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I spent the first month looking for an XC3 Black before I realized EVGA wasn't making them.
It turned out OK. It was delivered on time in one piece.
My factory xc3 hybrid hasn't seen more than 56c. Have the radiatior blowing out of the top of the case. Feels like a floor heater vent. If I take the mesh of the top of my case it drops a bit more. Ambient around 70.
Indeed. There is too wide a variance to the same card but from 3rd party manufacturers now.. my ASUS TUF OC 3080 was $750 at Microcenter. Maybe the $60 on this model goes to the very big rainbow RGB lights at the top of the card, who knows!
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Some people on Reddit were saying that they did. Looks like it was around 11 AM CST going by the time stamps.
Yes. Big drop for Ampere, Big Navi and Zen 3 around 11 AM ET.
Yeah, just saw in the other thread. I missed it since my sleep schedule is all messed up since I’m taking a week off of work. I finally crashed about an hour before they all dropped, lol!
Same here, my timing was off in general. Oh well, we'll get one eventually.
I've had multiple VPNs banned from Newegg for botting (Distill), even on 60 second refreshes.
Go to micro center daily until you get one. Without being at your computer the moment an alerting bot / script tells you its in stock, you will not be buying anything right now.
Best Buy is the best chance when they have a drop. Usually once every 1.5-2 weeks between 10 AM and 11:30 AM ET, but they have had random drops earlier and later than that. Best Buy is the only retailer with a checkout system that defeats most bots so you have a decent chance getting a card if you catch them right as they drop.
Waiting til 2022.
We wouldn't be talking about all these "scripts" and "bots" and methods and tips if there were other easy ways you are looking for. It's the sad reality of the GPU market right now. You have to do all these things to get a chance. If it's too much of a hassle for you (and it legit is, there's no other way of putting it), then as the above people said, forget about a higher end GPU from current to previous 1-2 gens for quite a while at least.
I'm hitting MC Columbus at 9am.
Aw man, grats on getting it but you forgot to use an associate code for another 5 percent off! Try contacting them and see if they'll discount you.
Wow, what a let down with the guy who returned the 6800... on one hand I get it, on the other I wish people were more "human" than a robot manager with no emotions. People are just so inflexible, we really are becoming like mindless robots.
google is your friend: lots of review sites have talked about the performance.
In what? In Control it does. 60-100 FPS with all on high and RTX at 1440p DLSS off. Usually 65-70 if average it all out. Don't think it really dipped below 60. But at least in this game DLSS nearly doubles my framerates at a visual cost that's not noticeable more or less. I played the first 3-4 hours of the game with DLSS off, and now I'm playing with it on.
I edited my post with more details. Out of curiosity, have you tried DLSS before? Because as I mentioned in my post, unless I screenshot and do A/B comparisons flipping the screenshot back and forth, I can't tell the difference at all, especially not when you're actually playing the game. If you definitely notice a difference that's a different story I guess. But yes, 3080 does a bit more than 60 fps at those settings, at least in this RT game.
To answer polonyc2's question...it depends on the game. I don't have many games that use full RTX capabilities (I know Cyberpunk 2077 does) and that game does need DLSS to get 60FPS at 1440p if you set it to Ultra with RTX enabled. The other 4 games I have played with the card (DOOM 2016, The Division 2, Anthem and Titanfall 2) either don't use RTX, DLSS (Anthem does) or they don't use either but each of them gets far more than 60 FPS. After I finish DOOM 2016 I'm going to uninstall it to make room for Devil May Cry V and then I'll play through that, DOOM Eternal, Anthem, The Division 2, Titanfall 2 and Cyberpunk 2077. Out!
Finally. Thank you for this.I edited my post with more details. Out of curiosity, have you tried DLSS before? Because as I mentioned in my post, unless I screenshot and do A/B comparisons flipping the screenshot back and forth, I can't tell the difference at all, especially not when you're actually playing the game. If you definitely notice a difference that's a different story I guess. But yes, 3080 does a bit more than 60 fps at those settings, at least in this RT game.
fine whine coming from Nvidia - who woulda thought
Stock has actually been getting worse over the last few weeks, for a variety of reasons.
Closest one to me is in Georgia and I wouldn't mind traveling there if they were guaranteed to have a bunch of 3080s but it's hard to know for sure.
Yea I can see that if you arent close to one. Theres an unofficial mc discord if you want to check what people are seeing. https://discord.gg/W438Vz2
