Honestly, if you want it now and are tired of waiting, pick an OEM and forget the DIY. Sell the parts you accumulated if the machine is unbuilt and you can have the card much quicker.
Surely under distance selling rules they have to give you a refund if they havenāt delivered it.
@schurem I went pre-built this time around and Iām glad I did. No fuss, and I got a current gen card with it. It was more costly, but not by a huge amount and for sure they had stock and Iād have been waiting.
morlac
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Yet, strangely enough this time around waiting on a DIY would have been a more costly decision a couple months later. Crazy times, glad prices appear to be settling down somewhat.
Iām still trying to help my nephew upgrade to new system and my daughter is bringing her laptop to itās knees as she matures from Robolox into modding minecraft and the Sims. Sheāll need a real gaming rig sooner than later.
I did that at Christmas as well, though my nephew wanted a desktop of all things. Heās matured from Minecraft to literally a little of everything these days and his old system couldnāt even run some titles.
Rule one as an older gamer: Help younger gamers.
Yeah, theyāll refund. But thatās not what I had all this patience for :/
In retrospect, I should have done this.
But I canāt because I been using those parts, and they work fine for the almost a year that I had them now ;-)
They show it as āin stockā. So thatād be right away.
Really torn as well. Perhaps if I keep from biting for a week or four, the price might be much more palatable. Looking at the price graph seems to indicate that.
The trend feels like there should be some decent 3080 systems coming through around $1700 pretty soon, I think thatās my strike point.
I donāt know about that. A lot of people feel like the 3080s are drying up in favor of 3080Ti now so who knows what OEMs will end up with?
I only wish I had pulled the trigger on this way back in like January/February. Prices were lower on full systems with these cards and closer to MSRP value. Iām sure once it gets here Iāll forget all that though. Iām really looking forward to Warzone and BF2042 on this new PC.
Maybe this will help with supply?
Malaysian authorities seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs, laid them out in a parking lot at police headquarters, and used a steamroller to crush them, as part of a joint operation between law enforcement in the city of Miri and electric utility Sarawak Energy.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Hakemal Hawari told CNBC the crackdown came after miners allegedly stole $2 million worth of electricity siphoned from Sarawak Energy power lines.
Why wouldnāt they sell off hardware like that? Did they not have conventional GPUs in there perhaps.
Bitcoin mining rigs donāt have GPUs in them. They have specialized hardware that can pretty much only calculate Bitcoin hashes. They have no value outside of Bitcoin mining (not even for most other cryptocurrencies).
Right, Bitcoin is exclusively mined via ASIC these days. GPUs are too slow to make a profit. Ethereum was specifically designed to be memory-intensive so ASICs wouldnāt take over, which is why GPUs are still profitable there.
Ah, then roll the steamrollers!
While I applaud the death of so much Bitcoin hardware, I also lament the throw-away economy of the world where we canāt make use of it (or some of it) for something else worthwhile. Like, you know, to generate funds to provide housing, or feeding people, or running calculations for other types of research.
Theyāre custom-built ASICs. Beyond mining bitcoin, their only other use is to heat your house in the winter. The power supplies could be repurposed, I suppose.
Beyond that, toss them in a foundry, melt them down, and extract the metal.
Yeah, they can still recycle the metals after theyāve been smashed.
If they are doing that and not just tossing them in a landfill somewhere, I feel fine about it. I just donāt trust that theyād do anything like recycling when theyād steamroll them instead of sending them to a facility to be dismantled. Arenāt there environmentally harmful components in there?
But I digress. Back to complaining about GPU availability for the masses.
Even if I have bought a 144hz screen past year, I had to say: enough is enough. ā¦And actually limit the framerate of some games at a much lower number. Because between summer, my old tower which is outdated in refrigeration, and my old gpu (gtx 1080), it means some indie 3d action games with more or less simplistic graphics would put the gpu at 99% to reach 144hz. Or for example, Iām playing Eastshade, also would get 99-100% gpu usage to reach just 60fps.
And with the gpu pegged at maximum capacity, after 5-6 minutes the heat accumulates, so the fans raise their speed more and more to compensate, sounding louder and louder, until finally reaching max speed. Which is a pretty damn annoying sound, by the way.
The solution: limit the indie action game to 60 fps. Even Easthade, that is a walking sim/adventure game, limit it to 40 fps. Baam, gpu utilization falls to 45%. Which an incredible improvement to my ears, and my eyes donāt notice a lot the difference of fps, anyway.
I also limit framerate (usually to about 90 or so), because I figure thatās plenty, plus I donāt want the GPU (also a 1080) to generate a ton of heat.
Thraeg
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Generally makes more sense to limit GPUās power or temperature target or fan curve if your goal is to avoid heat or fan noise from the GPU. That way you donāt have to worry about each individual game pushing it too hard.
