NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Unboxing & Preview

wolf · Sep 24, 2020

@Mussels did you end up snagging a 3080? I got my Asus TUF on monday, they've really sprinkled the secret sauce on this one, it's cooler and quieter than my G1 gaming GTX1080.

Mussels · Sep 24, 2020

wolf said:
@Mussels did you end up snagging a 3080? I got my Asus TUF on monday, they've really sprinkled the secret sauce on this one, it's cooler and quieter than my G1 gaming GTX1080.

Upto 6 week delay, the bots got everything.

Apparently EVGA themselves are working on filtering bot orders out, so i may get it significantly faster than that

bubbleawsome · Sep 24, 2020

Has there been a teardown of the Asus TUF OC versus the non-OC? I like the idea of the non-OC at $700 but if they actually cut down the cooler and didn't tell anyone I wouldn't grab it obviously.

BoboOOZ · Sep 24, 2020

Ouch, now the crashes are starting :

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Users Report Crashes & Black Screens During Gaming

Several reports of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3080 graphcis card crashing and resulting in black screens are being reported by gamers.

wccftech.com

lexluthermiester · Sep 24, 2020

BoboOOZ said:
Ouch, now the crashes are starting :

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Users Report Crashes & Black Screens During Gaming

Several reports of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3080 graphcis card crashing and resulting in black screens are being reported by gamers.

wccftech.com

The yammering over at LTT points to the drivers rather than the hardware. Time will tell though.

Mussels · Sep 24, 2020

Well the driver for them literally mentions crashes can happen at 4K for fortnite, so i'm definitely sure theres crash related driver bugs ahoy in that release.

lexluthermiester · Sep 24, 2020

Mussels said:
Well the driver for them literally mentions crashes can happen at 4K for fortnite, so i'm definitely sure theres crash related driver bugs ahoy in that release.

Like every new platform release, it'll take them a bit of time to iron things out.

Mussels · Sep 24, 2020

lexluthermiester said:
Like every new platform release, it'll take them a bit of time to iron things out.

Unlike modern fanboys, i remember my 8800GTX and its total driver crashes.... Mmmmm dat yellow triangle
And what gen was it that had the fans stop spinning and toasted cards? I missed that one personally

Driver issues happen... all that matters is if they get permanently resolved or not

wolf · Sep 25, 2020

Mussels said:
Upto 6 week delay, the bots got everything.

Heart-breaking. I was committed to going with PLE (Perth), launch was 9pm and the site effectively felt DDOS'd, but managed my order at 9:11pm with the card coming in the following Monday.

You'll love it though, absolutely gratuitous performance uplift from a GTX1080.

Mussels · Sep 25, 2020

wolf said:
Heart-breaking. I was committed to going with PLE (Perth), launch was 9pm and the site effectively felt DDOS'd, but managed my order at 9:11pm with the card coming in the following Monday.

You'll love it though, absolutely gratuitous performance uplift from a GTX1080.

PLE is where i got mine from, ordered at 9:09...

wolf · Sep 25, 2020

Mussels said:
PLE is where i got mine from, ordered at 9:09...

Oh damn! I feel very lucky then in terms of bots, I wasn't aware they hit PLE. Perhaps also the Asus has got the AU launch tax and was $1399 where the EVGA's were all much closer to MSRP so it's what people/bots targeted heavily.

When I picked up my TUF the guy said my sales order was the first one on the list of over 120 for that model.

Mussels · Sep 25, 2020

Yeah the asus TUF are expensive for what they are and not very pretty, so i see why you got yours.

EVGA seemed to be hammered hard this gen.

wolf · Sep 25, 2020

Mussels said:
Yeah the asus TUF are expensive for what they are and not very pretty, so i see why you got yours.

EVGA seemed to be hammered hard this gen.

Day 1 tax I was 'foolish' enough to pay, but I'm a happy consumer rn

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