AvoK95 wrote
HzSamer wroteIf you have anyone in Syria you can get Asus 3080 TUF OC between 1000-1025 from dpsy.com. They are the official agent for ASUS there.

This price was from one month and I didn't check it later.
why not just get the normal version and OC kt yourself? it's the same card that just has a different bios.

the TUF OC version isn't that much higher clocked than the non OC version anyway.

You will be getting it for cheaper locally.
Not all cards are created equal. I am pretty sure AIBs tend to bin their silicons so you have more headroom for OC and some cards use cheap components like Zotac ( google SP-caps vs Mlcc Ampere) which limits your capabilities to OC.
bobo619 wrote
AvoK95 wrote
HzSamer wroteIf you have anyone in Syria you can get Asus 3080 TUF OC between 1000-1025 from dpsy.com. They are the official agent for ASUS there.

This price was from one month and I didn't check it later.
why not just get the normal version and OC kt yourself? it's the same card that just has a different bios.

the TUF OC version isn't that much higher clocked than the non OC version anyway.

You will be getting it for cheaper locally.
Not all cards are created equal. I am pretty sure AIBs tend to bin their silicons so you have more headroom for OC and some cards use cheap components like Zotac ( google SP-caps vs Mlcc Ampere) which limits your capabilities to OC.
You are absolutely right,

What I mean is if you buy an ASUS TUF OC vs ASUS TUF non-OC (Which shares the exact same part number except for the OC version having a 1 at the end) tend to share the exact same hardware, and the only difference is the BIOS.

However some cards like the STRIX series do indeed have beefier hardware and VRM systems and they tend to have binned chips as well, even on the non-OC versions.


To put it into simple words and conclude what I am saying,

Asus TUF non OC and OC share the same hardware

Asus STRIX non OC and OC also share the same hardware, however that hardware is beefier by default and probably has binned chips to be able to sell them at such high OC stock.

But both series of cards just have a different BIOS to turn them from non-OC to OC cards, as in a non-OC STRIX card still has the beefy VRM and the binned chip.
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