Advice Needed - Currently GFX-Card-Less

[dlystyr]

Hi all,

So my Radeon Vega64 died. Part of me is sad as it was a pretty okay card but it caused my some problems with the HBM memory. Anyway I need a new one and I have been looking at the dire stock situation for the RTX 3060 Ti and RTX 3070

Would you suggest any other cards? 3070 is maxing my budget and the 3060 Ti is nowhere to be seen since 14:04. I think personally im better waiting, do you have any experience on how long it would take to come back in stock. I am torn between just getting a 2060 so I can play games over xmas or just wait.

Also not indulging scalpers on ebay.

Thanks for any help.

 

[dlystyr]

Thanks all, Yeah I might do that, I need a card with 2 display ports for 2 4k monitors though. I would be happy to get something like a 2060, most graphics-intensive game I play is CoD: BOCW and that ran fine on the Vega64.

Unfortunately, all the 2060s are no stock and the 2060 Ti is like £1.5k. I feel I may just have to wait a few months..

Is this purely because of scalper groups? I never known graphics cards to be so scarce like this, even when Bitcoin mining was at GPU difficulty.

 

[dlystyr]

So buying a graphics card currently was much harder than I ever noticed in the past. But luckily managed to get a 3070 (I wanted a 3060Ti tbh) from a local store (not mentioning the name) They have 1 coming tomorrow and said they would reserve and text me if I paid now, I trust them bought stuff of them before.

So the card I got was ASUS TUF-RTX3070-O8G-GAMING. Is this one of the good 3070 range ones? Clock speed 1815/1845 OC. I never understood the different makes like Inno3D, ASUS, MSI but I know people swear by certain vendors.

 

[dlystyr]

How much did you pay for it?

Way more than I wanted to, I know it was a bit of a rip off. £640. But having no GFX card and not knowing when I can get one, It was worth it to me. Should do me for a couple/maybe 3 years I hope.

 

[dlystyr]

Don’t beat yourself up mate...look at it this way, it’s 2080ti performance for £640 and you have a card over Christmas and your set for Cyberpunk...

I see price hikes across the board so paying slightly more now is the poker game everyone has to play...Congrats...

Thanks, That's true, I seriously think my heartrate went over 100bpm when I was typing in my pin . but yeah, il feel sick about it until I get paid again. then I can forget hehe