1000 at the first links in the description below let's start off shall we by looking at this Behemoth 4090 GPU as that's what most of you probably clicked on the video for I'm hoping you've clicked for the 4090 and you'll stay for the Epic montage and benchmarks a little bit later now in here is of course our aorus 1490 design the most powerful GPU the world has ever seen at least for gaming kind of nervous you know oh my goodness this is like the third 4090 I've unboxed so far and let me tell you they don't get any smaller with a whopping three 110 millimeter fans these are nearly as big as what you get in the back of a PC case a triple slot form factor and a half a vapor chamber cooling design with two colossal heat sinks and a massive form factor this is certainly a GPU that means business of course as well we've got a bit of appeal oh yes there's another one here we go oh beautiful look at that now with loads of RGB effects as well it should look awesome and an LCD Edge view display just here to the right hand side of the top of the graphics card that means we're mounted in a standard horizontal pcie slot you'll be able to see temperatures and other GPU data right on the graphics card itself the reference design can pull an astonishing 450 watts and requires an 850 watt PSU while this requires a 1 000 watt power supply and pushes the wattage even further you can either use the new compact 16-pin digital power connection or the included dongle which splits it into a modest 4 8 Pin GPU power connections oh my goodness now in terms of the actual technology on this card that makes it so special you've got over 16 000 Cuda cores providing a really great jump from the last generation support for DLS S3 which actually uses a new frame blending technique to increase frame rate the results we've had have been very good and we'll dive into those more later you also get 4th gen tensor cores and third gen RT cores for AI accelerated performance features like dlss and of course Ray tracing on the RT cores and yes it's very expensive I mean this thing costs an absolute Fortune but from what we've seen so far from the founders Edition card we featured in a video yesterday which you can watch in the card section now it may well be worth the price point for those who want the best of the best you can read a full review of this card and others over on the website and we will of course be taking a more detailed look later when we install it into the rest of the build now what kind of system can we possibly build that a won't bottleneck our 4090 and B will do it just as aesthetically well of course there can be no other option at least for the next week or so then the ryzen 9 7000 series The ryzen 9 7950x or 7900x are both good shouts I've got the 7900x for feature in this video of course with Intel's 13th gen this whole video might be well I mean out of days in a week but hopefully not and even if it is get subscribed so you don't miss our 13th gen content a bit later for now though let's deal with what we know to definitively be the best of the best on the market and the the x670 aorus extreme is going to be the motherboard platform we'll be using for our ryzen 7000 CPU this motherboard sits on the very top end x670e chipset standing for extreme basically we get a bit more overclocking Headroom with loads and loads of power phases on this board and we also get support for PCI Gen 5 on both our SSD and on our GPU it is worth noting that our graphics card only requires a PCI Gen4 slot the power connection is the only Gen 5 bit meaning a non-xtreme chipset would also work as with a slightly older motherboard we've got four random slots here for ddr5 memory of course supporting the latest AMD Expo kits you've got a quick release button for your PCI slot allowing you to easily uninstall these very heavy cards something that's quite important and features like a q code display loads and loads of cool in and if we take a look at the rear i o you'll also find yourself with a 10 gigabit Ethernet loads of USB 3.2 ports 20 gig USBC and Wi-Fi 6E for good measure any feature you could want this board has apart from usb4 but there's not really loads of implementations for that yet anyway now these new ryzen 9 processors are a little bit demanding when it comes to the parts you install with dom in fact it's the case for the whole ryzen 7000 series which is why I can easily recommend this chip but not the more affordable ryzen 5 CPU as you need expensive RAM and an expensive motherboard to really get The Talented performance thankfully today though the ryzen 9 is going to work a charm and if you're already spending you know 600 on a CPU what's spending a couple hundred more dollars on a motherboard I mean today's video is not designed to be the price to Performance King we're just expecting it to be the performance King by quite a healthy margin one of the things about the ryzen 7000 lineup that is so perfect for today's video is the single threaded performance these chips are incredibly solid when it comes to those single threaded numbers and that's something that when gaming with the top end GPU is really important you do not want to hold the graphics card back with a slow processor and I would expect 4090 benchmarks to massively vary depending on the CPU that was used at the time of testing we're going to take off our black plastic socket cover add our socket back into place and with the CPU seated nice and easily add in the retention arm that's basically it with ryzen processors the pins this time are on the motherboard so just be a little bit careful while we're here we're also going to pop in the SSD and the RAM for the SSD I've gone for the Corsair mp600 Pro XT this is going to be good with read speeds of about 7 gigs a second and write speeds of just below six I'll be removing the top heatsink to install this and it