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 next now thank you guys again and if you enjoyed
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