Alright, I am just now realizing the depth of how hard it might be to get my hands on a 3080 on release day
How should I approach the situation? First thing on the 17th, go around to Best Buy / Microcenter / B&H while refreshing online sellers?
Try everywhere you can if you want an AIB card and hope for the best. We're all going up against bots and people just like us who are trying to do it ourselves. Hopefully retailers have some kind of system in place to prevent people or bots from buying multiple cards but it's likely to be a total shit show regardless.
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Pre-orders are being listed on EBay for these even though pre-orders do not exist.
I'm glad to see it looks like nobody is bidding. I think each of these sellers should get review bombed as the shit-eating scalping piece of garbage they are.
I assume we're getting numbers on each card when each card is released.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
We'd already have official 3080 numbers but for global shipping issues. I wouldn't be surprised if they lift the 3070 embargo a couple days early as well.
GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
So that's a thing? People are panicking over that? I saw a bunch of videos to the effect pop up in my stream but I didn't realize people were actually this worried about it.
So that's a thing? People are panicking over that? I saw a bunch of videos to the effect pop up in my stream but I didn't realize people were actually this worried about it.
The downfall of total information availability is context.
Yes, there will always be a CPU bottleneck. But it'll probably be margin of error unless you're running something super low on the product stack.
Basically I've found that 95% of the things tech youtubers and overclockers and computer sites talk about on the bleeding edge mean absolutely dick to 95% of the population. Most of the stuff in a Gamers Nexus video is interesting theory and neat to watch but it will mean almost certainly nothing to the vast majority of people.
We've come really far in standardization as well as having nicely tuned hardware out of the box. In 2000 you could really scoop some nice gains from basic overclocking, die lapping, config scouring, and messing with little known settings, jumpers, and even replacing a few small parts on a mobo. Things come way more performance-minded out of the box these days.
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Eh, let's see how bad it actually is. Crypto mining naturally died off not because the cards were bad but because prices cratered. It may not be a relevant force again.
Do we have any idea what time I should start desperately trying to hit purchase on best buy/amazon/whatever to get a 3080? I think I'm gonna try for a 3080 Founders edition.
Do we have any idea what time I should start desperately trying to hit purchase on best buy/amazon/whatever to get a 3080? I think I'm gonna try for a 3080 Founders edition.
9 EDT/ 6 PDT
FEs will only be on nvidia's site and Best buy.
If you want to save your payment information on nvidia's site (you want to), you have to pretend to check out with something
I finally pulled the trigger and got an ADATA GAMMIX S11 Pro 1TB NVME drive. I'm hoping to install it today but, if I have this ASUS Z97-A motherboard, should I use the M.2 slot or a PCI slot? I already have a PCI adapter courtesy of a co-worker. Is there a difference in speeds?
Do we have any idea what time I should start desperately trying to hit purchase on best buy/amazon/whatever to get a 3080? I think I'm gonna try for a 3080 Founders edition.
9 EDT/ 6 PDT
FEs will only be on nvidia's site and Best buy.
If you want to save your payment information on nvidia's site (you want to), you have to pretend to check out with something
This is great info, as I'm likely going to try and get an FE 3090 in a week. Thanks for posting this.
I finally pulled the trigger and got an ADATA GAMMIX S11 Pro 1TB NVME drive. I'm hoping to install it today but, if I have this ASUS Z97-A motherboard, should I use the M.2 slot or a PCI slot? I already have a PCI adapter courtesy of a co-worker. Is there a difference in speeds?
M.2 and PCI both use the same lanes so the speed should be similar
Anyone have a guess what would be a fair price to ask for to sell my 2-year-old [plain/reference] Asus 1080? I assume it's not worth squat, but maybe can get something out of it...
Do we have any idea what time I should start desperately trying to hit purchase on best buy/amazon/whatever to get a 3080? I think I'm gonna try for a 3080 Founders edition.
9 EDT/ 6 PDT
FEs will only be on nvidia's site and Best buy.
If you want to save your payment information on nvidia's site (you want to), you have to pretend to check out with something
I'm camping out on Best Buy's site and occasionally checking NVIDIA. They're not up yet! I am gonna break my F5 key!
Do we have any idea what time I should start desperately trying to hit purchase on best buy/amazon/whatever to get a 3080? I think I'm gonna try for a 3080 Founders edition.
9 EDT/ 6 PDT
FEs will only be on nvidia's site and Best buy.
If you want to save your payment information on nvidia's site (you want to), you have to pretend to check out with something
I'm camping out on Best Buy's site and occasionally checking NVIDIA. They're not up yet! I am gonna break my F5 key!
Do we have any idea what time I should start desperately trying to hit purchase on best buy/amazon/whatever to get a 3080? I think I'm gonna try for a 3080 Founders edition.
9 EDT/ 6 PDT
FEs will only be on nvidia's site and Best buy.
