RTX 2080Ti crazy prices ...

bpizzle1 said:
I actually had it in my cart about 1 minute after he posted and just need to press the buy button. Decided against it for now. $1350 for a video card just started to seem more and more crazy as I went through checkout.
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Well played. I'm tempted too sometimes. But when I think of how I paid 775 for a brand new 1080 ti it's just hard to accept that huge mark-up.
 
Or we can just keep our 1080tis.
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This is exactly what i'm doing. All my games that I play are running 90FPS or higher @3440x1440 with settings at High or greater. A true 4k 144hz panel is well over $1k anyway and that's only 27" so i'm not at all concerned with 4k gaming. That's why I think the 4k benches on any cards are ridiculous. That addresses less than 1% of PC gamers. Even 1440p covers a small percentage.

It's simply ludicrous where PC part prices are today and they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Prices well beyond MSRP for CPU's, RAM (though this seems to be getting better), GPU's, etc. People always ask me is it a good time to build a PC, not if you want bleeding edge. At least you have Ryzen and 1080Tis that will give you a great experience without taking out a second mortgage.
 
Vader said:
This is exactly what i'm doing. All my games that I play are running 90FPS or higher @3440x1440 with settings at High or greater. A true 4k 144hz panel is well over $1k anyway and that's only 27" so i'm not at all concerned with 4k gaming. That's why I think the 4k benches on any cards are ridiculous. That addresses less than 1% of PC gamers. Even 1440p covers a small percentage.

It's simply ludicrous where PC part prices are today and they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

Prices well beyond MSRP for CPU's, RAM (though this seems to be getting better), GPU's, etc. People always ask me is it a good time to build a PC, not if you want bleeding edge. At least you have Ryzen and 1080Tis that will give you a great experience without taking out a second mortgage.
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I MAY reconsider once the $999 version from EVGA is actually available. I can remotely stomach that, but still probably won't.
 
I managed to snag a MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio from MicroCenter last week and couldn't install it until yesterday due to having to get a new monitor. It won't fit in my Silverstone FT05 case unless I remove one of the case fans :( Debating if I should just return it.
 
Compddd said:
I managed to snag a MSI RTX 2080 Ti Gaming X Trio from MicroCenter last week and couldn't install it until yesterday due to having to get a new monitor. It won't fit in my Silverstone FT05 case unless I remove one of the case fans :( Debating if I should just return it.
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That sucks about not being able to fit. Oh well.
 
Pretty much impossible to run it without a case fan blowing air over it yeah? Zero airflow would not cooperate well with the RTX 2080 Ti I imagine.
 
You'd be up two fans still with the card versus the case fan. Does that case have fans on the top or just the bottom?
 
Just the bottom, two big 180MM fans that push air. I tried running it with just 1 case fan and played some Mordor Shadow of War and the temp on the 2080 Ti went to 84C pretty quickly.
 
Compddd said:
Just the bottom, two big 180MM fans that push air. I tried running it with just 1 case fan and played some Mordor Shadow of War and the temp on the 2080 Ti went to 84C pretty quickly.
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What case do you have?
 
Going to milk out my 1060 for now. I'll see what prices look like in the Spring. This whole debacle has me looking at Radeon cards. Maybe they'll have something due for the Spring.
 
Nothing to add other than my entire PC which runs the games I play just fine on Ultra was top of the line 1080p 4 years ago. Costs less that a single GPU today.
 
I just returned an MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 2080 TI to Micro Center in Tustin California if anyone wants to grab it. Only reason I returned it is because it physically doesn’t fit in my Silverstone case.
 
It's not just the crazy high prices, it's the unknown worry if the card will burn up or fail.

For $1,500 I better get damn near perfection and cool running safe card .
 
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