dcell
So should I keep this or not?
While waiting for my EVGA 3080, I'm clicking on NewEgg links and *unexpectedly* snagged a combo gigabyte 3070 card + gigabyte 750 PSU for a total $932.00 (including Sales tax).
My current 850 PSU is unopened, but past the return date from BestBuy.
 
So, how decent of a card is this?  Should I cancel it?
 
 

It's not super terrible. The MSRP + Shipping/Tax of that bundle is probably around 800. However I don't think you will have trouble selling it used for higher than MSRP months later so you can recoup some of that back whenever you get the card you want.

EnigmicAzn

dcell
So should I keep this or not?
While waiting for my EVGA 3080, I'm clicking on NewEgg links and *unexpectedly* snagged a combo gigabyte 3070 card + gigabyte 750 PSU for a total $932.00 (including Sales tax).
My current 850 PSU is unopened, but past the return date from BestBuy.
 
So, how decent of a card is this?  Should I cancel it?
 
 

It's not super terrible. The MSRP + Shipping/Tax of that bundle is probably around 800. However I don't think you will have trouble selling it used for higher than MSRP months later so you can recoup some of that back whenever you get the card you want.

Thanks for the quick feedback.
My 12yrOld  son agrees with you except he thinks I should put it and the PSU in his PC (GTX-1660Ti) instead of resell later....

Tomorrow will be a good day for drops, even for a Tuesday.  Positive thinking exercise.

I would hit the Shuffle but hit the 5600x instead of either of the CPUs someone wants me to get. LUL

kaytrimtv

Sumof1
I guess I'm waiting for the 40 series, I up-grade my gaming rig between, 5 and 10 years, and only go through EVGA on the GPU, and Asus with the Mobo. Just personal, preference. I hope nividias next moves frees up the graphics cards.

Or maybe the 30 Super series.  I hope that Nivida does the same thing to all the SKUS that they are doing to the 3060 and it works.

Lol Ya it might work for all of a day. Then it will interfere with games and they will have to release a fix for that which will just make it like they didnt try to prevent it for use in miners. Or it will work for a day before some miner out there figures out how to get around it and then throws that out on the web.  Nvidia has not done one thing right with the 30 series GPU's they will mess this up as well somehow.
 

stoney77788

kaytrimtv

Sumof1
I guess I'm waiting for the 40 series, I up-grade my gaming rig between, 5 and 10 years, and only go through EVGA on the GPU, and Asus with the Mobo. Just personal, preference. I hope nividias next moves frees up the graphics cards.

Or maybe the 30 Super series.  I hope that Nivida does the same thing to all the SKUS that they are doing to the 3060 and it works.

Lol Ya it might work for all of a day. Then it will interfere with games and they will have to release a fix for that which will just make it like they didnt try to prevent it for use in miners. Or it will work for a day before some miner out there figures out how to get around it and then throws that out on the web.  Nvidia has not done one thing right with the 30 series GPU's they will mess this up as well somehow.

Indeed, this façade NVidia is putting on of "oh we want to prevent cards from being used by Miners" is utter marketing BS. When it comes to what matters to them as a business, profit is profit, they do not care where it comes from.  The 3060 probably won't be that great at mining regardless.  Even if they release Ti/Super variants of the 3080 & 3070 with some "anti mining" fix, they'll end up having to patch it because it'll hurt performance in certain titles - thusly absolving them of "being the bad guy" to untrained eyes, when in reality, they really don't care about WHO buys the cards, as long as they sell.

Dabadger84

stoney77788

kaytrimtv

Sumof1
I guess I'm waiting for the 40 series, I up-grade my gaming rig between, 5 and 10 years, and only go through EVGA on the GPU, and Asus with the Mobo. Just personal, preference. I hope nividias next moves frees up the graphics cards.

Or maybe the 30 Super series.  I hope that Nivida does the same thing to all the SKUS that they are doing to the 3060 and it works.

Lol Ya it might work for all of a day. Then it will interfere with games and they will have to release a fix for that which will just make it like they didnt try to prevent it for use in miners. Or it will work for a day before some miner out there figures out how to get around it and then throws that out on the web.  Nvidia has not done one thing right with the 30 series GPU's they will mess this up as well somehow.

Indeed, this façade NVidia is putting on of "oh we want to prevent cards from being used by Miners" is utter marketing BS. When it comes to what matters to them as a business, profit is profit, they do not care where it comes from.  The 3060 probably won't be that great at mining regardless.  Even if they release Ti/Super variants of the 3080 & 3070 with some "anti mining" fix, they'll end up having to patch it because it'll hurt performance in certain titles - thusly absolving them of "being the bad guy" to untrained eyes, when in reality, they really don't care about WHO buys the cards, as long as they sell.

exactly the new 3060 coming out wont be up to mining like the 3060 Ti is but it will perform at least at what the old amd 580's were doing. And that in itself will make it desirable for miners. And totally agree with with Dabadger84 on the rest Marketing is key and they are trying to as always misdirect from their own bad decisions and judgement by saying they are putting anti mining safeties in place. Blah Blah its all BS on their part as Dabadger84 said as long as they get their money they don't care where it comes from.

Dabadger84
I would hit the Shuffle but hit the 5600x instead of either of the CPUs someone wants me to get. LUL

*facepalm*
 
.........sigh...............

static.quai
Tomorrow will be a good day for drops, even for a Tuesday.  Positive thinking exercise.

Big 3898 drop coming, I can feel it. That SKU only dropped one day this month. The law of averages has got to kick in at some point.
 
They are probably stuck in the container ship logjam at the port. Apparently, the crane operators are infecting each other because they share a common workspace that isn't being properly cleaned in between shifts. There's your bottleneck, in addition to the other bottlenecks that have been discussed. 

This just Sucks! Frigging Christmas! Ship some cards to the people on the waiting list EVGA! For Christmas sakes! September 26 2020 at 5:31 and still waiting!!!!!!!