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HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Do we know if Nvidia will sell their 30 Series FEs again in the future? How long are these usually available from them? Is it true they stopped selling them for the moment (on their own site)?
TriSuit666
Banned
‘There were some 3070’s available yesterday, but they sold out within 5 minutes.
Jack Videogames
Member
I snagged a nice priced 3070 to tide me while the shortages end (515€) and even though the 4k performance is not spectacular, 1440p performance is great - and DLSS is fucking black magic. Control goes from a slideshow to fluid 4k60
I originally thought this would last me until the mid gen refresh, but if DLSS becomes more commonplace, it can honestly last me the whole generation.
I originally thought this would last me until the mid gen refresh, but if DLSS becomes more commonplace, it can honestly last me the whole generation.
Patrick S.
Banned
IT HAPPENED 
I had been F5-ing Amazon.de for two months to the day, and then yesterday I saw the Zotac 3080 OC available directly from them, with an expected shipping date of November 26th. Price was "797,97 instead of 975".... yeah, that's €98 more than the €699 I had preordered the card for on launch day, but we all know what happened to those twenty thousand preorders... And some of you may remember that Amazon somehow deleted my Amazon balance of €700 I had set aside for it when I asked for a refund, and only my escalation mail to Jeff@amazon.com got me my money back. What an odyssey... And with my luck, and the Bundy Curse, the DHL van the card gets loaded in will probably explode on its way to me or be held up by corona for a week because the driver tests positive lol
Oh and after I'd bought the card, it was available for maybe one more minute, and went back to being out out of stock again. A couple of minutes later I got an E-Mail from Amazon, and I was like "FUCKKKK, THEY'VE CANCELLED MY ORDER AGAIN!", but no, the mail was a notification that the expected delivery date had changed from the 26th to the 19th or 20th. Nice
Prices are just crazy. A while after my purchase, two Zotacs became available again, but from a third party vendor and at like €1299 or so. Looking at Amazon.de now, even 3070s are €1000+ now... I'm so so so happy I happened to check for a card during the minute it was available.
Man, when that card arrives here, it's installed, the PC boots, and I've tested it for a while without any issues, I'm going to get drunk to celebrate or something
I had been F5-ing Amazon.de for two months to the day, and then yesterday I saw the Zotac 3080 OC available directly from them, with an expected shipping date of November 26th. Price was "797,97 instead of 975".... yeah, that's €98 more than the €699 I had preordered the card for on launch day, but we all know what happened to those twenty thousand preorders... And some of you may remember that Amazon somehow deleted my Amazon balance of €700 I had set aside for it when I asked for a refund, and only my escalation mail to Jeff@amazon.com got me my money back. What an odyssey... And with my luck, and the Bundy Curse, the DHL van the card gets loaded in will probably explode on its way to me or be held up by corona for a week because the driver tests positive lol
Oh and after I'd bought the card, it was available for maybe one more minute, and went back to being out out of stock again. A couple of minutes later I got an E-Mail from Amazon, and I was like "FUCKKKK, THEY'VE CANCELLED MY ORDER AGAIN!", but no, the mail was a notification that the expected delivery date had changed from the 26th to the 19th or 20th. Nice
Prices are just crazy. A while after my purchase, two Zotacs became available again, but from a third party vendor and at like €1299 or so. Looking at Amazon.de now, even 3070s are €1000+ now... I'm so so so happy I happened to check for a card during the minute it was available.
Man, when that card arrives here, it's installed, the PC boots, and I've tested it for a while without any issues, I'm going to get drunk to celebrate or something
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kiphalfton
Member
Fuck Zotac. Ordered my RTX 3080 on 11/5, contacted them on Friday about the Call of Duty code, and they still haven't sent it to me. Was hoping to play the game by Monday at the latest, but at the rate they're going they may not even respond until the end of the week. As a result I haven't even used my RTX 3080, as I wanted to wait until I got the CoD code to install it.
Patrick S.
