Fire-Soul
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Thursday, February 11, 2021 6:42 PM
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Where I live locally, the only option I have is a Best Buy. Their website states they are only selling video cards online for any of the 3080's regardless of brand.
So as the title states. How am I supposed to buy a video card? I have tried watching the different websites. I have tried refreshing.
I will not buy from a scalper. That is pure extortion and I will not participate. So that isn't an option.
The signup list is useless and isn't working at all for me. I have been on the list since October and will be on the list at this rate for years. Clearly, brand loyalty isn't worth anything at all.
I am looking for help, advice, and guidance.
Thank you for your time.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 6:45 PM
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Fire-Soul
Where I live locally, the only option I have is a Best Buy. Their website states they are only selling video cards online for any of the 3080's regardless of brand.
So as the title states. How am I supposed to buy a video card? I have tried watching the different websites. I have tried refreshing.
I will not buy from a scalper. That is pure extortion and I will not participate. So that isn't an option.
The signup list is useless and isn't working at all for me. I have been on the list since October and will be on the list at this rate for years. Clearly, brand loyalty isn't worth anything at all.
I am looking for help, advice, and guidance.
Thank you for your time.
What card are you after?
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Fire-Soul
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 6:48 PM
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Trying and wanting to get the 3080 FTW3 Ultra.
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TechJessica87
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:09 PM
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It'll get better!
Wierd times! I know i have a customer waiting 3 months on an engine for a Lincoln. Everything gas been tough to acquire!
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:18 PM
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Bestbuy is a hunt. I've seen people get cards off of it, but they're usually eating breathing BBuy, watching stock alert discord bots like Stonks, waking up at 6am. Best buy goes through weird phases. One day it will be online only, one day it will be online only for in store pickup yet your store may or may not have stock where another does. It's a hunt for sure! Good luck out there! Nothing new though, this always happens, Demand far out reaches supply, and now we have Covid: 
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:20 PM
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I've had a few friends do the first come, first serve microcenter stuff too....it sounds like everydays a Black Friday morning type deal though.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:34 PM
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Fire-Soul
Trying and wanting to get the 3080 FTW3 Ultra.
That's a tough one. Bestbuy is your best bet there. For a 3090 I know where to get those where they are usually in stock at MSRP. They are backordered on the FTW3 right now though unfortunately.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:37 PM
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The shortage of GPUs for both AMD and NVIDIA will no doubt continue until after the 1st quarter of this year.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 7:39 PM
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rjohnson11
The shortage of GPUs for both AMD and NVIDIA will no doubt continue until after the 1st quarter of this year.
Guaranteed. There are some little pockets of releases though. The entire 6000 series of AMD GPUs was available this morning directly on their site. Same with all their 5000 CPU SKUs.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 8:01 PM
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Shortage of components, covid and the higher demand than usual due to more people working from home and building computers are all factors right now. Chinese New Year has just started and factories are shutdown for the next two weeks in China and Taiwan.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 8:27 PM
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I kind of forgot about Chinese New Year which will have a large impact on getting cards produced.
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 8:38 PM
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I kind of forgot about Chinese New Year which will have a large impact on getting cards produced.
Yea, hoping this leads to good stuff!
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Re: How are people supposed to buy a new video card?
Thursday, February 11, 2021 9:28 PM
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I wouldn't that things would get better at the end of the quarter. Everyone's competing for limited 7nm manufacturing nodes: Xbox Series X/S, PS 5, Ryzen 5000, RTX 3000, RX 6000, and their mobile variants. Intel is outsourcing some of its production to TSMC or Samsung as well so it's even more limited. I'm betting that the situation won't improve until Q3 or Q4 and if I'm being pessimistic, Q1 of 2022.
Chinese New Year will have an impact on production, as it does every year, but I would doubt that COVID has a measurable impact on production anymore since Taiwan, Korea, and China have maintained pretty good control of its spread for a while now and the former two have done remarkably well. Taiwan has had less than 1000 infections since the start of the pandemic and both Taiwan and Korea have been role models in terms of their handling of the pandemic. Korea implemented mass testing and quarantining, Taiwan locked down the country before Wuhan got locked down, and China did what China does best.
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