Graphics Nvidia 3xxx series thread

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by The_Crapman, 6 Jun 2020.

  1. adidan

    adidan Guesswork is still work

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    "So how much is a 4080?"
    "4080"
    "Yes, how much is a 4080?"
    "4080. It's £4080"
     
  2. Goatee

    Goatee Multimodder

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    That’s the pre vat price!
     
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  3. oasked

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    Wow! That's bonkers. :lol:

    I regret not buying the FE 3090 months ago when I had the chance - but I couldn't justify £1399 at the time.

    My 3070 is slowly mining away re-couping some of my investment.... £500 to go :hehe:
     
  4. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Same, I remember looking at the 3090FE buy page for ages! I wish I'd just done it! Would have paid itself off by now!
     
  5. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    +1.
    "Wait around until there is a decent selection of AIB versions" was the worst HW related decision I've made in a long time.
     
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  6. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    i can pick up a PNY XLR8 3060Ti 8GB for about £470

    is it worth it ?

    i game at 1080 but might upgrade to 1440 at some point, just thinking is the 8GB enough

    i dont usually upgrade for 2-3 years so paying a big chunk of cash like this needs to be well spent.
     
  7. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    If you aren't fussed about 4K then the 8GB won't be a problem.

    In the current market £470 for a 3060TI is a good deal.
     
  8. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    There was a FE drop at around 09:10 this morning, but any attempt to go to Scan's page gave an "Access Denied" error from Cloudflare!

    :wallbash:
     
  9. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    I was wondering why just trying to check my wish lists was lagging into the ground, I guessed something was up!
     
  10. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    And i just had a thought, there's an easy was to overcome all of these bots and the like, only allow purchases from accounts older than 2 years... Nvidia could do it via Geforce Experience account, only allow FE to be bought with accounts older than 2 years. Instantly you can halt multiple purchases, scalping, and bots. Hacking of accounts would sky rocket however...
     
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  11. Anfield

    Anfield Multimodder

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    Overclockers still has some 3090s if you are desperate to say goodbye to 2400+ of your finest quid...
     
  12. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    Yep, been having loads of alerts over the last week!
     
  13. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Not happy with that solution.
    Some of us game quite successfully by installing the raw drivers instead of Geforce Experience bloatware.
     
  14. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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    Hell, I can't install the GeForce Experience bloatware - my 2080's in a Linux desktop!
     
  15. IanW

    IanW Grumpy Old Git

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    Same, but 1080.
    I used to dual boot, hence the "raw driver" comment, but since I got Star Citizen working with Lutris (It installs via a script from Lutris' site), I don't bother anymore.
    The Windows partition still exists (for now).
     
  16. bawjaws

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    Yay, more arbitrary gatekeeping. Wouldn't prevent scalping either.
     
  17. Bloody_Pete

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    It would if you were limited to one card per account...
     
  18. fix-the-spade

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    It wouldn't stop that,, there would just be a million accounts belonging to the same handful of addresses. Have a bot to buy, have the bot create unique accounts too.

    Short of having people physically turn up to collect their cards and present photo ID I don't see how to stop scalpers. Only a crash in the price of crypto will stop them.
     
  19. Bloody_Pete

    Bloody_Pete Technophile

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    As I said, you limit it to accounts that have been active for min 2 years...
     
  20. Fizzban

    Fizzban Man of Many Typos

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    When the silicon market comes back to normality, will the prices? Or will some of us be left in the cold because some people pay those dumb prices?
     

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