Well, that's a lot of 3080s...

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I camped outside of my local Micro Center yesterday in the freezing cold for 3 hours hoping to land a 3080. This is my first time camping. Upon opening, they received one 6800 non-XT and five 3070's. No thanks.

My buddy just sent me this link to the Columbus Reddit and it looks like the same store, today, one day later, received 30-40 ASUS Tuf 3080's, the card that I wanted. Son of a bitch! I wish they would have spaced them out a day or two more, so that people that camped out could have a chance to get one, but oh well. I'm glad people are getting them, and hopefully this is a good sign.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/k4qtlt/3080s_at_micro_center/
 
Lesson of the day: Persistence

One day? Set aside a week if you're serious. Second day, bingo!
But I would have bought that 6800/3070 and flipped it after waiting for 3hrs in the cold. $100/hr profit.
 
UltraTaco said:
😬😵mate, you didn't buy them all to flip on ebay?!! What an opportunity missed😒

o deer, here goes🤭
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Now that's what you call wasting your time buy it online maybe.spamming the F5 key is better in my opinion
 
3090 for sale right now in the FS/FT forum. Decent price too, good seller. Hell, I'm debating on it, and I've got a 3080+3070 already :p
 
I didn't mind sitting outside. I chatted it up with a couple of nerds like me, which I rarely get to do in person. I woke up a few hours early, couldn't get back to sleep and said eff it, I'll try my luck.
 
KickAssCop said:
So why didn’t you go the next day?
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That my main question. After going the first day, you're committed to this thing until you get one.
Buy the 3070, come back the next day buy the 3080. Offset the 3080 cost with the 3070 flip.

mazeroth said:
I didn't mind sitting outside. I chatted it up with a couple of nerds like me, which I rarely get to do in person. I woke up a few hours early, couldn't get back to sleep and said eff it, I'll try my luck.
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Talking to other people that loves the hobby is always great. In a city like Miami, it seems like you're the only one that loves PCs until you see a local event and hundreds of people are chatting it up.
 
mazeroth said:
I camped outside of my local Micro Center yesterday in the freezing cold for 3 hours hoping to land a 3080. This is my first time camping. Upon opening, they received one 6800 non-XT and five 3070's. No thanks.

My buddy just sent me this link to the Columbus Reddit and it looks like the same store, today, one day later, received 30-40 ASUS Tuf 3080's, the card that I wanted. Son of a bitch! I wish they would have spaced them out a day or two more, so that people that camped out could have a chance to get one, but oh well. I'm glad people are getting them, and hopefully this is a good sign.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/k4qtlt/3080s_at_micro_center/
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No commitment gets you no cards.
 
FrgMstr said:
No commitment gets you no cards.
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Shouldn't have to make such a commitment to get a gpu. Grated I am going to camp MC for a 3080ti when they are released. I don't have the vacation time or desire to camp for a vanilla 3080.
 
WorldExclusive said:
That my main question. After going the first day, you're committed to this thing until you get one.
Buy the 3070, come back the next day buy the 3080. Offset the 3080 cost with the 3070 flip.


Talking to other people that loves the hobby is always great. In a city like Miami, it seems like you're the only one that loves PCs until you see a local event and hundreds of people are chatting it up.
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Yea but what are the odds you just talking to a scalper and not a enthusiast lol.
 
I really don't *need* a card right now, as I have no time to game until my 2 week vacation around Christmas. I just figured since I couldn't get back to sleep after waking up at 5, I'd try my luck and see if it would pay out, which it didn't. Oh well, it was fun.
 
Saabjock said:
How much money is three hours worth?
You can add that to the cost when you eventually get one.
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Side note on that. We have a Chinese buffet in Canada called The Mandarin who would offer a free buffet meal to Canadian citizens on Canada Day. Line ups were often in excess of 4 hours. My thoughts were you could have called your boss, told him you’re working a half-day, made time-and-a-half wages, then just paid for the damn buffet and pocketed the difference.

Bottom line is that your time has value, I totally agree. I’ll get a card when they come available.
 
HockeyJon said:
Side note on that. We have a Chinese buffet in Canada called The Mandarin who would offer a free buffet meal to Canadian citizens on Canada Day. Line ups were often in excess of 4 hours. My thoughts were you could have called your boss, told him you’re working a half-day, made time-and-a-half wages, then just paid for the damn buffet and pocketed the difference.

Bottom line is that your time has value, I totally agree. I’ll get a card when they come available.
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Opportunity costs. LOTS of people have no idea what it is.
 
I had this discussion a few days ago at work. I work on a very large campus, and it can be a 15 minute walk to get from one side to the other. Every holiday, they offer free lunch at the cafeteria, which is at the far end of our complex. You wouldn't believe the number of people that will walk 30 minutes, round-trip, to get a free meal worth $7 (they give you a coupon worth up to $7). For Thanksgiving this year, it was around 40 degrees and windy and we had droves of people from the far end walking over in their winter jackets. People that probably make, on average, $40/hour. Yes, when people see something for free, they will do incomprehensible things to get it.
 
mazeroth said:
I had this discussion a few days ago at work. I work on a very large campus, and it can be a 15 minute walk to get from one side to the other. Every holiday, they offer free lunch at the cafeteria, which is at the far end of our complex. You wouldn't believe the number of people that will walk 30 minutes, round-trip, to get a free meal worth $7 (they give you a coupon worth up to $7). For Thanksgiving this year, it was around 40 degrees and windy and we had droves of people from the far end walking over in their winter jackets. People that probably make, on average, $40/hour. Yes, when people see something for free, they will do incomprehensible things to get it.
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Walking 15 minutes one way, 30 minutes round-trip is something incomprehensible? Sounds like minimal effort to me for a free meal regardless of their income. Not to mention many enjoying walking.
 
