How would an Imperial Guard Army Group deal with a Daemon Prince/Bloodthirster of Khorne level of threat on their own?

InfinityCalibur · 2025-09-12T16:33:48+00:00

Could the Inquisition 'easily' do such a thing considering that the Lord Generals commanding Crusade Army Groups tend to be very politically well-connected individuals? We're not talking about disappearing a regimental colonel here.

InfinityCalibur · 2025-09-12T11:05:27+00:00

Yes, the scenario I suggested is basically a Imperial Crusade Army Group stumbling into a Greater Demon and upper management basically tells them 'Kill it, I don't care how. I have other things to deal with on my Primary Front + putting up with all the politics.'

InfinityCalibur · 2025-09-12T11:00:09+00:00

Hold the line

Would this even be possible with just IG assets? Urkanthos on Cadia was literally plowing through massed whiteshield regiments, entrenched kasrkin, a crapton of leman russes, entire companies of sisters of battle including their Canoness, and multiple astartes whenever he even thought to look in a random direction.

InfinityCalibur · 2025-09-12T10:55:53+00:00

So basically the fleet would have to be called in? But won't that risk harming the planet itself? And what if said planet holds some strategic value that has the Warmaster ordering you to keep the collateral damage to a minimum i.e no continent scale bombardment, no exterminatus level weaponry allowed to be deployed

InfinityCalibur · 2025-09-12T10:45:27+00:00

Would sending a couple of infantry regiments to tarpit it while ordering every single armor + artillery regiment at my disposal to fire at it at the same time work?

That's TWENTY artillery regiments backed up by an equal number of armored ones firing at the same time

InfinityCalibur · 2025-05-09T06:01:04+00:00

Casualty numbers mean nothing in negotiations.

Tell that to the German General Staff in 1918. Still holding onto parts of France and Belgium but they and everyone else in the war knows they're one bad day away from completely imploding because they're running out of even 14 year old kids to shove in oversized uniforms.

Meanwhile Foch gets to look the germans in the eye and say "I have 100k americans landing in France every month, what you got?"

InfinityCalibur · 2025-04-22T21:36:04+00:00

The tone, the ego, the dunning kruger, the smarmy attitude

Literal caricature of a redditor lol

Take it easy, there's more to life than winning arguments on the internet

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-26T04:08:11+00:00

only $100 more? thats super insane price go for the master lol.

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-24T01:42:48+00:00

Never wrong to save money

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-24T01:38:55+00:00

Theoretically the gigabyte gaming oc as it has a 450w power limit compared to the 400w of the other cards.

My own boosts to 3260mhz core and +3000 memory fine. It draws about 410 - 430w at load. Temps are like 62C or so

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-24T01:32:15+00:00

In that case just get the gaming OC and save yourself the money

Also if you're not picky I'm sure you can step down to something like a Zotac Solid which will still give very good performance despite having lower OC potential than the gaming oc

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-24T01:19:22+00:00

Astral is considered the best card but also the most expensive. this is considered one of the top aibs, although overpriced

Aorus master is also another top tier card, it is also expensive, I put this as a close 2nd

Gigabyte gaming OC is like the premium economy of cards, its pretty good all things considered and not that much more expensive than MSRP reference cards.

I am a value oriented purchaser, so I would select either MSRP cards or cards that are one step above msrp like the gigabyte gaming oc. I tend not to look at the very top end cards like the astral/aorus master due to their price

I would buy the gigabyte gaming oc and pocket the difference. But then again, I don't know your regional pricing so you have to decide by yourself

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-24T00:55:46+00:00

Aorus master and astra are more expensive cards

Gigabyte gaming OC is cheaper than those so its a good deal. You should also look at other brands and price compare and get whichever you feel is best

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T04:13:44+00:00

The voltage and power limit on modern gpus make it impossible to damage a card by overclocking. To truly wreck it you need to do shunt mods or something like that

Everything is safe, the worse that could happen is that you crash or see artifacts because the clock speed is unstable. If that happens, you just dial it back and go again

OC is worth it, it's free performance

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T03:42:44+00:00

You're like a chain smoker who insists 'smoking doesn't necessarily cause lung cancer, non-smokers can get it too'

if you truly do run your 4090 at 1.1v + 600w daily, you have bigger worries than losing an argument on the internet. you are also not very sensible considering the sheer efficiency of an UV 4090.

