It tells you where you can get them from on the nVidia website. that's if anyone has any left:
Are there any rtx 3080s left in stock
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I didn't buy a 30 series card when I upgraded last November. I deliberately chose not to wait, like everyone told everyone to do. I'd decided it wasn't worth waiting because my pc was so old anything was an upgrade and the "just wait for xxx coming soon" is a game you could play forever. So I went against all the advice and got a Ryzen 7 3700x, 16gb @3200 ram and an RTX 2070 Super. I'm so happy I did that.
Doubly so because I now have a 3060 ti in my machine. The 2070 Super started failing just before Christmas, just over a month after I got it. It was covered by warranty but the original vendor no longer stocked it. So the current equivalent card of the same MRSP is the 3060 ti!
I had to wait, still. None of this got resolved over the Christmas period. So I've had to be patient. But the 3060ti was shipped to me within a few days of the order and I've now got a much better card. I went from having a Q6600 quad core cpu (2007), 6gb ram (@670 mhz) and gtx 670 gpu (2012) to this beast. Quite the upgrade.
Finally time to reinstall Elite, then try out the VR headset I got at christmas...
Doubly so because I now have a 3060 ti in my machine. The 2070 Super started failing just before Christmas, just over a month after I got it. It was covered by warranty but the original vendor no longer stocked it. So the current equivalent card of the same MRSP is the 3060 ti!
I had to wait, still. None of this got resolved over the Christmas period. So I've had to be patient. But the 3060ti was shipped to me within a few days of the order and I've now got a much better card. I went from having a Q6600 quad core cpu (2007), 6gb ram (@670 mhz) and gtx 670 gpu (2012) to this beast. Quite the upgrade.
Finally time to reinstall Elite, then try out the VR headset I got at christmas...
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If you play at 1080p Imo there is no need to upgrade from a midish end tier Pascal card unless you want to dabble with rayntracing.RTX 3000 series GPU is a myth that everyone heard but only few "lucky" ones saw. I don't think they actually exist for real. By the time they become available for the average human in the average retail store they will be obsolete and we going to use something newer. NVIDIA expects this "shortage" to last through half of 2021 (at least) and by then some of these GPUs going to be almost a year old, which in the modern computer terms almost eternity. Besides, don't really need them to begin with. I just built my new PC not too long ago: MSI MEG Z490 ACE, i7-10700K at 4.9 Ghz cooled by Noctua NH-D15, 16GB of RAM, 2.5 TB of NVME M.2, 1TB SATA SSD and I'm running my old GTX 1070Ti at 1080p (max resolution for my monitor) on max settings with no issues whatsoever. My FPS count probably not as high as it would be with RTX 3000 but my average human eye likes it as is and I don't really care about the actual numbers. I'll just wait until next year and better GPUs that I can actually buy with no hassle.
With my reverb G2 however my 1080ti is blowing out of its bum and I would.like to be able to game at 4k. Also I DO want to dabble with Ray tracing. I refuse.to pay scalper prices however. If need be I will skip this gen.
Would you care to DM me a 'personal review' of the G2, please? I'm certainly interested and am pretty certain you had a Rift / Rift S... Thanks!
Nvidia IS currently producing cards.
All A100s for industrial supercomputers. The margins in those cards is orders of magnitude higher than gamer chips so that’s the priority. I know they’re selling literally tens of thousands every month.
A single card is $12500 and the computer it comes in has 8 of these cards.....and most buyers are buying multiples of these systems. (typically 10 or more and some companies are buying them by the hundreds).
All A100s for industrial supercomputers. The margins in those cards is orders of magnitude higher than gamer chips so that’s the priority. I know they’re selling literally tens of thousands every month.
A single card is $12500 and the computer it comes in has 8 of these cards.....and most buyers are buying multiples of these systems. (typically 10 or more and some companies are buying them by the hundreds).
Happy to write up my thoughts but can't just now.
TLDR for.elite.Dangerous if you are happy to replace the included face gasket with a VR cover it's a no brainer.... But you need a good GPU to run it. I have a 1080ti and at vr medium it relies on reprojection a lot
Bitcoin miners, opportunistic bot buyers, maybe low output, Covid-interrupted part sourcing, the graphic card manufacturers gotta be loving this because it keeps prices high.
