Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?

[JohnG7]

Buy an 3000 series FE so you get it for RRP as your 1080Ti right now will get you £400-450 easy but will not once all this settles.

 

[Bugbait]

Buy an 3000 series FE so you get it for RRP as your 1080Ti right now will get you £400-450 easy but will not once all this settles.

Is that in reply to me? If so, I don't plan to sell the 1080Ti once I upgrade so even less reason to rush. Will be putting it into the second PC to replace the lowly 1060 it has.

 

[JohnG7]

Well I have a 1080 Ti FE and Titan Xp so will get back £800-900 from the £1400 I just spent on the 3090 FE

 

[akistzortzis]

but if you lurk around you just might get lucky.

Well paying over the top is not exactly "lucky" is it?

 

[akistzortzis]

I don't plan to sell the 1080Ti once I upgrade so even less reason to rush.

Do you want to lend it to me? I need something to tie me over in my brand new PC until this panic has subsided. Otherwise I will be on UHD 630.

Edit: I am actually bidding £650 for a gigabyte 3070 gaming OC on ebay, and weirdly no one has so far outbidded ...

 

[robj20]

I'm just going to stick with my gtx1660 for longer. It actually performs better than I was expecting coming from a 670.

 

[rallyslag]

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[Ragnahex]

would i like a new graphics card? yes! do i need a new graphics card? also yes. Am i willing to spend all my time waiting to rush and buy something at an overblown price? NAH it's a gpu it's not life or death.

 

[Davinnicus]

Not given up yet, looking for either a 3080 or 6800XT. Signed up to a couple of stock alerts on discord. Had a few chances to get hold of a 3070s as they come through regularly.

Picked the wrong time to build a new rig, but it has been almost 10 years since the last build, time to retire the R9 380x

 

[BUDFORCE]

2060 super, £621!

 

[g67575]

if you want an rtx 3080 at an acceptable price, most of you will need to wait until march or april, thats when nv says stock should improve. some ppl will settle for a rtx 3070 or rx 6000 series card instead, but it will take time for demand to fall.

you gotta question if its worth the money and time to buy graphics cards / CPUs that are difficult to produce, you are playing into AMD's / Nvidia's hands. especially when you could pay less and still enjoy games just as much.

turn off the framerate counter... good, now you can enjoy the game

 

[BUDFORCE]

if you want an rtx 3080 at an acceptable price, most of you will need to wait until march or april, thats when nv says stock should improve. some ppl will settle for a rtx 3070 or rx 6000 series card, but it will take time for demand to fall.

I'm happy to wait, my EXGA1070 is doing ok, plus my 10 year old PSU will need replacing which adds to the cost and faff......I would like a new graphics cards but it's a case of not wanting the hassle of finding one, plus don't want to pay well over the odds, also others are in need more than me, although that's probably in vein as I guess a lot of these are going to scalpers or bitcoin miners.

 

[rallyslag]

if you want an rtx 3080 at an acceptable price, most of you will need to wait until march or april, thats when nv says stock should improve. some ppl will settle for a rtx 3070 or rx 6000 series card instead, but it will take time for demand to fall.

you gotta question if its worth the money and time to buy graphics cards / CPUs that are difficult to produce, you are playing into AMD's / Nvidia's hands. especially when you could pay less and still enjoy games just as much...

I would not hold my breath! This is what Gibbo said in a previous thread!

"If demand continues and if supply remains low due to production being hammered due to increased demand from consoles, automotive, smart phones etc it’s going to be a very long time, 2022 earliest and maybe longer.

Far East cannot cope the world needs more manufacturing plants to cope, modern cars have increased demand on this sector massively and with demand at all time highs on components is not helping.

Mining is at all time highs and miners are buying stocks up worldwide leaving resellers and consumers without much needed GPUs and other parts.

BTC crashes hard things will improve but the projections are opposite and BTC could be 100k plus by Spring/Summer."

 

[FoxEye]

2060 super, £621!

Mwuahahahahaha. Amazeballs.

BTC crashes hard things will improve but the projections are opposite and BTC could be 100k plus by Spring/Summer."

If that comes true all 30xx cards will be £1000 minimum, 3080s at £3k, etc

 

[g67575]

fingers crossed for dedicated ampere mining GPUs.

I really hate that most companies don't let you preorder... its all because they dont want to offer a decent price near rrp. maybe limit it to a set number of preorders per day / week?

so, instead all we see is out of stock pages, or tbc

 

[michty_me]

Sod it, I've just spent my GPU money on new desk legs and solid oak top.
Decided I'm going to upgrade on of the spare rooms and move my gear there.
The Vega can live on a good while yet.

 

[michty_me]

I see some 3090FE in stock elsewhere.
Edit: I read that some 3080FE will be going up at 6pm same place.

 

[Gerard]

I see some 3090FE in stock elsewhere.
Edit: I read that some 3080FE will be going up at 6pm same place.

Where did you read that? Would be very unusual for them to announce that given the issues with sites crashing.

 

[michty_me]

Where did you read that? Would be very unusual for them to announce that given the issues with sites crashing.

It was on a discord channel, probably a rumour from sweat sitting in his room to be fair.

 

[michty_me]

Well I think I may have unexpectedly landed a 3080FE earlier today.
Woke up early as I'm on nightshift, Decided to go to the vessels gym and use the spin bike and a notification popped up on the phone.
I had to go through three captchas and sign into the website and paypal and still managed to place an order. Thats the payment been accepted anyway so will see if it actually gets shipped.