over a week ago colorful sent us an
email and said Bryan
we've got our flagship iGame neptune
series rtx 3080 and we're sending it over to you
we want you to take a look at this thing
and review it and when i looked at what
was going on
with rtx 3080s at the moment i just
scratched my head i'm thinking to myself
alright guys i can't do a typical review
knowing what's going on in the market
right now people can't even get one of
these gravis cards for paying 50
more right now when i check the ebay
completed listings
they're going for 2 000 us dollars some
of these rtx 3080s
and it's just a messed up market for a
card that was meant to come around 700
and maybe the custom models were meant
to be anywhere up to nine hundred
dollars
this market is completely upside down
right now
and today we're going to go over this
card sure we're going to go over how
amazing it actually is in terms of what
colorful have done
with the igame neptune and why i really
like this card but
we first of all got to get out of the
way what is going on in the market and
why so many people want to get the new
rtx 3000 series cards and we're mainly
looking at the crypto miners why do
these crypto miners
want to buy these cards so much well
it's got to do straight away we'll get
off the first part
it's got to do with a thing in the
market known as arbitrage and arbitrage
is a little bit different in the sense
that people will go on different
exchanges and look for gaps and plug
those gaps
but the concept behind arbitrage is
exactly what's going on here
with these rtx 3000 series cards and
that you traditionally had gamers buying
these to play games on
we've now got people buying up these
graphics cards in a pure sense to make
money
and plug what's known as a profit gap in
the market
where that profit gap comes from and
what is happening in the market right
now is people are using these graphics
cards
to hash out crypto currencies and that
is very
very profitable and i can't look past
the person who wants to invest
and at current rates get literally like
200 percent return
roi that's return on investment per year
that kind of investment doesn't come
along
especially when it's something as
risk-free as this
so it's a serious issue that we're going
to talk about and actually in the past
i've covered what cryptocurrencies and
the people who make these
cryptocurrencies need to do
and they need to make those currencies
support asic miners they're much more
efficient they're better for the earth
they're literally one of the better
solutions out there but they
deliberately block them and i feel like
they deliberately block them
because they want people to mine on
graphics cards where the fallback
is of course the gamer can buy it if
this whole thing goes belly up
but let's put this thing on the test
bench and show you
just how profitable and also how easy it
is to mine
currencies so now we've got a graphics
card we just put that in a computer
and all we have to do now to start
making money is
download a program called nicehash set
up our account
attach that to the address because
nice hash will even give you a bitcoin
address on your own
to start earning the profits into so
it's so easy to get into this stuff like
you don't have to be
a sophisticated cryptocurrency god
in order to start profiting off this and
in fact the profit and how to make money
off this at the moment
is that easy that i'm just i'm blown
away
by this is how easy it is to make money
in 2021
and part of me like because i've studied
finance this kind of
opportunity just should not exist period
this is why
people are mining and using their gaming
graphics cards
to mine cryptocurrencies and so for me
it's sort of like
i'm absolutely like shocked that this is
this profitable in 2021. so
what we've got right now is we
downloaded nicehash and we've set up
our uh rtx 3080 to start mining this
cryptocurrency now
out of the box it'll get a thing called
80 mega hash
and so because i studied this all in
2017 2018
i actually know this pretty well so what
you can do is get our afterburner msi
afterburner download that
and then you can actually tune the
graphics card even more
to make it mine better and save more
power so what we've done here is we've
quickly tuned the card and what you do
is you play around with the speeds first
and you see what works
so we've dropped that 430 megahertz and
then we've upped the memory clock to 976
that was then giving us 92 mega hash we
then dropped the power limit down to
around 60
that dropped the mega hash and we got a
rejected share so we then push that up
to 70
so it likes to sit at this level this is
the one of the best
optimum levels for this rtx
3080. so here it is now in all its glory
earning us
nine dollars and 40 cents
u.s a day profit that's profit so if we
were able to get this graphics card for
900
that's a hundred days like before this
thing pays itself off a hundred days
and we've got ourselves a three thirty
eighty like one of the best models out
there too
and then after that and that's profit
too that's after we pay our electricity
costs
so you see how profitable it is right
now to have one of these graphics cards
mining cryptocurrency
keep in mind that 91 mega hashes for
ethereum
is extremely high as well that's really
good now that we've tuned this card
that's very solid i think that's over
that's about four and a half
rx 588 gigs or something like that
because i believe they get 20 mega
hashes so
these cards are very powerful on their
own to mine these cryptocurrencies
the power efficiencies of them is the
best and the profitability speaks for
itself right there you can't blame
people who want to make money for doing
what they're doing right now it's
the buck falls on the people who make
these cryptocurrencies
and how they make them what's called
asic resistant if they didn't make them
asic resistant for instance if ethereum
just openly supported asic from the
get-go this problem would have never
existed people would be using what's
called an asset miner
and that's much more efficient and has
much higher hash rates and essentially
what they'll do is they'll make you a
lot more money
