Now the question is, why not from the start?

As far the temperature is in check , hip hip hurray!

I would love to see a true two slot 4080 or 7900xtx, Gigabyte makes a 7900 xtx that I'm pretty sure will fit my small case, but it would be tight.

fantaskarsef:

Now the question is, why not from the start?

Was not "public" knowledge AIB who work for Nvidia are EXTREMELY limited in terms of information regarding final specs of their products? They do not know the actual clocks, power consumption, etc with a decent beforehand time, on top of that they have to have all their designs ready for the launch date Nvidia discloses at pleasure, they might tell you with months or weeks prior the final launch and still subject to change (look a the 4080 fiasco renamed to 4070 ti). Was not EVGA very vocal about these concerns? the very last days of their existence in the gpu market; we have no idea about other AIB at least in terms of first hand statements, but I would not be surprised if that applied to all of them. TLDR. NVIDIA is a sociopath with their information regarding specs of GPU and treat AIBs like garbo and force them to design "blindly" so they have to go way to high (600+Watts) but at the end the final specs were 400-450 watts so they overdesigned and got fu***d, after some months they can finally design properly sized coolers.

hijodeosiris:

Was not EVGA very vocal about these concerns? the very last days of their existence in the gpu market; we have no idea about other AIB at least in terms of first hand statements, but I would not be surprised if that applied to all of them.

EVGA was very vocal about their ceo being a narcissist and macromanager with no forward thinking.

hijodeosiris:

and force them to design "blindly"

False.

Brasky:

I would love to see a true two slot 4080 or 7900xtx, Gigabyte makes a 7900 xtx that I'm pretty sure will fit my small case, but it would be tight.

Water block. I got one for $140 shipped for my 7900xtx.

Typhon Six Six Six:

Water block. I got one for $140 shipped for my 7900xtx.

I've got a 240 rad in my case for the cpu, I don't know if it would be enough to support a WB as well. It's a Sliger Cerberus case so pretty compact.

Astyanax:

EVGA was very vocal about their ceo being a narcissist and macromanager with no forward thinking. False.

Well then Kingpin and their design team are liers, unless somebody else have other info, I can tell the same. False your false; we are making progress indeed.