Keeping FE only selling off Trio as said earlier.
Already sold. Got it for 77.299 + shipping, a friend paid 77.8 + shipping.
FE looks great and temps are sub 80C in extreme benchmarks. So no point in looking for a cooler card. Noise like, I am always plugged in so don't care. Keeping 62k card and selling off 78k card. Geekboz is the seller.
Long story ahead.
I ordered Trio on Oct 18 as preorder as seller told he is going to get card on 25th. But luckily I got FE at 62k meanwhile. So called him but didn't tell him I already got FE and tried canceling then he said
"sir dont cancel we want our reach to grow. You can't get a card at this price if you cancel it now. I can sell it with ease but you won't be getting the same card at this price as mdcomputers and amazon are selling at high markups."
I enquired does he want to hike up price, if so, I wanted to cancel. For which he replied
"We won't charge a penny more than what you paid."
I loved the gesture and didn't cancel the card. Tho he was supposed to get the card on 25th from the distributor but he got it on the 28th cuz of some logistics issue. One down side I felt was he used dtdc to ship which is slow afaik. Now this card goes to my friend. And I shall keep FE.
The GX Trio is way way quieter - in fact the quietest of the bunch. That's more important than a few degrees here and there. 3080 FE is actually a pretty bad design compared to the 3070 FE and the 3090 FE. The latter (3090) is the best of the lot and bests pretty much every single partner card.
Hmm depends on what you are looking at i disliked all AIBs for their aesthetics. FE looks awesome. And again beauty lies in eyes of beholder.