This GPU/CPU shortage stuff is really depressing…
Just had to get that out, feel moderately better now
What was your total cost if I may ask?
vyshka
8649
With taxes and shipping it was $2960
NZXT H710i Build
Services
Standard Service (US)
Software
Windows 10 Home Edition
Storage
Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB - 1TB
GPU
NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX™ 3070 - EVGA XC3 ULTRA GAMING
PSU
XPG Core Reactor 850W Gold
RAM
G.SKILL Trident Z Royal RGB 3600MHz - 32 GB
CPU
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core 3.7GHz
Motherboard
ASRock X570 TAICHI WIFI
COOLERS
NZXT Kraken X63
Case
NZXT H710i - Black
Kyrios
8651
I waited in line this morning for about an hour for the privilege of paying $639 plus tax for an EVGA 3070 XC3 Ultra… and I kind of feel like I got away with something, that it was that easy and I didn’t have to either camp or try several times. (My local Microcenter gets shipments on Mon/Thurs and sometimes but not always on Fri, and with a day off today I figured it was worth a try.) The Microcenter Discord is really helpful at figuring out what the routine is at each specific location, if anyone else has one convenient enough for the non-internet approach at this. Anyways, GPUs are Good again.
Nice, and a EVGA to boot!
Really? I got a 5950X and a 3080 last year and just picked up my second 3080 earlier this week. Seems aight.
(Kidding, kidding.)
Dammit, when is Microcenter going to come to the West Coast, particularly to Portland?
grumble grumble grumble
Congrats on scoring the card, though. Here’s hoping my EVGA 1080 which must be over 5 years old by now (Scott Lufkin sold it to me at about 1.5 years in October 2017, and I’ve had it since) survives till all this blows over. I suspect it may be dying because for over a year now when I come back from sleep, it’s hit or miss on whether it makes the handshake over DisplayPort with my monitor. Hitting the PC’s reset button for a split second wakes it up.
vyshka
8656
I wish they would stick a store in the Phoenix area especially since Fry’s has died off.
I sold my old 1080 for five hundred dollars.
There’s at least one in Southern California.
Come to Tustin! There’s nothing else there! ;)
I am starting to think @stusser knows a guy who has these products fall off a truck for him. :D
mono
8661
I have a Kraken X63 AiO. Worked awesome for about a month, and then atrocious pump rattle. I’ve removed it, shaken the s** out of it (as air bubbles are oftten the cause) reoriented, despite my initial orientation being recommended, and it persists. About to move to a Noctua air cooled solution instead.
Super disappointing, because that one month before I got pump whine/rattle whatever it’s called, the PC was stone quiet.
vyshka
8662
That’s a bummer. Hopefully that will not be an issue. I had a kraken x61 before and that seemed to work well. It would’ve been nice for there to be more options. In some areas NZXT seemed to be offer better choices, and in others I would’ve preferred what OriginPC was offering. There would’ve been another $300-$400 premium to pay for the origin system as well. I also looked at Digital Storm which seems to have a good reputation, and their prices made the Origin systems seem more reasonable. :)
Never heard of the place. Guessing it’s out in the Central Valley somewhere? Or near LA but out in the semi-sticks (some part of the area there that has yet to be entirely paved over)? :D
In any case, I think that the nearly 1500 mile or more round trip for a chance of scoring a card might significantly increase the total price thereof. ;)
Tustin is pretty industrial, with a lot of business parks and car dealerships, kind of just outside of LA proper. I’m in the South Bay portion of Los Angeles and it’s about an hour inland from me. You’re not really missing anything.
vyshka
8665
Next trip to Disneyland will have to swing by there
…except for a chance at a reasonably priced video card, of course. And is that hour calculation at 3 AM on a Sunday? ;)
(I was last exposed to LA traffic in the summer of '96 and I can’t imagine it’s gotten any better.)