Luckily my 1070 works just fine.
Not worthwhile upgrading my rig, the next upgrade would require a new MB, memory, HDs, CPU, GPU, the full monty.
Luckily my 1070 works just fine.
Not worthwhile upgrading my rig, the next upgrade would require a new MB, memory, HDs, CPU, GPU, the full monty.
I got my fingers burnt a getting the RTX2080 TI when it first came out
First one blew up after 3 months and was replace under warranty, second one works great however fan spins up really loud when the temp hits a certain level, only way I can stop is to run the fans constantly at 65% which is still annoyingly loud. Have read its a design flaw and Nvidia drivers force the fans to spin up to stop the card from going bang ! Interested if anybody else has got round this (without fitting liquid cooling)
First one blew up after 3 months and was replace under warranty, second one works great however fan spins up really loud when the temp hits a certain level, only way I can stop is to run the fans constantly at 65% which is still annoyingly loud. Have read its a design flaw and Nvidia drivers force the fans to spin up to stop the card from going bang ! Interested if anybody else has got round this (without fitting liquid cooling)
Graphics card companies are heading down the Nintendo route of intentional scarcity it seems. Makes you wonder who owns the scalper accounts.
What a royal pain. Last night literally in the middle of being interdicted a message popped up in my VR headset of a 3080 stock alert.
Which meant I could not see.
Not only did I lose the interdiction (with a T9 full or cargo). By the time I sorted it out the 3080s were gone.
Which meant I could not see.
Not only did I lose the interdiction (with a T9 full or cargo). By the time I sorted it out the 3080s were gone.
Plus greedy chip foundries, AIBs, middlemen, console manufacturers, and gamers, of course.
You missed distributed computing, don't worry have not upgraded my machines for a while.
This one is running a pair of 1070ti's and my central heating is a water cooled monster with 4 1080's.
Run SETI for 20 years and still contributing to Einstein and occasionally when they have work Climate Prediction.
This one is running a pair of 1070ti's and my central heating is a water cooled monster with 4 1080's.
Run SETI for 20 years and still contributing to Einstein and occasionally when they have work Climate Prediction.
Running VR on a 1080 at the moment and would definitely like a new card. I was planning on waiting until everything had settled down a bit, but since I'll need a new computer anyway I've been wondering about just chucking in an order for a complete PC and sitting in a queue.
Maybe but I dare say there is not a single gamer on the planet who has a rig running.... 78 (from memory) 3080s whilst mining.
Now capitalism and all that however when people deliberately get around the 1 order per account per household limit using bots and sockpuppet accounts that is when I think they are taking the Mick. Mind you rumours are NV put aside 10,000s of GPU for a group of miners. I hope this isn't true.
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78 GPUs is a pretty modest mining farm, high-end home/hobbyist stuff. Commercial farms have thousands and generally have to source them direct from board makers or wholesalers...piecemeal acquisitions with bots and sock-puppet accounts wouldn't cut it.
The only reason GPU designers even care where any of their parts end up is that brand loyalty and media presence are easier to build in the retail segments, and the demand from this segment is usually reliable. Still, they aren't going to avoid lucrative contracts for other markets. They are also learning that paper launches generate just as much hype as real ones.
Most supply issues can be traced much further back than scalpers and small time miners hogging retail supply.
It sucks not being able to get parts. I have a system that is a year old that still doesn't have a GPU. I just don't see any sense in blaming market forces, claiming my gaming or whatever needs are somehow more legitimate than any other, or getting worked up because someone else is willing to pay a lot more for something than I am.
I've no intention of lining the pockets of scalpers on ebay gumtree or anywhere else. I naively thought 3080s would be available. Covid no doubt has a play on supply of components etc to make the boards.
So like other cmdrs I'll wait till it all calms down and get a new hmd instead hehe.
That Samsung one looks nice.
So like other cmdrs I'll wait till it all calms down and get a new hmd instead hehe.
That Samsung one looks nice.