I got the hybrid kit installed and bios flashed on the xc3 so it knows it's now a hybrid, put an air cooler on the 5800x and set it all on my wife's desk and hooked up her new 1440 omen 27i monitor yesterday. The case and water AIO for the cpu will be here Monday or Tuesday I'm hoping. The Joys of living in Alaska is that almost nothing decent is available locally. I was also surprised at how hard it was to get a decent higher end motherboard. I'm not talking about a dark hero, but just a regular hero or the equivalent from another brand that doesn't want $800.00+ for it. I was shocked since I overpaid for my Crosshair VIII formula back in July (no hero's were available at all then) but I didn't pay $800.00+ for it.  My wife started playing her game and said wow I can see the veins in the bosses arm didn't know he had veins...she was gaming on a 7th gen intel I7 laptop with a 1060 using an actual 2tb hard drive paired with a 250 gb SSD. 
 
Now she he has an AMD 5800x, the hybrid 3080 xc3 ultra, 2 gen 4 7000 mb/s NVMe M.2 (A bit faster than the 150 mb/s HDD) a 500 gb for windows, and a 2tb for gaming, a 2tb ssd for file storage, corsair vengeance RGB Pro 3600 MHz ram, all on a x570 Aurous Master MB. It will all go inside of a corsair 5000D airflow case once that gets here.
 
I think this might be a small upgrade for the wife, and so far she is very happy with it all. So waiting for months to get a card was worth to have a super happy wife who never realized what she was visually missing in her games on that old 1060 GTX laptop on a 1080 60hz monitor. 

Who would have thought when they announced a price increase and MSRP extension on reservations back in January that we'd be less than a week out from that deadline and still only six days into a Q on 3897 which has been one of the more frequent drops of the 3080 series.

philipma1957

rocketdoug
 
Here are my two reasons to be hopeful longer-term. 
 
1) miner demand for cards may soon come crashing down:
 
https://www.techradar.com...lete-for-crypto-mining
 
 
And 2) Intel GPU's are coming, eventually: 
 
https://www.pcgamer.com/i...ce-performance-xe-hpg/

Waiting for ETH to crash may happen in a day or a week or a month  or a year.
Based on 2016 to 2017 the up cycle for ETH began in Apr of 2016 and ended in Jan of 2018 so 21 good months of mining.
This new cycle began in July 2020 add 21 months we go to April 2022.
I stopped making bets years ago. (I lost too much) but with lack of chips pretty much certain until next spring my guess is Eth has until Next year to crash not this year.
 
 

 
I didn't say anything about ETH itself crashing.  I was talking about demand for new GPU's from miners ending in advance of ETH 2.0.  A new source of cards from Intel could also help us hobby builders and gamers.

MaybeSomeDayX
I'm literally within 14 hours on the 3885 and were 5 days away from the price increase. SOOOO SAD

i mean bro like im right now reached level of just want to get the card as soon as possible while im 4 hours away from my queue for 3897... i just dont care about price increase or anything im tired of waiting i think more than 205 days for those cards... so i just want to get the card quickly. i really hope the best to all of us and this queue move faster soon .

PUNKofWAR1
I've been in the queue for a lot of cards and hoping for one since September as well. I feel your pain!
 
 
 
10G-P5-3895-KR 9/21/2020 10:29:31 AM PT No
10G-P5-3885-KR 9/19/2020 1:45:28 AM PT No
10G-P5-3883-KR 9/19/2020 1:45:14 AM PT No
10G-P5-3881-KR 9/19/2020 1:45:00 AM PT No

Seriously your dates are insane , that too for 4 cards.  Probability wise you should get  at least one of them before the price hike, if not this queue system would do no justice to its existence or usefulness.  

sealancer

PUNKofWAR1
I've been in the queue for a lot of cards and hoping for one since September as well. I feel your pain!
 
 
 
10G-P5-3895-KR 9/21/2020 10:29:31 AM PT No
10G-P5-3885-KR 9/19/2020 1:45:28 AM PT No
10G-P5-3883-KR 9/19/2020 1:45:14 AM PT No
10G-P5-3881-KR 9/19/2020 1:45:00 AM PT No

Seriously your dates are insane , that too for 4 cards.  Probability wise you should get  at least one of them before the price hike, if not this queue system would do no justice to its existence or usefulness.  

Here are my dates. The only two worth anything and the 3883 is useless because they don't even make it anymore. All my hope rides on 3885. She moved up 2 hours the other day. I'm ... Hopeful. Only 14 to 15 hours to go whatever it is. 
10G-P5-3885-KR 9/19/2020 1:56:04 AM PT No
10G-P5-3883-KR 9/18/2020 1:01:01 PM PT No

Lets see what a new week brings us.
 
