It makes sense bro. SSD’s are overrated. I can’t tell the difference.
Nice.
Well, got my new box. Seems the 3080Ti is DOA however. If any of this sounds familiar, any help would be appreciated.
I can’t even get to boot menu - monitor saying “no signal”; tried on both HDMI out’s on the GPU.
-Tried 3 diff HDMI cables (all work on the old box) - I assume this beast can use a regular HDMI cable?
-One small RGB light illuminates but fans don’t turn. It’s doesn’t do anything.
-Power Cables all look good & tight; unseated/re-seated card, twice.
-Popped out the CMOS batt, counted 300 potato’s and put it back in. Nadda.
-The POST lights blink and move about for a bit, then go out. According the manual that’s normal (will only stay on if something is amiss).
They clam to have tested & ‘burned it in’ just 3 days ago.
Anyway, just shootin in the dark here. Thanks.
First time in decades I’ve not had one just work when I put power to it. Not happy.
Oof, that sucks. 
What make of card?
What color is the RGB light? Sometimes it shows the error using that.
Do you have a DisplayPort cable to try?
Does the card have a dual bios switch on it - if it’s not stuck in the middle then try moving it?
What’s your motherboard model and make?
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- GIGABYTE 3080Ti
- Kind of a nice, tropical, cyan color?
- DisplayPort cable. Would need to be supported by the monitor too, right? Don’t think I do. Monitor is about 2 years old.
- Don’t see any switches on the GPU but I’ll look again.
-ASROCK X570 Steel Legends
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GIGABYTE do a few - Gaming OC, Vision or Eagle? I think the Gaming OC has the dual bios switch.
Yep, would need that. It’s a long shot but you could try booting without the HDMI plugged in (perhaps use your motherboard CPU HDMI) and then see if it powers up more?
Also, I’m sure you tried this already, but reseating in the PCI slot a few times is worth a go - sometimes they don’t click in nicely. With the motherboard POST LEDs all going out, it’s like the card isn’t connected.
It’s an Eagle. Still poking and prodding. Discovering that RGB lighting has some usefulness - I can see inside there better 
I’d plug this GPU in there just to test but the plumbing on this one is, ugh. Be a long night but I’m determined.
Thanks again.
Seems like the GPU is a brick, maybe. Figures, that’s the only reason I went this route. Stuffed my old GPU in here and, well, it’s working. Still, as you illuded to, it’s almost like it won’t quite ‘fit’; this one clicked right in. The 3080 acts like it doesn’t want to go “in there”. Hmmm.
Mucho Gracias for the help @fearlessfrog
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The only other things I can think of are:
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Try it in your other PCI slot, just to see if it gets to Bios - that would indicate a motherboard incompatibility that an update might help with.
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Make sure your not using a splitter on the two PSU cables, the 3080 Ti Eagle is super thirsty and needs good independent 2x 6 pins. What’s your PSU?
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Update your motherboard Bios to latest, just in case.
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The PCI connection on some cards had a ‘lift’ tab on the right side (opposite end to where you plug in monitors). Try inserting it with the tab lifted.
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Maybe provide us peanut gallery some photos of the card and the slot?
New back in, old one back in its home (man, not sure what’s worse; with the water-cooling and small spac it’s a chore). Still no joy. Rat Farts.
Tried the other PCI slot. No go.
Power cables look good: 2 x 8, each with a 6 & 2, no split. It’s a 750W PSU. I’ve got a 1000W that’s ready to go there (the 750 will go into my old box). 3080Ti spec’d to draw 350, max, so I figure it should at least boot. Worth a try.
Bugs me a little, and maybe naïve of me, but I thought when they said they’d “test it and burn it in” that it would work on arrival and I’d save myself some headache. Things could be worse…
You can do that if it won’t boot even to the BIOS? I’ll Google it.
Hmmm. Not thought of that. The ‘tab’ you speak of resembles those on memory slots (I put 64 GB in it prior to booting with the 1080 (it came with a garden variety 8Gb stick); I’ve just pushed it ‘open’ then inserted the card and it goes in, or seems to - I can’t really push any harder. Thing is, with the 1080 it ‘clicked’ in easy-peasy. The 3080 seems to go in, but no ‘click’, yet it won’t come out without opening the tab.
Again, many thanks. On the bright side: when the 1080 was in there I got the whole Windows 11 setup all taken care of. Pretty snappy with an M.2 drive and 64 Gb of RAM. Until the bloat creeps in.
I meant more with the old working card in then update your x570 bios to latest and then try again. It’s not that likely to help but might be worth a try.
not happy to hear that @jross
strange that they claim that everything worked at their end
quck search found something similar your experience but the conclusion was RMA, not perfect at all…
Yeah, I’m pressing on for now. I didn’t know what “level” of 3080Ti was going into it - I just said, “gimme a 3080Ti”. I knew it wasn’t a water-cooled model but it seems this “Eagle” brand is a ‘entry level’. Perhaps ‘entry level’ == cheaply put together.
In the meantime I likely have the worlds fastest GTX 1080 rig 
- put my current card in the new box while I wait for the RMA
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in fact it isnt that bad with that GTX for now I would say, many sims are CPU bound anyway
This is a huge issue for me. Ive always picked the GPU I want not the one that’s available. Not all 3080s are equal!
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I think I understand now; things have changed it seems. Never was an issue IMO before (pre-2015-ish that is).
…and the last pieces have arrived.
Unfortunately, it’ll be at least next week, maybe next weekend before I can get the build going- massive final due next Tuesday, and some travel thrown in as well.
Soon…
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I have the same mobo and very happy with it. Nice case too. I think mine is the 4000 series.
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A review on the 5000D when you finish. Please!
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jross, have you tried plugging into the motherboard HDMI plug maybe it is set for iGPU?? worth a shot. that is if you have an iGPU??