New card Surprise early delivery

Holly crap!, from China to Port Orchard WA in 5 days what a surprise! & it was free delivery! Im over the moon now lol

 

Excuse me , i will be buzy for a few installing this bad boy!

 

Hmm.... seems like this job of yours is paying way over the norm Rob. Any other jobs going I could apply for?

 

A penny earned is a penny saved ! I have been ‘saving up’ to ‘re up’. I do this every time, its my 3rd card in like 12 years now? . I saved 6 years for this latest up grade, needed to cash in some bitcoin help with over pricing but trying to find one is the challenge ,once i did i pounced & they were gone next day..
But that’s about my normal turn around for vid cards .. unless i have a failure..

 

Ya I had a lot of bitcoin lol got in way early, took some hits lately but I'm way ahead so I just skimmed the top a little to make up for the huge price gouge! On the 8th I was just looking & saw one for a decent price compared to the ones that were like 2k !! I could not believe it didn't say "sold out" like all of them have said for over a year lol so I instantly put it in my cart, it was down only 2x the normal price Then I saw it was direct from CHINA! lol now one week later the same one is like 3x the norm $$ some even at $2,400.00 wtf?? .. I have been looking for months, I was ready to buy last year but ZERO cards available, glad I waited caz then the 3080 ti came out just last month & i was lucky to get this one at a decent price, well indecent is prob a better word haha but wtf I'm good for the next 6 or so years now, plus a free 4-year warranty from gigabyte they give you 3 years but this offer gave me 1 extra! I had to rearrange my box caz this thing is so frikin HUGE lol . but OMG i just did some laps in ACC 4k all settings on ultra except a few & this thing is a BEAST!~ steady 60+ fps on ultra with 16 cars on the grid . I could un cap the fps and it will get more but i like it steady eddy .. so Im happy .. remember money/wealth by its self is nothing, it's what you can do with it that makes it awesome lol

 

It’s huge! I had to take out the middle fan bay hardware to get it in !

 

Hah i know .. sad … ryzen 9 & mobo on the wish list already lol, i was concerned about the chance of a bottle neck with my current cpu but so far so good!

 

So after having some time to go through all my sims & games resetting video settings & testing this & that I have
made my own list of The best looking/ playing /fps/gameplay at max settings ..

Starting in the last place with everything set to ultra 'where possible' & everything else on HIGH is the old beloved Rf2, @170 fps, it pretty much looks the same as it did (it's almost as old as I am lol) the newer cars & tracks look "good" older stuff not so much so it sits in last place. it just looks dated. (car detail is good on the new stuff as well as the new tracks but its just got that funky lighting & a percentage of the tracks seem overexposed as a lot of them have been converted from older versions. the new stuff can hold its own but then it's back in the 10+year old engine & when compared side by side to some of the newer sim's it takes a back seat. screenshot wize you can get some Beautifull shots however when it's all in motion it's not quite as nice/smooth as some of the newer sims (still has that awesome rf2 feel going for it)

If I still had AC it would prob be right after rf2, but It's no longer installed on this box so I can't give it a report.

In next to last place is ACC, it looks stunning in certain situations but the unreal engine holds it back as far as 4k hi detail goes, everything on ultra @ average 77 fps ..mirrors look better but still suck lol. tarmac & day-night are still awesome but it's just got that unreal engine monkey on its back & when compared side by side to the others it seems a bit grainy.

Next best is PC2! call it what you will but it looks and runs great! the lighting is excellent, the detail is very good and very steady at around 100 fps with everything on ultra. The day-night transitions are fantastic! smooth & steady weather is amazing, puddles, sun reflections ect.

Now the one that blew me away>
Taking first place in the race sims is ... AMS2! this game blows them all away in 4k on ultra ..words can't describe the joy of driving this sim now steady 90 fps and simply Beautifull, shadows, reflections, sun rays, tarmac, rain, it's simply the best in any of my sims and it's still pretty much beta. The last update with the GTE cars put it over the top. whatever they did to the performance side in the last build hit a sweet spot (for now), they're far from finished with this sim but I find myself wanting to drive it all the time now lol.

In the shooter games of which I have a few, by far BFV takes the cake as far as ray tracing, smoothness visual stunningness! (is that a word?) It's a crunch on any system and with everything on ultra the 3080 ti chews its way through it delivering a steady 60 fps in 4k with max settings (this is the only game where the CPU usage is higher than the GPU usage on this system anyway) it's very intense with 64 players all blowing the crap out of everything lol).. it has an amazing look & feel & the ray tracing in this game is superb .. the fire & water look amazing ..

That's all I got so far & these are simply my own personal findings & mean nothing lol..

 

New build in the works: My current cpu is the bottleneck for the 3080ti soooo Im keeping it with the 1080 and...
Happy birthday to me !
X570S-RYZEN 9 3900X- SAMSUNG 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe M2- corsair 2X16gb DDR4 @3600MHz VENGEANCE RGB PRO MEM -FLOE RIING 240 WATER COOLER -CORSAIR 1000W PS - Fractal meshify C case ..
Hope to have it up & running in time for the ACC Porsche cup series!

 

Ya I read about the next in line 4000 series from Nvid a while back! These video card company's are reaping in the profits & the shortage of chips keeps the prices high. Both the AMD and Nvid boards use one similar chip set that is made in Taiwan & that's the chip that is in short supply according to the Nvid president in an article I read. They cant keep up with current demands for the 3000 series yet still introduce the "next best thing" that you wont be able to get either. Marketing hype! greedy bastards lol..
Even the auto industry is effected by this chip shortage as all the new "self driving/parking" car technology uses the same chip according to a auto industry spokesmen..
It is starting to get better though ... we will see but I'm good for now, broke but good lol
These new cards just keep pushing the limits. The 3080Ti totally delivers for me, combined with the R9 & DDR4 mem it crushes anything I throw at it! I can max out settings & still see FPS in the 100's! rF2 fully maxed is in the 200's! ACC maxed is in the 90's AMS2 hits 160 maxed out , BF5 is the biggest recourse hog game I have and when using raytracing with everything on High it holds a steady 70fps & looks amazing
Availability still remains the issue ~! I payed way to much for mine but I did get one, it took about 4 months of intense daily searching & luck! Hopefully I'm good for the next 5 years or so now.. Or at least until the next gen games, that I'm sure we will see in the next few years or so, start coming out ..
Cheers!~

 

Deal!! lol

 

Can someone explain to me in simple terms what is going on with video cards en mining? Why are they buying them all up? To do what?

 

To buy bitcoins i think?

 

• Bitcoin mining is the process of creating new bitcoin by solving a computational puzzle.
• Bitcoin mining is necessary to maintain the ledger of transactions upon which bitcoin is based.
• Miners have become very sophisticated over the last several years using complex machinery to speed up mining operations.