Maybe some kingpin's
 
Are we 12,13,14,15  then  the price jump?

Thanks for the info , Monday April 19th is the price rise.

rocketdoug

philipma1957

rocketdoug
 
Here are my two reasons to be hopeful longer-term. 
 
1) miner demand for cards may soon come crashing down:
 
https://www.techradar.com...lete-for-crypto-mining
 
 
And 2) Intel GPU's are coming, eventually: 
 
https://www.pcgamer.com/i...ce-performance-xe-hpg/

Waiting for ETH to crash may happen in a day or a week or a month  or a year.
Based on 2016 to 2017 the up cycle for ETH began in Apr of 2016 and ended in Jan of 2018 so 21 good months of mining.
This new cycle began in July 2020 add 21 months we go to April 2022.
I stopped making bets years ago. (I lost too much) but with lack of chips pretty much certain until next spring my guess is Eth has until Next year to crash not this year.
 
 

 
I didn't say anything about ETH itself crashing.  I was talking about demand for new GPU's from miners ending in advance of ETH 2.0.  A new source of cards from Intel could also help us hobby builders and gamers.

 
Knowing Eth developers the 2.0 will get put off.
 
It is hard to figure coin mining price.
My guess is fee drop in July goes on as scheduled.
ETH price rises bigly  this means demand for gpus stays high.
Eth developers do not want to tank the price of the coin and put off 2.0 for 6 more months maybe next spring.
 
   All very bleak for gamers. Good for miners that have gear.
  A few hundred pages back someone kidded about getting 4000 series cards. The may be right.
 
My cousin snagged a PNY 3090 from Best Buy for 1800 and instead getting it they cancelled it on him.  He yelled and screamed and complained they gave him a 100 dollar gift card.
 
He purchased a dell with an amd 5600m using the gift card.  it was on sale for 799 - 100 gift card is 699 + tax.
Actually it is a decent laptop for gaming. At a good price.
 
Meanwhile that pny gpu is now on ebay for 3300.
 

Akiak
I got the hybrid kit installed and bios flashed on the xc3 so it knows it's now a hybrid, put an air cooler on the 5800x and set it all on my wife's desk and hooked up her new 1440 omen 27i monitor yesterday. The case and water AIO for the cpu will be here Monday or Tuesday I'm hoping. The Joys of living in Alaska is that almost nothing decent is available locally. I was also surprised at how hard it was to get a decent higher end motherboard. I'm not talking about a dark hero, but just a regular hero or the equivalent from another brand that doesn't want $800.00+ for it. I was shocked since I overpaid for my Crosshair VIII formula back in July (no hero's were available at all then) but I didn't pay $800.00+ for it.  My wife started playing her game and said wow I can see the veins in the bosses arm didn't know he had veins...she was gaming on a 7th gen intel I7 laptop with a 1060 using an actual 2tb hard drive paired with a 250 gb SSD. 
 
Now she he has an AMD 5800x, the hybrid 3080 xc3 ultra, 2 gen 4 7000 mb/s NVMe M.2 (A bit faster than the 150 mb/s HDD) a 500 gb for windows, and a 2tb for gaming, a 2tb ssd for file storage, corsair vengeance RGB Pro 3600 MHz ram, all on a x570 Aurous Master MB. It will all go inside of a corsair 5000D airflow case once that gets here.
 
I think this might be a small upgrade for the wife, and so far she is very happy with it all. So waiting for months to get a card was worth to have a super happy wife who never realized what she was visually missing in her games on that old 1060 GTX laptop on a 1080 60hz monitor. 

Do you have to reflash the cards to a hybrid BIOS, or can you just enjoy the improved thermals and noise from installing the kit? 

There is different bios due to having a pump and fans versus just 3 fans

CptT95You cry about the pre tariff pricing when evga is selling every card they can make at a loss due to tariff going into effect beginning of the year....

It is not particular true... MSRP reflects retailer profit. When EVGA sell card on their website, they make more money then when they sell it via retailer. That is how they cover associated codes discounts and EVGA Bucks. Technically they still can make some kind of nice discount, if it will be impossible to combine it with associate code discount.

EVGA is not even close to the price they could get for the cards. 

Oh god!  I can't spend an eternity on this forum, waiting on a dead sku! It REEKS of...fish...cat piss.

philipma1957
I was slow on the uptake and did not realize just pick every card and wait.
 

You weren't the only one.  I wasn't aware of the notification button when the cards first went up so I missed out on a few days.  Then when I found out I initially picked only the three I was considering.  Then a week later added a couple more.  Still waiting since late september but overall I'm still in better queue positions that a LOT of other folks so not complaining.