than these ever could and essentially
price these out of the market these
gaming graphics cards
because what it'll do is make their hash
rates not profitable
versus the power they're using because
everyone else on the network
now has a much higher hash rate and we
actually saw this happen with
the likes of zen cash which is the
currency that i got into
originally back in the day zen cash and
zcash supported asic miners
and at the start a lot of people were
against that i was actually for it
again we're living on this planet where
isn't efficiency
one of the key like goals of us being
human beings
to make everything more efficient right
to save mother earth
us mining on graphics cards right now is
one of the most inefficient things we
can do when we know that the technology
exists
and then there's the argument of oh well
all the corporations are buying out all
the acid miners
pricing out the little guy at newsflash
the
corporations are buying out all these
graphics cards before they even hit
the retail shell they're securing them
through greedy deals with the
distribution chains
so this is exactly what it is guys
that's how easy it is to mine
like it's not exactly rocket science and
so this being
having such an easy entry point and the
profits being so high
it's like no brainer that crypto
is where all this demand is coming from
for these rtx 3000 cards anyway guys
hopefully that explains
why the demand for these rtx 3000 series
cards is through the roof
and i think with the amd cards at least
in australia i believe they shipped a
total of like five units to australia
that's the rumor i've heard so the amd
6800 xt's
they're not as good they're nowhere near
as good for mining as the nvidia cards
but the problem with them is is that
there's simply not enough supply from
what i'm hearing with those cards
but in the meantime as it stands we're
seeing this demand right here it's a pen
top demand
it's ridiculously high right now and
we're seeing these cards go for double
sometimes triple
and that's because a lot of these guys
who are doing this with mining
they're saying to themselves well even
if i pay double the msrp it's 1800 us
for this card or 2000 us
i'll still get my money back in 200 days
still makes it a
ridiculously profitable endeavor so
that's what you're seeing going on at
the market and that's why you're seeing
people still getting scalped for these
gpus
but let's finally now get back to this
review for the colorful eye game neptune
and hopefully in the future i can just
delete this whole first part of the
video
and we'll pretend it never existed
that's what i got my fingers crossed for
because
again it's the efficiency part that
bothers me these cryptocurrency
mining on gpus is not efficient it's not
the best thing going forward as
as a human race right asic miners are
much more efficient they're the most
efficient technology
for doing this therefore they should be
supported period
and now we're coming back to the
centerpiece of today's video and that's
if in the future
this card comes back down to a normal
price or the price that this
card was promised at and that's an msrp
of 899 usd
so it's about 200 more than a standard
rtx or baseline model that's meant to
come in at 6.99
but for that extra 200 you are getting
so much more
you're getting a card that pretty much
beats the 30 90
if you overclock it but even if you turn
on the turbo mode which is the auto oc
at the back of the card
and then you can control the actual main
portion of the gpus
rgb from that software so straight away
we're going to put up here f1 2020
where this card once you overclock it
even on the auto settings or once you
custom overclock
the numbers are just through the roof
this thing is performing at insane
levels
black ops cold war you guys have been
requesting i test this game
new latest and greatest from the call of
duty series but of course it does cost
money so i do prefer
playing warzone personally where it's
free to play and
honestly when it comes to call of duty
games they're all very similar in my
opinion but
moving forward to now fortnight which is
going to be a big one for people because
the fortnite numbers on this were
extremely impressive but i wanted to use
this game to show that you can also turn
on dlss especially if you're playing at
4k
and still have epic settings giving you
ridiculously high frame rates
if you turn on the ray tracing then of
course if you're setting it to high rate
racing at 4k
the settings are still going to tank so
if you're using ray tracing you'll
probably want to use
uh lower settings and definitely turn on
dlss where you can then get some better
numbers
but what it stands uh 4k raw gaming with
ray tracing turned on
just isn't quite ready for the
mainstream just yet
but for instance in the past i was
turning settings on medium for cyberpunk
and then tweaking the ray tracing
because i had to have that on in that
game
so ray tracing is one of those settings
that depending on the game you can
play with it on but you will have to
sacrifice some of the quality settings
and you'll definitely want to turn on
dlss
so i guess that's one of the biggest
points of the rtx 3000 cards
is that the dlss is working extremely
well
on a lot of the titles that now support
it though moving back to shadow the tomb
raider this is where i
do test the numbers out with not only
the overclocked figures but i also run
the power consumption numbers here
so going with this water cooled card it
does require three eight pin connectors
and it does juice a lot of power from
the wall
it's incredible it's gonna simply be no
slouch when it comes to performance
but also when we start working a 3080
that hard it's going to use
a bit more power as well so do keep in
mind that if you do run it out of the
box
you will be getting a little bit higher
power consumption than usual because
you've got
more hardware than the typical 3080 to
run but
if you want to under vault it you can do
that as well the performance will still
be really good but you'll save yourself
a hundred watts
roughly if you do a custom undervolt but
then if you decide to overclock it
both with the turbo button on the back
