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random_matt said:
I do not even know if Amazon staff check returns. They probably just scan the item and give out the refunds, anyone can switch GPU stickers from one product to another and perhaps get away with it.
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I'd probably say some of the more expensive items they would check or a spot check but i doubt they go into detail. Imagine the 1000's if not 100's of thousands of returns a day.

Our returns bin at morrisons is always quite busy, usually a short queue to get to it.
 
It's far cheaper to swallow the loss on the relatively few GPUs that get swapped by scammers than it is to pay someone to check them all as they come in.

It's the same story with their massively deteriorating delivery service of late. It's more cost-effective to employ cheap delivery methods and swallow the cost of any items that go missing or get damaged.
 
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random_matt said:
I do not even know if Amazon staff check returns. They probably just scan the item and give out the refunds, anyone can switch GPU stickers from one product to another and perhaps get away with it.
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My brother had an amazon return lately, it seems now in the return instructions they're asking post office staff to open the package and check the contents before accepting it and sending it on to amazon.

And the average post office employee is going to know what about a gpu or cpu? Basically nothing, they'll see something in a box and accept it. So seems quite pointless.
 
random_matt said:
I do not even know if Amazon staff check returns. They probably just scan the item and give out the refunds, anyone can switch GPU stickers from one product to another and perhaps get away with it.
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I've had refunds for some things literally on the day the package is collected by the courier or handed in at the post office.....
 
DeanT77 said:
Looks like I'll be sticking with my 2070S yet again.

These prices.... jokes :cry:
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Yup, it's nuts, and these company have us by the balls, but unless everyone boycotts it, we might as well just buy the card we want and enjoy. Not that simple I know; I wish I could afford to get the latest and greatest, but I'm sorely tempted to say **** it and buy a 4080 Super, even though my 3080 is only 18 months old. I'm enjoying Cyberpunk on high RT settings, but the FSR3 glitches are kinda ruining it too much
 
Amraam said:
Yup, it's nuts, and these company have us by the balls, but unless everyone boycotts it, we might as well just buy the card we want and enjoy. Not that simple I know; I wish I could afford to get the latest and greatest, but I'm sorely tempted to say **** it and buy a 4080 Super, even though my 3080 is only 18 months old. I'm enjoying Cyberpunk on high RT settings, but the FSR3 glitches are kinda ruining it too much
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I am pretty sure you will bottleneck it significantly with that CPU.
 
Amraam said:
Yup, it's nuts, and these company have us by the balls, but unless everyone boycotts it, we might as well just buy the card we want and enjoy. Not that simple I know; I wish I could afford to get the latest and greatest, but I'm sorely tempted to say **** it and buy a 4080 Super, even though my 3080 is only 18 months old. I'm enjoying Cyberpunk on high RT settings, but the FSR3 glitches are kinda ruining it too much
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It's a huge lump of cash to splurge out on a GPU for sure.

At one time I swore to myself I'd never pay more than £500 for one, but those days seem to have gone (for me).

I paid £1050 for my 3080 Ti FE (really wanted a 3080 at RRP), so was far more than I wanted to pay.

Somewhat offset by selling my 1070 for £285, which took the sting out if it.

Not sure how this plays out for me in the future, prices have gone so whack at the moment.
 
I think I will try my luck for a 4080 super FE and that will be it. I will just spend my money growing my retro hobby instead otherwise. That analogue N64 comes out this year too, had my eye on that for ages.
 
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random_matt said:
I am pretty sure you will bottleneck it significantly with that CPU.
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Already looked into it as best I can and I'm confident I will get by for now given it's OC'd to 4.8Ghz and that I play at 3440x1440p and not 1080p. The GPU would yield more performance per £ now, especially with it giving me native frame gen.

Having said that, I am quite tempted to go for a 15700k build later in the year, assuming they arrive 2024. Or, more sensibly, go 14700k then and hope the 15xxx release drops 14700k prices.
 
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Amraam said:
Already looked into it as best I can and I'm confident I will get by for now given it's OC'd to 4.8Ghz and that I play at 3440x1440p and not 1080p. The GPU would yield more performance per £ now, especially with it giving me native frame gen.

Having said that, I am quite tempted to go for a 15700k build later in the year, assuming they arrive 2024. Or, more sensibly, go 14700k then and hope the 15xxx release drops 14700k prices.
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Or go AMD. I'd been on Intel since Sandy Bridge but both my machines are AMD now.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I have just given up now unless a very good deal appears. If the RTX4070 12GB had launched as an RTX4060TI 12GB at £400,I probably would have got one by now. If AMD even had launched the RX7800XT as an RX7700XT 16GB at around the same price a few months ago,I might have gotten that. But in the end I might as well wait now until the next generation, and it also means I won't be bothering to upgrade to AM5 until I absolutely need to(unless I find a very good deal before then).

It's the same with some friends I know - because they just got fedup with dGPU prices,they also just stuck with their existing CPUs.
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Exactly the situation I find myself in, and have been in for years now, I have waited so long to upgrade, while putting up with an old GTX 1060 6gb, that at this point I am so fed up with dGPU prices and AMD & NVIDIA greed, that I simply do not care anymore, I just will not buy anything that is not a screaming good deal, they can go **** themselves.
 
Vertigo said:
Or go AMD. I'd been on Intel since Sandy Bridge but both my machines are AMD now.
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Haven't ruled it out, but I'm out of the loop as to what's what now. I've never had a Ryzen build and the last AMD anything was an Athlon 4400+ AM2 build :cry: :cry: Will certainly look into it though. Have my heart set on the 4080 Super FE though; already have the KY jelly ready so my bank isn't butt hurt so much.
 
Sgt_Major said:
I just will not buy anything that is not a screaming good deal, they can go **** themselves.
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Same here, i have a decent CPU/Mobo/RAM that i wont upgrade for a while.. if anything, i just need a GPU upgrade but wont be buying at these prices. I run 4x 1080p monitors and nearly upgraded to a 1440p for the primary display but then i would need an even better GPU so screw that. Im surprised they get past any regulations with all this greed but then there probably isnt any that could do anything about it.

Glad i only play DayZ these days, my 3060Ti runs it fine but i will want AV1 encoding when it comes to Twitch soon, will see how prices are around mid 2024.

Right now the GPU prices are disgusting, they obviously forgot who made these companies when they first started to produce graphics cards :(
 
Amraam said:
Yup, it's nuts, and these company have us by the balls, but unless everyone boycotts it, we might as well just buy the card we want and enjoy. Not that simple I know; I wish I could afford to get the latest and greatest, but I'm sorely tempted to say **** it and buy a 4080 Super, even though my 3080 is only 18 months old. I'm enjoying Cyberpunk on high RT settings, but the FSR3 glitches are kinda ruining it too much
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You would be better off waiting for new cpus and 5000 series gpus then do a full rebuild as the 3080 with your current system is probably bottlenecked and you are not getting the full capability of it, the resolution you are using 3440 x 1440p will probably still get pretty decent dips on cpu bound games, so the average frame rates may look good but the dips may make it feel laggy or even stutters. But if I was you I would wait for new intel/amd cpus and doing a full new system.
 
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