Good luck today, and if you're waiting on a RTX 3060, here's a chance at getting one for free:
 
A lot of people (particularly in this thread!) have used my associate code and/or rewards/affiliate code since the 3000 series launch, which I of course greatly appreciate. I figured it would be a good idea to "pay forward" some of this good will, so I used EVGA Bucks to purchase a new RTX 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra GPU to give away. Woot!

I initially thought to contact Jacob and perhaps have EVGA give it away via the EVGA Friday podcast, but I realized the winner (or "weiner" as they say) might not be a forum member, and there's a good chance they would just sell it as most people watching there are gamers with high end rigs already, whereas I'd rather it went to a forum member and someone who will hopefully use it.

EVGA Forum Moderator The_Scarlet_One brought to my attention the EVGA Folding Team 2020 Time Zone Challenge, and this seems like a great way to give the GPU away - it's for a good cause, will very likely go to an EVGA forum member, hopefully will be used for folding or personal use rather than just sold for cash, and at the same time might encourage a few new folders to join in (like me). Lots of win in other words!
 
For more details, check out this link : https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3175906
 
Cheers!
 
 

salemthecaz
Decided to go with AMD 6800XT. Bought it from a scapler for 900

#Bruh you coulda negotiated with me to get a guaranteed-to-be-trouble-free 3080 in a few weeks when I'm selling mine for probably about that price #RIP

Did some rearranging/rewiring of fans slightly. 
 
It's funny, I used to hate how the Riing fans look (the ones with only outer glow) in comparison to the Pure fans (the ones with the whole blade area glowing from the middle-out), but they look kinda cool on the RAM/M.2 areas, and you can kinda see through them so if I wanted the RAM lighting on, it would be more visible:
 

 
Today the real testing begins!

 
 ^ Holy Hannah that case is HUGE!
 

gian1983
wondering why evga doesnt not do amd card

eVGA has exclusivity & probably priority because of that, with NVidia.  If they did like Asus & some other makers & started making both, they could jeopardize the niceties of that relationship.  Same reason why they only make Intel CPU boards.
 

Nereus
 ^ Holy Hannah that case is HUGE!

Yeah that angle really sells how huge the case is... I could literally fit an entire second 3090, behind the 3090 that's in there, and it wouldn't touch the front fans... which are actually not installed how the front fans came in the case.  I moved them from inside the brackets to outside because it's better airflow that way (airflow isn't disrupted by the brackets being in the way of the fan's exhausted air this way).
It was definitely designed for liquid cooling setups, and it'll have one in it sometime in the next 2 months :-D
 
Curious, what settings are you using on your 3090 to get the 2.1GHz?  XOC BIOS or the standard one etc?  I haven't even started OCing this pupper yet.

Welcome to the club.

Nereus
 
Oh sorry, that 2.1GHz was from my 2080Ti Hybrid, the 3090 is being RMA'ed for repeated crashing (I just changed the card type in my signature in the meantime - it's not on water yet either, waiting on EK block). I better fix that, thanks! 


edit: fixed

Ah okay.  I'm just doin' some lookin' around to seeing what a nice "average" is for the 3090 FTW3 Ultra so I can kinda have a ballpark of about where I should expect to start hitting OC limits respectively.
 
Few more hours til it's drop time for those still waiting on their cards, may the drops be plentiful & the emails come early ^_^
 
I'm gonna go throw some gaming at this thing & see how it does stock with the Normal BIOS.  Not expecting miraculously higher numbers compared to the 3080, just want to see the differences, and if the one title I was having lag spikes with was vRAM limit related or not.

 
She's a live one... still at 100% stock GPU, no power limit increase, just on the OC BIOS that came with the card now.

Dabadger84

 
She's a live one... still at 100% stock GPU, no power limit increase, just on the OC BIOS that came with the card now.

stop flexing that you have a new video card bruh

Dabadger84

gian1983
kingpin i guess ? Seems low

Just a regular FTW3 Hybrid ^_^
 
Up to 13687 just from the power limit increase to 107%... hit 452W max board draw, and PCIe slot is pulling over spec (78W) at some point during the test.  Max load temp again was 55C, ver nice.

Just curious, what's your total system power draw?
 
