Current Events > I'm so tired of hunting every day for an RTX 3080

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The spit attention between that and whatever else I'm doing all day is taking its toll.
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bro consider yourself luck. theyre defective and have crashing issues from being made of cheap shit.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nvidia-rtx-3080-is-already-having-serious-problems-what-you-need-to-know

lmfao why do ppl feel the need to preorder this type of shit and rush out to get it where they are sometimes even willing to pay scalper prices when you know damn well your current card already plays the shit you play perfectly fine. Or they just play some minecraft, SNES graphics indie shit.

tbh i wouldnt even be surprized if the PS5 and Xbox is going to have issues

toyota posted...

bro consider yourself luck. theyre defective and have crashing issues from being made of cheap shit.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nvidia-rtx-3080-is-already-having-serious-problems-what-you-need-to-know

lmfao why do ppl feel the need to preorder this type of shit and rush out to get it where they are sometimes even willing to pay scalper prices when you know damn well your current card already plays the shit you play perfectly fine. Or they just play some minecraft, SNES graphics indie shit.

tbh i wouldnt even be surprized if the PS5 and Xbox is going to have issues

I personally wait a year before buying one, usually some shit gets resolved, or they announce a new model etc. But yeah, thats annoying as shit.


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I've been keeping an eye on that. There's a few theories, but the leading one about cheaper caps doesn't apply to the Asus TUF series, which is what I've been gunning for from the start.
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Yeah it sucks ass, man

I'm gonna attempt to go to Micro Center in the morning and wait there a few hours to see if they get any in stock, hopefully I'll have some kinda luck

The crashing it sounds like it's a driver issue because it appears to be happening on all kinds of cards but I could be wrong

Still waiting for a release date on the ASUS Strix, supposed to be this week but no idea if that's Monday or Friday. It's the one I want most but I can't get it at launch if I don't know when it releases

wait until AMD does its event in October before worrying about buying a card.

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monkmith posted...

wait until AMD does its event in October before worrying about buying a card.

I very much doubt that will be worth doing

I have had money for a 3080 set aside for months now. I myself can't find it anywhere but I'm going to have to build a new pc as my current is too small for the card.

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Never buy first generation new hardware when it's that expensive. Let them figure it out for a bit first.

Get a 2080 if it's really that important.

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OzNarcissus posted...

Never buy first generation new hardware when it's that expensive. Let them figure it out for a bit first.

Get a 2080 if it's really that important.

Buying a 2080 when the 3080 out is mindblowingly stupid, the performance difference is insane

OzNarcissus posted...

Never buy first generation new hardware when it's that expensive. Let them figure it out for a bit first.

Get a 2080 if it's really that important.

Yeah I heard the first batch was totally fucked anyways, alot are malfunctioning. Just wait so you can get some working cards, even if you do NEED to pay premium for the hottest latest thing.

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DarthAragorn posted...

I very much doubt that will be worth doing

you doubt its a good idea to wait for the only competition to release their product? are you ignoring the history nvidia has of releasing deals or cutting prices to undercut AMD?

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I'm more interested in the 3060 right now.

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nexigrams posted...

Yeah I heard the first batch was totally fucked anyways, alot are malfunctioning

if you overclock, which there is no need to do right now.

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I Like Toast posted...

if you overclock, which there is no need to do right now.

or if you let the cards go to their promised boost clock apparently.

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I Like Toast posted...

if you overclock, which there is no need to do right now.

That's not a very good excuse for releasing a half baked graphics card to try and beat AMD to the punch.
Especially when a lot of them are crashing on their factory OC.

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Tropicalwood posted...

Especially when a lot of them are crashing on their factory OC.

sounds like a problem you should be taking the 3rd parties that didn't test their factory OC.

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I Like Toast posted...

sounds like a problem you should be taking the 3rd parties that didn't test their factory OC.

Nvidia didn't give their partners enough time though.

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OzNarcissus posted...

Never buy first generation new hardware when it's that expensive. Let them figure it out for a bit first.

Get a 2080 if it's really that important.

WTF? The 2080 has less than half the performance, costs twice as much, and is even harder to find.

Annihilated posted...

WTF? The 2080 has less than half the performance, costs twice as much, and is even harder to find.

Yes, but right now its a bidding war to grab the 3080s, and like all new products its full of bugs that need to be addressed by patches and drivers. You have to ask yourself what's more important? Getting a 3080 now that might not be able to run properly until November/December, or buy a 2080, sacrifice a couple hundred bucks and let them iron out all the problems with it.

Ivany2008 posted...

Yes, but right now its a bidding war to grab the 3080s

only if you're dumb enough to go to a scalper.

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Ivany2008 posted...

Yes, but right now its a bidding war to grab the 3080s, and like all new products its full of bugs that need to be addressed by patches and drivers. You have to ask yourself what's more important? Getting a 3080 now that might not be able to run properly until November/December, or buy a 2080, sacrifice a couple hundred bucks and let them iron out all the problems with it.

You can't just patch the 3080s. The crashes are caused by the capacitors being unable to handle the advertised frequencies.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evga-nvidia-rtx-3080-capacitor-caused-crashes


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Tropicalwood posted...

You can't just patch the 3080s. The crashes are caused by the capacitors being unable to handle the advertised frequencies.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evga-nvidia-rtx-3080-capacitor-caused-crashes

Nvidia's RTX 3080 FE cards don't use as many POSCAP capacitors, instead bundling them with MLCC capacitors - and those cards don't seem to suffer as much from the crashes and black-screening issues. In contrast, custom cards that use all-POSCAP implementations seem to suffer from the crashing issues more frequently.

We do need to exercise caution, though. There's still the outside chance that this issue isn't entirely related to capacitors - Nvidia's Ampere cards have higher power supply requirements than previous-gen cards, and drivers are still in the early stages of widespread use. As such, capacitor-induced crashes might not be responsible for all crashing issues - there are a lot of factors at play.
Also, there is no guarantee that all cards with POSCAP-only designs are defective, instead, this could imply they simply have a greater chance of an issue (i.e., a slightly higher failure rate). Nvidia provides manufacturing recommendations to its AIB partners, and it is unlikely that it would have passed design rules to partners that would result in widespread failures.

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