hey everyone welcome back to another mining chamber video in today's video we are going
to review the rtx 3080 so we finally were able to get our hands on one of them and now we are
finally going to review it so we're going to talk about profitability costs as well
as how much you should be paying for it and what overclocked settings you should be using
on this gpu we're also going to talk about the overheating issues and what you need to know
about that problem as well so let's go ahead and get into the video right after the intro
the rtx 3080 one of the best gpus for mining out there now it almost did replace the radeon sevens
for the new crown king for hash rate but the radiant sevens did get a boost recently which
increased their hash rate by 10 so from 90 to 100 mega hash on a fairly good amount of wattage which
would be around 200 to 220 watts so that leaves the rtx 3080 and the radio and 7s very close to
each other i will be doing a video on the radeon 7s on how to get that maximum efficiency very soon
but for now let's talk about the rtx 3080. so here we have the asus tough gaming model
of the rtx 3080 and it is a pretty nice model it looks really nice it has some rgb
on it and it's a heavy card it does come with 10 gigabytes of gddr6 and of course it's a great card
for gaming so the rtx 3080 generally takes two eight pins to power up some models have three
eight pins which is a lot just like the 3090s so that means you will need a couple of splitters
to be able to power a good rig of those cards and they do consume a good amount of power so usually
around 200 to 220 watts for 100 mega hash which we will cover later on in the overclocked section
and the profitability on these cards as if the date of this video being posted is very good
so now let's talk about how much you should be paying for them and where can you buy them
that is if you are able to find them and then we can talk about the profitability
so availability this part of the video is becoming really hard to do because these cards
are very expensive right now so as we can see the MSRP is at seven hundred dollars
but we all know that these prices are nearly impossible so the current price that you can
find these cards for is way above MSRP so as you can see currently in eBay it's
selling around two thousand and two hundred dollars for these RTX 3080s and as you guessed
it on amazon they're nearly impossible to find so on amazon you won't be able to find any RTX
3080s and if you do usually they're gone right away at this point you're honestly better off
buying a full computer with an RTX 3080 than just buying the GPU itself
i'm joking guys don't buy a full computer just to get the gpu out of it only buy it if you're
actually planning on using the computer so now to buy the rtx 3080s it's hard to find them anywhere
like i mentioned so you can try to look on ebay if you're eager to buy one at these prices then
yes you can go for it and you can also find some on triple a wave dot com so you'll find them here
for two thousand and three hundred dollars which is pretty expensive as well and then after taxes
it will be even more expensive so as my personal opinion i honestly would not buy it at this price
like i mentioned before guys it's a bit expensive but if you are eager to start mining or if you
want one of these cards then you can definitely go for it now i can't advise you financially it's up
to you to do what works best for you now if you plan on buying it from aaawave.com i do have a
promo code for you guys to use and it will be in the descriptions below the promo code will
give you 50 off so you guys can feel free to use it and get 50 off now one thing i really want to
highlight about buying these gpus is to be careful of scammers there are so many gpus that are being
sold for such a low price and they're not the actual gpu itself so for example here you have
the box being sold and sold at 900 so if you would buy something like that and you don't read the
title or description properly and you charge into buying it you will hit a wall and ebay will not
refund your money if it does state that it's a box so please be careful and read the description make
sure you're buying the actual gpu and not just a box or a picture there have been a lot of people
doing it lately to hunt down bots and they would just sell a picture and ebay can't do anything
about it because in the description it states that it's just a picture of the product so please be
careful and don't rush into buying them now if you're wondering where i got mine from i did get
them from nerdgears.com so i did pay a premium on it as well but it wasn't as bad as it used
to be so nerd gears had them out for around 1 350 and also they are going to be getting some stock
coming up in the next couple of weeks i'm not sure if there will be any rtx 3000 series cards but
i highly recommend bookmarking nerdgears.com and checking them frequently for any new stocks so now
let's go ahead and talk about the different models for the rtx 3080s and the thermal throttling issue
so some brands of the rtx 3080s are really bad with the thermals for the memory that is due to
having bad thermal pads now by some brands i do mean that most of the brands for rtx 3080s have
that issue i did talk with red panda mining and i watched a couple of other youtuber videos on rtx