that's the auto oc
or you do the custom overclock you will
get some incredible performance
so this is ultimately one of those cards
that gives you a lot of
play room in terms of what you want to
do with the card and in the sense that
it can beat out a 30 90
out of the box is very impressive in its
own too
they're going back to those temperatures
with the two 120mm
fans they're attached to a 240mm rad you
have two custom braided cables going all
the way
to the gpu and they're over 40
centimeters in length
i'll actually quickly pull up all the
dimensions of the radiator the cart and
the tubes
and then the dual slot cooler with the
block attached the temperatures here are
simply phenomenal
if you want to put the fan speeds down
then you'll virtually get
no noise at all this thing was pretty
much whisper quiet
and still staying under 60 degrees out
of the box
and then if we decide to max the fan
speeds out the temperatures are to the
point where we're getting in the low 50s
and this is in a 28c
ambient environment so it's nothing
short of warm that's for sure
and this card was performing so well in
terms of temps
and noise they're going through the
inputs and outputs this is my only
critique for colorful
with this card and that is the three
display outs and also the single
hdmi 2.1 out where i'd like to see more
outputs especially at least one more
hdmi 2.1
i think that would have really made this
card perfect but also talking about the
box this thing comes
packed in a massive box where they've
included some extra goodies in the way
of some
gloves so your hands don't sweat and put
fingerprints on the card if you're
handling it
and also a mini screwdriver with two
different size phillips heads
magnetic attachments and i gotta say
like for all the stuff that i get
included in
boxes with graphics cards colorful have
made it so you've actually get some
useful tools
and things that you can actually use
with your gravis card instead of
a lot of manufacturers just putting in
these like crappy stickers
which i never use personally this
screwdriver in particular have been
using this around the studio
very handy i like that they've included
that as a tool and i think that's if you
also want to
take the whole back plate off and pull
it apart then they've got the tool to do
that
included so it's now conclusion time
with the colorful eye game
neptune series and i gotta say i'm blown
away by the performance but
you'll probably see in general my tone
in this whole review
hasn't been super exciting because i
know people aren't going to be able to
buy this card
for the promised msrp not unless they
get lucky
and they're with a retailer and then the
retailers with a distribution chain
that are keeping prices in check which i
know for a fact a lot of the
distribution chains right now are
profiting off this whole situation with
crypto currencies
but i just think right now the whole
crypto demand
is one part of the demand that we did
not need
especially if you're a gamer where the
demand for these rtx 3000 cards was
already through the roof
they do offer a lot of awesome features
especially with dlss 2.0
that feature alone in some titles is
giving you such a good picture still
by giving you such better fps then
you've got the whole driver suite which
if you
using hdmi 2.1 nvidia cars do give an
amazing experience
especially since they've tuned the
drivers and if you've got an lgo led and
stuff like that
the rtx 3000 series is very desirable
for gamers but then you've got the
crypto demand
being that the rtx 3000 series is also
and we're looking at the 3060 ti here
mainly
the and 3080 these cards are extremely
desirable by cryptocurrency miners
they've got the best resale value of
crypto goes bust
they've got the best hash rates for the
power usage
so it's a no-brainer for these
cryptocurrency miners which cards are on
their radar
and so this is the biggest problem right
now is actually getting one of these
cards
and so here i can review this card and
say wow it's amazing and when it comes
back in stock this review is going to be
useful but
that doesn't help people now who are
bored out of their brains and they see
these cards and all this fancy stuff
that goes on in social media where
you've got all these videos of what the
rtx 3000 series card can do
yet you can't buy one so i just i think
like for what it's worth
i i that's why i've been saying i'm
praying for a crash but in the meantime
i have got some videos and i'll put some
links down below for you guys of what
you can do in the meantime
but it's basically just one of those
things where you just wait it out and
then hopefully when this situation blows
all over i'm looking
forward to seeing what colorful do in
the market
and if they can really penetrate a lot
of different areas if they can
sort of compete with the zeus and stuff
like that and a lot of western markets
because i know
they're one of i think they are the
biggest brand at the moment in terms of
volume
and how many cards they move and also
you get a little lcd screen on the card
as well
if that's something that's going to make
you happy anyway guys hope you enjoyed
today's
review hybrid between what's going on on
the market and
the neptune review if you did the
machine or hit that like button for us
also let us know in the comments section
below what you think of this whole
cryptocurrency situation right now
love reading your thoughts and opinions
as always just like this question of the
day here
and this comes from mickey smith and
they asked brian can you do a video or
few
on budget video editing pcs please and
if you guys want that let us know in the
comments too do you want to see a video
on budget video editing pcs i can
definitely put something together
i'm thinking it's going to be definitely
along the lines of a 12
core aliexpress xeon budget ddr3 ecc
memory and a one and z motherboard
that's
what that would be looking like because
that's easily the best value
for a video editing pc especially for 4k
video editing
so i can make that happen if you guys
want to see it just let us know in the
comments
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