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You can't step a 3050 up to a 3090.
don't forget the number of people who simply want a video card too. Yeah sure it's less powerful than a 2060, somewhere in the 1660 range of things, but when all the scalper/miner nonsense went cray-cray people were trying to get anything and everything they could just so they can have a system to game on.
im so dense I was like "thats messed up you can't step up a 3090"
Sometimes. It's difficult to know which stores will actually get stock or not. Early last year I wasted a lot of time with a card in my cart, swapping out zip codes trying to find a store within 250 miles that I could actually ship to. I don't know how much of a good idea that is now with the much more limited queue system.
I would assume the stores that announced stores that will have physical stock are the primary ones that gets shipments sent too. Which none of those stores were within 250 miles of me. I never had any luck with drops from best buy.
I keep hearing 250 miles. I was wondering if they only show you stock for your store or other stores?
I don't know, there's a lot of double checking now which seems to have helped. I scored a 3090 fe last drop, though it seems 3060 ti, 3070, and 3080 fes were still heavily botted.
AAFES sells GPUs? I was looking for them on there recently and only saw complete prebuilds for sale from some seemingly crappy builder I've never heard of otherwise and still marked up more than I thought was necessary.
I completely forget about stepup, I should have swapped my 3080 Ti FTW3 ultra for the 3090 version lol. Oh well too late now.
Step-Up value only uses the base price of the card itself. So you lose the tax/shipping you originally paid for the 3080 Ti, plus you have to pay tax on the 3090, also pay shipping both ways, including any insurance on your return card.
Doing all this is still cheaper than the scalper prices though.
How do they figure the price you paid for the GPU in a bundle for the step up?I just shipped in today my overpriced antplace bundle 3060 for a 3090 trade up that I started in late Dec. vid cards cost too much nowadays
Each item has an Individual price on the invoice
They just give you the MSRP of your card, so my bundle was something like 750$, card value on their site is 430$ so I got 430$ off the price of the 3090.
Antonline did not on my invoice. EVGA will not give you more than msrp for a traded in card. The cost of the card I sent in for the trade in was bundle cost minus msrp of all items in bundle except vid card. This ended up more than the msrp, something like $550. I did use that number as my card cost with the trade in, they dropped it down to msrp.
I think the step-up inventory changes based on what they have available.
Its pretty damn ridiculous that you apparently can't step up from a 1660 to 3070 or something.