3080s and it seems like so far that the evga ftw3 and the zotac trinity are decent options
while the msi trio and the gigabyte ones are not doing well at all with thermals
now even i have the asus tufts and they're not doing well either so they do thermal throttle
and this is even a bigger issue if you're planning on building a full rig of these gpus now there
are two ways you can get around this other than overclocking your cards properly and reducing your
power limits the first way is putting a bunch of fans around your gpus push as much air as you can
away from them to keep the heat away and that will help you reduce your thermal throttles so you can
either get box fans or you can get 120 millimeter fans and just put them all over the rig make sure
you do proper airflow strategy so that you push the hot air out and then from there you should
hopefully have a better chance of not getting thermal throttles now the main solution to this
as some of the crypto mining channels did as well is replace the actual thermal pads on your gpu so
you can grab the thermal grizzly thermal pads and then replace them for your gpu the proper size for
the thermal pads will be around three millimeters and then you can just replace them then if i
end up having to do that i will end up making a video on that topic so i will let you guys know
in the upcoming video please check out red panda mining and all these awesome cryptocurrency mining
channels that cover this topic so you can get some more information regarding to the rtx 3080s
so now that we got the hard stuff out of the way let's go ahead and talk about the fun stuff
how much money can you make with this card so just a reminder you guys will be able to find all this
information on miningchamber.com so profitability and everything like that if you just open up this
website which will be in the descriptions below it will take you to this article where you can find
different information here the profitability that shows in here will be up to date so whenever you
open this page up you will have the accurate daily estimated earnings at any time you open this page
so if it shows right now 10 dollars and 34 cents a day it might not be the same when you're watching
this video this video is being recorded february 25th 2021 so whenever you're watching it you might
be seeing different numbers so now let's talk about how much money this will make so with the
overclocks that we're going to go over later on we're going to be bringing around 98 mega hash
and we're going to be using 220 watts now these overclocks are just the base you guys can fine
tune them but we will talk more about that later on so with 98 mega hash we are bringing in every
day 10 and 34 cents which is really good and then the daily estimated coins is .0066 ethereum so
a month this card will make you give or take around 300 a month so which means for your break
even based on when you decide to buy this card and the profitability staying around the same range
you will be making your money back in around seven months and that is if you do buy it at two
thousand two hundred dollars now mind you that the profitability did drop a bit when ethereum price
was two thousand dollars you would make more money but now ethereum is at a thousand and five hundred
and sixty eight so the profitability can double or decrease so it all depends on what happened
with the crypto space so now if we go ahead and go to what to mine.com and then we select 130 80 here
we can then just fine tune the mega hash here so let's say 98 mega hash and then 230 watts
and after that we can go ahead and hit calculate so with the price of 10 cents per kilowatt
hour you will be making 9.87 cents without electricity and then 9.32 cents after electricity
so as you guys can see the profits did vary a little bit from miningchamber.com but it's all
because all these variables do differ and every pool will have different variables and different
block rewards that calculate into profits so other than mining ethereum the rtx 3080 can also mine
cone flux pretty well so this would be one of the best options to mine after ethereum goes away now
ethereum is not going to proof of stake anytime soon but eventually it will change to proof of
stake and then from there you guys will have to pick another coin so for future proof rtx 3080
is not a bad choice at all you still have multiple different coins that you can mine after ethereum
and now that wraps it up for the profitability so now that we covered the profitability we can go
ahead and move on to testing the gpu so as usual we're going to first run this gpu on windows and
we're going to run the stock settings and then we're going to fine-tune the overclock settings
but just remember to download the latest drivers for your gpu first
and then from there you can use whatever mining software you want in this example we're going
to test it with phoenix miner using the stock overclocks so let's go ahead and run the phoenix
miner as an administrator and then from there we can see how much power we're going to be using
so with the stock settings we are getting around 87 mega hash and for the wattage we're drawing
around 415 watts that is a lot of power so the gpu will definitely overheat like this
