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Honestly, I am thinking about cancelling my backorder that I have for a 3080 because of this. If nVidia has TIs hidden up their sleeves and reduce pricing I may get lucky by waiting a bit. 🤔 I am just now getting around to play Dragon Age Inquisition. My 2080 Super is overkill for that game 😂

$650 for the 6800XT $1000 for the 6900XT Hopefully this means nVidia will drop prices on the 3090s. They were already pretty shit value to begin with.

Glad to see AMD stepping up again! I would like to remind everyone that these benchmarks are done by AMD internally and may not reflect actual testing. The charts I have seen only provide minimal information about game settings and the test rigs. I only mention this because nVidia was guilty of saying the 3090 can do 8K when it can only do it in specific games with specific settings. Personally I am sticking with nVidia isince I want to mess around with some AI and the fact that I have a gsync monitor. The AMD cards sure do look like great value for people not in my circumstance!

Gotta say. The lack of 3080 and 3090 drops is getting annoying. There was a good one about 1.5 weeks ago at Best Buy but it has been primarily zilch since. I got my ass handed to me with Best Buy several times. Got to checkout multiple times and then denied. Makes me wonder if they are waiting on either the 3070 launch or even Big Navi to drop before any more big shipments are made.

It depends on what you intend to use it for. If you are like me and are thinking about messing around with AI it would be great to have. More memory also helps for rendering stuff. The 3080 actually failed some rendering benchmarks because it simply ran out of video memory. A 3080 with more memory would be a real good deal considering the 3090's flaccid performance.

Apparently TigerDirect is going to ship my card in mid-November. 😬 At least they told me.

If you still have your backorder in and it goes through let me know. I will buy it at cost from you.

I really do not see a reason to be angry. Slightly perturbed, sure. Unless you could use a 3090 for work I don't see a point in stressing about this to an extreme. The only reason I took the time to make a bot earlier was primarily because I wanted to see if I could. Ultimately these guys getting a bunch of cards doesn't really hurt the situation all that much anyway once you look at the full scale of things.

Yup, My 2080 Super will do just fine but I can see its limitations. I am not gaming at 4k but I do use an ultra-wide monitor so it needs to push more pixels than 1440p. 3440x1440 still keeps RDR2 in the mid 50 FPS range with some settings cranked up and others at medium.

Not at all. You arguably need it more than me. I am rocking a 2080 Super. Not exactly a slouch of a card. I would like to have a 3080 by Cyberpunk though. I think it is doable.

So I decided to give it one more go. It popped up in inventory at 9:48. I got to checkout with the same familiar not in stock message at the end. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-3080-10g-gddr6x-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card-black/6436223.p?skuId=6436223 I'm refreshing this at 10. Maybe it will drop here? edit: nope

I just got wrecked. The gigabyte guy posted the wrong link. Effed everyone in that reddit thread.

I turned off my bot to set it up for the gigabyte launch and the fuckers dropped other cards Apparently NewEgg turns on their bot detection for the big 3080 drops. It wasn't on the last 24 hours. Interesting. Oh well

Throw some water on it. It will get real quiet!

Password issue fixed! I should be good for the Gigabyte drop tonight. Aorus is supposedly launching at 9:00 or 9:30 EST

I'm going with him trolling us

, I don't even know if my bot will work in the end. I still have one unknown factor. That damn password. It *should* work. I can't really test it since I have to wait for the login to timeout.

Honestly, it has to be a PR thing. I can't tell you how many cards I had ready to go with minimal hesitation only to be sold out shortly after being added to my cart. No way those are human sales. Honestly at this point I don't feel bad for doing it. I am not paying a bot company and I am only getting a card for personal use.

I made my own bot. Some bot protections are an absolute joke. One retailer can just be brute forced to bypass capchta. I almost snagged a 3080 last night but I didn't realize it would need a random password after some time

At least there hasn't been a Kate moment yet

Yeah, If I end up with a 3090 chances are I will need a new PSU as well. 850 watts may not cut it anymore.

The cap thing was a part of the overall picture.

nVidia just had some drop on their store. Gone before my browser even loaded. There is no way that was anything but bots. One would think a tech company could figure this out.

I know right? That is why what I did may have been incredibly stupid