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30xx Series Founders Edition

Mr G said:
Managed to get my hands on a 3060Ti FE a few weeks ago however need some advise.

I had a weird fitting issue with the supplied 12-pin adapter? My PSU PCI-E cable has 2 connections. The NVIDIA adapter would only fit on 1 of the 2 PSU pigtail connections? If I tried the other connection, it wouldn't fit?

The GPU is working without issue but found it strange that it refused to connect on the other connector... Weird?
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You probably know this already but the connector may only fit one way round, it may have a fitting that is rounded in places and squared off in others.
 
Purgatory said:
I read it wrong, it's basically with a desktop build or a laptop with their cards in to get the codes, cheeky really, the game codes should come with just the gpu too as they have done before.:rolleyes:

Eligible Products: Valid on select GeForce RTX 3090, 3080 Ti, 3080, 3070 Ti, 3070, 3060 Ti, 3060 desktop or laptop system.


I read it to mean desktop class gpus... they want you to buy a full system with their card in ...



Yes the FE cards are like lead blocks all of them for their size :cry:, same with some AIBS too these Ampere cards need the real coolers not the toys of the past.
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Yes complete builds only. They did the same with battlefield 2042
 
my watercooling and or thermal pad replacement might be sooner than i thought.

I've been mining happily with the vram being 96-100, but now without changing anything it is hitting 104 at times.
 
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Mine was over 100 before a pad swap, mining its ~10/12oC lower now, but about 20oC lower when gaming or idle, likely because I'm not pushing +1050 on the RAM when gaming...
If you have the correct screwdrivers, steady hand and patience a pad swap is a no brainer IMHO..
 
100% do a pad swap on the 3080 if used for mining , 1.5mm Gelid ultimate on the front is perfect and 2.0mm for the back . Mine is currently sitting at 58 deg core , 82 deg memory and fans are at 50% maximum. It never touches over 94 on the memory now and will only hit that if i leave it on auto fan curve where the core will go to 62deg , memory just sits at 94 and fans at 41%. Memory is pushed to +1200 and gives 100.3 Mh
 
Dont need to do the back hardly makes any difference , I used 2mm gelid extreme for die side and now get 78-82c vram depending on the weather and fans at 60% 101 mh
 
the problem with Gelid Extreme if you put it on back pcb and if any reason it needs removing in future its really difficult to remove it leaves a lot of residue almost melts turns into mush not so difficult to remove from the die side as its mostly on solid surface like vram chips
 
uscool said:
the problem with Gelid Extreme if you put it on back pcb and if any reason it needs removing in future its really difficult to remove it leaves a lot of residue almost melts turns into mush not so difficult to remove from the die side as its mostly on solid surface like vram chips
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I found the opposite when I removed my waterblock, the GP Extremes came off easily and left hardly any residue on the PCB, that is after 6 months of use. It only took me 5 minutes to clean up both sides of the PCB.
 
Gavster said:
I found the opposite when I removed my waterblock, the GP Extremes came off easily and left hardly any residue on the PCB, that is after 6 months of use. It only took me 5 minutes to clean up both sides of the PCB.
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yeah it was easy to remove from the die side with it being on the vram chips and vrm, but not on the back PCB turned into mush and a lot of residue left around the little chips etc
 
uscool said:
the problem with Gelid Extreme if you put it on back pcb and if any reason it needs removing in future its really difficult to remove it leaves a lot of residue almost melts turns into mush not so difficult to remove from the die side as its mostly on solid surface like vram chips
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No issue with the ultimate pads , i recently redid all thermal pads and paste on mine as i wasn't to happy with the hotspot from the 1st attempt of changing them a few months back so redone the lot and all thermal pads came off cleanly, they did start to crumble a little bit but was very easy to clean up and left no oil or grease at all :)

The ultimate are a harder pad than the extreme which is probably whey they kept their shape and didn't turn to mush .
 
Jay-G25 said:
No issue with the ultimate pads , i recently redid all thermal pads and paste on mine as i wasn't to happy with the hotspot from the 1st attempt of changing them a few months back so redone the lot and all thermal pads came off cleanly, they did start to crumble a little bit but was very easy to clean up and left no oil or grease at all :)

The ultimate are a harder pad than the extreme which is probably whey they kept their shape and didn't turn to mush .
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yeah when I redid I used 2mm ultimates for the back dont wanna go through that again
 
uscool said:
yeah it was easy to remove from the die side with it being on the vram chips and vrm, but not on the back PCB turned into mush and a lot of residue left around the little chips etc
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I had no issue at all on the PCB side and the EK layout had a lot more thermal pads than the standard Nvidia layout. The ones I had just peeled off and left very little residue behind.
 
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