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Should I buy or hold out
- Thread starter sybaris
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Soldato
Sign up to a discord that send you automated alerts. Then you have to be quick and lucky to actually get one.
It worked for me on the first attempt back in Jan.
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I did the same and got lucky with my MSI 3070 in Feb 2020, it did take me a couple of alerts.
Supposedly it is not visible until you have 1,000 posts, there may be a minimum account age but at 12 years i think you're good for that.
Looking out for AMD 6700 XT or 5700XT also
+1 don't buy from the scalpers, even if you get a new card you don't necessarily get any waranty.
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I'm waiting, and i'm a stubborn git aswell. I'm getting the impression that the market will be somewhat normalised by Christmas... fingers crossed. Then we have have RDNA3 around the corner.. I wonder how many will be holding out for that once they can buy a card, I'll guess not many. I held off buying 2060 super for months thinking i'd be getting a 3000 series with 2070 super/2080 performance for same cost... oh the humanity.
I never would. I'd rather pay a retailer way over the msrp than a scalper...makes my blood boil how much they ask for
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Scalpers are individual greedy so-and-sos, but maybe the bigger danger could be retailers if they're encouraged to inflate prices.
NOT saying that's OClockers - quite the opposite -but just saying that could be a dangerous precedent
NOT saying that's OClockers - quite the opposite -but just saying that could be a dangerous precedent
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I think the 6700 xt is overpriced at MSRP :/ It does not match the 3070. Be interesting to see what it costs in comparison when everything is back to normal.
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To take this away from the retailers, I think the concern heads back up the supply chain to the manufacturers and AIBs (as well). They've seen what a portion of the market are prepared to pay, and while the 20 series got bad press for it, we're now paying way more than was paid for the 20 series cards. The fact that they've held off bringing out mid-to-low range cards where they could potentially get more chips from a wafer and potentially ease supply while also starting to address the "mass" market suggests to me that they'd rather ship these higher margin products for as long as they possibly can. At the moment the 3060 is the closest thing we've got to a mass market card and I doubt we'll see the RTX3050, 6600XT and 6500XT (as stand alone cards) until pretty much the market has normalised. But then I think there may be first mover advantage - once prices have normalised, if there is a delay between the 3050 and the 6500 (or the other way around), Nvidia or AMD could take a fat chunk out of the low end market, where they may not get the margin, but they definitely get the volume. Having said all that, be prepared for the 40x0 / 7x00 cards to be expensive at the top end to the middle and for there to be a long delay before mid-to-budget range cards come through. A LONNNNGGGG delay of consumers paying fat margins.
Only advice I have at the moment is to keep trying for a 3070 / 3080 FE, they do drop every now and again at MSRP.
Iv now seen 6700XT retailing at more than what I spent on a XFX 6800XT Merc
Where do these drop?
Nvidia site?
I would love to catch 3070, but dont know how
Where do these drop?
Nvidia site?
I would love to catch 3070, but dont know how
Can't say on these forum, Reddit / Google are your friends
Can we order 3070Ti FE from nvidia site directly? Or will it be available through retailers?