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FWIW, I still see the three other models besides the one I bought as pending notifications, so buying one didn’t seem to remove one of those. And I did get a notification for a 3090 last week, after already having bought the 3080. So @Dan_Theman, if you’re in multiple EVGA product notification queues, that might eventually work out for your need for two cards.

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Looks like AMD’s smart access memory (SAM) isn’t AMD CPU or GPU specific and Nvidia is already looking to enable it with AMD and Intel CPUs. It doesn’t require PCIe 4.0.

No word on whether AMD GPUs will support it on Intel CPUs, but my guess is they probably will.

I kinda assumed SAM was bullshit, but I guess it really does offer some performance.

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Makes you wonder why they didn’t do it before.

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Speculation is it has compatibility issues of some kind but really nobody knows. It’s already used in Linux and on workstation GPUs.

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I’m not super familiar with SAM. Anyone shed some light in layman’s terms on what impact it has.

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I’m not either, but from the marketing:

Does that help or is that still too techy mumbo jumbo?

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Yeah, that’s why I linked to it. Basically it shares memory with the GPU and offers a ~5% performance gain.

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It’s marketing gobble speak but yes it does help explain the basics.

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Ok, that is what i was essentially after. The how and why was just interesting filler. :)

5% gain is nothing to get too excited about but I’ll take it since there is zero effort on my part and iam a zero effort type of guy.

7154

I hear that, broski.

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Just got my new 3080 computer delivered. First time I haven’t assembled everything myself. Impressed with the clean build. There’s a scratch inside the bottom of the case but I’m not the type to care about that sort of thing.

It’s whisper quiet at idle but I need to download something to put it through its paces! Finally get to play around with raytracing and DLSS.

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Super clean! You shelled out for the individually wrapped cables too, you aesthete you.

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I figured if I was already shelling out what’s a few extra bucks for some niceties. :)

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Every time I go to build one I tell myself I will let someone else do it and then… I don’t. I applaud your conviction. And it does look real nice in there.

What’s your first poison?

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Where is the RGB in action photo, I don’t even think it boots. :P

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Looks good! What kind of CPU fan is that? Looks neat.

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Is that scratch on metal? If it’s a removable panel they might be able to send you a spare, or maybe they’ll send you a paint scratch repair kit, heh. It’s worth emailing them at least.

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Haha! Yeah it’s an absurd light show going on when the thing is running. The computer sits under my desk which is good, I think I’d find it distracting. @Tim_N, the CPU cooler is a Kraken X63.

It sure is! I’m honestly really thankful that that sort of thing doesn’t bother me at all, I have a friend that would probably need to return the whole thing! The computer sits in an open cabinet/tray gizmo under my desk so they only time I’ll be looking at it is when I go to add a component.

I was thinking of picking up Control or something just to see ray tracing in action but the game itself doesn’t really interest me. I have a free copy of Battlefield V and this thing came with Call of Duty which I believe both have it so I might just look at those. Otherwise, it’s probably going to be Cyberpunk that puts this thing to the test here in a few weeks!

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That’s an NZXT Kraken. Liquid cooling. The tubes are running to the radiator up top.

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That’s a lot for me to get excited about. Just need a card that can do it.