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30xx Series Founders Edition

I appreciate this has probably been asked a million times, but what is my best option / tactics on getting a chance at a FE 3070 or 3080 ?
 
lnoton said:
And be quick draw McGraw when that notification sounds.

Also practice captchas. And if you youre really keen, buy something on the site with your credit card and save it to speed up checkout.

It's hell.
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It's got more to do with right place, right time than anything I think. Took me 3 attempts. The first, I simply wasn't prepared when the alert went off. I manually browsed the site on my PC rather than clicked through on my phone.

2nd attempt, I had my phone muted while I was out and saw it 20 minutes too late.

3rd attempt I was at home, working on my PC with Telegram on my PC. Headphones on, listening to a podcast from my phone. So I both heard and saw the alert. Clicked straight through on the PC and had checked out within 20-30 seconds.
 
Is anyone using an after market 12 Pin PCI-E Extension for their 3080/TI and if so, any recommendations?

I really don't like the supplied adapter cable and would like to change it to something in white and individually sleeved like the rest of the cables.
 
LOAM said:
Is anyone using an after market 12 Pin PCI-E Extension for their 3080/TI and if so, any recommendations?

I really don't like the supplied adapter cable and would like to change it to something in white and individually sleeved like the rest of the cables.
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I understand what you mean, but the only reason I've not changed the adapter is due to reports of aftermarket versions melting under the high power draw of these top end cards.
I've got a 3090, and an EVGA PSU. EVGA sell a 12 Pin adapter for the FE, tested for the 3090, but I cannot find it anywhere in the UK. Only the US. Factoring in import costs, and it's not worth it. :(

I suppose it doesn't matter for those cards not drawing massive amounts of power, but I can't imagine your 3080Ti is far off a 3090's power draw.

Oh and in the Nvidia FE box is a card saying to only use the included adapter, I'm sure for good reason. I've seen aftermarket adapters for sale that don't list the 3090 as being compatible.
 
FlyingFish said:
Probably for good reason, I'm no sparky, but the longer it is, the better the cabling has to be to safely carry the current.
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Cable length is unlikely to be a factor, the reason the aftermarket cables fail is mainly down to the cable not being thick enough (cross sectional area) and to a lesser extent the connections not being crimped properly.
 
Dirk Diggler said:
Cable length is unlikely to be a factor, the reason the aftermarket cables fail is mainly down to the cable not being thick enough (cross sectional area) and to a lesser extent the connections not being crimped properly.
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You are both sort of right, as cables get longer, internal resistance increases and thus they need to be thicker but in reality for that to be a factor the cable would need to be measured in meters and not centimetres.

As long as its the correct gage (e.g. the same thickness of the PSU cables) and has been assembled correctly, there is no reason why it should spontaneously combust over any other PSU cable.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
You are both sort of right, as cables get longer, internal resistance increases and thus they need to be thicker but in reality for that to be a factor the cable would need to be measured in meters and not centimetres.

As long as its the correct gage (e.g. the same thickness of the PSU cables) and has been assembled correctly, there is no reason why it should spontaneously combust over any other PSU cable.
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Your first sentence covers volts drop, and as we have both said the cable lengths in this situation is unlikely to produce significant volts drop that would make a difference in increased current.

Your second sentence isn't entirely accurate, because the PSU cable thickness isn't the standard to aim for when talking about component cable length - the PSU cable thickness is determined by its own length and the rated current it is designed to take. If we had to introduce a component to the system, in this case a GPU, and we attached a cable that was so long that we required an unusually thick cable, then that could easily lead to a situation where the PSU cable isn't thick enough either because it would have become the bottleneck as it would be smaller (thinner) than the components cable.

Anyway, I agree that cable length is very unlikely to be a factor.
 
LOAM said:
Is anyone using an after market 12 Pin PCI-E Extension for their 3080/TI and if so, any recommendations?

I really don't like the supplied adapter cable and would like to change it to something in white and individually sleeved like the rest of the cables.
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I use a cable from cable mod but they're expensive and I don't think they do them in white, well they didn't when I bought mine 6 ago.
 
Gavster said:
I use a cable from cable mod but they're expensive and I don't think they do them in white, well they didn't when I bought mine 6 ago.
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Any chance of a link to it?

Next question, anyone got resizable bar working on their 3080TI FE?
 
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