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30xx Series Founders Edition

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Are there any decent blocks for the FE 3080 that someone here has used?
I think the EK FE block is a really well finished piece of kit, the way it totally encloses the PCB is a step up from the way they are just sandwiched together where you can see the edges of the PCB.
The only issue I have is that the acetal had lost some clarity even you compare it to my CPU cooler but apart from that it is great. I had a 3080FE in it and it had great temps considering my case doesn't have great airflow, I've just put a 3080ti in it tonight so I'll see how it copes with that as they are a little toasty compared to the 3080.
 
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Sorry what is the name of the group? I am on FE PartAlert https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAEii3xT81U1A6tLjrQ and I have seen no alerts since I joined a few days ago.
Exactly, you joined a few days ago. If you would have joined this time last year you would have had some kind of FE card
In which case, personally it makes no difference to me.
It makes no difference to you personally that a product you have paid a large some of money for does not work correctly due to a thermal issue caused by poor quality control/poor design/poor manufacturing?
Each to there own but I would be.
 
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It makes no difference to you personally that a product you have paid a large some of money for does not work correctly due to a thermal issue caused by poor quality control/poor design/poor manufacturing?
Each to there own but I would be.
The cards are fine for the most part and your only likely to have issues if your either mining which the cards are not designed for or have poor case airflow.
 
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It makes no difference to you personally that a product you have paid a large some of money for does not work correctly due to a thermal issue caused by poor quality control/poor design/poor manufacturing?

Honestly, why do people do this? That's clearly not what I said

I wouldn't consider thermal pads or RMA unless I was experiencing actual performance issues.

You would not really notice performance issues with the memory throttling anyway. You would only know using software

In which case, personally it makes no difference to me.
 
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Thanks for that, my room is also warm with little air flow so I'll see what I'm getting tomorrow in BF 2042, got it all fitted again and just testing my loop now.

I ran about 40 loops of timespy extreme this time and indeed the water settles about 42C but actually the temps of the card itself don't change a great deal so that must just be where my Ti settles with this block ~56C core and then an additional ~10C for mem and hotspot, it is what it is, pretty happy with that myself considering the cards is chugging down ~400w.

Time to play with the voltage curve and get the power down.
 
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3080 purchased :)

Email confirmation received too - hope others have been equally successful, especially those that have missed out on previous drops because of being at work
 
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I had no idea what to do when it just flashed up on my phone, but followed the link to the 'ahem' website and was able to purchase a 3070ti founders edition which is good enough for me. Payment taken on my card with no issue.
 
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3080 purchased :)

Email confirmation received too - hope others have been equally successful, especially those that have missed out on previous drops because of being at work

I might have got a 3080, got an order confirmation from them but as yet no email confirmation.

Edit: I am one of those people who was always at work, evening drops are far better.
 
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