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Rtx 3080 lower quality capacitor Issue

Chris Ecob said:
I think it's more that we've all been sold a card that should perform to the standard that we've seen in both the Nvidia launch slides and in tech reviewers benchmarks that were also boosting to 2000MHz+. That's the risk you take when buying early especially when the product has been rushed out to launch.
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I have yet to see a 3080 fe which boosts to 2000mhz unless you overclock it
 
It is a funny set of gulliable people, the 5700xt was a great card but drivers made it WORTHLESS and that was drivers.

Do you really want to buy a 3080 when they come over and say look to get it stable you need this firmware that disables nvidia boost cause it is messed up on our cards?.

Now an un boosted 3080 would probs be still a great card but that does mean we paid for a feature that is DOA and now people are not able to play or do benchs without crashing which a few times in a month might be doable but every game? nope you cant and wont stand that for long and in this scenario do the new fresh cards that come in go to the people who are waiting weeks and months for there cards or the lucky people who already got them?

It is a messy launch with a messy build and still nothing from nvidia just goes to show how they operate now.
 
trisp said:
It is a funny set of gulliable people, the 5700xt was a great card but drivers made it WORTHLESS and that was drivers.

Do you really want to buy a 3080 when they come over and say look to get it stable you need this firmware that disables nvidia boost cause it is messed up on our cards?.

Now an un boosted 3080 would probs be still a great card but that does mean we paid for a feature that is DOA and now people are not able to play or do benchs without crashing which a few times in a month might be doable but every game? nope you cant and wont stand that for long and in this scenario do the new fresh cards that come in go to the people who are waiting weeks and months for there cards or the lucky people who already got them?

It is a messy launch with a messy build and still nothing from nvidia just goes to show how they operate now.
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Would be great for my 2080ti resale value if they disabled gpu boost on the 3080 cause with 200-300mhz lower clock speeds the 3080 will probably lose to the 2080ti
 
Mecka said:
Gigabyte cards are using 6 POSCAPs (if they're POSCAPs since there's conflicting info out there saying that they're not the same) and I haven't seen that many people reporting crashing. Only saw one guy claiming that it crashes when playing MW2019 but that game is known for crashing. I currently have a 390x and the game keeps crashing for me as well. Meanwhile Zotac is also using 6 POSCAPs and there are a lot more people reporting on how it's constantly crashing. This whole thing is just weird.
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Gigabyte is also using better capacitors which may mean it negates this issue for some reason, the gigabyte is using 470 and the zotac is 330.
Also gigabyte might have tuned there OC better than other AIB's so it doesn't really hit the dreaded 2Ghz.

I have a 3090 eagle OC arriving next week and i feel pretty okay with it, but time will tell!
 
Sedgey123 said:
Gigabyte is also using better capacitors which may mean it negates this issue for some reason, the gigabyte is using 470 and the zotac is 330.
Also gigabyte might have tuned there OC better than other AIB's so it doesn't really hit the dreaded 2Ghz.

I have a 3090 eagle OC arriving next week and i feel pretty okay with it, but time will tell!
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How do you think, is the additional connector to power up (the thing from card to the pins) the card is the right choice from Gigabyte? As I can see, they are the only ones that do that.
 
My Palit has 1 bank of the smaller "more expensive" caps and it has not crashed yet.
To be fair though, the highest I have seen it boost is 1980, I might try a small OC or place an intake fan under it to see if it crashes above 2,000
 
jept said:
How do you think, is the additional connector to power up (the thing from card to the pins) the card is the right choice from Gigabyte? As I can see, they are the only ones that do that.
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That may have something to do with it. it could mean a better power input to the card but i am only guessing.
 
I'm in the queue for the Gigabyte Gaming OC 3080 and I'm not going to go through the pain staking process of cancelling and shopping for another card when overall I've seen very few issues reported for the card including this latest capacitor problem. That said it has now made me uneasy because of the reports on the capacitors but like others have pointed out cards with the 'better' capacitors have also been reported with the same issues. Just a whole lot of uncertainty. EVGA has confirmed that they replaced 2 POSCAPs because it wouldn't pass real world application testing but that's not to say it'd be the same for the other partner cards.

https://imgur.com/1l3PTBN
 
Sedgey123 said:
Gigabyte is also using better capacitors which may mean it negates this issue for some reason, the gigabyte is using 470 and the zotac is 330.
Also gigabyte might have tuned there OC better than other AIB's so it doesn't really hit the dreaded 2Ghz.

I have a 3090 eagle OC arriving next week and i feel pretty okay with it, but time will tell!
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Yeah, just read about the Gigabyte's 470 capacitors elsewhere. Everyone seems to have jumped to a conclusion already saying that Gigabyte is one of the worst ones alongside Zotac, but it seems like that might not be the case.

SGz_Eliminated said:
I'm in the queue for the Gigabyte Gaming OC 3080 and I'm not going to go through the pain staking process of cancelling and shopping for another card when overall I've seen very few issues reported for the card including this latest capacitor problem. That said it has now made me uneasy because of the reports on the capacitors but like others have pointed out cards with the 'better' capacitors have also been reported with the same issues. Just a whole lot of uncertainty. EVGA has confirmed that they replaced 2 POSCAPs because it wouldn't pass real world application testing but that's not to say it'd be the same for the other partner cards.

https://imgur.com/1l3PTBN
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I ordered the Eagle and I'm not regretting it, at least not yet. I got it at MSRP and it seems like their cards might turn out to be ok. Though of course, I might be biased and trying to justify my purchase but we'll see. This clearly needs more testing as some people who have TUF cards have also reported crashing when going above 2GHz.
 
SeeNoWeevil said:
I don't see why people are pre-emptively cancelling. If the card crashes when you get it, send it back. If it doesn't, happy days.
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Because people have waited long enough for something they are paying good money for. If they finally get one and it crashes they could be at the back of the queue waiting for a replacement.

It’s not acceptable, which is why people are cancelling until the problems are solved.
 
kirsty123 said:
Because people have waited long enough for something they are paying good money for. If they finally get one and it crashes they could be at the back of the queue waiting for a replacement.

It’s not acceptable, which is why people are cancelling until the problems are solved.
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As Sedgey123 linked its still not clear what the problem is as there's too much conflicting data, people are just assuming its concrete and cancelling orders for cards that may very well be fine.
 
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