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2080ti cards failing ?

I can understand people willing to pay out a small fortunate for the fastest cards as life is short and nobody knows what would happen tomorrow. I got no problem with people willing to part with the cash for the best performance (when there's really no other options), but what I cannot stand are people that keep on using RTX/Ray-tracing features as an argument to defend/justify the high pricing of the 2080Ti, when everyone knows (including those that made that argument) that the current gen card would not be fast enough to deliver Ray-tracing gaming at smooth frame rate at high resolution, as nobody in the right-mind would want trade-off 1440p 100fps+ and 4K 40~50fps+ gaming and downgrade to 1080p to game at 20~50fps gaming Ray-tracing or not. Hell, if people were honest to themselves, they would actually rather have the silicon spaces that's wasted on the Tensor/RT cores etc being used on extra Cude cores and Stream Processors instead for more performance.
 
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Nvidia needed to sell surplus 10 series stock, they are going the right way about it in the cut throat world of business even though the 2080 series was an unscrupulous release, it seems to be working for them to clear last gen stock.

No one in their right mind would buy into 2080 gen now. The only positive thing is 2080 has bought down prices in the used sector and 1080ti can be had for as little as £400
 
Twyst said:
I recall shortly after launch a thread on Vega 64 LCs failing badly as well. Mine failed also. After replacing the rad fan with a more silent model, no more bearing grind could be heard and a driver update the next day solved the instability issues.

This seems no better or worse than this, only there are a lot less people on this thread advising to swap to the other team!
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Hard to advise a swap if the other team has nothing comparable to swap too. :D
 
Well I've got a EVGA 2080Ti XC Ultra being delivered tomorrow and I don't give a ####. If it's faulty, it'll get replaced at a slight inconvenience.

I had a read through the Nvidia forums this morning and there are only about 20 people on there complaining about faulty cards. Even if the number were 10 times that it's no bigger an issue than any previous new gen launch, or at least not as the evidence portrays at the moment.

The funny thing is that most of the people whining about it on here and all over the internet are people that don't even own one or want one. That's a bit odd TBH. Do these people really have nothing better to do?

I'd happily buy an AMD card instead if the performance were comparable but for now they're not even competing. Nvidia it is then until that changes.
 
Cooper said:
No,no,no..you have it all wrong, its not the cards we hate, its the people who buy them.:p
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Well hunt me down like a witch :p
Goes off to wrap the 2080 FE in cotton wool while murmuring "don't you break on me you POS " :D.
HRL said:
Well I've got a EVGA 2080Ti XC Ultra being delivered tomorrow and I don't give a ####. If it's faulty, it'll get replaced at a slight inconvenience.

I had a read through the Nvidia forums this morning and there are only about 20 people on there complaining about faulty cards. Even if the number were 10 times that it's no bigger an issue than any previous new gen launch, or at least not as the evidence portrays at the moment.
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I reckon it'll be fine :)
 
HRL said:
The funny thing is that most of the people whining about it on here and all over the internet are people that don't even own one or want one. That's a bit odd TBH. Do these people really have nothing better to do?
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You find the same in 9900k threads right now. :rolleyes:

I don't think it will ever go away. Whatever the reason, haters gonna hate :D
 
dangel said:
Nothing new for us nutters doing WC tbh ;) I haven't even checked if the FE can be 'stealth' pulled apart to fit my EK block yet. Does anyone know?
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On the technical side may be it is nothing new, but on the financial side pretty sure WCing a graphic card that's £1200 with the risk of void warranty that is new :p
 
Smffy said:
Be interesting to know if it is majority the delayed batches...

Also have to say there is an alarming amount of a holes in this thread laughing at the idea some spent hard earned money and got a faulty card. You don’t have to like the price but don’t be a complete tool about it in a thread like this.
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You are very toxic today, and this is a new low even from you.
Life is too short my friend to take everything seriously.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
But Space Invaders ARE "bugs" :D
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:O

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dangel said:
Nothing new for us nutters doing WC tbh ;) I haven't even checked if the FE can be 'stealth' pulled apart to fit my EK block yet. Does anyone know?
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If it has the same security stickers on the retentions screws is easy.
Get an XActo blade, and press in angle towards the metal and slowly lift the periphery of the sticker. Continue until it comes off. Stick it lower to the same retention bracket for later use.

When comes to replacing the thermal pads, use the same blade to carefully remove it from the VRM & RAM. Store them carefully in plastic film. separetly one to to another.

When you need to replace and RMA the card, follow the process again. If you sell as second hand don't place back the stock thermal pads for heaven sake.
 
the minet you walked trough the door BOMBOM I teal you are a big speender lolllllllllllllllll. what cost me 3 years for build was £5 grand. now it would cost cost me for old tech
 
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