Rhanyn
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Tell me about it. That's almost half what I paid for my 3080ti last October.Me looking at the $3k I spent on a PC in April of '21...
Personally I've put ~3k hours of work, ~4k+ hours of gaming (hard to tell when work/gaming hours overlapped often on slow days), ~1k hour of watching movies/shows on this PC since buying in March '21. Waiting 1.5 years to save $500 would bring far less joy and kept me as some poor gamer person living a disgusting 1080p/1440p lifestyle. I also would not have learned to love using a 48" OLED primary monitor.
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lol yeah I got my 980 for $270 because I emailed the Best Buy manager to ask if they pricematched Microcenter, then walked into the Best Buy with the email and some in-store only crazy flash sale they had on Microcenter. A couple years later I sold that 980 for more than I paid for it in the first place, got a 1080, which Amazon then delivered to the wrong address, 4 days early, without a delivery notification, just before a hurricane, so they gave me a gift card for the full price when I showed them the soggy box I found in my neighbor's bushes.Feels more amazing when you buy something on sale/misprice and a year+ later you still can't get it for cheaper.
if you buy an evga 3070 when 4070 dates are fixed so you are within 60 days of 4070 release in theory you should be able to use evga's stepup program to get in egva's MSRP queue upgrade program. only problem is waiting, plus their program requires you to first send in your old card, pay the $$ difference, then they send you the new card. So thats 2-3 weeks without a GPU.
Fuck Hurricanes.
Those were always the chips marked up with the highest margins, so they have the most room to come down.Labor Day weekend is all about pushing 3080 Ti and above, since it would compete with the 4090s
Near radio silence for anything below that.
Undervolt.But the 3000 series is a heat beast with screaming fans.