Now I just need to find my power supply accessories for a third 8-pin PCIe cable, lol.
tamusc said:
Now I just need to find my power supply accessories for a third 8-pin PCIe cable, lol.
I heard he just bought an empty box off of Ebay for the internet karma/envy.DayAg! said:
You sure you didn't photoshop the box.
Not trying to talk you into or out of anything...regarding the F5 battle, if you sign up for Auto-notify on the EVGA site, when your notify comes up you are sent a unique to you link to order a card. You have 8 hours to purchase it from when the email is sent. So no rushing to beat everyone. Just letting you know.mickeyrig06sq3 said:
I've been trying to get the 3080, but think I'm going to wait until we start getting the non-AMD benchmarks on Big Navi. The numbers look promising enough to hold off, and I'd be losing the F5 battle anyways.
Bregxit said:Not trying to talk you into or out of anything...regarding the F5 battle, if you sign up for Auto-notify on the EVGA site, when your notify comes up you are sent a unique to you link to order a card. You have 8 hours to purchase it from when the email is sent. So no rushing to beat everyone. Just letting you know.mickeyrig06sq3 said:
I've been trying to get the 3080, but think I'm going to wait until we start getting the non-AMD benchmarks on Big Navi. The numbers look promising enough to hold off, and I'd be losing the F5 battle anyways.
Kicking myself a bit. I signed up for the FTW on Oct 5th. I didn't do it earlier because it was basically pointless to sign up for notifications. Inventory was usually sold out before the email left their servers.Bregxit said:Not trying to talk you into or out of anything...regarding the F5 battle, if you sign up for Auto-notify on the EVGA site, when your notify comes up you are sent a unique to you link to order a card. You have 8 hours to purchase it from when the email is sent. So no rushing to beat everyone. Just letting you know.mickeyrig06sq3 said:
I've been trying to get the 3080, but think I'm going to wait until we start getting the non-AMD benchmarks on Big Navi. The numbers look promising enough to hold off, and I'd be losing the F5 battle anyways.
tamusc said:
Pretty decent ~50% improvement over my overclocked and water cooled 2080 Ti. Definitely ran into a power limit on the stock OC VBIOS which caps out around 430w. I had the core clock over 2100Mhz, but had to drop it some when I started cranking up the VRAM speed due to the additional power draw.
Going to flash the XOC VBIOS that EVGA just released for it that raises the power limit to 500w and see what it can hit with the stock air cooler. Hopefully I'll be able to grab a waterblock for it next month.
Just a heads up if you don't follow the EVGA forums...looks like there may have been a bad batch of cards or something. No one really knows yet but there is a three page thread of folks who received cards in the last week or so whose cards just died. System shuts down and a red LED lights up by the power plugs. EVGA is RMAing those no questions asked.tamusc said:tamusc said:
Pretty decent ~50% improvement over my overclocked and water cooled 2080 Ti. Definitely ran into a power limit on the stock OC VBIOS which caps out around 430w. I had the core clock over 2100Mhz, but had to drop it some when I started cranking up the VRAM speed due to the additional power draw.
Going to flash the XOC VBIOS that EVGA just released for it that raises the power limit to 500w and see what it can hit with the stock air cooler. Hopefully I'll be able to grab a waterblock for it next month.
Forgot to come back and post my updated results with the XOC bios but honestly it wasn't huge gains with the stock cooler. I averaged slightly higher core clocks, which resulted in about 1-2% gains. Not nothing, but not huge.
It was definitely temp limited and so I think the updated XOC VBIOS will really help once I finally get a waterblock for this thing, hopefully the end of next month.
tfunk02 said:
Thanks for the updates tamusc!
What's your monitor setup and what do you play/do that made you go 3090 over 3080?
https://forums.evga.com/3080-FTW3-Ultra-stopped-working-1-single-red-light-m3120936.aspxtamusc said:
Ooooh, I hadn't checked the forums since I downloaded the XOC bios. I'll have to check that out, thanks for the heads up!
Bregxit said:https://forums.evga.com/3080-FTW3-Ultra-stopped-working-1-single-red-light-m3120936.aspxtamusc said:
Ooooh, I hadn't checked the forums since I downloaded the XOC bios. I'll have to check that out, thanks for the heads up!
Yup.CastleRock said:
AMd always looks great on paper. Their drivers/etc are horrid though.
CastleRock said:
AMd always looks great on paper. Their drivers/etc are horrid though.
I appreciate this, though I forgot to mention I'm running it on a 4k tv so 60fps is the typical speed I'd need. But I do have an Index so it might be nice to up the frame rate of that to 120 or so. I understand that frame rate affects the processor more so processor might be less of a concern. So I'm still tempted to upgrade the GPU if nothing else for the index...tamusc said:
Pretty decent ~50% improvement over my overclocked and water cooled 2080 Ti. Definitely ran into a power limit on the stock OC VBIOS which caps out around 430w. I had the core clock over 2100Mhz, but had to drop it some when I started cranking up the VRAM speed due to the additional power draw.
Going to flash the XOC VBIOS that EVGA just released for it that raises the power limit to 500w and see what it can hit with the stock air cooler. Hopefully I'll be able to grab a waterblock for it next month.
tamusc said:Bregxit said:https://forums.evga.com/3080-FTW3-Ultra-stopped-working-1-single-red-light-m3120936.aspxtamusc said:
Ooooh, I hadn't checked the forums since I downloaded the XOC bios. I'll have to check that out, thanks for the heads up!
Appreciate the link.
I've had zero issues with mine so far and that includes pretty extensive (for stock air cooling, at least) overclocking (including flashing the XOC bios into it), benchmarking, stability testing, and some gaming.
Hopefully it's not something widespread and I'll avoid any issues. At least I haven't sold my 2080 Ti yet, so I'll have a backup until then.
That's great to hear! Thanks for the update! I have spec'd out my new rig and have begun ordering parts. Hopefully will be able to order the GPU in the next 2 weeks or so.tamusc said:
I haven't experienced any issues at all so far and neither have either of my friends who also got 3090 FTW3's. I haven't really pushed it much farther OC wise, though I have stuck with the XOC VBIOS even if that doesn't give me much more headroom on air. Waiting to do that when I finally get a waterblock for it as well the new CPU and motherboard for the rest of the new build.