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So I just signed up for EVGAs line queue thing. When should I expect to be able to purchase my card?
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May 6, 2021 18:51
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Next year at the earliest. Not even joking.
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May 6, 2021 18:54
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I just signed up for EVGAs line queue thing. When should I expect to be able to purchase my card? Depends on the model. If it was a non-Ultra, the most likely outcome is "never". They aren't in production, and won't be until demand dies down which doesn't seem likely. If it is an Ultra, the 3080 FTW3 line has moved has moved about 4 days since launch in September, the 3070 FTW3 Ultra has moved about 2 weeks since its launch in October. At those rates, the answer is also likely "never" because you will have moved on or bought something else by the time your slot comes up. e: in EVGAs defense, I have gotten 4 notifications. bought 1, gave 1 to a goon, and let 2 expire because i didnt want to deal with selling them. But the only people the queue is really gonna work for is weirdos like me who got lucky and pressed notify on every sku before they announced the plan in the first place. Cygni fucked around with this message at 19:06 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 19:03
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Dallas Microcenter looks to be having drops on Monday and Friday, so naturally, today there were 10+ waiting in line at 9:50 A.M. 
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May 6, 2021 19:17
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May 6, 2021 19:18
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I bought a GT 210 and signed up for the warranty and also the Step-Up, I picked the 3060 Ti but that's probably the most popular card with the 3080. Are people getting upgrades this way, just wait a few months? Buying the 10 year warranty for $20 sounds too good to be true.
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May 6, 2021 19:29
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strangehamster posted:I bought a GT 210 and signed up for the warranty and also the Step-Up, I picked the 3060 Ti but that's probably the most popular card with the 3080. Are people getting upgrades this way, just wait a few months? Buying the 10 year warranty for $20 sounds too good to be true. For the 3060ti step up line, "a few months" will likely mean 1 year.
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May 6, 2021 19:49
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Yeah didn’t somebody in this thread recently say that they signed up for the 3090 Step Up in April and already got their Step 2 email? I feel like they mentioned signing up in late April. But some of the other step up lines? Holy cow. I was lucky that I signed up for the 3080 on release day, but even then it took about six months to get my Step 2 email.
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May 6, 2021 19:52
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So really I should have bought four cards, then entered each queue. My mistake. I wonder if the new Ti cards will be allowed as step-ups in the next 90 days.
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May 6, 2021 20:17
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I should clarify that I was talking about Evga’s notify queue not the Step-Up program. No idea where the Step-Up program is, but it seems to be getting more stock than the notify queue.
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May 6, 2021 20:20
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The 3090 is reportedly the easiest (""""easiest"""") card to get, both in store and from the various queues. It's just too ridiculous for most people and I assume the payoff timescale doesn't make it worthwhile for the bitcoin assholes. I signed up for the 3080 XC3 less than 24 hours after they put the notify button on the page, a month before they decided to use the notifications as a queue thing, and then they decided to not even manufacture the XC3 model. lomarf.
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May 6, 2021 20:30
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Sagebrush posted:
I remember a 3080 review that concluded with something like, "the 3080 FTW3 ULTRA is a great card, but at $810 it's overpriced and we know 99% of you are not going to use that 450W vbios, so just wait for the cheaper XC3 model if you want an EVGA card" September 2020 was so long ago 
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May 6, 2021 21:54
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EVGA is definitely selling/making 3080 XC3s, I got the XC3 ultra via their notify system. They even knocked it down to the original price it was going for when I joined the queue.
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May 6, 2021 22:46
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FilthyImp posted:One of the discord's reported a bunch of bots opening up sign-ups this week. I have a key to this one now. It's a $600 one-time setup fee and then $99/month or $249/three months after that. I... haven't decided what to do with it yet.
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May 6, 2021 22:51
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mutata posted:I have a key to this one now. It's a $600 one-time setup fee and then $99/month or $249/three months after that. I... haven't decided what to do with it yet. Get the three month subscription and open an SA Mart thread?
