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.

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.

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.

What can I say? It's a beast. It's more than I need really, but 3080s weren't available at MSRP and this was. Over a year after purchase and it's still worth way more than I paid for it so I guess I can't be that upset about it. I do love the styling and build quality of the FE cards. This thing is a heavy chonky boy and there is zero GPU sag. No brace required. Had to get braided cables because the adapter is ugly as sin. Haven't tried redoing the thermal pads for the memory, but I'm not overclocking the card and gaming is the heaviest workload this thing sees, so I'm not that worried about it.

Aside from when I first put this in, it is fantastic. When I first put it in however, it kind of messed with everything after swapping from a RogStrix 2080 super, so at first I didn't really notice a bump in performance aside from in VR.

Its massive. It looks great. Its fast. Plays everything maxed out, and still gets over 100fps at 3840x1600. However, even with this card hitting over 144fps (the max refresh of my screen) is still hard to hit maxed out. DLSS can get you there though. (Or turn down details... ) Mine coil-whines.... and its annoying. A fly in the ointment if you will. Seems most do, so not sure how much value there would be in RMA'ing for coil-whine.

Pretty cool but runs pretty hot...I have to swap the memory thermal pads as the factory ones don't make proper contact. I had a 3070 which isn't that great for Blender..wanted a 3080 but never came in stock and had the chance to get a 3090 so I can't complain much...for now. Ah, and the coil whine that everyone talks about is there, present in every game you play or GPU demanding stuff you do.

The 3090 FE is a mammoth and I think heavier than my Zotac 1070 amp extreme which is a 3 slot card too. This thing is an atrocious value proposition for the vast majority of people who don't have specific use cases that can take advantage of the 24 gb memory, including myself (no 4k monitor and my data batch size never really exceeds a few gigabytes). I am sure the 3080 FE would have been more than adequate for me. Finding a 3080 FE or AIB variants has proven to be futile and I hate to admit this, but I "settled" for the more expensive GPU because I could add it to my cart lol.

The 3090 FE suffers from very hot VRAM temps while dealing with memory intensive work. It easily spiked to 100c when I tried playing Quake 2 RTX with Ray Tracing. Apparently Nvidia has told another 3090 FE owner from reddit that VRAM temps from 100-110c is within acceptable parameters. Even so, I think I will replace the pads soon.

I'm thrilled to finally own my very first high end GPU, but NVIDIA needs to step up with quality control. The 3090 I received came with some small scratches on the edge, which I find unacceptable for a product at this price point. This probably would have been exchanged or returned if there wasn't a GPU drought happening.

Benchmark score in Heaven is 3923, which seems kinda low at first glance. Will look further into this.