morlac
5855
Iām still sticking to my 1440p plan. Iād rather have the higher FPS, not planning on anything bigger than a 27" anyhow. I used to think 60 fps at 1080p was the shit, until I played for a couple weeks at 160+ at 2k. Buttery smooth and an awesome experience. Iād rather splurge on the best 2k monitor than buy a middling 4k one.
Thrag
5856
Wife didnāt stop me, trigger pulled on a Cyberpower. After a coupon search a 5% off from them made the difference (code: CPFB5). Though moments before completing checkout, as I reviewed the build in another window it informed me the card was sold out. I finished checking out in the other window and it didnāt stop me. I guess Iāll find out if Iām actually getting a new PC or not.
I wanted to stick with EVGA, at the highest level of my decision making - I know other brands are also good, but Iāve had (this will be my sixth) several EVGA cards over the last dozen or so years and Iāve only had to call support ONE time on a 570 that was replaced, no muss and no fuss, and in fact I received a 670 when I replaced it. Iāve heard they have great service, but to me itās the fact I have never had to even really deal with support with likely many and many thousands of hours of gaming.
I went with the FTW line for my 1080Ti but the reality is I donāt really OC my cards - I donāt find the 5 or maybe more fps gains worth the higher heat/noise/power draw but when I got my last few cards I thought I would be into OC. I would still have gone with the FTW3 this time (out of habit) but when they werenāt available I did some looking and discovered that the CX3 line is basically the Founders Edition but with the EVGA cooling system, which looked very nice.
So that left the CX3 or the CX3 Ultra. Iād have been fine with either, but if Iām being honest the slight factory OC on the Ultra appealed to me (again as a guy that isnāt going to deal with OC at home).
Iām happy to find out the theory I had (that the cooling would be better than the FE from EVGA) turned out to be true, a JayzTwoCents video that came out this morning had him using the very card I ordered - and while benchmarks were just about identical to the FE, he said that at the same % of fan use the CX3 Ultra was considerably quieter than the FE, which is great, and what I hoped to hear. Temps were about the same, but it sounded like the fans had a higher ceiling for more cooling and lower temps if one wanted to delve into setting a custom fan curve (not a huge problem) vs using the FE.
Thatās the only review Iāve seen with my card specifically, so fingers crossed it ends up as good/solid as the other EVGA cards I ordered.
Thrag
5859
I ended up with the EVGA XC3 Ultra. When I started the build it was just that and the stock version still available. As I wasnāt yet over my self-imposed budget I went with the upgrade.
morlac
5860
I see just stock ones left now so hopefully you got it :)
Ibuypowerpc is telling me 10/14 ship date with cards āin stockā., yea, no.
Thrag
5861
Cyberpower is showing 10/12 for all their builds, not just 3080s. A few weeks for a custom build isnāt atypical, but of course the last time I had a system built was six years ago so perhaps my info is out of date.
ledshok
5862
NZās main computer hardware retailer has just put a bunch of 3080s up and the cheapest isā¦US$1000.
At this rate even the 3070 might be a stretchā¦
They are 700 US, so that seems quite reasonable given the exchange rate
rei
5864
$300US markup is reasonable?
ledshok
5865
A 40+% increase in price isnāt exactly what Iād describe as āreasonableā, but I guess thatās par for the course being stuck way down here.
Exchange rate is roughly 1 USD to 1.5 NZD. How is this a 300 dollar markup?
ledshok
5867
Theyāre priced at US$1000 ie ~NZ$1500.
Dāoh. Mea culpa. Thought we were talking 1000 NZD. Missed the US
ledshok
5869
All good. I was thinking/hoping theyād be ~NZ$1200 and thus the 3070 might be NZ$850 or so, but perhaps not.
I had to buy a computer from the US for a guy in Dunedin 20 years ago. The exchange rate was more like 2 to 1 back then (maybe 2.2). It felt really weird to pay those prices, lol
rei
5873
Time to safely ignore this paper launch until AMD releases something concrete.