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May 6, 2021 23:07
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:EVGA is definitely selling/making 3080 XC3s, I got the XC3 ultra via their notify system. They even knocked it down to the original price it was going for when I joined the queue. There are three XC3 models, and they of course have only been selling the most expensive one of those. There's only like a 20 dollar difference but the people who picked either of the two lower-end versions are out of luck. According to the reddit spreadsheet one of them hasn't been shipped since December 21st, and the other has not shipped a single unit at all. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:49 on May 6, 2021 |
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May 6, 2021 23:45
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strangehamster posted:Get the three month subscription and open an SA Mart thread? Certainly an option! I think they let in a bunch of folks today, though, and now I'm concerned actual successful checkouts will be rarer. That's a pretty big overhead to make back with simple tips. You almost have to go full rear end in a top hat scalper just to break even.
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May 7, 2021 00:25
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I feel like this is exactly the path every grift takes. First you make the money by doing the thing, then you make the money by teaching someone else to do the thing when it's not worth your time anymore.
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May 7, 2021 01:53
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Alucard posted:I feel like this is exactly the path every grift takes. First you make the money by doing the thing, then you make the money by teaching someone else to do the thing when it's not worth your time anymore. Pretty much. It pays to be extremely wary of anyone that wants to share their secret of how to make money easily. If I found a money tree out in the woods I'm sure as poo poo not telling people where it is.
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May 7, 2021 01:56
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Alucard posted:I feel like this is exactly the path every grift takes. First you make the money by doing the thing, then you make the money by teaching someone else to do the thing when it's not worth your time anymore. i talked about this awhile back and i still think it's more or less true. CoolCab posted:i think mining is making a non-trivial chunk of demand don't get me wrong and particular cards were hit super hard (i want to say the 3060ti was a sweet spot for mining but i don't know enough to understand why) but i suspect the 30 launch would have been a total clusterfuck even had bitcoin remained a sparkle in satoshi nakamoto's eye. pandemic means demand for pc equipment has never been higher and has disrupted supply in various direct and indirect ways. honestly i suspect automated purchasing towards speculation is the particular new technological hotness that is driving this social ill. CoolCab posted:it is being democratized, i have heard that is the new innovation. bots are a bespoke artisanal service you rent or subscribe to - techniques developed for buying high end sneakers eventually gets applied to anything where there's a potential to gouge. bot maker gets a sizeable subscription fee without taking on any of the risk and lots of little guy mom and pop style scalper operations crop up to turn a few thousand bucks into a few thousand more. like, it's a good hustle in a post stimulus environment - lots of money sloshing around, lots of people are willing to take the risk for the reward of a good old fashioned gouge that people will be willing to, begrudgingly, afford. hell of an economic incentive for the programmers to build better bots - probably something of an arms race going on.
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May 7, 2021 02:12
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mutata posted:I have a key to this one now. It's a $600 one-time setup fee and then $99/month or $249/three months after that. I... haven't decided what to do with it yet. reverse engineer it and find out where their proxies are and if they appear illegal or part of a botnet, report 'em
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May 7, 2021 05:51
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Is ATR Stonks...gone? I can't find a link anywhere or the dude's youtube. NVM I'm dumb. Nerdspeak kept coming up when I googled it, but clearly that wasn't what I wanted 
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May 7, 2021 06:49
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What's the point of getting a 3090 instead of a 3080? What's the purpose of the RAM increase?
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May 7, 2021 07:09
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punk rebel ecks posted:What's the point of getting a 3090 instead of a 3080? What's the purpose of the RAM increase? You get the fastest video card on the market for double the cost of the second fastest video card on the market. For gaming it doesn't make sense at all, but I'm sure there's some niche situation where it's actually necessary
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May 7, 2021 07:11
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It's good for AI stuff
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May 7, 2021 07:13
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punk rebel ecks posted:What's the point of getting a 3090 instead of a 3080? What's the purpose of the RAM increase? The "point" of getting the 3090 is that when you take into account scalped prices, the scalping-percentage of a 3090 is lower than the scalping-percentage of a 3080, such that you're getting more bang-for-the-buck (as opposed to this NOT being true if you were buying the cards at MSRP)
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May 7, 2021 07:15
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punk rebel ecks posted:What's the point of getting a 3090 instead of a 3080? What's the purpose of the RAM increase? I guess for ML and people who do a lot of GPU-accelerated video production content it's pretty good for how much VRAM you get but yeah for gaming it is a horrendous value. Still glad I bought one in November though, better than dealing with the mess it is now
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May 7, 2021 07:16
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Shipon posted:Still glad I bought one in November though, better than dealing with the mess it is now Absolutely, I got one a while back, and a friend needs to upgrade now. I knew it was bad, but this is insane. The discord looks to be averaging about one 3080 drop a day.
