Nvidia RTX Discussion

H3llR4iser

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

tbf these where released a good bit back now and they still cant be easily got, i can only imagine if they could be used for mining the situation would be even worse than the current console scalper situation.

In the time since my post I've done a bit of research - people ARE looking into it indeed. Looks like power consumption is a major obstacle - to run a PS5 or Xbox X, you need for each to power a CPU, mainboard, memory and GPU - installing 2 graphics cards on a single, cheapish mobo/CPU combo has a clear advantage...then again, people are running "squadrons" of gaming laptop to mine, so I guess it's an obstacle that can be overcome.

K.O.Kiki

https://www.mindfactory.de/search_result.php?search_query=RTX+3060

* €549-579 (single fan)
* €589-599 (dual/triple fan)

:pac:

Retr0gamer

Was going to get a 3060 to tide me over and so I can sell my old system with the 1070.

But at that price they can **** right off. I'm not paying over the odds on a proverty card.

mamaz

So I'm guessing I SHOULDN'T spend €580 on one of those cards...

Homelander

At least it's a good time to sell for a lucky few. I had to sell my RTX3070 machine as I'm going to be moving around a lot over the next year, and I have a decent laptop which gets me by just fine. Got an amazing price for it thanks to the current situation.

Be probably at least a year before I look at building again, probably longer realistically.

Icyseanfitz

Homelander wrote: »

At least it's a good time to sell for a lucky few. I had to sell my RTX3070 machine as I'm going to be moving around a lot over the next year, and I have a decent laptop which gets me by just fine. Got an amazing price for it thanks to the current situation.

Be probably at least a year before I look at building again, probably longer realistically.

The issue with selling is unless you have a backup PC/GPU to tide you over until parts can be bought, your fcuked :pac: I put my auros 1080ti up on adverts just to see what happens.

ShadowHearth

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

im seriously considering selling my 1080ti which i could certainly get more for now than a year ago, only issue is i cant buy anything close to rrp new

You want to have your cake and eat it hehe. Selling old gpu and inflated prices, but you want to buy new gpu at normal prices.

The sad truth is right now, if you want a gpu - Get a prebuilt or pay double rrp.

ShadowHearth

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Was going to get a 3060 to tide me over and so I can sell my old system with the 1070.

But at that price they can **** right off. I'm not paying over the odds on a proverty card.

I remember paying 500eu for 680 back in the day and it was fastest card out for a bit. 500eu won't even get you a "poverty card" as you say hehe.

I am even more happier now, that I got myself a decent gaming laptop in late 2019. By the looks of it, it will be my pc gaming device even longer now.

Retr0gamer

Kicking myself as a mate was begging me to buy one at launch as he could get 3070s and 3080s for us.

Thought I'd be sensible and wait until after Xmas when I had money.

Wouldn't mind but I'm the absolute worst when it comes to impulse purchases. The one time it would have paid off :pac:

ShadowHearth

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Kicking myself as a mate was begging me to buy one at launch as he could get 3070s and 3080s for us.

Thought I'd be sensible and wait until after Xmas when I had money.

Wouldn't mind but I'm the absolute worst when it comes to impulse purchases. The one time it would have paid off :pac:

A week ago I got drunk and woke up with knowledge that I bought Lego VW camper set, while under influence.
Next time try alcohol lol.

AlmightyCushion

Chairman Meow wrote: »

Yeah, im kinda pissed at myself for selling my 970 during the summer. Probably shouldve held onto it just in case. God knows, i could probably flip it for about 5 grand nowadays

Id be tempted to go AMD if their supply is better than nvidias, but the last car dof theirs i had was a 4870 i believe, and it was a dumpster fire. One of the worst cards i ever owned, and after that i swore off AMD for life.

Are you sure you mean the 4870. I had one of those back in the day and thought it was a good card. Mine was a blower card so loud as fúck but other than that I thought it was grand.

Mr Crispy

Yeah, 4870 was a beaut.

Icyseanfitz

ShadowHearth wrote: »

You want to have your cake and eat it hehe. Selling old gpu and inflated prices, but you want to buy new gpu at normal prices.

The sad truth is right now, if you want a gpu - Get a prebuilt or pay double rrp.

