Henry Cavill explains why he's waiting on the RTX 4090

Henry Cavill had a viral second early within the pandemic when a video exhibiting The Witcher and Man of Metal actor constructing his personal gaming PC began making the rounds. Digital Developments just lately sat down with Cavill to speak about his upcoming movie Enola Holmes 2, in addition to get a standing replace on his gaming rig — and the actor is eyeing some large upgrades within the close to future.

Particularly, Cavill is wanting on the RTX 4090, however he hasn’t fairly settled on Nvidia’s new GPU but. “I’m additionally ready for the AMD playing cards to come back out to see what they’re like compared to the Nvidia RTX 4090 … time will inform with the specs,” Cavill mentioned.

Henry Cavill lifting a gaming PC off a table.

AMD is ready to announce its new graphics playing cards on November 3, and with studies of melting RTX 4090 connectors, it’s secure to imagine Cavill isn’t alone in ready on a GPU improve for now. Nvidia can be gearing as much as launch the RTX 4080 on November 16, which might find yourself being a candy spot for high-end PC avid gamers.

Cavill’s CPU is up within the air for the time being, as properly. “I feel for the time being I’m most likely going to go along with the AMD chip nonetheless, however we’ll see,” he mentioned. AMD just lately launched its Ryzen 7000 processors, together with the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X, which it appears Cavill is taking a look at for the following period of his gaming rig. It’s not an easy improve, although.

On the improve, the actor mentioned he “was barely disillusioned to be taught I had to purchase a brand new motherboard in addition to all the pieces else,” echoing a sentiment that many builders have felt with AMD’s most up-to-date technology. Intel’s newest processors, together with the Core i9-13900K and Core i5-13600K, assist the identical motherboard from the earlier technology. And Ryzen 7000 represents the primary time AMD has modified motherboard sockets in six years.

Though Cavill continues to be deciding the very best elements for a future PC improve, his rig hasn’t been ready idly. “It’s nonetheless a top-end PC, nevertheless it’s all going to shift as quickly as all the brand new gear is available in,” Cavil mentioned. “I simply purchased a brand new PSU and that was a problem, as a result of it was a far bigger PSU than the earlier one. It’s a 1600 [watt], this one … Seems I needed to unplug each single cable and twine, as a result of they wanted to be each bigger gauge and higher cables, so it was a little bit of a fiddle, nevertheless it was a pleasant warmup to the entire breakdown and reconstruction of my rig to come back.”

The actor just lately shared images of him upgrading the all-in-one liquid cooler in his PC, as properly, match with some (correctly coloured) Noctua followers.

Hopefully, we’ll get one other replace on Cavill’s gaming PC as soon as all the brand new {hardware} is out. For now, followers have Enola Holmes 2 to sit up for, in addition to the long-awaited return of Cavill because the Man of Metal.