musiq1086
Is there anyway to know if there is going to be a hardware change to new cards comming out or if they will just not let you clock over 2k anymore 

It's a driver update. They changed they boost table.
No hardware change necessary.

Nice, way to stand by your product

Fighting the disinformation: https://youtu.be/lhyCdraz54s

Old news.

Ugh, wish this was not an issue

Just got a evga 3080 this week and the picture looks like the problematic ones what can I do?

Pilggrimm
Just got a evga 3080 this week and the picture looks like the problematic ones what can I do?

This topic is regarding the FTW3. If you got the XC3 then it is normal to only have 1 group of MLCC capacitors.

So I needed to buy the ftw3? I thought it was good to get back into pc gaming ... this sucks..

Those are also fine.
It was al just driver issues.
eteknix even has a zotac (with 6 of the "bad" ones that is doing around 2100 without any problems)
 
Igor even resolved issues with some psu that couldnt handle the gpu with the old driver
https://www.igorslab.de/en/wonder-how-invidia-the-crashes-of-the-force-rtx-3080-andrtx-3090-will-be-removed-and-still-will-be-removed-even-from-the-power-supplies-analysis/
 
hardware unboxed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhyCdraz54s
 
Jay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMns8t4OhI0
 
nvidia statement
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-graphics-cards/5/400499/rtx-3080-board-stability-new-driver-capacitors/
 
It was all way way way overblown so the witch hunt can be stopped now.

Pilggrimm
Just got a evga 3080 this week and the picture looks like the problematic ones what can I do?

Enjoy your card because drivers fixed the issue.
That's what you can do.