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I think the general consensus here is to use discord stock checkers to find a card rather than wait for months and receive nothing.

I bet you'd find a card long before you dropped below 200 in the Q.
I wouldn't cancel your order until you've got the card in your hands :p

Discord only works if you're very, very quick on the draw. Many links are sold out seconds after the alert comes through. And if the alert is delays by a few seconds, it'll be gone before you even knew it was there.

Discord also alerts you to scalper prices, so it you want to pay +50% over RRP you have a (slightly) better chance of getting something. Even those sell out within minutes tho. Unless it's a £2000 3090, which sometimes takes hours instead of minutes to sell out :p
 
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I wouldn't cancel your order until you've got the card in your hands :p

Discord only works if you're very, very quick on the draw. Many links are sold out seconds after the alert comes through. And if the alert is delays by a few seconds, it'll be gone before you even knew it was there.

Discord also alerts you to scalper prices, so it you want to pay +50% over RRP you have a (slightly) better chance of getting something. Even those sell out within minutes tho. Unless it's a £2000 3090, which sometimes takes hours instead of minutes to sell out :p

I noticed a 3070fe last week 24 minutes after it appeared on discord. It was UK lunchtime. I signed up to the site and checked out. Didn't think it was that quick
 
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I noticed a 3070fe last week 24 minutes after it appeared on discord. It was UK lunchtime. I signed up to the site and checked out. Didn't think it was that quick
Well not much to say apart from your experience differs from mine :) I'm signed up to PartAlert and StockInformer, btw.

Maybe we use different channels?
 
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I signed up to part alert. It buzzed away for three days. But Amazon wouldn't post to Northern Ireland plus over RRP. One UK site had a 3070 in stock for almost 24 hours. It was a KFA2 and 620 so overpriced?
I've discord of the phone again. Only added it for that.
 
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Indeed. Even if AMD GPUs existed (lol), the PSU I want doesn't exist (Focus PX-850), the motherboard I want doesn't exist (Aorus Pro B550 V2).

And AMD haven't released their non-X CPUs yet anyhow.

All in all it's a crap time to upgrade.

I feel you!

I was toying with getting a Ryzen 3 setup, but the AM4 kit I need for my cooler is out of stock everywhere with no sign of ETA! I have some Crucial memory on order - been stuck on Order Processing status since late December! I had a 3070 FE in the basket, but the store's courier has indefinitely stopped delivery services to ROI. I'd fold and buy a console, but, oh snap!

I might just jack it all in until May or June :rolleyes:
 
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thats my plan try again later in the year it sucks but hey ho theres worse things going on in the world ! :)

now would be a good time to enjoy a new system though ha ha
Surely you don't mean to tell me that having Covid is worse than not having a new GPU? Because I don't believe it :p You don't know my pain, my suffering, my anguish! :p

I'll let the bard have the last word.

William Shakespear said:
For never was a story of more woe than this lack of GPUs and Haribo
 
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Hmm not sure whether to test out my new SoundPeats H1 Premium's (KickStarter) or the RTX 390 FE as both will arrive on Monday, decisions, decisions! :p
 
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I noticed a 3070fe last week 24 minutes after it appeared on discord. It was UK lunchtime. I signed up to the site and checked out. Didn't think it was that quick
Yeah when I got a 3080 FE i checked out 15 minutes after the discord notification. Just spammed add to basket for 2-3 mins and it worked.
 
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Was reading apparently they can't get or make enough GDDR6 memory, that's hitting everything and also wrecking console production. Not sure how likely that is.
 
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Wow, just seen a 3070 for £719.99 at a major online electronics shop, think that's the worst deal I've seen so far. Guess what though, it still sold out in minutes!

I saw AIB 3070's as low as £520 this morning . They seem to be the only card with any sort of supply. £720 is just ridiculous!
 
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