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edit: nevermind It seems like I had some wrong info, according to their forums they're still way behind on shipping. New EVGA.com Notification Checkout Process (Page 82) - EVGA Forums FORUMS.EVGA.COM We have made some changes to the checkout process for EVGA.com 30 Series orders. Now we are using a queue based notification system. To sign up, use the notification button on the product you would like to be notified for. For everyone who already used the notify button previously, you are alre... Re: New EVGA.com Notification Checkout Process 56 minutes ago Just got the email for a FTw3 Ultra! 9/17/2020 7:27:17 AM PTYes

All my friends on discord are playing this turd and several of them have already spent a boatload. I tried to delicately and politely tell them that they're contributing to what will imho be the death of gaming (without legal intervention). I don't have a problem with microtransactions but the gambling aspect needs to fucking go away. Its scummy and incredibly harmful to certain individuals (and especially kids) but it also sets poor precedent for future monetization of AAA games. This is unfortunately the future we have to look forward to.

This is a very likely scenario. JS asks some low level employees and they say no choice given, but meanwhile behind the scenes the people 1 or 2 levels higher did have a meeting and decided crunch vs delay. Both reports are techincally correct but missing important details. Much easier to democratize 20 team leads vs 1,100 individuals.

So I'm very much against the exploitation of workers, and by all accounts the VG industry is among the worst, I've had friends in the industry and it sounds incredibly stressful. Having said that this Jason guy always comes off as a colossal douche with his 'holier than thou' smarminess. He might be taken more seriously and be given more respect if he went with the 'honey' instead of the 'vinegar' approach.

So far so good after swapping out the old PSU with the Seasonic, still need to run more tests but I just ran furmark for 30 minutes and no crashes at the factory OC setting (1800mhz) It was insta-restarting before. @stepee Seasonic has a 12 year manufacturer warranty if you decide to go that route.

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Does yours crash all the way to a system reboot aswell? I'm faily certain psu is the cause because of this (windows log critical error 41 kernal power). Mine crashes almost instantly in 1440p in any newish game unless i lower the clocks by an absurd number like 400mhz. I'm going to try to swing by micro center today to pick up a new psu see if it resolves the problem

My card crashes/restarts my pc under load, think my psu cant handle the spikes. Its an 850watt gold but it's a pretty meh brand (cooler master) and it's 8 years old (only saw 1.5 years of usage though). Time to drop another $200

I think it'll garner mostly low 90's but considering the expectations that would probably be a colossal disappointment to many. I simply don't see it redefining a genre in the way that the Witcher 2 & 3 did, but I don't think it needs to in order to be a tremendous game. Even if it's basically just a GTA / Deus Ex hybrid I'm totally on board for that.

I can't go to MC most days because of work but I have a few friends who have been going and the closest store gets between 2-15 cards ~4-5 days a week now. If you can get there by around 7:30-8ish (maybe 9 depending on how big a city you're in) you'll definitely get one in the next few weeks. Wednesday they got 2 Strix, Thurdsay they got 4 MSI, Today they got 15 total (EVGA, Tuf, Strix)

And now my watch has ended. Lets gooooooooooooooooo

I wasn't suggesting that you in particular aren't being GPU bottlenecked, you obviously are but in general it's very CPU intensive. The engine is by no means masterpiece and deserves most of the blame, GTA also runs really poorly in comparison to similar sandbox games.

RDR2 isn't a great benchmark for GPU as it gets CPU bottlenecked pretty hard. Also Ampere sees biggest percentage increases in 4K, the 2080ti actually outperforms it at 1080p in many instances. The combo of these things leads to pretty meh performance, but yeah 60+fps @1440p is solid if a little underwhelming.

Soooo yeah pretty ****ing scummy, you might want to stop buying MSI products. More here: https://youtu.be/X9r0DNNpyTA

Some reddit detectives did some digging and have found some very interesting/upsetting news: MSI might be scalping their own cards.

If you all haven't done so already (hopefully you have) jump over to evga site immediately and sign up for auto-notify. I signed up before launch so I should be pretty high in the queue. EVGA continues to prove why they're GOAT.

I didn't care much about cyberpunk, it always looked great but just seemed like a fever dream in the extremely distant future, but now that we're finally a month away after all these long years I'm starting to get hyped. I'm not going to allow myself to fall victim the the extremely lofty expectations that others have set for it, I'll judge it on it's merits.

correct.

Also it doesn't make sense to pick parts now if you're not going to purchase them for 8 months because things change quickly in the tech world, there might be something that's newer, better, AND cheaper 8 months from now. Perfect example: the 3080 is newer, better, and WAY cheaper than the 2080ti. So if you had planned a build a months ago you'd be overpaying for an overpriced underpowered card.

Fair enough and yeah I wasn't trying to suggest it was bad idea or that mine was better, just that I know how hard these things are to get unfortunately and using every tool at your disposal is the best way to ensure success. We want the same thing buds to get cards

I haven't been around in quite awhile but I've been part of this community for like 2 decades bud, back when most people here used to post on IGN PCGB/CB.

I was obviously being hyperbolic apologies if it seemed agressive, not my intent. But you're suggesting to manually refresh numerous pages on the hour every hour and also randomly at other times is easier and less stressful then following a discord server one time, setting up a page monitor 1 time, and then having them just automatically notify you when it's in stock? I don't really know how to respond to that, it's baffling to me. I conceded that apple pay/the app is great, because it automates checkout, so why wouldn't you want to automate locating the product in the first place? Like I guess you're getting tons of false reports? If you set it up right that's not an issue, I get 1 or 2 a day when a site crashes due to traffic but that's it.

Not upset, but you're using anecdotal evidence as fact. "I got a card therefore it's easy and everyone will get one" It happening on the hour was pure coincidence. You're giving people bad advice and false hope by suggesting otherwise.

Buddy... I dare you to try and get another one. There are 10,000 people in this discord server trying to get one and everyone who is able is using apple pay, following the discord, set up distill/page monitor, etc. etc. With no luck, there are 270 confirmed orders out of 10k people Again you just got really really lucky. And yes apple pay on the newegg app is definitely one of the better methods as confirmed by newegg themselves and some people on the server who have had success but you're quite litterally putting all your eggs in one very very very small basket. I got a 3080 order in also by using page monitor, it just happens to be shipping later than yours. I'm just trying to help people get cards and keep them out of the hands of scalpers but you're making it sound way way easier than it actually is for most people.

That's the thing though, you just got really lucky, these drops are completely random and most definitely not happening on the hour. I'm happy it worked for you but that's not going to work for most people.