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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - (PRE)ORDER DISCUSSION **NO COMPETITOR HINTING**

nomadd said:
Yep, I was looking at the 9800X3D earlier this year. Prices on OCUK and elsewhere were one big pi55 take - ~£520. Now, just six months later, you can find them for ~£400.
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It really does show if you can mitigate the whole FOMO element to this hobby, you'll save yourself a decent chunk of cash just by waiting 6 months.

The 9800X3D for £399 last week on OcUK was such a great price compared to paying over £500 at launch. If you can hang on for that time, that extra 100 quid essentially then covers your RAM pricing.
 
nomadd said:
Yep, I was looking at the 9800X3D earlier this year. Prices on OCUK and elsewhere were one big pi55 take - ~£520. Now, just six months later, you can find them for ~£400.
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correct me if im wrong though but the 30 series and 40 series never got back in stock so easily as the 50 series?
 
jonneymendoza said:
correct me if im wrong though but the 30 series and 40 series never got back in stock so easily as the 50 series?
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I don't think it's just an issue of "getting back into stock". I've seen more availability for 50 Series than literally any other GPU launch I can remember. I think it's the combination of silly pricing, too many models, and the "meh" performance uplift over prior generations that has left so much stock sat on the shelves.
 
nomadd said:
I don't think it's just an issue of "getting back into stock". I've seen more availability for 50 Series than literally any other GPU launch I can remember. I think it's the combination of silly pricing, too many models, and the "meh" performance uplift over prior generations that has left so much stock sat on the shelves.
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The thing is, when the 50 series launched, the 40 series were dead and buried. You could not buy last gen cards.

I agree, the 40 to 50 jump was not enough but as i was coming from a 30 series, the jump was almost double the performance( 3090 to 5090)

But i doubt those who were desperate to get it day 1 were coming from a 30 or lower series card. Its just FOMO for people greedy to get it at launch day no matter how little the performance gain was ....

If most had common sense then people with 30 series or less would have easily grabbed a card at launch but instead i bet, the majority who scalped or used bots or qued up infront of a retail shop already had a 40 series card.

I mean in this forum, there has been many here with 4090 who still wanted the 5090 lol
 
jonneymendoza said:
The thing is, when the 50 series launched, the 40 series were dead and buried. You could not buy last gen cards.
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Part of the reason why this was the case this time round (vs 4000 series launching to replace the 3000 series) is that Nvidia pushed the flagship launch to CES instead of the usual September launch. At the time of the delay last autumn, Nvidia cited yield issues and couldn't get anything good to cook until closer to the end of the year. This allowed a lot of EOL stock to slowly get cleaned out and there wasn't a situation like last time round where there was lots of 3000 series cards still sitting around in stores while people were buying 4000 series.
 
t2na said:
It really does show if you can mitigate the whole FOMO element to this hobby, you'll save yourself a decent chunk of cash just by waiting 6 months.

The 9800X3D for £399 last week on OcUK was such a great price compared to paying over £500 at launch. If you can hang on for that time, that extra 100 quid essentially then covers your RAM pricing.
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Wasn't the 9800X3D £450 at launch? I'm pretty sure as I got mine from OCUK, I'd have to check my order history.
 
SuperElectric said:
Wasn't the 9800X3D £450 at launch? I'm pretty sure as I got mine from OCUK, I'd have to check my order history.
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Judging from Gibbo's 9800 X3D launch thread it was indeed 450...

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/amd-9800x3d-eta-official-thread.18994717/
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nomadd said:
Yep, I was looking at the 9800X3D earlier this year. Prices on OCUK and elsewhere were one big pi55 take - ~£520. Now, just six months later, you can find them for ~£400.
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Agree, but i do think demand was higher than AMD were expecting and so it took them a while to ramp up supply. For comparison, I think the 7800X3D fell in price slightly quicker than the 9800X3D. I paid slightly above MSRP for the first time ever on a PC part with the 9800X3D, but justified it by selling my 7800X3D for a crazy price (was OOS at the time so the used market was pretty nuts). I hate fuelling the fire, but on this occasion i just went for it.
 
So my new card "may" go out today and I "may" get it by Friday the feller on the phone stated, I then had to ring back an additional time as for some weird reason he didn't put it through..... and still no confirmation email.
 
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