Bruh been wanting a new case myself so I can use my current case for a living room PC. So torn cause I kinda hate the internal designs of the good white cases. I wish cable grommets were more popular
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My reason would be I just want a case that can support cables much better, since my cable management are not exactly that refine, also I need other factors that can help such as USB-C.
The most important reason for me would be a lot of AIRFLOW!
Anyone know what time the 3080 ti goes live at best buy? I suspect 9 am est. But I can’t find confirmation on that anywhere
Pretty sure they went on sale at scalper o’clock; you’ll have access a minute after… 
I’m not sure, but after seeing what they are charging for them I have completely lost all interest in getting one. I would have been fine with it at $999, even though that would have still been overpriced. But $1199? For ~5-6% improvements over a 3080? And AIB models are supposedly going to be sold for $2000+ at launch from Newegg/Amazon/etc as well. Nope, I’ll either continue trying to find a 3080 or I’ll wait for the next gen.
Yeah it is over priced. I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be a 1k card. But with demand as is, it’s not surprising they increased it. If Best buy doesn’t work out I’ll be signing up for EVGA’s queue. They’re the only AIB partner who’s kept their prices reasonable. So it shouldn’t be too bad
Best of luck to you tomorrow morning then. 
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They’re actually going to have stock in stores for the launch. Of course my local best buy isn’t one of them. They start handing out tickets at 7:30 lol
Update. Actually the founder’s edition will be in stores only. Thanks NVIDIA
Steve’s a savage lol XD. To bad we don’t have AIB card prices yet. Would’ve been even more hilarious.
If I get lucky, maybe I’ll just the spend the extra $300 on the 3090.
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$1500 was MSRP on 3090s pre-tariff. You’re looking at $1800+ now:
Always my first stop when new products drop, and he was in fine form today. 
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I guess microcenter increased their prices. Best Buy has continued to sell it at $1500 and the 3080 at $700.
The only more positive review I’ve seen so far was from LMG. Everyone else seems to be taking the “Wtf are you thinking?” Route. Not saying Linus is a shill, as I understand the points and the silver lining, though I also agree that this is not the best decision get could have made.
Well I suspect the overall tone of the LMG video would’ve been worse if they recorded it all knowing about the $1200 price. I don’t mind seeing Nvidia and its partners take some of the profit from the scalpers. But then they also made it in store only for the launch…
Ideally, they (and everyone else) would just find a solution to the bot problem. I can’t believe they still haven’t.
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For a higher resolution version that includes all 3 games(there are only 3, fuck you) with all the extras… I can’t say I’m not tempted. Particularly if they unified the key controls, and made moving your character from one game to the next more seamless. Having to either get used to a different set of controls or completely reconfigure the control scheme of the next game was a bit irritating, particularly when you’re in the start of the second or third game, only to have muscle memory of a previous game hit a command you didn’t intend to use, cause now that does something else!
Agreed. Sadly, we haven’t seen anything come out since 3, though even then it gets a lot of hate.
Lately in this particular hobby of PC building, I have not been enthusiastic or even excited about everything. Not sure why, that is just how I feel and a possible reason or one of the reasons would be the shitshow that happened to PC building in general, plus yeah, maybe I am just sick of the new videos that involves about PC or whatever.
In 2016 when AMD introduced ZEN, it was exciting. Finally some competition, potential leapfrogging of AMD and Intel, maybe different CPUs to recommend in the same price class!
And then… Intel just was caught with their pants not just down, but hanging on the clothes line.
Nvidia and AMD in the GPU realm are also boring. Nvidia does walled garden, AMD counters with open/FOSS alternative, some fanboy mud slinging and then Nvidia does a 180 and suddenly also supports what AMD did.
I wonder how Nvidia will spin this:
Because AMD did the clever thing of showing the gains using this free software on a GTX 1060. DLSS (or DLSS 2.0) may turn out to work on GTX cards soon…
There’s a solution, but it’s increasing production, which we all know isn’t going to happen for at least until end of the year.
I’m not sure that would be possible without a complete overhauling of how DLSS works? Since it does rely on the tensor cores in the RTX Series. Not 100% sure about that, but I think that would be true.
Someone I know at Sony was telling me the PS5 shortage is likely going to last through at least the middle of next year, and I’d assume video cards will be the same, it’s a combination of things.
Some of it is the silicon shortage, which was driven by a few contributing factors, automotive manufacturers paying to jump the queue at foundries, accidents, labor problems from the pandemic etc.
Some of it is the increased cost of shipping, lack of containers in places like China, lack of port space because of empty containers in the US etc.
and some just the increase in demand.
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