Ummm... well, ####. My FTW3 is still under warranty. That ain't great.
They make such good cards too. Weird.
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They really don't make much profit on that 80%. I'm sure they'll just shift more of their resources into the money makers like PSU's.
Their margins are 3x higher on PSUs but it won’t be easy to get enough market share to recover that lost volume.
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Ummm... well, ####. My FTW3 is still under warranty. That ain't great.
They make such good cards too. Weird.
Steve from Gamers Nexus mentioned that they were keeping enough cards to fulfill warranty replacements. I’ve got two cards under warranty so hopefully he’s right.
Yeah I watched that video. You still don't like to hear that as the owner of a pretty new card that you're hoping to use for a few years.
Really just super odd that they're expressing no interest in switching over to AMD or even Intel given their name value and experience on that side of things. Seems really obvious.
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Could NVIDIA be moving directly into the cloud space? Take on the majors; Azure, AWS, Kindryl, GCP.. whom need their gpus/NVIDIA licensing for their VM’s.
I am so tempted to pull the trigger on a 3090 / 3090 Ti now and sell off my 1070 and 1080 Ti cards. The prices are right....
They still haven't come down enough for me. Even factoring in the exchange rate they're way cheaper in the US right now. Hoping our prices start coming down soon.
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^I still haven't done it yet, for pretty much that exact reason. Although I can't help but notice Memory Express has almost no inventory of those cards left, which leads me to believe they're not getting any more in advance of Nvidia GTCC.
I use it for video editing, sound editing, light gaming, and as my everyday PC.
I've been debating upgrading the video card for a long time, but then this often takes me down a path of replacing several other parts, to which point I keep thinking I should just build new. Plus, I'm also excited by buying all the parts and building anew PC. lol. But can't decide if this is foolish or not.
How often do you guys build new PCs? And when do you build a new one versus upgrade your current one?
When it's no longer able to do tasks I want it to do. If everything else is good but one part (i.e. video card) I just upgrade like I did a couple of years ago with my video card.
I do 3D art and my computer is almost 8 years old and everything I do seems to be too heavy for it now. I'll probably do a new build around Black Friday when I know what Nvidia is doing with the 40 series and I can decide whether to wait or get a 3080 or 3090.
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If it follows previous trends, there will need to be at least a generation of bad selling before Nvidia will drop prices. The whole 30 series was supposed to be more economical than 20 series cards. However situations proved otherwise.
The remaining cards that Memory express has are pretty much for IPR as they should have returned stock in readiness for new product rollout.
Those cards aren't going to see much price movement, it's pretty much sunk cost at the moment.
I can't speak to value for performance, as performance metrics will vary by the individual and what's good enough may not enough for others.
driving a 4k display at 60hz depending on game is probably enough to jump into an enthusiast card today, or maybe a low end vr headset.
How often do you guys build new PCs? And when do you build a new one versus upgrade your current one?
I think you basically described the decision point.. when it cascades to a significant portion of the PC having to get replaced then I'll do it.
I went from an i7-6700K to an AMD 5900X. Before that I was ok with just updating one component at a time, but when I wanted a jump in CPU I couldn't do it since there's different versions of the 1151 socket so I was basically stuck.
At that point I jumped forward and built a new PC.
As to if it's foolish to upgrade earlier, that depends on how you view your PC. If it's purely a tool then it could be, take the Inferno line.
For some it's a hobby.. constantly tweaking and changing one's PC can be a source of enjoyment and hobbies usually cost $$. Maybe just a rationalization but hey it's your $$ spend it on what you enjoy!
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nvidia keynote this morning, prices getting jacked up as expected. $899USD for the 12GB 4080 vs $699USD for the 3080 at launch.. $1199 for the 16GB version.
$1599USD for the 4090
October 12 for the 4090, November availability for the 4080.
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"In terms of performance, the 16GB 3080 features 9,728 Cuda Cores and a base clock of 2.21GHz, with a maximum boost clock of 2.51GHz. Meanwhile, the 12GB model features a more modest 7,680 CUDA Cores but 100MHz faster base and boost clocks."
That's not confusing at all...
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I'm still suspicious about whether the performance will even be worth the extra cost compared to what you could get 3000 series cards for the last week or two.
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