Just thought I'd check in again with my experience. Altogether, the whole shipping process went very smoothly. From the day I shipped mine out, I received the 3080 back from EVGA relatively quickly. I think it took, in total, about a week and a half. For those of you expecting one soon, I thought I would report back with an issue I had, and it's regarding the 3x8 pin layout. I want to be clear here - regardless of what EVGA Jacob may have said on Twitter, I would recommend you
do not try to use a 1x8, and a 2x6+2 daisy chain cable. Use 3x8 pins instead. Initially, I tried to use a daisy chained cable, since my CableMod kit originally came with only two straight 8 pin VGA cables. However, I was frequently getting black screen crashes, specifically while
not gaming. I would get them while browsing Chrome, and/or just idling on the desktop. For a short time, I switched back to 2x8 pins, and one daisy chained cable for the third slot, just with one of the 6+2s hanging off the side. This totally corrected the problem, but looked
godawful so I ordered an extra 8 pin cable from CableMod.
For those interested, here's a photo of my build - I'm not trying to dangle the carrot in front of you or anything; I want to show what it looks like in the case, because I (among many others) was quite worried about the red accents totally throwing off the color scheme and making things ugly. I was surprised to see how relatively mute the red is once installed. In photos of just the card, it is quite vibrant in comparison, but in a real world setting, I don't think it's quite so bad. That being said, I think it will definitely pop more if your case itself isn't black. If you have a white case for example, I think it would show a lot more.
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All in all, the entire process was super smooth. Many props to EVGA for providing such a great program to their buyers. I've recently switched from Gigabyte after an awful RMA experience with them, so I'm glad to see the level of care and dedication EVGA gives to their customer base.