Start spamming the nvidia store page from 9am on a friday- should link you to Scan if they have a drop on that day (it's usually a friday). Make sure your billing and shipping address match, or they'll reject your order if you get through, and good luck.
And even when your billing and shipping addresses do match they'll still cancel your order and claim there's an issue with your shipping address. I had to order using a credit card because they rejected 6 attempts using a debit card.
In been given an opportunity to buy A FE 3080 for £700 plus by FE GTX 1080. Good deal? I'm on the fence
It's a monster upgrade, for sure. Is it a good deal? 1080FE goes for £300 on the bay and maybe £250 here. Strictly speaking, you're paying over the odds for a used card and giving yours away for free. Obviously, assigning a high used value to the 1080 should mean you do the same with the 3080, but the 3080 is still technically available at MSRP. So, no, it clearly isn't a good deal. However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't go for it, but have you given up on a FE drop at Scan? Only you can decide if this is worth the premium, to YOU. F**k what anyone else thinks about the deal.
Work has been waiting for a machine from Scan with a 3080 for around 5 or 6 months at this stage, so it looks like they're so rare as to basically be EOL! Also it looks like Scan has a fairly large selection of 3xxx series cards now for what feels like MSRP (for these particular cards, remember Nvidia can't set MSRP for 3rd party manufacturers). Everthing above 3070 has a scattering of stock!
I'd take that in a flash personally.... A few months of crypto crunching would make up the difference... Plus I'm trying to do modern game dev on a 1080, which is gross!
I'm meeting him today. My 1080 has issues with the display ports which I was completely honest about. They work fine so long the cable is angled slightly upwards. He said he appreciates the honesty and fine to go ahead. He sent a video of his 3080 working in his fancy pc so all good to go.
Done, tested and working good. Fare bit of coil whine but i understand it's really rare to get one without it apparently.
Yeah, I've noticed it with a lot of power system at work (both off the shelf and ones I've designed) that the reference designs have a lot of coil whine these days, so its probably just them not bothering to do more than reference designs...
The FE isn't a reference design though. I can't say I've noticed coil whine on mine, but I usually wear headphones when gaming.
Same here, but I also wear headphones and I've got the CPU cooler cranked up high in this weather. The Wraith Prism gets a tad loud on high...
Sorry, I should clarify, in electronics, any device you get, like a swicting 5v regulator has a reference design. They seem to go for frequencies that resonate in the audible spectrum of sounds far more these days than they use to. We have some evaluation boards (basically electronics reference sold for testing) that make all of the noises!
What is the MSRP for the 3060ti, googling it seems to be about £400. Currys prices aren't much above this at the moment and have the option to buy now pay later, no stock of course though.
Looks like even Currys are on the gouge now though. PNY GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB XLR8 Gaming REVEL LHR £870. Got my non LHR for £650. a lot of 3080 for £900-£1k. Not that they have many on anything in stock, but if they do, It's a bit steep.
Need to add on actually designing and manufacturing and marketing... The Nvidia MSRP is basically BS. It'd be like ARM giving phones MSRP's...
