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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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Don't think miners will want them as mem bus is lame so should be available if they make plenty. They will still be priced to high though, should be < £170 but will probably be > £300.
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If the shortage ends we'll likely be in the 40 or 50 series.
This shows a rumored performance benchmark, https://youtu.be/wF_FZQP-kaQ?t=273
If it performs about the same as the previous 5700xt I can see it being £300 or so, especially in this market, if they price it much more then it isn't giving a good price performance upgrade for a new generation leap
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Really don't know what to do. 1070 issues - blackouts in certain games - and really regretting building a PC now when I shouldv'e just bought off the shelf.
Not after the earth, just a working card of equivalent capabilities. A bit lost now I think, too late to join waiting lists from what I've read here and most are awfully long.
Pessimistic Friday I suppose.
Not after the earth, just a working card of equivalent capabilities. A bit lost now I think, too late to join waiting lists from what I've read here and most are awfully long.
Pessimistic Friday I suppose.
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My new GPU arrived yesterday. A Sapphire Toxic HD 5850 2GB. In Battlefield 3 I'm getting around 55 FPS at 1440p with medium settings and it hovers around 60c. It's a great little card and only cost £16.20 
It will definitely keep me happy until prices return to normal in 2022 or 2023. I won't even bother checking stock levels in the mean time because my itch has been scratched.
Don't let the shortage beat you. Buy an old GPU and have some fun. I read lots of reviews and checked benchmarks etc. In my head it felt like I was getting brand new card, I got so excited when it arrived.
It will definitely keep me happy until prices return to normal in 2022 or 2023. I won't even bother checking stock levels in the mean time because my itch has been scratched.
Don't let the shortage beat you. Buy an old GPU and have some fun. I read lots of reviews and checked benchmarks etc. In my head it felt like I was getting brand new card, I got so excited when it arrived.
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Hah, nice!
I had the 5870 version back in the day. Rare 58x0 series cards that came with 2GB ram.
My new GPU arrived yesterday. A Sapphire Toxic HD 5850 2GB. In Battlefield 3 I'm getting around 55 FPS at 1440p with medium settings and it hovers around 60c. It's a great little card and only cost £16.20
It will definitely keep me happy until prices return to normal in 2022 or 2023. I won't even bother checking stock levels in the mean time because my itch has been scratched.
Don't let the shortage beat you. Buy an old GPU and have some fun. I read lots of reviews and checked benchmarks etc. In my head it felt like I was getting brand new card, I got so excited when it arrived.
I have an old 5770 sitting around I should get that going again
And come to think about it the Phenom x3 720 it was paired with!Might be a long wait for a 3060 if this is true, its said that some internet cafes turned their previous rigs into mining rigs and now they are placing large orders for nvidia 3060, which nvidia is making a priority to supply. I suppose that nvidia can then try to keep pushing 3070 and up into the UK for a higher profit.
NVIDIA Hash-Rate Limited GeForce RTX 3060 Graphics Cards Being Shipped To e-Cafes in China Instead of Gamers (wccftech.com)
NVIDIA Hash-Rate Limited GeForce RTX 3060 Graphics Cards Being Shipped To e-Cafes in China Instead of Gamers (wccftech.com)
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I have almost given up on getting a 3000 series, considering a 2nd hand 980ti to tide me over until the crazy ends.
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I'd give the 980ti a miss tbh, I've recently sold a faulty one and there's loads of faulty ones on Ebay too.
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I missed the chance on the one I was looking at. Seems like I possibly dodged a bullet.
Got an alert for some pretty cheap 3060 TIs via Discord and I just wanted to share with you all. Only £900 
What a bargain! Sadly they still sold out in 0.0001 seconds. At that kind of bargain basement price it was inevitable tho.
What a bargain! Sadly they still sold out in 0.0001 seconds. At that kind of bargain basement price it was inevitable tho.
Got an alert for some pretty cheap 3060 TIs via Discord and I just wanted to share with you all. Only £900
What a bargain! Sadly they still sold out in 0.0001 seconds. At that kind of bargain basement price it was inevitable tho.
People buying at that price need punched in the throat whilst simultaneously getting a 3 stooges style double eye poke.
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I really hope there's a backlash from game developers as I'm not buying any new games to play on my GTX 770.
I nearly used my gpu savings on an oled but our I.T manager said he may be able to get some 3070's in about 3 months. Until then it's me, my 400 Steam backlog and currently Lara Croft in Rise of the Tomb Raider.
I nearly used my gpu savings on an oled but our I.T manager said he may be able to get some 3070's in about 3 months. Until then it's me, my 400 Steam backlog and currently Lara Croft in Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Yeh, wanted a 3070 or 3080, given up now.
I sold my vega 56 that I bought new, at a profit recently, stuck an old 7870XT (Tahiti) 2GB in my PC to play stuff I already had in progress (Rdr2 mainly). I've supplemented that with Stadia for cyberpunk and GFN on the locked-in founders price for most other PC gaming.
Also managed to snag a XBsX that I'm trying out at the moment. My last console was a Ps3 featuring vaseline-vision and a lot has changed since then!
I sold my vega 56 that I bought new, at a profit recently, stuck an old 7870XT (Tahiti) 2GB in my PC to play stuff I already had in progress (Rdr2 mainly). I've supplemented that with Stadia for cyberpunk and GFN on the locked-in founders price for most other PC gaming.
Also managed to snag a XBsX that I'm trying out at the moment. My last console was a Ps3 featuring vaseline-vision and a lot has changed since then!
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I've given up building new computers, I wanted a small computer for the kids, no games, just really something to play videos and let them have some silly games. Couldn't find a reasonably priced card, so I'm expending zero £££s and will go down the route of getting another tablet. In the same manner I was going to build a small backup machine on the cheap, so no onboard graphics, couldn't do so since ... yes, no cheap cards. It keeps going and actually impacting businesses, we were going to build a high performance system for machine learning calculations, it would have brought at least 2-3 PhDs to play with it and a postdoc, well, not anymore, we simply cannot afford the hardware at current prices.
Why would you not use a cheap Intel CPU like the 11400 with integrated graphics for the kids' rig and the small backup rig?