Nvidia RTX Discussion

If you are looking to get a card at the "official" retail price, it's virtually impossible. If you're happy to pay the going prices, there are quite a few retailers with stock.

For a 3080 it's something stupid like €1,300 for a just OK one. It's really just insane.

I'm swinging back to the idea of giving the brother the 6700K (OC'd to 4.6ghz), Z170-A Mobo, 16GB 3000mhz DDR4 and its looking like an RTX3070. Did the currency and tax calculations and your looking at €1000-€1100 so even if I could find 3070ti's in stock anyway the price would be too high. The prices for 3070's are insane but at least the insane S/H prices I should be able to get for my spare GTX1080 and RTX 2060 would offset most of it. Caseking.de have literally nothing in Stock. OCUK seem to have a decent amount of stock of some RTX3070's but they are working out around €1100. Has anyone any other suggestions in Europe for RTX3070's?

(Sure that brother will eventually get my 5900X and RTX3090 in a few years anyway when I upgrade to a Zen 4+ or Zen 5 or whatever Intel has at the time if they are back to beating AMD significantly and whatever the performance KING GPU is at the time whether AMD or nVidia)

Deleted post as mind changed again

There was MSI Ventus 3070TI's for €979 for 2 days there but I procrastinated too much and when I went to order they were gone after having still had stock when I went down to cook dinner this evening. Ended up getting a Gigabyte 3070 OC for €949 @ €100 cheaper than the other 3070TI's they had in stock none of which would have fitted in the particular HTPC formfactor case I'm building this PC in. The Gigabyte 3070 being smaller but still a decent size triple fan cooler will give me several mounting options. Regardless, from a certain point of view it'll end up being a close to zero net cost as I'll get close enough to that for my spare GTX1080 and RTX2060.

Regarding previous posts, I priced some 10 and 11 series 8c16t Intels now that it turns out my brother is serious about the oul photography and he and his fiancee even have an Adobe Suite sub and are running Lightroom, and Photoshop and all that on her several year old mobile GTX 1060 equipped laptop. Fecks Sake. You'd be looking at €600 still for a 10th or 11th gen CPU and Mobo!!

Now that some 12900K's have made it into the wild early from leaky retailers, it seems that its going to give AMD an ass-whoopin in Single Core, <8 core optimised multi threaded applications and gaming performance and only in overall heavily multithreaded performance will the 5950X maintain a lead....and pricing is looking to be about €100 cheaper than a 5950x.

Given I am more the Heavy Gamer and VR Simmer, gaming performance is more important to me but my brother could really take advantage of the 12c24t of my 5900x, I think I am back to the idea of picking myself up a 12900K and new mobo, and giving my brother the x570 mobo and 5900x (that I never ended up ever using because my PC remains unbuilt due to workload.) LOL. Thats it though, I've paid him back for all he's ever done for me now. I owe him Nuthin' now! LOL

Gonna be a powerhouse Beast of a little PC I'll be building him to fit in his IKEA TV unit for Hobby and Play. A real Stealth Performance Machine.....unless I decide to add a Sensor Panel to the front!! LOL.

Mine is as well. Although my internet is gone to pot since the storm..:(

Ye, its a pity the games list is not stronger.

Using EU West all of the time but unplayable at the moment. My internet that usually gives me 55mbps has reduced to about 15mbps over the last few days.

okay this geforce now 3080 is some sort of magic, cyberpunk is definitely running at 60fps if not more (cant confirm as theres no in build fps counter) at 1440p ultra ray tracing settings, is a 3080 supposed to be able to do that? and the lag is non existent. I'm sold.