Just in case: Don’t cheap out on the power supply. Corsair (US) and BeQuiet (EU) are known to me as trustworthy manufacturers. There are probably others, but there is also a lot of crap with blown up numbers.
It’s not difficult to install it, but can be fumbly depending on your case. Read the PSU manual, so you pick the correct pair of outlets for the GPU. It does matter nowadays.
Well it depends on your case. It may require a rebuild to rewire everything.
Many thanks for the advice.
Took a quick look at this one. Not sure what I expected price-wise but this seams reasonable:
Will research this ‘outlets’ thing you speak of.
PS: My case is pretty big (I went with a big-un on the off chance this day would come). There’s a lot of empty space in there; volume-wise it looks like you could get 2 of everything in there now, in there again…
I used corsair for my sons last build, no complaints apart from poor quality cables. My enermax cables are colour coded and sheathed in high quality covers. I would also go for fully modular for a tidy build
I upgraded to to a Corsair AX 760 maybe 1.5 years ago, had a 550W one before then.
It’s funny, I thought I bought myself plenty of headroom in terms of power requirements…now I’m not so sure, haha.
Fully modular is handy - and they do say that skimping on PSU quality when you’re spending big money on other components is a bad plan - I tend to agree. If you’re in the market for a 3080 you probably should have a platinum or at least gold rated PSU. Not fun to spend on it as you never think about it again after purchase…but it’s a pretty important part.
41 FPS in MSFS 2020 in 4k Ultra. Wonder how much the extra ram in the 3090 would push that up? Have to wait a few more weeks I guess.
The cooler seems to be outstanding also. Pulled 100 more watts than the 2080 TI (up to 350w I think) and the temps were significantly lower.
I don‘t think the card cares about the efficiency factor. Your wallet might care, though. Bronze is cheaper but draws more power from your wall outlet.
Agreed - I got my terminology wrong. What I meant to say was, I wouldn’t skimp out and buy a cheap quality non-brand PSU on a high end system - it’s kind of the heart of the system.
There are some dodgy PSUs being sold still with inadequate protection in place - my understanding is that when they give up the ghost, they may damage components, worst case even cause a fire.
Nothing to do with efficiency factors, though, as you said 
Just stick to the known good quality brands, regardless of bronze/silver/gold/platinum.
Absolutely. And stability is at stake, too.
I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. @jross Keep the box that is running the 1080 comftably and build a box around the 3080. Sure, it may take some time but at least it will be good. Guess what I am trying to tactfully say is that the specs of your machine dont add up to put a 3080 in. You will bottleneck at the CPU. I run a 1080 on my TV and it kicks butt in Assetto Corsa.
Might cause some of us to hang on for a month or two
Pretty much what I’m waiting for.
I just might. For some reason the FE never became available today to .nl so I might as well hang on to my money for a bit now.
The 3080s were all sold out instantaneously this morning. Looks like bots scooped them all up.
I fail to see why such huge amounts of vram would make sense? The interface does not become any quicker, so what‘s the use case?
This just in… Ladies and Gentlemen listen up. For the first time since the dinosours Nvidia will realease a better version of the XX80 card a few months after the initial XX80 card.
ITS CALLED THE Ti ! Gentlemen, is this really news?!?
Because gddr6x is like twice as fast as ddr4 ram. So with 20gbs you should never run into issues of using the system ram for GPU work.
My experience exactly:
Went straight from coming soon to out of stock. Newegg was a barely functioning mess - I couldn’t get much past the homepage, I can’t imagine how someone could actually make it all the way through to a purchase.