cubaconn
Artificial crisis, who is involved I don't know, but if you look at timelines, this was tried with the 20 series at a lesser extend, and now it feels since the pilot worked, is full on now. I know people are trying to blame crypto for this, and though I agree there is a "gold fever" around it, you can see that it takes a long time to recover investments, and sometimes (rare but they do happen) they don't recover at all e.g. Card goes brick and you get your "money back" not a new card. The scalper nonsense can be stop, and for those who blame crypto, smart contracts and SSI is a great solution to enforce one customer one card while the "crisis" is there. Amazon can do it, is not like they have no "engineering power", BB also, and new egg at a lesser extend. In fact, Amazon could implement such solution and provide it as a service to other retailers... but now I wake up from the dream and of course they won't. their cut from a 3600 sale is much juicier than from  900 product... 

lmao gotta love conspiracy theorist, meanwhile automakers have to halt their production lines because they dont have enough chip for their cars

SyntaxTurtle

Willem500i
The gpus were probably set to go to a retailer anyway, not the queue.

That would actually make it worse since it would imply that EVGA has a stream of "retail" cards they could have diverted to the queue (if they can divert them to LTT) but choose not to.  The usual excuse is that EVGA has retailer obligations they need to fulfill but this obviously doesn't apply to sending Linus a bunch of cards since LTT isn't a previous retail partner.  So I don't see where "Well, they were going to go to a retailer but EVGA decided to send them to Linus instead" is supposed to make anyone think better of the move.
 
Also, point of clarification, LTT is selling and making a profit on the cards.  Probably very minor in comparison to their other revenue streams but they're going to be making the same profit off each card that any other non-scalping retailer is making.  Saying that he's not buying these to make a profit is misleading (although the real reason why he's doing it is to drive clicks, hence the "You gotta watch every video the second it drops to have any chance at getting a card" aspect).  Again, that doesn't make me think worse of LTT but let's be realistic about what it is.

you're genius. armchair ceo.. i bet your all business ideas are top notch n top of the game.

RasTeX
Does anyone have production numbers for rtx 3000 series?
Are they significantly larger than previous 2000 or roughly the same?
My short investigation was not very succsessfull...

Yes, but Nvidia (as always) does not release any exact numbers, and none of their AIBs are allowed to either. 
 
They have publicly claimed that production is at least 20% greater than that of the 2000 series, and that the production is not lacking. The demand is simply much greater than anticipated. The capacity and demand on current fabs does support Nvidia's claim. GPUs are shipping in high numbers to retailers, but they simply can't catch up to this unprecedented demand. There is no one "demon" to blame for this disaster, but all factors have combined to make the situation what it is: scalping, mining, covid related delays, and covid putting people at home in front of computers for work and play in RECORD NUMBERS. 
 
It doesn't help that AMD has not really wanted to compete. Their manufacturing has been entirely focused on quick and easy profits of gigantic numbers of console sales and kicking Intel's butt at CPU sales. Retailers are finally starting to see significant numbers of 6000 series Radeons show up, but up until recently the launch was very nearly entirely paper. The side effect of AMD not caring about GPUs is that Nvidia is free to delay any new GPU product launches, such as "Ti" models. 

@Cpt.
My case is white. I see a white gtx 420 on amazon. The only problems: 1) I already purchased a bunch of 120 corsair fans for nice matching rgb, 2) with a 420, the fans won't go on the outside of the front of the case. They would have to be inside with the rad, and I really like how it looks with the fans mounted just behind the face plate outside of the main case. I'm trying for beauty and performance. I have already outdone what I needed for gaming. With the 3090, ill probably even read into under volting, as I do not need every last ounce for gaming. I had hopes for a 3080 hybrid, but after finding out just how late to the game I really was, I managed a 10:01:11 timestamp on the 3090 HC.

5) corsair 120mm white fans. 2) (LL series) came with the cpu aio, 3) (QL series) were a kit with the node lighting pro. The case came with 3) 140mm fans, but they are cheap and the rgb colors are off.

It's 5 corsair total, and 3 case fans. Was going to put the 3 QL series out front in a push/intake. The 2 LL in the top as a push/exhaust, and one of the case fans at the rear as an exhaust.

