I received my Alienware RTX3080 system today. Out of the box it ran at 1950MHZ. I ran it for 4-5hrs in RDR2-ultra-1440p as well as MW on highest settings. I did use ACC to overclock to 2070MHZ to get above the 2010MHZ I had read people were crashing at. I could not check the capacitor issues as you have to disassemble the card to view them and I didn't plan to do that. I was going to run 4k in a few days once I move the computer. I do not typically overclock so if anything is a little of sorry.

Out of Box - 1950MHZ 

Adjusted in ACC - 2070MHZ 

Probably VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (BUG CHECK 116) 

hardware issues can cause a TDR event:

Unstable overclock (CPU, GPU, etc). Revert all and any over clocks to stock settings.

Insufficient power supply

It's started crashing it Rocket League... Had to drop the MHZ to get it to run a full match now.

Game freezes, but no BSOD.

I am running the 1000w power supply so I would hope power is not the issue.

Yeah, I'll be opening it up later today once my ram arrives. I can take some general pics of stuff. Anything specific you want to see?

I did have a driver update that needed installed from 10/7 (456.71). Not sure how I missed it since I ran a check yesterday, but I got it installed this morning.

Just a note, I have not been able to get my Watchdogs or Gforce now codes from Dell. It was clearly advertised when I ordered my system, but CS is acting like they do not know what I am talking about... Evening after linking to their site.

https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln322806/nvidia-game-bundle-terms-and-conditions-watch-dogs-legion-and-geforce-now-membership-offer-with-a-qualifying-system?lang=en 

So these are actually some really bad pics after looking at them. The room I set up in has really bad lighting so I had to use the flash and it didn't work out that well. One pic I did want to add since it was interesting to see the M.2 drive tucked under the 3080. Wouldn't be a hard swap, but would have to remove the card I think. The screw for the 2280 is just above the card so you might be able to swap it without, but I doubt quicker then removing the card.

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@TerrBear Just a direct update for you. I having been trying to understand from Dell how the card was made. The only thing they could provide was generic details, but one person in tech support gave me the below number which leads me to believe MSI built the custom card.

"CRD,GRPHC,NV,3080,10G,R11. MSI"

I have hit 2040MHz peak with no overclocking on my end, but I keep my room very cold (~60F) with my computer sitting in directly front of the portable A/C (low 50F's at that spot). It typically settles at 1950MHz or 2010MHz depending on how quickly the temps rise and what game I am playing.

I sit idle at ~25C and ~55C under load. (rocket league, Horizon zero dawn, MW). 

Yeah, Dell/Alienware has been using re-branded MSI Nvidia cards for many years, but since that is subject to change at any time, good to get verification of this on the new series as well.

Also, good to hear that some/all come with the metal back-plate. Not only does it make a better frame for the (delicate) PCB, it also usually dissipates heat (ends-up radiating heat straight-up, away from card).

@Nate201 - Thanks for the confirmation.

So I've had my new R11 with 3080 card for a few days. Max specs, etc. I have a hdmi 2.1 monitor with a 48Gbps cable and can run 4k 120hz hdr with gsync. I was getting symptoms of the known 3000 series card issues at first but after updating my monitor's firmware all was mostly good, but I often get signal loss before boot ups and today for the first time I'm getting a lot of signal drops during gameplay that constantly resets the HDR randomly. It was working mostly stable for a day or so, but now it's being fickle again.

Nevermind, I found the cause of the signal dropouts. My monitor is an LG OLED that supports 2.1 hdmi and I realized the cable end was plugged into those L-bracket hdmi adapters to better hide the cables behind the oled panel. I realized those adapters clearly aren't hdmi 2.1. Which makes sense why the monitor is now reporting 120hz instead of 119.28hz before. It wasn't getting a full signal.

Anyway, I solved that problem.

So far so good. I haven't seen any issues running a few games at 4k 120hz 10bit with gsync and hdr enabled with this card. None of the earlier reported card issues like game crashes upon launching them are occurring.

As for the capacitor concerns, it looks like third parties like MSI, EVGA, etc are slightly reducing the voltage and/or clock to mitigate the launch concerns. I can only assume the stock values used on these cards going out with these R11 are stable as I haven't noticed game crashes and major problems. Although, I did notice when I used command center to set the values from standard to Overclock 1 setting which OC'd the CPU and GPU I did notice one of my games crashed. I switched it back to standard values and things were fine again.

Did you turn hibernate off and auto crash after 20 minutes?

What game has the issue?

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@TerrBear I have not had any issues with the stock setup either. I do use one of the default overclocks in ACC for the CPU, but have not experienced crashing with either.

The only crash I had was on an overclock and I would trust that much as I do not typically overclock. May be a user error.

I have not tried to overclock with the latest drivers on the GPU and I have not had a reason to (besides seeing if it crashes). I have not had any hiccups in any of the games I currently play and just set everything to max.

I currently have just over 30 hours of game time played. Will start watchdogs this friday and see how that goes.