Integrated GPU’s are improving and I’m sure they’ll be good enough for most of your backlog, and as long as one stays a few years behind the cutting edge, the backlog should be enough.
This too shall come to pass. In the meantime, nothing wrong with consoles; they may be hard to find at times, but at least you don’t get inflated AIB pricing and what not. Your backlog will always be waiting for you. Well, until Steam fades away/the heat death of the universe.
If someone is in the market for a new gaming PC, I would strongly recommend a prebuilt at this time, but ideally holding off for another year because the prices are still inflated and should gradually relax
KevinC
8970
I thought I was overspending when I got mine last year and that prices would go down once the 3080s and AMD CPU stock issues were resolved. Boy was I wrong. :)
Yeah; it’s insanity right now. But I think there are some realistic hopes/expectations: mining pressures should semi-stabilize in the future (individual coins will always spike interest), demand from non-miners will drop as more and more get their hands on systems or leave the marketplace for consoles, manufacturing constraints will be relieved as COVID and other issues get more under control, and the tariffs will POSSIBLY get relaxed/removed at some point. Manufacturers will reset their price points to maximize profits, because none of them will want to leave GPUs and CPUs sitting on shelves.
Me too. So I didn’t pay the money and now I feel real dumb.
Egg Shuffle happening again today.
I felt like a chump overspending on a customized Cyberpower build in February and the 3070 from my EVGA queue, but I really got lucky in hindsight.
My NZXT 3070 build arrived yesterday, way ahead of their estimated ship date.
I either overpaid $446 for the system (compared to some hypothetical universe where CPUs and GPUs are sold at MSRP), or I saved $596 (compared to the actual street prices in the universe I live in).
So far I’m very happy with the build. Everything is nice and tidy and they installed the minimum amount of additional software/bloatware. Adding my existing SDD/HDD was a bit of a challenge because the SATA ports on the board were under the GPU. Maybe they could offer pre-installed extra cables as an add-on.
vyshka
8976
Mine is out for delivery, so just sitting here waiting for the sound of the fedex truck pulling up.
Edit: nvm, thought that reply was to me.
KevinC
8979
I wouldn’t feel dumb. This situation is crazy and completely unprecedented. I happened to get a nice bonus right around the time I was looking and that’s the only thing that persuaded me to pull the trigger then, otherwise I would have just waited “a few months” for prices to drop.
I went by Best Buy today for reasons unrelated to video cards, but I did notice they had a sign right up front saying 3XXX GTX cards “not available at this location.” Heh.
Hey, here’s a “win”. I woke up at the crack of 8:45 EDT to be in the queue as early as I could for EVGA’s 3070Ti release. I managed to snag a 6:22:10 PDT time of preorder. The site was completely borked, I was mashing refresh etc from 9AM until then. Anyways, the status document for the queues (linked below again) shows 6:18:42AM PDT for the current queue position. This is up 5 minutes and 45 seconds from the day before (which was the day of release). So, who knows, maybe they’ll email me so that I can buy it sometime in the next week (or two).
Fingers crossed.
Me:
Current queue position:
mono
8983
Congrats! I’m sporting the same case (in white) and CPU. Nice build!
vyshka
8984
The case is a big improvement over my older NZXT case from my last build. I had to pull it apart a bit when it arrived to stick my m.2 nvme drive for work in and hook up a couple ssd drives I have for extra storage from the older system. All running now, and pretty quiet. I installed Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, and did part of a zombie round before getting my daughter ready for bed. Now to get some other things installed once she is asleep.
No worries folks, the GT 730 is coming back!
haha that spreadsheet shows how much of a paper launch some of those 3090s were.
Tomorrow at 9AM PDT/12PM EDT, EVGA will go live with the queue for a couple more 30xx skus:
From a dude tracking the queues on the EVGA forum, here’s some more info:
https://forums.evga.com/FindPost/3388253
He has links that may or may not go straight to the product pages or autonotify part of the process for when it’s all crashy.