Banned
Am I supposed to get one of those codes, too? What do I have to do to get it?
BluRayHiDef
Banned
LOL @ choosing to wait to use an amazing graphics card for one particular game but getting angry at the supplier of the game's redemption code because they're "prolonging" your lack of use of said graphics card.
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kiphalfton
Member
You bought from Amazon it looks like? Not sure if they include the game. I bought my RTX 3080 from zotac directly. Guess it couldn't hurt to email amazon CS and ask them.
GaviotaGrande
Banned
After yesterday's benchmark reviews of AMD cards is going to get even harder to get a 3000 series.
Patrick S.
- enjoy and share some pictures once installed! 
Patrick S.
- enjoy and share some pictures once installed!
BluRayHiDef
Banned
After yesterday's benchmark reviews of AMD cards is going to get even harder to get a 3000 series.
My advice to anyone would be to sign up for EvGA's notifiction queue; they'll eventually get back to you. I signed up on October 5th and they got back to me on November 9th.
Myths
Member
Give it here, I’m a Zotac man.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Stupid question: What is, in your opinion, a good price for a 3080 card? Obviously we're not getting anywhere near "MSRP" right now and in the foreseeable future..
regawdless
Banned
This is a very subjective question, depending on how budget limited you are. From what we've seen, these cards are all very close to each other. So max +-5% performance differences from the 700 FE to most OC cards which can easily cost 850 bucks.
I've paid 829 Euro (3080 Gainward Phoenix GS), but received my card like three weeks after launch so I was worth it for me.
But cards which cost 100 bucks less are just a couple percent slower.
Personally, I would not pay scalper prices or anything higher than 850 bucks. I would wait until stock gets better.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
At many German retailers, prices start at 880, and I have a feeling these won't go down - at all. For some reason German retailers are very "conservative", to put it kindly, when it comes to pricing such products. It seems in the US prices react much quicker and much more reliably to changes in the marketplace - demand and supply.
Starfield
Member
Yes you can, stop lying to yourself. Join telegram groups, get distill and let it run in the background/2nd monitor. That way you eventually catch a Founder's Edition drop.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
Thanks for the tip, distill already running since days. Not even once have I received a notification for Nvidias own storefront getting new stock for the FE. I'll keep trying.
Starfield
Member
use dedicated discords for drops and telegram groups. thats how i got the notification for a FE drop
TriSuit666
Banned
Seems there's been a big drop of 3090's, sites have them on open sale - Scan shifted a few 3070's overnight too, some queues dropped up to 50 places by the looks of things.
My frustration is now with Asus, those queues haven't moved for shit in the last month, moved 40 spaces in 4 weeks from 222 to 182
TriSuit666
Banned
Ooof, last check on my Zotac was position 51, but same it's only moved a few positions in that time.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
I can't believe it, I followed all of your recommendations and managed so get a 3080 FE for MSRP just a couple hours later at Germanys official Nvidia partner/reseller for these cards. Thanks a ton!
kiphalfton
Member
For what, a 3090?
EVGA is still working through the wait list requests for 9/17, for the 3080.
kiphalfton
Member
What's their CS like for RMA's (I don't have an RMA currently, just wondering)? I only ever buy EVGA and MSI stuff.
Starfield
Member
That sounds awesome!
I got one from Germany aswell. Notebooksbilliger.de to be precise
MSRP. Only a dipshit pays scalper prices.
kiphalfton
Member
3090 Kingpin notification will be going up soon apparently.
Weird thing is, isn't ampere crap in regards to overclocking? I assume it will cost $2k as well. Not sure who the audience here is, like 0.1% of pc gamers.
Weird thing is, isn't ampere crap in regards to overclocking? I assume it will cost $2k as well. Not sure who the audience here is, like 0.1% of pc gamers.
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Myths
Member
I’ve never had to deal with that, so I couldn’t tell you. But I would hope they provide reasonable CS for issues out of the consumer’s control.
People buy it cause they're dumb and want the top of the top card. Or they're extreme OCers who are going to add LN2.