Been trying to read up on brands, and found that HWLabs makes the corsair stuff! At this point I've already got so much into this rig, I just need to find an end that is functional. I can always add and improve later. If my aio on the cpu fails, ill just add in more to my loop at that point, and plumb into a radiator over head to keep it neat looking. Now I just have to decide if I'm going with hardline or soft tubing... 🤔

if its your first time then soft tubing is way more forgiving(this is my first time as well tbh, been doing so much research over the past two or so months lol)
Just make sure you get fittings to match the tubing you decide on, soft tubing and hard tubing have different kinds of fittings, as well as different diameter for inside and outside of the tubing
 

CptT95
if its your first time then soft tubing is way more forgiving(this is my first time as well tbh, been doing so much research over the past two or so months lol)
Just make sure you get fittings to match the tubing you decide on, soft tubing and hard tubing have different kinds of fittings, as well as different diameter for inside and outside of the tubing
 

If I may add as well, you can always just buy angled fittings so you don't even have to be good at bending hard-line. It cost more but can make your life a bit easier starting out.

It's a beautiful Monday morning here and I wish the very best of luck to ye all. 🙂🇮🇪

Not sure if I’m ready for another week of this, but here we are. I’m ready to put my 1060 out of its misery.

RasTeX

SirKronan

RasTeX
Does anyone have production numbers for rtx 3000 series?
Are they significantly larger than previous 2000 or roughly the same?
My short investigation was not very succsessfull...

Yes, but Nvidia (as always) does not release any exact numbers, and none of their AIBs are allowed to either. 
 
They have publicly claimed that production is at least 20% greater than that of the 2000 series, and that the production is not lacking. The demand is simply much greater than anticipated. The capacity and demand on current fabs does support Nvidia's claim. GPUs are shipping in high numbers to retailers, but they simply can't catch up to this unprecedented demand. There is no one "demon" to blame for this disaster, but all factors have combined to make the situation what it is: scalping, mining, covid related delays, and covid putting people at home in front of computers for work and play in RECORD NUMBERS. 
 
It doesn't help that AMD has not really wanted to compete. Their manufacturing has been entirely focused on quick and easy profits of gigantic numbers of console sales and kicking Intel's butt at CPU sales. Retailers are finally starting to see significant numbers of 6000 series Radeons show up, but up until recently the launch was very nearly entirely paper. The side effect of AMD not caring about GPUs is that Nvidia is free to delay any new GPU product launches, such as "Ti" models. 

Right.
I would not be surprised to see GPU mining farms next to GPU factories.
 
Regardless of perfect storm for AMD and NVIDIA, seems to me that they didn't react in a way that suits them and is good for customers. I guess that chip production is negotiated quite ahead, but I fail to see why is it so hard to push the numbers up. This situation really shows how we need one or two major players in GPU arena. My hopes are that INTEL will finally wake up an kick this duopole out of their sleep.

Maybe the gpu farms are not much of a problem.
 
Seems all the growth in mining hashrate since January may have been fueled by Bitmain and a hidden Asic machine the E9.
 
https://wccftech.com/the-bitmain-antminer-e9-is-as-powerful-as-25-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3090s-in-cryptocurrency-mining
 
If they have been mining with that for months than the real issue is Nvidia is not making a lot of chips.
 
and no one is making a lot of gpus for anyone.
 
Best Buy had a gpu in stock yesterday a nvidia 710
 
I looked at a dozen sellers and just about every gpu for stock msrp is sold out.
 
Low grade gpus are gone.
 
Maybe it is a chip shortage and scalpers more than anything else.
 
One good thing was in 2017 when it came out that bitmain had a hidden asic Eth crashed about 6 months later.  So maybe the crash happens and we see some gpus.
 
Alienware had an okay rig for sale on the dell website it had a 3060ti and you could get a. 3080 or a 3090 upgrade.
Hp.com had an omen for sale with a 3090 in it for a decent price.
 
So maybe some gpus are going to be released here.

Is there a schedule for gpu drops on b-stock? I’ve checked the page 100 times and only saw 1 card on there before

freakdaddy64
thank goodness i got my 2080ti off bstock and its a beast while i wait for the 3080 which will be along time waiting. aot notify on 11/5 

Just curious, did it come with a metal backplate? Or better yet, what did it come with altogether?

I've been checking the B-stock in EU.evga but there's never anything there.
Ohh well it's a beautiful afternoon here anyway and I've a few cold 1's in the fridge for later. 😎