The RTX 2080 pre-order thread

[jjgreenwood]

I am pretty sure the Gaming X Trio from MSI is on a custom board, as it is huge.

nah they are all reference, the custom ones are always later

 

[chaparral]

Look like the £1500 Asus 2080ti ROG Strix has disappeared off the OCuk site

 

[razorpakk]

nah they are all reference, the custom ones are always later

Although as far as I've read, this reference board is pretty good as it is.

Besides marketing I don't see many reasons to invest in R&D to come up with a custom board.
The difference between an average card with standard board and the best one with custom one is always negligible.

 

[Unrivaledx21]

nah they are all reference, the custom ones are always later

Does that mean the founders edition is better than these AIB ones?

 

[Safetytrousers]

Does that mean the founders edition is better than these AIB ones?

Some people say NVIDIA keep the best chips back for the FE edition (perhaps they are the evil NVIDIA rent boys).
And if you're going to put a liquid block on it, then it won't matter about any cooler differences.

 

[Smffy]

nah they are all reference, the custom ones are always later

I am pretty sure the Gaming X Trio from MSI is on a custom board, as it is huge.

It cant be reference as its got 3 power connectors so clearly the PCB is altered, 2 x 8 Pin and 1 x 6 Pin. It is huge, weight listed nearly 2kg...

 

[RanxZy]

I would be surprised if the Gaming X Trio board is reference, considering the 2 x 8 pin + 6 pin layout.

 

[Silent_Scone]

The cards up for preorder are not all reference PCBs. Trio X is MSI’s custom board, the Duke OC is a custom reference board.

Look like the £1500 Asus 2080ti ROG Strix has disappeared off the OCuk site

I’ve heard they’re sold out in the US

 

[JediFragger]

The cards up for preorder are not all reference PCBs. Trio X is MSI’s custom board, the Duke OC is a custom reference board.

Come to know they're coming and soon!

 

[andybird123]

The cards up for preorder are not all reference PCBs. Trio X is MSI’s custom board, the Duke OC is a custom reference board.



I’ve heard they’re sold out in the US

Eh?

 

[AmateurExpert]

Eh?

Presumably shorthand for "custom board based on the reference design" - i.e. minor additions/modifications to reference design, not something made up from scratch.

 

[andybird123]

Presumably shorthand for "custom board based on the reference design" - i.e. minor additions/modifications to reference design, not something made up from scratch.

Pretty sure the duke is a reference pcb, not custom at all

 

[Unrivaledx21]

Some people say NVIDIA keep the best chips back for the FE edition (perhaps they are the evil NVIDIA rent boys).
And if you're going to put a liquid block on it, then it won't matter about any cooler differences.

Ah no good if that is true. I should've just went with the semi-cool looking founders edition! I chose gigabyte windforce thinking it would be better than founders / reference. So basically I've purchased a lesser card for about the same price.

 

[XeNoNF50]

Ah no good if that is true. I should've just went with the semi-cool looking founders edition! I chose gigabyte windforce thinking it would be better than founders / reference. So basically I've purchased a lesser card for about the same price.

You could still do that in all fairness. Nvidia still have 20th September shipping. That may be earlier than the gigabyte one too as I remember you said you need a new GPU since your old one died.

 

[Unrivaledx21]

You could still do that in all fairness. Nvidia still have 20th September shipping. That may be earlier than the gigabyte one too as I remember you said you need a new GPU since your old one died.

I would expect the gigabyte one to ship out at the same time, so that isn't a problem. If the founders edition is a better choice though then that changes things. I don't know if that is entirely true though.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Pretty sure the duke is a reference pcb, not custom at all

Yes, minced my words - meant custom cooler on reference PCB. The whole reason I chose it as will be watercooling at launch hopefully.

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

I don't think it'll be any less powerful, clocks will still depend on the silcon lottery for both cards, but I could see the Windforce doing a slightly better job at cooling. Anyway the 2080ti FE is showing as out of stock completely now over at NV

 

[andybird123]

You could still do that in all fairness. Nvidia still have 20th September shipping. That may be earlier than the gigabyte one too as I remember you said you need a new GPU since your old one died.

2080 is still listed up as 20th, 2080ti which people are talking about here was in to October and is now listed as out of stock.

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

For some unknown reason I presumed he was talking about the Ti.

 

[spikerules]

Decided to go all in on the 2080Ti and order a new case (meshify c), motherboard, hard drive, 8700k cpu, power supply, m.2 drive, cooler etc. Using it for editing when not editing at work so makes sense to do a full upgrade.