should remain nice and visible above our GPU in the final build remember you need a teeny tiny screwdriver like this one for this stage as the screws involved are pretty small here go ahead and pop your SSD in then we can finish things off on the motherboard with the Ram or memory this is 32 gigabytes of corsair's Vengeance RGB memory for AMD pretty descript it gives you the new fancy Expo profiles which allow you to tune the memory for better latency and speed something that with ddr5 is still very important you can tell that this is of course their Expo rather than a standard kit because it's actually great unlike the normal black colors that we often get with these Ram designs we'll be installing it into the second and fourth slots on the motherboard we've got to pull the clips back on both sides and it should look a little something like this Slide the ram into place and with a bit of pressure on the left and right side of the dim with your thumbs you can click it into place it'll make a nice satisfying click sound and in this board should look pretty good maybe a darker black color would blend in slightly better but I think when it's all lit up nice and dark in the case bit of RGB it'd look absolutely perfect talking to the case I'll be back with you in a second while I'll grab our chassis Joyce the Corsair IQ 7000x AKA The Monster they should call it the monster for clarity it's not officially called the monster but it would make a lot of sense and sound very cool if there's one thing this case certainly is though it's very heavy now this is hang on there we are this I mean it's a monster really it's basically the best summary why ever gone for this case if it's so monstrous and so massive well essentially these new graphics cards are so big mainly in terms of their length that you need a case with good GPU support plus a ryzen 9 chip runs pretty hot this takes loads of power you need a big enclosure to actually get these components to their optimal there are some good ATX towers that will work but you often are sacrificing your water cooling space at the front of the chassis if you want to go for an AIO you'll need to ensure there's room for a 360 at the top as a smaller ad won't cut it on the new processors very complicated I know we'll link some good case options below this is one of them the trade-off is this absolutely huge now what I'm going to do is as usual strip all the side panels off the case because this chassis is so big they're just massive doors essentially which you can take off the hinges if you look at the rear as well it's even got this little Cable Management door which you can tuck all your cables behind and connect up to the included Fan Hub or IQ controller which then has room for up to six fans and six LED Corsair nodes your fan controller then gives you a further six fans making Cable Management in a system like this the was that it was literally Steve just this fell off it's fine it's all fine Mexico Management in a system like this a lot lot easier now then at this point in the video we'd normally go ahead and install the motherboard and that is what we'll be doing next but there's a few bits of prep we need to do first this cover here I think is going to be too far over to the left so this is going to have to be removed but Corsair make this pretty easy there should just be some screws and bolts we can go ahead and find to take this out that's because a normal ATX board would come up to around here but our eatx design today is probably going to come to about here we should be able to leave this right hand section on though so aesthetically it should still look pretty good you're also going to think I'm a bit crazy at this point but Corsair include this in the box of the 7000x now what this is is a vertical GPU Mount you do get three lanes included as standard but because RG you so big these would just be rubbing up against the front glass panel and no one wants that for airflow but I do think a vertical GPU map would look pretty cool in this chassis and if we do a quick test fit and go ahead and drop it into place you can see that actually it would physically fit it would also look sick and leave enough room for our radiator at the front potentially in a push-pull config but more on that shortly now of course if you are going to do this you need to pick yourself up a PCI Riser cable I've got this Cooler Master kit the Corsair due to a version and all we need is the PCI Gen4 Riser itself we don't actually need the holder or anything like that as we'll be using this included one that Corsair give us with the case it's just a physical Riser cable which basically extends the PCI slot on the motherboard bear with me while I go ahead and screw in the motherboard and once you've done that we can go ahead and move on to our caller and GPU pop it in the really big parts that are going to fill out the chassis first up the cooldown this is the Fairly Ram of hatron 70i elite capellix basically it's got three 140 millimeter fans making this a colossal 420 mils in size oh yes we're going there now I'm gonna pop this in the I was gonna say the front of the case but I might pop it at the top and then our pump is going to be at the lowest point which is of course great for pump lifespan we've already got 340s installed in the front as standard so another three at the top with our radiator exhausting the fresh air that these ones bring in makes perfect sense to me we'll be adding in our radiator and then the fans are going to install through to the radiator clamping it if you will to the case we're going to use the long radiator screws as included and install our lovely black h170i as follows you can also pick up an optional LCD module which can be easily added on to the top of the water block if you fancied something just a little bit different in your build it uses the stock am5 