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3060 XC3 Gaming               3657                       02/25/2021 09:06:26    (new queue)
 
3060 XC3 Black                   3655                       02/25/2021 09:01:44    (new queue)
 

jehoffman1
Well, another day, a lot more disappointment, but a bright spot.
 
I was ready at 9 am. BestBuy sold out quicker than I could click on the yellow buttons. I couldn't get on EVGA's site until 9:30 because it kept crashing on me. I signed up for the two 3060's but God knows when I'll get one of those. It did not look like Newegg or B&H had any available for sale on their sites.
 
There were 6 3060s and a very expensive 3070 on the Newegg shuffle. I put in requests for all of them and for a 5900X CPU. I didn't get any of the GPUs, but I DID get the 5900X. I got a 5800X a couple of weeks ago but really wanted the 5900X, so I'll return the unopened 5800X to Newegg as soon as I get a tracking number on the 5900X (which is estimated to come in a week).
 
Interestingly, the 5800X is returnable, but the 5900X is returnable only if defective--which is fine since the 5900X is NOT going to leave my hot little hands. So be prepared that things you buy on the Shuffle may not be returnable.

d.burnette

enewt

nick_shl
Made an order. Decided to add singnature. At final page decided to remove signature and removed tick mark. Placed order. By some reason signature is there and they charged for it 4 bucks.

My recollection from prior discourse in this thread is that EVGA has a policy of requiring signature for purchases over $XXX shipped via UPS, so I don't think you would have avoided it either way.  
 

Also if you happen to pay with PayPal, they always require a signature.

philipma1957
 
My ups and or fedex do not allow signatures due to covid.

SirKronan

kaytrimtv

CptT95
On the plus side I am now holding my new Ryzen 7 5800x 😊😍

Congratz,  I hope to be holding one of those new Ryzen chips next month

You're welcome to wait for a month if you wish, but you could also buy one right now straight from AMD.com. 5800X in stock as of right now:
 
https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/us

Zephmeister
12G-P5-3657-KR 2/25/2021 9:01:51 AM PT Yes
Ordered and have UPS tracking for it already.

Got this for my future boss as he is a PC gamer that's been looking for a budget GPU.
 
Edit: Sorry for the late post. Work was busy today. I see that the queue has gotten to 9:06 PT so my data point is useless 

soulpatch321
I'm sure this was brought up and I likely missed it.  But why are they introducing the 3060's when they can't even fulfill so many back orders?  Mine hasn't moved a second in over 5 months, going on 6.  So watching people getting other cards that were brought out after is even more frustrating than people who signed up after december getting them. 

Gotspeed_2000

jehoffman1
Well, another day, a lot more disappointment, but a bright spot.
 
I was ready at 9 am. BestBuy sold out quicker than I could click on the yellow buttons. I couldn't get on EVGA's site until 9:30 because it kept crashing on me. I signed up for the two 3060's but God knows when I'll get one of those. It did not look like Newegg or B&H had any available for sale on their sites.
 
There were 6 3060s and a very expensive 3070 on the Newegg shuffle. I put in requests for all of them and for a 5900X CPU. I didn't get any of the GPUs, but I DID get the 5900X. I got a 5800X a couple of weeks ago but really wanted the 5900X, so I'll return the unopened 5800X to Newegg as soon as I get a tracking number on the 5900X (which is estimated to come in a week).
 
Interestingly, the 5800X is returnable, but the 5900X is returnable only if defective--which is fine since the 5900X is NOT going to leave my hot little hands. So be prepared that things you buy on the Shuffle may not be returnable.

I wanted a 5900X and was lucky enough to get one. However, I would have built with the 5800X had I not gotten the 5900X from the Newegg Shuffle.
 
Frankly, I'm not sure it makes much difference which of the 5000 series CPUs I might have gotten. They all run at about the same speed, the difference being the number of cores. Thus, I doubt I get any improvement in speed unless I run enough programs at the same time, each of which takes up a reasonable amount of the capacity of the core in which it is running. I often run a browser, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Word Excel, and Quicken at the same time, but most are running idle much of the time. Furthermore, most programs cannot split between multiple cores. I think Photoshop is the only one of the programs I use frequently that can do so. I doubt I'll ever fully use 8 cores at the same time, thus making the extra 4 in the 5900X superfluous.
 