If you want to save your payment information on nvidia's site (you want to), you have to pretend to check out with something
I'm camping out on Best Buy's site and occasionally checking NVIDIA. They're not up yet! I am gonna break my F5 key!
You're a day early....
*facepalm*
It's review day, launch day is tomorrow. I thought they were the same day.
Eh, let's see how bad it actually is. Crypto mining naturally died off not because the cards were bad but because prices cratered. It may not be a relevant force again.
Did it actually die off though? I'm sure it diminished over time, but died off?
Plus with the price point of these cards and the promised increase of performance, I think it's fair to say that everybody currently into crypto mining is going to be buying these cards.
Reviews are starting to come out. Performance for prices seems like what folks expected. Thermals on the FE are kind of interesting. Ars mentioned thermal throttling after 50 minutes doing 3D mark. Might not be a normal use case, and maybe 3rd party cards will have better cooling solutions.
I finally pulled the trigger and got an ADATA GAMMIX S11 Pro 1TB NVME drive. I'm hoping to install it today but, if I have this ASUS Z97-A motherboard, should I use the M.2 slot or a PCI slot? I already have a PCI adapter courtesy of a co-worker. Is there a difference in speeds?
There shouldn't be any reason not to use the NVME socket. Save the adapter for when you have to medicate your terrible addiction to insanely fast data storage by getting more NVME drives.
TLDR is performance gain on the 2080 is more like 50% at 1440p... which is still way better than 1080 -> 2080, but the "80%" performance boosts advertised is really only at 4K.
The 3080 benches look good, I'm quite curious to see how the 3090 stacks up. I'm trying hard not to give into the hype and wait until we get benches on the Radeon 6000 cards.
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Clicking is something PSU's should decidedly NOT do. Is there maybe something impeding the fan? If an RMA is simple, I'd definitely go for that.
It's in it's own little shroud. I'll unbolt it and make sure nothing is in there with it, but I can't see what would be messing with it.
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Oh, yeah. I meant the whole unit has its own little home inside the case, separated from everything else.
I used to assemble PSU's for traffic control cabinets, I have no desire to ever look inside something similar again.
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How should I approach the situation? First thing on the 17th, go around to Best Buy / Microcenter / B&H while refreshing online sellers?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Try everywhere you can if you want an AIB card and hope for the best. We're all going up against bots and people just like us who are trying to do it ourselves. Hopefully retailers have some kind of system in place to prevent people or bots from buying multiple cards but it's likely to be a total shit show regardless.
I'm glad to see it looks like nobody is bidding. I think each of these sellers should get review bombed as the shit-eating scalping piece of garbage they are.
I had about 5 seconds of click warning from my PSU before it fried some components. I wouldn't take any chances, that's for sure.
cries smugly in "it could well be worse"
But I'm a noob.
The downfall of total information availability is context.
Yes, there will always be a CPU bottleneck. But it'll probably be margin of error unless you're running something super low on the product stack.
Basically I've found that 95% of the things tech youtubers and overclockers and computer sites talk about on the bleeding edge mean absolutely dick to 95% of the population. Most of the stuff in a Gamers Nexus video is interesting theory and neat to watch but it will mean almost certainly nothing to the vast majority of people.
We've come really far in standardization as well as having nicely tuned hardware out of the box. In 2000 you could really scoop some nice gains from basic overclocking, die lapping, config scouring, and messing with little known settings, jumpers, and even replacing a few small parts on a mobo. Things come way more performance-minded out of the box these days.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is an Ethereum mining monster: overclocked cards deliver nearly 100 MH/s, double the Radeon RX 5700 XT
Awww fuck, we're back to this bullshit again? I guess I'm sticking with my 1080 Ti for another 2 generations.
If you can't beat them, join them.
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9 EDT/ 6 PDT
FEs will only be on nvidia's site and Best buy.
If you want to save your payment information on nvidia's site (you want to), you have to pretend to check out with something
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This is great info, as I'm likely going to try and get an FE 3090 in a week. Thanks for posting this.
M.2 and PCI both use the same lanes so the speed should be similar
I'm camping out on Best Buy's site and occasionally checking NVIDIA. They're not up yet! I am gonna break my F5 key!
You're a day early....
*facepalm*
It's review day, launch day is tomorrow. I thought they were the same day.
Welp, F5 key you are saved. Thank you!
Did it actually die off though? I'm sure it diminished over time, but died off?
Plus with the price point of these cards and the promised increase of performance, I think it's fair to say that everybody currently into crypto mining is going to be buying these cards.
There shouldn't be any reason not to use the NVME socket. Save the adapter for when you have to medicate your terrible addiction to insanely fast data storage by getting more NVME drives.
Edit: Hardware Unboxed publishes video time stamps, so these folk fuckin' rock imo.
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Edit: Jay is so fuckin' hype about the 3090 FE.
TLDR is performance gain on the 2080 is more like 50% at 1440p... which is still way better than 1080 -> 2080, but the "80%" performance boosts advertised is really only at 4K.
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