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3080ti in stock 1h after alert

Rastous said:
I kinda just ordered 1 since fed up of waiting for my 3080 from here (nearly a year!) but already kinda regretting. Forgot how it was basically no better than a normal 3080 for £400 more :/
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Well you will get to keep and use it longer as it has 12GB VRAM and knowing Nvidia they will soon make sure 10GB will not be enough in a couple of years. As we are seeing now 8GB is becoming slowly a problem for some new games.

If it was me and I could only afford a 3080 or 3080ti and didn't have enough money for a 3090 then a 3080ti it would be. So don't regret it you will get more out of it in the long run compared to a 3080. If you don't upgrade all the time it's worth it.

What are you upgrading from and how often do you normally upgrade the GPU?
 
It was actually available for 2.5 hours before going out of stock. The 3060's however went in a couple of minutes. Obvs ppl aren't stupid enough to buy the 3080ti even at rrp (extra £400 for 10fps at 4k)
 
Scania said:
Yup, I’ve been watching with interest a 6800XT plummeting in price at my local branch, not out of intention to buy, more enjoying seeing them take a hit.
Initially it was around £1500, it’s down to a grand now (and still way more than you can get a new one from OC/U.K.)
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I must have missed that - the last time I saw 6800XTs at OCUK (it was the Sapphire NITRO+, SE and non-SE £40 difference), they were just short of £1,200. They're not showing any stock right now either - guess this is in the limited access area with a token discount?
 
970 was what I had for nearly 5 years. Was planning on a 2070 but the 20 series didn't feel like enough of a jump.

Saying that, kinda bought a 3070 Suprim X a few months ago to tide me over but doesn't have the 4k performance I want with my new OLED TV. Want to sell it off before prices drop too far aswell since did cost me £700 so would at least like to get most of that back if possible.
 
rumple9 said:
It was actually available for 2.5 hours before going out of stock. The 3060's however went in a couple of minutes. Obvs ppl aren't stupid enough to buy the 3080ti even at rrp (extra £400 for 10fps at 4k)
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3060ti were available for around 30 mins
 
Rastous said:
970 was what I had for nearly 5 years. Was planning on a 2070 but the 20 series didn't feel like enough of a jump.

Saying that, kinda bought a 3070 Suprim X a few months ago to tide me over but doesn't have the 4k performance I want with my new OLED TV. Want to sell it off before prices drop too far aswell since did cost me £700 so would at least like to get most of that back if possible.
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Well if you upgrade every 5 years the 3080ti is a perfect buy then, I did same really I came from a 980 Ti to a 3090 pair (needed for work), but would have been a single 3090 otherwise. I purchased a 2080ti kingpin but it went back same day as it was terrible and decided to wait till next gen and was still happy with my 980 Ti at the time.

So think of it as £200 a year for the card and when you sell it when you upgrade, you will probably get 30-50% back well depends again what the gpu market is doing in 5 years time, some will say no chance but we have seen what happened this time where cards worth £100 were selling for £500+.

Enjoy your card, make sure to have a good PSU for it, it's not a 3070 remember and can eat power and trip the over current protection on an under powered psu.
 
Purgatory said:
Well if you upgrade every 5 years the 3080ti is a perfect buy then, I did same really I came from a 980 Ti to a 3090 pair (needed for work), but would have been a single 3090 otherwise. I purchased a 2080ti kingpin but it went back same day as it was terrible and decided to wait till next gen and was still happy with my 980 Ti at the time.

So think of it as £200 a year for the card and when you sell it when you upgrade, you will probably get 30-50% back well depends again what the gpu market is doing in 5 years time, some will say no chance but we have seen what happened this time where cards worth £100 were selling for £500+.

Enjoy your card, make sure to have a good PSU for it, it's not a 3070 remember and can eat power and trip the over current protection on an under powered psu.
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Yeh you are probably right, just the comparison to the 3080 MSRP which makes me doubt. Bought a new Corsair gold 850W psu for the 3070 as my old 1 started whining (was 10 years old) so that should be fine.