I preferred the 5900X anyway because I prefer to overbuild than to underbuild. I only build a new computer every 5 years or so. By overbuilding, I never have to do upgrades larger than adding memory or storage between computers. In fact, my 5 year old computer will probably be adequate to my needs for another couple of years. I'm building the new one now, because I'm home bored, decided I wanted a new faster one, and worry that I may not have the dexterity to build a new one after much more time goes by.
 
Building one's own computer is more time-consuming than buying a ready made and requires doing one's own trouble-shooting if something goes wrong (rather than just calling, e.g., Dell's support). However, I've found the computers I've built myself have been trouble-free, whereas the ones I bought from Dell, Gateway, Micron, etc., tended to have parts wear out after 3 to 4 years.
 
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Congrats on the 5900x.  That is also what I am looking for from New Egg too.  I got a 5800x on it's way from Amazon, but I'm not sure which one I want to run.  I'd rather have the 5900x, but at this rate I might as well just stand pat with the 5800x.  Atleast I got the 5800x with free shipping.  I already have a 5600x that I plan on selling once I get the new CPU in.  

Nike_7688

SC_DooM
An honest opinion of this build from anyone on this forum would be much appreciated. pcpartpicker.com/list/PQJMgt
Only missing GPU obviously currently @ 24G-P5-3987-KR 10/16/2020 4:51:07 PM PT.  Was lucky enough to get the 5900x today.  Most of this stuff is still available for a return. Please let me know if anyone sees anything they would personally change and why (besides subbing the fans for Noctuas... I know, I know ). Thank You, this community is seriously awesome!

If it were me, I'd be looking to run a decent 24/7 OC. That said, I would consider a bigger psu and cpu cooler. Totally depends on what you want to do with it though.

Dabadger84

soulpatch321
I'm sure this was brought up and I likely missed it.  But why are they introducing the 3060's when they can't even fulfill so many back orders?  Mine hasn't moved a second in over 5 months, going on 6.  So watching people getting other cards that were brought out after is even more frustrating than people who signed up after december getting them. 

This has to do with how the Dies are made.  The Die being used on the RTX 3060 is different from previous SKUs, being a GA106.  The 3060 Ti & 3070 share the GA104 Die (meaning the wafer sheet that the dies come off of is split, ones that are higher quality go to 3070s, ones that are lower quality & can't run the higher clocks etc, go to the 3060 Ti).  The 3080 & 3090 share the GA102 Die, higher performing ones go to 3090s, the regular ones go to 3080s.
So it's a completely different process basically, compared to previous releases.  
 
Apparently a GA103 Die has been spotted in the wild, assumed to be the RTX 3070 Ti - and a GA102 with 12GB of VRAM has also been spotted, which could be the RTX 3080 Ti with a 384-Bit Bus & half the VRAM of the 3090 - so it would likely perform almost as well, at a much less insane price.
So I'm guessing to lower production costs, NVidia is changing the RTX 3080 Ti plans from a 320-Bit Bus (like the 3080) with 20GB of GDDR6X to a 384-Bit Bus (like the 3090) with 12GB of GDDR6X.  This would make it cheaper to produce (less RAM chiplets), meaning if they price it in the $1000-$1200 range, the profit margin would be "better" than what was originally planned for.
 
We'll see.  Some news sites are reporting rumors it could be released in April - but, as with the people that hilariously believed it would be released in January originally (why would NVidia ever launch a SKU that would make another SKU obsolete 3 months after it's launch), I'll believe that when I see it.  I'm still expecting it to be June, at the earliest, for the 3080 Ti, with the 3070 Ti released after that.
 
Thus endeth your tech news summary when it comes to video cards, hope someone learned something, now my head hurts. lol

Strachkvas1

vasile.gherasim
They are still sleeping over in EU :), is 10.12 AM and no move.

Hi, what time do you have? I have got this "12G-P5-3657-KR 2/25/2021 9:03:09 AM PT No" and obviously I am still waiting. If I understand this right, they sent e-mails (notifications) only druing business hours, right? So I can be realxed during weekend?

Thanks and good luck to you all :)

 

alin_toaga
I don't think there will be any movement this week for EU.