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May 7, 2021 07:21
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Like I'd think with all that RAM the 3090 would be much less impacted by resolution bumps than the 3080.Bondematt posted:The discord looks to be averaging about one 3080 drop a day. I assume the odds of me actually getting a 3080 when it drops on the discord, even if I act quickly, is essentially zero?
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May 7, 2021 07:37
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punk rebel ecks posted:Like I'd think with all that RAM the 3090 would be much less impacted by resolution bumps than the 3080. Even at 4k with all the raytracing on, Cyberpunk 2077 uses like 9 GB of VRAM. It is bumping up rather close and I'm sure at 4k with all the bells and whistles on pretty soon it'll be an issue but anything below that still has a ways to go.
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May 7, 2021 07:40
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I sold a 1070ti for 3500 NOK. My second pc is now back to using 290x (nostalgic) but it just has to drive ham radio programs now. Cant wait to bubble bobble burst so i can swim in gfx cards.
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May 7, 2021 12:28
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This thread feels like hunting Varsoon the undying or jboots or some poo poo.
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May 7, 2021 14:50
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punk rebel ecks posted:So I just signed up for EVGAs line queue thing. When should I expect to be able to purchase my card? I signed up 2 days after they went live on the 3080 back in September. I was able to get a card myself through Best Buy before my queue spot hit. When it did finally hit back in February I gave my spot to a friend. Which card did you queue for? jisforjosh fucked around with this message at 15:18 on May 7, 2021 |
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May 7, 2021 15:12
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wet_goods posted:This thread feels like hunting Varsoon the undying or jboots or some poo poo. gently caress Drelzna, man. I know there are worse camps, but that was the only one I ever participated in. Hell I camped Fishbone Earrings on three chars and all three combined was about 10 minutes (the first two camps years apart the guy was 1) up when I got there, and 2) dropped on the kill!).
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May 7, 2021 16:25
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jisforjosh posted:I signed up 2 days after they went live on the 3080 back in September. I was able to get a card myself through Best Buy before my queue spot hit. When it did finally hit back in February I gave my spot to a friend. Three of the 3080s.
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May 7, 2021 16:46
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punk rebel ecks posted:What's the point of getting a 3090 instead of a 3080? What's the purpose of the RAM increase?
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May 7, 2021 16:47
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punk rebel ecks posted:I assume the odds of me actually getting a 3080 when it drops on the discord, even if I act quickly, is essentially zero? Correct. I dont know the situation now, but a few months back all the bots picked off the cards before you could get it into your cart.
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May 7, 2021 16:54
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Bondematt posted:Correct. I dont know the situation now, but a few months back all the bots picked off the cards before you could get it into your cart. The bots are picking off cards just as quick if not quicker.
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May 7, 2021 17:11
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slidebite posted:3080s go for 3090 prices (if you can get one) so why not? This is basically why I'm just going to ask for/buy the 3090 if I get offered one when I head into the EVGA step-up in the next week. I've been in the queue for a 3080, any 3080, there for over six months, and it'll probably be another six, at least, before I do otherwise, and I live in Canada, and don't have access to any of the under the table/"flexible" ways of getting one. This RX550 RED DRAGON POWER COLOR I had to buy to get my new PC running, which I had to build to replace my old one when it suddenly died, graphics card and all, in march, just...isn't cutting it. So yeah, even after buying a mouse I didn't need to get into the EVGA Elite program for the 3080ti, when it sells out immediately and the queue to sign up for one forms 4 to 6 months long in 30 seconds, if I can buy a 3090 first, then gently caress it. I'll buy one, and pay off the extra cost for the half/full year I'll have a modern GPU rather than not.
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punk rebel ecks posted:What's the point of getting a 3090 instead of a 3080? What's the purpose of the RAM increase? TBH, none of that really matters right now. Whichever card you can get without paying the 2x-3x resale tax is the right answer.
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