mazeroth said:
I had this discussion a few days ago at work. I work on a very large campus, and it can be a 15 minute walk to get from one side to the other. Every holiday, they offer free lunch at the cafeteria, which is at the far end of our complex. You wouldn't believe the number of people that will walk 30 minutes, round-trip, to get a free meal worth $7 (they give you a coupon worth up to $7). For Thanksgiving this year, it was around 40 degrees and windy and we had droves of people from the far end walking over in their winter jackets. People that probably make, on average, $40/hour. Yes, when people see something for free, they will do incomprehensible things to get it.
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Rent a scooter and heap scorn on the plebs that walk... And then REFUSE the coupon while lording over people who won't spend seven dollars.
 
3070 is a good card if you don't run 2k or 4K If the 3080ti card is good I'll get that. I just like the idea of less power plugs in the 3070 plus didn't have to pay over 1K for a scalped version.
 
The point I was making is they never, ever come over to the building for lunch unless it's free. If someone were to ask them, on even a beautiful 70 degree sunny day, to walk 30 minutes round trip to pick something up for them, and they would give them $7 for their time, they would laugh at them. However, that's exactly the same situation.
 
I've been debating waking up every morning and going down to my microcenter but really just don't have it in me to do it... lol It's about a 1 hr trip there and back and then to have to wait.... ugh.
 
My Microcenter says that a lot of the video cards are drop-shipped and arrive in the middle of the day. They are immediately put on shelves. The normal delivery truck comes on Thursdays and stuff gets put on shelves Friday or Saturday morning. But high-end, high demand items dropped-shipped and arrive randomly throughout the day. I made me realize it would be worthless to wait in lines.
 
I posted this in the other thread, but here's my story on getting cards at Microcenter last month

Luckily I've been able to get a 3080, and two 3070's for my kids, all at Microcenter, and no camping out at night LOL I am just persistent going to MC every few days for a month and if you get there by noon, you have a good chance of finding the card you want on delivery days. But I went there 3 or 4 days a week for a whole month, to get what I wanted. No scalping by me, no way, on principle I wouldn't do that, these all went into our gaming rigs. It probably took 15 trips to Microcenter to get my cards, the sales guy said most hot items sell out by 11am or so. Some days they just get a handful of cards, other days they'll get close to 50 cards, no rhyme or reason

I was there last week on a Wednesday morning, around 11:00am, they had a bunch of 3070's ( couple dozen ), a few 3080's ( less than 5 ) and a good amount of 3090's that weren't selling so fast per the sales guy, but by the end of the night everything was sold out per the guy I've gotten to know there, except the last few 3090's. Which are like $1,500+

But my point, I still check Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist just to see prices on cards, and in my area, 3090's are selling for $2500 to $3000 !!!!! And 3080's still in the $1,300 to $1,500 range, and 3070's for like $800, which is insane. I was able to score my kids 3070's for $539 at Microcenter. F these scalper scum.

All my trips to MC I never once saw the new AMD 6800XT stock, they seem to only get a handful in every week, and they gone immediately.

So yes, if you live near a Microcenter you can get a new RTX 3000 card if you are willing to go a bunch of times in the morning, might take a couple weeks, but you'll get one for sure.
 
But at this point, we're only a month or so away from the RTX 3080 Ti, with 20GB RAM, and supposed to be very close in performance to the RTX 3090, I'd just wait for that., it's supposed to cost retail $899 or so. And then AMD 6900XT for $999 with RTX 3090 matching performance due out next week.

And everything I read says computer parts will be fully stocked and easy to buy come Feb / March, which is only a few months out.
 
Zorachus said:
But at this point, we're only a month or so away from the RTX 3080 Ti, with 20GB RAM, and supposed to be very close in performance to the RTX 3090, I'd just wait for that., it's supposed to cost retail $899 or so. And then AMD 6900XT for $999 with RTX 3090 matching performance due out next week.

And everything I read says computer parts will be fully stocked and easy to buy come Feb / March, which is only a few months out.
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I’ve only heard rumors of it costing $999. The $899 rumor was for the 3080 20GB (non-Ti) cards that were apparently canned.

The 3080 Ti is also going to be a nightmare to get, probably even harder than the 3080 at this point which has become slightly more available. I personally would grab an EVGA 3080 right now if given the opportunity and then try to step up when the 3080 Ti comes out.
 
The 3080 Ti will be such a pointless card. It still won’t beat the 6900 XT in raster performance since the 3090 already can’t unless its a few select games at 4k. RT is still up in the air as we are still waiting on next gen games that might be better optimized for RDNA 2 since AMD is in both consoles. Then you have proprietary DLSS which is only on a handful of games.
I dunno, IMO Ampere is NVIDIAs biggest failure since Fermi.

I plan to list my Strix 3080 for $1100 if I get a 6900 xt. The Strix is next to impossible to get and i already got people messaging me on telegram about it.
 
To many people the time and/or money they invest in something like waiting in line for the video card is worth it for the fun factor they'll extract from it when they install the GPU in their PC
 
If I lived near a Micro Center I'd definitely be stopping by often to try and score a 3080. Waiting in line for several hours? Maybe, if enough stock is guaranteed.
 
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