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Ranayna:
Review NDA has been bumped to Wednesday. We will have to wait just a bit longer now :p

paulca:
Seem reviews are out:
https://youtu.be/oTeXh9x0sUc

Ranayna:
Yea, but only for the 3080 FE, reviews for custom desings have to waint until tomorrow, 3090 reviews will take some time, 3070 even more.

All in all, this is a powerful beast from what the tests say, but that is bought with a comparatively high power consumption. There is not all that much achievable via overclocking, so i expect the custom designs will have to distinguish themselved with their cooling solution. Even so, the cooler of the FE apparantly works quite well. If there were not reports of strong coil whine on the FE, i would likly get that one. The 3080 has more than double the power than my 1080, at a comparable price, so it would be quite an upgrade.

Well, it's time for a new box i think  ;D The "I want it" factor has just gotten a lot stronger, but i will wait for the new AMD processors that will be announced soon.

And yes, @asmi was apparently right :) PCIe 4.0 only maske a very small difference in a few games.

janoc:

--- Quote from: paulca on September 09, 2020, 06:17:47 pm ---Go VR man :)  Reverb or Oculus.

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Probably not Oculus. Facebook has just announced they are discontinuing all PC headsets (i.e. Rift) from next year and will focus only the standalone ones (Quest). While you can use Quest with PC via the Oculus Link (over USB 3 cable), it is always going to be a compromise due to image quality degradation, lower refresh rate and higher latency compared to a PC headset.

If you want the HMD primarily for PC use (and thus care about the image quality and the rest because you are investing into a high end PC to go with it), better look elsewhere.

With Reverb I would be careful - it is Windows Mixed Reality headset, which is a platform about as niche as it gets. While it can play SteamVR content, the support isn't as good as for the more mainstream headsets. Of course, if you want it only for FS2020, you likely don't need to care as that has native support for it.

hans:

--- Quote from: Ranayna on September 16, 2020, 07:20:03 pm ---Yea, but only for the 3080 FE, reviews for custom desings have to waint until tomorrow, 3090 reviews will take some time, 3070 even more.

All in all, this is a powerful beast from what the tests say, but that is bought with a comparatively high power consumption. There is not all that much achievable via overclocking, so i expect the custom designs will have to distinguish themselved with their cooling solution. Even so, the cooler of the FE apparantly works quite well. If there were not reports of strong coil whine on the FE, i would likly get that one. The 3080 has more than double the power than my 1080, at a comparable price, so it would be quite an upgrade.

Well, it's time for a new box i think  ;D The "I want it" factor has just gotten a lot stronger, but i will wait for the new AMD processors that will be announced soon.

And yes, @asmi was apparently right :) PCIe 4.0 only maske a very small difference in a few games.

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I guess they really wanted to push a "4K 60FPS" gaming card out the door.. I've calculated that Ampere is only 25% or so more efficient at their typical load power than Turing, even though NVIDIA boasted that Ampere has 1.9x perf/W than Turing (at the FPS as Turing can achieve). From most reviews I've seen/read, the FE card is pretty heavy into the power limits all the time. So not only a huge cooler (preferably water), but also a beefy VRM is necessary for any OC. Gamers Nexus OC'ed their card, and although FPS improved some pretty bad frame time spikes were probably due to the VRM throttling quite heavily..

The "WANT" factor for me is also quite big. Although, having a 300W+ card in a system is probably going to be quite loud. I will probably bite the bullet and order a MSI or Asus card tomorrow (or soon (TM))  anyway.. blindly trusting them that they know how to make GPU coolers. I'm not even sure if it makes that much of a difference if you don't OC the card. I might even underclock or undervolt the card if it really turns out to be a bit loud, and then gradually open it back up over time when I really do need to the extra FPS (I only need 1440p/144Hz, but my GTX970 is on it's last legs)

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