Nvidia RTX Discussion

Deleted User wrote: »

Thanks for the heads up about EVGA where else could I keep an eye out for a 3060ti or 3070?

Overclockers have a 3070 on sale at the moment provided you have a NI address and are happy to pay 230 over stock price

3070

slade_x wrote: »

I'd suggest when your posting affiliate links you don't try and hide the real url

real url: https://go.skimresources.com/?id=61111X1383796&isjs=1&jv=14.4.0-stackpath&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.boards.ie%2Fvbulletin%2Fshowthread.php%3Fp%3D116067853%23post116067853&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.overclockers.co.uk%2Fgigabyte-geforce-rtx-3070-vision-oc-8gb-gddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1cb-gi.html&xguid=01ERXBPZZBTJRAZ5ZSH0WD9E7Y&xs=1&xtz=0&xuuid=ce264f0da4333e02e952b12e093fbe72&xjsf=other_click__contextmenu%20%5B2%5D


Actual link: https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-3070-vision-oc-8gb-gddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-1cb-gi.html

Yep... definitely wasn't me

Hmmm... seems the FE cards have gone MIA on nVidia's website.

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Hmmm... seems the FE cards have gone MIA on nVidia's website.

Been lots of talk that the FE cards are loss leaders. I'm starting to believe them.

minitrue wrote: »

I'm pretty sure their only purpose is/was to provide a base price for reviewers to use when evaluating the bang-per-buck.

Which is basically lying to consumers. Also, considering the complexity of the cooler, making a loss per unit or it being at cost seems very likely judging by the prices the other AIB cards are going for.

Lying to consumers aka standard marketing

I was basically agreeing with the guess they are about cost price, I just doubt they are risking a leak or financial statement which shows they were actually losing money on them. Of course the AIBs have to buy the chips from nvidia and there's no way they are selling them those without a healthy profit!

Lumen wrote: »

I agree with the outstanding heft and apparent build quality, but the FEs are rock solid partly because of the lower power limits, which are left to the partners on the partner cards. They're conservative by design.

"Reference cards" should be good. A bit like cars which are supplied to work fine with normal service intervals in any climate, but which can be performance-tweaked by aftermarket tuners at the cost of reliability and economy. (this may be stretching the analogy a bit)

I totally agree with all of that. (And the car analogy is a good one!) I have never bought a reference card before the 3080 because they didn't seem like a great proposition in terms of bang for buck.


But in this generation I think the FE cards seem to be right up there for value because the price point is low and build quality is high but also because the overclocking headroom in the 30 series seems to be quite small. The silicon seems to be almost at its limit at pretty much stock speeds - hence the unmerciful power draw!!!

Very good point. The FE used to be the "reference" card but this generation the FE is not built on the reference design at all.

dreamers75 wrote: »

Installed GPU and new PSU today, shocked at how quiet it is. Was expecting helicopter levels with the 3 fans.

Having 3 fans combined with a large heatsink is what allows for low noise levels, the dual fan models are the loud ones.

Out of all the RTX designs I do find the FE to be the best looking card. Really classy in a case. The other cards while probably better for OC and more, just do not look as nice to me.

It arises out of Nvidia's own website being so sh!t that they had to shut it down and farm out the cards through local partners.

I don't know that there is any way if getting an FE in Ireland at the moment.

Aodhan5000 wrote: »

This whole sh*te of founders edition cards being region locked is ridiculous. Got to LDLC site on time and threw a 3080 into my cart and opened up a chat asking if I could buy it if I provided a VAT number (in the hopes they weren't selling abroad as a result of tax related issues) but nope. So is Scan the only option for msrp cards? (Aware they aren't shipping here with DHL right now).

I don't think scan are an option either even when delivery resumes.

They still refuse to register for VAT in Ireland so you have to pay 21% on top of the UK price that already includes 20% UK VAT.
That would bring the price of a 3080 FE to around €900 total cost delivered to Ireland from Scan.

Aodhan5000 wrote: »

I'm looking at buying through company so I'm thinking I could buy Ex VAT and reclaim Irish VAT when charged it on import

That will probably work but FE cards are not an option for the average Irish consumer.

Does anyone know which AIB 3080 has the lowest MSRP?