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RTX 3050 - starting at $249 (msrp)

MJR90 said:
With this card being so crap is there any concern about scalpers really? Who would be pay over the odds for it?
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Well they tried it on the 6500 XT and this is better than a 6500 XT, plus its got the words NVIDIA and RTX and 30 series, they seem to like those.
 
minnis said:
I get the point behind it but it's not as if I've just signed up today to take advantage of it. Feels like I'm being disadvantaged just because I've not been building PC for 20 years.
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I've been building PC's for, jesus, 27/28 years, I feel disadvantaged by the fact you are probably younger than me, suck it up lol
 
PhoenixTank said:
Has anyone seen reviews of how a 3050 with DLSS/RT on fares versus a 2060 with DLSS/RT on? Lacking comparable data for the 2060 and I'm interested to see if Ampere's RT & tensor changes are enough to put it ahead in those workloads.
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Annoyingly I can't find it now, but I watched a review yesterday from one of the big boys, and it showed the 3050 being roughly as close to the 2060 6GB with RT+DLSS being used, as it was in standard rasterization.
I assumed the newer RT and Tensor cores would mean a dramatic jump in RT+DLSS performance, but I guess that's not the case. If I can find the review again, I'll post it here.
 
To be honest, my advice would be to not wait for any forum discount Gibbo may put up if you really want one of these. They’ll go quickly and you’ll likely miss it.

The launch price is likely the best price it’s ever going to be and the forum saving will probably be £20 at most.

Don’t buy the silly overbuilt triple fan or OC versions as they’ll not be any material advantage to them over the standard one but they’ll cost a lot more money.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
To be honest, my advice would be to not wait for any forum discount Gibbo may put up if you really want one of these. They’ll go quickly and you’ll likely miss it.

The launch price is likely the best price it’s ever going to be and the forum saving will probably be £20 at most.

Don’t buy the silly overbuilt triple fan or OC versions as they’ll not be any material advantage to them over the standard one but they’ll cost a lot more money.
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There is going to be a forum discount?:confused:
 
minnis said:
I didn't think it was a discount, i was under the impression that the 3050s weren't going up on OC store today but that there would be a link in the forum for people to buy through
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I wouldn't quite call it a discount.
But with all recent launches, there have been a certain amount of cards which the AIBs have supplied at a price which allows them to be sold at or near the MSRP. Those cards (and there won't be many) won't go out live on the main site in a free-for-all (lessons learned during previous launches). Instead they will be hidden on the website and forums users (with a certain post count and join date etc.) will get to see where they are.
 
 
Jono8 said:
There is going to be a forum discount?:confused:
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Perhaps discount is the wrong word, but that’s what it is in reality as the street price will be higher then the Nvidia RRP but a few cars will be ‘supported’ to reach that price.

Have a look at @Gibbo posts in this thread over the last couple of days, he clearly explained it.

Personally I wouldn’t wait and if you see a card when they drop for a ‘sensible’ 2021/2 price then I’d buy it and not wait for @Gibbo to do something for the forum. You’ll not be saving much unless the only cards that drop are ‘STRIX SUPER CLOCKED!!!’ nonsense that have silly large coolers and a crazy price tag.

You’ll probably miss it as he said there was only a few units available.
 
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