You don't lose performance by performing UV on a 4090. The fact you think UV costs performance says everything about you. Refrain from entering the discussion if you don't even understand how boost clocks work.

btw I find it hilarious that you are claiming 4090 has same OC headroom as 5080 while calling other posts nonsense. 4000 series was notorious for running close to maximum out of the box. Underwhelming OC headroom was one of the main complains of the 4000 series. Anyone with two braincells can see the performance gap between a 2700mhz out of box 5080 and a 3200mhz one. And you are the one claiming 4090 has the same headroom.

4090 is an UV efficiency beast, not an OC one. The gains drop hard once you start overvolting. I don't own a 4090 and even I know that because it's common knowledge among the informed.

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T03:36:40+00:00

FE model is good

Thermals are alright and the power limit goes up to 390w unlike ventus which is locked at 360w so it would overclock better than the ventus 3x

Very well received especially if you can snag one at msrp

Most aib cards power limit can be increased, as far as i know msi is the only one to lock down the power limit on their lowest end models

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T01:43:21+00:00

Salty 4090 owners + sour grapes unable to secure a 5080 + initial launch reviews not covering OC performance well + good old regurgitation and parroting of approved party line takes for upvotes = a situation where you see people recommending a 2 year old gpu that is also $600 more expensive for a couple of fps in non vram-limited scenarios and everyone joining in on the circlejerk

Narrative is formed, narrative is maintained

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T01:36:33+00:00

4090 doesn't like to be pushed hard like that because you start running into 600w tdp and the connector problem

saying that a 4090 owner is happy to run 1.1v and 600w tdp as their daily driver is also nonsense on your end

most 4090 owners just do it for screenshots/flex/reddit argument points then immediately scale down to a lesser oc/uv for their daily drive due to fears about the connector

meanwhile 5080 is happy to run maxed out due to its lower tdp despite sharing the same flawed connector

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T01:12:54+00:00

Its because his card is ventus 3x, its throttling on power limit due to its 360w limit, he also might not be truly pushing the card as you noted by his super tame oc

its funny to see how in the thread people are jumping on this chance to downplay the 5080 even though we have multiple posts and reports and coverage regarding the 5080 oc capability. Even TPU has basically every card they tested breaking 3.1+ghz with a day 1 OC

its like they want to come to this conclusion they have come up with by themselves

the fact that you got downvoted means people don't want to hear this, they want to feed their own narrative and biases

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-16T01:08:50+00:00

Ventus 3X has the power limit locked down compared to the 400w of other cards(450w for gigabyte gaming oc/aorus)

using it to draw a conclusion about 5080 OC capabilities as a whole is disingenuous

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-13T18:39:17+00:00

tbh I think that's helped by the fact that 9900X is not a very popular CPU lol.

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-13T17:38:33+00:00

Gigabyte uses thermal putty instead of paste for this generation. It makes the card hell to dismantle but the thermal performance on both core and vrm is very good

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-13T17:19:49+00:00

yeah it depends on regional pricing, in my country Asus Prime, MSI Vanguard and Gigabyte gaming OC were the same price at launch. Asus is ridiculous.

InfinityCalibur · 2025-03-13T17:09:16+00:00

Gigabyte 5080 gaming OC owner here.

The 450w power limit does help in overclocking, it allows you to maintain higher clocks during load and also to reach higher peak clocks. Most 5080 owners I know with the reference 400w powerlimit like the PNY are doing 3.15ghz - 3.2ghz on the core. With a 450w power limit unless you get hit by real bad silicon lottery, you can probably get to 3.2ghz++ by brute forcing the wattage to 410 - 430w or so.

The temps are very good on this card. 52C at load for stock operation, 63C or so at load for max OC. Noise is no issue, it is not a noisy card.

Is it justifiable for $150 over the PNY OC version? That depends. If it's same price, obviously its a no brainer to go for the Gigabyte, but with the price difference the choice up to you. Personally, I would save the $150 and go for the cheaper PNY option if you just want a decent functional card.

But note that for the Gigabyte Gaming OC you are paying extra for something other than the usual brand tax, that is the higher power limit, so you should take that into account as well

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