EDIT: NVM, had to browser zoom, couldn't click to enlarge the pic. It's looks like it's 882.3

Dabadger84
 

Epic system!!

removed

So I decided to go ahead & fiddle with undervolting just a tiny bit, my highest OC score was 14178.  Managed to pull 14119, with a 2040MHz @ .981mV undervolt, maximum load temperature was only 52C instead of 55-57C on previous runs, and PerfCap never showed power limit at all ^_^  Think that's pretty close to a nice even sweet spot between voltage, clocks & power draw.
 

chuckymystic
I just got my 3090 ftw3 hybrid yesterday from last weeks drop. My PSU only came with 8pin to 2 8pin cables so I ordered custom cables from MAINFrame. I used Precision X1 to do some base overclocks.... though pushing it too high caused my pc to shut down lol. Latest stable was 400MHZ mem and 170MHZ CPU. Graphics score on time spy free version was 20,585. with a 3700x CPU I got an overall of 17,500ish.

Congrats on the card! What PSU do you have?  I would be careful pushing OCs on the GPU with a PSU that doesn't have 3 dedicated 8-pins, some folks on this forum have had issues with daisy-chained PSU cables for 3090s specifically.
 

Samg381
Unpopular opinion maybe, but benchmarks / post-purchase gloating is off topic for this thread.

It's not gloating O_o Just sharing what I think are some interesting results.

Dabadger84
Did some rearranging/rewiring of fans slightly. 
 
It's funny, I used to hate how the Riing fans look (the ones with only outer glow) in comparison to the Pure fans (the ones with the whole blade area glowing from the middle-out), but they look kinda cool on the RAM/M.2 areas, and you can kinda see through them so if I wanted the RAM lighting on, it would be more visible:
 
Today the real testing begins!

Is that gap on the right of the case, where there are no fans...is that where you put the Xbox One obelisk, the PS5 router and the wine refrigerator?  Asking for a friend.

Tuesday is shaping up to be another card drop bonanza (at least for the K|NGP|N queue...but likely also for the 3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid folks who signed up on November 13 (they should finish up their watch either today or tomorrow).
 
As of 8:00 am PT Tuesday morning, the North American queues are approximately here (bolded font represents movement from Monday morning’s summary; italicized parentheticals calculate the length of the movement):
 
     Card                                        SKU                       Auto-Notify Date/Time 

     Ultra
     3090 FTW3 Ultra                     3987                      10/07/2020 06:15:15       (05:23:10)
     3090 XC3 Ultra                       3975                      10/05/2020 20:52:00     
     3080 FTW3 Ultra                     3897                      09/18/2020 07:45:42       (00:20:10) 
     3080 XC3 Ultra                       3885                      09/18/2020 06:22:00   
     3070 FTW3 Ultra                     3767                      10/29/2020 06:11:58 
     3070 XC3 Ultra                       3755                      10/29/2020 06:46:59        (00:07:59) 
     3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra                 3667                      12/01/2020 06:51:30       

     Gaming
     3090 FTW3 Gaming                 3985                      09/24/2020 12:38:00
     3090 XC3 Gaming                   3973                      09/24/2020 00:00:00
     3080 FTW3 Gaming                 3895                      09/16/2020 00:00:00
     3080 XC3 Gaming                   3883                      09/16/2020 11:01:20
     3070 XC3 Gaming                   3753                      09/29/2020 00:00:00
     3060 Ti FTW3 Gaming             3665                      12/08/2020 13:24:00
     3060 Ti XC3 Gaming               3663                      12/01/2020 06:51:03       (00:07:03)

     Black
     3090 XC3 Black                      3971                      09/24/2020 00:00:00 
     3080 XC3 Black                      3881                      09/16/2020 15:06:00       (00:02:00)
     3070 XC3 Black                      3751                      10/29/2020 06:09:41 
 
     Hybrid
     3090 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid           3988                     12/10/2020 09:18:16       (00:01:48)
     3090 XC3 Ultra Hybrid             3978                     12/08/2020 10:13:30    
     3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid           3898   *                11/13/2020 09:32:12
     3080 XC3 Ultra Hybrid             3888                     12/10/2020 09:08:45       (00:00:11)
 
     Hydro Copper  (Delayed)
     3090 FTW 3 Ultra HC               3989                      11/13/2020 00:00:00
     3090 XC3 Ultra HC                  3979                      11/13/2020 00:00:00
     3080 FTW3 Ultra HC                3889                      11/13/2020 00:00:00
     3080 XC3 Ultra HC                  3889                      11/13/2020 00:00:00
 
     K|NGP|N                                3998    *                11/20/2020 06:00:40  
 
     *  On Wednesday, December 16, at 9 am Pacific, the “auto-notify” button will relight for each of:
          (i) the incremental K|NGP|N queue (solely for Elite Members); and 
          (ii) the incremental 3080 FTW3 Ultra Hybrid queue.  
  
Today is Tuesday and...say it with me..."Everybody gets a card on Tuesday!" [Apologies to Kevin Kline and the movie, Dave.] 
 
Good luck today.  Let's go get our cards!