re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

This is just sick.

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PC gamers everywhere tried and failed to buy Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card today as units quickly sold out. But not everyone came up empty.

A group of resellers scored the RTX 3080 ahead of average consumers, thanks to an automated bot, which was capable of ordering dozens of units from Nvidia’s website instantly.

The resellers have been taking to social media to praise the bot’s creator, Bounce Alerts, a group devoted to helping its members score early access to retail products, such as sneakers, so they can be resold at higher prices.

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With a GPU launch this hyped, of course the limited stock was gonna sell, and of course the scalpers were gonna use bots to aid in buying as much stock as they could.

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The issue wasn't bots, the issue was forced scarcity. Samsung could never keep up close to what was needed right now on their 8nm process. Watched a few youtubes yesterday and people were irate stores werent even getting them.

Dawid does tech lives near Vancouver - not a small city, he went to a computer store to get in line, was 3rd person in line, waited for over an hour till store opened, he didnt get one because they only had TWO total 3080's (both Zotac ones, ew). He went to the other major computer store in Vancouver, they got ZERO 3080's. So in all of Vancouver major computer stores, they got 2 RTX 3080's. He didnt check best buy or anything, but figured by then they would be sold out anyways, he couldnt believe the 2 major computer stores in Vancouver collectively only got 2 RTX 3080's.

This was a paper launch basically and forced scarity as some predicted by Nvidia. They probably just wanted to be first well ahead of AMD with big navi. I bet it will be hard to get your hands on a 3080 even if you tried very hard for the next month (NOT on the overpriced 2nd hand market).

I will say I love the trolls on ebay pushing up the prices to $50k on those cards to troll the flippers and make it as hard as they can on them to actually sell those cards.

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Samsung could never keep up close to what was needed right now on their 8nm process.

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Bingo - Nvidia even privately said this.

RTX3080 Now in Stock Tracker

So the 3090 is just 10% faster than the 3080? OOF.

NVIDIA RTX 3090 Gaming Benchmarks Leaked: Just 10% Faster than the RTX 3080

Apparently Nvidia is now saying it isn't for gamers. Prosumer card.

I’m thinking the 3080 ti will be the equivalent of a 1080 ti on longevity. You’ll be good for a very long time.

Yeah, the 3080 was already a much better buy but even more so now.

Gamers Nexus and Joe Stepongzi (Bearded Hardware) have broke and rebroke the Port Royal record like 5 times so far, cooling the 3080 with liquid nitrogen.

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Nah