NVIDIA announces new RTX 5090 graphics card that costs $2,000 at CES
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NVIDIA's RTX 50 series of GPU arrives later this month, with pricing starting at $549.

The first salvo of RTX 50 series GPU will arrive in January, with pricing starting at $549 for the RTX 5070 and topping out at an eye-watering $1,999 for the flagship RTX 5090. In between those are the $749 RTX 5070 Ti and $999 RTX 5080. Laptop variants of the desktop GPUs will follow in March, with pricing there starting at $1,299 for 5070-equipped PCs.

  • pishadoot
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    6 hours ago

    You could make the argument that people with 5090s do run their PCs longer than 3 hours since those folk are more prone to longer bouts of gaming

    I think this is what I said also, yes

    Doesn’t hurt to plan for the future regarding building wiring, since most tech folk do so regarding their PC builds.

    I completely agree. IMO 15A convenience circuits (normal wall circuits in residential homes) are out of date and shouldn’t be used any longer. 20A should be the minimum, but that extra copper is expensive, so it’s a balance that has to be weighed at construction.

    seems that homeowners are given a special class of immunity when it comes to manifesting hazards associated with their use of electricity

    No, I don’t think that’s what this is. The fact is that the NEC is for building design, not for building use. The whole reason that there’s a breaker installed that has to be matched to the correct gauge wires and the correct outlets, or whatever, is so that when the occupant does something dumb it trips long before you get enough heat to start a fire.

    The NEC is not for the occupant, it’s for the architects, general contractors, and electricians. Unless you’re doing construction in your house you don’t need to worry about it at all.

    Use your breakers to their capacity, but understand that the closer you get to their rating the more likely you’ll pop a breaker, or worst case start a fire if your stuff wasn’t installed well.

    But you don’t have to derate your own stuff per NEC requirements, that’s not how it works.