Anyone want to buy a lightly used 3070 Suprem X? Lol
 
Purgatory said:
CEX even put 1p as a price of something they have a lot of in stock to stop people selling to them. So CEX buy price does mean nothing, it depends what they want at the time and as you saw when they were wanting 3000 series and 6000 series cards they paid a lot more than MSRP even double in most cases, then when they got stock they wanted they halved the prices then people kept selling to them then they reduced the prices to even lower than msrp to reduce people selling to them, this is how they work, but their selling price has not changed or gone up.


I understand what you are saying but CEX is not the place to figure out a buy price, it depends if they are in demand for the items or can easily sell them. They even try to buy rare software and items for next to nothing and know what they are worth really and ebay them for silly money or relist them on their site for the silly prices, but never tell the seller it was a rare item when being sold to them, seen them buy rare game carts for 50p and then have them up for £300.
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I think we must be talking cross-purposes. I understand how their pricing model is stock-sensitive, that's how I explained the price of 3090 has dropped a lot more than the 3080ti. When you talk about "mean nothing", it must be in a specific context though rather than universal, perhaps when you say "not the place to figure out a buy price" this is where we are not on the same page. I'm not saying "look at CEX buy price, this tells you what an item is worth". I'm saying that CEX buy price clearly doesn't mean nothing if you are selling them an item, that's how much money you get! And the reason it means something is because occasionally it is competitive as a risk free sale option.

Let's take some example items. If you bought a 3060ti today, it's a risk free purchase. You get a quote from CEX can sell it to them for more than you paid for it. Do your gaming/mining/whatever for a bit then drop it off at CEX when the price starts to fall. So the buy price at CEX matters because you know you can buy an item, use it for at least a few days and make guaranteed profits. Now let's take the 3090. Again the buy price matters here because no longer is it above MRSP. It's a lot lower. If you bought a 3090 and took it down CEX you lose over £500. So you'd be more wary of a 3090. To make it more relevant to this thread, you could take the 3080ti instead, CEX offer less than MRSP for it, albeit a lot closer.

The selling price has changed btw. 3090 now sells for £1900, used to be about £2600 iirc. They've realised in a falling market there is no point them sitting on stock at £2600 that won't shift, better to sell for a small profit than suffer further depreciation.
Obviously if they do start selling some and stock runs down, they might push price up again.
 
kjaerligkatt said:
I must have missed that - the last time I saw 6800XTs at OCUK (it was the Sapphire NITRO+, SE and non-SE £40 difference), they were just short of £1,200. They're not showing any stock right now either - guess this is in the limited access area with a token discount?
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You can get them brand new on auction sites for £1000 now.
HangTime said:
I think we must be talking cross-purposes. I understand how their pricing model is stock-sensitive, that's how I explained the price of 3090 has dropped a lot more than the 3080ti. When you talk about "mean nothing", it must be in a specific context though rather than universal, perhaps when you say "not the place to figure out a buy price" this is where we are not on the same page. I'm not saying "look at CEX buy price, this tells you what an item is worth". I'm saying that CEX buy price clearly doesn't mean nothing if you are selling them an item, that's how much money you get! And the reason it means something is because occasionally it is competitive as a risk free sale option.
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The problem here is this s*** GPU market might cause OcUk to make some losses, as they said they bought GPUs at inflated prices.

Also when depreciation kicks in, prices will tumble even further. All the main players have made thier massive profits and will sit back and let others make the losses.
 
Getting a PS5 was far far easier than a GPU & at least shops weren't scalping so when you did get one the worst that happened was you paid for a game you didn't want.
 
Sarge2255 said:
That lasted a good while, Nvidia have actually raised their game in terms of stock availability for gamers.
But Sony, they have done a terrible job with the PS5s, a console that was released in November 2019.
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There has been loads of ps5s in last few weeks, every week I could have purchased one recently. Today was many at Argos at every location in uk they had stock at one point for pickup.

PS5s are easy to get now if you really want one from the disk and digital. They were at msrp too. So not sure where you are getting that information from.
 
I was surprised it stayed in stock for so long but then again miners have no interest and selling for profit on the 3080ti is probably more hassle then it’s worth.
 
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