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A new video card (3080Ti or 3090) is what is annoying me. Been tracking them for months, no chance of getting one at a reasonable price. While flippers are involved, there are multiple factors, including the supply chain but the main one being cryptomining.
Quoted from Spyderturbo007:Do you sign up for the NewEgg shuffle? Took me months to pickup a 3080 Ti and still ended up paying about $1,730 for the damn thing.
I’m on the shuffle. Prices are still too high, I refuse to pay that. I’ll wait.I definitely have had multiple chances to get the Ti for around that price.
Quoted from Zablon:YOu're telling me. I was looking at finally buying a new card right before COVID, and of course playing the 'next gen is coming so current gen will go down'....what a mistake that was.
At the end of the day though, I don't really need one. I've been using the same PC for the last 8 years (2500k @ 4.2 and 290x) and it still runs 99% of things at 1440p on med-high settings. Long in the tooth? Sure, but still completely usable.
Mine is 9 years old, i7-3770k, updated to all SSD, and a GTX 1060. It still runs along fine, and I use it all day every day for work and production. Given how well it runs, in my view Moore’s Law is long dead. As far as gaming, I don’t do too much modern gaming. It runs most of the stuff I have at 1080p maxed out, or even 4k. I do have the new MSFS, that one does give it a run.
My plan is to finally upgrade over the next two months. I’ll go to an Alder Lake CPU with DDR5 ram. But I’ll stay on the 1060 as long as I need to, I’m not paying these scalper prices.
Quoted from EJS:In my area it's 1 GPU per customer per month. IF you can even get lucky once a month.
I’m near Microcenter, I probably should put some more effort in there but I’m busy right now and don’t have time for the chase. I just checked the local store, they have a 1080Ti on the shelf right now. But the price is 2k. I’m not paying 2X list. Scalpers, all of them.
Added over 2 years ago:Addendum, meant 3080Ti, not 1080Ti
Quoted from wisefwumyogwave:I went to my local Target Friday morning with my wife right when they opened and there was a line of about four or five people they look like basic Bros from the nearby University turns out they were waiting in line for Pokemon cards along with one older dude and the guy came out from Target and said they changed their policy and Pokemon cards are randomly refilled throughout the week they were pretty pissed off that they couldnt flip.
I live near Target and go there a lot. I had noticed many times I went there would be all these people lined up outside the door, and I wondered that the heck they were doing there. Then, I found out it was for Pokemon cards. Then, there were fights in the store over the Pokemon cards. Then, Target stopped selling Pokemon cards in the stores. No more lines, no more fights.
My son was a huge Pokemon fan when he was a little squirt in the 1990s. Probably somewhere in the attic is a stash of those old original Pokemon cards, not sure if those relate to what they are trading these days or if they are worth anything. Also up there are tons of Power Rangers toys, Bionicles, and I don't even want to think about how much Lego.
Quoted from jackd104:Try New Egg Shuffle. Daily fair random drawing for new video cards at close to retail prices.
I’m on it, but prices are too high. I haven’t seen anything close to retail. More like double retail.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:OOOF! Have you been there lately? They're remodeling the entire store all at once!
I drive by the store in Tustin quite a lot but haven't stopped in for a while. I may be going over there somewhat soon, I probably will finally move to a new computer, based on an Alder Lake CPU/DDR5/Gen 4 SSD. The video card will still have to wait until I can get one at a more reasonable price. I'll have to shove in my GTX 1060 for now.
It would be nice if the remodel had several shelves filled with 3080Tis and 3090s. FEs, at list price that is.
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