Those 3080s are certainly going somewhere, it isn't to UK gamers on any reasonable scale. Same is now happening with the 3060ti, little stock, including in FE drops.
https://youtu.be/f0HC1Udk6-E?t=270
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So did anyone actually get a 3060?
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Those 3080s are certainly going somewhere, it isn't to UK gamers on any reasonable scale. Same is now happening with the 3060ti, little stock, including in FE drops.
https://youtu.be/f0HC1Udk6-E?t=270
Soldato
3060's goin gon the bay for £800 lol
Soldato
1080ti/12gb 2070 performance is great, pp is a joke!
Problem we have is the 1080p fps performance is outweighing what games are producing outwith paid for RT'ing titles.
I forecast that it wouldn't be long for the top of the line then £550 gpu would be eradicated.
Look at the absolute state of gfx pricing now!
Problem we have is the 1080p fps performance is outweighing what games are producing outwith paid for RT'ing titles.
I got slaughtered in here for being being vocal with anti Titan pricing setting a precedent.
I forecast that it wouldn't be long for the top of the line then £550 gpu would be eradicated.
Look at the absolute state of gfx pricing now!
what people are missing is while they arent massive performance wise think what you can get right now for that price that is comparable ?
if you can get one for under 400 you doing okay. even maybe 450. 5700xts which in reality are 200 or less 2nd hand are going for 500. 1080ti which is about the same performance as a 3060. are going for 450 -500 quid.
so for the actual performance and brand new right now it aint that bad if you a gamer. the thing is....if they wasnt gouged they would be really great at the proper price of £300. same as its bigger brother the 3060ti at 370. they would be a steal.
also its obvious where most cards are going mining places or ebay for double the price. cant blame em tbh. if your a buisness your about making money.
if you can get one for under 400 you doing okay. even maybe 450. 5700xts which in reality are 200 or less 2nd hand are going for 500. 1080ti which is about the same performance as a 3060. are going for 450 -500 quid.
so for the actual performance and brand new right now it aint that bad if you a gamer. the thing is....if they wasnt gouged they would be really great at the proper price of £300. same as its bigger brother the 3060ti at 370. they would be a steal.
also its obvious where most cards are going mining places or ebay for double the price. cant blame em tbh. if your a buisness your about making money.
They made cards 300 quid more expensive than their previous generation when they made 20 series after they had already made the 10 series more expensive than the 900 series. Then they announce cards that will be a lot cheaper than usual (still not as cheap as the 900 series) and everybody will jump on it. Now them cards are all just as expensive as the 20 series cards (not just from scalprs from actual retailers) people are buying them because the msrp is suppose to be low, even though they can't get them at msrp.
The above sounded great when it came into my head, notbsure the message gets across after reading it though lol.
The above sounded great when it came into my head, notbsure the message gets across after reading it though lol.
Soldato
Got one for MSRP (£299.99) off of a site that shall not be mentioned here by putting in an order at 5 yesterday. 
I agree with you in this point. All the popular items are being scapled in said auction sites. There is actually stock.
Got one for MSRP (£299.99) off of a site that shall not be mentioned here by putting in an order at 5 yesterday.
This guy sounds like someone who had just won the 3060 lottery
Soldato
In a regular year we'd be saying, "Meh, it's barely an upgrade on a 2060s which has been available for years at that price."This guy sounds like someone who had just won the 3060 lottery
Today, we say, "My goodness, you managed to get it at RRP and not £300 over? You've won the lottery!"
Hah.
Caporegime
Obviously not enough stock as that wouldn't be possible
When there's thousand's of bots buying items then it doesn't matter what the stock is.
Stock could outstrip actual demand but if they're all being sold in a second, it doesn't matter.
I read somewhere that a BIOS flash won't work as it's hard coded into the firmware in a certain way to do with trust. I can't remember the details. They were saying there is more likely to be a software hack/workaround to spoof what the GPU is actually doing. i.e. Make it look like gaming.
Let's see if it gets hacked this weekend.
Sad state of affairs, it reminds me of when people started panic buying and bough all the toilet paper in the supermarkets. A real stinker this situation!people are taking these cards too literally with their names. we now have ti and S and im sure nvidia have a vew more abbreviations they can throw out there to get people to think they are buying something better than whatever else is out there.
you all got merked with the titan then the titan x then the titan xp. then they decided to merk you with 2080 2080S and 2080ti. no doubt there is a titan this gen aswell that everyone believed wouldnt be the case because they were sold the 3090 as a titan. when will we learn?
so with all this fuss about a card no real gamer would be using to game with there is definitely going to be a 3060S coming sooner or later.
you all got merked with the titan then the titan x then the titan xp. then they decided to merk you with 2080 2080S and 2080ti. no doubt there is a titan this gen aswell that everyone believed wouldnt be the case because they were sold the 3090 as a titan. when will we learn?
so with all this fuss about a card no real gamer would be using to game with there is definitely going to be a 3060S coming sooner or later.
Soldato
I remember! Every disaster is an opportunity for them!!
"That consumes more power than the homes in the whole of Iceland". Their electricity bill must be in the millions per month.
Astonishingly poor value. You don't even need to compare to a PS5/XSX, but if you did...Another site has the ventus dual and triple fan cards for £500. As well as the gigabyte eagle and vision for 520 and 560.
An utter **** take to say the least.
Soldato
This guy sounds like someone who had just won the 3060 lottery
Almost feels like it, which is a bit weird considering the prize is being able to buy an item at its intended price.
Haha, yep! Although it's not just scarcity psychology induced bargain hunting, I ordered it with a few special constraints that make it a bit more interesting to me than to some other people I imagine. For instance I'd like to be able to do some Kaggle and other machine learning problems with it, for which good solutions can end up requiring a lot of memory. The 3060 is currently unbeatable on a RAM per £ basis. Plus I only really game at 1080p anyway and the 3060 seems to actually do a little better than the 2070 at that res on average. It also meets my slightly arbitrary criteria of "theoretically better or equal to the console GPUs while being (in this case very, very, slightly) under £300".
I like to think of it not so much as "not a lot cheaper than the RTX 2060/Super" but more like "quite a lot cheaper than the RTX 2070"
But obviously that's all academic at the moment anyway.