Nvidia 3000 Series Tonight
Discussion
HM-2 said:
Out of interest, which EVGA card?
EVGA 3080 FTW3. I put my name down for registered interest, but ages after launch, so there is no way that one will ever come through.I put my name down for 3080ti FTW3 hydrocopper and the other 3080ti's from EVGA all within about an hour of launch, again, I'll probably never seen my turn come round for those.
My Gigabyte 3070ti just arrived - ordered from Scan last night. Bundled with a 1Tb SSD which I can make good use of, and once you factor the cost of that in it was about £50 more than the 3070ti FE. And it includes an extra fan and about a 3% overclock, so with appropriate man-maths it was exactly the right price.
Mostly I am pleased to have a proper upgrade from my 980ti, at a pretty sensible cost, and can turn off Discord and Telegram and get on with gaming.
Certainly looks like supply is significantly improving.
Mostly I am pleased to have a proper upgrade from my 980ti, at a pretty sensible cost, and can turn off Discord and Telegram and get on with gaming.
Certainly looks like supply is significantly improving.
Well, it happened. I got itchy and re-padded the 3090.
Had some issues the first time round as I went for Gelid extreme and 1.5mm wasn't doing the ticket on the backplate side. The result now being I can strip down a card and remove the PCB in about 8 minutes hah.
All good and seems to sit stable at 88 degrees VRAM on 75% fans and 124MH. Sure it would go lower if I cranked the fans up.
I then however decided to play about with the backplate idea more, as it worked on my 3080's (non FE) and you had success. PLus I had a load of 1.5mm gelid extreme padding laying around. The backplate was also reading 70 degrees so clearly getting some heat in it.
I settled on a 69x150x36mm passive heatsink (as I couldn't find a higher density one) and targetted the vram as much as I could, being sure to cover the one near the slot which is hottest. I then whacked a spare s
tty fan on top because why not:
Seems to have took a constant 2 degrees off the VRAM. So I'm now hovering around 86 degrees. I'm tempted to put a more powerful smaller fan on there to improve pressure (noise not an issue) but we'll see, temps really aren't an issue and I'm just playing about at this stage.
Had some issues the first time round as I went for Gelid extreme and 1.5mm wasn't doing the ticket on the backplate side. The result now being I can strip down a card and remove the PCB in about 8 minutes hah.
All good and seems to sit stable at 88 degrees VRAM on 75% fans and 124MH. Sure it would go lower if I cranked the fans up.
I then however decided to play about with the backplate idea more, as it worked on my 3080's (non FE) and you had success. PLus I had a load of 1.5mm gelid extreme padding laying around. The backplate was also reading 70 degrees so clearly getting some heat in it.
I settled on a 69x150x36mm passive heatsink (as I couldn't find a higher density one) and targetted the vram as much as I could, being sure to cover the one near the slot which is hottest. I then whacked a spare s
tty fan on top because why not:Seems to have took a constant 2 degrees off the VRAM. So I'm now hovering around 86 degrees. I'm tempted to put a more powerful smaller fan on there to improve pressure (noise not an issue) but we'll see, temps really aren't an issue and I'm just playing about at this stage.
Edited by Calza on Sunday 11th July 13:54
FourWheelDrift said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Finally got a 3070. So my old card is straight on Ebay to see what craziness it makes.
My 2060 Super just sold for £550.Retailer CCL have just sold 12 new 2060 Supers for £391 each - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-GeForce-RTX-2060-SU...
Prices are moving fast at the moment.
Still some high on Ebay but with others going low they should all start moving down to match/sell.
RTX 3080 can be bought for just over £1000, that's at least £600+ less than a couple of months ago. - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174819246835?hash=item2...
RTX 3070 Ti for £750 - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402991287107?epid=28047...
Still high but coming down.
F20CN16 said:
Funny that you had a 3070 already though. Always something better eh
I'd ordered my system with a 3080 as soon as they were released (pre-ordered in September last year), but after 3 months of waiting and broken promises (I was 3rd in the queue for a 3080, but people after me kept getting their 3080s before me because another of my components had gone out of stock) I switched to the 3070 for immediate availability.Was planning on 4k gaming, so it was the 3080 I really wanted.
Ended up going to a 1440p rig instead (although kept the 5800X CPU) so the new GPU will just get it back to where it was meant to be - and I'll now have to decide whether I go for a G9 in 4/5k or an 21:9 38" LG or a more normal 16:9 4k monitor.
Calza said:
I'll offer you a chunk under market value if you want to tell me to ps off?
Let me get the 3080 delivered and installed first (delivery is scheduled for Friday)...but you're welcome to have first dibs once I find what 'current market value' of one of these is.s off?I believe it's this Zotac one.
I have waited this long to get a 3080 (of any type) at close to RRP, so will pass on my good luck by not ripping of anyone who wants to buy an 7/8 month old GPU. I'll assume there's no warranty as it was a built-to-order PC from a systems integrator.
Calza said:
Wow, I was thinking much less than that!!!I was only going to ask for around the RRP of when I bought it - which was about £450.
Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 21st July 13:33
mmm-five said:
Wow, I was thinking much less than that!!!
I was only going to ask for around the RRP of when I bought it - which was about £450.
I think for that - which is jolly noble - it'd be best to try to sell it to someone you know is going to use it. Put it on ebay at that and it'll likely go to someone who'll try to flip it for more straight away. That's not me holding you responsible for anyone else's behaviour, BTW.I was only going to ask for around the RRP of when I bought it - which was about £450.
Sporky said:
I think for that - which is jolly noble - it'd be best to try to sell it to someone you know is going to use it. Put it on ebay at that and it'll likely go to someone who'll try to flip it for more straight away. That's not me holding you responsible for anyone else's behaviour, BTW.
I was going to offer it to one of those on my PC builder's own forum, as some people who were on 100+ days waiting for their builds and have gone for GTX1030 in the meantime, but ads are not allowed.I suppose the problem selling it at all is you don't know whether it's going to be used or sold on!
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