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** NVIDIA RTX 30 SERIES NOW ONLINE AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (3090 / 3080 / 3070) **

Still have not decided to go for a 3070 or 3080 for 1080p gaming. With a 3070 I hope to get up to 3 and a half years out of it. Either that or run a 3080 on a bottlenecked cpu for 2 years with the 3080 lasting a lot longer but at a risk of it failing after the warranty.

With the price of the 3070 I wouldn't lose out after 3 yearsso I am edging towards the 3070.

My monitor is gsync 240hz but I would probably cap the frames lower as not to get used to the very high frames before they start to fall to 144 or lower again :)
 
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rn2 said:
Still have not decided to go for a 3070 or 3080 for 1080p gaming. With a 3070 I hope to get up to 3 and a half years out of it. Either that or run a 3080 on a bottlenecked cpu for 2 years with the 3080 lasting a lot longer but at a risk of it failing after the warranty.
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Can definitely see the 3080 last you 5 years easily, plus gives you the flexibility of going up to 1440p if needed. 3070 is also a solid choice too, decisions decisions!!
 
rn2 said:
I personally wouldn't go for a founders edition after seeing some videos of the new fan setup.
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why? It looks like another quality made and engineered founders card and the new fan setup does indeed look like it’s going to cool the card very well and quietly.

what do you hate?
 
While I appreciate the effort gone into the FE cards, JayzTwoCents video kinda put me off a little.
It looks like there is no way to take the card apart without damaging it, so no water cooling. Still, it looks so good! Maybe .. maybe that cooling solution is good enough to not have to watercool at all? I can’t imagine those fans not spinning right up under heavy gaming load, though.
 
dazzlaa said:
While I appreciate the effort gone into the FE cards, JayzTwoCents video kinda put me off a little.
It looks like there is no way to take the card apart without damaging it, so no water cooling. Still, it looks so good! Maybe .. maybe that cooling solution is good enough to not have to watercool at all? I can’t imagine those fans not spinning right up under heavy gaming load, though.
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after seeing no screws I am waiting for the first video showing how easy/hard they are to take apart. There are going to be water blocks available for the FE on the first day so there can’t be that hard to take apart.......hopefully.lol
 
Vogon said:
I agree on the 12 pin cable, I have emailed Seasonic to see if they do a 12 pin modular cable for my Seasonic PSU.
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Dang ! Nvidia have got everything so locked down no-one dare say anything !
Reply from Seasonic:
"Thank you for contacting Seasonic.
We cannot provide any information yet but we recommend to keep an eye on our website and or subscribe to our Newsletter (on our main page, bottom right) as we plan in the next days/week to make an announcement about how we will support our customers with these new cards coming.

Thank you."

:rolleyes:
 
I've talked myself out of FE cards because of that awful connector positioning and ugly adaptor. There is no clean way that will satisfy my ocd for wiring that thing up!
 
Greebo said:
after seeing no screws I am waiting for the first video showing how easy/hard they are to take apart. There are going to be water blocks available for the FE on the first day so there can’t be that hard to take apart.......hopefully.lol
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It looks like the screws are covered with those push fit screw caps that are a pain to remove. I don’t think it will be particularly difficult to disassemble, I think the main concern is doing so without causing damage. I honestly can’t see how that can be done. I think it has brought me to a crossroad of; FE & no block at all, or AIB & water option.
 
JediFragger said:
Don't have a window for all that RGB bull**** so I couldn't care what I looked like ;)
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I meant the way the card pushes most of the hot air out of it and infront of the cpu cooler (this is a problem if you have a cpu tower cooler) which I will.

I know that gpus push the air upwards in that direction but with the FE it will be pushing most of the heat out of one spot and that spot being right infront of a tower cooler rather than distributed over more space and fans.

Of course if your cpu is water cooled then there is no issue :)

Greebo said:
why? It looks like another quality made and engineered founders card and the new fan setup does indeed look like it’s going to cool the card very well and quietly.

what do you hate?
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I don't hate it (read above your quote here). As I said it's just the reason why I would not buy it for me personally. I could be very wrong.
 
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Sparx said:
No, Nvidia selling FE direct this time round.

Obviously that’s Nvidia’s doing for direct sales, cutting the middle men (retailers) and costs out. Not the retailers doing...
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This time around? That was the case last time around and the time after that ;)
 
rn2 said:
I meant the way the card pushes most of the hot air out of it and infront of the cpu cooler (this is a problem if you have a cpu tower cooler) which I will.

I know that gpus push the air upwards in that direction but with the FE it will be pushing most of the heat out of one spot and that spot being right infront of a tower cooler rather than distributed over more space and fans.
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I think you saw the engineering sample..
the arrangement is supposed to pull air from bottom and exhaust most of it from the rear end.
Also, you can always play with vsync on :)
 
Nablaoperator said:
I think you saw the engineering sample..
the arrangement is supposed to pull air from bottom and exhaust most of it from the rear end.
Also, you can always play with vsync on :)
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I always cap my fps so majority of my steam library will be running on 100-150w probably and be whisper quite :)
 
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