So is the January nvidia chinwag a 3080Ti reveal? I'd rather they only do reveals on stock TBH. This current round of gpus feels dead to me at the moment due to pricing/availabilty.
Yeah, I was going to avoid RTX till later in the year. But the itch got the best of me. Plus 1440p with 1070 I needed the upgrade. It's all happening at the worst time, but also as other have said people have that free income as holidays are cancelled and that money is going into new hardware.
I'm still plodding on with my 1080 at 1440p. I was planning on upgrading to coincide with Cyberpunk but as it stands i've yet to do either.
I made the fatal mistake of joining the Part Alert Discord and someone called Scan yesterday about something else and was told that 3000 series was coming into stock for call purchases only. Bulk of stock is to cover pre orders only. Cyberpunk ran alright on my 1070 at 1080p. Now not so much and I wanted an upgrade. 1070 being 4 years old.
Nice upgrades. I’m exactly same, this year has seen thousands saved, plus over £1000 spent on a new computer, another grand and half on 2 new iPhones and many other smaller tech stuff. No wonder new graphics card and consoles are sold out. A lot of people have the same extra new found wealth.
I could have saved the money but went and bought stuff. This isn't even the most expensive thing I bought this year. Sony Alpha II I got a deal on through Amazon Warehouse.
Possible, although rumours have been pointing more towards February rather than January for new variants.
I'd like to think it's a "yay there's plenty of stock" but it's probably a "here's a mobile * yawn * gpu lineup"...
Last I heard was that "availability" wouldn't be until the end of February, because Chinese New Year. Also, Lenovo are listing desktop PCs with RTX 3060 12GB, RTX 3050 Ti (6GB), and RTX 3050 (4GB) GPus.
So turns out someone at Scan messed up. 3080 deliveries where meant to be for Pre Orders etc. This was missed when stock information was provided to Customer Services at Scan. So yesterday morning between 9-10am lots of 3080's got sold till it got caught. 3060ti's and 3070's available to buy. Mine arrived this morning. Just installed it into my system. Now to turn on CP2077 and see how it does.
Be interesting to see how it handles CP at 1440p Dom. It may tempt me in to hunting one down sooner rather than later.
Well with my i5 it's not too bad. I need to play with settings and see what I can get out of it. Then will see about getting a solid benchmark. Don't want to double post. Have ran Unigine Heaven a few times in Asus GPU Tweak Gaming Mode 100% Power Limit and OC Mode which is 108% Power Limit. Max temp I have seen is 64c briefly. Room is about 25-30c (rough guess). Fan speed was left at default which is think ran them to around 50%. Below is the last benchmark results.
Here's a whole bunch of variants of cards that you'll find tricky to buy and may miss out on as you decide on whether you need the Ti, Ultra, Super, Dooper or Starship Trooper version.
Asus have "helpfully" decided to increase their prices. https://www.techpowerup.com/276796/...ses-prices-of-graphics-cards-and-motherboards
Scalpers drive up prices in the channel, the added prices are higher profits at re-seller level, manufacturers realising they can do the same and take some of the money back from the retailers making a bomb.. remember MSI did similar already.. Why are we surprised?
It is but not to the level shown in that pricing. I've been in etailers with SI wings who have stock and are not fulfilling back orders as they would rather sell systems. It's pretty poor really.
It's not really inflation. Apparently GPUs and stuff were not taxed in Trump's new China duties thing but are now. https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...-process-and-technical-amendments-chinas-acts
