Reminds me of Pascal, went from a 1070 to this 3080 because of how good the price/performance was/is. Give it another few years and we'll see another decent generation, Pascal to Tuning was a let down.
Remember when paying £999 for the 2080ti was considered insane? 3080 FE for £649 was an absolute bargain, will be sitting on this for a few years until we see prices normalise.
Also for a card this expensive the 2 year warranty is a little low on the reference designs, I'd have thought 3 years...
I remember back when twice trying to buy a 6800XT from AMD Direct, first time said my payment wasn't supported and the second time it said they can't ship to Great Britain, ended up getting a 3080 FE from the retailer that handles FE cards, no such issues with that.
Bought the Samsung G7 myself and the scan lines and inversion annoyed me, the curve isn't bad when you get use to it, stuttering/flickering with "G-Sync Compatible" is another reason it got returned, they're releasing a 4k/240hz monitor later in the year but wouldn't ever consider it after they...
I'd return personally, monitors are something you're looking at for a long time so why would you want any distracting imperfections? It'd be awesome if you could get it replaced by Dell for a decent panel while only paying for a refurb unit if possible.
If Intel could make multi-GPU setups work that'd be amazing, at £400 for a 3070 you could buy 3 of them for the price of one 6900XT yet if optimized would be hitting twice the performance! I remember back in the day Crossfire being amazing when it worked the problem was for every game it worked...
If my 1070 died at this point I'd just use my PS4 until stock of a PS5 was about, no way in hell would I pay this much for a GPU unless it was a 3090. RDNA 3 is coming within a 12 months if AMD's roadmap is correct.
Let's be real though if you're paying £1500+ for a TV you shouldn't have to worry about burn in, once you add that cost and still have to keep in mind not to have static images on for too long it's better for some people (me) to go with inferior tech without the worries.
If LG really believed...
Takes balls to run a OLED for desktop use, personally ended up with a q80t instead of spending the extra £400-£500 for a CX because of a lack of balls :D
If my 1070 died and I didn't have a backup then I'd just use my PS4, no way I'll pay these prices for cards! AMD and nVidia are probably fixing the prices knowing that people will overpay and are purposely holding back cards just to jack up the pricing.
Problem with this is console is just as bad, got to overpay for games and online the only good thing is you can sell physical disks still but how long will that last now with digital only editions? You can still get a low end gaming PC with a GTX 1650 for £400 which isn't bad.
Can't find any 6800 XT at RRP as they all sell out, got one in my basket but it was £900 and stopping myself because it's not a very good model and £200 over what it should be, on the partalert discord with alerts on and that is the closest I've got to yet.
With how long people are going to have to wait until production picks up and the 3080 having been out since September it'll probably be worth waiting for the next generation before too long, normally it's around 18 months between releases. Annoyingly the RRP is fair on the 6800XT and 3080 IMO.
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