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Fauxtool posted:the 3080 tuf i bought today on amazon was at old msrp so it hasnt hit the current inventory there yet. Not that it does you any good since you cant take advantage of it. I tried grabbing that drop also, and it was instantly out for me, lol. I don't know how you're able to grab them so fast.
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There was this a few days ago, but GPUs are made in Taiwan, no? maybe the assembly happens elsewhere Rinkles fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Rinkles posted:There was this a few days ago, but GPUs are made in Taiwan, no? Final assembly is mostly still in China, just looked and the PNY 3090 I got was assembled in China.
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Shipon posted:drat, i forgot the golden rule of cryptocurrency, everyone involved is a complete idiot hyping things up that have zero chance of working 32 loving thousand dollars per btc is all the why needed for these people. How never even entered their heads.
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SourKraut posted:I tried grabbing that drop also, and it was instantly out for me, lol. I don't know how you're able to grab them so fast. according to my logs, I added it to cart 8 times before it showed in cart and then refreshed 5 times before I was able to successfully checkout. This took about 90 seconds from when the first alert pinged in stock. I couldnt actually add it to cart until about 60s in. I think a lot of people are adding it to cart, refreshing and not seeing it there and the leaving when its very much still there if you refresh another few times.
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repiv posted:gently caress it, i'm for sure sitting this generation out Same, CP 2077 @ 1080p on Geforce Now will do me just fine - nothing else I'm interested in outside of RT Witcher 3 whenever that comes out. Increased gpu prices should be good for the cloud gaming companies.
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Shipon posted:drat, i forgot the golden rule of cryptocurrency, everyone involved is a complete idiot hyping things up that have zero chance of working if you dig up the crypto thread there's probably some posts from me in 2018 calling him an idiot who couldn't get the job done and lol now it's 2021. proof of stake has been "just around the corner!!! any day now!!!" forever and the kid is like a multimillionaire, and iirc they were talking about adding a tax that gets paid to him as well? (seems to violate that whole idea of a decentralized currency to have a boss that literally gets paid a tax but idk) wish I could get in on that kind of grift, getting millions for doing basically nothing, but I guess I like not being in jail for operating unlicensed securities Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Well, I guess i'm going to hold on to my 3080 that I got for $749 for a while.
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With the money he and other early-in grifters have, he could probably just buy himself a nice little tropical island and not worry about silly things like US tax codes and extradition laws.
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repiv posted:gently caress it, i'm for sure sitting this generation out Yeah, that's pretty much where I'm at. It does what I need and unless the 30x0 Super refresh has some amazing price/perf model I might end up skipping this generation altogether.
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Paul MaudDib posted:and the kid is like a multimillionaire, and iirc they were talking about adding a tax that gets paid to him as well? (seems to violate that whole idea of a decentralized currency to have a boss that literally gets paid a tax but idk) It totally makes sense, I mean, all other criminal enterprises have a pyramid scheme built into them. Why shouldn’t cryptoincels?
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comment from a DeepCool rep on the tariff hikes, this is likely going to affect pretty much everything (as there's virtually no US-based manufacturing in the tech sector)quote:One of our shipping containers arrived on 12/31 and still got a hike as it entered. From his URL it looks like the exclusions expired on the 31st.
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building my new pc before the end of the year was the right choice instead of waiting until feb for when i could actually enjoy it. it would be nice if China was honest about the awful business practices that the tariffs are in response to instead of pretending that its one-sided and unfair punishment by the US. Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Fauxtool posted:building my new pc before the end of the year was the right choice instead of waiting until feb for when i could actually enjoy it. same. picked up a ryzen 5600x and 3080 at launch. also have picked up a new super flower psu, gb x570 aorus elite, replacement ram, schiit dac/amp (magni/modi stack), massdrops hd 6x around the same time this time. no regrets especially if all that poo poo starts going up $$$$ well only regret is I've been loving slammed and havent had much time for gaming  I've actually been considering a new monitor but looks like I'll be waiting. and honestly I'm mostly waiting for something really "generation"-defining to come out because it seems monitor tech is sort of a bit stagnant right now whereas TV tech is going to the moon so hopefully it trickles down to smaller sizes. Xaris fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Fauxtool posted:building my new pc before the end of the year was the right choice instead of waiting until feb for when i could actually enjoy it. hell yeah. I still want to move up from my quad-core, but I figure I can wait a little longer for that.
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Yeah, I feel lucky that with the first stimulus check I was able to put together a completely new system, monitor and all, by the end of May. I have gotten so spoiled by my new 27" monitor I'm considering getting another lower-specced one just for work-from-home purposes. When I use 24" monitors now they just feel kind of cramped and over-magnified, like I need to scale them down below 100%.
