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Yes, I got the 3060 at a reasonable price for these days. I didn't know the available stock was for regular forum members. Makes sense but I wish I had known that.
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RTX 3050 - starting at $249 (msrp)
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There were other cards available to everyone too, it was only a single model at £240 which was specifically linked to for the qualifying forum members. All the £265 models and so on did go live on the website, they just got snapped up very quickly due to the demand (a lot of it probably from real people, but also probably a lot of bots).Yes, I got the 3060 at a reasonable price for these days. I didn't know the available stock was for regular forum members. Makes sense but I wish I had known that.
All UK retailers were in a similar boat in terms of selling out within minutes, so anyone that managed to buy one for under £300 was just very lucky I think. From what I saw there was a better chance to order from ocuk than any of the other shops too Tbf.
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Woot. It arrived. Now to replace the tiny low profile 1050ti with a slightly bigger card. Although should probably finish work first. 
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Mines at home apparently, out tonight though so probably wont get to test it, might swap the 3080 out and try the 3050 and see just how bad it is playing Warzone 
I can second that. I picked one up for £270 from here, but since the site was loading a little slow, I was also trying at other websites, but they flat stopped loading, or wouldn't add the GPU to the basket or had stock at inflated prices (or didn't have any stock yesterday). Even though OCUK was slow, I did eventually manage to buy it. My PayPal account shows transaction time of 14:07, so it wasn't impossible to buy at descent prices from here from 2pm onwards.
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Woot. It arrived. Now to replace the tiny low profile 1050ti with a slightly bigger card. Although should probably finish work first.
Nice case, is that a Corsair Graphite?
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Aerocool One Eclipse Mini
Woot. It arrived. Now to replace the tiny low profile 1050ti with a slightly bigger card. Although should probably finish work first.
Congrats! Palit actually makes pretty decent budget cards, but I do wish they would make their box look slightly more premium. Or maybe they are just trying to confuse people wondering what a "35 RTX" is..
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i purchased the 3050 yesterday specifically Gigabyte eagle normal edition. recieved an email saying that they overbrought. how long will it take to restock. dont mind waiting but would like to know when we would recieve as i need to upgrade from my 1050ti and i3 9100f :0
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Oh okay thank you very much!! need a new card and a whole new pc :0
Thanks. I was wondering that as well. Brought the same Gigabyte card, and got the same email this morning about it being oversold.
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Just got my £239 Palit card 
About to install it. How are folks getting on with theirs?
About to install it. How are folks getting on with theirs?
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Why would idiots pay £400 for these when you can get a 6600 for that price which is a MUCH better card?
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Because they are idiots and just click buy because they spend all their disposable income or put it on credit?? I really never understood why people "have" to pay massively over RRP for these products.
I mean how many could just stick with what they have and drop a few settings down in the games they play? Surely after 2 years of the pandemic,people must be bored sick of being stuck on their PCs playing games?
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A few scary minutes as I got nothing, and then after a few cold boots it just decided to work. Needed the latest Nvidia drivers, but looks fine now.Just got my £239 Palit card
About to install it. How are folks getting on with theirs?
Not sure why they bothered with the led under the Palit logo, it's under the power cable.
Yeah my son has my hand-me down kit with a few extras bolted on and I'm now regretting selling my old 1070ti when I upgraded to 3070 as he has my 7950 that is over 10 years old powering my old 1440p screen. Hence got the 3050 to boost that a bit.Believe me it wont last long, my two have already gone from Gaming laptops with GTX 960's and 1050ti when they were 4/5yrs, to 2060/2060 Super to 3060ti and one is 9 and one is 12.My youngest has the 2060 Super from my 12 year old and already mentioned a few times he wants a 3xxx series.
To give it it's due, providing I turn down the textures and AA to keep VRAM in check the 7950 when overclocked has actually coped not too bad with the sort of games he plays, but it's only a matter of time before he'll get fixated on a more demanding game.
I once sold a used 56K modem on Ebay. Someone else had the same model listed for a higher price than mine and even higher than it was selling for brand new at numerous retailers. It sold before mine did, despite being used and being priced higher than brand new.
I just don't think some people know there are other places you can buy this stuff. They also have no ability to critically think, is this the best deal I can find, or to even think about searching for the product to see how much it might be selling for elsewhere.
Smooth sailing here at 1080p. I went straight into MSI afterburner to mess with the OC curve and got to around 2.1ghz with 1.05v.Just got my £239 Palit card
About to install it. How are folks getting on with theirs?
There is currently has a 10% discount code live.