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5.0 out of 5 starsThough I begrudgingly spent the money, I'm (mostly) happy I did
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 14, 2021
First thing's first: the price. I paid about $1400 for this, and that was probably as cheap as I could reliably find it on the internet. There are some sketchy sites promising more normal prices, but there's no way those sites are clean. I tried NewEgg first, and while I found one for a few hundred dollars cheaper, my card kept getting declined (no idea why, I used it for this purchase and it went through the first time). In short, don't expect to find this (or any RTX cards) below $1k anytime soon. And if you do, be SUPER wary of any site that has them.
The card itself is amazing. I went from a GTX 1080 TI, which was already a beefy card. This, however, is slightly bigger still. It's probably 2 inches longer, and maybe 1/2 to 3/4 inches wider. I thought there would be some fitting issues in my NZXT 510 case, but it sat in pretty comfortably. The only issue was somehow, even after screwing everything in, there was no signal going to my monitor. It took removing and reseating it for it to finally be recognized. Not sure if that's common, but it happened, so take that for what it's worth.
The rest of my system is an i7 and 32gb of RAM. The first thing I did was run Red Dead Redemption on ultra and do a benchmark. Lowest FPS was 30, highest was mid-80's (IIRC). I also do a lot of flying in DCS, and cranked that up to max as well. The end results were a noticeable increase in quality, as well as a decrease in sound (at least it seems like this card is more quiet than my 1080 TI).
All in all, aside from some standard price gouging (that I absolutely expect across all platforms selling these), this card is amazing and delivers on all fronts. I was a little leery on buying from a third party on Amazon, especially giving the price and what I was buying, but XOTIC PC delivered on all fronts. It arrived almost a week early, though the box was a bit wore (I suspect it was just a previously used box they are repurposing), the card box itself looked as though it came right off the shelf.
I would absolutely recommend this purchase from this company to anyone in the market.
