Bought it used, 2024, for a secondary workstation rig. Came with new thermal pads and runs like-new. A happy accident that it paired well w/ my Mod5 case as it fits with the industrial design aesthetic. Nvidia really outdid themselves.

*Funny aside: Gaming-wise, I guess it's relegated to being a “PPU” from GPU, haha. Mid-2000s enthusiasts will get the reference 😉

If you can believe it, I managed to buy this card at launch for below MSRP. I had a 15% off birthday reward from Best Buy. Truthfully I wanted the 3080 but this was the only thing in stock during the Great GPU Famine caused by COVID. This has been able to handle any and every game I threw at it without a problem and with some undervolting, power consumption is managable. My only real issue with the card is the rear mounted memory modules that are nearly impossible to actively cool by conventional means.

Got it used for $550 and it works great. Wish the 'GEFORCE RTX' light on the front could actually change colors like the thin V led lines do instead of being locked to white only in ICUE

Originally bought a 3060 and forgot I had this one, oops. I gave the 3060 to a friend who needed an upgrade.

Love it, it's beautiful and those oh so sweet 24gbs of vram

Power draw is a problem. I have two 3090s and they both think it's fun to mangle SFX PSUs

If you can believe it, I managed to buy this card at launch for below MSRP. I had a 15% off birthday reward from Best Buy. Truthfully I wanted the 3080 but this was the only thing in stock during the Great GPU Famine caused by COVID. This has been able to handle any and every game I threw at it without a problem and with some undervolting, power consumption is managable. My only real issue with the card is the rear mounted memory modules that are nearly impossible to actively cool by conventional means.

Grabbed a 3090 because I do a mix of creative, gaming, ML and other AI work... Great card for that. Not bothered with wanting to upgrade to the 40 series.

Its a massive card guys. Honestly: this card isn't that worth it, its nearly the same performance as a 3080, but slightly better, but its costs twice as much. You are really just paying for an exorbitant amount of VRAM, which mind you, on stock cooling overheats pretty quickly. Now, in terms of cool factor, this thing is dope. Its literally like 5 pounds of cooler on a little PCB. Don't love the 12 pin, but it hasn't caught on fire, so I can't really complain. BFGPU is cool, but doesn't make a lot of fiscal sense.

Great card. Does as its supposed to. Only downside is that it gets extremely hot for apparently no reason. Changing the thermal tape pads can help by about 5 degrees. At least it did for me.