re: Finch's Guide to Obtaining a GPU/CPU and Trading Thread

you can sell it in the fixit discord server. a bunch of shite is for sell there. only thing is you can't scalp for 2-3x the price.

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People that constantly flake and ghost, wont make a deal unless you drive to their mom's house, etc, but I used to deal with a lot more than computer parts on Facebook. Much rather make a deal from my computer and walk to my mailbox then have to get out and meet someone

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Same here, tried selling a PS5 on Facebook. frick that noise.

Poor VRM shouldn’t necessarily make the cpu cores or package run hot. It should just make your cpu power delivery less stable. If I were throwing a dart, I would guess that motherboard has an internal OC setting that was causing your cpu to draw vastly more voltage than it should, causing increased temps. I would be curious if you cleared CMOS if the problem would persist.

For the record, I'm definitely not saying it's not the motherboard's fault. It almost certainly is (unless you did something software side like changing a Ryzen Master setting). Was just pointing out that a board having shitty VRM just means the VRM temps are going to be sky high, which will cause your boost clocks to run lower, and will frick up any attempts at overclocking. But your core temps shouldn't be affected.

But yeah, tons of little settings in the bios that can mess with things. It's why major tech benchmarkers *never* compare results between motherboards. If you change the test bench, you have to re-run all of your tests. Just too much variance in the more behind the scenes auto features in each proprietary bios.

check your local best buy stores over the next month. they should be getting nvidia FE cards. use the best buy app trick on your phone.


search "RTX"
turn on "in stock"
view results

if you don't see anything, that store probably doesn't have any. if that's the case, move on to the next store.

well it still seems impossible to get anything close to MSRP but it seems like theres more stock coming available albeit at the heavily scalped prices. bestbuy hasnt had a drop since the total tech paywall almost a month ago so hopefully they restock this week.


I highly doubt ETH will be going POS by the time the 4xxx series is released so i assume the demand for those will be sky high, and demand for the 3xxx only eased to minor-moderate scalped prices. will be interesting to see what happens to the GPU landscape when ETH2.0 drops. i assume some miners will liquidate their hardware but they could potentially just switch to mining other coins. but then the LHR cards wont be any form of deterrent for miners and demand for the 3xxx series goes back up.

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they've actually been dropping in-stores since that TT drop. you gotta check the app to see if your store is getting anything. all FE cards by the way.

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havent had any luck with that. I checked out a couple stores in person after checking via the app, but was always told they didnt have any in store after asking to check the SKU

that's just the way they have the site coded. if you have your store setup, search RTX or Founders Edition, and turn the "In Stock" switch on. if you see a card listed, that store will have that card in stock. it will either be stocked inventory card or a cancelled online order. you'll more than likely have to talk to an associate to get it.

just checking alabama stores, it appears that Dothan and Huntsville have a 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti.

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At this point I’m pretty convinced that there will never be a time where a man can just casually walk into a Best Buy/Walmart etc and buy a PS5/XBox lol

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Employees at Walmart said they don't believe they would ever get them in the stores because people would fight over them.