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Nvidia RTX Discussion
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I've "successfully ordered" a few cards from Amazon over the last few months including a RXT3060TI, then it was cancelled as where others. In the end I decided to go with AMD direct, where after a number of weeks I managed to get a RX6700XT and the following week a RX6800. In my experience and based on comments from others on discord it seems Amazon can oversell and orders can be cancelled a lot, so even if you managed to get order in it'll be more than likely cancelled. One guy on discord over the last 5 months successfully order 23 times, all but one was cancelled.
Amazon is very heavily botted, so any product that comes into stock is gone really quickly, usually before any part alert sounds. You're best hope is to be fortunate enough to get a card which has not been previously sold by amazon. As it's a new product its product code won't be targeted by the bots.
Having said all that and while It's very very hard and very frustrating to get anything it can be done eventually, but a lot of luck is required and in some cases you will not pay any thing like RRP. You'd probably get it you when you least need it
It most likely will be cancelled
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Confused11811 wrote: »Having said all that and while It's very very hard and very frustrating to get anything it can be done eventually, but a lot of luck is required and in some cases you will not pay any thing like RRP. You'd probably get it you when you least need it
In all fairness RRP is pretty much a joke at this point, especially on the nVidia side for higher end cards like the 3080 and 3090 - not only the retailers and distributors jack up the prices 'cause they know they still sell, often the manufacturer themselves sell at scalper levels: there's an ASUS model of the 3090 (don't remember the specifics, but nothing with a fancy cooler or liquid, a pretty basic one) that I get notifications about almost on a weekly basis...sold at 2300 Euro, directly by Asus.0 -
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Let's be honest. Nvidia knows that if/when the mining boom crashes, there'll be a shedload of GPUs suddenly available again on the second-hand market. I think this move is good PR yes, but also mainly to mitigate those future losses to that second-hand market.
True that, but these can't be really considered "lost sales", as these GPUs where in the hands of people (miners) who wouldn't buy them otherwise, while a gamer buying an "ex-miner" RTX card, would've bought it new back in October anyway. nVidia (and/or the other OEMs) already got the money from these sales.
Additional sales with the new "low hashrate" cards, to gamers still waiting for some stock, well that's indeed a goal. Would be frankly hilarious if miners were saddled with used cards nobody wants in the long run
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I managed to sneak a 3080 FE from scan in December last year,seriously tempted to move it onto a miner and then wait till I can get a card closer to msrp down the road.
I was reluctant to spend €700+ on just a GPU but it's getting even harder to not think about selling it for double that price. Hard to justify keeping something that has a value so high when all I use it for is games.
Try get a current RX6800 AMD card, sell The FE to a miner for double or more than you paid. That'll pay for the new AMD card and leave you with about 800-1000euro. When the limited RTX come available the miners will want AMD cards so the value of them will jump through the roof, try get a LHR Nvidia RTX card, sell the RX6800 for double the cost of the new LHR Nvidia RTX card. 0 -
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I managed to sneak a 3080 FE from scan in December last year,seriously tempted to move it onto a miner and then wait till I can get a card closer to msrp down the road.
I was reluctant to spend €700+ on just a GPU but it's getting even harder to not think about selling it for double that price. Hard to justify keeping something that has a value so high when all I use it for is games.
I got a new 6900 XT on an AMD store drop a few weeks ago. All I use it for is games. Really loving playing Control on it at the moment with ray tracing. I had a Vega 56 previously. I know it was expensive and I only play games, but really loving it right now. I wouldn't dream of selling it
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57105368
Especially not when I read this kind of article! Chip shortage could end sooner of course, then again it might not. I just wouldn't risk it.0 -
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Sesshoumaru wrote: »I got a new 6900 XT on an AMD store drop a few weeks ago. All I use it for is games. Really loving playing Control on it at the moment with ray tracing. I had a Vega 56 previously. I know it was expensive and I only play games, but really loving it right now. I wouldn't dream of selling it
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57105368
Especially not when I read this kind of article! Chip shortage could end sooner of course, then again it might not. I just wouldn't risk it.
Good for you - I frankly agree with your position and are baffled by the current trend that anything computer wise has to have a "return", i.e. make money. It's a really unhealthy way to think and causes undue buyer's remorse - another unwelcome consequence of damn crypto. If you wanna buy something purely for entertainment and can afford it, go for it.
I mean, nobody tells people buying 2000 Euro TVs "how are you going to make the money back off of it?", do they? 0
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