Well, it was a great product while it lasted. Last night, a burning smell came from my NZXT Ultra tower and then my computer completely shut down. A burning smell came from the Zotac RTX 2080 twin fan. I find it ironic because temps on this card were running kind of high. Anytime I game I took the front, top, and side panel off of the tower. I even had a nice long two week discussion with Zotac support looking for cooling options for this card. I have an ultra tower, two 200mm fans, 4 140mm fans, 3 120mm fans, CPU uses 360mm Thermaltake, and my PSU blows down and out. Nine fans and the majority of the heat would be from the gpu, ram, and motherboard in a well ventilated tower.
Needless to say I’m a little ticked off, not only because of the GPU burning up, literally. But my MSI X99s Gaming 7 motherboard is now bricked!!!! Both BIOS’s only post code “00”. No matter what I do or try, it’s “00” now. Yes, new batt, multiple one sticks of ram testing, rest CMOS every way known to me via Google.
The computer would not even turn on with the Zotac card so I did put in an old radon gpu, The computer did turn on but would not post, only “00” on both BIOS settings.
Love the card while it lasted, now it’s time for the ZOTAC RMA. I should have just bought the Nvidia 2080 FE instead of trying to save a few bucks. Now it’s going to cost me a lot more. My same motherboard sells for nearly twice the price now! I might as well buy a new MB and CPU.....fml, thanks for listening to me via all those emails ZOTAC. If you don’t believe me, check my ticket and past emails with your customer support trying to find cooling solutions for this card weeks before it took a huge dump on my MB.
If I were you, please stay away from the Zotac RTX 2080 twin fan edition until this card is fixed. I picked mine up on Prime Day and walked out paying only 650 bucks. Well, you get what you pay for right?
I’m not sure about ZOTAC’s other RTX cards, I just know my experience with this particular one. I had purchased this card after my EVGA GTX 980 Hybrid but the dust. That card was a beast and I gamed the hell out of it. 5yrs old and I turned to EVGA asking if they could repair/fix the card. Or even tell me what’s wrong with it so maybe a 3rd party could try to fix it. EVGA was like, no, no, and more no. They were kind of rude after I had asked if there were any options I could take.....buy a new card was the reply! Lol I was lived and peacefully said that they lost a customer for life and I politely said bye. I have the emails, you just wouldn’t believe.
Well ZOTAC, your up to bat next. I’m going shopping for a RTX 2080 ti and new MB, a good excuse to upgrade I guess, Ryzen 7 maybe and if ZOTAC has good customer service, my son will enjoy his new card. If not then another customer lost for life.
3 stars for now, they will adjust up or down depending on ZOTAC support during RMA and future updates. Thanks for reading and I hope this helps anyone looking to buy the RTX 2080 twin fan. Maybe it was just my card but it seemed to run really hot. Just playing World of Tanks, which is my main game. The card would get up to 72-76 Cel with settings almost maxed on a really old as dirt game that I still enjoy playing. I have an XB1 monitor 4K 60hz. Hope that helps ZOTAC in some way.
Update: Pending
| Memory Speed | 14000 MHz |
|---|---|
| Graphics Coprocessor | GeForce RTX 2080 |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 8 GB |
