I randomly went to B&H last week and the "add to cart" button was clickable on a Gigabyte Aorus Master. Bought it. Arrived yesterday (delayed a bunch of days because NYC got hammered with snow last weekend -- they were great with lots of email updates). Card runs fast and cool. Insanely huge compared to the 1070 it replaced. Pleased with it. Getting 120 fps in Division 2 with everything ultra at 2k. 100fps in RDR2 with everything on high. Wanted a 3080 but this will do.
The Aorus Master has this built in LCD panel to show gifs or temps. Kinda neat but Gigabyte software is such garbage! Using it in a closed panel case, anyway, so it's useless accoutrement I'll never use.
Temps hit about 70 under full load in silent mode. OC mode is like 2 degrees cooler but it appears boost clocks remain the same. Hitting 1960mhz out of the box with no overclocking on my end. Card is way overbuilt and I like that.
First gigabyte card. Nice. Only complaint is the fan curve is weird. Dual BIOS card -- in OC mode, the fans click on and off nonstop when the card is at 50C, which is pretty much all the time. No hardware problems but the noise of the motors going on/off/on/off is pretty awful. Switching to silent mode BIOS and the fans don't turn on until about 55 C which is just right. Only 1-2 degrees C hotter during gaming so I'm good with the silent BIOS.
Ahh dang, realize I need to update my sig. Sure is outdated now.
Anyone else confirm the silent vs. oc bios is only fan curves and not boost clocks? I've run a few tests watching the clocks/fans/temps in HWMonitor and I don't see any difference so far. Funnily enough, I've scored higher in benchmarks in silent mode with RDR2 and F1 2020.