6318

I theoretically have one backordered through CDW from launch day, but there has been absolutely no indication of how many people are ahead of me or how many they’re going to get in each week, so I’m not counting on it showing up any time this year. Like @AK_Icebear, I’ve been checking whenever a stock notification goes off, and have occasionally managed to get one into the cart before being told it’s out of stock.

If there’s no movement in the next week or two, I might just cancel for now. I had better luck with the console preorders, so the closer we get to those showing up on my doorstep, the easier it gets to just focus on them for the next few months and put off the GPU until things settle down.

6319

I paid for one and am at nr 270 on the list for delivery last time I checked.

6320

This.

6321

Given up, hope for Q1 2021.

6322

I figure either RDNA2 or a 3080 (maybe a TI) will be available no later than Thanksgiving and hopefully sooner, but I understand people not getting their hopes up.

6323

Yep, pretty much.

6324

How’s everyone doing at actually getting cards?

I’ve got a pre-order at our local Memory Express that they expect to be able to fill no earlier than February. So I guess I am waiting.

6325

February? If AMD has anything competitive with the 3080 they have another big opportunity here. They weren’t able to capitalize last generation, maybe this one they’ll have more success.

6326

I was waiting for Zen 3 to make a build decision, but Best Buy had a CyberpowerPC Core i9-10900K system with an Nvidia FE 3080 card in it available for delivery on Friday. That’s where I’d have gone if I decided on Intel anyway, and the total price was just about the same as building it myself, so… If it sucks, I can take it back. A bit weirded out as the last pre-built desktop PC I purchased was a Dell Pentium 166 in the mid-90s.

6327

Does it have lots of RGB lighting?

6328

Yeah; I’ve heard prebuilts are likely the “easiest” way to get the 3080s right now. As always, double-check the quality of the PSU, but otherwise you could have certainly done worse. Of course, Zen 3 is going to allegedly stomp it in a couple weeks, but those of us waiting will likely all be scuffling for a GPU to pair with our 5900Xs, lol.

Just imagining the components of my upcoming build—which will have a screaming fast water-cooled CPU, overkill motherboard, ridiculous M.2 and blazing RAM—trying to make my GTX 970 render. I suspect it’s going to feel like a football team getting out to push a car which ran out of gas.

6329

SOOO much RGB lighting.

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Best Buy’s page implied it was the Nvidia card, but CyberPowerPC’s support chat said it could be one of many major brands – EVGA, Gigabyte, Asus, etc. (Didn’t mention Zotac, phew.) My luck it’ll be that hideous Gigabyte card visible through the blingy window.

I’m just glad to shut down that Discord stockbot window – it was driving me nuts with false Newegg positives.

I felt a little time pressure as I’m selling my old rig to a friend’s son who saved up his yardwork money, and need to pull the GTX 1080 to include with it. I know how excited he is, so I didn’t want to wait until end of October if I could avoid it.

6330

THAT’S gonna run super fast ;)

And you’re a great friend!

6331

I can see just how fast it is!

Also, if they didn’t mention the brand of 3080, its probably Zotac ;)

6332

I’m far less worried about playing Cyberpunk on a 3070 with the news that it’s a bit shorter than Witcher 3 and they have a lot of different ways to play through it. So next year is good enough. I’ll just replay the game then.

6333

After seeing all these weird fake YouTube reviews of CyberPower PCs and seeing Zotac cards and crap power supplies in the real YouTube reviews, I’m setting aside time to drop this sucker back off at Best Buy on Saturday if necessary. We’ll see. If it’s an AsRock/Zotac/generic PS combo, I might be back on the 3080 bot Discord next week. But I see some Qt3 folks are quite happy with their CyberPowerPC units, so we’ll see.

6334

CyberPowerPC - Looks pretty clean inside though, nice cable management, course, easier when there’s only 1 device and no hard drives.

Outside of some books, or looking for virtual sex on IRC, I for some reason really dislike the word ‘cyber’ used in any other context, especially if it involves a job title or relating to IT security. I think I would refuse if offered to work as something involving ‘cyber*.*’, unless the pay was really really good and I didn’t have to use it in a sentence anywhere.

6335

Cyber security is still really commonly used. Also the last time I heard anyone mention “cybersex” was like 20 years ago.

6336

Yea, and it is a shit name for it.

Really wondering what AMD will show us this time.

6337

Lied, I keep track. 15 as of right now.