I went to the Memory Express SE location and arrived just over an hour before they opened. There was already a line forming; I was #16. There were probably 80-100 people in line behind me by the time the store opened. Ten minutes before they opened the doors, an employee came out and handed a numbered ticket to everyone in line. Awesome, I'm home free! Everyone naturally assumed the tickets corresponded to the number of 3080 cards they had in stock, right? WRONG. The tickets only allowed you to place a pre-order. They had zero cards in stock and couldn't say when the inventory would arrive.
Edit: Also, at no point did a MemEx employee ever come outside to tell all the people queuing up that there was no inventory. Even when they handed out the numbered tickets, they didn't say they were for pre-orders only. It was only after the first guy in line went inside, came out empty-handed except for a pre-order receipt, and told everyone waiting what was going on that we found out. Poor form, Memory Express, poor form.
Update: Memory Express called me earlier today to say that my RTX 3080 has arrived...39 days after I originally ordered it on launch day. I went to pick it up on my lunch break. The sales dude said they don't expect the inventory crunch to work itself out for another three or four months.
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Update: Memory Express called me earlier today to say that my RTX 3080 has arrived...39 days after I originally ordered it on launch day. I went to pick it up on my lunch break. The sales dude said they don't expect the inventory crunch to work itself out for another three or four months.
I ordered mine on the 9th, which was the last day they took online orders for them. I got a call on Friday and I was hopeful mine had come in but they were only letting me know the replacement RAM I got under warranty was ready to pick up.
I expect I'll be waiting until the New Year before I get it.
3070 FE reviews out today and it looks like a pretty good value card. Matches a 2080Ti if you leverage the RTX side, a bit behind if not, but for the price that's pretty good.
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Competing with NVIDIA in 2020 =/= Competing with Intel in 2020
There will be hardware ray tracing though and it will be more adopted since it will be what is used on the Xbox series X and PS5 with their huge populations.
Lack of any equivalent to DLSS is a bit disappointing though. The 6800 XT is priced $50 cheaper than the 3080 though and the 6900 XT is priced $500 cheaper than the $1499 3090 so its a matter of whether DLSS uptake is high, whether the discount makes up for it for each buyer and what availability will be like. Won't matter if you can't buy any of them.
Everyone should pretty much wait to see benchmarks to see if they are "on par" anyways.
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Update: Memory Express called me earlier today to say that my RTX 3080 has arrived...39 days after I originally ordered it on launch day. I went to pick it up on my lunch break. The sales dude said they don't expect the inventory crunch to work itself out for another three or four months.
Enjoy!
I just got an LG CX to pair with it - ####ing amazing. Would never go back to a "dinky" 1440p ever again.
I just got an LG CX to pair with it - ####ing amazing. Would never go back to a "dinky" 1440p ever again.
True members of the master race scoff at your weakling 120hz panel.
(I'm just kidding that's going to be pretty great)
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The mini version of the PC-011D is coming out mid November, and it supports air coolers higher than 155mm! So I can stick with air cooling.
The tradeoff I guess is you need an SFX power supply. Mid November though, so I think I might build my new PC in my current case and then move to a new one when that comes out and everything fits that I want.
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After going back and forth on it for the last little while I think I'm going to may my first foray into the gaming laptop world.
Does anybody have any recommendations on brands/builds that they have been big fans of?
Also been wondering if I should hold off for the 3000 series mobile cards but based on the inventory backlog on just the main cards my guess is those don't end up being available for 12 months at least.
Typically the Gigabytes give you the best bang for buck in a well made chassis, it seems to me. The Aero design is good and pretty cheap for what you get.
I have a mid 2019 Razer Blade 15. It's very solid, well made and exceptionally well designed, but they're just too expensive. I got it for about 30% off. I wouldn't have paid full price for it.
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Even the 5600X looks pretty good for gaming, though I'll probably get a 5900X (I expect the 5950X to be too much $$ to justify the extra 4 threads but we'll see what the prices in Canada are)
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