AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER

Akagi · 20 Oct 2020 at 20:48

adolf hamster said:
Not gonna lie, reading this thread makes me wish my life was going well enough that my biggest source of stress and worry was having to wait a bit to get a new gpu.....

1000% this... I really wish I could worry about this sort of rubbish.

fx1 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:09

Amazing, Just had an email and i have moved 22 places....

At this rate the other 900+ people are going to be waiting a long time.

mattyg · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:15

Two threads on here today at the total opposite ends of the spectrum. Puts some things into perspective

daniel2K16 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:29

so what are chances things are better with 3070 ? I really want to get one at the end of the month.

fx1 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:33

daniel2K16 said:
so what are chances things are better with 3070 ? I really want to get one at the end of the month.

not much.

Dirk Diggler · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:35

X-Mikuru_Beam-X said:
Christ im still on an old 1080ti and its more than capable of running modern games well... I have to ask, does anyone really *NEED* a 3080/90?

On a 4k 120Hz monitor, yes you do.

Although I have to say, if I hadn't bagged my 3080 then I would be trotting along quite happily at 1440 with my 1080ti.

As @Kaapstad said, it's only a GPU. Mine won't even be powered up for the next couple of weeks :eek:

Kaapstad · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:35

daniel2K16 said:
so what are chances things are better with 3070 ? I really want to get one at the end of the month.

There should be more of them about as they use the smaller GA104 chip, unfortunately this will be cancelled out by an even higher demand than has been seen for the GA102 cards.

You may not see the above reflected on this forum but in the real world demand for the 3070 will be very high.

Screenbeat · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:36

Why has this thread and the many many others not been locked yet?

Can they all be bundled into one?

Kaapstad · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:38

Screenbeat said:
Why has this thread and the many many others not been locked yet?

Can they all be bundled into one?

You mean the "Round Folder".

fx1 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:38

Kaapstad said:
There should be more of them about as they use the smaller GA104 chip, unfortunately this will be cancelled out by an even higher demand than has been seen for the GA102 cards.

You may not see the above reflected on this forum but in the real world demand for the 3070 will be very high.

why would there?

production lines are the issue as much as the chips.

fx1 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:40

Screenbeat said:
Why has this thread and the many many others not been locked yet?

Can they all be bundled into one?

Posting and talking on a forum...

If you dont like it then bugger off to some other thread

Kaapstad · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:40

fx1 said:
why would there?

production lines are the issue as much as the chips.

Smaller chips mean more off a wafer and also better yields.

Kaapstad · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:48

fx1 said:
production lines are the issue as much as the chips.

Don't think production lines are the problem, companies like Asus and EVGA are quite capable of producing non reference cards, all they need from NVidia are the GA102 and GA104 chips.

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:54

has a point though it feels like 50% of the threads on here are moaning about the 3080 waiting list and the other 50% are talking or arguing about them.

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:54

Could do with a centralised 3080 waiting list moaning thread but there are about 20 threads the same right now ha ha

Rroff · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:55

Kaapstad said:
Don't think production lines are the problem, companies like Asus and EVGA are quite capable of producing non reference cards, all they need from NVidia are the GA102 and GA104 chips.

Yeah - even as an individual I could go out right now get 10,000 PCBs made up and time on pick and place machines, etc. to push out the boards themselves in a few days or so - getting hold of the cores and VRAM in sufficient quantities is another matter.

Roadrunner_668 · 20 Oct 2020 at 21:56

you could ??

Rroff · 20 Oct 2020 at 22:03

Roadrunner_668 said:
you could ??

Plenty of places with the production capabilities and capacity to rent if you have the money in terms of creating PCBs and placing components, etc. and even things like enclosure assembly - brackets, cooling, etc. - the bottlenecks are elsewhere.

Kaapstad · 20 Oct 2020 at 22:08

Rroff said:
Plenty of places with the production capabilities and capacity to rent if you have the money in terms of creating PCBs and placing components, etc. and even things like enclosure assembly - brackets, cooling, etc. - the bottlenecks are elsewhere.

IIRC Asus not long ago were making a big thing about their manufacturing facilities and how modern and efficient they were.

Screenbeat · 20 Oct 2020 at 22:28

fx1 said:
Posting and talking on a forum...

If you dont like it then bugger off to some other thread

Hilarious!

My point is, why does there have to be so many threads about the same thing? It really is cluttering up the place