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Galax GeForce RTX 3080 Ti HOF 38IOM5MD3BHX 12GB GDDR6X 384-bit PCI-E 4.0 Desktop Graphics Card - Wootware

Buy Galax GeForce RTX 3080 Ti HOF 38IOM5MD3BHX 12GB GDDR6X 384-bit PCI-E 4.0 Desktop Graphics Card at Wootware with fast shipping & superb service.
www.wootware.co.za www.wootware.co.za

This was kindly brought to my attention by @SILTECH786.

In terms of price to performance, there is literally no other option. The VRM on this thing is crazy, the cooling on it is on par with what the Strix/Suprim shroud can provide, and the silicon used on these is also going to be top tier. If mining is a concern, this card shouldn’t be written off so long as you want to mine recreationally, as there appears to be other coins that yield respectable profits in comparison to FHR cards with respect to ETH.

Pretty much anyone who was looking at a daily driver card in this price bracket should buy this - there genuinely is no competitor, and certainly not at R27K. Whether your goal is benchmarking, or just to own a card that will last you a many number of years, this one is it.
 
Can anyone find reviews of this card?
 
affxct said:

You don't need a review. Now yes, the 80 Ti is a slightly downscaled design, but like. Just look at it. It's literally so decked out it makes the Strix look like a joke.
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Before I'm forking out 26K+ I sure as hell will need a review and multiple at that.
 
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EliteOp said:
Before I'm forking out 25K + I sure as hell will need a review and multiple at that.
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Dude... it's the HOF card... Basically think of binned models... well this is the binned of the binned..
You don't get better than this...
 
EliteOp said:
Before I'm forking out 25K + I sure as hell will need a review and multiple at that.
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All that a mainstream reviewer does is talk about the card’s design and do some arbitrary benchmarks. The card’s cooler does its job very well according to a few Carbies I’ve PM’d, and from personal experience, the Palit cards have the best G6X cooling system (I’ve owned 3 Palits).

Aside from that a major concern would be silicon quality right? Well the three Palits I’ve owned have been incredible overclockers with both GameRocks hitting 2160 in Fire Strike Extreme. My current card is doing 21.5Gbps G6X fully stable in games and benchmarks.

With all that being said, the last check is the PCB. With filtering like that I could see this thing hitting 2180-2200 if you get lucky with your bin. VRM-wise, their engineers probably asked their design team what the goal is and provided a few options. Clearly their response was just: “cool use the best one.”
 
affxct said:
All that a mainstream reviewer does is talk about the card’s design and do some arbitrary benchmarks. The card’s cooler does its job very well according to a few Carbies I’ve PM’d, and from personal experience, the Palit cards have the best G6X cooling system (I’ve owned 3 Palits).

Aside from that a major concern would be silicon quality right? Well the three Palits I’ve owned have been incredible overclockers with both GameRocks hitting 2160 in Fire Strike Extreme. My current card is doing 21.5Gbps G6X fully stable in games and benchmarks.

With all that being said, the last check is the PCB. With filtering like that I could see this thing hitting 2180-2200 if you get lucky with your bin. VRM-wise, their engineers probably asked their design team what the goal is and provided a few options. Clearly their response was just: “cool use the best one.”
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And before anyone tunes @affxct for talking about Palit when we are looking at a Galax card - they are the same company.

The HOF range is pssibly the most deluxe version of any graphics card ever, it's the kind of build people use in overclocking world record attempts AFAIK.
 
I have an idea, there are tons of reviews on the GameRock cards. I reckon anyone who sees this thread; come buy my card and you won’t have to risk buying the HOF. I’ll take the risk upon on myself guys. 😄

In all seriousness though, Galax/Palit whatever, don’t sell to many Western markets anymore and it’s somewhat unlikely that any reviewer will ever test this thing out. They would’ve tested the 90 for sure. Buildzoid analysing the PCB is as much as we’re getting, and imo it’s a lot more educational and informative.
 
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Not many reviews as yet, still a brand new card on the market i guess.
 
Stingrat said:
Not many reviews as yet, still a brand new card on the market i guess.
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It’s not really that, it’s been out for a while now. The issue is that they no longer stock USA which is huge. I think Jay was sent one Galax card and in the video he mentioned that they no longer are sold there but they offered to send him one so he did it anyway.

It’s the same reason that HUB were the only major channel aside from Techtesters and a few smaller UKtubers to review/handle GameRock cards. The only reason the GameRock is even worth reviewing is because it’s super shiny and eye-catching to the average person.