Add the ASUS store as well if you didn't already, they sell at (near) MSRP.
Aesius
Member
Is a 3070 a good buy for 3440x1440?
Virtually every game I've seen will run at 60+ FPS with it at that resolution. But the 3080 pumps out a good 15-20 more frames for only $200 more.
Is the difference between 60 FPS and 80 FPS worth it? My monitor's refresh rate is 100 hz, so I can take advantage of it.
Virtually every game I've seen will run at 60+ FPS with it at that resolution. But the 3080 pumps out a good 15-20 more frames for only $200 more.
Is the difference between 60 FPS and 80 FPS worth it? My monitor's refresh rate is 100 hz, so I can take advantage of it.
BluRayHiDef
Banned
Yes, the 3090.
Allnamestakenlol
Member
Krappadizzle
Shitty angle and pic quality, but here she be.
There's a few more shots, including the case with the side panel up in an imgur album.
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Patrick S.
Banned
After yesterday's benchmark reviews of AMD cards is going to get even harder to get a 3000 series.
Thanks man
Pics:
1080p because my 4k screen is in another room right now. Max everything, DLSS off. (Forgot to rename a few things in the OSD, that's why it still says GTX 1080 in places
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MoneySings
Member
I've got the Trinity OC 3080 and it is great!
Patrick S.
Banned
What's weird is that on the website it says "Boost frequency: 1725 MHz", yet mine boosts to around 1900 MHz without me having touched any OC settings. Not complaining
My colleague, who was super envious of me getting the Zotac the other day, managed to grab an EVGA 3080 FTW from Alternate.de today for €979. The card was available for like a minute, as usual. Now I'm envious because I want that EVGA lol. Already told him I'll give him €200 plus my Zotac for it. He said he'll think about it, but in the end, I'm really happy with my card. Looks good, boosts nice, and after registering it with Zotac I have five years of warranty on it, which is awesome.
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Allnamestakenlol
Member
My EVGA (non-FTW) boosts up to around 1850 (sometimes higher), too, which is about 100mhz higher than advertised. It was a very nice surprise the first time I noticed.What's weird is that on the website it says "Boost frequency: 1725 MHz", yet mine boosts to around 1900 MHz without me having touched any OC settings. Not complaining
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regawdless
Banned
Does anyone know when Doom Eternal will receive it's raytracing patch? The devs promised it upon launch, but I haven't heard anything about it since then.
I did it ... *sniff ... next gen starts for me now too. Ive never been so happy to unfollow a twitter account. ive been refreshing amazon pages for weeks, checking different retailers etc. Had a couple close calls and my perseverance paid off. Now to test this bad boy for a couple weeks and assuming nothing blows up, sell my 1080 while it still holds some good value.
MoneySings
Member
I did it ... *sniff ... next gen starts for me now too. Ive never been so happy to unfollow a twitter account. ive been refreshing amazon pages for weeks, checking different retailers etc. Had a couple close calls and my perseverance paid off. Now to test this bad boy for a couple weeks and assuming nothing blows up, sell my 1080 while it still holds some good value.
Congrats! I got £385 for my 1080Ti - and the guy didn't even put an offer in!
Ya im thinking price it at around EUR 320ish and sell it on FB marketplace to avoid any EBay fees and get it done quickly. I just sold a 970 on there 2 weeks ago actually
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I gave up real quick selling anything on FB Marketplace. I got nothing but shady messages.
DanEON
Member
managed to get my Asus 3080 TUF OC to 2100mhz on 3DMark with +120mhz OC. But while gaming, it drops to 1950-1965mhz when on 99% load. Only stays at 2100mhz when on 90% or lower GPU load. So with +120mhz or +50mhz OC, I get the same 1950mhz while gaming. I think thats the power limit kicking in.
Armorian
Banned
Try undervolting while OC, you should stay below power limit more often
I bought my 2060 Super for ~1040PLN in september, now I can sell it for like ~1600PLN - what a time to be alive
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