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Paul MaudDib posted:comment from a DeepCool rep on the tariff hikes, this is likely going to affect pretty much everything (as there's virtually no US-based manufacturing in the tech sector) My 3080's been a hassle but I'm glad I got it in December.
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not that much, the 11th hour deal is tariff free on goods so the hold up is still mostly Covid and supply. Saying that I haven't seen 3xxx drops that lasted long enough to push an alert out to the non-general-chat discord in January and 6800xx just doesn't exist in Europe. I managed to spot and buy a Gigabyte Eagle OC 3070 for £519.99 on Christmas Day before it even hit the discord I was watching and luckily received it on the 29th. Aside from the FEs it's far and away the cheapest one I had seen going whilst F5ing through December Zen 3 availibility is more common, they were rare as hen's teeth in December but 5600x and 5800x are in stock right now at Scan Doccykins fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Didn't want to buy a PS5 when I had the chance last week, but I guess now is the time.
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Does anybody have any insight into why a graphics driver would mess with fan control? I thought that was controlled via the BIOS or software.
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SplitSoul posted:Does anybody have any insight into why a graphics driver would mess with fan control? I thought that was controlled via the BIOS or software. I have no idea. On my old Gainward 2060 fan control was hosed. Same fans on a motherboard fan connection (with an adapter) worked perfectly. You could do the same.
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Is there really any reason to expect that the supply of 3080s will normalize this year given how easy it is for resellers to scoop up any extra supply? It’s starting to feel like this will go on until the next series comes out, and then we’ll still be paying scalper prices for the previous two generations of cards. Seeing 2080s on sale locally for $1,000 broke my brain a bit.
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Ihmemies posted:I have no idea. On my old Gainward 2060 fan control was hosed. Same fans on a motherboard fan connection (with an adapter) worked perfectly. You could do the same. Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not about to mess with anything that might void the warranty if I finally decide to RMA. Would probably already have done that if there was any chance of receiving a new one within a reasonable timeframe.
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They need to hurry up and announce the 3080ti. My EVGA step up is expiring soon!
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I got lucky and managed to buy a 3070 last night. Now time to see if I can get a Ryzen 5000 series or stick with my i5-6600k for another year 
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2020 became the year of disappointment for gamers. It’s like the Twilight Zone episode with the guy that finally had all the time in the world to read but broke his glasses in an apocalypse. All the excuses to stay inside, new graphics cards, CPUs, and consoles release, and Cyberpunk is out finally.... except nobody can get their hands on the hardware and Cyberpunk was half-assed. I can’t even get the bicycle I wanted to go outside and not be a neck beard goon given the metals shortage. What a time. What cruelty
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I'm still after a 3080 for my brother, but the number of AIB 3080s being sold in Europe and the UK has pretty much plummeted to zero. In October and early November there were drops every couple of days or so, but since mid-November it's been a famine. I'm just guessing here but MSI, Gigabyte , Asus etc must be secretly selling them to miners, right? The FEs are available for a minute every 2/3 weeks, but the AIBs seemed to have totally disappeared apart from the odd one appearing on Amazon for £1500.
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Rollie Fingers posted:I'm just guessing here but MSI, Gigabyte , Asus etc must be secretly selling them to miners, right? The FEs are available for a minute every 2/3 weeks, but the AIBs seemed to have totally disappeared apart from the odd one appearing on Amazon for £1500. Its probably distributors, not the AIB vendors themselves. Well, msi maybe 
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Malloc Voidstar posted:AMD and Intel both make stuff outside of China. Ryzen is Taiwan and USA + assembly facilities in China and Malaysia, last I knew. I don't really understand the exact nexus between manufacturing/assembly location and tariffs here, but NVIDIA makes all their consumer stuff in Korea right now and surely some of the partners are located in Taiwan, but apparently that isn't sufficient. (that or the partners all just collectively decided that welp, it's all selling anyway, might as well raise margins a bit even if we're not the ones getting taxed.) Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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drat am I glad I was able to snag a 3080 off amazon yesterday at the original MSRP. Might be worth running fairgame at original pricing for a little while yet.
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Snagged a 3080 FE from Best Buy just now so I am set for the meantime. Still hope 3080 Ti isn't too bad, I'd rather have 20GB, but this is fine.
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Online. Best Buy isn't sending inventory to stores like Microcenter, they are selling them online and shipping to store for pickup (they won't ship to home, that's part of their anti-botter tactics). Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Bad Munki posted:You folks getting them from Best Buy, are you grabbing them online or just hitting the actual store every morning or what? I grabbed mine online and as far as I know they don't sell the cards in-store.
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