I highly doubt they’ll ever receive a HOF to review, but if they do it’ll definitely be I guess somewhat helpful? I mean honestly I don’t see the point anymore. Just send @IRON_BREW a PM and ask him how his compares to the Suprim’s etc that he’s owned in terms of thermals and then compare the PCB to models such as the Strix/Suprim/Aorus Xtreme (they don’t even compete with it remotely) to extrapolate potential clocks.
 
Having owned a number of palits i can say they are rock solid.

Pity the 3080ti doesnt have the lcd like the 3090 but super happy we can even get our hands on them

No brainer for me
 
Saw this the other day as well just after seeing the EGA 3080 on woot, forgot to pop into the deals thread but I certainly went wide eyed after seeing that price lol
 
www.3dmark.com

3DMark Time Spy Extreme Graphics Score Hall of Fame

The 3DMark.com Overclocking Hall of Fame is the official home of 3DMark world record scores.
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

The Kingpin and HOF trade places, both are S tier cards, basically the best money can buy. My personal opinion on the 3080Ti HOF? It's amazing albeit a bit power hungry (THAT 400W bios).

The card runs very quiet and cool for a "downscaled" 3090. Vs the actual 3090 it's honestly a no brainer at it's current price.
 
Senshi said:
I hate to argue this.. But you are forgetting the EVGA Kingpin.
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Sure, the kingpin cards fall into the same category...
The only thing that makes the HOF better is how it looks...
Also you can hardly find kingpin cards to purchase unless you are either sent one by EVGA, pre-ordered the fuck out of it, or purchased a previous gen card at a massively overinflated price.
 
Moemfie_ZA said:
Sure, the kingpin cards fall into the same category...
The only thing that makes the HOF better is how it looks...
Also you can hardly find kingpin cards to purchase unless you are either sent one by EVGA, pre-ordered the fuck out of it, or purchased a previous gen card at a massively overinflated price.
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No arguement there, was just pointing out it's not alone at the top.
 
Senshi said:
www.3dmark.com

3DMark Time Spy Extreme Graphics Score Hall of Fame

The 3DMark.com Overclocking Hall of Fame is the official home of 3DMark world record scores.
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

The Kingpin and HOF trade places, both are S tier cards, basically the best money can buy. My personal opinion on the 3080Ti HOF? It's amazing albeit a bit power hungry (THAT 400W bios).

The card runs very quiet and cool for a "downscaled" 3090. Vs the actual 3090 it's honestly a no brainer at it's current price.
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Ahh tbh 400W in gaming sessions is what the GA102 needs to hold high clock speeds. Depending on the current load, in some games (Rise of the Tomb Raider totally maxed), the 400W limit on my current card is actually holding it back (1890MHz vs 2070-2100MHz in COD Cold War and WZ that don’t even draw more than 340W).

May as well game with the slider maxed to 450W because if the current load isn’t high enough, the card won’t draw it regardless. If the load is high, then you’ll be able to maintain 2070-2160MHz even in the most demanding of gaming and benchmark scenarios, with a 450W-500W VBIOS. Basically nothing to worry about. In terms of benchmarks, 450W-500W is actually necessary to be competitive in Port Royal.
 
Senshi said:
www.3dmark.com

3DMark Time Spy Extreme Graphics Score Hall of Fame

The 3DMark.com Overclocking Hall of Fame is the official home of 3DMark world record scores.
www.3dmark.com www.3dmark.com

The Kingpin and HOF trade places, both are S tier cards, basically the best money can buy. My personal opinion on the 3080Ti HOF? It's amazing albeit a bit power hungry (THAT 400W bios).

The card runs very quiet and cool for a "downscaled" 3090. Vs the actual 3090 it's honestly a no brainer at it's current price.
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This is something Asus should have done with the EKWB 3090 imo, instead they just got EKWB to design a waterblock and slapped it on their lower powered TUF cards instead.
So now I have a potato 3090 that runs 350w with 6% increase allowed...
 
Moemfie_ZA said:
This is something Asus should have done with the EKWB 3090 imo, instead they just got EKWB to design a waterblock and slapped it on their lower powered TUF cards instead.
So now I have a potato 3090 that runs 350w with 6% increase allowed...
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Even my SHITTY palit(1st time owning this brand) trashes your cough cough 70k card #saysomethingnowbitch
 
Moemfie_ZA said:
This is something Asus should have done with the EKWB 3090 imo, instead they just got EKWB to design a waterblock and slapped it on their lower powered TUF cards instead.
So now I have a potato 3090 that runs 350w with 6% increase allowed...
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It’s honestly so silly. I can’t believe your card is being so power starved.
 
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30-08-2021 _Time: 18:44In transit between locationsCAPE TOWN
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