I like cake :pac:

ShadowHearth

So just checked a few reviews of 3060 and it looks like a cracking card... for 300eu ish. Definitely perfect for people ( like me ), who are on 1060. I would even buy one "at normal times", just throw in to my 2500k to get another year out of my system. Still could sell it for 200eu after, again, "at normal times".

Belfast

The supply of chips is 30% below the demand
Just to make the life of the pc builder more fun there is a drought in Taiwan and they are shipping water in by truckload to the TSMc chip fab to keep it going.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56198269
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/global-chip-shortage-taiwan-drought
:mad::mad::mad:

Chairman Meow

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Are you sure you mean the 4870. I had one of those back in the day and thought it was a good card. Mine was a blower card so loud as fúck but other than that I thought it was grand.

Yup. The 4870 was trash im afraid. I remember RAGE launched completely broken (this may have been an all AMD card issue at the time tho). All its textures were completely glitched, AMD released a new driver once every 6 months if you were lucky, mine kept crashing and glitching, while i looked enviously at Nvidia owners and their constant driver updates and games optimised for nvidia. My card may have been a bogey one but it was enough that i havent even considered buying AMD since 2011. Tho that may have to change now lol

Homelander

That was definitely an outsider, the 4870 was an amazing card. I had one and I really don't think I had any issues with it whatsoever.

Also RAGE was like that on all cards. It had horrendous texture glitching and pop-in due to the engine, it wasn't anything to do with specific cards or whether it was AMD or Intel. By that stage I had an Nvidia card and it was fairly bad, often it would take 10 seconds or longer for textures to even appear.

Cuddlesworth

I bought rage 7 years after launch and got a refund in 1 hour due to gamebreaking "bugs".

Icyseanfitz

remember my first serious card being a 7970, what a beast.

Icyseanfitz

dammit, ive been offered 550 for my 1080ti id have to use my old 7970 until i can buy a 3080 which i assume will be gold dust for who knows how long. Cruel world

Cordell

2070 super super going for 800-1000.
Crazy

Lumen

Random browsing around.

3070 for 999, >5 in stock apparently.
https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-MSI-GeForce-RTX-3070-Suprim-X-8G--GDDR6--HDMI--3x-DP--V390-005R-_1388389.html

It's not good value, but...

TheValeyard

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

I bought rage 7 years after launch and got a refund in 1 hour due to gamebreaking "bugs".

Rage 2 is free on Epic games.

Icyseanfitz

Lumen wrote: »

Random browsing around.

3070 for 999, >5 in stock apparently.
https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/8GB-MSI-GeForce-RTX-3070-Suprim-X-8G--GDDR6--HDMI--3x-DP--V390-005R-_1388389.html

It's not good value, but...

wont ship outside of germany

Lumen

Icyseanfitz wrote: »

wont ship outside of germany

Ah. I have a mailboxde.com address but haven't tried using it yet.

Samuel T. Cogley

+1 on the 4870 being a top drawer card.

stimpson

I just snagged a 3070 on currys.ie - I signed up to cosie90’s discord a few weeks ago (see https://www.twitch.tv/cosie90) and one popped up this evening.

I did end up with one in my basket a couple of times during the week but couldn’t complete the purchase on my phone. I did it on my laptop and it worked. Looks like the curry’s mobile site is borked.

vlad2009

Is the gigabyte 3070 a safe buy? I saw some had issues at launch, but can't remember which brands.

stimpson

vlad2009 wrote: »

Is the gigabyte 3070 a safe buy? I saw some had issues at launch, but can't remember which brands.

I hope so. I don’t see many reports of issues. I won’t be over clocking in any case as I’m still running 1080p monitors and all reviews indicate it will easily handle that on Ultra. It should be a serious step up from my 970.

Homelander

vlad2009 wrote: »

Is the gigabyte 3070 a safe buy? I saw some had issues at launch, but can't remember which brands.

I bought that exact one from Currys and have zero issues with it. Good solid card, good temps, not very loud.

Running it on a 1080P 144hz monitor is grand, but on a standard 1080P 60hz monitor it will be wasted, it won't perform any different than say an RTX2060 or so.