I’d be happy to pick something up for you in my travels, but since covid, I no longer travel… 
Thanks, but I’m on the complete opposite side of the country.
The part that’s on fire.
dam only 2 left and i doubt they will still be in stock by the time im out of work. Think im going to wait a bit (i just want a new card before the November games are out) and in the meantime work on getting a better desk as well as a new case and whole fan setup. Want to get a vesa mount for my 2 monitors so I can keep my pen display connected my pc 24/7
Gigabyte accidentally confirms 20gb 3080 and 16gb 3070 models.
https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-confirms-geforce-rtx-3060-8gb-rtx-3070-16gb-and-rtx-3080-20gb
My opinion:
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3080 10gb models hyped up as $699
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3080 10gb model made in limited quantities, intentionally
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3080 20gb models release more RAM and faster clocks, AIB only, phasing out 10gb models.
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3080 20gb models are $900 for the basic ones, $1100 for the better cooler variants
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3080 10gb models were never intended for mass sale, and were intended to be marketing hype to claim they sold cards for $699
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Nvidia laughs to the bank while managing to charge people yet again $1100 for a 2080 ti +20% replacement while claiming it was $699.
Like auto ads with $19,999 car but only one and the rest are all $29,999
This is part of why I continue to buy AMD GPUs.
What are you upgrading from? 3070 is supposed to be similar performance to 2080ti for $499 … I’m interested to see if it actually performs that well…
coming from a 5700xt. I plan to have two 1440p monitors, one HDR 120hz+ and 2nd 75hz (current) with my 1080p pen display as well, so 3 monitors. I want the 3080 min for future horsepower in games as well as no problems running 120+hz on my main monitor with 2 others connected.
edit im waiting for better HDR monitors to come out before i replace my main with a 1440p 120+hz
Point of reference:
I run a 5700XT and 3 displays, a 1440p/144hz and dual 1080p/60s. The other displays don’t affect performance in any meaningful way.
I’ve posted gameplay videos before, but suffice to say at that resolution on 10 setting can still power WoW quite well, mostly above 120FPS, and with the news of 16/20gb Ampere cares coming, I’d wait.
Well its also future AAA games like cyberpunk and what else may come out. I would also want to push ray tracing to the max if the game offers it. I am a sucker for eye candy.
well given it seems the 10gb models are unicorns anyway, and the better versions are basically confirmed to exist, i would wait. but that’s me.
There’s the Micro Center in Tustin. That’s close, right?
thats the 6 hour drive - i’m in the capital
I was mostly posting that to be a turd. I don’t know what their profits are like but my local store (Sharonville) is always busy. I’m surprised they don’t open more stores.
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We have Fry’s.
There’s more PC parts at Wal-mart, probably.
I used to work at their distribution center which was located in an Airborne Express warehouse. They’ve gone way downhill since 2006.
This is their entire CPU stock:
https://www.frys.com/category/Outpost/PC+Components/Processors/
privately held company so they probably don’t have the capital to lease the space, build out, and buy inventory to fill up a bunch of stores a la circuit city, best buy, the wiz, crazy eddie (my personal favorite)…and looking how many of those chains ended up that may be a good thing
Fry’s was just poorly managed.
They had the dumbest policies, essentially letting people rent hardware for free.
You could return literally anything.
Lol, drove past a best buy that was formerly a wiz and formerly a crazy eddie … was telling my son about both just recently!
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Have never heard of Crazy Eddie. Is that an east coast thing?
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It was. They had crazy tv commercials. Eddie ended up in prison for fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie
The chain rose to prominence throughout the Tri-State Region as much for its prices as for its memorable radio and television commercials, featuring a frenetic, “crazy” character played by radio DJ Jerry Carroll (who copied most of his shtick from early TV-commercial pioneer, used car and electronics salesman Earl “Madman” Muntz). At its peak, Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in four states and reported more than $300 million in sales.
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