and that is why you should always avoid mining with stock settings it's not good for your gpu
you'll burn it down the least you could do is try to lower your power limit percentage and then you
should be safer so now let's go ahead and turn off the miner and then we can fine tune the gpu
for our overclock settings and then from there we can run it again now for the overclock settings
you guys will be able to find them as usual on miningchamber.com so just scroll down in the
gpu overview section and if you find your card here then you will find some settings in there
so for the 3080 we currently have the settings set in place now after the testing in this video
i might be changing some values so after placing these settings let's go ahead and
run the miner again and then we can see how more efficient i can set these settings to
so now after fine tuning the gpu for a while i got it to 97 mega hash and the power draw off the
wall is at 290 watts which means we have 30 to 40 watts for the system and then the rest for the gpu
which leaves us at around 250 watts for just the gpu now i'm pretty sure you can tune this
more and try to get a 100 mega hash out of it but as of now i do think it's a good place to
leave it at so i will update the settings on the website to reflect the current settings that
i have on so that you can use it as a base and then you can fine tune it further if you'd like
now one thing i want to highlight on the fan speed is that this gpu is not loud at all it's fairly
quiet but if you do put it on hundred percent it can be a bit loud but since it's a 3080 and
it does use a lot of power and like i mentioned previously with the issue with the thermal pads
and then it might be thermal throttling which means it's getting too hot and it has to reduce
its performance due to its temperature what i would suggest doing is pushing your fan speed
as high as you can if you're having that issue if you weren't able to change the thermal pads
so now we finished overclocking in windows let's go ahead and run it in hive os and then we can
overclock it there as well so for hive os you first want to make sure that you are on the 455
drivers and if you're not on them then you want to just go to your ssh and then when you're open with
remote access you want to run the nvidia driver updater command with five five we did do this
for the rtx 3070 video as well so you generally want to do this for any rtx 3000 series card
now once you have that out of the way and your card is showing up properly then you want to go
ahead and overclock it so for the settings we're just going to copy over what we had in windows
which would be negative 200 for core clock and for the memory clock since we had 950 in windows
then here it will be the double so we'll be doing a thousand nine hundred fan speed i am going to be
setting that at seventy percent and then the power limits i'm going to be doing that at 230 watts so
now when the overclock settings are kicked in i'll go ahead and activate my flight sheet for mining
so now after the flight sheet kicked in we can see here we're getting around 96.51 mega hash
although i am going to try to reduce the power limit by 10 so it's at 220 and then
we can see here if it crashes or not and if it doesn't then this would be a good number for it
awesome so now at these settings so far it's running good so you can go ahead and use these
settings for your overclocks in hive os you can fine tune them like i mentioned or if it does
crash on you and it's not stable here and you're getting rejected shares then do try to reduce
your memory clock by a bit and increase some power limit on it as well so now that wraps it
up for testing on the overclocks for windows and hive os now we can go ahead and talk about the
conclusion for this gpu so the conclusion this card is a great card for mining the rtx 3080
does 100 mega hash at 230 watts that's already a selling point for me now the only downside is that
this card is extremely expensive to buy now and they're nearly impossible to find them for msrp
now we can also say that there's a downside for the thermal throttling issue and i agree
that can be very frustrating if you're buying these cars and then they end up thermal throttling
all day and you don't get the full power for them so if the two solutions don't work for you you
will be stuck in a bad spot now i personally let the addiction take the better part of me and i did
buy a couple more of these gpus but you guys will learn more about that in the next video so that
wraps up the video guys i hope you enjoyed it and if you have any questions please leave them in the
comments below and let me know what troubles have you came across with the 3080s so far
and if you did find the secret way to fix this thermal throttling issue please let me
know in the comments below and also give me your opinions on what you think of this card so far
i've recently did a poll on what you guys think is the best rtx 3000 series cards and honestly i'm
very surprised from the results it does vary a lot between everyone and of course as a lot of us were
not able to get our hands on any rtx 3000 series cards i do feel really bad making videos on these
cards but i hope these videos are helping you guys decide better on which card you should be getting
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