mounting hardware as well to fasten down making our installation process nice and easy and then when the coolers in it's finally time for the moment we've all been waiting for it's time to put the GPU in but there is a peel we need to do first oh yes always appeal here we go go wait for it come on peel oh no maybe this is an appeal is this a peel that looks like appeal to you gotta be appeal I'm starting to think maybe this is just a reflective coating on the graphics card that can't be the case it looks very like peel territory it's also a fingerprint magnet it would make no sense if then again though there's no pool maybe there is an appeal we'll figure that out at a later date for now we're gonna go ahead and install the GPU now we're gonna pop it in this second recessed vertical GPU Mount and here I'm not being funny it looks sick I'm gonna add in our PCI Riser cable into the very top slot just because it makes sense to pop it into this one and then admire just how good our handiwork looks now let's wrap things up before we finally look at the performance of the 4090 in a bit more detail we're going to install the power supply this unit specifically recommends a 1000 watt unit which is where the Corsair HX 1000 I comes in you get all your braided included cables in this box here and the power supply over on this side really nice and easy and you can jump in and grab everything you need in this little accessory box which of course I kindly sent over you'll also find our 450 watt for the 4090 reference design or up to 600 through the connector power cable which just plugs up the interface on the power supply this is the really really small connector that we're going to put into the GPU and hopefully be able to hide away on the basis that the GPU shroud comes up above the connector meaning we don't need a fancy braid they want or anything like that in fact I would stick with first party cables for this connection for now until really good examples of the braided extensions come along a bit later I'm going to work the power supply in and then rejoin you in just a moment for the benchmarks but first we've got to see how good this thing looks in the only way we know how it's montage since I haven't now then it's time to see how the RTX 4090 build actually performs we've tested everything from the latest cyberpunk update to OverWatch 2 F1 Apex fortnite you name it it's in our list so stick with us and feel free to use the navigation bar to skip between games starting off in OverWatch 2 at 4K we achieved here 469 frames per second on average the game looked absolutely fantastic during our tests and we managed to achieve some great results obviously OverWatch has never been a tricky game to run and OverWatch 2 is no exception in cyberpunk 2077 we did a couple of different tests first off at 4K High settings with dlss set to Performance and Ray tracing set to ultra specifically leveraging dlss 2.0 which up until now has been the standard here we achieved an impressive 93 frames per second with dlss helping us to get a much more play able frame rate tune things up to dlss3 enabling nvidia's fancy new frame gen Tech which takes dlss a step further and our frame rate supercharge right up to 141 frames per second very very impressive indeed it's a similarly positive story jumping through into Formula One the latest F1 2022 title at 4K using the ultra high preset we managed to pull in over 200 FPS 227 frames per second to be precise moving through into Spider-Man next up here at 4K High settings with dlss enabled we pulled in an impressive 158 frames per second this was with no Ray tracing on but turning that on dropped the frame rate by about 45 or so and still gave us a more than respectable 110 FPS remember that's that 4K High settings everything set right to ultra and the game running in the worst possible scenario Apex Legends is once again a positive story 4K high in this title delivered us 186 FPS on average with strong 90 and 99 our results for good measure if frame rate's what you're after our next title is sure to cater to you valorant here at 4K High we pulled in 510 FPS on average I'm not being funny that's not a frame rate that's like a a cinebench score I mean 510 FPS on average is absolutely crackers in fortnite next at 1080p competitive settings here the frame rate was still very good but definitely a little lower 337 to be precise on average we were very impressed with the results we managed to achieve here this is where you tune everything to low except the render distance which you set to far I think at 1080p we're probably experiencing a CPU bottleneck implying that with a faster processor maybe the upcoming 13th gen are RTX 4090 could push itself even further finally to wrap things up we're also going to test out a couple of older games Cod war zone and GTA 5. in Call of Duty at 4K High settings with dlss set to Performance mode just regular lss2 no dlss3 at play here we've pulled in 215 frames per second on average oh my goodness the game looked awesome you're gonna have to buy yourself the most expensive monitor in the world to actually be able to enjoy any of these frame rates properly finally we also tested out GTA 5 it's a game which caps out around 180 190 FPS Mark and here at 4K High using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode you guessed it we basically hit the cap 182 FPS on average with all of our frame rates today tested using MSI afterburner's Reaver tuner and Nvidia frame view is this graphics card crazy Yes Should you buy it well that depends how much money you've got to burn in video I've created a true top end graphics card that kills out any of the competition you've just gotta be able to afford it you can buy all the parts mentioned or at least check the latest pricing down below thanks for tuning in 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