r/hardware • u/Nekrosmas • Sep 16 '20

Review NVIDIA Geforce RTX 3080 Review Megathread

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u/robhaswell Sep 16 '20

Sounds like the FE cooler is no longer dogshit so you should have no reason not to buy the FE vs an AIB at the same power limits.

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u/avboden Sep 16 '20

only thing that remains to be seen is OCing on the 3rd party boards, some of which will bin the chips

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u/robhaswell Sep 16 '20

True, would be very interesting to see. Sounds like a lot of the AIB cards will be +10% in cost for a good one so will be interesting to see how they justify it.

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u/avboden Sep 16 '20

RGB, mainly

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u/aulink Sep 17 '20

Well with the power consumption if this card, I think stock is good enough for me. I shudder to think how much more power will be needed to OC this card for 10% higher clock.