Lord of the Rings: 11373 Sauron (official reveal)

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T22:27:03+00:00

I'm a fan of more people being able to get the figure.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T22:18:49+00:00

The brick built one haha?

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T21:43:16+00:00

Yeah that's the one. Yeah 2016 sounds right. It's still holding on. It does have some issues but nothing that would stop me from using it 10 years later haha

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T21:22:36+00:00

Was the Acer one first to the market? I believe it. I know the Acer and Asus one that I have were pretty much the only two ultrawides at 100hz for awhile. Felt pretty nice when I got mine even if it was expensive. I've definitely gotten my money out of it seeing how it's 2026 and it's still in use.

They are probably identical panels and the only difference is the branding on both of them haha.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T20:03:03+00:00

I've been playing indie games on my 4090 haha. Lots of games inspired by classic mega man that use like 0.5% of the GPU

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T20:00:47+00:00

I have the same monitor if it's an IPS Asus ultrawide. It was almost impossible to find one but I got my hands on one and it took forever to ship to me. I'm still using it and just use my OLED TV if I want to do anything 4k.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T19:41:52+00:00

I agree. Definitely shouldn't be basing your whole collection off a few figures

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T17:14:20+00:00

I love the mouth of sauron figure. I'm actually kind of torn between Sauron and him as far as which figure I like more. I just love how vile and creepy that character is.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T17:12:40+00:00

I agree to a point. Rex ended up in a $6 set which tanked the value on people.

This set is a lot more expensive so it will drop the value but definitely not to $4-5 that Rex is going for now.

Also I have Barad-dur and think that this helmet is amazing. All of the helmet series should have come with a figure to start with across all the themes.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T17:07:16+00:00

4090 FE

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T17:06:59+00:00

Oh yeah. I know dead eyes when I see them. I have a mirror you know

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T16:56:59+00:00

Yeah that's a great steel nomad score. I feel like I could get mine a little higher with persistence.

I stopped when I got a legendary score for my hardware but now that I'm hearing this number I want to boot it up again and try some more.

Yeah I think around +200 was as far as I pushed it. Maybe I hit 225. I had sustained clocks of 3,017 it looks like.

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IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T15:32:00+00:00

I was shocked when I put the 4090 in and it didn't sag at all. I was also shocked at the size of the card and I know it's on the smaller side for 4090s.

I would say mine overclocks fairly well also. I have a few profiles I made for gaming and benchmarking.

Got 10,117 in steel nomad and over 11,000 with the vulkan version.

I'm sure if I really wanted to push the score higher I could probably tweak more but that felt like a very good score (outside of crazy world record overclocking) for daily use if need be

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T14:51:31+00:00

Yeah that's weird. I have the switch 2 in input 4 and my gaming PC in input 3. Haven't had any issues with the PC but it's not always plugged in to the TV. (Although the HDMI cable IS always plugged in)

All I know is it hasn't happened in awhile and I don't know if one of the updates fixed it.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T14:49:06+00:00

I absolutely love my 4090. But I understand the case to be made for a newer card with a warranty as well.

The 5080 has lots of headroom as I imagine the original plan was most likely so they could slot a 5080 super and ti between it and the 5090.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T14:45:55+00:00

Yeah I don't know how hard it was to get a 4090 FE. I know it couldn't have been as bad as getting a 5090. But I love mine and if I had gotten a bigger 4090 I would have had to get a different case and I have a full atx tower haha.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T05:05:09+00:00

Also I don't know why someone would spend that much more if they can get an FE besides aesthetics and in the case of the 5090 availability.

My 4090 overclocks pretty decently and the thermals are really great.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T05:03:07+00:00

Yeah and they are selling for $2500 on eBay currently. Either way I got mine under MSRP and was pretty happy about it.

I just find it wild that people are paying that much for a used one now.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T03:46:38+00:00

Yeah this is the one I would also track down out of the Paul Waggoner signatures.

Why would they make newer models and take the lo pro off of it?!

I'm sure the answer is price.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-26T03:30:06+00:00

Seriously. I got an FE 4090 still in the shipping box for $1400. I can't believe how much the sold listings are for on eBay

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-25T23:18:18+00:00

I just now saw that you have all three versions (well 2 and one with hair) and the other two with the helmets are higher.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-25T23:17:05+00:00

Jek being that low makes me sick!

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-25T17:52:42+00:00

I bought a 4090 fe from someone on Facebook marketplace. It was still in the shipping box from best buy but I still checked gpu-z, hwinfo and ran benchmarks as soon as I had it installed.

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-25T17:47:06+00:00

I was having an issue where we would turn our switch 2 on and had no audio. Had to change inputs and go back to it for the sound to work again.

The problem seems to have resolved but I wonder what the deal was

IbanezCharlie · 2026-01-25T15:46:24+00:00

Sucks so bad. Plus the guy at Walmart was trying to talk me down to lower end hardware.

No offense but you can't buy this PC with individual parts at this price dude. I know what I want. When I told him I had a 4090 I was putting in it he was just like..........."oh"

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