NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

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Malakriss

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Feels more amazing when you buy something on sale/misprice and a year+ later you still can't get it for cheaper.
 
spronk

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my steam deck cost less than your GPU and i can play all the exact same games as you while i'm on the toilet
 
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Regime

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Chimney said:
Personally I've put ~3k hours of work, ~4k+ hours of gaming (hard to tell when work/gaming hours overlapped often on slow days), ~1k hour of watching movies/shows on this PC since buying in March '21. Waiting 1.5 years to save $500 would bring far less joy and kept me as some poor gamer person living a disgusting 1080p/1440p lifestyle. I also would not have learned to love using a 48" OLED primary monitor.

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Yeah zero regrets with all those hours to save $400-500 nah we made the baller call.
 
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Chimney

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Playing games on a tiny screen with middling hardware in an unsanitary closet.

The Gamer Dream.
 
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Otto

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My 2080 ti crapped out last September. I could've got a 3090ti with what I paid Amazon (Amazon not a third party) for my 3080ti. :(

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Mist

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Malakriss said:
Feels more amazing when you buy something on sale/misprice and a year+ later you still can't get it for cheaper.
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lol yeah I got my 980 for $270 because I emailed the Best Buy manager to ask if they pricematched Microcenter, then walked into the Best Buy with the email and some in-store only crazy flash sale they had on Microcenter. A couple years later I sold that 980 for more than I paid for it in the first place, got a 1080, which Amazon then delivered to the wrong address, 4 days early, without a delivery notification, just before a hurricane, so they gave me a gift card for the full price when I showed them the soggy box I found in my neighbor's bushes.
 
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Lenas

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spronk said:
if you buy an evga 3070 when 4070 dates are fixed so you are within 60 days of 4070 release in theory you should be able to use evga's stepup program to get in egva's MSRP queue upgrade program. only problem is waiting, plus their program requires you to first send in your old card, pay the $$ difference, then they send you the new card. So thats 2-3 weeks without a GPU.
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I did this last generation with a 2070 -> 3070 upgrade. The wait was something like 6 months but once I got approved for the process it went really quickly and I was without my GPU for less than a week.
 
Malakriss

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Labor Day weekend is all about pushing 3080 Ti and above, since it would compete with the 4090s

Near radio silence for anything below that.
 
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Mist

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Malakriss said:
Labor Day weekend is all about pushing 3080 Ti and above, since it would compete with the 4090s

Near radio silence for anything below that.
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Those were always the chips marked up with the highest margins, so they have the most room to come down.

Once yields on the high end SKUs were good enough, basically all production went into the high end SKUs, so they have both a lot of them, and a lot of wiggle room to lower the price.
 
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Wish I knew more about the 4000 series. Specifically the power load and the amount of cooling I will need. I have a rtx 2080 in an older system. Going to build a new system soon that is future proofed for DDR5, pcie 5, etc. when the new amd / intel chips come out.

I like a quiet system and build accordingly. But the 3000 series is a heat beast with screaming fans. If the 4000 series is more of the same, but worse, then I'm tempted to just buy a couple of 3090's while they are cheap and sli them (good for multi monitor setups).

The price drops that are coming for the 3000 series could be very juicy. But if the 4070 is faster than the 3090 ti (current rumor), it would still be wasted money.
 
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