I'm still trying to buy a 3080 video card after months of no success. 🥲

Knocking on wood all stays good, 3080 FTW3 Ultra running folding @ home 24/7 for over 2 months.

EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra running fine in my rig. 

FWIW my 3090 ftw3 ultra is still running great after about a month. No issues thus far. 

Very happy with mine. I can pass all the 3Dmark at +195 +1150.

Top 2% in Timespy Graphics, top 5% in Time Spy Extreme Graphics , Top 8% in Port Royal. Passed all at +195 +1150 on air with no other cooling help. Going to get the Hybrid Cooler for sure.

https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15752256
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/15751468
https://www.3dmark.com/pr/567220

I had 3080 Tuf with miserable coil whine and high pitch fan noise

12/3 UPDATE:
 
Welp, spoke too soon, just had my first black screen of death with max fans and the RGB on the card flashing like a disco ball on crack.
 
Happened exactly 58 minutes into a round of Half-Life: Alyx replaying the custom map "Overcharge".  Not sure yet if it's reproducible, but it happened right as I reached the top of the ladder during the final stretch of combat (ascending from the catwalk platform where a single Combine captain is hanging out), if anyone with an Index and Alyx wants to roll the dice and see if they get the same result.
 
Only possible warning I had that something was not 100% right was I was picking up some microstutter in the 20 or so minutes before it cratered.  Didn't have PX or AB running in the background because they lag SteamVR, but my guess is my clocks were probably starting to destabilize as it was getting ready to crash.
 
Temps were normal, room ambient is 65*F.  No settings had changed from what I posted 11/30.  Stock clocks and power target, standard OC BIOS profile, etc.
 
Probably a safe bet I'll be back with another update this week confirming this dead card walking has gone to the scrapyard in the sky.
 
11/30:
 
3090 FTW3 Ultra running smoothly for almost 3 weeks now under a variety of benching and 120hz 4K/VR gaming loads ranging from light to extreme, with and without raytracing.  Performance in VR in particular is superb, frametimes are metronome-like stable.  Running the 456.71 Studio drivers sans Geforce Experience on Win10 Pro 1909.  No crashes, blackscreens, slow bootup, or other weirdness.
 
For those who may be interested, it's a 20141 Taiwan card with red lips running the current stock OC BIOS (not 500W XOC).  Running Port Royal, the power draw across the 3 PCIE leads is balanced, and at a 100% power limit it stays at or below 75W drawn from the PCIE slot.  Total board power draw tops out around 420-430W.  Raising the power limit to 107% brings those numbers up to 76-77W and 440-450W, respectively.  Load stays evenly balanced across all 3 PCIE leads.  All 3 fans behave as expected as well and temps on the stock OC BIOS fan curve are typically firmly below 70*C while benching or intensive VR gaming at a room ambient of 61-68*F.
 
Haven't tried the XOC BIOS, don't intend to while it's still in beta.
 
PSU is a Super Flower Leadex Platinum SE 1000W, using the original cables (3 separate leads, no daisy chaining) and no PCIE riser on the card.

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The point of this thread is to counteract the the feeling of risk and unease about having a 30 series card. Sometimes it can be comforting to be reminded that for every problem, there are a number of number of things that are working just fine, granted those aren't the ones that need fixing, but mentioning it can be comforting if it gets a bit overwhelming worrying about stuff.
 
Also, could you change the topic to include 3070 cards as well? Even if they don't have the high power usage of the 3080/3090, they aren't immune to having or not having problems.(not that it's possible to have neither?)

Yeah 30xx in the title would be good.
 
And yes also the thread about what PSU's are working fine with the series.  As somebody said It's always the minority that comes to post negative.  People who are happy with their product usually don't.    Not to say those with problems shouldn't be properly cared for, but it's silly to assume a small minority with problems means the entire launch is fudge lol

My 3080 FTW3 is doing great. OC bios, good case airflow and a 1000W Evga PSU. Have had no issues.

3080 FTW3 Ultra.
 
Received it 11/20 and not so much as a hiccup since.

EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING working great. I am on week two and love this card. I haven't pushed it that hard yet because I only have a 750W PSU once my 1200W gets here I will push it till it hurts her.
 
Here is a image of the C/%/FPS/MHz currently rocken with on Cold War.
Image of Lian Li Build as well.

The White Knight Lian Li Build
10th Gen Intel Core i7 10700K
64GB Dual Channel Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro
EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING

 
Seems to be ok for about 5 days now (3090 FTW3 Ultra), after a few brief black screens at the start. Currently on an EVGA 850 T2, but will end up on a 1000 T2. Loaded the XOC bios and ran Furmark this morning and saw it very briefly hit 508W in CPU-Z, but mostly it was 460-470 and occasionally 480 when thermal throttling wasn't keeping it down at 450W or less. That was on stock settings, no overclock on it.
 
I spoke too soon. Trying to do a basic render in Daz3D and I crash every time even on stock clocks. Sigh.  ignore - looks like I had accidentally upped one of the render quality setting to like 100 times higher than it should be lmao. Will need to retest tonight.
 
 

So far so good. FTW3 ULTRA 3080. Have had mine for 3 weeks approx~. Lets hope it keeps working like this, its a beast!

3090 FTW3 Ultra - Purchased Day 1 - Received the next day.  Haven't had 1 issue since.  OC +850 Mem +125 core since day 1.  Nothing but amazing @ 3440x1440 144.  The card has never seen over 70c.

Couldn't be happier np Ultra Gaming with my EVGA 3090 FTW3 ULTRA GAMING.
 
My Gigabyte GA-X99-Ultra Gaming MOBO is also great; but my next one will be an EVGA.  Because they have a great Step-up Program and Forums and Telephone Support and My Products Page and on and on and on and on and.... 
 
 

Seems to be a depressingly short list!