Yes. It's basically triple the MSRP of the founders 3080, and it will barely outperform that card. The thing is probably worth maybe $1200? So a $1000 premium? So yeah, that would be stupid.
... It also might be your only option if you need a new, high end card, so maybe you're forced to be stupid here.
Thus the conundrum. I don’t need a new card for gaming but I want to build a new Plex server and my current card would be perfect for transcoding. If I knew supply and prices were going to get back to normal soon it wouldn’t be a question but I might take the plunge because my patience is waning.
I also looked at 6900xt cards but they don’t make the grade. Some don’t even have HDMI 2.1.
Crikey it's difficult to get a large HDD thanks to this new HDD based crypto. I bought a 10TB Seagate drive at Xmas to shuck for $200. It's $379 now, but supplies are low or out at a lot of places.
Unless my old system craps out, my money is staying in the bank. If more people did this, prices would return to normal sooner. That's my thinking anyway.
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This is nuts. I wouldn't have expected it to make this big a difference. Just another thing to worry about when buying a system (or even just the hardware).
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Well, I went down to Memory Express and was reminded that they're only selling the 3080ti in a bundle so that's the end of that for now.
Guess that's the reason why they're still in stock, even at prices that would been outrageous a year ago they would have been sold out if they were standalone.
Back in April right when hard drive prices went crazy I put in an order for 2 16TB Seagate Exos drives from CDW since they still had them listed for $500 each. I figured it was a long shot at best due to supply issues and half expected the order to get cancelled. Forgot about it until today when the drives magically show up at my door. Very pleasant surprise and now I can finally get my Synology NAS setup
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Have finally gotten around to doing some gaming with my 5900X, which forced me to dig into an intermittent keyboard lag issue that I've been annoyed at for a while. Why would my new beefy system have keyboard lag?! It's not constant, but is worse if I haven't touch the keyboard in a few seconds. Which happens a lot in games.
Maybe the wireless keyboard itself?
I finally dug out a USB keyboard and poof lag gone. Changed the batteries, same thing. I have two of the same wireless keyboard so tried the other one, same thing.
Dig out an old ASUS USB BT-400 adapter, disable the onboard BT, plugin in the dongle, repair, zero lag.
Thanks Gigabyte... Though I wonder, I'm not using the onboard Wifi, but does the antenna that comes with it also work as a BT antenna since the BT chip would be on the motherboard?
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Have finally gotten around to doing some gaming with my 5900X, which forced me to dig into an intermittent keyboard lag issue that I've been annoyed at for a while. Why would my new beefy system have keyboard lag?! It's not constant, but is worse if I haven't touch the keyboard in a few seconds. Which happens a lot in games.
Maybe the wireless keyboard itself?
I finally dug out a USB keyboard and poof lag gone. Changed the batteries, same thing. I have two of the same wireless keyboard so tried the other one, same thing.
Dig out an old ASUS USB BT-400 adapter, disable the onboard BT, plugin in the dongle, repair, zero lag.
Thanks Gigabyte... Though I wonder, I'm not using the onboard Wifi, but does the antenna that comes with it also work as a BT antenna since the BT chip would be on the motherboard?
I have a Gigabyte mobo and the antenna is for wifi and bluetooth. I don't have lag but my Xbox controller will disconnect sometimes.
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Pretty much any bluetooth peripheral I use I need to plug the BT adapter into an extension cable and have it sitting near my feet. Bluetooth just seems to suck but I guess with so many other things running on the same frequency it wouldn't take much to cause transmission errors causing lag.
I mean the real question is why use a wireless keyboard for a desktop but maybe you're just really averse to cords.
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really like the g910 wired keyboard. not too clicky, and has a nice volume roller
Seconded. I can't not buy Logitech keyboards since the g510 just because I live and die on that volume roller. The g910 is a solid keyboard with great features.
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I like a wireless mouse/keyboard for my work PC. Way less clutter.
But for my gaming rig, wired for sure.
My issue is that there aren't many good wireless mechanical keyboards and they rarely go on sale so I just use a Black Widow for everything. I have 4 of them now.
On an unrelated note, I hear GPU prices are starting to fall. I assume that's purely theoretical and we still can't actually buy them?
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My issue is that there aren't many good wireless mechanical keyboards and they rarely go on sale so I just use a Black Widow for everything. I have 4 of them now.
On an unrelated note, I hear GPU prices are starting to fall. I assume that's purely theoretical and we still can't actually buy them?
what kind of gaming are you doing? There a bunch of bluetooth mechanical keyboards out there now that are pretty good.
