30xx Series Founders Edition

b0rn2sk8 · 16 Jan 2021 at 10:17

Mickcas said:
So basically keep refreshing the gpu page on nvidias site until it pops up

No you’ll never get one like that. Read back through the thread and you’ll see this question asked and answered with instructions to the stock notification channels for discord.

You don’t need to go back far at all, it comes up every few days, especially just after a stock drop.

Mickcas · 16 Jan 2021 at 10:35

b0rn2sk8 said:
No you’ll never get one like that. Read back through the thread and you’ll see this question asked and answered with instructions to the stock notification channels for discord.

You don’t need to go back far at all, it comes up every few days, especially just after a stock drop.

Just done this, I had noticed some before but they seemed to be US based. But found one covering Europe too

chrcoluk · 16 Jan 2021 at 12:13

Mickcas said:
So basically keep refreshing the gpu page on nvidias site until it pops up

You wont get one like that, its basically in stock for a minute once every circa 3 weeks.

opethdisciple · 16 Jan 2021 at 12:35

So just reading here when Nvidia release the resize bar support in a driver existing 3000 series owners will need to flash a vBIOS to the GPU.

As FE owners where do we get that from? I've never seen vBIOS's hosted on the Nvidia website. :confused:

Boxfreshchris · 16 Jan 2021 at 12:38

opethdisciple said:
The FE's are beautiful cards. Only the power connector spoils it a little.

I've ordered a custom one from here:
https://www.moddiy.com/products/Cus...ble-for-NVIDIA-RTX-30-Series-Mini-12-Pin.html

Comes from the US though, so I've no idea when it will arrive as their website states that all airmail has been suspended (covid), so its coming over via boat......

Zeeflyboy · 16 Jan 2021 at 13:07

chrcoluk said:
You wont get one like that, its basically in stock for a minute once every circa 3 weeks.

With the 3080 is more like seconds than a whole luxurious minute!

varkanoid · 16 Jan 2021 at 13:20

opethdisciple said:
So just reading here when Nvidia release the resize bar support in a driver existing 3000 series owners will need to flash a vBIOS to the GPU.

As FE owners where do we get that from? I've never seen vBIOS's hosted on the Nvidia website.

Pretty sure there will be a link to it on Nvidia website with the driver. I can hardly see Nvidia releasing the driver and not including the GPU BIOS can you, think about it. For all we know the FE might not need a new BIOS might already be in there. Just AIB that need the new BIOS.

opethdisciple · 16 Jan 2021 at 13:22

varkanoid said:
Pretty sure there will be a link to it on Nvidia website with the driver. I can hardly see Nvidia releasing the driver and not including the GPU BIOS can you, think about it. For all we know the FE might not need a new BIOS might already be in there. Just AIB that need the new BIOS.

Hopefully

exhashdotdot · 16 Jan 2021 at 13:40

b0rn2sk8 said:
No you’ll never get one like that. Read back through the thread and you’ll see this question asked and answered with instructions to the stock notification channels for discord.

You don’t need to go back far at all, it comes up every few days, especially just after a stock drop.

I've been following the UKstockalert twitter which is how I got my 3070 FE. One thing which confuses me is I get notifications from their discord all the time - but they're never links to the products.

What do the notifications even mean? I probably get like 10 a day. I naively think every time there's a notification a card has gone in stock somewhere, but I never know where.

Retro89 · 16 Jan 2021 at 14:37

Into the "Draw of a future build" it goes. The hunt for a 5900X continues.

evohicks · 16 Jan 2021 at 15:40

So what program are you guys using for a custom fan curve apart from MSI AB?
I've been delving deeper into ICUE software from Corsair and it seems pretty decent to be fair.
Obviously having a Corsair PSU helps but it shows the 3090FE up separately so you can customise it.

There is a very slight RGB line on top of the card which you can customise and also the GEFORCE RTX white logo can be adjusted, only dimmer, pulsing or off though.

My previous Graphics cards have all been adjusted with MSI AB but right now it's just not playing ball like it should, might do a reset, see if that fixes it, but for the time being Ill be using ICUE

HRL · 16 Jan 2021 at 16:31

Retro89 said:
Into the "Draw of a future build" it goes. The hunt for a 5900X continues.

I had to resort to a custom pre-build minus RAM and GPU to get my 5950X at close to retail and in stock. Might be worth a look.

Retro89 · 16 Jan 2021 at 20:09

HRL said:
I had to resort to a custom pre-build minus RAM and GPU to get my 5950X at close to retail and in stock. Might be worth a look.

Yeah been looking at the pre-build sites, they either don't list the 5900X or it's on pre order with no time frame.

chrcoluk · 16 Jan 2021 at 20:56

exhashdotdot said:
I've been following the UKstockalert twitter which is how I got my 3070 FE. One thing which confuses me is I get notifications from their discord all the time - but they're never links to the products.

What do the notifications even mean? I probably get like 10 a day. I naively think every time there's a notification a card has gone in stock somewhere, but I never know where.

yeah I had the same issue, I moved to telegram channels, but turns out a privacy setting in discord was blocking the links, so check there. The bots must be doing something to trigger it as humans were pasting links fine.

A2B · 16 Jan 2021 at 23:26

Retro89 said:
Yeah been looking at the pre-build sites, they either don't list the 5900X or it's on pre order with no time frame.

when I originally started my new build I was planning on the 5800x. Until I realised that you can get a used 3950x for not much more (I actually got a similar deal on a new unused one). Single core is not quite as good, but it's decent and if you have the core workload (not games) it's great.

Radox-0 · 17 Jan 2021 at 00:46

Boxfreshchris said:
I've ordered a custom one from here:
https://www.moddiy.com/products/Cus...ble-for-NVIDIA-RTX-30-Series-Mini-12-Pin.html

Comes from the US though, so I've no idea when it will arrive as their website states that all airmail has been suspended (covid), so its coming over via boat......

It comes from Hong Kong, not US

I think last time I accidently did order by boat, took about month and half. airmail was between 1 week - 2 weeks for varying orders. (about 5 different orders in all from them for various builds)

XeNoNF50 · 17 Jan 2021 at 01:24

Radox-0 said:
It comes from Hong Kong, not US

I think last time I accidently did order by boat, took about month and half. airmail was between 1 week - 2 weeks for varying orders. (about 5 different orders in all from them for various builds)

I've got the same from same place it took a few weeks.

shamus21 · 17 Jan 2021 at 07:14

opethdisciple said:
Hopefully

And do not forget the motherboard may need a bios flash.

Klunt Bumskrint · 17 Jan 2021 at 11:04

I managed to snag a 3090FE on Thursday night from Nvidia, it's coming tomorrow. In 20 odd years I think I've only ever had a "reference Card" once, that was my 680 SLI but these FE's look sexy AF.

I excite! though still gotta wait for cpu, mb, psu, ssd and cooler to arrive over the next week or so.

XeNoNF50 · 17 Jan 2021 at 11:06

Klunt Bumskrint said:
I managed to snag a 3090FE on Thursday night from Nvidia, it's coming tomorrow. In 20 odd years I think I've only ever had a "reference Card" once, that was my 680 SLI but these FE's look sexy AF.

I excite! though still gotta wait for cpu, mb, psu, ssd and cooler to arrive over the next week or so.

It's a beast dude