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Does anyone else just enter the shuffle for sport? I don't even care anymore, get in there $1400 3070ti bundle.

The step up-eligible 3070ti sku is $830... not the worst but I miss the days of the XX70 tier being $300 cheaper. I guess in a world of $1300 3080s it looks like a bargain haha.

Newegg's return policy is decent, so if you can resist opening the card for a few weeks you can see if things get way cheaper & return it. GPU prices are softening but I don't think they'll tank... there's so much pent up demand I think it'll take a few months to work its way thru the system...

Nice price!

Now you guys better not be scalping! If I see this relisted at $19 I'm reporting you.

B-stock drop was a mess. This is the first one I was in time for, added a couple to my cart only to have them show as 0 qty. Am I right in assuming each SKU is a one-of? Or do they drop multiples at once but they disappear instantly anyway?

The ILM is metal so metal washers are fine.

Sooo, I thought Elite customers would get a 24h head start on new product queues. Did that not happen for the 12g 3080?

I've heard Microcenter is charging over MSRP these days, and/or only selling high end SKUs to people who buy a whole computer. Any truth to that from those in the know?

Hm makes me wonder if enterprise surplus will end up filling a niche on the consumer side eventually. Like when all these miners are done with a2000s, will they run crysis? Or put another way, is what we're witnessing the industry pushing consumer side pricing up to match enterprise? I know...

Is industry demand that much greater than it was 5+ years ago? To me the crunch seems like a one two punch of supply chain + crypto. I have to imagine they're shipping & selling more gaming GPUs today than ever before. But to your point I could see them setting aside more high-end silicon for...

If that's the purpose, though, then how do you explain the new tiering structure? None of the cards on the list right now are 'coming soon' (unless you count OOS). So if I buy a 3060 I can step up to a 3080 Ti. How is that drastically different than buying a 1030 and doing the same thing? The...

Yikes. If this is such a problem for them they could have put a huge note on the 1030 product page that says NOT ELIGIBLE FOR STEP UP. But I guess if all the managers are on vaca maybe the web team is too.

Yeah les_garten nailed it... No one was getting something for nothing. We were just trying to work within the terms they set, which we followed. They're about to get a bunch more cheap cards returned, only this time the $1,500 cards won't be sold to us but to someone else. It would have been...

Oh so a 1030 doesn't even count as a 10-series card?

Yup looks that way. I also bought a 1650 on antonline specifically to step up, which is now eligible for a... 2 series card, lol.

I think that's a reasonable take but I know I did both (1030 step up + queues), and never got a 3090 thru queues, but I was able to buy a 1030 and turn it into a 3090. I still had to... 1. Find out about the program here 2. Comb thru the rules to make sure it would work 3. Buy the basement card...

Blarg, EVGA just neutered their step up program: https://www.evga.com/support/stepup/ (Scroll down to the NEW section). RIP anyone who bought a GT 1030 this week to trade up, myself included. How on earth is it still getting [H]arder to buy a graphics card???

Get ready for more software to use compute power without the user knowing. It'll happen as crypto goes mainstream, which will normalize the practice and make it more enticing for OEMs and integrators to bundle into prebuilts (I imagine prebuilts & laptops are the only reason Norton still exists).

The queues everyone talks about waiting a year or more for are different than the step up queues. I haven't heard of anyone stuck in a step up for too long.

No, not guaranteed, the cards with the highest demand will have the longest lines. TI cards because of the higher pricing have been more available with wait times within a month or two, but EVGA doesn't report on that... you kind of have to piece together your odds from reddit or social media posts.

You know it may not even matter, because when you trade up you pay the difference anyway. Read this several times and it will start to make sense: https://www.evga.com/support/stepup/ Basically you buy a card (MUST be one with a 3-year warranty, so no B-stock for instance), register it within...

In stock now for anyone who wants to Step Up... https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=02G-P4-6338-KR My associate code if needed: 8DMSZKDLXIMZC4Q I've noticed these often follow B-stock restocks late in the day.

Any guesses on msrp? I bet FEs right around $2k, +$3-600 for AIB cards.

Great thanks for verifying, I looked up and down and didn't see it.

The other strategy for the bundle is buying a cheap one (1650 @ $330 is in stock rn, which is only a $120 markup if you have no use for the PSU) and using it to Step Up thru EVGA registration. Verify details but I believe the SKUs are eligible and Antonline is an authorized EVGA dealer. Edit...

In, thx op! Deal is also good for TT biz. I hate paying TT every year but it's a necessary evil for me. At least I get 20 bucks back this time.

intel's gonna have to screw up bad to not sell GPUs in this market. If performance lags they can just drop prices til they sell. Their timing is perfect.

Ugh missed another one. it'd be way less annoying without the verify loop. I've tried logged in, logged out, incognito (all on different drops) and always a loop for 5-45 minutes then sold out.

Yup build now, upgrade later when needed.

Make sure whatever you get is nothing too fancy!

In that case get a prebuilt or laptop for sure. If you need it tomorrow I'd walk into MC and tell them your budget and they will hook you up. If they have an affordable dGPU on hand then great, if not I don't think it'll be a dealbreaker for your son. Plus if it's something he doesn't want for...

Yeah 13TB is pretty massive. I've also been playing with Synology Drive to sync my NAS with offsite workstations. It would work but requires a Syno NAS. Syncthing looks like a good alternative, maybe one of the opensource NAS suites has something as well.

Wouldn't Dropbox work? You should be able to set it up to store files locally on both machines.

It would be really cool if these became a thing to open up a building space between laptops and sff desktops. It makes a lot of sense to include a built-in screen and keyboard with an APU-based barebones setup as well (love the Pi 400, too). Yeah the cost will be higher as its such a niche...

Nicely done! Also curious what you think made it work. Was the bed level or did it need to be tuned?

Yeah but I get it, computer hardware can push more pixels now and everyone's used to giant TVs (and even mobile devices with a ton of pixels). I came from 2x 24" screens (in the past I've also used 3x monitors), and the single ultrawide takes up about the same amount of space but is seamless and...

I think stock is actually peaking now because of xmas. I have no inside info but there would be no reason for manufacturers to hold stock for later when they can sell it all immediately. Yet another covid wave (labor/supply chain limitations) plus strong demand by miners is going to keep prices...

I switched to an ultrawide about 18 months ago and I'm never going back. Its so much easier to have 3-4 windows open and is also great for toolbars in Photoshop & Bridge. If you wait for MPP or similar deals at Dell I bet you could get a 34" near your price range, though the 38" is just right...

There are some hardware limitations... I believe LGA 1155 and 1st gen Ryzen and older CPUs are unsupported, as is my old Surface. So if Pops has an old enough machine you may be in luck. The Mac idea is also a good one.