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[bikrboy128]

westmont MC had 32. confirmed that today when i was there.

did they have an eta when they'll get more stock?

 

[PANDA]

So... this 3080 is $699 and is 70-90% faster than the 2080?

I have been out of the PC game for way to long... How much faster is 2080 verses 1080?

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

westmont MC had 32. confirmed that today when i was there.

Micro Center’s advantage there, is that you have to show up in person to pick up the product. So if you show up and ask for 32 cards they will look at you strangely

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So... this 3080 is $699 and is 70-90% faster than the 2080?

I have been out of the PC game for way to long... How much faster is 2080 verses 1080?

You can ballpark it at about 50% faster in just about everything, and between 70 and 90% faster in some games

 

[muskie]

Micro Center’s advantage there, is that you have to show up in person to pick up the product. So if you show up and ask for 32 cards they will look at you strangely

They also increase the price after the first item for popular new release products to curb the scalping. Sure they'll sell 32 cards to you but the extra markup isn't going to make it profitable.

 

[syP]

So... this 3080 is $699 and is 70-90% faster than the 2080?

I have been out of the PC game for way to long... How much faster is 2080 verses 1080?

3080 is about 50% faster than the 2080, and 30% faster than the 2080ti.

The 2080ti after proper drivers, (not at initial launch) is about 50% faster than a 1080.


the key point here, is it is only $700... we were all expecting 30% increase in performance for $1200 (which is kinda what the 2080ti was)... to be $500 cheaper for THIS level of performance is absolutely insane.


There are talks and rumors of a 20gb 3080 (allegedly a 3080ti or 3080super) that will be coming out in the next 6 months that may be priced around $1000 bridging the gap between the 3080 and the $1500 3090

 

[RedBeard]

3090 doing 8K @ 60fps!

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Yeah, its a beast.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Haha. There is all sorts of weird live action recorded footage in Control. In one of the rooms you walk into a projector starts up and starts playing this.



And lets not get into the strange puppet show that there are several episodes of in the game.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Yeah I definitely regret getting the 2070S but I had no other choice. These new cards and the 20-30 jump are outright insane compared to the 10-20 jump.

 

[wombat]

Yep I bought a 2080 super before anything was known about 30's :wtc: Not too upset since I play everything I need to just fine ?

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I'll be happy with my 1080 for awhile still lol

I would have to upgrade my monitors to see any gain from a new card for what I do.

 

[Shawn1112]

Whats the average life expectancy for a laptop? In my case a HP Notebook Intel Core i7 8th gen pretty sure its a SSD if that helps.
If not what other info is needed?
Mine is going on 4yrs old and knock on wood no major issues, doesnt appear to be slowing down.
Just wondering if I'm on borrowed time?

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Whats the average life expectancy for a laptop? In my case a HP Notebook Intel Core i7 8th gen pretty sure its a SSD if that helps.
If not what other info is needed?
Mine is going on 4yrs old and knock on wood no major issues, doesnt appear to be slowing down.
Just wondering if I'm on borrowed time?

Keep it clean and renew the thermal compound I would say at the 5 yr mark and knock on wood, probably good for another 5 years if lucky and only using for light duty.

8th gen is not that old

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Heat/liquid kills laptops the most. Blocked vents, dust, old crusty thermal compound and spills kill most of them.

I have 3 older laptops perfectly good for light duty that just collect dust. Easily 5+ yrs old on each.

 

[ZXMustang]

This is good stuff. Showing the modern Intel CPUs still not slow enough to bottleneck a 3080 at 4k.

 

[AngelWhite_ST]

Built this 2 years ago.

CMT510 Case
ROG STRIX Z370-H Mobo
GeForce 1070 FE
Intel i7-8700k
Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz (16GB)
AIO CPU Cooler
Corsair CX750M PSU

Then 3 internal drives, 1 external. (512GB SSD, 60GB SSD, 1TB, 4TB)

Handles any game on max that I throw at it these days.

 

[ZXMustang]

Built this 2 years ago.

CMT510 Case
ROG STRIX Z370-H Mobo
GeForce 1070 FE
Intel i7-8700k
Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz (16GB)
AIO CPU Cooler
Corsair CX750M PSU

Then 3 internal drives, 1 external. (512GB SSD, 60GB SSD, 1TB, 4TB)

Handles any game on max that I throw at it these days.

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Get you a 3070 in a month. That would be a HUGE upgrade for you. The rest of your system is boss.

 

[AngelWhite_ST]

Get you a 3070 in a month. That would be a HUGE upgrade for you. The rest of your system is boss.

Thanks! I Appreciate it. If they're not inflated because everyone got screwed out of a 3080 I'll consider one. They are beasts.

 

[RedBeard]

Almost had it! Was in my cart and then the site gave me issues when I hit proceed to checkout.

 

[bikrboy128]

An interesting watch from Jay, and something to consider when buying one of these new cards

 

[ZXMustang]

Almost had it! Was in my cart and then the site gave me issues when I hit proceed to checkout.

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You and about 20 thousand other people. Im still trying to get one from like 5 different sites. Still nothing. BB shows one here and there and they are gone before you can get them into your cart. I almost had a 3090 yesterday from BB. Went all the way to pay in checkout, then it hung. Reloaded the page after about 5 minutes and the cart was empty and the stock was gone. Fucking hate this.

And then today some reddit user found in the process of checking out, the Nvidia store was showing someone elses email and CC number already prefilled in the field. They screen capped it and posted it on reddit. Then people were coming out of the woodwork saying they were seeing similar stuff on the Nvidia store. Nvidia took the store down for a while today after that...

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

So, decided to upload some screen shots from Control since its simply a gorgeous game. The lighting is phenomenal.

My gaming PC plays this locked at a solid 60fps with graphics on maximum with all RTX and DLSS enabled. DLSS is amazing. If a game supports it its an instant on for me. It looks just as good as native resolution. All of these screenshots are 3440x1440p, taken from my gaming PC which is just a i7-4790k + RTX 2080. At these lower resolutions I'm definitely more CPU bound.

 

[syP]

Chicago Microcenter has 1 3080 in stock... fyi

 

[RebelGTP]

I'd post my setup here but I rarely use my desktop anymore... Probably since the build is circa 2010...

The Laptop is a 4 year old HP Envy M7 with a Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM.

The Server is a 2010 machine too but that is still quite stout with over 17TB of usable space, 96 GB RAM, and dual E5620 Xeons...