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It's all already been fixed, the screen was recalled some time ago and all those issues were corrected. It's just they've shipped incorrect units by accident.
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Well of the phone to pcs and to also confirm to them about changing my 3090 to rog strix, they say their looking at stock date for this on the 14th october but nothing gharanteed.. expecting the wait though so that's not a problem for me.
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This is regarding the instability on partner model 3080's with regards to overclocking it's worth watching..... appears to be related to "reference" spec cheaper models (not to be confused with the nVidia Founders Edition, that's quite high end), to do with the power delivery design and the components used within it. It's a hardware issue. It only relates to overclocking as far as they can tell.
www.igorslab.de
Basically, if this report is right and this is the issue, it appears a VBIOS update will need to be pushed out to throttle the boost on the board, so the affected cards pretty much won't be able to be overclocked at all, restricted at a firmware level.
Apparently the Zotac is already corrected in relation to this and shouldn't be affected. Also, assume Asus cards won't be affected as they're higher build spec.
Do watch the video though, it will make more sense.
The possible reason for crashes and instabilities of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 | Investigative | igor´sLAB
Not only the editors and testers were surprised by sudden instabilities of the new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, but also the first customers who were able to get board partner cards from the first…
www.igorslab.de
Basically, if this report is right and this is the issue, it appears a VBIOS update will need to be pushed out to throttle the boost on the board, so the affected cards pretty much won't be able to be overclocked at all, restricted at a firmware level.
Apparently the Zotac is already corrected in relation to this and shouldn't be affected. Also, assume Asus cards won't be affected as they're higher build spec.
Do watch the video though, it will make more sense.
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So people getting Zotac cards in their build soon shouldn't have to worry?
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Probably not for it being higher end card.
londonfranchise
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I watched this video and found it helpful – one thing I don't understand though: This problem seems to be related to overclocking specifically. For a newbie, is that something you would consciously have to choose to do – or if I get my build and turn it on, will overclocking be on in some form automatically? IE with GPU Boost - is that just a default feature?
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Zotacs appear to be fine.
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So modern nvidia cards use a feature called GPU Boost, it automatically overclocks the card as much as possible on the fly. But the stock clocks of the card are 1710MHz, the affected cards may well bug out when GPU Boost tries to overclock automatically.
This is still early days in these findings. Even if you've got an affected card, they will likely issue VBIOS updates to correct it fairly quickly.
If you're looking for overclocking ability, definitely go with the Strix for now for safety.
AccidentalDenz
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Had pretty much decided this week to order in 2 weeks once Zen 3 was announced. Big Navi really could be in my future now. Or may go down the Asus route. Decisions, decisions...This is regarding the instability on partner model 3080's with regards to overclocking it's worth watching..... appears to be related to "reference" spec cheaper models (not to be confused with the nVidia Founders Edition, that's quite high end), to do with the power delivery design and the components used within it. It's a hardware issue. It only relates to overclocking as far as they can tell.
The possible reason for crashes and instabilities of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 | Investigative | igor´sLAB
Not only the editors and testers were surprised by sudden instabilities of the new GeForce RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, but also the first customers who were able to get board partner cards from the first…
Basically, if this report is right and this is the issue, it appears a VBIOS update will need to be pushed out to throttle the boost on the board, so the affected cards pretty much won't be able to be overclocked at all, restricted at a firmware level.
Apparently the Zotac is already corrected in relation to this and shouldn't be affected. Also, assume Asus cards won't be affected as they're higher build spec.
Do watch the video though, it will make more sense.
SpyderTracks
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I think the strix lineup is their premium range so should be higher quality than the tuff.Really interesting insight. Looks like the TUF 3080 doesn't have the problem so the STRIX shouldn't either. Glad I went with it
Crichton_123
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Hmm.. wonder if it’s worth modifying my order for the Strix
SpyderTracks
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I would say it's probably worth it at this time. There may be a further delay to get a strix as they haven't hit the market yet, but should be soon.
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This is a far more technical look at the possible power stage issues on some cards.
Buildzoid is MEGA clever, like verging on genius levels so it can be quite hard to keep up with him, but his tear downs of cards are second to none:
Buildzoid is MEGA clever, like verging on genius levels so it can be quite hard to keep up with him, but his tear downs of cards are second to none:
Haywire23z
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Apparently the 3090 is ready and available to ship from PCSpecialist. Does anyone know what brand they have in stock? I don't wanna pay £200 above MSRP for a Palit card.
Edit: Took the risk and bought it
Edit: Took the risk and bought it
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While on phone to them the other day they have zotac or gigabyte or you can pay extra for rog strix
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Well my phone call this morning with pcs got me super confused lol
My call was really to address the minor psu issue, but after this being resolved
he then told me that the building phase will go on and almost complete.
I told him that i have changed my gpu to rog strix 3090... and he told me ''yes we got a few in at the moment'' and looks like you are
the very lucky ones.
Ummmm yesterday i as told 14th october so confused lol
My mind is still set for the long wait for this card though
My call was really to address the minor psu issue, but after this being resolved
he then told me that the building phase will go on and almost complete.
I told him that i have changed my gpu to rog strix 3090... and he told me ''yes we got a few in at the moment'' and looks like you are
the very lucky ones.
Ummmm yesterday i as told 14th october so confused lol
My mind is still set for the long wait for this card though
I'll keep an eye on this and see how it progresses. If it turns out to be a whole sale issue (not that I do much overclocking) I might pull the card from the config and wait for this to be resolved. Having said that, if the Zotac models supplied by PCS don't have this issue, I think I'll wait a bit longer to see how it plays out.
I wouldn't mind going for the ASUS TUF as it doesn't seem to have this issue but PCS don't have it. Ah well.
I wouldn't mind going for the ASUS TUF as it doesn't seem to have this issue but PCS don't have it. Ah well.
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Just upgrade to the strix?