He’s probably already ebayed it for $900 :)
Got my first hotstock notification for a 3060Ti Founders Edition just now at Best Buy. I clicked on it immediately, but it was already Sold Out.
At least now I know hotstock works for something other than PS5. (I only added the PS5 to make sure the app actually works, not because I want one).
I’d keep checking. I think BB restocks tend to come in waves iirc
stusser
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Yes, you want to stay on the site for 10-20 minutes refreshing just in case.
Welcome to 2020/2021, broseph.
Got myself and all my friends vaccinated the same way. Never made the initial notification, but I stuck around for awhile and more opened up.
Someone shared an email they got from EVGA over on their forums showing the queue for the waitlist. It’s… daunting;
As of 8 :30 a m PT Friday, March 12 , this is the status of the North American queues ( bolded font represents movement from the morning of March 11; italicized parentheticals calculate the length of movement from the prior report):
I can’t make any sense of that Mr Theman… What does it show?
I believe it shows where they are in fulfilling the order queue, with the date for each card being the order waitlist date they’re up to.
It also shows that I’m damn glad I was able to get an Asus 3080 in November because I added my name to the EVGA waitlist in early October.
Yep. So for the top SKU on the list—the 3090 FTW3 Ultra—anyone who was on the waiting list on or before 10/16/2020 at 18:37:50 has already received their invite to buy the card.
LOL - I added my name to the list (foolishly) in December. I’ll just hope for the 3080 ti, now.
Thraeg
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Wow. I went on their waitlist for my 3080 on 9/17/20, and was grateful to secure it in November, which seemed like a reasonable wait time. Never would have dreamed that some models still wouldn’t have gotten there 6 months later.
And if I’m reading that chart right, on my model (FTW3 Ultra), a day’s worth of production advanced them a whole 13 minutes on the waitlist.
I was on the 3070 list day of in October and feel lucky that I got it like a month ago at the list price instead of the inflated one.
They’ll have the next gen of cards released before these waitlists are cleared. I think I’m happy this is the generation I’m skipping (since I have a 2060 Super).
Still haven’t found a 3080, at this rate I’ll probably just wait for the 4000 series. :P
Apparently there was a drop at Best Buy today, but I was getting my vaccine shot at that time.
rei
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Donating plasma for money has become legal in Alberta, Canada. At $30CAD/pop it will take a while to afford a GPU.
stusser
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I’m sure there was a secure handshake, but by releasing official signed drivers with unrestricted performance they just kicked it in the balls.
Not that it probably made any significant difference because it was just limited to ethereum, but the notion of major mining groups making their own drivers seems to have just been made that much easier.
Why don’t governments just ban the stupid cryptocoins already ffs!?*
*I know it’s not JUST the miners’ fault, but fuck this. Even if fab capacity goes up as the pandemic eases, the demand for cards is just going to keep going higher, even IF Etherium moves to a “proof of stake” model…eventually, because there are always more coins being created.
They’re an environmental disaster, using up electrical power that is often generated with coal and gas fired plants.
There are a lot of reasons against them, no doubt. I can certainly understand reasons for them on an academic level, but whomever decided on the process of mining with a GPU is an absolute jerk.
Well, that’s capitalism with a capital K. The only ethics in capitalism is…more capital.
Capitalism doesn’t guarantee that stupid ideas from academics will be shot down immediately. Some of them take time!
I’m a diehard but even I agree the mining aspect is such a waste.
Maybe we can have some sort of freedom exchange where the government liberalizes some stupid law in exchange for cracking down on mining!
